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Marduk Kurios @mardukkur.bsky.social · 10h

They know damn well he’d stop it if he could.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14h

On the one hand, it makes sense, because the Trump admin has no legal basis for detaining them, not least because the blew up the supposed evidence.

But on the other hand it just underscores how illegal the entire operation is, it's nothing more than murder on the high seas to generate content.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15h

So dangerous that they must be blown into small pieces rather than arrested … unless they are actually captured in which case they may go home with a warning. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

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Marduk Kurios @mardukkur.bsky.social · 14h

So guilty they had to murder a boat full of people, so innocent they couldn't even be bothered to make up some reason to prosecute them.

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Marduk Kurios @mardukkur.bsky.social · 14h

"National Guard on standby"

lolwut?

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Dale Chapman @decmusicology.bsky.social · 15h

BARI WEISS: Let's do the fucking news!

[largest mass protests in American history occurs]

BARI WEISS: Not that fucking news

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 15h

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

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Marduk Kurios @mardukkur.bsky.social · 17h

This was my experience in southern Spain as well. Really hard to find a decent meal. Even the meals that sounded appealing on the menu seemed hostile to using seasoning or quality ingredients.

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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 19h

If a candidate endorsed by Elizabeth Warren had gotten caught posting about how black people don't tip at restaurants their'd be immediate demands for them to step down and page long screeds about how this shows the moral degeneracy of liberals

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Marduk Kurios @mardukkur.bsky.social · 19h

Nobody anywhere in politics or the world at large has any agency over their actions other than the Dee En Cee. Trump, Republicans, foreign nations, too-online leftists, flawed progressive candidates: all smol beans caught up in the web of Ken Martin's iron will.

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mr. sardonicus @mmcgrath.bsky.social · Jun 19

unless the first sentence of this article is “i’m a giant idiot mark,” i’m not interested

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Marduk Kurios @mardukkur.bsky.social · 1d

lol "LOCK UP"

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Popehat Or Danger of Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go!

Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.

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Cindy aka Mrs. Celtics ☘️ @mrsceltics.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing ICE around my neighborhood fucking disgusts me. Fuck outta here.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

literally no need for this

the protesters were just standing there, not causing any problems. then here come the police, causing problems.

I need @govpritzker.illinois.gov to tell these goons to go home. And if he can't or won't do so, I need to know that, too.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

State troopers in riot gear just plowed into the crowd, started arresting protesters and clergy.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 2d

the supreme court musing about racism being over and every young republican being outed as a literal nazi happened on exactly the same day

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Reuters @reuters.com · 3d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4d

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Marduk Kurios @mardukkur.bsky.social · 3d

I wish they had actually done this because absent a fact-based argument the political press just ran buck wild with "the vibes are bad so the economy must be bad" and the few reality-based dissenting opinions were relegated to low-circulation economics publications.

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Wil Gieseler @wilgieseler.com · 5d

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 5d

Literally no one said this. Somehow your entire band of overly online weirdos have hallucinated this idea that if anyone pointed out the economy as a whole was thriving from 2021-2024, they were personally attacking anyone who did not do better during that span. It’s infuriating

Ciggy Smoke Bringer @ciggysmokebringer.bsky.social · 5d

There entire thrust was 'you must be a liar or a loser if you are worse off or treading water harder' and it's like, nooooo, I was already that close to poverty line supporting 2 people on 57k, and there's probably enough people like me that blowing smoke and sunshine about how good it was wrong.

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Marduk Kurios @mardukkur.bsky.social · 3d

The human brain works this way *if you let it*. We are able to overcome this dysfunctional foundation with a bit of effort. The problem comes when people who argue from anecdote and mock data *are supported* by their carefully curated social media in-group. It's not just the exposure alone.

Marduk Kurios @mardukkur.bsky.social · 3d

The town government of Everett needs to control its feral pig population.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 4d

Same.

T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 4d

My vote in the 2028 D primary for POTUS will hinge almost entirely on the % of this Administration they promise to imprison

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4d

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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