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RedStateBlues @coolsprings.bsky.social · 4h

Admits he doesn’t know who he pardoned ‼️‼️‼️

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pmmii.bsky.social @pmmii.bsky.social · 3h

On his knees looking up at Trump and opening his mouth…

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!

I know how hard you worked for this.

Red Trump-style graphic with images of Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo.

At the top it says, "I'm going to pick [Cuomo]." - Donald Trump, 60 Minutes Interview, 11-2-25

Then beneath it

TRUMP ENDORSES CUOMO

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pmmii.bsky.social @pmmii.bsky.social · 2d

Did the NYT’s execs ever watch “Handmaid’s Tale” and especially what happened to the Boston Globe? Because there are MAGAts, including ones you could name, who want that to happen. Liberals don’t get they peril they are in - odds of their literal survival are a lot better putting up a fight.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 2d

New York Times editorial board has compiled "a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about.

During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.

pmmii.bsky.social @pmmii.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely. American conservatives are the most submissive bootlickers on the planet.

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Domainophile @domainophile.bsky.social · 2d

Assuming democracy survives this, nobody should ever believe any conservative ever again who rails for "freedom" and "liberty" and against "big government". It was all a lie. All of it. Everything they claimed for the last 50 years.

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pmmii.bsky.social @pmmii.bsky.social · 2d

It’s not just going to affect THEM. It’s coming for YOU. And they have much bigger plans than this.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 2d

New from 404 Media: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document I obtained. Photos captured by the app are stored for 15 years, including U.S. citizens. We've seen officers scanning faces w/ phones on streets

www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says

Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.

www.404media.co

pmmii.bsky.social @pmmii.bsky.social · 2d

And then topped off with Biden beating back Trump's (first) attempted self-coup. Don't forget Obamacare! Despite 2016, on multiple metrics, the 2010s were far better for the Dems in terms of achievements than the 1990s. So again, why the fixation on Bill Clinton as the Messiah?

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pmmii.bsky.social @pmmii.bsky.social · 2d

Like... this is inarguably true, right? The 90s weren't a great decade for Dems. They just weren't. Why not the 2010s? Yes, Obama lost the House majority too but Pelosi got it back. Obama won two elections without leaning on Perot in the shadow of the Great Recession. Why the Clinton fixation?

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pmmii.bsky.social @pmmii.bsky.social · 2d

I just don't get it. It's like half the Democratic Party longs for a decade that they were barely clinging to power (purely on the numbers), gave up the dreams of the Great Society and the New Deal, and for what exactly? A sex pest and Epstein guest who played the saxophone?

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pmmii.bsky.social @pmmii.bsky.social · 2d

Not only that, but purely on the numbers, it's a bizarre fixation that's doomed to failure. Clinton never had to get over 50 percent of the vote thanks to Perot. Clinton presided over the end of 40 years of Democratic control of the House. By electoral standards, the 90s were a dismal failure.

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pmmii.bsky.social @pmmii.bsky.social · 2d

Well, ignoring that thanks to Ross Perot, Clinton never had to get over 50 percent of the vote to win either presidential election, and Newt Gingrich swept in with the Contract on America and wiped out the Dem majority only 2 years after Clinton's first election...

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pmmii.bsky.social @pmmii.bsky.social · 2d

With all due respect, that's absolute crap. Sure, it's all great policy, but to think *this* will motivate millions to resist an autocratic takeover? Really? Sure, Hillary and Kamala both lost with wonky policies, so let's double down on the wonkiness! That'll motivate normies! Very strange.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 3d

AXA and Ipsos have published the 12th edition of the Future Risks Report, a report based on a global survey of 23,000 citizens and 3,595 risk experts.
What do both experts and citizens rank as greates risk?
*** Climate change ***
So do I, after over 35 years experience in climate science.

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pmmii.bsky.social @pmmii.bsky.social · 2d

When you're blasted out of your mind from ketamine and a dozen other drugs every waking moment like Musk is to the point it's rumored he has to wear a diaper, you're probably capable of making any noises one could imagine.

