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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 7h

this is, flatly and subjectively, intolerable to anyone who fancies themselves free people. simply intolerable

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 16h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 11h

Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”

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Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 7h

I would argue 60 years, Baker v. Carr just as big. No one noticed that either.

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 8h

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 8h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 8h

bummed out man

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 9h

Warming waters cause corals to “bleach” when these organisms expel symbiotic algae that provide nutrients, oxygen & vibrant colors.

The latest global bleaching event - researchers estimate >84% of the planet's coral ecosystems have been affected since Jan 2023 - has made it clear the crisis is now.

nature

NEWS

12 October 2025

Coral die-off marks Earth's first climate
'tipping point', scientists say

A surge in global temperatures has caused widespread bleaching and death of warm-water corals around the world.

By Jeff Tollefson

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Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 10h

Mamdani is cooking with this speech

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Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 16h

a generational flipping of the bird, if you will

Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 16h

yes they correctly understand it as a threat to them and their interests and they are responding as you might expect

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

The Dem establishment is going to back Mills over the absolute phenom outsider Platner in Maine, which tells you everything you need to know about how well they understand the current moment & how prepared they are to meet it.

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Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 16h

chat are there consequences to having an obsolete and dysfunctional legislature

Andrew Rudalevige @rudalev.bsky.social · 19h

Indeed so. The only major effort was to repair the Electoral Count Act. Important - but reforms to the National Emergencies Act, the Civil Service Reform Act (to bar Schedule F), the Insurrection Act, etc., should not have been out of reach.

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 20h

Congressional Dems and the Biden admin should have put more effort into passing post-Trump reforms. We need more aggressive reform than what was on offer then, but it could really have helped

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 18h

Conflating southern Italians with Jews is genuinely something Columbus would be proud of

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19h

if i had a dime for every rhonda lacenzo i knew in hebrew school

tweet from The Persian Jewess ~ @persianjewess
In a disgusting display, @nbcsn| creates an antisemitic caricature of a Jewish woman, and mocks concerns about Zohran Mamdani's pro-jihadist views.
Meanwhile, just today Zohran Mamdani's wife posted a tribute to a Hamas terrorist on her IG Stories.

it's screencap from an SNL sketch with a character named RHONDA LaCENZO

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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 18h

it's really remarkable that zohran pushed even curtis sliwa into campaigning on affordability instead of crime

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Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 20h

these two are simply not made of the same substance

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Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 20h

Trump: 1) told a 7 y/o there's no Santa on live tv 2) genuinely doesn't care about what's happening if it isn't about him 3) lies in the same way other people breath.
Little pig man: 1) always asking you to say thank you 2) more online than anyone you know 3) lies strategically to advance himself.

Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 20h

the trump magic is being able to present simultaneously as evil and stupid due to being an occasionally amusing half-informed pathological liar. JD is miles and miles away from this.

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Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 20h

the trump magic is being able to present simultaneously as evil and stupid due to being an occasionally amusing half-informed pathological liar. JD is miles and miles away from this.

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Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 20h

need a sore losers law in nyc. cuomo is going to re-humiliated but it’s fuckin stupid that he gets a second bite at the apple.

Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 20h

*sees 34 minute John Oliver segment with my name in the interstitial*
*immediately goes back to bed*

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 20h

16th century Spain saying “this guy is too cruel” is actually wild to think about

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 21h

Pretty sure I say this every Columbus Day, but getting hauled back to Spain for excessive brutality in 1500, just as the Inquisition was really getting fired up, is some genuinely Evil Guys Hall of Infamy material

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Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 21h

rightwingers don’t want to talk about how their side is funded and our side is broke af

Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 21h

it’s not funny that he said this but it is funny that he thought it would be persuasive

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 1d

I now realize that for my entire adult life, I've had a very narrow conception of what "supporting and defending the Constitution" means. Standing on business when armed agents of the State are knocking on your door is way more important, by a country mile, than anything I did overseas

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 21h

seems like @brendelbored.bsky.social got hired by bessent instead of cuomo

Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 22h

this is the worst regime messaging I can think of (laudatory)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Baseball Highlights @badgerbaseball.bsky.social · 1d

….is that

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Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 1d

gaddamn

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 1d

blue jays stuck with that drake intro music lol

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Suburbanista @suburbanista.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 PARENTAL WARNING 🚨

Multiple parent groups are finding this design showing up on their teens' phones and social media feeds. If you see this, TALK TO YOUR KIDS! Someone could be trying to get them to turn your neighborhood into the INNER CITY!

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