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Carl Dershem @carldershem.bsky.social · 1h

I found it reassuring to get an email telling me mine had been counted. It's how civilized places operate.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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Carl Dershem @carldershem.bsky.social · 1h

Remove the anachronisms from Doc Smith and you end up with... very little.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 3h

for @slate.com I wrote about Joe Arpaio's view on the SCOTUS shadow docket decision in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the case in which Kavanaugh said it was okay to racially profile people.
“I was vindicated by the Supreme Court of all this shit.”
slate.com/news-and-pol...

He Was the Most Notorious Sheriff in America. He Says the Supreme Court Vindicated Him.

Thanks, SCOTUS.

slate.com

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 3h

Marketers advise that authors not post their political opinions. Posting pro-democracy statements might lose me half my readership. I say no one who makes a living expressing their thoughts should cower behind marketing strategies when the world is burning.
No Faux King Around Here.
#NoKings

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 2h

The Huntington Beach City Council unanimously passed an anti-voting resolution to ensure a “transparent 2026 General Election.” The measure would empower election officials to withhold the ballots of voters whose citizenship is in question and more. https://bit.ly/4n8Hwe5

California City Passes Anti-Voting Measure Based on Election Conspiracy Group’s False Data

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Carl Dershem @carldershem.bsky.social · 2h

Great composition. It looks like a painting (And I wish I could paint like that!)

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Carl Dershem @carldershem.bsky.social · 18h

Maligno is well named, and should be disbarred.

CyberMindGrrl@WokeAF @cybermindgrrl.bsky.social · 19h

Here is the full text of the Politico article that revealed 9 months of group texts among young Republican operatives.

Read it and weep. And remember it's THESE PEOPLE who are calling the Left "terrorists".

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Carl Dershem @carldershem.bsky.social · 18h

I would not either, but then I avoid politics, preferring morality.

Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 19h

I would simply not use a national party body to intervene in a primary race and instead build infrastructure for the eventual nominee, trusting the choice of primary voters, but then again I lack the political acumen of people who have steered the party into its lowest ever modern approval rating.

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Carl Dershem @carldershem.bsky.social · 18h

And yet, a lot of people buy a new one every few years. Mine was in for its 70,000 mile checkup last week, and they pestered me to sell it to them - as though I could afford to replace it! The Prius had doubled in price in the last 15 years! (A car with more maintenance costs would break me).

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Carl Dershem @carldershem.bsky.social · 20h

So apparently naked bikers is more threatening than naked violence. What a schmuck.

CyberMindGrrl@WokeAF @cybermindgrrl.bsky.social · 21h

Mike Johnson decries 'naked bicyclers' in Portland as 'most threatening thing I've seen'.

These people are FUCKING COWARDS.

www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson...

Mike Johnson decries 'naked bicyclers' in Portland as 'most threatening thing I've seen'

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) insisted that federal agents' abuse of force had not risen to the level of congressional investigations after a judge barred the Department of Homeland Security from ...

www.rawstory.com

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Carl Dershem @carldershem.bsky.social · 1d

Understood.

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Carl Dershem @carldershem.bsky.social · 1d

An odd duck, but by no means a quack. Ray loved language.

Carl Dershem @carldershem.bsky.social · 1d

Who? Only the imbeciles, and the ones who profit directly from it, that's who. If this happens, Lee, you will get the blame for the crashes and deaths.

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 1d

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

You can find a #NoKingsDay event near you at nokings.org/#map.

Join your neighbors and friends. Stand up for what actually makes America great.

This Saturday. Everywhere.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

A notice from @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social.

Will run in newspapers across the nation.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

How many scripts are floating around Hollywood right now with "criminals posing as ICE" as the basic premise?

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Carl Dershem @carldershem.bsky.social · 1d

I once asked Ted about that. He said "After a while it applies to the other ten percent."

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Carl Dershem @carldershem.bsky.social · 1d

Tens of millions of paid protestors? Not bloody likely.

CyberMindGrrl@WokeAF @cybermindgrrl.bsky.social · 1d

MAGAs are scared that TENS OF MILLIONS of pissed off Americans are going to show up in the street next Saturday.

www.joemygod.com/2025/10/duff...

Duffy: No Kings Protesters Are "Paid Antifa" [VIDEO] - Joe.My.God.

“The ‘No Kings’ protest, Maria, really frustrating. I mean, this is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question, who’s funding it? But, yeah, Democrats want to wait for a big rally of a ‘No ...

www.joemygod.com

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Carl Dershem @carldershem.bsky.social · 1d

It's only disconnected inasmuch as they want to shut down all thought, and would have found a way no matter what.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

Someone in or close to the White House is making a killing with inside information on what Trump will threaten next before chickening out.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 1d

“The Trump administration was handed tools to protect black lung and they are doing everything in their power to toss those rules in the trash,” said one campaigner ahead of a protest planned for Tuesday.

As Trump Boosts Coal Industry, Black Lung Miners Say They've Been 'Cast Aside to Die'

“The Trump administration was handed tools to protect black lung and they are doing everything in their power to toss those rules in the trash,” said one campaigner ahead of a protest planned for Tuesday.

www.commondreams.org

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Carl Dershem @carldershem.bsky.social · 1d

I read most of this the other day when getting my car serviced. The manager saw it, asked about it, and took a picture so he could get it himself. 😀

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