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cynical dreamer @tundrafox907.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like a significant amount of well-meaning people are doing just that and I can't figure out why.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

The entire Republican Party strategy for achieving what are comprehensively & wildly unpopular policy objectives now consists entirely of bypassing Article I of the Constitution through wildly illegal abuses of both Article II and Article III.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever you think about CFPB, it was created by Congress (as part of the Dodd-Frank Act) and can only be abolished by Congress, not by the President acting as a dictator.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

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

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

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cynical dreamer @tundrafox907.bsky.social · 1d

That and/or they're trying to call J6 types back to action to start trouble.

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cynical dreamer @tundrafox907.bsky.social · 2d

I've kinda wished they would write these things to Trump instead of us. Trump communicates in public if Democrats meet him there and directly address him maybe that could put some pressure on Trump to form a coherent response.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2d

I'm hoping that the "No Kings" rally this weekend has so many American flags flying it looks like the Fourth of July.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2d

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

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cynical dreamer @tundrafox907.bsky.social · 3d

I've long suspected it's as simple as they do things for money and they're not creative.

cynical dreamer @tundrafox907.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, yes it is.

Baseball Highlights 野球のハイライト @baseballhighlights.bsky.social · 4d

….is that

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cynical dreamer @tundrafox907.bsky.social · 4d

"...violated the crime..."

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 4d

I have some bad news for JD Vance if he thinks violating the oath of office is "pretty criminal."

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cynical dreamer @tundrafox907.bsky.social · 4d

a man in a blue jacket stands in front of a group of prisoners

ALT: a man in a blue jacket stands in front of a group of prisoners

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cynical dreamer @tundrafox907.bsky.social · 5d

I wonder if I'm the only one who's favorite track is Chicken Bone Circuit.

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cynical dreamer @tundrafox907.bsky.social · 5d

Sure sure, but Hunter Biden....

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 5d

When a blow-up frog is more articulate and grounded in reality than the President of the United States.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6d

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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cynical dreamer @tundrafox907.bsky.social · 5d

I feel my most Ron Swanson when I realize I've been acknowledging some guys for years but we've never spoken. I call one guy the judge because he just gave me judge vibes.

cynical dreamer @tundrafox907.bsky.social · 6d

Probably fine

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6d

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 6d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 6d

So much liquid.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 6d

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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cynical dreamer @tundrafox907.bsky.social · 6d

I've made it to the Seattle hellscape.

cynical dreamer @tundrafox907.bsky.social · 6d

Headed into Seattle today after a wonderful driving tour of central and northern Washington. Put about a thousand miles on the rental car.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 6d

News footage from Portland shows a calm, tranquil city. But an AI video that Stephen Miller texted to Donald Trump shows the city as a burning hellhole. The truth may lie somewhere in between.

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cynical dreamer @tundrafox907.bsky.social · 6d

Malicious compliance is my favorite kind of compliance.

AndreaaaHHhHHHHh!! Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 6d

spectacular opportunity for malicious compliance here

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 6d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

cynical dreamer @tundrafox907.bsky.social · 6d

I'm convinced they're trying to raise the "be there, will be wild" flag for their audience to show up and cause trouble.

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cynical dreamer @tundrafox907.bsky.social · 6d

This all sounds like they're trying to call the January 6ers back to action.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 6d

the protesters dressing up as chickens and frogs while team trump is like "these are serious terrorists destroying freedom."

i fucking love these people. well played. no notes.

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