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Poster of posts. Comparative politics, memes, and the occasional update about my ducks. Bluesky's premier advocate for Bushidoliberalism 🫡 🗡️⛩️ Designs (mostly) inspired by and derived from 19th century political Americana at 👁 wideawakes.army 👁

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · Feb 16

"what's bushidoliberalism?" basically this but instead of an emperor the object of reverence is the constitution and trans rights

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2h

maybe reporters should take another look at some of the people the vice president of the united states follows on twitter and the things they say in public

just saying

Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 2h

The leaked chats between Young Republican leaders were obviously disgusting.

JD Vance’s efforts to downplay the scandal and complain about “pearl clutching” made an awful story worse. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

JD Vance tries to downplay leak of disgusting Young Republican chats

For the vice president to suggest it’s “pearl clutching” to condemn those who were part of a racist group chat says a great deal about his judgment.

www.msnbc.com

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 2h

This is all a blatant violation of Article I of the Constitution.

Trump’s troop pay move is a ‘temporary fix,’ Johnson says

A Pentagon funding shift covered Wednesday's active-duty paychecks. But another threat looms if the shutdown continues to Oct. 31.

www.politico.com

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KINDAFREE | IRI @denofsin.bsky.social · 1h

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 1h

Getting cancelled for my group chats leaking that I'm actually super polite and nice in private

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 1h

Cleaning off my glasses and reading this again

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?

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Rob Paderofsky @paderofsky.bsky.social · 1h

You feel insane having this conversation offline because 1) it's so fuckin obvious if you pay any attention 2) 90% of people you see irl pay it no attention whatsoever

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 1h

"who's Leo Frank?"

oh no

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 1h

Not me trying to explain to dad that I know the DoD press secretary is a Nazi because she posted constantly about Leo Frank

Rob Paderofsky @paderofsky.bsky.social · 5h

If you try to explain to even slightly offline people that basically all Republicans under 30 are, at best, barely closeted Nazis, you sound like a crazy person.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

"republican staffers are all literal nazis" is less of a groupchat thing and more of a posting on main thing at this point

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 1h

This is especially impressive once you figure that tariffs, ceteris paribus, are supposed to put upward pressure on the value of a currency

But the ceteris ain't exactly paribus

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 7h

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 1h

"There are comrades who make pronouncements the moment they arrive at a place, criticizing this and condemning that when they have only seen minor details. They are bound to make a mess of things, lose the confidence of the masses and prove incapable of solving any problem at all!" 🫡

Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 4h

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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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 2h

[billy Joel voice] Ezra Klein, Polycule, Bari's got a pretend school.

David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 4h

jfc... now klein is platforming yud.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 10h

Thinking of all the people who insisted that this admin was serious about "ending antisemitism on college campuses."

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6h

/3 But a huge plurality, at least, of the modern GOP is of the opinion that noticing bigoted trash is more un-American and destructive than BEING bigoted trash: that dehumanizing fellow Americans based on immutable characteristics is morally superior to criticizing anyone for doing that.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 4h

Wow surely nobody would keep repeatedly increasing the tariffs then

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 4h

BESSENT: ONE TIME PRICE ADJUSTMENT FROM TARIFFS IS NOT INFLATIONARY

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 15h

The consequences of what she did are a year off to write a book (which will be published) and then landing a high prestige job immediately

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 15h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

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

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 14h

Susan Collins waxing rhapsodically about regular order while the House is openly talking about more recissions might work on the members of the Dem caucus with less object permanence than babies, but I wouldn't count on it

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 15h

doing this while the WH threatens to nuke money in blue states is uh choice

Politico @politico.com · 19h

Senate GOP leaders are looking to pressure Dems to advance a three-bill package to fund a handful of federal agencies during the shutdown, per sources with direct knowledge of the plans.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13h

“Kavanaugh stop” is a great phrase. Evocative, critical, memorable, and on point.

The internet tells me the term was coined and popularized by @akalhan.bsky.social and @sifill.bsky.social. A big hat tip to them.

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 13h

It’s funny how the old media depiction of Nazis was always that they’re evil but dignified gentleman and now they’re openly just like “Hello. I’m the Anime Pedophile”

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 13h

i think one very clear lesson of 2024 is necessity of having media infrastructure to reach public. right now legacy media is either passively or actively complicit and social media increasingly owned by allies of administration

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 18h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

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