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anarchist hellscape warlord arbitration consultant. drummer in tragic lovers. writes WORK IS FOUR LETTERS, DOGE IS FOUR LETTERS, poster emeritus for NORMAL MEN. https://golikehellmachine.com https://normalmenpodcast.com https://tragiclovers.bandcamp.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 5d

average portlander meeting an ICE goon in january

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 15m

the only other thing would be the admin declaring a full blown war, which

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 15m

who knows, but if the republican congress rolls over for this, it’s basically the end of congress, it’s hard to imagine a more egregious usurpation of their power than this

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 21m

having been wrapping my head around this, this is, like, very, *very* bad

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 55m

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Distinguished Herbert West Fellow, Miskatonic Institute Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 1h

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

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 24m

if they get away with starting to pick and choose who they want to pay and with what money and ignore congress entirely, that’s basically the ballgame. whatever is on the other side is radically different

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 26m

right, all the cabinet heads are running their own shows now, and in some cases (DOJ is the best example, but also DHS), their own underlings are running *their* own shows independent of their bosses

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 28m

“private banks and investors” according to WSJ, so who knows, bessent appears to be running his own show now

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 30m

like, there’s no real coherent vision of step two here, the plan stops at “destroy the united states federal government”

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 32m

family annihilator presidency

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 37m

they’re right now toying with breaking the budget in ways that will have pretty drastic implications for, well, literally everything

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 39m

gets worse when you remember that trump said the $20B from USG only gets paid if millei wins

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 45m

that was my understanding of what he is proposing, yes

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 48m

depending on how you measure it, it’s already starting to go, the strong disapproval numbers are skyrocketing

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 55m

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Distinguished Herbert West Fellow, Miskatonic Institute Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 1h

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

FBI agents will get paid despite government shutdown, Patel says

The Trump administration will continue paying FBI agents despite the ongoing government shutdown that has frozen paychecks for nearly all federal workers, FBI Director Kash Patel announced.

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Kelly Sue DeConnick @kellysue.bsky.social · 1h

"The city of Portland unveiled it's five newly named snow plows yesterday: Brrrrnside, The Big Snowplowski, Beverly Clear-y, Salt & Thaw and, of course, Plowy McPlowface." #pdx katu.com/news/local/m...

Meet Beverly Clear-y and friends: Portland's newly named snowplow fleet unveiled

The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) unveiled the five newly named snowplows today at Portland International Raceway.

katu.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1h

think that snow white movie hemsworth made did well.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1h

this is a question only you can answer

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1h

it helps the return that salaries there are some of the lowest i have ever seen

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1h

PORCH SITTING DREAMS, JERRY

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1h

every once in awhile i see something like this, in a neighborhood i like, and briefly contemplate moving back before returning to my senses

www.zillow.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1h

it’s not even like they were *good* before but they were bad in meaningfully different ways, just like the rest of the republican party

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1h

bunch of nazis went on a doxxing streak, got suspended, musk overturned suspensions, and they’re also killing creator payments

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1h

what are they charging her with?

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 1h

Everyone’s talking about Milpay, but reminder that USDA is currently using excess 25 funds to pay for WIC and School Lunch. They say they have like maybe a month of that left.

Red States are going to lose their fucking minds if they can’t draw those soon.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2h

“they’ve always been like this” is such a lazy argument, it’s demonstrably untrue and pushing them back means understanding that it is untrue

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6h

"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 7h

there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly

and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2h

just completely giving up on his hair seems like a development

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 2h

god he looks dogshit

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

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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