@damonsilver.bsky.social
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So, the closest historical analogs to Trump seem IMO to be Nero and Henry VIII. Henry is more accomplished, and not a physical coward, but equally cruel, misogynistic, and bad for the country. Nero is just a toxic, talentless, privileged cunt who wants constant praise. But yeah. Good times.
December 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
So, the closest historical analogs to Trump seem IMO to be Nero and Henry VIII. Henry is more accomplished, and not a physical coward, but equally cruel, misogynistic, and bad for the country. Nero is just a toxic, talentless, privileged cunt who wants constant praise. But yeah. Good times.
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Undaunted Veteran Stands Up to MAGA Bullies
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Mark Kelly Rocks. He is a 💯badass. We need a lot more like him in Congress. They would whip our government into shape and eject the dead wood and parasites that have infested the White House and Pentagon
#BlueCrew
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Mark Kelly Rocks. He is a 💯badass. We need a lot more like him in Congress. They would whip our government into shape and eject the dead wood and parasites that have infested the White House and Pentagon
#BlueCrew
Undaunted Veteran Stands Up to MAGA Bullies
Senator Mark Kelly is a national treasure
open.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Undaunted Veteran Stands Up to MAGA Bullies
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Mark Kelly Rocks. He is a 💯badass. We need a lot more like him in Congress. They would whip our government into shape and eject the dead wood and parasites that have infested the White House and Pentagon
#BlueCrew
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Mark Kelly Rocks. He is a 💯badass. We need a lot more like him in Congress. They would whip our government into shape and eject the dead wood and parasites that have infested the White House and Pentagon
#BlueCrew
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Release the Epstein files.
December 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Release the Epstein files.
Hey guys
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 6, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Hey guys
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A night out in Cedar-Riverside
December 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM
A night out in Cedar-Riverside
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Hiring listings for ICE positions could indicate the federal government plans to launch a detention center in Portland.
Job postings suggest ICE may be eyeing Portland for detention facility
Hiring listings for ICE positions could indicate the federal government plans to launch a detention center in Portland.
www.oregonlive.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Hiring listings for ICE positions could indicate the federal government plans to launch a detention center in Portland.
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
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Biden: So, folks, that's my message to all of us today, to all who love our country, to all of us are dismayed by the present state of the union: it's time to get up, get up and fight back. Get up. Continue to fight. What's the fight all about? Protecting the constitution.
December 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Biden: So, folks, that's my message to all of us today, to all who love our country, to all of us are dismayed by the present state of the union: it's time to get up, get up and fight back. Get up. Continue to fight. What's the fight all about? Protecting the constitution.
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The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”
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It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
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After just over a year of bargaining, union employees at The Stranger, the Portland Mercury, EverOut, and Bold Type Tickets have just ratified their first-ever contract!
🥳 🎉 🥳 🎉
🥳 🎉 🥳 🎉
December 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
After just over a year of bargaining, union employees at The Stranger, the Portland Mercury, EverOut, and Bold Type Tickets have just ratified their first-ever contract!
🥳 🎉 🥳 🎉
🥳 🎉 🥳 🎉
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Reading old court transcripts and, I mean, whomst
December 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Reading old court transcripts and, I mean, whomst
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The Epstein files should have already been released.
December 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The Epstein files should have already been released.
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If only there had been signs that a group of below average men who espouse misogynist views and are led by an adjudicated rapist would treat their female colleagues poorly.
December 4, 2025 at 2:30 AM
If only there had been signs that a group of below average men who espouse misogynist views and are led by an adjudicated rapist would treat their female colleagues poorly.
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All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
December 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
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Leavitt’s citizenship comments clash with SCOTUS
Karoline Leavitt: “You’re either a U.S. citizen or not — You can’t be a U.S. citizen & a citizen of another country.”
The Supreme Court: It ruled in 1967 that the government can’t strip U.S. citizenship unless a person voluntarily relinquishes it.
Karoline Leavitt: “You’re either a U.S. citizen or not — You can’t be a U.S. citizen & a citizen of another country.”
