Colin Oatley
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Colin Oatley
@coatley.bsky.social
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Michigan Voter. "When the king is a liar, truth becomes treason." -- Michael Gerson.
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Impeach Trump!
Impeachment is the tool that the Constitution provides. Charge all his abuses of power. And especially charge bribery, because the Constitution calls out bribery, specifically, as grounds for impeachment and conviction.
#ImpeachTrump
Teen Vogue was, until today, a shining beacon of truth in a world of don't-make-waves journalism. Your truth-telling will be missed.
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42 million people will lose their SNAP benefits on 1 November.
Do I think Brooks is making a coherent argument? No, it's just his usual word salad.
Use the accurate terms, "Serial Murder" and "Serial Murderers".
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Whenever you think he's nazi'd as hard as any one person can possibly nazi, he just nazis harder.
Stephen Miller: "The scandal is how Democrats & the left scarred the landscape of our country w/grotesque so-called modern art that celebrates ugliness ... very importantly, President Trump is making sure it's in the neo-classical design around which our nation's architecture has long been directed"
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What is the Times doing calling this extrajudicial murder spree “cartel strikes”? On what evidence do they ape the killers’ propaganda?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
Trump Says He Will Not Seek Authorization for Cartel Strikes
www.nytimes.com
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Mamdani hasn’t been elected yet and he’s already driving criminals out of New York.
The article mistakenly describes AIPAC favorite Rep. Haley Stevens as a a Democrat from Pennsylvania. She is in fact a Democrat from Michigan. Her opponents Michigan's US Senate primary are bragging about their refusal to take money from AIPAC. This is encouraging.
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"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA"

* article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window
US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement operation in LA, reports say
A U.S. Marshal was shot while assisting an immigration enforcement operation, according to several reports.
www.kktv.com
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I prefer political leaders who don’t shit on the American people.
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The White House keeps making a big deal of the fact that the ballroom is privately funded but that’s one of the worst things about it.

These people and companies are buying influence. None of this is okay.
This is an amazing story. Thanks, @annabower.bsky.social !
Last weekend, @annabower.bsky.social started to receive Signal messages from the U.S. attorney who is leading the prosecution of Letitia James.

Throughout the exchange, Lindsay Halligan complained about Bower’s tweets and reporting on the indictment–but never once asked to be off the record.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.”
My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
www.lawfaremedia.org
This is first degree murder.
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Anytime you ask “why did the Times cover it this way?” or whatever corporate media it is, remember that influential moderates are the tool of the wealth class and are there to normalize whatever the wealthy want and create doubt regarding reform and change.
Wife and me at No Kings rally in Saline, Michigan, October 18, 2025.
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A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
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Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?
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Speaker Mike Johnson just said he's completely fine with ICE agents shooting priests in the head with pepper balls and roughing up journalists.

I'm sure he'll tell us soon about how it's the Democrats who are waging a war on religion and free speech though.
Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.
This is really well done.
This week’s main story is about Paramount’s decision to name Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS News, the future of U.S. journalism, and why we think she shouldn’t describe her endeavors as “punk.” Bari, look at us: You are not punk. Joe Strummer would’ve hated your fancy Substack, Bari!
BBC story about LA from June 8. Obama is a Chicago guy, so I presume he is talking about what's happening in Chicago right now.
Obama acknowledges the reality that crime does exist, but it does not provide legal justification for sending in troops.
Yes, Trump includes peaceful protesters when he talks about crime in the cities, but he doesn't say those "crimes" are the only crimes that require him to send troops. Trump claims that crime is everywhere, windows are boarded up, and people are hiding indoors, waiting for him to rescue them.
Right. That's what Trump said, not what Obama said.