Vaquera Elisa
@boxelderdust.bsky.social
Daughter of the American West. For Union and for Liberty. No Kings But Christ.
Pinned
You WILL pay your fair share of taxes
You WILL take a govt job through a 3rd New Deal program
You WILL attend a mainline lib church
You WILL respect trans people's pronouns
You WILL turn off the podcasters, Twitch streamers, and op-ed columnists
You WILL be imbued with republican civic virtue
You WILL take a govt job through a 3rd New Deal program
You WILL attend a mainline lib church
You WILL respect trans people's pronouns
You WILL turn off the podcasters, Twitch streamers, and op-ed columnists
You WILL be imbued with republican civic virtue
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We need the 21st century John Brown to frighten the tech bros class.
December 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
We need the 21st century John Brown to frighten the tech bros class.
Dumb bastards really did think that 2024 was the End Of History
Lol so the UTGOP is so scared shitless of sharing the ballot with the Union Ban referendum they are just going to repeal it before?
BREAKING NEWS: The Utah legislature will REPEAL the anti-union law they passed earlier this year in Tuesday's special session: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah
December 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Dumb bastards really did think that 2024 was the End Of History
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Lol so the UTGOP is so scared shitless of sharing the ballot with the Union Ban referendum they are just going to repeal it before?
BREAKING NEWS: The Utah legislature will REPEAL the anti-union law they passed earlier this year in Tuesday's special session: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah
Repeal of anti-union bill, redistricting on special session agenda
The Utah State Legislature is planning to repeal a controversial bill that bans public employee unions from collective bargaining.
www.fox13now.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Lol so the UTGOP is so scared shitless of sharing the ballot with the Union Ban referendum they are just going to repeal it before?
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They’ve turned both these things into nothing but crude idols devoid of content or meaning outside an empty symbol to be slathered onto an attempt to gain power, inflict cruelty, or both. They don’t believe the Bible or the Constitution has any genuine content because they themselves are empty.
December 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
They’ve turned both these things into nothing but crude idols devoid of content or meaning outside an empty symbol to be slathered onto an attempt to gain power, inflict cruelty, or both. They don’t believe the Bible or the Constitution has any genuine content because they themselves are empty.
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Bipartisanship and norms were always an excuse not to make hard governing decisions and it selected for a class of politicians who are afraid of power, unsure of what they’re looking at when faced with genuine irreconcilable polarization and too stupid to realize the old rules no longer apply.
December 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Bipartisanship and norms were always an excuse not to make hard governing decisions and it selected for a class of politicians who are afraid of power, unsure of what they’re looking at when faced with genuine irreconcilable polarization and too stupid to realize the old rules no longer apply.
I T ‘ S T H E P H O N E S
K I L L T H E P H O N E S
K I L L T H E P H O N E S
Why is chudification happening in real time to like 90% of politicians across the spectrum
December 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I T ‘ S T H E P H O N E S
K I L L T H E P H O N E S
K I L L T H E P H O N E S
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RICH PEOPLE NEVER EVER LEAVE WHERE THEY WANT TO LIVE IF THEIR TAXES INCREASE FOR THE OBVIOUS REASON THAT THEY CAN EASILY AFFORD IT
I was told everyone was leaving.
@fortune.com #NYC
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December 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
RICH PEOPLE NEVER EVER LEAVE WHERE THEY WANT TO LIVE IF THEIR TAXES INCREASE FOR THE OBVIOUS REASON THAT THEY CAN EASILY AFFORD IT
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the only thing that will be a wake up call for Europe is a genuine direct conflict that involves Europe
December 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
the only thing that will be a wake up call for Europe is a genuine direct conflict that involves Europe
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Bingham brings in Charles Sumner’s famous “Freedom National; Slavery Sectional” argument here.
December 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Bingham brings in Charles Sumner’s famous “Freedom National; Slavery Sectional” argument here.
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Just in case the message wasn’t entirely clear, Bingham circled back to this theme of birthright citizenship toward the end of his speech.
December 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Just in case the message wasn’t entirely clear, Bingham circled back to this theme of birthright citizenship toward the end of his speech.
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It is notable that Bingham opened his speech by framing the 14th Amendment as a consequence of a war to throughly vanquish (and atone for) the system of slavery, and he includes in this the principle that “all persons born within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be citizens thereof.”
December 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
It is notable that Bingham opened his speech by framing the 14th Amendment as a consequence of a war to throughly vanquish (and atone for) the system of slavery, and he includes in this the principle that “all persons born within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be citizens thereof.”
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“It is known the world over that the American experiment of representative government rested upon the great fact that all men, irrespective of race, color or origin…were equal in the rights of person….,” said Bingham.
