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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 11h

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 16h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Teorema @teorema.bsky.social · 13h

Between this, Roe v. Wade, and next the VRA, this court is the most destructive in our history. Their job is to dismantle the republic. They are saboteurs pure and simple.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

asylum but only for racists apparently www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

www.nytimes.com

Teorema @teorema.bsky.social · 13h

The difference is simple: that was then/them, this is now/us.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Teorema @teorema.bsky.social · 15h

1) Protecting investments made by Trump’s oligarch friends.
2) Extorting the country’s elites into supporting Milei because Trump wants a vassal state like Putin has in Belarus.

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Teorema @teorema.bsky.social · 15h

What the FUCK are we doing?

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 16h

What the fuck are we doing?

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Teorema @teorema.bsky.social · 1d

Allowing these monsters to continue living among us anonymously is not an option. They must be outed. No decent society can suffer this madness.

PritzkerPosting @pritzkerposting.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago: Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 1d

Mock cover for 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand

"Ayn Rand

Atlas Needs You To Spot Him Like 20 Billion Dollars

1st Argentinian Edition"

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Teorema @teorema.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of off-the-rack shoppers in the young Nazi world.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

Teorema @teorema.bsky.social · 1d

Between these fuckers and the Texas national guard it’s getting really hard to be above fat shaming.

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Teorema @teorema.bsky.social · 1d

This seemed inevitable, and now the US is in a position to pretend this isn’t happening since Trump needs to continue to boast the “victory”

Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 1d

Israel has destroyed the "ceasefire" in hours.

It is murdering Palestinians, and maintaining its illegal siege.

Not a ceasefire.

New post 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/israel-des...

Israel destroys ceasefire in hours

Today, Israel slaughtered Palestinians and resumed siege. Not a "ceasefire"

www.owenjones.news

Teorema @teorema.bsky.social · 1d

Well this is…concerning.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

Teorema @teorema.bsky.social · 1d

“Yes.”

memeorandum @memeorandum.com · 1d

Will the Supreme Court Use a Louisiana Case to Gut the Voting Rights Act? (Abbie VanSickle/New York Times)

Main Link | memeorandum Permalink

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Teorema @teorema.bsky.social · 2d

This is state-sanctioned terrorism. That is what this is.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

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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Teorema @teorema.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe this is controversial but I think that if you rip children out of cars and zip tie them and take them from their families for being brown, the world would be better off if you were no longer living.

Teorema @teorema.bsky.social · 2d

Mike Johnson is doing what he’s there to do - fold Congress as an institution. Defer all inquiries to the king.

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Teorema @teorema.bsky.social · 2d

They are losing the popular front badly and rapidly. They're still destroying the whole fabric of the republic, but at least the people are telling them very loudly to fuck off.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

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Teorema @teorema.bsky.social · 2d

Dante’s Commedia is the greatest human artifact in the history of civilization. Its genius is so superlative and interwoven into the text it actually does seems divinely inspired, yet it still is petty and grimy enough to be essentially, foundationally rooted in humanity.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Teorema @teorema.bsky.social · 2d

Tired: “racist-coded presidency”
Wired: “racist presidency”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump signs a proclamation: "We're calling it Columbus Day. We're back."

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Teorema @teorema.bsky.social · 2d

Trying to imagine what would have happened if Rubio had actually responded “Yeah, man, like
I said. 50 is about right.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

MARCO RUBIO: This is probably one of the most important days for world peace in 50 years. That's not an exaggeration

TRUMP: Only 50?

RUBIO: Maybe 100

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 3d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Teorema @teorema.bsky.social · 3d

Things are bad and horrifying but they maintain an undercurrent of screwball comedy.

🎃 Trick or Pete 🎃 Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 3d

After commenters deriding the appearance of TX NG troops made photos of their deployment to Chicago go viral, the Texas Military Department quietly recalled and replaced them

For their appearance.

They didn’t send the Guard to serve.
They sent them to be seen.

taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

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Teorema @teorema.bsky.social · 3d

Operating wholly outside the law, waiting for opportunity to escalate the violence. Sickening.

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Teorema @teorema.bsky.social · 3d

The president saying “soooo dishonest” really sends me. Also fuck him.

Teorema @teorema.bsky.social · 4d

I imagine people like her are so unserious and simple that she doesn’t even register the gravity of what she’s doing. It’s a game to play today and there’s no tomorrow.

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