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Artist, filmmaker, toymaker, general all-around creative 80s kid wannabe. https://www.youtube.com/@brandxproductions https://www.instagram.com/jmdipiazza/

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JMDipiazza @jmdipiazza.bsky.social · Dec 17

Gonna refer to this one a lot it seems.

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JMDipiazza @jmdipiazza.bsky.social · 1d

More articles about the woes of MAGA or the MAGA adjacent. Where are the think pieces interviewing the marginalized?

An article about people in the LGTBQIA+ community discussing how they just want to live like everyone else, love, marry, etc. is way more important than “people hate my swasticar”🙄

WIRED @wired.com · 2d

"She called me a Nazi!"

The full feature here:

Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck

“We were the targets.” WIRED spoke to seven Tesla Cybertruck owners about their most controversial purchase and why they're proud to drive it.

www.wired.com

JMDipiazza @jmdipiazza.bsky.social · 2d

Just unreal

Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 2d

Hillary Clinton said that "deplorables" thing nine years ago and Republicans are still whining about it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 3d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

C-SPAN caller from Missouri to Missouri Rep. Mark Alford: "I hope you, sir, as an elected official, will think of the people who are in nursing homes, their parents are in nursing homes, their Medicaid is going to be cut. What is going to happen to Missourians whose hospitals are gonna close?"

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9d

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 9d

Federal investigators who used to fight crime are now being redirected to immigration
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s Immigration Push Diverts U.S. Agents From Drug, Money and Sex-Crime Cases

Federal investigators are resigning, and morale is low, as they juggle complex cases and detain migrants.

www.wsj.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13d

Former FCC Chair Wheeler: An autocrat's favorite tool is a monopoly on telling the story. And if you can control the people who tell that story, then you've got an autocrat's greatest dream.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15d

This is fascism.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 14d

I don’t understand the supposed legal basis for this.

DOJ requested a summons—*not* an arrest warrant—under Rule 9 of the FRCrP.

Are they going to go back to the magistrate and ask for a warrant, even though Comey hasn’t failed to appear? If not, what’s the exigency for a warrantless arrest?

The FBI is now actively working to put together a team to arrest Comey between now and his court appearance on Thursday, but other FBI supervisors have also refused to cooperate, said a source knowledgeable about the conversations and a law enforcement source familiar with the situation. The expectation is that the FBI will eventually find somebody.
CBS News has reached out to the FBI for comment. Comey's lawyer, Patrick Fitzgerald, declined to comment to CBS
News.
Reuters was first to report that an FBI agent was sidelined for refusing to help with a perp walk.

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 14d

JB Pritzker: “Trump’s treasonous words are leading to treasonous actions. Pushing back at authoritarian regimes starts with a resistance that can effectively ridicule the opposition and look into the camera and say this guy is full of shit”

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JMDipiazza @jmdipiazza.bsky.social · 15d

Boo.freaking.hoo.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15d

Kristi Noem is mad they wouldn’t let her in to use the restroom in Illinois today.

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 16d

Official VA emails advising veterans and federal employees to blame the "Radical Left" for the shutdown instead of Trump are facing criticism for using government channels for partisan propaganda, which violates the Hatch Act.

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JMDipiazza @jmdipiazza.bsky.social · 16d

Not one tiny bit differently.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16d

We've had fuckups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed so deliberately intent on being a fuckup.

It's been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA they wouldn't be doing anything different.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16d

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 16d

The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money.

Let that sink in

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18d

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE

YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS

PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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Popehat Or Danger of Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23d

Despite everything I still have fundamental faith in the American people turning this around and making things better.

[reads any New York Times focus group]

Fuck this. Fuck everything. Burn it all down. [drinks directly from tequila bottle]

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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 23d

They're about to shut down the government to protect the Epstein Files from disclosure. Whatever is in the files must be so unhinged as to be beyond imagination.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 23d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23d

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.

He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

PARTIES3. Plaintiff José Escobar Molina is a 47-year-old man who has lived in D.C. for 25 years. He has maintained valid Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) for El Salvador since 2001. On August 21, 2025, Mr. Escobar Molina was walking from his apartment building in Northwest D.C.to his work truck, about to start his workday, when two cars pulled up next to him. As he was about to get into his truck, plain-clothed and unidentified federal agents exited the cars and—without conducting any inquiry—seized Mr. Escobar Molina, grabbing him by the arms and legs and immediately handcuffing him. The agents arrested him without a warrant and without asking for his name, his identification, or anything about his immigration status. The agents also did not ask him where he lives, whom he lives with, how long he has lived here, or anything else about his ties to the community prior to arresting him. After ICE detained Mr. Escobar Molina overnight at its processing center in Chantilly, Virginia, the next day an ICE supervisor finally realized that he had valid TPS, which statutorily prohibits ICE from detaining him, and released him. Due tohis Latino ethnicity, Mr. Escobar Molina fears being arrested and detained again while going about his daily life in D.C.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 26d

CLERK: I swear some people will do anything but go to therapy

ME: what?

CLERK: oh nothing, your 12 foot skeleton comes to $321.47 after tax

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