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Asinus Pervicax

@knownagitator.bsky.social

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Still fighting to cleanse the world of ancient evils, ancient ills.

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Asinus Pervicax @knownagitator.bsky.social · Apr 5

one of the things i've been saying for years at this point is that the american republic ended in 1946, when the presidency was given sole control over nuclear weapons. like in post-augustus rome, what came after preserved the forms of the republic, but was fundamentally different in substance.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · Apr 4

The precedent set here is the end of Congress, which I don't think Congress will even notice

Politico @politico.com · Apr 4

Breaking: The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to cancel $65 million in teaching grants.

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Asinus Pervicax @knownagitator.bsky.social · 1h

not even just on political videos either. watch anything about weight training and you'll inevitably start seeing rightwing horseshit start cropping up.

Condor (Fiadh right now. (Fee-uhh)) @condor.bsky.social · 1d

Youtube has been driving people, mostly young men, down the right wing rabbit hole for atleast a decade now. This is the result. Just watch any political content and see what it does to your recommendations. Its a fucking nightmare.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

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Upstate Bozo @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 13h

If you weren’t around for the Bush years, everyone kept saying “his base doesn’t care” right up until everyone turned on him and right wing media had to disavow him on his way out

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 16h

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

A SSRS/CNN poll showing 61% people think Trump has gone too far using the power of the presidency and 57% think he's gone too far deporting immigrants.

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Condor (Fiadh right now. (Fee-uhh)) @condor.bsky.social · 1d

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

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In the months after Harris’ loss, much was made over the demographic shifts in the party. Young voters, Hispanic voters and Black voters — all central to the Democratic coalition — had moved substantially to the right. But Priorities’ post-election polling revealed an equally staggering swing: Between 2020 and 2024, people who consumed at least three hours of YouTube a day had moved 10 points toward Trump — a bigger swing than Black voters, Black men, young voters and a slew of other categories that were dominating headlines.

“The driver of behavior in ‘24 was so much more about your media consumption,” Butterfield said.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

yeah why might it be harder for someone to break 50% in a three-way race versus a two-way race. obviously it has something to do with ideology.

Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 5h

The Better Things Aren't Possible Wing has declared Spanberger is The Future Of The Democratic Party with this transparently stupid line fed to one of their press familiars

If polls hold, Spanberger is looking more

likely to clear 50% in her more swingy state than Mamdani is in a city so Democratic that only 6 of 51 city council members are Republicans.

Dems nationally say that matters a lot for thinking what comes next.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Sep 19

apologies in advance for ms paint quality

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Jason Wilson @jasonbwilson.bsky.social · 12h

"You can win awards—Pulitzers, Murrow Awards, Emmys—champion new ways of Doing The News ... —and they will still nuke your job and your entire desk in the name of capital consolidation and kissing the fucking ring."

Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 12h

Alright I fucking wrote about this. It was apparently necessary to vent my rage about this this afternoon, because that took me two hours to get it all out and onto the page.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 12h

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d

the count according to WHO is 460

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sudan war: RSF militia killed 460 people at el-Fasher hospital, says WHO

WHO chief "appalled and deeply shocked" after doctors say RSF killed "patients, their companions, and anyone else present".

www.bbc.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d

"UN refugee agency official Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet said that the new arrivals told stories of widespread ethnic and politically motivated killings, including reports of people with disabilities shot dead because they were unable to flee"

this keeps getting worse

www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

Sudan’s paramilitary killed hundreds including hospital patients in Darfur, residents say

Sudan’s paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people including patients in a hospital after they seized el-Fasher city in the western Darfur region over the weekend, according to the UN, displaced re...

www.ctvnews.ca

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 5d

Indicting Democratic candidates on transparently pretextual charges is the latest sign that things are getting very bad.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 5d

NEWS: Federal prosecutors indict Kat Abughazaleh, congressional candidate, county board candidate Cat Sharp and Dem committeeman Michael Rabbitt over September Broadview protest

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 5d

Laying this out now; even if the political calculus changes and the feds suddenly fund SNAP before the 1st? Everyone who is facing food insecurity (or is suffering in the recall of hunger from their youth) doesn't get to return this trauma for store credit.

Remembering who to be mad at is praxis.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 5d

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

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Asinus Pervicax @knownagitator.bsky.social · 6d

"Real working-class politics does not assume the worst of working-class people’s impulses. It does not launder their concerns for political points. It certainly does not argue, directly or indirectly, that a little racism is a good thing for reaching them."

Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness

www.nytimes.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 6d

A mother of 8 was deported within 24 hours of reporting sexual harassment by an ICE contracto

She was following the rules & going through the process to get her green card

Someone working on behalf of ICE abused her.

She spoke out and was kicked out of the country.

It’s retaliation & it’s wrong

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 27d

This is union busters trying to sell their $250/hour union busting services to Griselda's Pastry Shoppe, but still very fun data!

McKenna Schueler @shecarrieson.bsky.social · 27d

A new labor survey from Littler Mendelson found that 1 in 4 organizations whose workplaces were not fully unionized reported experiencing “organization activity” over the past two years, and most don't feel prepared to “effectively respond” www.bizjournals.com/orlando/news...

The unionization landscape is shifting. Here's how employers are navigating it. - Orlando Business Journal

Employers admit they aren't currently equipped to handle their employees unionizing. Here's how they're navigating the new landscape.

www.bizjournals.com

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · Oct 4

Roughly:

The State of the Exception is when all pretense of law and rule falls away and politics are simply decided by who the armed agents of the state with weapons decide to follow.

Either:

All follow Trump, which is game over

or

They follow competing claims of authority, which is messy

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · Oct 4

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

404 Media @404media.co · Oct 3

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

🔗 www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

www.404media.co

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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · Oct 2

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society

22% in 2022
47% in 2025

No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports

Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.

www.pewresearch.org

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · Oct 1

Breaking: The Italian General Confederation of Labour, Italy's largest union with over 5 million members, is calling for a general strike in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Italian government vessels, along with Spanish ones, have abandoned the GSF

www.instagram.com/p/DPRv1o6iDq7/

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CGIL

SCIOPERO GENERALE IN DIFESA DI FLOTILLA PER GAZA

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james 🐎🔫 @buffalocia.bsky.social · Oct 1

If the President can raise his own revenues and direct his own spending without congressional approval we are squarely in the only situation the Constitution was actually drafted to avoid: English civil war territory

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Oct 1

File this under “essential function.” 🤡

#Shutdown
abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

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Olf (Le) @olf-161.bsky.social · Oct 1

Protests broke out in Pavia, Italy, denouncing Israel’s illegal interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Manif sauvage à Pavia en Italie pour dénoncer l’arrestation illégale de la flottille.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · Sep 30

The Damage Done: @marianneguenot.bsky.social tells the story of clinical trials derailed by the administration's reckless science policy, across kidney disease, HIV, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer. Years of work and money thrown away, at times just short of a cure.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The damage done - Nature Medicine

When clinical trials are suddenly halted by US funding cuts, there are repercussions for investigators and patients, and they do not stop at borders.

www.nature.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Oct 1

my latest is expanding on the observation that your view of the politics of opposition to the administration depend largely on your view of the election (gift link)

Opinion | Trump Has No Mandate to Destroy America

www.nytimes.com

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · Oct 1

What a perfect formulation:

“This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?

A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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