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Ray Anselmo

@rayanselmo.bsky.social

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Current "community associate," former tech de-escalator, onetime writer-editor, longtime father, flag designer, football supporter, cat servant. Outside the camp with Jesus.

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Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · Jan 20

20 January 2025
FAIR WARNING (thread):

It's already bad. Starting today, it's going to get much, much worse. And based on historical precedent, it's probably going to be an absolute disaster before it starts getting better.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 4h

JD Vance will say literally anything that he thinks will get him more power. He is the platonic ideal of the soulless politician. No morals, no values, nothing but a yawning void that will never be fulfilled.

Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 5h

The leaked chats between Young Republican leaders were obviously disgusting.

JD Vance’s efforts to downplay the scandal and complain about “pearl clutching” made an awful story worse. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

JD Vance tries to downplay leak of disgusting Young Republican chats

For the vice president to suggest it’s “pearl clutching” to condemn those who were part of a racist group chat says a great deal about his judgment.

www.msnbc.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 4h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 4h

It is insane to me that his approval is in the toilet, especially in the economy and the chattering classes just pretend it is not happening.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 4h

alternatively, trump's at 41% approval — that's pretty "sour" right?

Dan Hopkins @dhopkins1776.bsky.social · 5h

In his interview w @jonfavs.bsky.social, @ezraklein.bsky.social asks, "why haven't the tariffs soured the public on Trump?"

An answer from my book on ACA opinions: the contemporary US economy is so diverse & complex that even sizable policy changes don't move opinions consistently.

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As within, so without @tippedbeaker.bsky.social · 5h

The treatment we allow the government to impose on one of us is the treatment we allow the government to impose on ourselves.

www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-13-yea...

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 5h

When DID those spiritual zombies ever apologize for anything?!

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 7h

In the New Trump Era, the Proud Boys Are ‘Not Apologizing Anymore’ talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-...

In the New Trump Era, the Proud Boys Are ‘Not Apologizing Anymore’

To hear him tell it, Gavin McInnes’ recent return to the site...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 5h

This whole thread. Ughhhh.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 5h

I remember this other thing that happened to Capitol police officers a few years ago.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 8h

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 9h

“On any given week, the administrator of CMS could speak for a few minutes before a shirtless Russell Brand calls in from what appears to be a bathtub, or a former member of The Pussycat Dolls argues that the COVID-19 vaccine destroyed her ability to dance.”

www.notus.org/health-scien...

'Fluoride Disconnects One from God': Inside the Weekly Call With RFK Jr.'s MAHA Hype Squad

A growing weekly call gives insight into RFK Jr.'s biggest allies, showcasing how a fringe movement now holds legitimate power.

www.notus.org

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 9h

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 14h

open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
This was the largest one-day crash crypto has experienced so far. My question, however, is why the prospect of an intensified trade war caused a crypto crash.

Oddly, I’ve seen almost no reporting about this issue. There has

How Crypto Became a Trump Trade

It’s primarily a vehicle for crony capitalism now

open.substack.com

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Furious Floridian @lmh82.bsky.social · 4d

The negative environmental impact of AI use alone is enough to never use them. Please stop using AI to generate your images or anything else. We already can't opt out of their use entirely.

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Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 7h

Gonna share this every time it shows up in my feed. This is what's going on. This is who the NSGOP are. If you voted for Trump, this IS what you voted for.

Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · May 21

🚨🚨🚨 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did. 🚨🚨🚨

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 17h

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🫶🏻LaylaBella🫶🏻 @laylabelle3.bsky.social · 1d

🖍️🗒️

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Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 7h

Never a trans person.
Never a drag queen.
ALWAYS a law enforcement officer, evangelical minister and/or Republican politician.

MariaevaJ (Formal Tribel) @mariaevaj.bsky.social · 15h

Just how many sick, pedo, christian nationalist magas can possibly make the news in a given day?

Look who he's hanging with...
Surrounded by his fellow pedo friends forever 🖕👎👎👎👎👎👎

Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 7h

MAGA, c. 1440 BC.

Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 15h

That calf IS excellent, I could see how you’d want to worship it. I mean hell, it’s golden!!

Illustration of the golden calf worshippers from Da Bible. From https://www.jw.org/en/library/books/bible-stories/3/golden-calf/

Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 7h

To answer the question in the headline: NO!

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 18h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 17h

Feds have got until midnight tonight to take down the fence in front of the Broadview ICE facility, per a recent ruling from district judge LaShonda Hunt.

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 17h

Not sure what’s up but this flatbed with what appears like more fence materials has pulled up outside Broadview.

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Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 7h

Good. Actual hatred between Jeopardy contestants would be even better. I want to see a Jeopardy winner flip off the losers with both hands, and one of the losers try to slap the taste out of a winner's mouth.

(jk)

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 17h

Private, we're going to show you a drunk guy yelling and if you say it's not the coolest thing you've ever seen you go to jail

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 19h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Katherine @katherineintx.bsky.social · 19h

#Alt4You

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 18h

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