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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 3h

Yep--there are only two (closely related) reasons to do this. 1. you really enjoy being an asshole and/or 2. to scare people into submission. Neither is a legitimate function of law enforcement.

What kind of recruits will ICE attract if they associate it with beating up teenage girls?

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 1d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 5h

I had a battalion commander who used to say "don't piss on my back and tell me its raining."

I guarantee my neighbors, several of whom are newly unemployed, and many others of whom are furloughed, are not going to watch this and say, "oh, our feeling of existential dread was unfounded."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

BREAM: Federal workers in Virginia lost jobs bc of DOGE. Your opponent points out unemployment is up under Youngkin/Sears

EARLE-SEARS: Actually unemployment is down

B: She points to numbers from BLS showing unemployment is up. Do you quibble w/data?

S: I don't know where she's getting stats from

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 5h

If you want the full "hot rod in the garage" effect, you need to hang out with hand loaders (signed, a reformed hand loader).

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 5h

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 5h

He's not wrong. Back in the old ALICE LBE days, I carried four ammo pouches as a staff officer--not because I carried that many mags, but because it gave me one pouch for all the office supplies I actually used like alcohol markers and a physical pointer. Other extra was for protein bars and cigs.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 5h

a large part of it is simply having lots of pouches, mountpoints, and other spaces to hold things

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 5h

I'm convinced this is >50% of the appeal. Tinkering with guns is what tinkering with cars was to my dad's generation, but you can't really tinker with cars anymore. Not at the same price point, anyway.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 6h

My favorite part of this is that I didn’t even know it happened. I try not to invest in obvious Ponzi schemes, so I completely missed it. www.foxbusiness.com/markets/cryp...

Crypto bloodbath wipes out billions, but signs of stabilization emerge

Bitcoin falls as leveraged traders face billions in liquidations following U.S. tariff announcement on Chinese technology imports.

www.foxbusiness.com

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 9h

This guy is going to John McAfee before we’re through.

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Vasabjit Banerjee @vasabjit.bsky.social · 10h

It is important to note that from a total population of ~28.4 Venezuelans, the refugees are now ~8 million. That is ~28 percent, or more than a quarter, of the population have fled under the Maduro regime. Most are now in regional countries with socioeconomic problems and fragile democracies.

Vasabjit Banerjee @vasabjit.bsky.social · 10h

I think that many of us don't know the extent of the Venezuelan refugee crisis. It is destabilizing a bunch of regional countries. 1/n

The illustration is from this recent article.

www.migrationpolicy.org/article/lati...

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 10h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Avocado
M*A*S*H
Good Bless the USA

Diva of the Dark 🎃🫶👠👑🥩 @queenofthinair.bsky.social · 10h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Octopus
Blue Velvet
Lee Greenwood God Bless the USA

🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 10h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Human flesh
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
God Bless the USA

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 10h

Those who’ve actually read the Constitution are familiar with Art XLVI, which places the former vice president in charge of the FBI.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 18h

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 10h

An important lesson on what happens if you just start hacking at things you don’t understand. “We defend western civilization” meets “public radio keeps classical music alive” w/ a side of “waddayamean CPB managed broadcast rights?” www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Column | Public radio cuts could silence classical music in America

Sweeping funding cuts to public radio could deal a devastating blow to classical music communities.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 22h

Feels like the United States has been invaded by a hostile force and we are getting the equivalent of de-Baathification domestically by the Trump administration which is treating its own government and blue states as enemies.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 21h

I see this as an effective carrot and stick--keep your head down and submit and you will probably keep your seat. Resist and the best you can hope for is a primary challenge (worst is violence). Even in a D midterm sweep, most R incumbents will survive.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 22h

Trying out for Patrick Bateman in the school play.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 22h

I would actually expect this to hit deep red states the hardest. Their governments will not fill the gap, and they already have weak regulatory oversight and weak social services.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 23h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 22h

Mayhew taught us that members of Congress are “single-minded seekers of reelection.” We are now learning that if reelection conflicts with exercising power, they’ll choose reelection. Single-minded indeed.

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

It's incredible the extent to which Congress just utterly refuses to defend itself. You'd think for entirely self-interested reasons you would stridently oppose having the power of the purse arbitrarily ripped from you, ya know?

Why would you allow yourself to become the Roman Senate circa 27 BC.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 1d

Drove past a food pantry distribution at a church in my neighborhood today and there was a very long line. It’s a relatively wealthy neighborhood but the federal layoffs have hit it hard and many who still have jobs just got their first short LES. Next one will be zero.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone know what the statute of limitations is on the ADA?

Adam J Schmidt @adamjschmidt.bsky.social · 1d

Seems to undermine Congressional appropriations authority. apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump directs the Pentagon to use 'all available funds' to ensure troops are paid despite shutdown

President Donald Trump says he's directed the Defense Department to use “all available funds” to ensure that U.S. troops are paid on Wednesday despite the government shutdown.

apnews.com

James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 1d

Only of you want to be sent to the camps.

James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 1d

I suspect this mainly tells us the age of the writer.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 1d

The gunman in Minnesota wasn’t Antifa. He was just Fa.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure she’s still here, but this calls for the @elenawicker.bsky.social bat signal

Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t care what Military Times or We Are the Mighty says, I believe it originated as ‘pogue’ but most of the military is feeble-minded and rejected that it couldn’t have come from an acronym, so they backronymed it into POG. Otherwise, if it started as POG, why not pronounce it pôg instead of pōg?

James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to Kazakhstan

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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