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pmmii.bsky.social @pmmii.bsky.social · 2d

Gates probably paused, thought "this makes it less likely I'll get thrown out of a 50-story window, not to mention keeping me out of the Epstein files news for a while", leaned back in his chair with a sigh of relief, and returned to counting his money from the fossil fueled AI boom.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 3d

Really stunning that the British Royal Family — just about the most insulated institution in the free world! — has managed to enact stronger consequences for an Epstein friend than anything the US has managed at all.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3d

Lot happening in the world but this is truly a remarkable, and damming, development: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...

Prince Andrew to Be Stripped of His Royal Title

www.nytimes.com

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 3d

I think fundamentally the problem with post liberal thinkers is that they seem to assume that vanquishing liberalism results in their enemies being converted or defeated and not becoming radicalized into enemies who no longer extend the mercies they once did.

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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · Sep 22

One of the crazy things about American Christo-fascism is that it is one of the most brazen and vulgar heresies ever conceived of. Like even if the Carpocratians were really hosting church-sponsored orgies and painting icons of Pythagoras they would barely edge these freaks out.

Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · Sep 21

"Charlie's death was not just a murder. The true word for what Charlie did is 'sacrifice.' ...Charlie Kirk died for all of you. And Charlie's sacrifice means that Charlie Kirk will live forever ...for all future generations of Americans."

I'm sorry, are we going full Kirkian Atonement Theory?

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

chat is it good when defense intellectuals are citing Adrian and putting arguments you'd hear before the Spanish Civil War

Sed Contra

This essay does not argue liberalism will collapse, only that military officers should be intellectually (and spiritually) prepared for alternatives. Some may argue that the answer is not post-liberalism but a recovery of “true” American classical liberalism along the lines of a Jeffersonian democracy with its suspicion of standing armies and preference for state militias. Such a vision promises fidelity to part of the Founders’ intent and added insulation against the dangers of a politicized federal military.

Three problems stand in the way. First, turning that clock back is impossible without first dismantling the post-Civil War constitutional order and possibly repealing the Fourteenth Amendment. Such upheaval is historically far more likely to result in Caesar than Cincinnatus. Second, the militia-based model of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson is not a professional military, and thus out of the scope of this essay. Thirdly, protecting a nation-state with nothing but a citizen militia is a pipe dream. Independence in the 21st century requires a permanent professional military, if only to sustain a nuclear deterrent. No polity can remain sovereign without one.

Others may object that abandoning liberalism means abandoning the rule of law — and with it, any recognizable professional military ethic. But as Adrian Vermeule notes, the rule of law is not a liberal achievement. Roman law, medieval jurists, and early modern legal traditions all operated independently of liberal individualism, yet they maintained robust systems of order, justice, and legality. Vermeule provocatively writes: “The real question is not whether the rule of law can be obtained in the absence of liberalism, for it obviously can. The real question is whether it can be obtained in the [continued] presence of liberalism.”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

“we will rule you forever with an iron fist of suffering” is maybe not the most compelling message any administration has ever had

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

JD Vance: "The suffering is going to get a lot worse."

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pmmii.bsky.social @pmmii.bsky.social · 3d

Yes.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3d

Think the marriage of convenience between the Israeli right and the global far-right has been bad for the Diaspora Jews? Wait until you see the divorce.

"At a TPUSA event, kid in a MAGA hat gives the Lefty conspiracy view of Israel's Gaza war, then adds that Jews want to "prosecute" (think he means "persecute") Christians. JD Vance offers no dissent, just says Israel doesn't control "this" President"

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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 3d

And actually astonishing when you think about it: The Trump administration's top officials are choosing to separate themselves from the public—more to the point: separate themselves from any visible protest—and live on military bases.

Gift link here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases

Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.

www.theatlantic.com

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🎃 @hilaryagro.com · 4d

My actual hottest take is that it's easier to understand maga indoctrination through the lens of spirit possession than any other paradigm

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