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DC Cassandra

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I warned you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Cursed to (be a) Know-It-All. DMV latchkey kid not obeying in advance. Irritated optimist against fascism.Poor mans wonk. F bombs galore. RSkeets + rumination Image: #FreeDC banner #USDemocracy #GenX #RiotGrrrl #Momsky #ADHD ❌👑

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DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · Jun 16

Love me love my typos 🤷🏻‍♀️

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DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t hate this idea….

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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skelettuce @latisserande.bsky.social · 16d

It is pretty darkly laughable that a bunch of freaks coopted the almost-universal alienation of today to make it a male-only problem and propose we volunteer as bangmaids as the solution ig

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 17d

oh that's why it's a thing on the other site

~me and my female friends think the male loneliness crisis is pretty funny~ is fine group-chat fodder, but it's a weird thing to keep in a lefty essay that's ostensibly trying to figure out how and why men are fleeing the left

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 6h

look at this absolute robber baron

Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 10h

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 6h

Correction: An AMERICAN legend ❤️🐸

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Trudy Gonzales @trudygonzales.bsky.social · 8h

Trump takes a personal plane from Qatar

Qatar gets a training base in Idaho

Argentina gets 20 billion

Our troops are NOT getting paid nor are our federal workers

What exactly are Trump and Republicans' priorities?

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 6h

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 6h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 10h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 12d

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

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DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 7h

They were blinded by the entirely false notion that “it can’t happen here.” And now we all have to pay

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 12d

If you were in the room during Hegseth and Trump's speech, and you'd like to share your response anonymously, reach out to me on Signal (in bio.) Share widely.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Collect a claim from one side, collect a claim from the other, present them both to the reader with an awkward shrug and a "who can say?"

And the photo choice -- Noem's looking down ... on what? The reverse angle showed a small crowd and a quiet street. But can't show that, it's biased to one side!

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 7h

When we were told as kids that tv rots our brains, I guess they were right (at least in this case).

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 11h

For my piece today at @zeteo.com i wanted to truly underscore how punishingly stupid american fascism is now. Like, my original proposed headline for this was:

Our Democracy Is Imperiled Because One Old Man Won’t Stop ‘Yelling’ At His TV. zeteo.com/p/trump-addi...

Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV.

zeteo.com

DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 7h

This part

DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 7h

Can’t imagine, lemme think

moonchildjs.bsky.social @moonchildjs.bsky.social · 7h

Why are schools banning books about Japanese American incarceration during WW2?

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📎Sprout @allenbussell.bsky.social · 8h

And we have our Antifa mascot

SAM @samierens.bsky.social · 11h

The Frog Army disagrees with the administration’s decision on that!

🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸. Frog team Six deploy!! Freedom for ALL!

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DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 7h

Good, God said so, it’s canon now.

God @thegodpodcast.com · 8h

"Conversion therapy" is a polite name for something that isn’t conversion and isn’t therapy. It’s abuse.

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 20h

It's not just that Trump needs to be removed from office under the 25th Amendment

It's that in a sane world all his gullible, culpable bat-guano-brained followers would be removed under their own 25th Amendments as well

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 15h

"Pope Leo XIV encouraged international news agencies on Thursday to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation, as he strongly backed a free, independent and objective press." apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 7h

This is from a month ago? Unless something new has happened. Seems like he didn’t get the credit he deserved then bc they were prolly busy doing some other completely insane thing.

DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 7h

This one wins

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DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 8h

This is the craziest shit I’ve read all day. Think about that. Add in the Dade Concentration Camp and there are thousands of the new Disappeared in the U.S. right now.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

We didn't include a number of people kidnapped today in this because we honestly just don't even know anymore.

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DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 8h

Hush, don’t tell Albania or Azerbaijan either…

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 8h

In case you’re hearing about the “protest that turned violent” in Boston last week, here’s the “violence” in question, per the police report

Following the protest, four officers were taken to the hospital for treatment of injuries. One officer had a broken nose and had his glasses broken, another was treated for pepper spray exposure, one sustained a finger injury while handcuffing and another sustained a lower back injury attempting to make an arrest.

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