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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 5h

Steven is a lazy hot air filled drunk who's spent enough time in prison to know what it's like. He talks tough like that because he's terrified of going back. He's been out of Trump's good graces before and doesn't plan to be there again.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 7h

Not even bothering to hide it anymore

arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 5h

I know I say this to everything, but that sounds exactly like Stephen Miller.

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 16h

It’s genuinely alarming that the official DHS account is talking like this. This isn’t a parody account, it’s a federal agency using the tone of an online teenage bully to respond to fair public criticism.

DHS Twitter account responding to Maria Cardona

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 16h

It’s genuinely alarming that the official DHS account is talking like this. This isn’t a parody account, it’s a federal agency using the tone of an online teenage bully to respond to fair public criticism.

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Jada Jones @jadajones57.bsky.social · 6h

Love checking in on FB. Stayed there bc couldn't get oldies away &have family/friends that will never go anywhere else
Used to be called hysterical, etc
Then it grew quiet

Now family & friends are starting to post like we do. Sending up warnings & sounding alarms. Talking abt going to protests 🥳🥳

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Paul Callahan (he/him) @paulcallahanmv.bsky.social · 6h

Will they put out an Amber alert when your child is abducted by ICE?

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ACLU @aclu.org · 10h

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 6h

It's child abuse.

Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 15h

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 6h

People would occasionally say in Trump's first term that he was finally seeming presidential because he'd do something non-horrible. They're spreading disinformation and dangerous propaganda 24/7. A number of people on the inside think Hegseth needs to go, so their actions may well be personal.

Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 9h

Honestly very impressed by Newsmax, the Washington Times, and the Washington Examiner.

They deserve credit precisely because they’re standing up for journalistic principle notwithstanding their ideological inclination.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 9h

Solidarity is the only way

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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 6h

They're intentionally lying. Everyone needs to just start calling that out and calling them the liars they are.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

This press release from a North Carolina GOP figure portrays the current redistricting wars as something *Democrats* started in Calif., ignoring the fact that this all began with the Trump White House and first unfolded in red Texas.

According to them, Republicans are once again The Real Victims™

House Redistricting Chairmen Brenden Jones (R-Columbus) and Hugh Blackwell (R-Burke) said, “We’re stepping into this redistricting battle because California and the radical left are attempting to rig the system to handpick who runs Congress. This ploy is nothing new, and North Carolina will not stand by while they attempt to stack the deck. President Trump has called on us to fight back, and North Carolina stands ready to level the playing field.”

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 8h

Millions came out for the last #NoKings protests.

These will be even bigger.

They want to scare people into not showing up.

Show up. Exercise your Constitutional rights. Be in community with all those who believe in democracy.

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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 8h

What in the sam hill are you talking about.

arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 9h

There aren't any extremist elected Democrats at the national level. They're all on the Republican side.

Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 9h

I keep seeing people refer to people like @aoc.bsky.social and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social as radical Democrats, and ... I dunno, I don’t really see it. They just seem like competent young politicians with a fairly mainstream progressive message. Which is why they got elected.

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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 13h

We are not gonna be the Charlie Brown to the GOP's Lucy with a football. Stop being chronic liars, do what you say you're going to do, with Americans or other countries or anyone else, and you might get someone to work with you. They never gave a vote to Obama or Biden. We're not giving one to them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

"To try to win the support of Senate Democrats, Republicans have suggested they’d promise to *hold a vote* on extending the ACA subsidies after the government reopens, which is very different from actually extending them." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Republicans are completely full of it on healthcare

And it becomes more obvious every time they talk about it.

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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 13h

No one accused anyone of saying data proved "every single person" anything. This is a poorly executed deflection from the original discussion, which everyone can read for themselves. It was dismissive, and in contrast to what people actually saw and felt among average Americans on the ground.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14h

Like it’s absolutely surreal for me, listening to these bozos construct elaborate fantasies where people personally mocked them for feeling squeezed. This did not happen. No one did this. No one ever said that aggregate national economic data proved that every single person was doing great.

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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 13h

This should not be allowed. Legislation needs to lock down how the court is doing business. No shadow docket, no hearing cases from plaintiffs without standing.

Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 1d

The Supreme Court is so illegitimate that cases are often about fictional matters with plaintiffs who have been harmed in no way, now to the point where they are not aware that they are plaintiffs in a Supreme Court case.

Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 1d

“One of them, Albert ‘Skip’ Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”

arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 14h

His phone and computer keyboards should have breathalyzers attached to them before he can use them.

The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 14h

The Pentagon is restricting press access, and the NYT raises a serious First Amendment concern. The SecDef’s response? A wave emoji. It’s a childish mockery of accountability. But dodging scrutiny with memes is how authoritarians treat a free press.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: More fuel to the Epstein fire

Questions about how responders handled the scene .. when Jeffrey Epstein died

youtube.com/shorts/hGDr7...

THE DAY AHEAD: Mounting questions about how responders handled the scene when Jeffrey Epstein died

YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane CBS

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 15h

There is this bizarre tendency among people who I assume should be smarter or flatly antagonistic to the regime to accept the regimes statements on their power and abilities at face value.

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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 15h

Manchin and Sinema prevented a lot from happening, and Democrats tred to minimize it to not openly split, because they had to have both of them for things that they did get done.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17h

yes, democrats really should have broken the filibuster to reform the insurrection act in 2021

Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 17h

This is an essential. "Democrats need to beat the Trumpists in elections that we ensure are free" is the best strategy for the next 2-4 years. But it is not a long-term strategy! The only possible long-term strategy is that someone else needs to defeat the Trumpists for control of the Repub Party.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17h

yes, democrats really should have broken the filibuster to reform the insurrection act in 2021

Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 17h

This is an essential. "Democrats need to beat the Trumpists in elections that we ensure are free" is the best strategy for the next 2-4 years. But it is not a long-term strategy! The only possible long-term strategy is that someone else needs to defeat the Trumpists for control of the Repub Party.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 20h

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 16h

They lie about everything. It's just what we have to start every effort to combat their disinformation with. They do that partly to flip focus off of what they're doing and put us on defense. It's their same old go to bullshit.

David Nir @davidnir.com · 16h

The gaslighting—from NC Republicans and many others—is really something else. They're just outright pretending that California launched this year's redistricting wars, even though it started with Texas. bergerpress.medium.com/general-asse...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20h

Everyone should experience the humbling effect of sending out a small request to an organizing listserve [of people who have self-selected to be on said list] and getting zero responses. It will help you to understand how hard it is to organize anything.

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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 19h

Is it me, or is he getting completely incomprehensible?

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 19h

Massive Protest - Historic Event in the USA This Saturday! Be Part Of History #NoKings: An unprecedented event is set to occur this upcoming Saturday, October 18. Millions & millions of Americans will gather in what is expected to be the largest peacetime protest in American history. Citizens…

Massive Protest - Historic Event in the USA This Saturday! Be Part Of History #NoKings

An unprecedented event is set to occur this upcoming Saturday, October 18. Millions & millions of Americans will gather in what is expected to be the largest peacetime protest in American history. Citizens will come together & gather at over 4,000 locations throughout the country - neighborhoods, towns, & cities - to reaffirm and champion America’s founding principle: No Kings. No Kings in America. #NoKingsOct18 FULL STORY: https://socialcontractwithjoewalsh.substack.com/p/podcast-team-trump-is-scared-to-death

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 20h

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 20h

Also, ceasefires have happened under prior Presidents! The day he gets Palestine their own country he can be told he's the most special boy deserving of a shiny prize.

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