John Q. Public
@publius24.bsky.social
Former paper pusher for the deep state. Misanthropic humanist. Lover of art, literature, cinema, and all other humanistic endeavors.
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John Q. Public
@publius24.bsky.social
· Aug 25
I took a photo of the president’s latest portrait unfurled outside a federal building.
This one is outside the U.S. Department of Labor.
This one is outside the U.S. Department of Labor.
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The US federal government is openly warring against its own nonwhite population in a way no one alive has ever experienced. It’s not even getting to hide it. The overt bigotry is comparable to Jim Crow. And our pathetic, cowed, putrid political class just keeps pretending it isn’t even happening.
November 28, 2025 at 5:43 AM
The US federal government is openly warring against its own nonwhite population in a way no one alive has ever experienced. It’s not even getting to hide it. The overt bigotry is comparable to Jim Crow. And our pathetic, cowed, putrid political class just keeps pretending it isn’t even happening.
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Miller and Hegseth are *obsessed* with the idea that they can engineer a MAGA golden age by violently purging everyone they perceive as an internal enemy; and they are ludicrously overconfident in their ability to get the military to go along with their shared delusion.
They are going to *try*.
They are going to *try*.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Miller and Hegseth are *obsessed* with the idea that they can engineer a MAGA golden age by violently purging everyone they perceive as an internal enemy; and they are ludicrously overconfident in their ability to get the military to go along with their shared delusion.
They are going to *try*.
They are going to *try*.
Seems like there’s a steady drumbeat calling for revenge happening over on the other site
November 28, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Seems like there’s a steady drumbeat calling for revenge happening over on the other site
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
Fuck these wannabe Nazi scum.
That is all.
That is all.
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Fuck these wannabe Nazi scum.
That is all.
That is all.
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I don’t want to be alarming but I think shit might be getting out of hand and we have yet to see the worst of it
November 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I don’t want to be alarming but I think shit might be getting out of hand and we have yet to see the worst of it
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This rhetoric is indistinguishable from the stuff you hear coming out of white nationalists. Completely identical language.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 AM
This rhetoric is indistinguishable from the stuff you hear coming out of white nationalists. Completely identical language.
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Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
He is significantly ratcheting up the racism and hysteria here. This is bleak stuff.
November 28, 2025 at 4:43 AM
He is significantly ratcheting up the racism and hysteria here. This is bleak stuff.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Per CNN: President Trump says US land action against alleged drug trafficking networks in Venezuela will start "very soon".
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November 28, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Happy Thanksgiving!
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I found this terribly sad. A young woman with her life ahead of her, and she becomes one of the last American victims of the Long War.
November 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I found this terribly sad. A young woman with her life ahead of her, and she becomes one of the last American victims of the Long War.
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The spirit of Thanksgiving has infused the White House press office today, bringing us together in a blessed moment of harmony and goodwill.
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The spirit of Thanksgiving has infused the White House press office today, bringing us together in a blessed moment of harmony and goodwill.
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We've not spent enough time talking about this administration as unamerican, rather than cruel or wrong or illegal. This stuff just is not who we are.
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 28, 2025 at 2:18 AM
We've not spent enough time talking about this administration as unamerican, rather than cruel or wrong or illegal. This stuff just is not who we are.
Absolutely infuriating.
Apparently she offered to cover other people's shifts so they could go home to their families for the holiday.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/u...
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Two National Guard members were tasked with serving the nation. One is dead as the other fights for his life after shooting | CNN
On a day when many families gather across the country to give thanks, a National Guard member’s family is mourning her death after an ambush-style shooting in Washington, DC, as her colleague fights f...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Absolutely infuriating.
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But no more of this.
November 28, 2025 at 1:47 AM
But no more of this.
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“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
Washingtonians frequently refer to them as the National Gardeners—because they haven’t been fighting crime, they’ve been landscaping. That’s what they died for.
Trump claims National Guard members were shot in DC because they’ve been so effective at stopping crime
November 28, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Washingtonians frequently refer to them as the National Gardeners—because they haven’t been fighting crime, they’ve been landscaping. That’s what they died for.
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BREAKING: President Donald Trump says West Virginia National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom has died from wounds in the Washington, D.C., attack.
Afghan national charged in Guard ambush shooting drove across US to carry out attack, officials say
An Afghan national has been accused of shooting two West Virginia National Guard members just blocks from the White House in a brazen act of violence.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
BREAKING: President Donald Trump says West Virginia National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom has died from wounds in the Washington, D.C., attack.
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Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.
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Watching something like this is one thing. If you’re the sentimental type, it’ll tug at your heart. But it’ll subside.
But living it? God, I can’t imagine the despair and heartache this kind of political violence brings.
But living it? God, I can’t imagine the despair and heartache this kind of political violence brings.
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Watching something like this is one thing. If you’re the sentimental type, it’ll tug at your heart. But it’ll subside.
But living it? God, I can’t imagine the despair and heartache this kind of political violence brings.
But living it? God, I can’t imagine the despair and heartache this kind of political violence brings.
Anyone else have the feeling that we’re on the verge of tipping into something far darker and far more barbaric that will bleed into our personal lives?
November 27, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Anyone else have the feeling that we’re on the verge of tipping into something far darker and far more barbaric that will bleed into our personal lives?
You have no idea how much darker things can get. Democrats simply cannot be allowed to back down.
Trump's speech about the shooting in DC veered into him attacking the Somali community in Minnesota, which of course had nothing to do with the shooting. Gives away his bigoted game.
November 27, 2025 at 4:15 AM
You have no idea how much darker things can get. Democrats simply cannot be allowed to back down.
Two soldiers were shot by an Afghan national while following illegal orders and, because of that, the United States will plant a cherry on top of the catastrophe that was the war in Afghanistan by utterly fucking over every single Afghan refugee in the country.
Put that in your history books.
Put that in your history books.
In effect, deporting afghans who fought for the U.S. back to Afghanistan is the U.S. Government working for the taliban
November 27, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Two soldiers were shot by an Afghan national while following illegal orders and, because of that, the United States will plant a cherry on top of the catastrophe that was the war in Afghanistan by utterly fucking over every single Afghan refugee in the country.
Put that in your history books.
Put that in your history books.
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the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
Circling back on this. I just want to reiterate how batshit insane this moment was from the Charlie Kirk memorial service…
Completely expecting another wave of divine right of kings revisionism like we saw after Charlie Kirk’s assassination
Trump: The animal that shot the two National Guardsmen, with both being critically wounded, and now in two separate hospitals, is also severely wounded, but regardless, will pay a very steep price. God bless our Great National Guard, and all of our Military and Law Enforcement.
November 27, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Circling back on this. I just want to reiterate how batshit insane this moment was from the Charlie Kirk memorial service…