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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 24m

Is this all scary? Yeah, I'll give you that! But it's scary because this is the first time in modern history we've had a flat-out fascist government, and that fascist government is *failing* nine months in. That should give you hope for the future.

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 26m

They are *losing* this shutdown fight and are actively losing the whole "consent of the governed" thing they rely on, and *yes*, they do rely on it!

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 28m

And they said as much! They thought that Schumer's tough talk was all fake and when the actual vote came he'd do a Kevin Nash and flop over from a light poke to the chest! They're shitting their pants because the Democrats are holding a rock-hard line against them!

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 32m

"The only restraints now are their imaginations!" yes, and as we've established they have less creative power than a diffusion engine. They're fucking morons who are stumbling ass-first into massive Constitutional violations in their panicked flailing because they thought Schumer would take a dive.

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 34m

Again- the GOP certainly don't think that it's over. The guys *doing this* don't think they seized ultimate power over the budget and don't need Dems or Congress anymore. *They* don't seem to think it's Duma Hours.

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 1h

we're going to have to prosecute this stuff

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1h

The mechanism through which Trump is paying the troops is the most blatant large Antideficiency Act (ADA) violation in US history. It's also clearly willful. No one has been charged under the ADA before, but violations carry a two-year jail term. The statute of limitations is five years.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1h

chat is this a good sign for your case

The Trump administration's attorney, Elizabeth Hedges, said she had not prepared to defend the merits of the government's actions. Instead, she argued that the court lacks jurisdiction to hear the case and that the plaintiffs had not shown that they would suffer "irreparable harm" were a temporary restraining order not granted.

Illston appeared surprised and somewhat perplexed by the decision not to address the merits of the case.

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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 1h

Excellent thread explaining the technical details of a profoundly illegal action. If I were a financial manager I’d really notice that ADA violations carry a 5 year statute of limitations.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1h

they arrested her because some clumsy fucking ICE potato ran into her and they are holding her in clark county because the sheriff there is an ICE collaborator and i expect this goes very badly for them in court

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 20h

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

www.oregonlive.com

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 2h

The corrupt Trump Justice Department is trying to cover the tracks of its wrongful arrest by charging Oriana Korol with a spurious crime. She will be arraigned before a US magistrate judge this afteroon. This outrageous abuse of criminal law is going to backfire badly for the regime.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 20h

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

www.oregonlive.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 3h

shaheen talking like this should probably underline that senate dems are committed to holding the line

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 3h

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, top SFRC Dem and a key vote on gov't funding: "President Trump seems to think it’s more important to offer $20 billion to bail out Argentina than it is to make a bipartisan deal to prevent health insurance premiums from spiking for over 20 million Americans in a matter of days."

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 3h

if you have been to any of the big NO KINGS rallies, you understand what a hilarious mistake it is to tell people to tune in for coverage of scary black clad anarchists tearing everything apart

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 3h

i have to be honest, gang, i have some questions about this republican strategy of telling everyone to tune in and pay attention to what’s likely to be one of the largest days of political protest in american history directed at the republican party

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6h

this is exactly why i think it is totally justified to criticize Nuzzi

CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · Sep 20

The reason reporters are talking about the Nuzzi stuff so much, besides gawking at a car crash, is that there's a handful of prestige jobs like that left, and we've all been passed over and know other reporters who've been passed over for them in favor of well-networked barnacles.

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Queerhawk 🏳️‍🌈 | 🇺🇦 | 🛡 @alwaysadorecats.bsky.social · 3h

Among Nuzzi’s defenders there’s this unspoken belief that being a journalist is an immutable quality of a person, rather than simply being a job that someone can have. They have no concept of a journalist being bad at their job.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6h

this is exactly why i think it is totally justified to criticize Nuzzi

CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · Sep 20

The reason reporters are talking about the Nuzzi stuff so much, besides gawking at a car crash, is that there's a handful of prestige jobs like that left, and we've all been passed over and know other reporters who've been passed over for them in favor of well-networked barnacles.

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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 4h

She actively wrote anti-Biden & Harris articles while banging an interview subject who was still a Presidential candidate that tried to only take his name off the ballot where it hurt Trump, is friends w/ white supremacists, & her ex fiancée was was fired for sexual misconduct allegations anyway.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 7h

Everyone in my feed is shitting on Nuzzi. Meanwhile, the other person in the saga is now destroying the medical community and endangering public health.

But let’s slut shame Nuzzi.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 18h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 5h

Lmao woah there killer.

I know this may be shocking to journalists, but you can actually have more than one thought in your head at the same time. No one is defending Captain Collodial Silver, but Nuzzi is literally attempting to profit from her affair with him.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 7h

Everyone in my feed is shitting on Nuzzi. Meanwhile, the other person in the saga is now destroying the medical community and endangering public health.

But let’s slut shame Nuzzi.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 18h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 3h

A lot of posters on this site do not want democracy. They want the rapture but with revolutionary aesthetics, and their complaints about incrementatalism need to be understood in that light. They fundamentally don't believe progress is possible.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 21h

"it is necessary to have a sane conservative party for a democracy to survive" should not be an controversial opinion

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 21h

you can just read the interview, you know.

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Cass @caveatofcass.bsky.social · 3h

It's not slut shaming her to expect her to hold herself to the barest modicum of personal ethics, which is "don't sleep with a source, especially when you're already engaged"

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 7h

Everyone in my feed is shitting on Nuzzi. Meanwhile, the other person in the saga is now destroying the medical community and endangering public health.

But let’s slut shame Nuzzi.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 18h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 5h

Believe it or not, I don't and never cared who she was having sex with, I cared that she carried on a personal relationship with her subject against policy and didn't inform her editor. I don't care that she's a slut, I care that she's an unethical person in regards to her job

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 7h

Everyone in my feed is shitting on Nuzzi. Meanwhile, the other person in the saga is now destroying the medical community and endangering public health.

But let’s slut shame Nuzzi.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 18h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 6h

Other examples exist but I do think Nuzzi is a prime candidate for the *media* figure who most exemplifies the total lack of shame in American elite culture circa 2025

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 18h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 7h

This is exactly backwards, the no kings protests are a mass movement of regular people that have every republican politician in the country raging about "hate America rallies," and the online protest industry weirdos who say shit like "radlib" to each other are the ones skimming off the top of them

it is no wonder that 50501, a movement of radlibs who are very upset but don’t want to get in trouble, would be boosting superficial activism.

superficial activism has its place, but if that place is front and center, it kills whatever movement it is skimming off the top of.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 6h

Little girl terminator meme, but the terminator is an inflatable frog and the little girl is holding a Molotov cocktail.

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 19h

You know what *does* play into the narrative that these protestors are hardened ANTIFA super-soldiers? Turning up in all black wearing Level 2 plates and a balaclava while shouting DEATH TO AMERICA! and EAT THE RICH!

Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 19h

If you don't attack the protest you've shown yourself as weak. If you do, the news will be covered with images of you throwing tear gas at priests, grannies, and guys in frog costumes, *not* hardened ANTIFA super-soldiers. It makes you look tyrannical and thin-skinned.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

AZ AG Mayes: If I have to, I’ll take Speaker Johnson to court. There's no legitimate reason for him to refuse to swear her in right now. And it's not fair for Mike Johnson to be holding the state of Arizona hostage because he doesn't want to release the Epstein files.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Unbelievable story of Afghan refugee, a highly vetted fluent English speaker who helped the US against the Taliban and now lives here with his US citizen kids, declared “illegal” and perhaps about to be shipped home by the Trump admin to his likely death

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S.

Then ICE arrested him.

If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

www.washingtonpost.com

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