Heru
@heruur.bsky.social
Crotchety elder millennial | Coffee connoisseur | DemSoc | History buff | 80's & 90's Music lover | Nostalgia enthusiast | Retro video game scrub
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Heru
@heruur.bsky.social
· Nov 7
I post shitty, often angry political takes. Along with the occasional shitty gaming or music take too. It's just what I do.
Call it catharsis.
Call it catharsis.
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Anyone realize yet putting the Executive Branch exclusively in charge of law enforcement and the military was a really dumb idea?
January 16, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Anyone realize yet putting the Executive Branch exclusively in charge of law enforcement and the military was a really dumb idea?
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This is a critical point. What we're really witnessing is the *collapse* of law and order, brought about by Trump's lawless thugs. I think a lot of ordinary people intuitively understand that this is what's happening.
It is hard to explain institutional collapse to voters; videos where state actors are clearly acting in abusive ways explain themselves.
This is incredible: 81% of working class and 83% of young voters have seen video of Renee Good's killing, per new data I've obtained. Majority of working class disapproves of ICE enforcement. ICE brutality is breaking through big time.
Some thoughts on this here:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
Some thoughts on this here:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
January 15, 2026 at 12:43 PM
This is a critical point. What we're really witnessing is the *collapse* of law and order, brought about by Trump's lawless thugs. I think a lot of ordinary people intuitively understand that this is what's happening.
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"Revolution is too costly" bourgeois electoralism literally led you to your own federal government declaring war on you, but alright
January 15, 2026 at 12:47 AM
"Revolution is too costly" bourgeois electoralism literally led you to your own federal government declaring war on you, but alright
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New in PN: Democrats need to shut down Trump's terrorist government
"Democrats should reject any pretense of political normalcy while Trump’s goons wage an ongoing terror campaign against their own constituents. With government funding running out soon, the time to take a stand is now."
"Democrats should reject any pretense of political normalcy while Trump’s goons wage an ongoing terror campaign against their own constituents. With government funding running out soon, the time to take a stand is now."
Democrats need to shut down Trump's terrorist government
Funding the war on their own constituents would be a grave betrayal.
www.publicnotice.co
January 15, 2026 at 12:28 PM
New in PN: Democrats need to shut down Trump's terrorist government
"Democrats should reject any pretense of political normalcy while Trump’s goons wage an ongoing terror campaign against their own constituents. With government funding running out soon, the time to take a stand is now."
"Democrats should reject any pretense of political normalcy while Trump’s goons wage an ongoing terror campaign against their own constituents. With government funding running out soon, the time to take a stand is now."
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We need to pick up this Overton Window and throw it as far as we can. Stop waiting for shit to “be popular” and start advocating for what is transparently right.
January 14, 2026 at 3:02 PM
We need to pick up this Overton Window and throw it as far as we can. Stop waiting for shit to “be popular” and start advocating for what is transparently right.
Yet another perfect example of why leftists find it difficult to ally with liberals
Number 1. Vote shaming alienates the very voters you need.
Number 2. It was never about "purity". It's about having standards and politicians not meeting those standards.
Number 1. Vote shaming alienates the very voters you need.
Number 2. It was never about "purity". It's about having standards and politicians not meeting those standards.
I still get mad at the non-voters, protest voters and third party voters who handed our country over to literal Nazis and Klan because Democrats didn't pass their purity tests.The left must unite in the general election if we are to ever get our country back from this hellscape we put ourselves in.
January 14, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Yet another perfect example of why leftists find it difficult to ally with liberals
Number 1. Vote shaming alienates the very voters you need.
Number 2. It was never about "purity". It's about having standards and politicians not meeting those standards.
Number 1. Vote shaming alienates the very voters you need.
Number 2. It was never about "purity". It's about having standards and politicians not meeting those standards.
to any politicians out there: the only metric by which i am deciding my votes in any future Democratic primary is how far they're willing to go in punishing this administration and i am far from the only one
January 13, 2026 at 5:26 PM
If your not calling for abolition of ICE and prosecution of *every* crime they've committed then get the fuck out of the way for someone that will.
I am calling for the arrest and prosecution of the ICE agent that shot and killed Renee Good.
I am also calling on Congress to support my bill with @jasmineforus.bsky.social to force ICE agents to wear body cameras, not wear masks, have visible identification & ensure ICE has independent oversight.
I am also calling on Congress to support my bill with @jasmineforus.bsky.social to force ICE agents to wear body cameras, not wear masks, have visible identification & ensure ICE has independent oversight.
January 13, 2026 at 5:22 PM
If your not calling for abolition of ICE and prosecution of *every* crime they've committed then get the fuck out of the way for someone that will.
