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Leger-Felicite SCARElax 👻🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · 1h

just in book 1 i can think of f-sharp minor, f-sharp major, g major, a major as having especially cool subjects

Leger-Felicite SCARElax 👻🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · 1h

this is a scorching hot take

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Leger-Felicite SCARElax 👻🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · 1h

might be tired or might be Just One Of Those Things, good pitchers still get hit sometimes

Leger-Felicite SCARElax 👻🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · 2h

so i think the question that's going to define whatever response there is to All The Shit That's Going On is what it would take to convince someone that the old constitutional and political order is dead and gone and that it is impossible to bring it back

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Leger-Felicite SCARElax 👻🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · 4h

now we get to see if there was a backup plan!

Leger-Felicite SCARElax 👻🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · Aug 17

do we think the dems have any plans for 2026 beyond 'i hope he doesn't rig the elections too much'

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Leger-Felicite SCARElax 👻🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · 4h

also I really don't think a lot of americans believe that a right wing dictatorship can be a thing

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Leger-Felicite SCARElax 👻🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · 4h

even breaking one of the core ideological principles of postwar us politics ("we all agree on what we're trying to do, just not how to do it") is impossible for a lot of politicos to accept. there's a lot of them who just cannot believe that the GOP *actually* wants to bring back jim crow

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Leger-Felicite SCARElax 👻🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · 5h

it's not the only factor but I think even now a lot of americans have a sense of the american liberal-democratic political system as eternal and indestructible, and the thought that it might be permanently broken or turned into a shell surrounding a dictatorship is something they just can't believe

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Leger-Felicite SCARElax 👻🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · 5h

one thing to consider when comparing the incredibly feeble american response to a looming right wing dictatorship to, say, south korea or brazil, both of which took pretty forceful action, is that those countries have very recent memories of right wing dictatorship

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 5h

Curious...what would be the South Korea, 1 million people surround the Capitol moment for U.S.?

1) SCOTUS strikes down Voting Rights Act
2) Trump invokes Insurrection Act ahead of election, troops at blue polling places
3) A modern Kent State-style shooting
4) Something else
5) Absolutely nothing

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 7h

overwhelmingly, the thing that motivates a young person to become a movement conservative is racism, specifically anti black racism. the conservative movement does care about other things, but racial animus has been the primary motivating factor for entry into the movement for decades.

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Leger-Felicite SCARElax 👻🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · 10h

we actually have group dms already on bsky it's just that we're all avoiding inviting you to ours

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Leger-Felicite SCARElax 👻🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · 11h

look it's making the world worse in every aspect but at least it's making a handful of the worst people in human history obscenely rich

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Leger-Felicite SCARElax 👻🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · 11h

the time has come to release the files about the death of general richard montgomery during the battle of quebec in 1775

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Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 11h

bluesky does not need group DMs, group DMs are breeding grounds for madness.

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Leger-Felicite SCARElax 👻🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · 12h

Certainly! That was my mistake. I didn't realize that the target I selected was an elementary school, not a self propelled artillery piece. The next missile target I select should be correct.

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 13h

Welcome to the Cool Zone

OpenAI wins $200m contract with US military for ‘warfighting’

Program with the defense department is first under the startup’s initiative to put AI to work in governments

www.theguardian.com

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Leger-Felicite SCARElax 👻🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · 22h

lol bookmarking this one for later

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 1d

everyone needs to internalize that this is just how all republicans are and when nancy pelosi said "the country needs a strong republican party" she meant that more people like this should be powerful. they are all like this! they all think just like this and like trump and they love it and it's fun

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

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...

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Leger-Felicite SCARElax 👻🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · 23h

answering the clamor for a book discussing important subjects like 'watching rfk jack off over facetime'

Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 1d

look for it in your local bookstore's "nobody asked for this" section

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 1d

I know the temptation is to just scroll past this with a “not surprised” reaction, but you should read this if you have the emotional bandwidth to encounter horrifying slurs and violent sentiments, because there’s an important takeaway: extremism is often performed to reinforce an in-group’s bond.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

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...

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Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

israel has already broken the ceasefire

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Leger-Felicite SCARElax 👻🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · 1d

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Leger-Felicite SCARElax 👻🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder how long this shutdown goes on for. weeks? months? years?

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