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N. Cognito @ncogneato.bsky.social · 33m

The unsaid part (which we haven't arrived at yet) is "standing together (with weapons)."

I hope I'm wrong, but every day it seems more likely.

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 55m

7 million people took the streets last week, and there were zero personal or professional consequences to anyone.

America is led by the biggest pussies in the history of the world.

James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social · 7h

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

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N. Cognito @ncogneato.bsky.social · 38m

The rich are scared. That means it's going to have to be the rest of us, who have little to lose, who get stuff done.

Poor people will get some stuff done differently, with much more violence, because that's going to be the only tool left to them.

Remember you made the choice, rich folks.

James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social · 7h

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

N. Cognito @ncogneato.bsky.social · 9h

There's always enough "being an asshole" to go around. So both.

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N. Cognito @ncogneato.bsky.social · 9h

When do the other countries start killing Americans for bringing violence into their countries? Since there are no rules anymore.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 16h

It is impossible to imagine people allowing this to go on (or even participating in it within the government) if he was ordering the murder without any process of French citizens or Brits or Australians on boats no matter what they were alleged to be doing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 22h

Anders: you don't do liminal space offerings? how do you do magic then?
Crowley: i eat a big block of hashish and fuck
Manly Wade Wellman: i put a mercury head dime inside a chicken
Grant Morrison: i definitely do NOT use the AI
Morrison: not anymore

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N. Cognito @ncogneato.bsky.social · 10h

Maybe it's got velcro seams for later.

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N. Cognito @ncogneato.bsky.social · 10h

Is it time yet for another weekend disappearance to get all our hopes up?

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N. Cognito @ncogneato.bsky.social · 10h

This is like a story i heard on the radio once: wife comes home to find husband with a cat in each hand, house in chaos... bird got in, and his solution was to keep tossing cats at it to try and catch it. Cracks me up every time i think about it.

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N. Cognito @ncogneato.bsky.social · 10h

They're taking children. They're taking children. They're taking children. They're taking children. They're taking children. They're taking children. They're taking children. They're taking children. They're taking children. They're taking children. They're taking children. They're taking children

CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 14h

🚨 HS students (US citizens) were gassed and assaulted (reportedly, one student’s face was bloodied) before being taken away in custody by federal agents. There are no rules for ICE. Keep your kids safe.

N. Cognito @ncogneato.bsky.social · 10h

Didn't he do something horrible and unforgivable and get fired? (I refuse to google POS like I what I think he is.)

N. Cognito @ncogneato.bsky.social · 10h

Sometimes I think I'd be more impressed with the crucifixion story if Jesus had been forced to live longer in a mortal body before getting to the finale. Let me see how you handle decrepit old age, oh immortal one

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

Amen.

There was no one unified and tidy movement, but rather multiple overlapping ones with rival leaders and disparate constituencies, generational and sectional tensions, arguments over strategies and tactics, wildly different attitudes to capitalism and religion, focal points all over the map …

Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15h

Here’s the thing about the Civil Rights Movement people don’t realize, shit was messy.

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N. Cognito @ncogneato.bsky.social · 10h

For bonus points, folks would not be just having that for backup, of course. Hope you like these things, coz that's almost ALL your eating every day. Only as much variety as you can grow and store.

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Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒 @woodyluvscoffee.bsky.social · 11h

News: Pedophile steals $230 million from the federal Government, bombs fishing boats, bulldozes White House

FBI: Big crime stuff happening in the NBA

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 14h

I'm sure the guy who was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records is handing these private payments for the $300 million ballroom with the utmost integrity

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 14h

Trump is, basically, a pusher. You have to take that first step yourself: compromise your morals, your dignity, to serve him. And then, once you're hooked, a whole universe of not giving a shit opens up before you. But you can't go back.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 15h

Is there a line? Is there some act of symbollic violence he can commit against America and the fantasies it holds about itself that will overcome the sunk cost fallacy he's trapped his followers in?

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 15h

If he can remodel the White House, one of the most enduring symbols of America as a nation, as a concept, in such a crude, brutal fashion, where is the bottom? What act of desecration will he dream up next? Because soon enough, he'll be chasing that same high.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 15h

So it makes me desparately sad - despite my ambivelence towards the White House and what it symbolises generally - because I know he's only doing this as a giant fuck you to the people he's supposed to be serving.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 15h

He's doing this, and he's doing it in the ugliest, laziest, most obviously destructive manner possible - just tearing into a historic building with diggers - precisely *because* it's so outrageous. It's a display of power.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 15h

It lies along a continuum with his notorious "grab 'em by..." recording, and his assertion that he could shoot someone in broad daylight on Fifth Avenue and not be arrested. It's his whole hack that he has for success, which is: you just do it, and no one knows how to react.

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N. Cognito @ncogneato.bsky.social · 15h

Sleep deprivation will do that to you.

Ben Birdsall @elephony.bsky.social · 18h

Lovely that all humanity feels the impulse to sometimes sing songs of the horrors of existence to our babies

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jessbess @jessicabess.bsky.social · 15h

They should be nailing articles of impeachment to the White House fence every day.

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