Colby Townsend
@colbytownsend.bsky.social
Dual PhD student (English/religious studies) @ IU Bloomington studying religion and literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He/him
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This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?
December 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?
2019 letter from pedophile Jeffrey Epstein to pedophile Larry Nassar about pedophile Donald Trump.
“Dear L[arry]. N[assar].
As you know by now, I have taken the “short route” home. Good luck! We shared one thing…our love & caring for young ladies and the hope they’d reach their full potential…
“Dear L[arry]. N[assar].
As you know by now, I have taken the “short route” home. Good luck! We shared one thing…our love & caring for young ladies and the hope they’d reach their full potential…
December 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
2019 letter from pedophile Jeffrey Epstein to pedophile Larry Nassar about pedophile Donald Trump.
“Dear L[arry]. N[assar].
As you know by now, I have taken the “short route” home. Good luck! We shared one thing…our love & caring for young ladies and the hope they’d reach their full potential…
“Dear L[arry]. N[assar].
As you know by now, I have taken the “short route” home. Good luck! We shared one thing…our love & caring for young ladies and the hope they’d reach their full potential…
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Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador’s Dictator Before Spiking '60 Minutes' Story on His Torture Prison
Weiss touted El Salvador’s leader while her blog published jokes about immigrants sent to CECOT, writes @premthakker.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social:
zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
Weiss touted El Salvador’s leader while her blog published jokes about immigrants sent to CECOT, writes @premthakker.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social:
zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador’s Dictator Before Spiking '60 Minutes' Story on His Torture Prison
Weiss touted El Salvador’s brutal leader while her blog published jokes about Trump sending immigrants to the CECOT prison.
zeteo.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador’s Dictator Before Spiking '60 Minutes' Story on His Torture Prison
Weiss touted El Salvador’s leader while her blog published jokes about immigrants sent to CECOT, writes @premthakker.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social:
zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
Weiss touted El Salvador’s leader while her blog published jokes about immigrants sent to CECOT, writes @premthakker.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social:
zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
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A few reminders about the SCOTUS immunity decision for Presidents:
It does not provide immunity for prior crimes.
It does not provide immunity to the President's cabinet.
Similar to Roe v. Wade, it can be overturned in the future.
It does not provide immunity for prior crimes.
It does not provide immunity to the President's cabinet.
Similar to Roe v. Wade, it can be overturned in the future.
December 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
A few reminders about the SCOTUS immunity decision for Presidents:
It does not provide immunity for prior crimes.
It does not provide immunity to the President's cabinet.
Similar to Roe v. Wade, it can be overturned in the future.
It does not provide immunity for prior crimes.
It does not provide immunity to the President's cabinet.
Similar to Roe v. Wade, it can be overturned in the future.
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really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
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"'If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient,' Ms. Alfonsi wrote."
{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
"'If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient,' Ms. Alfonsi wrote."
{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
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The easiest position in any company for artificial intelligence to replace is the CEO and the CFO. They certainly couldn't be any less heartless
December 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The easiest position in any company for artificial intelligence to replace is the CEO and the CFO. They certainly couldn't be any less heartless
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Hey! Remember when Barr (Bondi) withheld the Mueller (Epstein) documents for weeks so he (she) could mischaracterize what was in the Mueller (Epstein) Report and spin the findings for three weeks and then over-redact them? I sure do!
December 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey! Remember when Barr (Bondi) withheld the Mueller (Epstein) documents for weeks so he (she) could mischaracterize what was in the Mueller (Epstein) Report and spin the findings for three weeks and then over-redact them? I sure do!
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BREAKING: The Justice Department appears to have pulled a photo containing images of President Trump from the thousands of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein it released Friday.
DOJ Likely Pulled Photo of Trump from Released Epstein Files
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
BREAKING: The Justice Department appears to have pulled a photo containing images of President Trump from the thousands of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein it released Friday.
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Nickenley Turenne was killed by NH police while being chased for the crime of *checks notes* being asleep in the car.
This is a verified gofundme for his family. Please consider contributing.
#BlackLivesMatter
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This is a verified gofundme for his family. Please consider contributing.
#BlackLivesMatter
www.gofundme.com/f/justice-fo...
Donate to Justice for Nickenley Turenne's Family, organized by Nachelle Augustin
Hi! Nickenley Turenne was shot and killed by 3 police officers on sat. Decemb… Nachelle Augustin needs your support for Justice for Nickenley Turenne's Family
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December 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Nickenley Turenne was killed by NH police while being chased for the crime of *checks notes* being asleep in the car.
