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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 3h

i do think the revolt of the bosses has caught the car and they're not actually gonna like what they get

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 3h

i would not be surprised if business types, particular family business tyrants, are starting to sweat things as their cravings for ~labor discipline ~ have given way to fears of labor shortage

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 3h

Stepping to Derek Guy is like accepting Isaac Chotiner’s interview request. The moment you do it, your fate’s decided.

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 1d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 4h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

the inflatable costume thing is an extremely smart tactic

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

my father (a retired white engineer who has been in oklahoma for 40 years) is my weathervane for what normal people who just watch the news periodically think, and he was like “so, they want to call the guard out on a bunch of kids wearing frog suits? is that true?”, the admin is losing the PR war

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 4h

You all are so relentlessly insufferable. (not Kevin)

STOP GATEKEEPING PROTEST

THATS NOT HOW PROTEST WORKS

THE MORE PROTEST THE BETTER

THE MORE KINDS OF PROTEST THE BETTER

the same people screaming “do something!” also screaming “not like that!”

Y’all are shooting yourselves in the foot.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

my father (a retired white engineer who has been in oklahoma for 40 years) is my weathervane for what normal people who just watch the news periodically think, and he was like “so, they want to call the guard out on a bunch of kids wearing frog suits? is that true?”, the admin is losing the PR war

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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onion person @junlper.beer · 6h

genuinely trumps funniest bit ever for him to admit that he knows he’s a grifting piece of shit who’s going to hell lol

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6h

someone on the Internet who really wants to convince you to shine lasers at manned aircraft as a protest tactic “because they did it in Chile in 2019” is either:

1. a fascist fed, or,

2. so terminally stupid that they have become functionally indistinguishable from one

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10h

This is a good catch. The statutory authorization supposedly being used to transfer R&D funds to regular payroll is, in fact, expired, just like the regular appropriations are also expired.

Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social · 11h

Not that Trump/Vought/Hegseth gaf, but among other ways in which the law says this may NOT be done:
A) The part of 8005 I've underlined in green says money transferred to another account is "available… for the same time period" as that other account; that other acc't expired on Sept 30.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 6h

I am very tired of this, but a quick review.

In America, it is legal for you to own your bullshit laser, no matter how it got into the county.

How you use your bullshit laser matters. Most jurisdictions escalate to felony for lighting up any law enforcement. Doing to them in the sky is ++Felony.

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 7h

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 2d

Very serious person Andy Ngo has now been reduced to pleading with his audience to please please PLEASE take the dancing antifa muppets seriously

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 8h

I was a junior in HS when Waiting for Columbus dropped. I will always stan Little Feat.

(although 21st century CJ has an appreciation for Linda Ronstadt's cover of Willin' that teenage CJ would NOT have understood)

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 10h

And finally reprogramming requires there to be a valid appropriation to transfer the funds into. There is no FY26 MILPERS (military pay appropriation) and FY25 MILPERS is expired (cannot legally do new obligations), hence why this is an illegal usurpation of Article I appropriation power

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 13h

The idea that Newsom could be president doesn't survive contact with actual California residents. If the people who know him best wouldn't vote for him, his campaign is kinda fucked.

Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 14h

Not to ruin anyone’s day, but if you take even a cursory glance at Gavin Newsom’s early life and privileges, and at the ways he made his money and his family connections to other prominent hated Democrats, the idea that he’s going to win over middle America is laughable. Completely ridiculous.

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 14h

My kingdom for one of these fuckers sitting for a long form interview with a Mehdi Hassan or Jonathan Swan. Somebody who will not let their bullshit slide.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 14h

It's amazing how public officials who willingly go on TV to talk about these issues can claim ignorance about the very things they've come on to talk about, and it's treated like a legitimate answer.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Jim Jordan after he's played clips from videos of ICE brutalizing people, including American citizens: "I don't know the specifics of those examples you gave. What I do know is these ICE agents are under tremendous pressure ... I think they're doing a good job."

CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 14h

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 14h

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 14h

Ooh, like that sign on the Pike commemorating that the next place I-90 gets up to that elevation is in Oacoma, SD?

(I've been on I-90 eastbound in Oacoma, SD. They make no mention of Massachusetts.)

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 14h

Let's start by taking back both chambers of Congress. That gets us one. Then we can start chipping away at court reform.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17h

No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 14h

Which brings us right back to "every MAGA accusation is a confession".

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 1d

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

www.nbcnews.com

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 14h

News agencies will absolutely not do this.

But good on Pope Leo for calling them out.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 16h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17h

“Who was president in 2020?” remains one of the most pertinent questions in American politics—absurd, yes, but here we are—and that extends to “who was president January 1 - 19, 2021?”

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 16h

Yes. This.

Calling out their hypocrisy doesn't work because they don't care. A fair playing field isn't their goal. What they're trying to do is assert dominance. "One rule for thee, another for me. Watcha gonna do about it?"

Punch the fuckers in the nose.

Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 16h

this isn’t a criticism bc I agree with Greg but I feel like we need a new terminology for this. it’s not really hypocrisy or bad faith. they’re engaged in a project that doesn’t value those concepts.

it’s a fundamentally irrational ideology based on overt displays of power and loyalty tests.

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 1d

“the conventions of political reporting today are poorly suited to capturing this naked use of sheer pretexts and the bottomless bad faith they rely upon.”
@gregsargent.bsky.social is absolutely right. Big, legacy media has got to catch up to reality.

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