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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · Jun 14

Take off your masks

Lay down your weapons

Remove your armor

Repent & return home

Conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · Jun 13

From All Saints Episcopal Church in San Francisco 🕯

A church sign that says:
Marines, ICE agents, Nat'l Guard, Riot Police
My brothers & sisters in Christ or in conscience-
Their orders are immoral.
It is not too late to save your souls.
- Take off your masks
- Lay down your weapons
- Remove your armor
- Repent & return home

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 11h

😬

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1 Hour of INSANE Wingsuit Skydiving - RAW Footage You’ve Never Seen!

YouTube video by Salvador Chang

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 11h

pictured: the normie swing voter

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 11h

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 16h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 16h

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

a real water is wet scenario here

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 11h

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 12h

Seen a bunch of “where are the 2A types now to fight the tyrannical govt?” replies, so want to add this.

It’s not inconsistent that they aren’t fighting, bc there are two definitions of “freedom” here, and they are thinking of the other one.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · Jun 10

"Where is the NRA now" posts are, I think, useful frames for noting the key insight of Cowie's Freedom's Dominion:

There are two types of freedom:

1. FROM oppression.
2. TO oppress.

And (2) has always been what the NRA types embraced.

So Trump IS LIBERATORY for them.

Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · Jun 9

Imagine spending your whole life cos-playing and fantasizing about fighting the federal government sending troops in against its own citizens only to root for the government when the moment finally arrives

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 15h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 12h

brilliant strategy

Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 12h

"He's not worth it"

Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 12h

"He'll self-impeach"

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 12h

yeah we watched that play out in real time

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 17h

the Bajoran version of the Bechdel test is “do two named women talk to each other about something other than murder” and I love “Deep Space Nine” because it fails almost every episode

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 12h

OK yes on the one hand seating an elected representative is the most basic function of any democratic legislative body, but on the other hand the Republicans are very scared of Trump and he raped a bunch of kids with his best friend the king of blackmail

Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 15h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 15h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 12h

I don't think even Lester Bangs' turtle would buy this

bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 12h

"It was like getting my pussy ate by stereo playing 'metal machine music'"

Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 13h

look for it in your local bookstore's "nobody asked for this" section

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 12h

all NYT headlines include an implied chasing goose

Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 13h

incredible use of the passive exonerative tense

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 13h

EXCELLENT I mean oh, good

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Marcelo Córdova @marcelocordova.bsky.social · 20h

RIP Drew Struzan

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 13h

also *pushing up old-person glasses* a book should smell like a book

Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 13h

fr I would never do that to bookshop clerks or librarians, the front line of literacy

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 13h

KISS already used their literal actual blood for their Marvel comic, the bar has been set

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 13h

perceptive

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 14h

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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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 13h

there should be an island

Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 13h

"bleach"

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 13h

What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?

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