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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 15h

Landslide victory. I'm calling it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 16h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 16h

It's a thankless job, and he'll never please everyone, but I for one am very grateful that we have a competent and dignified PM, at a time when competence and dignity is in very short supply.

Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 17h

Happy Thanksgiving, Canada.

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 16h

When you drink US booze, you're drinking with ICE.

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 18h

85% drop of American liquor sales to Canada.
We were their biggest market.
Now we're done.
Bye bye mon cowboy.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

American spirit exports to Canada 'plummeted' 85%, says U.S. trade group | CBC News

American spirit exports to Canada "plummeted" 85 per cent in the second quarter of 2025, with the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States calling the situation "very troubling" as consumers in ...

www.cbc.ca

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 19h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 18h

I feel like once you get to a certain plateau of wealth where no one around you ever stands up to you or offers genuine feedback, the mind starts to atrophy and become vestigial. It's sort of like a financial/intellectual megafauna syndrome.

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 22h

Happy "Thank Fuck We Live in Canada" Day!

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 22h

I saw someone say something to the effect of "ICE is a federal jobs guarantee for racists and domestic abusers" and, hoooooo boy, if that isn't hitting the nail on the head.

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 1d

This is how you do religion properly.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 1d

The profound inhumanity and sadistic violence of the Trump regime is only outweighed by the incredible bravery, compassion, and basic decency of the everyday people who are risking everything to defy Fascism, and protect their neighbours.

It's a time of monsters, yes, but also Heroes.

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 1d

We are in a time of frightening darkness but people are still stepping up and doing the right thing.
We must keep kicking at the authoritarian darkness until it bleeds daylight.

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 1d

Fascists: Don't call us kidnappers and human traffickers!

Also Fascists: Could we get blanket immunity for human trafficking, please?

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims.

If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.

The Human Trafficking Case That Could Hand Government Contractors Blanket Immunity

In a little-noticed Supreme Court case, the country’s largest private prison operator argues companies should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.

www.levernews.com

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 1d

Epic Handshake meme. "Jared Leto" + "Black Holes" = "Negative Star Power"

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 1d

Cowards and collaborators love to pretend that supporting basic human rights for trans people makes you unelectable.

Well, Zohran Mamdani is going to give everyone a masterclass in why sticking up for trans folks isn't just the correct moral choice, it's how we defeat Fascism.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 1d

You don't beat Fascism by offering Fascism-Lite. You don't meet hatred and lies halfway.

The modern international fascist movement can't be defeated with compromise. It can only be defeated by an unapologetic championing of universal human rights, and basic human decency.

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 2d

“Britain is a nation of neighbours, not strangers — and it’s time we built a politics of hope that reflects that.”

Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 1d

People of all faiths need to unite and condemn the despicable evil of the Trump regime, and Christians especially bear the responsibility for shutting down christofascist blasphemy and apostasy.

Kudos to the Pope for picking the side of basic human compassion, instead of sadistic bigotry.

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 1d

A friend and I made this comic about transphobia, and how fundamentally silly it is.

All the world's a stage, but there's no script or director. We all deserve the right to decide our own roles.

"Theatre Critic" by J. Muller & S. Kinting.

First panel: A stage, with blue and pink puppets held by offstage figures. The word "heyyy....." coming from off-side.

Second panel: Backstage. The figures are amorphos blobs of pink and blue. One blob, mostly pink, has thrown away a blue puppet and switched to a pink one. The other blob, mostly blue, holding a blue puppet, exlaims "no fair!"

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 1d

Never let any Trump voter try and pretend that they didn't choose this disgusting fasicist nightmare with their eyes wide open.

A white-supremacist Trump rally. White women holding "mass deportations now!" signs.

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 1d

Among the other offensive smears here, it's always worth noticing how the far-right deploys transphobia against their political opponents.

Almost as if anti-trans hatred is one of the most important wedge issues and recruiting tools for the modern international fascist movement.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Tice "green party leader Zack Polanski is a weirdo. Changed his name, claimed hypnosis could increase women's breast size, thinks me should compete in women's sport, thinks women can have a penis. Other than that he's fine. Vote Green. Get weirdo."

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 1d

Tfw when your "ethnic cleansing" campaign promise bumps up against your "cheap eggs" campaign promise.

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 2d

A diseased population is easier to control

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 2d

The ruling class will always get their healthcare. Their vaccines. Their abortions.

Everyone else though? They want us on prayer and leeches.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 2d

Ever since the Reality War supplanted the Culture War, anyone whose job actually involves engaging with the objective world on a regular basis is marginally more insulated from The Madness than people whose work is more detached and academic. The copium supply has been poisoned with fascinyl.

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 2d

Opening your door to help a desperate family find safety is just about the highest pinnacle of Good that a human person can aspire to, and breaking down someone's door to tear a desperate family away from their home is just about the deepest pit of Evil to which a human person can sink.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 2d

Gotta hang onto those. I still have my grandfather's anti-fascist tote bag from WW2.

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 2d

Oh fuck. What have I done.