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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 1h

"At one point, around 60 people were put in a small cage outdoors ... When people fainted, we banged on the cages and asked for a doctor. Then the guards came and said, ‘We’re going to gas you.’ It was standard for them to say that. They held up a gas cylinder and threatened to press it against us."

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3h

Itamar Ben Gvir is a real monster www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 1h

In his concurrence, Justice Kavanaugh mentioned that he’s grown fond of Schorschbock 57, now that he can afford it.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 8h

One of the biggest issues in democratic politics is how the consultants everyone hires sees voters as just a cash machine and they pummel them with messages asking for money instead of activating them for politics. It rightfully makes people extremely cynical.

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 2h

“Pay no attention to the group chat behind the curtain.”

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 2h

“No Kings means no paychecks.” — George III.

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 2h

Supreme Court rules that the Confederacy had a right to secede after all. “Oops…” begins John Roberts’ one page opinion.

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 2h

Many institutions are failing us because the people in charge of them are failures as human beings.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 17h

It feels like the political overton window has shifted far to the Right because the wealth class controls our media and owns our politicians.

Meanwhile, the vast, vast majority of people belong to what would now be portrayed as “the extreme Left.”

It’s a perception game and narrative control.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 17h

Jack Smith pointed out something important in his comments. Re: Roberts' reasoning in the immunity case Smith points out that the problem w/his logic is that he's worried about presidents being afraid to do their jobs for fear of retribution when the real problem is the one who seeks retribution.Yup

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 13h

Tink to her pity cried a diner’s bell. To the door of the bar and diningroom came bald Pat, came bothered Pat, came Pat, waiter of Ormond. Lager for diner. Lager without alacrity she served.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

The 15 year old girl who was dragged from her car by ICE had recently had kidney surgery.

She was thrown to the ground despite screaming “I’m not resisting”

She had to return to the hospital.

These aggressive tactics will disable. They will kill.

They must be held accountable.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22h

Himes: You know, it's the Pete Hegseth insecurity that requires a constant marination in testosterone and fraternity-boy macho bullshit that, at the end of the day, would be funny if it weren't both lethal and counterproductive to actually dealing with the nation's drug problem.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 20h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 19h

people thinking they are clever ask “what is a woman” when the question to ask is “what is a body”

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 19h

“The courts are always ruling against us. We need to get rid of courts.”— I guarantee some Troll enabler is saying this.

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 20h

I look forward to Dr Phil’s bankruptcy, although he was already a bankrupt soul from the get-go.

Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 1d

Look for the helpers

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Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report

Dr. Phil McGraw's attempt to transition from daytime television personality to a politically aligned media mogul during Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by spectacular failure a...

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 20h

The caricatures of Eric are much nicer than the stupid mean jerkoff that is Eric. An example of comedy’s humanizing effect.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20h

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 20h

“With the love we’ve been shown here in ___, we have no excuse for loneliness.”
“Oh I don’t need an excuse.”

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans' embrace of Hitler raises new questions about Zohran Mamdani's willingness to combat antisemitism.

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 20h

When you’re dead inside, retribution is the only thing left strong enough to stimulate feelings.

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 21h

Classic literature has no relevance to contemporary readers. Even novels published last month are full of outmoded conventions. Only fiction that is written literally right this instant can capture the zeitgeist of the present moment

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 20h

I only read fiction on bluesky now. Trollope can go to blazes.

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 23h

*Fascists

Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 23h

Matt Taibbi wanted to be the new Hunter S. Thompson, but ended up being just another James O’Keefe. Humiliating, but I guess the Musk paycheck was worth it.

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