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Incrementalism doesn’t work. I used to be an advocate for it. That was wrong. We can’t chip away at the rot in hopes of laying the ground work for big change later. We have to go in blasting now.
Abolish ICE. Raze his ballroom. Defund all his shit. Jail the crooks. Restore America.
Abolish ICE. Raze his ballroom. Defund all his shit. Jail the crooks. Restore America.
January 13, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Incrementalism doesn’t work. I used to be an advocate for it. That was wrong. We can’t chip away at the rot in hopes of laying the ground work for big change later. We have to go in blasting now.
Abolish ICE. Raze his ballroom. Defund all his shit. Jail the crooks. Restore America.
Abolish ICE. Raze his ballroom. Defund all his shit. Jail the crooks. Restore America.
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Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Are the same that burn crosses
Rage Against The Machine - Killing In the Name (Official HD Video)
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January 13, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Are the same that burn crosses
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Magneto was, yet again, right.
January 8, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Magneto was, yet again, right.
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I’m an American and I hate all of this evil shit. All of it. Fuck you if you don’t.
January 7, 2026 at 10:11 PM
I’m an American and I hate all of this evil shit. All of it. Fuck you if you don’t.
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Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.
For the love of all that is decent and holy: abolish ICE
January 8, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.
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Anyone who agrees with everything a politician or party does is a danger to democracy
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Anyone who agrees with everything a politician or party does is a danger to democracy
I genuinely can't understand why it's so hard to accept that BOTH of the parties that have been running this show for the last 170ish years are responsible for the absolute shit show we're dealing with today?
Is one of them objectively better than the other? Sure.
Can't we do better? We have to.
Is one of them objectively better than the other? Sure.
Can't we do better? We have to.
January 8, 2026 at 5:29 PM
I genuinely can't understand why it's so hard to accept that BOTH of the parties that have been running this show for the last 170ish years are responsible for the absolute shit show we're dealing with today?
Is one of them objectively better than the other? Sure.
Can't we do better? We have to.
Is one of them objectively better than the other? Sure.
Can't we do better? We have to.
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we’re never returning to “normal “
that world is dead and gone
we create a new one, or we live in hell
that world is dead and gone
we create a new one, or we live in hell
January 8, 2026 at 3:51 AM
we’re never returning to “normal “
that world is dead and gone
we create a new one, or we live in hell
that world is dead and gone
we create a new one, or we live in hell
It's shit like this why leftists have such a problem allying with liberals. They seem to be physically incapable of accepting the objective reality in front of their faces.
Are the Democrats currently our only option? Sure.
But they are also just as much a part of the problem as the Republicans.
Are the Democrats currently our only option? Sure.
But they are also just as much a part of the problem as the Republicans.
No. This is not true & will continue to not be true no matter how many times people say it. Yes, we need multiparty democracy reforms so we can have a left party & more options across the spectrum. No, the Democrats are not a center-right party.
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bsky.app/profile/mcop...
We've already got that. They're called Democrats. What we need is the wholesale destruction of the so far-right they fell off the map Republicans, and an actual left party to represent actual people.
January 8, 2026 at 5:09 PM
It's shit like this why leftists have such a problem allying with liberals. They seem to be physically incapable of accepting the objective reality in front of their faces.
Are the Democrats currently our only option? Sure.
But they are also just as much a part of the problem as the Republicans.
Are the Democrats currently our only option? Sure.
But they are also just as much a part of the problem as the Republicans.
Good lord the amount of shitlib cope on this site is absolutely off the fuckin charts in the new year
January 8, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Good lord the amount of shitlib cope on this site is absolutely off the fuckin charts in the new year
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We've already got that. They're called Democrats. What we need is the wholesale destruction of the so far-right they fell off the map Republicans, and an actual left party to represent actual people.
Longer term, we also know that this is going to require replacing the now-far-right-authoritarian GOP with an actual pro-democracy center-right political party. A party of people like Bill Kristol.
Again, that makes lots of folks here angry to hear. But it's the reality.
Again, that makes lots of folks here angry to hear. But it's the reality.
Nothing makes folks here on Bluesky angrier than rightly noting that what we need to solve our authoritarianism problem & have a durable democracy is a center-right pro-democracy party full of Bill Kristols, but that doesn’t make it any less true.
January 8, 2026 at 4:32 PM
We've already got that. They're called Democrats. What we need is the wholesale destruction of the so far-right they fell off the map Republicans, and an actual left party to represent actual people.
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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The cognitive dissonance is overwhelming
January 8, 2026 at 4:15 PM
The cognitive dissonance is overwhelming
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it’s all i’ve got
December 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
it’s all i’ve got
Well, thats one absolute shit show of a year down.
January 1, 2026 at 6:14 AM
Well, thats one absolute shit show of a year down.
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