The Supreme Court: It ruled in 1967 that the government can’t strip U.S. citizenship unless a person voluntarily relinquishes it.
December 4, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Leavitt’s citizenship comments clash with SCOTUS
Karoline Leavitt: “You’re either a U.S. citizen or not — You can’t be a U.S. citizen & a citizen of another country.”
The Supreme Court: It ruled in 1967 that the government can’t strip U.S. citizenship unless a person voluntarily relinquishes it.
Karoline Leavitt: “You’re either a U.S. citizen or not — You can’t be a U.S. citizen & a citizen of another country.”
The Supreme Court: It ruled in 1967 that the government can’t strip U.S. citizenship unless a person voluntarily relinquishes it.
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I think it's time we start declaring the Trump Administration and their Reeks traitors.
They're traitors to the Constitution.
Their desire to create a white Christian nationalist state is against the founding fathers and the law.
They're the "foreign threat" to America, not immigrants.
They're traitors to the Constitution.
Their desire to create a white Christian nationalist state is against the founding fathers and the law.
They're the "foreign threat" to America, not immigrants.
December 4, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I think it's time we start declaring the Trump Administration and their Reeks traitors.
They're traitors to the Constitution.
Their desire to create a white Christian nationalist state is against the founding fathers and the law.
They're the "foreign threat" to America, not immigrants.
They're traitors to the Constitution.
Their desire to create a white Christian nationalist state is against the founding fathers and the law.
They're the "foreign threat" to America, not immigrants.
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Always and forever, this is my Onion.
December 4, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Always and forever, this is my Onion.
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i'd say the midterm-level turnout for a special election is even more ominous than the swing
December 3, 2025 at 3:18 AM
i'd say the midterm-level turnout for a special election is even more ominous than the swing
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Ilhan Omar is one of the best reps in congress and the Somali community is a wonderful part of the country.
Fuck any living dead ghoul who says otherwise.
Fuck any living dead ghoul who says otherwise.
December 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Ilhan Omar is one of the best reps in congress and the Somali community is a wonderful part of the country.
Fuck any living dead ghoul who says otherwise.
Fuck any living dead ghoul who says otherwise.
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I’m 56 years old, and for my whole life we’ve been asking some version of the question “what would WE, our generation, have done to stop the Nazis, either in Germany as they were rising, or around the world to fight for freedom.
Now we’re answering the question in real time. Each of us & all of us.
Now we’re answering the question in real time. Each of us & all of us.
December 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I’m 56 years old, and for my whole life we’ve been asking some version of the question “what would WE, our generation, have done to stop the Nazis, either in Germany as they were rising, or around the world to fight for freedom.
Now we’re answering the question in real time. Each of us & all of us.
Now we’re answering the question in real time. Each of us & all of us.
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Judge Howell just enjoined warrantless immigration arrests in DC without probable cause to believe the person is a flight risk.
Great work by ACLU and Amica
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71452...
Great work by ACLU and Amica
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71452...
December 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Judge Howell just enjoined warrantless immigration arrests in DC without probable cause to believe the person is a flight risk.
Great work by ACLU and Amica
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71452...
Great work by ACLU and Amica
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71452...
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james cameron every couple of years for some reason:
December 2, 2025 at 7:05 AM
james cameron every couple of years for some reason:
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There are 75,977 people born in Somalia who are now citizens of the United States, including those specific people.
He is talking about US citizens. He is talking about *us*.
The truth is that none of us are garbage, and the job of the US president is to represent all of us.
We, the people.
He is talking about US citizens. He is talking about *us*.
The truth is that none of us are garbage, and the job of the US president is to represent all of us.
We, the people.
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
There are 75,977 people born in Somalia who are now citizens of the United States, including those specific people.
He is talking about US citizens. He is talking about *us*.
The truth is that none of us are garbage, and the job of the US president is to represent all of us.
We, the people.
He is talking about US citizens. He is talking about *us*.
The truth is that none of us are garbage, and the job of the US president is to represent all of us.
We, the people.