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AmberWavesofFlame

@amberwavesofflame.bsky.social

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She/her, ADHD, nerd, Open Mind, Open Hearts, Open Doors, unpaid shill for the imperfect. You write something insightful, and now I’m reading old nested threads like a Wikipedia binge and ❤️ing everywhere. Promise I’m not a stalker, just appreciative.

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AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 3d

Vivid WaPo photograph of the side of the White House being messily demolished to make way for Trump’s ballroom.The subtext sears the eyes.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 17h

also, this guy is a world class piece of shit and always has been

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AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 3h

He’s not in or entitled to the office. This is a job application with like nine other candidates so far. It shouldn’t take a murder on camera to simply pass to someone else. Or are you cancelling every other candidate who is running a whole year out

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AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 4h

Oh no young male Nazi sympathizers will flock to Trump now

AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 4h

The ongoing pattern is him keeping it on his body every day up til now, hope that helps.

AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 4h

Some of them will be made into museums.

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Jesse Singal Vapes Piss @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 15h

England literally regicided a king for asserting he could do that in fact, a detail itself which our founders pointedly took notice of

Micah @rincewind.run · 15h

worth reiterating again that “the executive can raise and spend money however he likes” has been anathema even under monarchies for centuries

we’re not rolling back anything in US history here, we’re rolling back the English Civil War

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 18h

Odds are this aggressively did not happen. But it would of course be just as unconstitutional to spend money donated to the government without a duly enacted appropriation as it is to spend tax money that way.

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AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 15h

Can’t wait for the “drug-runner” his admin finds on Fifth Avenue, just to drive the point the point home.

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bluegirlredstate.bsky.social @bluegirlredstate.bsky.social · 19h

If WH reporters had any balls they would ask, “Does that mean other countries have a right to kill US citizens they suspect are smuggling drugs?”

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AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 20h

He’s broadcasting code for: bribe me, and I might decide you’re “nice” enough to back off of, too. At least for now. Everything’s a shakedown with him, it’s mob tactics.

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AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 20h

And your neighbors are too— everyone’s getting cut off at the same time, so any baseline theft problems in an area will become exponentially worse. People that wouldn’t dream of it before, especially those with kids who are impacted.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Critical angle: Trump's accomplices are surely counting on pardons, which only makes them more beholden to him. Todd Blanche must think hard about saying "no" to Trump's demand for the $230 million.

Raskin and I discuss this here. It's something Dems could say more:

newrepublic.com/article/2021...

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Lazylizzie @lazylizy.bsky.social · 3d

No one slanders men and boys more than men who want to believe their deep moral deficiencies are universal. A man-hating killjoy couldn’t even come close.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 4d

The literal strongest form of repudiation of this policy possible would be to prohibit it in the Constitution, explicitly. And it is indeed prohibited in that way. So how do we stop him? Amend the Constitution to underline the clause and say “no, for real this time”?

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AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody in the midwestern diner…

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 4d

Just insane thing for a NYT editor to say publicly:

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AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 3d

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AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 3d

Certainly, I swiped them from elsewhere myself. Memes are made to be shared. :)

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 3d

most people have severely degraded theory of mind for people in their outgroups and it tends to make them wrong

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

one of the reasons I was substantially ahead of the curve during the pandemic was that I treated China as a real place, and assumed that the Chinese government and scientists as making decisions for real reasons - not always good ones, but real ones!

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4d

what trump brought to the republican party, more than maybe any other thing, was contempt for virtue, and he’s demanded that republicans abandon any virtue they might have once had.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

It is not so long ago that disability policy was bipartisan. I taught at the Bush School, and George H.W. Bush would talk about his pride in signing the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5d

Every once in a while during the 2024 campaign, I'd meet parents of disabled kids who were part of Moms for Liberty or people who taught autistic kids. @slooterman.bsky.social writes how they are afraid right now as Trump targets special education staff.
19thnews.org/2025/10/spec...

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 4d

One of the reasons the "paid protestors" canard is absurd is it completely misunderstands scale. There were 5.5-8.7 mm people protesting yesterday. For comparison the company with the largest payroll in the world (Walmart) has 2.1 mm employees, less than half the low-side estimate for No Kings.

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 5d

It’s going to take ages to pay all these people

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AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 4d

This is Alabama. How many truck nuts do the police drive by every day, and how many times have they attempted to confront one of the drivers about them displayed in public?

AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 4d

Yup there were like three guys there in Newport News v. literally hundreds up and down sidewalks in every direction. They just stood around casually the whole time. At one point they had a polite conversation with an organizer about a drone because we are near restricted airspace. Memorably unscary.

AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 4d

So the reason you are getting this pushback from making what seems facially to be an obvious read is that you are missing the larger discourse it is belonging to. This is a swipe not at the protesters but at the people sneering at them.

AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 4d

You are correct to call “performative”derogatory. However, this is a contextual thing, an ongoing conversation where it is and has been used in extremely dismissive ways, and this post is in response to that, deliberately using and reclaiming “performative” to point out why it is actually good.

AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 4d

You missed the answer, though! He replies: Just add me to the Signal chat, I’ll ask him myself.