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Pete Fjeld @bluefishercat.bsky.social · 1h

Remember basically, the tariffs are cutting taxes by increasing them, fixing perfect deals by breaking them, raising money by losing money, and restoring what was never lost in the first place.
Welcome to Idiocracy, the sequel

Pete Fjeld @bluefishercat.bsky.social · 1h

Give it more time, not enough deaths for genocide yet.

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Pete Fjeld @bluefishercat.bsky.social · 2h

ANTIFAscist

Or

Fascist

Pick one

🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 4h

The apparent decline in right-wing terrorism needs to be understood in the context of the fact that right-wing terrorism all but ceased under the Third Reich as well.

When the state is an instrument of right-wing terror, right-wing terrorism is known simply as "law enforcement".

Pete Fjeld @bluefishercat.bsky.social · 2h

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#The Late Show with Stephen Colbert #via TikTok: "We heard that JD Vance loves a good-natured,

YouTube video by RWT - News

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Pete Fjeld @bluefishercat.bsky.social · 2h

Keep in mind it’s coming from the Trump regime that holds all three branches of govt and was going to fix everything wrong with America on day one, it’s pathetic to be invoking Biden, a one term president, almost a year into this.

All they’ve done is break stuff

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Pete Fjeld @bluefishercat.bsky.social · 2h

Coming from the Trump regime that holds all three branches of govt and was going to fix everything wrong with America on day one, it’s pathetic to be invoking Biden, a one term president, for anything almost a year into this.

Pete Fjeld @bluefishercat.bsky.social · 2h

Americans have and are being duped.

Every other advanced country has universal healthcare, universal education, paid family leave, paid maternity leave, at least 6 weeks paid vacation, living wages, and a commitment to green energy.

That’s how you make America great.

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Pete Fjeld @bluefishercat.bsky.social · 3h

Americans have been duped.

Every other advanced country has universal healthcare, universal education, paid family leave, paid maternity leave, at least 6 weeks paid vacation, living wages, and a commitment to green energy.

That’s how you make America great.

Pete Fjeld @bluefishercat.bsky.social · 3h

Guardians
Of
Pedophiles

They know

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Pete Fjeld @bluefishercat.bsky.social · 3h

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove that you are a citizen.
And just like that you’ve disappeared

Pete Fjeld @bluefishercat.bsky.social · 4h

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove that you are a citizen.
And just like that you’ve disappeared

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Pete Fjeld @bluefishercat.bsky.social · 4h

Guardians
Of
Pedophiles

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

JORDAN: Comey is where weaponization all started. 9 years ago he took the dossier--

BASH: But that's not what he's being prosecuted for

JORDAN: I'm just saying, you want to talk about weaponization, that's where it started

BASH: So this is retribution then

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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 22h

NoKings.org
For the love of America 🇺🇸

#NoKings | Oct 18th

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Pete Fjeld @bluefishercat.bsky.social · 4h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 1d

ICE tactics in Chicago are escalating.

Crashing into a woman’s car so they can grab her is unconscionable!

Pete Fjeld @bluefishercat.bsky.social · 4h

Protesting?
Remember to bring your American Flag 🇺🇸
Almost all Americans are descendants of immigrants
Respect for the Constitution is what sets America apart from authoritarian regimes.
The image of these protests with American flags flying is hard to spin as UnAmerican

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Johnson just called every American who plans to attend a #NoKings event on October 18 a hater of the United States.

Pete Fjeld @bluefishercat.bsky.social · 4h

We made a deliberate choice as a nation, until now, not to have a police state. We siloed off federal data and put in place laws, regulations, policies and internal norms to prevent the federal government from putting together everything it knows about you into one place.

Trump is ending all that.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6h

No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.

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Pete Fjeld @bluefishercat.bsky.social · 4h

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove that you are a citizen.
And just like that you’ve disappeared

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 6h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Pete Fjeld @bluefishercat.bsky.social · 5h

ANTIFAscist

Or

Fascist

Pick one

Pete Fjeld @bluefishercat.bsky.social · 5h

Americans have been duped.

Every other advanced country has universal healthcare, universal education, paid family leave, paid maternity leave, at least 6 weeks paid vacation, living wages, a commitment to green energy and they’re not as underwater as the USA

That’s how you make America great.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 11h

If the wealth of the USA were distributed equally, each person would receive approximately $471,465. Full communism when?

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Po Murray @pomurray.bsky.social · 5h

“War-torn” Chicago has officially won the #1 big city in the US in the @cntraveler.bsky.social’s 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards for the 9th year in a row.

“a world-class destination known for its impressive architecture, first-rate museums, brilliant chefs, and massive brewing scene.”

#NoKings

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