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Joe DeLong @joedelong.bsky.social · 6h

Powerful sign at No Kings in Cleveland

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3h

Yesterday I wrote about the effort by center-left pundits to police what people are passionate about.
www.pbump.net/o/sincerity-...

Sincerity is not the problem

As is inevitably the case after an election — and is especially the case after an election with an unexpected result — allies of the losing presidential candidate in 2024 looked for people to blame. O...

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 6h

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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John Brown’s Body @berndtpetersen.bsky.social · 3h

As soon as you start having to stitch together services, it all falls apart. Slight exception for Cursor with Claude Max, but ain’t nobody got the money to pay that for a jr dev who occasionally “gets it”.

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John Brown’s Body @berndtpetersen.bsky.social · 4h

Great time at #NoKings Austin, TX today. 20,000+ strong, utterly pissed off but completely peaceful.

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MeidasE @ericpere.bsky.social · 4h

Make lying, cheating, and stealing wrong again!

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 4h

this is a tacit admission that the administration is not confident in the legal arguments it would have to make in order to detain them, which should also cast into question the legality of the operation in the first place

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5h

Those men are super dangerous drug smuggling terrorists, which is why . . . we are letting them go.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

U.S. Is Repatriating Survivors of Its Strike on Suspected Drug Vessel

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 6h

Tell the heroes’ stories far and wide

Never let the cowards forget

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 6h

👀 someone calling out big law firm complicity and cowardice

Sign reading BIG LAW LITTLE BALLS, and then listing a bunch of lil ball'd firms:

A&O Shearman
Cadwalder, Wickersham
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Milbank
Paul, Weiss
Simpson Thatcher
Skadden, Arpa
Willkie Farr

Then the sign ends with a Trump quote that should make these firms put their heads in the proverbial bag:

"They gave me a lot of money considering they did nothing wrong"

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 7h

Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776).
In America, the law is king.

But where says some is the King of America? I'll tell you Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain. Yet that we may not appear to be defective even in earthly honors, let a day be solemnly set apart for proclaiming the charter; let it be brought forth placed on the divine law, the word of God; let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America the law is king. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 7h

middle aged lesbians are out saving America while you post, my guy

RBG’s legacy is ACB @jefe0711.bsky.social · 7h

Really nailing that Middle Aged lesbian vibe, my guy

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 8h

Old enough to remember when him doing the King schtick the first time (congestion pricing) was such a hanging curve-ball, Kathy Hochul hit it 1500 feet into Flushing Bay and basically 180'd her political fortunes overnight.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 8h

And thus, the libs were thoroughly owned.

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John Brown’s Body @berndtpetersen.bsky.social · 8h

Make Caning Great Again

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 9h

Seriously, though - people keep asking "what are the protesters asking for, and what's their strategic plan to get it?"

I think what they're asking for is for America to be restored and Trump to subjected to the law. And I think the plan to get it is to demonstrate that there are so, so many of us.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

It's official: Speaker Johnson just cancelled all votes in the House next week.

The next scheduled voting day is 10/27; the last time the House was in session was 9/19.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 1d

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

It's official: Speaker Johnson just cancelled all votes in the House next week.

The next scheduled voting day is 10/27; the last time the House was in session was 9/19.

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 12h

I really love how in England they have modified No Kings to No Tyrants out of local sensibilities whilst in Ireland they are all like NO KINGS, do I stutter.

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 1d

Years ago there was a Twitter leak that disclosed actual countries and email address of many ppl's IDs.

To this day you can find MAGA accounts – that were originally started by posting cat pictures – praising Hitler and, if you trace their account ID, are actually run from Pakistan.

It's all an op

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that this place is rotten with bad faith accounts trying openly to split apart groups, redirect discussions, and ruin any chance of creating solidarity 🥰

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John Brown’s Body @berndtpetersen.bsky.social · 9h

Let’s just agree to disagree. It’s pretty clear to me that your whole framing is bad faith. I’m not gonna block you, but sure af muting you.

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Rob is reading On Thermonuclear War🧭 @robisreading.bsky.social · 10h

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John Brown’s Body @berndtpetersen.bsky.social · 10h

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John Brown’s Body @berndtpetersen.bsky.social · 10h

To which you replied about “throwing vision impaired people under the bus” before I got the actual axe out.

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John Brown’s Body @berndtpetersen.bsky.social · 10h

Behold, an axe:

bsky.app/profile/bern...

John Brown’s Body @berndtpetersen.bsky.social · 11h

Alt text is a plot by Big AI to get you to annotate training data for them. The fact that it also is supportive of those with disability not withstanding.

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John Brown’s Body @berndtpetersen.bsky.social · 10h

“Throw vision impaired people under the bus”, “you get a ‘discourage post button’”, don’t think you need a sentiment analysis bot for that.

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John Brown’s Body @berndtpetersen.bsky.social · 10h

Use whatever semantic framing you want, buddy.

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tyto @tyto.cc · 16h

then you get a free "discourage posting" button!

i have found that once i've gone through the effort of uploading image, the effort-barrier to do alt-text is small enough to, as the illustrious shia labeouf once said, "just do it"

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