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John Panzer

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Digital nomad riding the desert on a device with no name. Software engineer; past social software geek. Into democracy, martial arts, open platforms. Also at: https://mastodon.social/@jpanzer Also: https://abstractioneer.org, http://johnpanzer.com

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John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · Aug 26

The Trump junta continues to triple down on trying to torture and make an example of Kilmar Garcia. A judge ordered them to stop today. We will see if they defy the court openly now.

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John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · Jul 19

The Trump regime, continuing to ignore court orders regarding victims they kidnapped and disappeared to CECOT, has just proven they have also been lying to the courts when they said they had no control over them in CECOT. Proof: They just trafficked over 200 of them to Venezuela.

John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · Jun 7

The Executive branch, after two months of lying to the Court that they had no power to bring Abrego Garcia back, just brought him back.

They’re now going to pretend that they didn’t spend two months defying this court order. (They are still defying court orders regarding other people!)

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John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 6h

Total corruption.
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 10h

He would rather shut down our government than have you see the truth. It's not complicated.

John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 15h

I’ll be at Rinconada Park, Palo Alto.

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the-wolves.bsky.social @the-wolves.bsky.social · 17h

Musk and Benioff requesting to have the National Guard in San Francisco should spark outrage in the streets of Silicon Valley

Bring the No Kings crowrds to Tesla and SalesForce

Palo Alto Tesla Takedown Wednesdays, 4-6

#BoycottTesla
#BoycottTwitter
#NaziMusk

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h

Regarding past rallies Indivisible has organized, such as the “Hands Off” rallies that took place in all fifty states in April, co-executive director Ezra Levin said: “It was far larger than January 6th, and there was no violence. None.” www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-r...

‘No Kings’ Has Republicans in Disarray

Why GOP lawmakers are spreading fear about the upcoming rally.

www.thebulwark.com

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John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 16h

You know what? Fuck him. No law says he has to be the one to swear you in. Go across the street and have Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson do it.

Then go move into your office and dare that little weasel to try to kick you out.

John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 16h

Seems like she was right about Hitler, and woefully wrong about the German political establishment of the era.

John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 17h

Well, that’ll be a short testimony.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 21h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 20h

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 22h

When your party is built on a foundation of bad apples, what kind of fruit does it bear?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 22h

I feel like we should circle back to this

‘“Trumps too busy burning the Epstein files,” Alex Dwyer, the chair of the Kansas Young Republicans, wrote in one instance.’

ingemarknows.bsky.social @ingemarknows.bsky.social · 1d

These guys:
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 22h

Thanks, Joe Biden!

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI:

Stephen Miller's spouse doesn't know Joe Biden exists.

A screencap of a tweet from Katie Miller.

Why are there no living female hostages?
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John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 1d

Any word from FEMA or, well, any government agency today?

John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 1d

Don’t know how fun this is but it’s a fact

Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact: in chapter nineteen of the Second Treatise, John Locke writes that when the legislative power is usurped from that body in which the People have placed it, and exercised instead by a person or body not authorized to do so by the People, government is dissolved

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 1d

Swear her in Mike. And release the Epstein files.

Harlow’s Musings @harlowsmusings.bsky.social · 1d

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Rep-Elect Adelita Grijalva announces her election results will be OFFICIALLY certified tomorrow, destroying Mike Johnson’s last excuse to delay her swearing in.

“Mike Johnson needs to do his job so I can do mine.”

No more lies.
No more delays.
Swear her in!

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when the Biden admin refused to label the 3%ers, Aryan Bortherhood, Boogaloo Boys, Proud Boys and other terrorist groups, despite the fact that they were organized, clandestine, violent and well armed?

Yeah…his restraint served us no damned good at all. NONE.

Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 1d

Trump labeling "antifa" a domestic terrorist group and then smearing Democratic organizations as antifa is right from fascist playbook. Mussolini and Hitler both criminalized opposing political parties on way to establishing one party rule. My article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trump-is-n...

Trump is now working to secure one party rule--just like Mussolini and Hitler did

History is screaming at us!

deanobeidallah.substack.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.

If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

let’s share this and see how powerful bluesky can be for music, shall we?

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

if you know a single soul in…

• the Kansas City metro area
• the St. Louis metro area
• the Indianapolis metro area
• the Nashville metro area

@ekkoastral.bsky.social is playing a few impromptu shows on our way back to DC

tomorrow thru friday

our last shows of the year!!!!

linktr.ee/ekkoastral

ekko astral on stage lookin epic photo credit alec pugliese

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

The Supreme Court will hear a case TOMORROW that could gut a central voting rights protection that safeguards against racial gerrymandering.

We’ll be covering it live at 10 AM ET. Follow us on Bluesky @democracydocket.com for real-time updates.
https://bit.ly/4q7aQ7D

GOP Could Lock in House Control for a Generation if SCOTUS Ends Key VRA Protection, Report Warns

Read more here.

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John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 1d

Following the playbook.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Part of the reason many Germans supported the Nazis was that there really was a lot of violence in the streets & they wanted order. But much of that violence was carried out by the Nazi paramilitary SA.

So the Nazis presented themselves as the solution to a problem they intentionally created

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

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North Denver to Boulder Indivisible Coalition (ND2B) @nd2b.bsky.social · 1d

"[It] will be the largest peaceful protest in modern American history"

-Ezra Levin 10/13 referring to the
No Kings protest on Oct. 18

Indivisible Palo Alto Plus @indivisiblepaplus.bsky.social · 1d

Great segment!

And you’re right: It’s very telling that the GOP simply can’t say “No Kings” since it makes their objections seem ridiculous.

Rachel Maddow talks to Ezra Levin about No Kings Day.

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Indivisible Palo Alto Plus @indivisiblepaplus.bsky.social · 1d

❤️This is far more achievable than remaking the Supreme Court and overturning Citizens United before the next Presidential election!

Of course corporations might spend heavily in against legislation that limits their power to spend heavily on legislation. But that itself would be…

David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 2d

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 1d

Perfect Retort
And per the article below from Jacob Soboroff
ICE CANNOT FIND MANY VIOLENT CRIMINALS

GET OUT OF CHICAGO

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John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 1d

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Frazz @mrs-frazzled.bsky.social · 1d

Trump laid off almost everyone who runs special education at the federal level as a punishment towards Democrats.

The press wasn't reporting on specifics, so I spoke to someone from inside the Department of Education who was let go.

Here's what they told me:

open.substack.com/pub/mrsfrazz...

Trump Is Gutting Special Education

I was able to speak to someone from inside the latest reduction in force about what this means.

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