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October Witch Chick @celticdragon1.bsky.social · 8m

Yep. Last three nights have been bad

October Witch Chick @celticdragon1.bsky.social · 32m

5) Gauge your risks accordingly. We're all adults here and we know what we are walking into.

October Witch Chick @celticdragon1.bsky.social · 32m

4) If your cops are assholes or you run into *that one cop who is having a bad day*, then yeah, your N95 mask at a protest might become a problem if they want to make it a problem

5) Do we really need to get into the last 5 years of cops making things a problem at protests?

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October Witch Chick @celticdragon1.bsky.social · 32m

I have no interest in arguing this with you in lengthy threads

1) *Every* police interaction depends on police discretion

2) You have a better idea of your local cops attitudes in NC than I do. Greensboro PD seem mostly chill where I am

3) Obviously older ppl will get a lot more latitude

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Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · 12h

Demagogic president seizes money to pay standing army, arrogating to himself legislative power, while his cronies keep Congress out of session is honestly more or less exactly how the Founders thought this would end

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2h

It's not just a lifelong prejudice. It's that the media has a documented bias against left wing protest for at least half a century. When they can't frame them as violent or inconvenient they frame them as infective

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 13h

For one thing, these protests have been happening in every state from small towns to suburbs to big cities.

Pundudes like Brooks can't let go of their lifelong prejudices even when they see it's an emergency. He'd turn down a lifeboat in a flood if it was piloted by someone registered Democratic.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 15h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

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October Witch Chick @celticdragon1.bsky.social · 1h

The police will choose to interpret it.

October Witch Chick @celticdragon1.bsky.social · 1h

Any arrest would presumably be for another reason (again, based on just how reasonable your local police are) and if you're wearing a mask,even for medical reasons, *you are vulnerable* to enhanced penalties. Gauge accordingly.

That's why I'm not doing an inflatable costume. I have no idea how

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October Witch Chick @celticdragon1.bsky.social · 1h

That is entirely police discretion on that point. If you are wearing an N95, gauge police accounters accordingly.

October Witch Chick @celticdragon1.bsky.social · 1h

It most certainly is up to the police *at a protest* which I should have been more clear about. I thought that was understood from the context.

If they want to arrest you for whatever,they can hit you with the *concealing identity* upgrade to a charge and that's a very serious felony risk.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

this ballroom is the best evidence that trump doesn’t intend to leave

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 15h

Exclusive: More than three dozen organizations and individuals are expected to attend a dinner with Trump on Wednesday after opening their checkbooks to support a $250 million White House ballroom.

Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner

The dinner is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.

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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 12h

This is almost literally what the English Civil War was fought over.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

nyti.ms

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October Witch Chick @celticdragon1.bsky.social · 7h

So is the core of the existing constitution.

If POTUS had seized the power to tax and spend, and sole provider for the military, we are in the situation that created the English Civil War. We dare not allow any leader access to that undivided power.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 20h

You have to understand that there is NO accountability for ICE even in theory. You can't sue an ICE agent. They won't be criminally prosecuted for violating your rights. They won't be fired. THE ONLY WAY TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM ICE IS TO RUN FROM ICE.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 20h

Here's another Kavanaugh stop in action. Agent says: "Why are you running?" Admitting that he had no cause to stop and tackle this boy.

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October Witch Chick @celticdragon1.bsky.social · 9h

Yes

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October Witch Chick @celticdragon1.bsky.social · 9h

Sounds like a chilled area, so to speak

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October Witch Chick @celticdragon1.bsky.social · 10h

The President owning and controlling the payroll of the military means the military no longer belongs to the people.

This is how you get the engine of despotism. This is why the Founders feared having a standing army and all that "warrior" bullshit.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13h

There have been scuffles around the margins, but congressional control over revenue and spending is one of the things that's remained nearly untouched in the history of the republic, it's the hot molten core of the Anglo-American constitutional tradition, and he has already completely abolished it.

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October Witch Chick @celticdragon1.bsky.social · 11h

This is correct

Clem @tinisoli.bsky.social · 13h

Why should I pay taxes if Congress isn’t enforcing how my money is spent? The contract is broken. I might as well be robbed.

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 13h

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 18h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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October Witch Chick @celticdragon1.bsky.social · 12h

Yep

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October Witch Chick @celticdragon1.bsky.social · 13h

@hurricanexyz.bsky.social
@surcomplicated.bsky.social
@edroso.bsky.social

I think we can say the government has fallen.

Our elites can't bring themselves to admit it.

(I think it entirely possible Congress has essentially dissolved for this term and will not reconvene)

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13h

"a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority"

The phrasing you're looking for is that he's suspending parts of the Constitution by decree.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

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October Witch Chick @celticdragon1.bsky.social · 13h

Destroy it. Don't let anyone in the future use it for bacchanal bullshit

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October Witch Chick @celticdragon1.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah I'm on another block list apparently. I'm getting four or five notifications a day

I somehow can't seem to care

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October Witch Chick @celticdragon1.bsky.social · 13h

I thought his Joker in the Snyder cut was good. He finally got this really weird balance of insanity, pathos and menace that was definitely lacking in his appearance in Suicide Squad 1. He was good in Dallas Buyers Club.

He still can't carry a movie

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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