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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 1h

Talia doesn't want us to save democracy, she wants to make sure the people who show up to protests are still people she wants to date. I'm going to keep observing this about everyone who posts stuff like this, because it's true. These people are socialites, not activists.

Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 2h

This is where theory gets you

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1h

it's remarkable how bad they are at public messaging the moment they have power, almost as if they're increasingly an insular party with an inner committee that plots and schemes all of national policy under the influence/leadership of a cult of personality.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 2h

scum, slime, lowest of the low

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Bessent: "All I hear from the Europeans is that Putin is coming to Warsaw. There are very few things in life I am sure about. I am sure he's not coming to Boston."

olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 2h

yeah we should, she sucks ass

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 2h

Little girl terminator meme, but the terminator is an inflatable frog and the little girl is holding a Molotov cocktail.

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Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand.bsky.social · 4h

NEW: How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action
New details here about how the Army’s top uniformed lawyer was fired just weeks after raising concerns about the use of the military domestically and mass firings of DoD employees www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...

How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action | CNN Politics

For weeks earlier this year, the Army’s top uniformed lawyer had been raising legal concerns inside the Pentagon about some of the new policies being rolled out dictating how the military can be used ...

www.cnn.com

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 4h

Ah, great, cowards and collaborators all the way down

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 18h

The servicemembers who are conducting these strikes need to be told, explicitly, by Dems in Congress that they have criminal liability, because they do

Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 18h

Trump has no legal authority, "standing" or otherwise, to order the killing of people in international waters for unsubstantiated accusations of non-capital crimes.

Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 17h

not that those of us in the bar ever cover ourselves in glory, but I don’t see how we rebuild confidence in or integrity of the law without a whole lotta disbarment

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 18h

it’s a pretty big problem for the bar that a whole lotta the lawyers working for the feds or mil have almost necessarily engaged in some amount of misconduct to keep their jobs

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 22h

all magazines must be shut down. all magazine editors and writers go straight to prison. too many of you have fallen for the katherine dees of the world, and she, specifically, makes it really easy to figure her whole deal.

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 23h

katherine dee is herself a reactionary who has written for TERF blog fairer disputations. her bio there cites her work at american conservative, unherd, and the washington examiner. interesting how the bio she chose here doesn’t reflect that bias. the work itself features no actual citations

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

www.gq.com

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 23h

katherine dee is a nazi

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 1d

to the editors of the atlantic, my offer: you stop publishing stupid bullshit and shut your dumbass magazine down, i will not support sending you all to prison

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 1d

shut the fuck up

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 1d

i'm gonna be so mad if people start pretending to be libertarian again once trump is gone

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bob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social · 1d

I swear to Christ you all are trying to do the fascists work for them

Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 1d

Now, more than ever, it's important to understand why so many the myths we tell ourselves about immigration are actually very harmful.

First of all, your great-great-grandparents names *were not changed* at Ellis Island. No one there had the authority to do that.

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 1d

“how silly of you, you haven’t looked at the consolidated statutes of 1897 to see that immigration officers, in fact, had no authority to change names! how are they changing names without statutory authority and funding”

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 1d

what pure, unadulterated proceduralism will do to a mf 😔

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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 1d

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.