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inkwrat

@inkwrat.bsky.social

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Recovering journo, Champion of the Apostrophe Former: Your favorite neighborhood bartender Current: Librocubicularist Laureate Still pretty good at listening & libations Dogs are welcome here. Humans will be vetted.

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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · Jan 26

" ... the soul-blighted Donald Trump and the satraps and lackeys who abet his nefarious behavior—are attempting to destroy the foundations of American democracy. This must be stated clearly, and repeatedly."

Sadly, unbelievably, it must be stated again.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

A Party, and Nation, in Crisis

The GOP’s leaders are attempting to destroy the foundations of American democracy.

www.theatlantic.com

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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 11h

"AI, make a video of a bunch of angry-looking young Black men with obviously large penises that will inspire fear and anger in the hearts of shriveled up old white guys"

inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 11h

Wonder if she told AI to give the Black men obvi large ... energy ... to further frighten & enrage shriveled old white dudes?

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14h

One of the leaders of the Tea Party was literally named Dick Armey and they got tons of favorable coverage, one person shows up as a lone volunteer for a No Kings dick army and they get arrested on site. bsky.app/profile/thek...

thekoolaidmom.bsky.social @thekoolaidmom.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 20h

Lying Mike Johnson claims the last government shutdown was in 2013. The last TWO federal shutdowns were during Trump’s last term. Trump has been responsible for close to 2/3 of all federal shutdown days in US history.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Mike Johnson: "We congratulate them on an apparently violent-free speech exercise ... but if President Trump was a king, the government would be open right now ... by the way, the Mall was open because President Trump hasn't closed it."

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 14h

I would love to see you in Linn County, Iowa on November 1st.

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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 11h

Hey when you're accidentally fragging your security detail maybe you shouldn't be in charge of anything, ever.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 11h

Trump has escalated from murdering South American fishermen to now bombing California freeways

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h

Yesterday, millions of us affirmed the foundation of the common good. That solidarity is stronger than Trump and his lapdogs. Our determination is more powerful. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-in-solidarity

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 19h

the ceasefire is not holding www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/w...

New Flare-Up of Violence Strains Gaza Cease-Fire

www.nytimes.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

The president needs your help! He's collecting diarrhea for his plane. He has a plane that's 99% toilet with other people's diarrhea in it and he wears a little crown when he drives it around. Brave patriots please send your loose stool to your favorite diarrhea president for his diarrhea plane.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 1d

San Francisco protestors created a giant sign to support California’s Proposition 50 and to oppose the authoritarian policies of Donald Trump’s regime. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 19h

A woman approached me at the protest in Burlington to say my sign was 'everything I feel about ... all of this.'
Watching trump & co dismantle our nation and sell it for parts is the worst part of the dumbest timeline in history.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 22h

If this isn't the lead story, front page news then you and your news outlets are doing journalism all wrong. As many as 7 MILLION Americans took to the streets to complain about the President of the United States. That is big, important news. Cover it accordingly.

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Marc Polymeropoulos @mpolymer1.bsky.social · 22h

The most important article you will read today. This is simply not the America we love. I say this as a former national security professional who is very much pro law enforcement. The tactics used here are anathema to actual policing, against all TTPs. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force

Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...

www.propublica.org

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 21h

Not a small thing that Trump is destroying our alliances in the Western Hemisphere because of a wildly illegal and reckless “launch missiles at small boats” strategy that will do nothing meaningful to stop drugs from coming into our country because the drugs come by land.

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Anne Muntean @annemuntean.bsky.social · 21h

apnews.com/article/isra...

Israel strikes Gaza after it says Hamas attacked across ceasefire line

Israel has struck targets in the southern Gaza Strip after it said its troops came under fire from Hamas militants, in the first major test of a U.S.

apnews.com

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 21h

The only arrests I’ve heard about from the No Kings rallies were Trump supporters threatening peaceful protestors…

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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 20h

Because we remember.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20h

Marco Rubio sold out people cooperating AGAINST the gang that Trump claims to be trying to defeat in order to gain access to Nayib Bukele's concentration camp.

Yeah, we know they suck. But this is just stunning.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

www.washingtonpost.com

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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 1d

Back in November I made myself an election anxiety playlist. I always meant to add to it, but I was preoccupied with horror and disbelief.
www.youtube.com/@inkwrat630/...

Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around

YouTube video by Justiciarodante

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs

“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 1d

Mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson calls for a general strike, at least 300,000 people attended the protest. #3E #NoKings #EndImpunity #EndOligarchy #EndAutogenocide #EpsteinFiles

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 1d

Proud to have been one of them.
Our grandchildren will learn this history we are making.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

Double checking there were no violent insurrections, beating up of cops, pro-Nazi shirts, and smearing of shit in state Capitols today across the country during the massive NO KINGS protests, right?

Because that's what Trump supporters did on January 6th to overthrow a free and fair election.

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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 1d

It's probably hard for most folks to understand the actions of a man like Pete, motivated almost entirely by his own inadequacies.
He's blowing up boats full of human beings and firing off his little rockets because he's desperate to be a Big Man. Or any kind of man at all.