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Ian Comings 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @seedofcheif.bsky.social · 12h

Definitely my class on Democratic erosion. I took it for the spring semester in '21 and I don't think I've ever felt a class that was taught and received by everyone involved with such urgency.

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 1d

12. What was the best class you took in college?

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Ian Comings 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @seedofcheif.bsky.social · 12h

I have taken multiple classes functionally named after horseman of the Apocalypse

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 1d

6. Tell me your college major without telling me your major.

Ian Comings 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @seedofcheif.bsky.social · 13h

These are not the references you imagined in your personal finance classes. These are people who will put you in contact with hiring managers. It doesn't matter how many resumes you send out, that hiring manager will never see it if you submit it on LinkedIn, you need to know a guy who knows a guy.

Ian Comings 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @seedofcheif.bsky.social · 13h

Making connections is literally the only thing that will get you a job.

It doesn't matter how good your grades are or how important of a school you go to, the only way you will ever get a job is being known by someone, so make sure to take every opportunity to meet people who could get you a job.

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 1d

11. What is something that you wish someone told you before you went to college?

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Ian Comings 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @seedofcheif.bsky.social · 16h

very seriously i hope civil society and democratic electeds have a plan for when the feds start dropping protestors because IMO it is only a matter of time

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

The executive is usurping a core Article I function, this should be treated with the same amount of alarm as if he declared he's disbanding Congress, because that's functionally what he's doing/done

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

When you finally run out of fucks to give.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Free speech is when Republicans can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/noup...

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Ian Comings 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @seedofcheif.bsky.social · 22h

10 bucks says this gets one quarter of the media attention that a nonpartisans act violence which was roundly condemned by literally every Democrat

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Ian Comings 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @seedofcheif.bsky.social · 23h

I'd figure Pakistan would be tripping over itself to actually have an opportunity to settle a few scores, especially once the indians are committed to the war.

Ian Comings 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @seedofcheif.bsky.social · 23h

It's an insult to God to claim that they would need to be saved from a man kneeling during a song or a trans person selling beer.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 2d

There being a government without kings was supposed to be the point of this country, asshole.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Ian Comings 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @seedofcheif.bsky.social · 1d

And you just know the people who make these takes have never even heard of the heroro and nama genocide

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Ian Comings 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @seedofcheif.bsky.social · 2d

Someone really needs to ask these fascists how much they think is being spent on paid protesters.

Because if they earnestly say that we are paying hundreds of thousands of protesters where do they think this money is coming from?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

Ian Comings 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @seedofcheif.bsky.social · 2d

Hell, even outside of speculation, you would expect someone to ask him why he thought he was going to hell. I would call it a stunning lack of curiosity if it wasn't clearly motivated by partisan feeling.

Ian Comings 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @seedofcheif.bsky.social · 2d

What's going on in India + Pakistan and West / Central Asia during the first and second sinos?

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Ian Comings 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @seedofcheif.bsky.social · 2d

I think it's very notable that the current sitting president repeatedly says in public that he doesn't think he's going to heaven and the press never ask him the easy follow-up of what it was he thinks is going to send him to hell.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Ian Comings 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @seedofcheif.bsky.social · 2d

You can tell these guys are in a cult because if any one else heard that a significant subsection of their customer base didn't want a feature they would simply offer versions that didn't contain the controversial option (for an upcharge, these aren't good people, just clever people)

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

Ian Comings 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @seedofcheif.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

They want paper lists

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Ian Comings 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @seedofcheif.bsky.social · 2d

I guess my point is that we should reject muscovite framing in the same way that we reject The idea that British colonial possessions and the troops that they provided werent the result of colonialism.

We don't call troops from the raj British troops, we call them British colonial troops

Ian Comings 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @seedofcheif.bsky.social · 2d

For his terrible as it is to the Republic maybe this shit will finally get the Democratic Congressional delegation to realize that their freedom is on the line, and that this is not just a question of policy

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 3d

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

The recent trajectory, in broad strokes:

- Regime starts militarizing the conflict in early summer
- Regime declares all liberal/leftwing political activity as domestic terrorist or terrorism-adjacent in presidential memo
- Regime ramps up the propaganda against “the Left” across all channels

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

“Who was president in 2020?” remains one of the most pertinent questions in American politics—absurd, yes, but here we are—and that extends to “who was president January 1 - 19, 2021?”

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 3d

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Ian Comings 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @seedofcheif.bsky.social · 3d

I am begging these people to read one (1) article on the Teutonic crusades in Eastern Europe and the things the german people have done to the Jews before 1776.

chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social · 3d

Post like this and I unfollow and mute. This is erasing centuries of European pogroms and other violence prior to WWII by making America the sin-eater for the entire Western world. I won't have it and I won't let it slide:

Cærsten (@cara.city) posted:

"we didn't cause Nazism" dude Hitler based the Nuremberg Laws on the Jim Crow south and Lebensraum was partially inspired by the native genocide of the 19th century idk what to tell you
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By quote-posting:
Will Stancil‬ (@whstancil.bsky.social‬):

we didn’t cause Nazism. whatever caused incumbents to tank in 2024, it wasn’t unique to us. we aren’t uniquely corrupt, or violent, or authoritarian. there are good things and bad things about our country like any other, and Americans work a lot like people anywhere

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 3d

It's incredible the extent to which Congress just utterly refuses to defend itself. You'd think for entirely self-interested reasons you would stridently oppose having the power of the purse arbitrarily ripped from you, ya know?

Why would you allow yourself to become the Roman Senate circa 27 BC.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 3d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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