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Chris Montgomery @cmmontgomery.bsky.social · 9h

The regime desperately wants us not to believe our eyes because believing our eyes leads to the only possible conclusion: What we are seeing is a moral atrocity that must be stopped.

Believe Your Eyes

We are obligated to share these ICE videos and talk about them when we can. We are obligated to believe our eyes and encourage others to believe theirs. The regime desperately wants us not to believe ...

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Chris Montgomery @cmmontgomery.bsky.social · 1d

It could be — stick with me here — that by unsubtly encouraging schools to teach the positive impacts of Christianity on American history, Ohio Republicans are actually violating the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.

Does the First Amendment Prohibit the Establishment of Religion? Views Differ

As reported in Ohio Capital Journal, two Ohio Republican legislators introduced a bill to encourage the state's educators to teach the "positive impacts of religion on American history". In a shocking...

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Chris Montgomery @cmmontgomery.bsky.social · 3d

Roberts is Kramer going all the way. Dude just doesn’t care anymore.

Kramer test drives car on Seinfeld

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Chris Montgomery @cmmontgomery.bsky.social · 3d

Republican politicians can run their mouths all they want, but rural hospitals know what’s going on and are speaking out accordingly. When a hospital in Darke County, Ohio is making statements like this one from earlier this year, the damage is real.

Proposed Congressional Medicaid Cuts Threaten Rural Healthcare Access

Greenville, OH, June 24, 2025 – Wayne HealthCare is concerned about recent Congressional proposals to cut Medicaid funding, which pose a serious threat to rural healthcare access. As a healthcare prov...

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Chris Montgomery @cmmontgomery.bsky.social · 3d

Is there a play here with the cemetery lobby?

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Chris Montgomery @cmmontgomery.bsky.social · 3d

Man whoever’s directing this campaign of lawless terror deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

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Chris Montgomery @cmmontgomery.bsky.social · 3d

Follow our protagonist Connor O'Connor as he navigates one day in America in 2025. Marvel at his adaptability as he learns on the way to work that President Trump has deputized the nation's BMV clerks and eliminated the month of August.

American Ulysses, 2025

In which we follow our protagonist Connor O'Connor through one day in America in 2025. 4:30 a.m. Connor wakes up, brews coffee and eats a bowl of Chobani Zero Sugar vanilla yogurt with Whole Foods 36...

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Chris Montgomery @cmmontgomery.bsky.social · 7d

You know what we could really use more of right now, what with the Trump administration speedrunning the creation of a vast, unchecked police state and all: organizations that are unabashed guardians of the U.S. constitutional order.

We Could Use More Civil Liberties Pests TBH

The ACLU has a long, proud history of being a pest about protecting Americans' civil liberties. The group's efforts can seem counterintuitive and/or downright exasperating when, for example, they're d...

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Chris Montgomery @cmmontgomery.bsky.social · 7d

What a country.

The Columbus Dispatch @dispatch.com · 8d

The Ohio Supreme Court will hear arguments in a gun rights case. It comes after a key decision from the U.S. Supreme Court that limits state gun laws.

Can you carry a gun in an Ohio bar if you're drinking? Supreme Court to decide

The Ohio Supreme Court will hear arguments in a gun rights case. It comes after a key decision from the U.S. Supreme Court that limits state gun laws.

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Chris Montgomery @cmmontgomery.bsky.social · 8d

“[Democracy] can be destroyed by a single zealous man who holds aloft a freedom sign while quietly undermining all of freedom's cherished institutions.” -E.B. White

E.B. White on the Destructibility of Democracy

"To The Editor: Senator Goldwater has occasionally used the phrase 'obviously guilty,' referring to criminals. This is a very unsettling thing. Nobody is 'obviously' guilty in this country – a man is...

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11d

This is simple. Congress should not willingly pay the bills to fund the most serious assault on political freedom in our lifetime - an assault that may collapse democracy as we know it if we don't fight back.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 11d

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

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Chris Montgomery @cmmontgomery.bsky.social · 10d

“A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. on Standing Up for What's Right

"Deep down in our non-violent creed is the conviction that there are some things so dear, some things so precious, some things so eternally true, that they're worth dying for. And if a man happens to ...

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Chris Montgomery @cmmontgomery.bsky.social · 10d

So much of the Trump era has felt like watching a slasher flick in which you can see exactly what’s happening and you’re screaming at the character you know is going to die not to go into that shed in the woods that is obviously occupied by a serial killer.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 11d

Republicans now just do every presser like Ricky Bobby

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 11d

Kristi Noem’s message to the NFL for selecting Bad Bunny for the halftime show:

“The NFL sucks and we’ll win and God will bless us and we’ll stand and be proud of ourselves at the end of the day and they won’t be able to sleep at night because they don’t know what they believe…”

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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Chris Montgomery @cmmontgomery.bsky.social · 11d

Maybe it's completely normal to walk into a hardware store looking for a washer for a leaky spigot and be greeted at the door by the shopkeeper who, interestingly enough, is brandishing a gun and ordering you over to a shelf of used trimmer accessories, air filters, gas cans and band saw blades.

Fostering a Vibrant Marketplace of Ideas Apparently Means Imposing Your Ideas by Force

The Trump administration's latest free-speech innovation is attempting to force colleges and universities to agree to a series of demands in exchange for preferential access to federal funding. The de...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 12d

why gosh it's almost as if the systemic frontal assault on progressive thought and informed consensus by wealth and power across the entirety of new and old media was itself the real cancel culture!

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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Chris Montgomery @cmmontgomery.bsky.social · 13d

We're getting rid of the pig, the girl, the spider, the goose, the gander, the sheep, all of them. That’s right. Our story is going to be about Templeton. Yep, Templeton the rat. Our book will be called Templeton's Rathole, and we're going to tell the real story of the barnyard, 1000% woke-free.

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Chris Montgomery @cmmontgomery.bsky.social · 13d

It's not enough to ban books. We need to replace them with better books. We could even blow up old favorites to tell the stories that need to be told. To get this initiative rolling, I propose we start with a complete reworking of Charlotte's Web.

Templeton's Rathole: Charlotte's Web Reimagined for the Book-Banning Set

Katie Miller, wife of Stephen Miller, who by all appearances is the actual president of the United States, took her kids to a public library and was appalled by all of the wokeness she encountered. We...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15d

DAVID CROSS: “I am disgusted and deeply disappointed… These are some of my HEROES… how can any of us take any of you seriously ever again?”

Here’s who went to the Riyadh Comedy Festival: www.timeoutriyadh.com/news/riyadh-...