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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 20h

Elder scrolls map with various titles across them

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

COME OUT YOU SKINNY TIES
COME OUT AND FIGHT ME LIKE A GUY
SHOW YOUR WIFE WHICH CHAIR YOU SIT IN WHILE YOU WATCH
TELL HER HOW ANTIFA MADE YOU RUN LIKE HELL AWAY

Krasnovian Commando @krasnoviancommando.bsky.social · 12h

Time to raise the old banners

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Dirt Dork. @dirtdork.bsky.social · 10h

Look, even the governor needs _some_ kind of excuse to visit Alton.

Dirt Dork. @dirtdork.bsky.social · 11h

It physically pained me to learn that the original was apparently a Royalist banner.

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Krasnovian Commando @krasnoviancommando.bsky.social · 12h

Time to raise the old banners

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 13h

This has been bothering me all day because the obvious point of No Kings is to show we have the power to do a color revolution if they don‘t honor the results of future elections.

The other point is to radicalize fence-sitters by having people who are *clearly doing nothing wrong* be tear gassed

Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly backwards, the no kings protests are a mass movement of regular people that have every republican politician in the country raging about "hate America rallies," and the online protest industry weirdos who say shit like "radlib" to each other are the ones skimming off the top of them

it is no wonder that 50501, a movement of radlibs who are very upset but don’t want to get in trouble, would be boosting superficial activism.

superficial activism has its place, but if that place is front and center, it kills whatever movement it is skimming off the top of.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 12h

gonna be fun to test the cliffhanger of if accepting a corrupt pardon as a part of a conspiracy is a pardonable offense

ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 18h

to temper that a hair, i think people generally need to start wrapping their head around what prosecutions into a likely field of pocket pardons look like, because it's not going to be anywhere near as satisfying as you want it to be

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 17h

meme of two guys on the bus, sad guy looking at the rock face says "we're going to have to prosecute this stuff" and the happy guy is saying "we're going to get to prosecute this stuff"

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 18h

we're going to have to prosecute this stuff

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 18h

The mechanism through which Trump is paying the troops is the most blatant large Antideficiency Act (ADA) violation in US history. It's also clearly willful. No one has been charged under the ADA before, but violations carry a two-year jail term. The statute of limitations is five years.

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DEIinSerbia @nlawscametovisit.bsky.social · 16h

The US government just issued a Stop-Work order for the Biowatch program. The enemies of the United States may now attack us with bioweapons without us knowing till it's far too late. Because Donald Trump fucked a child.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 14h

The general expectation among US elite culture is that the broad catch all of "liberals"--urban dwellers, minorities, women, LGBTQ ppl, etc--are expected to eat unending amounts of shit from "real" Americans while a) not complaining and b) still financially supporting them but without holding power

King Blackwhale @kingblackwhale.bsky.social · 15h

I’m from the San Francisco Bay Area, and never once in my 40 years of life have I heard a mainstream media figure say that the right — or government generally — has any obligation to treat me as an equal citizen or human being, or in any way be protected or served by the federal government.

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Dirt Dork. @dirtdork.bsky.social · 13h

I'm Mikie Sherrill, and I approve this message.

Ms. M @msmalarkey24.bsky.social · 18h

Peter Giunta: “I'm all in for Jack Ciattarelli for Governor of NJ.”

Also Peter Giunta: “I love Hitler.”

Dirt Dork. @dirtdork.bsky.social · 13h

Reinvigorate legislative supremacy.

Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 14h

Mike Johnson called us back from July 4 recess on 7/3 so he could gut Americans’ healthcare in the Big Ugly bill. Since then, he has only had the House in session for 19 of the subsequent 104 days. That’s how we ended up here.

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 14h

The Union is predicated on a foundationally different form of the federal government than this bullshit and if Trump wants to transition the country into a monarchy he can do it without the tax revenue of California, Illinois, and New York.

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Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · 14h

Here is a question which may not be wargamable out in public- how could blue states tax revolt, if they wanted to do so? Are there apparent funnel points where they could attempt to cut the IRS off on income and payroll taxes?

Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 14h

To be absolutely clear, and here I am being sincere and a bit less positive- I think that if this truly just turns into "Congressional appropriations are just the King's Purse and Trump can do whatever he wants with them", which will be determined on the 1st, Blue states should tax revolt.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 16h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 17h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 21h

we are doing price floors, we are doing fixed exchange rates, we are doing public ownership. Only instead of this coming from the left, its just two very bad hedgefund managers stumbling into it to appease grandpa

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 15h

Forget asking appropriators if they care about any of this, let's just ask them if they know who Charles I was

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 15h

new and interesting forms of ship money

Distinguished Herbert West Fellow, Miskatonic Institute Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 15h

How much more illegal can we get? lets find out together!
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

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The Mall Krampus @themallkrampus.bsky.social · 15h

This is what the TikTok format took from us. Teenagers making 45 minute Shakespeare movies for English class where someone gets beheaded with a hockey stick prop axe during a stage fight that resulted in two serious contusions and a broken finger.

The Mall Krampus @themallkrampus.bsky.social · 15h

Myself and five other teenage boys made a John Wick-level violent adaption of Hamlet on a Radio Shack camcorder in 2003

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 18h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 15h

Read this. Especially the final paragraph to understand what Mike Johnson, Trump, Bondi and damned near every elected Republican are afraid of. Who they refuse to stand up for, and who they bow down to. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Dirt Dork. @dirtdork.bsky.social · 15h

he'll yeag

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 17h

The subtext of this comment is that the Mayor of Boston is Asian-American, whereas the Mayor of Chicago (like almost everyone else that Trump refers to as “a low IQ person”) is Black.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "Boston had a bad mayor who at least is a reasonable IQ person. Most of them are low IQ. I mean, what's going on in Chicago ... "

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 16h

John Roberts is a white supremacist who has made it his specific life’s work to make it harder for black people to vote, and when they do, to make their votes count less than white people’s. Just because he looks like a genteel northeasterner doesn’t mean he doesn’t have the soul of Bull Connor.

CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 16h

reading transcripts from today, and wow ... the VRA is absolutely fuckin toast. John Roberts is 100% gonna be the one to personally drive the dagger through its heart, too.

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