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AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 4h

He’s broadcasting code for: bribe me, and I might decide you’re “nice” enough to back off of, too. At least for now. Everything’s a shakedown with him, it’s mob tactics.

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AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 5h

And your neighbors are too— everyone’s getting cut off at the same time, so any baseline theft problems in an area will become exponentially worse. People that wouldn’t dream of it before, especially those with kids who are impacted.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 13h

Critical angle: Trump's accomplices are surely counting on pardons, which only makes them more beholden to him. Todd Blanche must think hard about saying "no" to Trump's demand for the $230 million.

Raskin and I discuss this here. It's something Dems could say more:

newrepublic.com/article/2021...

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Lazylizzie @lazylizy.bsky.social · 2d

No one slanders men and boys more than men who want to believe their deep moral deficiencies are universal. A man-hating killjoy couldn’t even come close.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3d

The literal strongest form of repudiation of this policy possible would be to prohibit it in the Constitution, explicitly. And it is indeed prohibited in that way. So how do we stop him? Amend the Constitution to underline the clause and say “no, for real this time”?

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AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody in the midwestern diner…

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 3d

Just insane thing for a NYT editor to say publicly:

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AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 3d

Vivid WaPo photograph of the side of the White House being messily demolished to make way for Trump’s ballroom.The subtext sears the eyes.

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AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 3d

Certainly, I swiped them from elsewhere myself. Memes are made to be shared. :)

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 3d

most people have severely degraded theory of mind for people in their outgroups and it tends to make them wrong

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

one of the reasons I was substantially ahead of the curve during the pandemic was that I treated China as a real place, and assumed that the Chinese government and scientists as making decisions for real reasons - not always good ones, but real ones!

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4d

what trump brought to the republican party, more than maybe any other thing, was contempt for virtue, and he’s demanded that republicans abandon any virtue they might have once had.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

It is not so long ago that disability policy was bipartisan. I taught at the Bush School, and George H.W. Bush would talk about his pride in signing the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 4d

Every once in a while during the 2024 campaign, I'd meet parents of disabled kids who were part of Moms for Liberty or people who taught autistic kids. @slooterman.bsky.social writes how they are afraid right now as Trump targets special education staff.
19thnews.org/2025/10/spec...

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 4d

One of the reasons the "paid protestors" canard is absurd is it completely misunderstands scale. There were 5.5-8.7 mm people protesting yesterday. For comparison the company with the largest payroll in the world (Walmart) has 2.1 mm employees, less than half the low-side estimate for No Kings.

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 5d

It’s going to take ages to pay all these people

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AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 3d

This is Alabama. How many truck nuts do the police drive by every day, and how many times have they attempted to confront one of the drivers about them displayed in public?

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AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 3d

Yup there were like three guys there in Newport News v. literally hundreds up and down sidewalks in every direction. They just stood around casually the whole time. At one point they had a polite conversation with an organizer about a drone because we are near restricted airspace. Memorably unscary.

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AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 3d

So the reason you are getting this pushback from making what seems facially to be an obvious read is that you are missing the larger discourse it is belonging to. This is a swipe not at the protesters but at the people sneering at them.

AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 3d

You are correct to call “performative”derogatory. However, this is a contextual thing, an ongoing conversation where it is and has been used in extremely dismissive ways, and this post is in response to that, deliberately using and reclaiming “performative” to point out why it is actually good.

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AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 3d

You missed the answer, though! He replies: Just add me to the Signal chat, I’ll ask him myself.

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AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 4d

Supplemental instructions for neurodivergents: If you can see more than three missing answer choices to this that aren’t covered by the given options, mark c, but if you can see them and are frustrated by that separately from how much they apply to you, go ahead and mark a.

B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 4d

Staring at “Too literally”? How literal is “too literal”? Is there a sliding scale of literality? Am I now to take this question literally?

‘True now and when I was young’ ☑️

A screenshot from the RAADS–R survey, that reads.

27. I take things too literally, so I often miss what people are trying to say.

A. True now and when I was young
B. True only now
C. True only when I was younger than 16
D. Never true

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AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 5d

It looked like this for blocks and blocks in Newport News.

A crowd standing on the sidewalks with handmade signs and American flags. They are the least scary looking people you can imagine.

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AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 5d

Lol I just printed mine on paper on a color printer at work and then taped them to cardboard for support. Then I taped the small but sturdy signs to garden stakes. Worked pretty well considering my lack of supplies! I used these:

A red and white No Parking Any Time streetsign, with an American flag over the Par so it reads No King Any Time

George Washington, holding the Declaration of Independence, mutters: “It’s like they didn’t listen at all.” Jesus replies: “Bro, same”

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AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 5d

Lol I just printed mine on paper on a color printer at work and then taped them to cardboard for support. Then I taped the small but sturdy signs to garden stakes. Worked pretty well considering my lack of supplies! I used these:

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5d

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

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AmberWavesofFlame @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social · 6d

This isn’t a warning. It’s a hearing to decide what, if any, sanctions to impose based on what she says. They’d hold it even if they’d already decided that some level of punishment is a given; see if they’ll dig themselves in further or admit fault. Besides, it’s funnier to make them explain first.

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living-in-de-nile.bsky.social @living-in-de-nile.bsky.social · 6d

We might as well leave them alone. At this point they're effectively on our side

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VonDonDolo @vondondolo.bsky.social · 6d

Trump and the GOP don't give them detailed plans to declare unworkable, that's the point. Dems treat this like it's a school assignment where they have to show their work, then complain bitterly when they don't get credit for "doing it right". It's not a damn school, it's a war of narratives.

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