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Auntie Fah La @nananancy.bsky.social · 1m

And if you don't believe us, we'll snatch you off the street and send you to a foreign gulag.

Auntie Fah La @nananancy.bsky.social · 2m

duh

Auntie Fah La @nananancy.bsky.social · 3m

He only sees the shadows on the wall of his cave.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

A law was passed a long time ago to place a plaque on the wall to honor the officers who defended the Capitol on J6. The plaque is done and has been ready to hang up for a long time. MAGA Mike refuses to comply with that law, which is a slap in the face to every officer. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

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

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Auntie Fah La @nananancy.bsky.social · 8m

I graduated from high school in North Carolian, so I feel this essay.

Auntie Fah La @nananancy.bsky.social · 11m

I think they're more afraid of losing power.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2h

He = Trump, in an essay about his delusion of enemy goons in masks coming for us. His nightmare; he is, in fact, now making it real for us.

Michael Bazaconomicon 💀 🎃 👻 @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · 4h

Reading this bit from @jeffsharlet.bsky.social book, The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, is pretty chilling in our current time.

Quote from Jeff Sharlet’s book, The Undertow’ that says:

“The difference between him and his believers was that he had the power to make the dream real, for them, for him, for us. To summon into being the “American carnage” he nightmared at his inauguration, the cities he said were desolate set ablaze, the killers in the street recast as heroes, with paramilitary backup, fear a daily given, the plague risen up from legend to fill the land with ghosts. This was his dream. We were all nightmaring it together.”

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2h

Expanding my political vocabulary with a daily skim of UK press. Two useful terms: "right-whinger"; "grumblepshere."

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Auntie Fah La @nananancy.bsky.social · 13m

I would love a full report when you have time. Grumblepshere is my word of the day today!

Auntie Fah La @nananancy.bsky.social · 14m

No, you don't.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3h

This entire argument by Louisiana and the conservatives questions are premised on an erasure of Congress’ enforcement power under the 14th & 15th Amendments.

Literally swinging for the fences to wipe out the premise for the legitimacy of Congress’ power to enact civil rights statutes.

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Congressman Eugene Vindman (VA-07) @gene4va.bsky.social · 20m

I stand with the brave journalists who are refusing to abide by Hegseth’s press ‘policy’.

Freedom of the press is one of our most foundational rights guaranteed by the Constitution — and Secretary Signalgate is attempting to chip that away.

This is nothing more than censorship.

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Auntie Fah La @nananancy.bsky.social · 19m

He's so full of shit.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

When a nation that started as colony for convicts decides that you are too troublesome to let in, that should be a sobering wake up call.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 5h

Far-right U.S. influencer Candace Owens has lost her bid to enter Australia after the country’s highest court backed the government’s decision to deny her a visa over concerns she could “incite discord” in the community.

Far-right U.S. influencer Candace Owens loses legal fight to enter Australia

The country’s highest court backed the government’s decision to deny her a visa over concerns she could “incite discord” in the community.

nbcnews.to

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

New in PN: The 1,287,923 defects in the Comey case ... so far

"Dismissal is probably the best result for the government, since it would spare the DOJ having its dirty laundry aired in court before getting spanked for having brought such a garbage case. But even so, it'd be very, very funny."

The 1,287,923 defects in the Comey case ... so far

Welcome to the Rocket Docket, Lindsey Halligan!

www.publicnotice.co

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

I'm sure there are plenty of faculty at colleges and universities across Pennsylvania who can share stories of the profound impact Kirk made on their lives thanks to the harassment campaigns fueled by his Professor Watchlist

Stephen Caruso @stephenjcaruso.bsky.social · 5h

State Sen. Joe Picozzi (R., Philly) wants to make conservative commentator Charlie Kirk's birthday, Oct. 14, an official commonwealth holiday. "Although his life was cut short, Charlie’s profound impact has been undeniably felt by Pennsylvanians of all beliefs and backgrounds."

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Auntie Fah La @nananancy.bsky.social · 3h

My assistants told me that a few of them held a hate rally last evening and that a couple of them trickled into the room with all the books where I work. I had just red about the red shirts, when a couple of them popped up. We don't have their klan here, yet - fortunately.

Auntie Fah La @nananancy.bsky.social · 3h

YOU ARE THE GOVERNMENT YOU MOTHERRAPISTPOS!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Bessent: "The government is standing in the way. We've tried to get it out of the way. The Democrats have not been able to shut President Trump down in the courts. They've tried to shut him down in the media ... we need to get the government out of the way."

Auntie Fah La @nananancy.bsky.social · 3h

He sure does look comfortable on his throne right now.

Auntie Fah La @nananancy.bsky.social · 3h

100%.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

They're the ones making our neighborhoods unsafe. They're the danger to our children. They're the threat to law and order.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 5h

Agent lobs a gas canister into a residential neighborhood in Illinois for no discernible reason, gassing dozens of neighbors including a baby. The comfort with which they deploy weapons of war is unreal.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

They're the ones making our neighborhoods unsafe. They're the danger to our children. They're the threat to law and order.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 5h

Agent lobs a gas canister into a residential neighborhood in Illinois for no discernible reason, gassing dozens of neighbors including a baby. The comfort with which they deploy weapons of war is unreal.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

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Auntie Fah La @nananancy.bsky.social · 3h

They're on standby mode because they've already won.

Auntie Fah La @nananancy.bsky.social · 3h

Cold.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 7h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Auntie Fah La @nananancy.bsky.social · 3h

The bassists are safely offstage, awaiting their cue.