Cassius
@battleofdemocracy.bsky.social
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Sarcasm connoisseur • Purveyor of sharp wit & reckless honesty • Running on caffeine, ADHD, and half-baked brilliance • Ocean junkie, farmer, and sworn enemy of stupidity • Democracy or bust • Facts • I still believe — 🇺🇸 🟦 🌈 🫘 —
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“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. If you want to change the world, you have to change yourself first. Don’t become like the people you’re trying to change.”
— Gloria Steinem
battleofdemocracy.bsky.social
It is a terrible day for our country when ‘remigration’ proponents are crediting the US and Trump's administration for normalizing the term.”
battleofdemocracy.bsky.social
It’s Trump’s shutdown as Bella and I watch the shelves empty while the USDA buries the nation’s hunger report. Perfect timing as seven million women and kids are about to lose WIC. No data, no outrage, no food. This isn’t government—it’s fucking starvation dressed as— well starvation.
The shutdown will worsen hunger—which the Trump administration just stopped tracking
Millions of women and children are at risk of losing food benefits.
www.motherjones.com
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ICE doesn’t wear uniforms… They wear masks, hide their plates, crawl out of unmarked vehicles as phantoms of state violence. They terrorize civilians under the pretense of “law enforcement.” Call it what it is: a federally funded terror network operating in plain sight. Terrorists.
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theonion.com
Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/
Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately
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muellershewrote.com
The hush money payoff to Stormy Daniels cost more than house Leticia James bought for her grand niece.
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Henry M. Rosenberg: I will be participating in a No Kings Event on October 18th. I never met George Soros, have never broken the law and will not be paid to be there. I am going because l am a patriot and will not stand for Trump's fascism.
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barackobama.bsky.social
I recently sat down with three leaders who are part of the @obamafoundation.bsky.social's alumni network to hear more about their work to strengthen democracy in Hungary and Poland. They’re an example for us all. Take a look:
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Bill Belichick's uneven performance as head coach at North Carolina raises new questions about Joe Biden's mental acuity.
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It’s a physical tic born from adrenaline and insecurity colliding like bad chemicals mixed by Walter White. The toe-bounce is body armor for hollow rhetoric—a desperate way to summon authority from motion when words alone can’t carry the weight. Performative conviction. Biological bluff.
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gtconway.bsky.social
I strongly object to the comparison many are making these days between Stephen Miller and Joseph Goebbels.

I think it's deeply misguided, and unfair, to compare them.

Goebbels was a far better propagandist, and didn't execute much policy.

Miller far more closely resembles Heinrich Himmler.
battleofdemocracy.bsky.social
Kerry Kennedy dropped word that Stephen Colbert, ringmaster of The Late Show, will get the 2025 Ripple of Hope Award. The man’s turned satire into a civic weapon—grinning through chaos, torching hypocrisy, and somehow making the whole circus feel worth watching.
Stephen Colbert to Receive 2025 Ripple of Hope Award from RFK Human Rights - Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
The Emmy-winning host will be honored alongside Magic Johnson, Martin Cabrera, Jr., Stefano Lucchini, and Darren Walker at RFK Human Rights’ December 9 Gala in New York.
rfkhumanrights.org
battleofdemocracy.bsky.social
Napping #Caturday away seems like a good thing.

≠ doom scrolling
A blissed-out little Devon Rex cat, soft curls pressed into a storm-gray blanket like it’s chasing dreams in velvet darkness. One ear cocked, nose buried, paw tucked close—pure feline abandon, the kind of tender chaos that makes the whole mad circus of life briefly worth it.
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muellershewrote.com
In order for the United States to become a party to the International Criminal Court and have our officials be subject to trial at The Hague, the US Senate would need to ratify the Rome statute by a two-thirds vote. Let’s start running on that.
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thetnholler.bsky.social
We’ll take the people of Memphis over wannabe fascists & hate mongers like Stephen Miller seven days a week. Twice on Sunday. 🇺🇸

📸 via @indivisnashville.bsky.social
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Driving by Mar-a-Lago, my driver slowed down amazed. Trump was pointing at a roadkill on the asphalt and christened it road pizza. JD Vance tears off the first bite, then offers the rest to the GOP like a holy sacrament. He checks his eye liner and wipes his chin: Please, sir, may I have some more?
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We were warned: Dice Medicaid & rural hospitals bleed. Trump gutted them, tossed coins in a golf course coffin, and Marshall whines like the knife’s not in his hand, the corn cob not up his…, the blood not in his coffee.

One thing about living in DC I never could stomach… all the damn vampires.
atrupar.com
Sen. Roger Marshall: "It seems very disingenuous for the Democrats to be blaming President Trump for these rural hospital struggles. The reason rural hospitals are struggling is because of the bad economy."
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Pity Halligan, that jittering priestess at the feet of Louis XIV reincarnated in spray-tan & cheap cologne, Trump in golden sneakers, stomping loyalty. She bent the knee, and now it’s breakfast time: monarchy chewing through its own disciples, blood sausage and cheap eggs. Loyalty ≠ pay.

[rise up]
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Hegseth’s “warrior ethos” and preaching no beards, while wearing more makeup than a Studio 54 drag queen. Great days of glory when the mirror ball shined a thousand points of light, pink boas flying, lashes sparkling. He’d have been drinking cocktails and chasing… well… lines.

[rise up]
If only Pete Hegseth's military shaving crusade was just stupid
Hegseth knows damn well who he's pushing out: Black troops.
www.motherjones.com
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rollingstone.com
Celebrating 50 years of the iconic "Bohemian Rhapsody" 🎂

Making the most-streamed song from the 20th century took ambition, hard work, and a dash of opera.

Roger Taylor and Brian May sat down with Rolling Stone to reflect on Queen’s masterpiece: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Bella glued ANTIFA stickers on the White House walls while Bondi cried like a chastised child, Trump howling orders, Homan weighed down w/ $50K in greasy bills, and the FBI strangled. The whole thing buried alive in bitcoin, a digital coffin for a justice system rotting in the sun on RFK Jr’s hood.
battleofdemocracy.bsky.social
@democrats.org — what the hell are you doing?! Betting on 2028 like junkies waiting for a fix while the machinery of free elections is gutted in broad daylight. Normal is a corpse buried under the Rose Garden cement. J6 is over. Stop hiding. Where are the roses? 🥀

[defy]
battleofdemocracy.bsky.social
100% agree. Nothing to add. On point.
dearlstephens.bsky.social
📌I'm sorry but it is patently stupid, insane, and insulting that Chuck Schumer is STILL the face of the Democratic "leadership" in the U.S. Senate.

📌I can think of 40 other Senators who could do a FAR better job of putting our case to the American public.

📌This shit makes me furious.