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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 8h

Also conservatives would be happier if they stopped being conservatives. www.aaronrosspowell.com/3m2fh2qe2d22a

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 9h

Except even his mom said he isn't cool

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 9h

Our new cat is now about a year old, and like the dog and our other cat before him, it seems increasingly likely he's destined for chronic unemployment.

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 16h

If you were an admin or member of one of the Facebook groups that the DOJ jawboned Facebook into censoring, we want to talk to you!

Please shoot me a message,

Rtorney Pamela
' @AGPamBondi
Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a
large group page that was being used to dox and target
@lCEgov
in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and
social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing
their jobs. The Departrnent of Justice will continue engaging tech
companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent
violence against federal law enforcernent.
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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 11h

I always knew an effective protest movement would need to be nonviolent but given a lifetime I wouldn’t have guessed ours would be led by inflatable frogs. People remain endlessly beautiful.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 10h

Dear journalists, if your source for "credible intelligence" that conveniently advances a Trump administration narrative is someone within the Trump administration, consider seeking independent confirmation before deeming it, in fact, credible.

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 11h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 11h

It's difficult to overstate the degree to which the GOP and the mainstream American right have been taken over by socially and emotionally stunted and malformed losers.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 11h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 11h

Blame video game romance options for getting this started.

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 13h

Go anti-woke, go broke. www.rawstory.com/dr-phil-trump/

Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report

Dr. Phil McGraw's attempt to transition from daytime television personality to a politically aligned media mogul during Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by spectacular failure a...

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 14h

Even setting aside the unworthiness of this award, the spectacle is just so humiliating. The Presidential Medal of Freedom ought to have some weight, and the President's speech should reflect that. But that weightiness is eviscerated by this imbecile's inability to rise to any occasion.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump on Charlie Kirk: "He was able to fight people that were enemies. And he didn't necessarily love those enemies so much. You know, I heard 'he loved his enemies' and I said, 'Wait a minute, is that the same Charlie that I knew? I'm not sure.' But I didn't want to get into it."

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Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 14h

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 14h

He has no idea what the military he commanders-in-chief costs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 14h

I like that the folds in his neck have a nice symmetry with the folds in his tie.

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 19h

Jeff Bezos is gonna go down as the man who killed The Washington Post.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 15h

For those of us of a particular age, whose childhoods were fully bound up in a particular set of movies, Struzan's art is so iconic that it feels almost uncreated, like it just always existed, a natural feature of the environment. An extraordinary talent.

The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 19h

RIP the legendary Drew Struzan (1947-2025) 😩

Even though we were expecting the news any day now, it makes me very sad. What an artist.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 16h

I know the temptation is to just scroll past this with a “not surprised” reaction, but you should read this if you have the emotional bandwidth to encounter horrifying slurs and violent sentiments, because there’s an important takeaway: extremism is often performed to reinforce an in-group’s bond.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 16h

I'm biased ofc but this feed of all the @leaflet.pub #leaflets is pretty rad and everyone should sub it and repost it ❤️

bsky.app/profile/rend...

Look at these 💎✨ gems I found just from just the last 24 hours!👇

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Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 16h

Tough news for Ian Miles Cheong

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 17h

Put another way, the contemporary Republican Party isn't really a coalition defined by policy preferences. Rather, it's a community of racists, xenophobes, sexual abusers, and misogynists that just happens to have a political apparatus attached. It attracts bad values and degrades any good values.

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 17h

The real political realignment is that the GOP has become the party of anti-social assholes with corrupt moral worldviews, and so people like that select into the right. This is why you see celebs on the left "cancelled" for being abusers moving right. The right welcomes bad people.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 17h

Very cool: I've cracked the top 30 most popular blogs on @leaflet.pub.

Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 18h

I want to do more blogging than social media posting, and the awesome @leaflet.pub is giving me (another) incentive to try. I finished moving my blog over there, and what's cool is you can follow it in Bluesky. Just head over, click "Subscribe with Bluesky," and you'll get a custom feed of my posts.

Aaron Ross Powell's Blog

The humane and cosmopolitan case for radical liberalism. Political ethics and philosophy. Host of the ReImagining Liberty podcast.

www.aaronrosspowell.com

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 18h

The new Spotify lossless quality setting sounds awfully nice on big speakers.

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 18h

There's, of course, also an RSS feed for those of you keeping the flame alive, and email subscriptions are on the horizon.

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 18h

I want to do more blogging than social media posting, and the awesome @leaflet.pub is giving me (another) incentive to try. I finished moving my blog over there, and what's cool is you can follow it in Bluesky. Just head over, click "Subscribe with Bluesky," and you'll get a custom feed of my posts.

Aaron Ross Powell's Blog

The humane and cosmopolitan case for radical liberalism. Political ethics and philosophy. Host of the ReImagining Liberty podcast.

www.aaronrosspowell.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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