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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 20h

My kingdom for a little self-reflection here

Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 20h

It's cool that this guy gets the peril we're in right now, but I need people to understand that this has been the road to success in the GOP for my entire half century of life! Like, this is that exact soup Kristol came up and thrived in!

I am losing my mind

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 20h

"This is what you get after a decade of Trumpism’s ascendance: a young-activist base that has self-selected for the most amoral and psychotic political strivers, and has held them up as a professional ideal for the young people coming up behind them to emulate." www.thebulwark.com/p/its-gettin...

It’s Getting Worse.

The Trump administration’s assault on the rest of us is intensifying.

www.thebulwark.com

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 1d

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

A testimonial of a Young Republican from the 1960s who quickly found his way into a heavily armed, right wing domestic terror group called The Minutemen.

"MINUTEMEN"
P. O. BOX 68
NORBORNE, MISSOURI
AdditiónAl INFORMAtIÓN:
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I hAVE BEEN ACTiVE IN Pohitics AND
the ANTi-COMMUNiST MOVEMENT SiNCE I WAS
14 pEnAS oF AGE, How did my iNtEREst StrAt?
My FAthER is violeNthy ANti-Jaw, NEGRo, AND Communist, I KNEW At thAt timE whAt A NEG-Ro, WAS AND WhAt A NEW WAS, but the CommUNisT puzzlEd mE, My FAthER RAVE ME MARI AND LENiN TO READ...
I JOINED (AtI4) the yoUnG REpuBlicANs than YouNG AmERiChNs FOR Freedom, thAN the PitRick HenRy Group, there the John BikcH Society, And Finally the Minuterson, My HisH School yongs found me totally.
ShandeRed by othER pupils (2700 iN M.S.)
DECAuSE oF my ANti-cOmmuNist LECtURES
AND MY VIEWS dURiNE dEBAtES. my psycholosy And Sociohony chnsses left. mE discusted, AND WhAt I didNe dEsm
"KosHER"I usuAlly dEt my tenchERs know, ABOUT. THE dEbRE OF INFiLtRAtIoN by COmm-
WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER
OVER,

Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 1d

I've lived through 50+ years of republicans and I just have to say "become" is doing a hell of a lot of work in this post

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 2d

I couldn't tell you my sons' numbers, but can definitely tell you my 3 best friends' numbers from 1982

Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 3d

Don't even get me started on how local traffic enforcement won't ticket cars with obvious license plate covers

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 5d

googling "can I get an inflatable frog costume in time for the no kings march"

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 5d

"2 more feet and I can fit it in fridge!"

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 14d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 5d

I cannot like this enough times

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 6d

so many trains

a woman in a colorful sweater is screaming with her hands in the air .

Alt: a woman in a colorful sweater is screaming excitedly with her hands in the air .

media.tenor.com

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 6d

J Walter Weatherman lives!

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 7d

I've been a dem for 40+ years, and realizing how much disdain dem party leadership has for their own party voters has been a hell of a ride

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 12d

I hope someone is cataloging all of these videos to easily id these motherfuckers when it's time to through them in the Hague

alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 12d

Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby.

"I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother.

“I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 13d

While this is certainly true, don't discount the titanic force of "Americans would rather suffer themselves than see someone 'unworthy' get a benefit" (aka white supremacy)

Rep. Mark Pocan @pocan.house.gov · 13d

If every single developed nation in the world can make universal healthcare work, maybe it's not the system that's complex, but our refusal to challenge big pharma and insurance giants.

Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 14d

If those of us in cities are getting burned because they wanted to touch the stove, then they should too or this is just going to keep happening

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 14d

This reminds of the time my friends had "the first ever '90s party" in 2000, and showed up as full-on Xena warrior princess (complete with fake muscles) while everyone else was dressed in baggy jorts

🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 14d

me being the only account to change their name after this:

photo of the babadook costumed woman at her party of no one dressing up

Katie Dippold
@katiedippold
Following
Tbt to Halloween when I dressed as the babadook but my friend's house had more of a grown ups drinking wine vibe

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 18d

My 78 year old super bipartisan-brained mom rants about how useless the democrats are in fighting trump's fascism

I can assure you, she is not aware of the bsky discourse

Reposted by Whizzet

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Feb 2

A government that deliberately abandons the rule of law is not morally entitled to its protections.

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 19d

(It's also making me get out my wallet, which I, a lifelong D donor, have not done ONCE this year)

(In case anyone at @democrats.org is interested in this data point)

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 19d

At a time when dems can't run away from the principles of our party fast enough, seeing someone willing to defend abortion, women's health, and equity this expertly and forcefully is making me feel some really big feelings.

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 19d

This is EXCELLENT.

1) this is spot-on analysis of the problem & a great immediate 1st thing a city can do to improve outcome.

2) as a 2 min clip? He's giving history, hope & change. Speaking to women, to Jewish & Black NYers, saying "abortion." & also naming eugenics in feminism. 100/10 no notes.

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 19d

Cuomo could never.

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 22d

"The point is that the possibility of overreach is a price worth paying exactly because shame serves as a robustly liberal alternative to the political violence that Klein and company rightly abhor."

This article is so good and so necessary

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22d

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

www.bostonreview.net

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 25d

What drives me crazy here is I most align with progs in areas where they correctly id systemic issues which guides policy (pub safety, health, climate, etc), but on housing it's suddenly just a bunch of selfish yuppies making bad individual choices

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 28d

this is extremely my jam

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · Sep 13

Crying bsky.app/profile/skee...

sq🎃🎃ky from:me @skeet.best · Sep 13

Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · Sep 13

If I have to know about this, so do you

Themperor Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedytcooper.bsky.social · Sep 12

honey, what's wrong, you've hardly touched your festive fall gendered butt wipes

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