This is a verified gofundme for his family. Please consider contributing.
#BlackLivesMatter
www.gofundme.com/f/justice-fo...
This is a verified gofundme for his family. Please consider contributing.
#BlackLivesMatter
www.gofundme.com/f/justice-fo...
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Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
December 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
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Just to be clear. It’s the John F Kennedy center legally.
Just like it’s still the department of defense
Just like it’s still the department of defense
December 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Just to be clear. It’s the John F Kennedy center legally.
Just like it’s still the department of defense
Just like it’s still the department of defense
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Brooks should be driven out of public life. The fact that he knew there were photographs of himself with Epstein and he didn't disclose that while also telling people that they should move on is just straight up unethical.
December 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Brooks should be driven out of public life. The fact that he knew there were photographs of himself with Epstein and he didn't disclose that while also telling people that they should move on is just straight up unethical.
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Warnock: He's got a lot of nerve saying that I'm using faith to divide people. This is a man who literally had protesters gassed and beaten down so he could hold up a bible in front of a church.
December 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Warnock: He's got a lot of nerve saying that I'm using faith to divide people. This is a man who literally had protesters gassed and beaten down so he could hold up a bible in front of a church.
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A little curious why Jack Smith telling congress that if Trump didn't want to be indicted, he should not have broken the law is not even really trending here.
December 18, 2025 at 4:55 AM
A little curious why Jack Smith telling congress that if Trump didn't want to be indicted, he should not have broken the law is not even really trending here.
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Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?
December 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?
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In a move that further emphasizes the DOJ’s concerning shift from protecting to attacking voting rights, a Republican attorney with a web of ties to election-conspiracy theorists is now helping run the department’s voting section.
https://bit.ly/3YCzsZf
https://bit.ly/3YCzsZf
DOJ Replaces Voting Section Chief With Lawyer Tied to Election Conspiracists
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
In a move that further emphasizes the DOJ’s concerning shift from protecting to attacking voting rights, a Republican attorney with a web of ties to election-conspiracy theorists is now helping run the department’s voting section.
https://bit.ly/3YCzsZf
https://bit.ly/3YCzsZf
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It might get me labeled as a Crazy Bluesky Radical, but I don’t think it’s great that our nuclear arsenal is at the disposal of a demented old man who’s just an exposed nerve of grievances and hatreds with absolutely no impulse control.
December 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
It might get me labeled as a Crazy Bluesky Radical, but I don’t think it’s great that our nuclear arsenal is at the disposal of a demented old man who’s just an exposed nerve of grievances and hatreds with absolutely no impulse control.
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The little orange bars on the right are what Trump is calling “the greatest economy in history.”
December 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The little orange bars on the right are what Trump is calling “the greatest economy in history.”
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It is pretty interesting how both elected officials and the media generally refuse to act like reality is reality, mostly because the people whose opinions they value are in the 17%
December 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
It is pretty interesting how both elected officials and the media generally refuse to act like reality is reality, mostly because the people whose opinions they value are in the 17%
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"Deplorables" remains an accurate descriptor for Trump and his enablers.
December 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"Deplorables" remains an accurate descriptor for Trump and his enablers.
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🕎 As Hanukkah calls us to celebrate light over darkness, we’re dedicating the next 8 days to sharing powerful wins for democracy in 2025. Join us to reflect on the progress we’ve made and find renewed inspiration to keep pushing on!
Watch this space daily for our top collective triumphs!
Watch this space daily for our top collective triumphs!
December 15, 2025 at 2:39 AM
🕎 As Hanukkah calls us to celebrate light over darkness, we’re dedicating the next 8 days to sharing powerful wins for democracy in 2025. Join us to reflect on the progress we’ve made and find renewed inspiration to keep pushing on!
Watch this space daily for our top collective triumphs!
Watch this space daily for our top collective triumphs!
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Murphy: "This isn't shocking, bc over last year, Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country. He's restoring gun rights to felons, eliminated the WH office of gun violence prevention & stopped funding mental health grants & community anti-gun violence grants"
December 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Murphy: "This isn't shocking, bc over last year, Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country. He's restoring gun rights to felons, eliminated the WH office of gun violence prevention & stopped funding mental health grants & community anti-gun violence grants"
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