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Anthony Reimer

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Great Father. Good Husband. Terrible Follow Sometimes I write things for https://bad-faith-times.ghost.io

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Anthony Reimer @areimer.bsky.social · Apr 9

I wrote about how Elon is shocking the federal government into a rudimentary state so he can build something new

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Elon Musk's DOGE Is Following A Familiar — And Horrifying — Playbook

Musk is shocking the U.S. government into a weakened state so it can be rebuilt in his image

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"spooky simchas" daniel s. @self.agency · 9h

everyone on that stage went along with pardons for jan 6 participants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Anthony Reimer @areimer.bsky.social · 6h

When you look like me (chubby white bald dude with a beard) and live where I live (red ass Ohio) it’s wild what some people will just assume you agree with.

This is NORMAL @heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social · 7h

People who think this kind of shit is any significant escalation of nazi/fash tendencies among right-wing conservatives has very clearly never lived in an area of America where there are lots of them and they feel comfortable. They've been saying extremely vile shit like this my entire life.

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 9h

They have 100% always been this way, though notably the transition from helicopter rides and referencing crushing minorities abroad humorlessly transitioned to nazi shit, but like that's basically a new layer of paint instead of a new perspective.

Anthony Reimer @areimer.bsky.social · 6h

Nightmare blunt rotation

Anthony Reimer @areimer.bsky.social · 19h

Fuckin losers

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
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Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 19h

trump won! you dont have to pretend youre good people anymore. drop the act! its cool to be a piece of shit now, i thought that was the whole thesis

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Anthony Reimer @areimer.bsky.social · 20h

Everything is just projection with these people

Anthony Reimer @areimer.bsky.social · 20h

Living in dystopia is bullshit

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 21h

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

Anthony Reimer @areimer.bsky.social · 20h

At this point, getting his base to admit they’re wrong is getting them to admit they’ve been conned and their entire worldview is bullshit. Basically impossible to do

Anthony Reimer @areimer.bsky.social · 20h

These people just go on TV and just say shit

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Eric Trump: "We found out that Jack Smith was actually planting classified folders in Mar-a-Lago"

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

these people know how extreme they are

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Anthony Reimer @areimer.bsky.social · 1d

Nice country, would be a shame if something happened to it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on Milei: "If he loses, we will not be generous with Argentina."

Anthony Reimer @areimer.bsky.social · 1d

a woman with her eyes closed and her mouth open is wearing a white shirt .

ALT: a woman with her eyes closed and her mouth open is wearing a white shirt .

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Anthony Reimer @areimer.bsky.social · 1d

It’s almost like you can’t capitulate to Fascists because all they’ll ever want is more power and more control

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

Time owner Marc Benioff (and Salesforce CEO) just announced a few days ago that he's eager to start sucking Trump's dick full time. He even wants troops deployed to San Francisco. But as we see here, it's never enough. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Anthony Reimer @areimer.bsky.social · 1d

Speaking it into existence

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Frank Sinatra on what it means to be an American in 1945

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

From the first days of the admin, “when Trump and his allies attacked Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde … they have made clear that religious liberty does not extend to their perceived enemies. They’ve attacked Catholic, Lutheran, Muslim and Jewish organizations that step out of line w/their agenda.”

Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons @guthriegf.bsky.social · 3d

A brutal attack on a pastor outside an ICE processing center tells us all we need to know about the administration's regard for religious freedom and protection.

My new @msnbc.com column >> www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | ICE's violent tactics are an assault on faith-based dissent

A brutal attack on a pastor outside an ICE processing center tells us all we need to know about the administration's regard for religious freedom and protection.

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Anthony Reimer @areimer.bsky.social · 1d

The gerontocracy must end

Syreeta McFadden @reetamac.bsky.social · 1d

"If she wins next year, Ms. Mills would be 79 at her swearing in the following January, which would make her the oldest elected freshman senator in American history."

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: Janet Mills, the Democratic governor of Maine, is running for Senate, aiming to unseat Senator Susan Collins, a Republican.

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Anthony Reimer @areimer.bsky.social · 1d

“Observers say people are being kidnapped from their homes and sent to camps. Many people fear the Gestapo’s tactics are growing more violent”

-NPR, 1932

Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s do some news

NPR copy about increasing ICE violence edited (by me) for factual clarity

Anthony Reimer @areimer.bsky.social · 1d

Workers are gonna have more control over the economy, everyone is gonna get healthcare, we will be radically pro democracy and your billionaire buddies are going to be taxed out of existence.

Love it or leave it motherfucker

Anthony Reimer @areimer.bsky.social · 1d

The masturbatory nature of mainstream media is one of its biggest flaws. If you’re in the media space, you must be a serious person and deserve to be lauded. In no way can someone who’s prominent in media be a complete charlatan

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

White colonizers nearly killed all the buffalo to extinction, for pure bloodsport.

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Anthony Reimer @areimer.bsky.social · 1d

I want to build the society Curtis Yarvin fears most

Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 2d

Wrote about Curtis Yarvin's recent dooming and what it means for pro-democracy folks in the US

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The Leading Democracy Hater Thinks Democracy Will Win

Curtis Yarvin says American fascists "cannot even imagine what winning looks like."

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Anthony Reimer @areimer.bsky.social · 1d

Zaccheaus playing 84% and Burden playing 23%. Those numbers need to be flipped

Kevin Fishbain @kfishbain.bsky.social · 1d

Bears snap counts from last night’s win

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

• New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said that Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, "want to ... repeal the Affordable Care Act and elim nate protections for preexisting conditions." It's unclear what Trump would do, since he hasn't released a plan to replace the ACA. He said he would do so, if "we can come up With something that's better."

Schumer, meanwhile, was wrong to
say, as he did on the Senate floor April 28, that the bill goes "back to the day when insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."

perorats and Republicans have made
competing claims on whether the latest version of the GOP health care bill maintains protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. President Trump has said, "Pre-existing conditions are in the bill. And I mandate it." Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has said that
"insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."
Neither of those comments quite gets it right. The latest version offers lesser protections than the Affordable Care Act, but it doesn't allow insurers to deny coverage to someone with a health

Who's right? Like everything else in health care, it's complicated.

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