December 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
“It is known the world over that the American experiment of representative government rested upon the great fact that all men, irrespective of race, color or origin…were equal in the rights of person….,” said Bingham.
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“Let no one answer what I have said by the state cry, `This is a white man’s government!‘,” continued Bingham. ”Let it be borne in mind that this is the government of men representing every people and kindred and tongue under the whole heavens…”
December 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“Let no one answer what I have said by the state cry, `This is a white man’s government!‘,” continued Bingham. ”Let it be borne in mind that this is the government of men representing every people and kindred and tongue under the whole heavens…”
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On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”
December 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”
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We took it for granted back then, but "perchance greatly their superiors in all the attainments and virtues which adorn, or elevate, or ennoble human nature" contains more wokeness than a modern politician will get in his whole lifetime
On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”
December 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
We took it for granted back then, but "perchance greatly their superiors in all the attainments and virtues which adorn, or elevate, or ennoble human nature" contains more wokeness than a modern politician will get in his whole lifetime
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Big thing that's inspiring about zohran mamdani is that he unapologetically makes the case that immigrants and immigration are great, in a time when the rest of the political class is somewhere between "SECURE THE BORDER" and "KILL THEM ALL"
December 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Big thing that's inspiring about zohran mamdani is that he unapologetically makes the case that immigrants and immigration are great, in a time when the rest of the political class is somewhere between "SECURE THE BORDER" and "KILL THEM ALL"
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A future D Secretary of Defense - should one ever come - will need to suspend the clearance of every last person affiliated with a16z, 8VC, Founders, & Sequoia and pull clearances from every portfolio company pending comprehensive drug testing, financial review, & CI screening.
It’s going to hurt.
It’s going to hurt.
December 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
A future D Secretary of Defense - should one ever come - will need to suspend the clearance of every last person affiliated with a16z, 8VC, Founders, & Sequoia and pull clearances from every portfolio company pending comprehensive drug testing, financial review, & CI screening.
It’s going to hurt.
It’s going to hurt.
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Personally, I would like a society. Not a society as a service
I'm ok with an annual payment called 'taxes'
I'm ok with an annual payment called 'taxes'
December 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Personally, I would like a society. Not a society as a service
I'm ok with an annual payment called 'taxes'
I'm ok with an annual payment called 'taxes'
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the absolute funniest, most pathetic people this decade will be the ones who all this time insisted that Trump was hard to figure out
I refuse to hand it to Cuellar but this is hysterical
is there no honor among comically corrupt politicians? what is the world coming to?!
is there no honor among comically corrupt politicians? what is the world coming to?!
ok look Henry Cuellar sucks but this is pretty funny he took the pardon now Trump has no leverage over him so he filed to run again and Trump is losing it
December 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
the absolute funniest, most pathetic people this decade will be the ones who all this time insisted that Trump was hard to figure out
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The notion that economic rationality is non-ideological is, of course, wrong; but that isn’t the form that motivates ideological climate denial, being something altogether more sinister.
December 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The notion that economic rationality is non-ideological is, of course, wrong; but that isn’t the form that motivates ideological climate denial, being something altogether more sinister.
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We need to develop an understanding that climate denial is first and foremost ideological and not driven by the supposed ‘non-ideology’ of rational self-interest/greed
“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”
December 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
We need to develop an understanding that climate denial is first and foremost ideological and not driven by the supposed ‘non-ideology’ of rational self-interest/greed
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More generally, we need to understand when they say they will run universities, or governments, or even society itself “like a business”, they do not mean by way of economic interests and short-term profit, but by way of authoritarian make-believe and conspiracisms more real than reality itself
December 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
More generally, we need to understand when they say they will run universities, or governments, or even society itself “like a business”, they do not mean by way of economic interests and short-term profit, but by way of authoritarian make-believe and conspiracisms more real than reality itself
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They’ve been through the whole process. They’ve been approved. They show up to swear allegiance and become citizens, but ICE pulls them out of line.
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 7, 2025 at 6:22 AM
They’ve been through the whole process. They’ve been approved. They show up to swear allegiance and become citizens, but ICE pulls them out of line.
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The Constitutional language ratified to say "fuck you, specifically" to the Dred Scott ruling...
Explicitly nullifying a Civil War amendment is an implicit attempt to restart the Civil War.
Explicitly nullifying a Civil War amendment is an implicit attempt to restart the Civil War.
December 7, 2025 at 7:03 AM
The Constitutional language ratified to say "fuck you, specifically" to the Dred Scott ruling...
Explicitly nullifying a Civil War amendment is an implicit attempt to restart the Civil War.
Explicitly nullifying a Civil War amendment is an implicit attempt to restart the Civil War.