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Corgidad

@alkisky.bsky.social

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Dissident. Peaceful protester. Democratic capitalist. Midnight gardener. Corgi fan.

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Corgidad @alkisky.bsky.social · Apr 27

Erik Prince is a Nazi, as are Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, Tom Homan, Pat Bondi, Kristi Noem, and other members of the Trump regime. Prince is lobbying to be put in charge of the construction of five more CECOT-like facilities. If not stopped, they will eventually become death camps for Americans.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 2h

Jesus fucking christ there are details in this that are so fucking unhinged it beggars belief. Like they have a picture of her suitcase the Israelis wrote whore Greta on and drew a dick next to the fucking Star of David

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 15h

Greta Thunberg was beaten and tortured by the Israelis. They learned how to call her a whore in Swedish, and forced her to wear the Israeli flag.

The Swedish foreign ministry abandoned its citizens in Israel, and downplayed what they went through.

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Beating, kicking, and threats of being
gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla are now sharing details about their five days in Israeli captivity - and how Swedish Foreign Ministry staff left
them without help. Aftonbladet's investigation shows how the Foreign Ministry downplayed the
abuse in its communications. Her red suitcase lies in the hall. "Whore Greta"
someone has written in large black letters. Around the text: an Israeli flag and an erect
penis. The bag was confiscated by the Israeli military from the boat - and returned to her like this. She
laughs.
- They're like five-year-olds!

- They dragged me to the opposite side from where the others were sitting, and I had the flag around me the whole time. They hit and kicked me.
Greta laughs.
- Then they ripped off my frog hat, threw it on the ground, stomped and kicked it, and kind of threw a tantrum.
- They moved me very brutally to a corner that I was turned towards. 'A special place for a special lady', they said. And then they had learned 'Lilla hora' (Little whore) and 'Hora Greta' (Whore Greta) in Swedish, which they repeated all the time.

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Corgidad @alkisky.bsky.social · 2h

And attempting to buy the fealty of the troops.

Corgidad @alkisky.bsky.social · 2h

I’ve had an 18 hr day at work, so I missed the headlines saying that the troops will, in fact, be paid. Trump is diverting money from other programs to pay the troops in an attempt to buy their fealty. Doing so is outrageously illegal.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 11h

One of the people whose visas Marco Rubio canceled was snitched by right wing South Africans.

theintercept.com/2025/10/15/s...

He Tweeted Charlie Kirk “Won’t Be Remembered as a Hero.” The State Dept. Revoked His Visa

Nota Baloyi is one of several people who lost a visa to visit the U.S. because he spoke ill of Charlie Kirk on social media.

theintercept.com

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Corgidad @alkisky.bsky.social · 6h

I’m surprised that Trump hasn’t already unilaterally decreed that the troops will be paid.

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Alan Au @alanau.bsky.social · 13h

I feel like apocalypse bunkers are about the fantasy of being immune to consequences.

And actually, I feel like a lot of why things are terrible right now is because people think they're immune to the consequences of their bad decisions.

"Maybe some people will suffer, but it won't be me."

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 10h

4 months apart

Official ICE government account
June 6, 2025:
"To call us 'Nazis' - to compare us to one of the worst groups in history - is disgusting and just outright wrong.
"What the men and women of ICE are doing in Massachusetts and all over this country is making communities safer."
—ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 7h

I really think we need to reconceptualize this shutdown as the last stand for the rule of law and Art I. Bring it to default if that’s what it takes. If Congress can’t assert the power of the purse, we are in “move to Portugal” territory of screwed.

Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 8h

This cannot just be about healthcare. The existing constitutional system hangs in the balance. The rule of law is now baked into this shutdown in a huge way.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

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Susan Ovans @susanovans.bsky.social · 7h

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Foolish Mortal @liegeofshadows.bsky.social · 8h

I keep saying that the Republican Party has been threatening to kill us all for years now. Every time they said people were unAmerican, communist, insurrectionists, radical leftists, etc. They equivocate everything with treason because it carries the death penalty, yet they are projecting.

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Corgidad @alkisky.bsky.social · 8h

The 3.5% rule is not a one-time thing. The rule is 3.5% of the population, every damn day and night.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8h

Why did CIA Dep Dir Michael Ellis fire the general counsel at CIA and place himself in that office? Asha Rangappa explains:

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Corgidad @alkisky.bsky.social · 8h

If he isn’t stopped, he will eventually murder every Democratic politician, every ActBlue contributor, everyone who said something unkind about him on social media, and as many anti-Trump peaceful protesters as his thugs are willing to shoot. Millions and millions of Americans. He is Hitler II.

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NBB @nbb76.bsky.social · 1d

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Tiffany Drastic @pdxeleven.bsky.social · 17h

Saturday. Be there. 🇺🇸

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 10h

What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 10h

20 billion dollars from the US Treasury **was not enough**. So now it's 40 billion dollars! And why stop there?

All while the US government is shut down.

"America First," amirite?

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Bessent says bailout for Argentina will double to boost U.S. influence in region

The Trump administration is working to arrange private sector financing for Argentina that would double the total U.S. financial lifeline for the embattled Latin nation.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Iraq War Vet @corgwynmom.bsky.social · 9h

🤬🤬🤬🤬

Trump confirms he's authorized CIA operations in Venezuela, looking into land strikes

President Trump confirmed the authorization of CIA action in Venezuela, and indicated his administration is exploring land strikes inside the South American country.

abcnews.go.com

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10h

the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 13h

So Nazis. They want to give refugee status to Nazis.

OK, maybe not JUST Nazis. Also certain other white people who hate non-white immigration. But Nazis can definitely come.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The proposals also advise Mr. Trump to prioritize Europeans who have been “targeted for peaceful expression of views online such as opposition to mass migration or support for ‘populist’ political parties.”

That appeared to be a reference to the European far-right political party Alternative for Germany, whose leaders have trivialized the Holocaust, revived Nazi slogans and denigrated foreigners. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Germany for trying to suppress the views of the group, which is known as the AfD.

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Corgidad @alkisky.bsky.social · 15h

They also all have peaceful, loving people who keep to themselves and don’t feel driven to have dominion over everyone else. It’s not the religion itself that’s the problem; it’s the people.

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Corgidad @alkisky.bsky.social · 22h

Thanks to Palantir, it’ll only get worse. Much, much worse.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 1d

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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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23h

I've been saying from the start that Trump does not choose his political martyrs well.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

Tish James lit up the room last night — and her words echoed far beyond the walls of The United Palace. This is a fight for the future.

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