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Dan in Kansas City
@daninkc.bsky.social
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Living in Kansas City | Hoping to survive the collapse of the United States | Civil War Historian | Proud Son of Union Veterans | Loyal to the Republic
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Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · Feb 10
110,100 men gave their lives in battle fighting for the Union and to defeat the Southern Oligarchs. Don’t let their deaths be in vain 160 years later. #Resist #History #USCivilWar #MartyrsForFreedom #USA
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Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · Feb 10
open.substack.com/pub/daninkc/...

I decided to write out some of my thoughts. #Resist #History #Democracy #CivilWar #USCivilWar #substack
Don't Let Them Have Died In Vain
Our Nation's sacrifices in the Civil War are worth fighting for today
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22h
Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?
Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates
The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · Jun 22
ice’s illegitimacy grows with every passing day
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Jun 21
"ICE" beating man during arrest in Santa Ana California.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13h
Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges

DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t

The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 5h
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
www.cbsnews.com
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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 4h
The US Constitution has no innate defense against lying by public officials and complete shamelessness.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6h
No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h
Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 4h
“One of them, Albert ‘Skip’ Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”
Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?
www.nytimes.com
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 15h
one single step that would do a lot to improve reputation of LLMs would be for Google to abandon AI Mode like they do with all of their other products
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 13h
I do think ICE agents are gonna be the American stasi in popular culture and I don't think ERO guys realize their kids are probably gonna hate them
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 14h
the agency itselt should be bureaucratically re-arranged in a way that allows us to effectively abolish it in its current form without explicitly doing it in a way that makes us politically vulnerable. call it the “homeland protection enhancement” bill or something
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16h
Yeah I think people here have unrealistic expectations for like jailing all ICE agents and that’s just almost certainly not going to happen even in extremely cool zone scenarios. But they should 100% have to lie for the rest of their lives about their employment history in conversation with everyone
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 13h
Thinking specifically about how Arnold Schwarzenegger grew up as the son of an ex-Nazi soldier in postwar Germany and every other thing Arnold says about him is "yeah he was a miserable piece of shit and he deserved every bit of it because he and everyone like him sucked and we saw it up close 24/7"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h
The One Big Beautiful Bill cut a trillion dollars from healthcare, Schoolmarm Johnson
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
Mike Johnson: "Republicans are the party that are fixing healthcare. We just demonstrated that in the one big beautiful bill."
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 3h
There's no such thing as an idyllic place in a country this awash in guns.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3h
BREAKING: Four dead and 20 more injured in a shooting at a bar on an idyllic South Carolina island.
4 people were killed and 20 more were injured in a shooting at a bar in South Carolina, sheriff says
A mass shooting at a crowded bar on the idyllic South Carolina island of St. Helena left four people dead and at least 20 injured.
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 3h
i think it’s noteworthy that a lot of centrist pundits have decided to just take it as a given that jd vance lies constantly and to treat this as almost part of his intellectual program so that only gauche rubes would bother to mention or care about it.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4h
The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.
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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 16h
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 18h
So now the Administration are saying that the mass firing of CDC scientists, including many responsible for preventing outbreaks, was an “error” and many will be brought back.

Whether by intention or incompetence, dismantling public health will kill people.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 3h
The "plaintiffs" seeking to dismantle the Voting Rights Act (in a case this week at SCOTUS) include:

-a member of the "Trumpettes," a group of women who ardently support for the president
-a retiree who said he didn’t remember signing up to be involved in a lawsuit.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...
One woman made national news when she protested the Covid-19 vaccine at her local City Council. Another is a member of the Trumpettes, a group of women united in their ardent support for the president. A third is a retired grocery salesman who said he didn’t remember signing up to be involved in a lawsuit. The three are among the 12 Louisiana voters at the center of a case set to be heard by the Supreme Court on Wednesday that could gut what remains of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the landmark civil-rights-era legislation. In January 2024, the group filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Louisiana’s congressional district map, arguing state lawmakers had discriminated against them as white voters by impermissibly taking race into account when they drafted the map after the 2020 census. Since then, they’ve been referred to in court filings merely as the “non-African-American” voters.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 2d
Fascist regime stuck on stupid.

GOP busted using South American riot pics to justify Oregon troops: 'We're bad memers'

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GOP busted using South American riot pics to justify Oregon troops: 'We're bad memers'
The Oregon Republican Party is facing backlash after it shared a social media post about a planned military deployment in Portland using a fabricated image composed of photographs from South America.T...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3h
JD Vance blames Chuck Schumer for the fact that the White House mistakenly laid off key public health officials, including those dealing with measles and ebola.
The Trump regime's message is: We demand total power, but we're not responsible for anything.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision
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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 2h
Government workers who are being illegally fired by the thousands are being told that their work does not align with the President's priorities. But the President's obligation is to execute the law, not to impose his own agenda on the country. The word for what Trump is doing is tyranny.
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Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 1h
This regime wants nothing more than the blood of Americans running in the streets. They’re evil.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h
The people who want violent protests to happen are Trump, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth, Tom Homan, and other senior appointees in his admin. They are doing everything they possibly can to provoke people to violence and it is obvious that is what they hope for daily.
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 2h
This is Trump's America

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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 5h
Unpaid soldiers at a food bank is on-brand for the Republicans, who thinks our vets are "suckers and losers" in Trump's words.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 18h
Trump issued the order after footage of soldiers lining up at a food bank went viral online.
Pentagon Pete Gets Trump Order to Pay Troops Despite Shutdown
Trump issued the order after footage of soldiers lining up at a food bank went viral online.
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 1h
Politico is recommending a column by a guy who literally blogged for Richard Spencer's original alt-right site--but who has since been rehabilitated as a very serious political commentator--on why we need to bring back "internet gatekeepers."
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Mack Butterfield @mack2114.bsky.social · 1h
There can be real repercussions for shifting funding during a government shutdown. Under the Antideficiency Act, enacted to prevent federal agencies from spending money Congress hasn’t appropriated, officials who buck those restrictions face up to two years in prison and up to $5,000 in fines.
Pentagon will pay military troops, Trump says, shifting $8B
The president said Saturday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has funds available to pay troops on Wednesday.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h
Tariff money is not a Trump Regime slush fund. It is tax money deposited into the US treasury and Congress has sole authority over the appropriation of tax dollars.
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