Thunderspirit
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Sports fan. Gamer. He/him. Voter ID is a poll tax (time is still a cost). Always an attempted ally.
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ICE isn’t making rare mistakes. This is the point.
When an agency can grab people first and sort out rights later, if they bother at all, everyone is at risk. Citizen or not.
When an agency can grab people first and sort out rights later, if they bother at all, everyone is at risk. Citizen or not.
January 16, 2026 at 3:24 PM
ICE isn’t making rare mistakes. This is the point.
When an agency can grab people first and sort out rights later, if they bother at all, everyone is at risk. Citizen or not.
When an agency can grab people first and sort out rights later, if they bother at all, everyone is at risk. Citizen or not.
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(Would appreciate RTs on this - going to Maine to report on the ground would be a significant undertaking, one I should start planning for now if I'm going to see it through.)
January 16, 2026 at 2:45 PM
(Would appreciate RTs on this - going to Maine to report on the ground would be a significant undertaking, one I should start planning for now if I'm going to see it through.)
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I sort of wished everyone had freaked out about this President when he sent mobile death squads into our cities but destroying the economy also seems to be getting some attention
Sentiment check: r/wallstreetbets is absolutely libbing out, indistinguishable from Bsky.
January 12, 2026 at 3:51 AM
I sort of wished everyone had freaked out about this President when he sent mobile death squads into our cities but destroying the economy also seems to be getting some attention
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This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.
Jerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."
January 12, 2026 at 1:45 AM
This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.
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A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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Who among us hasn't stumped scalding mashed potatoes on our spouse's head?
October 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Who among us hasn't stumped scalding mashed potatoes on our spouse's head?
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The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
September 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office.
I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.
I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.
September 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Kidnapping and holding someone hostage as bait
ICE agents held a 5-year-old autistic girl outside her Massachusetts home to pressure her father to surrender to authorities last week, according to the girl's family
ICE held 5-year-old autistic girl in Massachusetts to pressure father to surrender, family says
The girl's father, Edward Hip, has lived in the United States for the last 22 years, according to his wife.
www.nbcnews.com
September 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Kidnapping and holding someone hostage as bait
Well, not if there's never another executive.
The president seeks action based on the notion that curbing the president's authority is a harm to the republic. Shouldn't that apply to the prior admin as well? Biden appointed Cook for a full 14 year term. Retroactively stripping his authority to do so, without cause, also damages the executive.
September 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Well, not if there's never another executive.
This is, sadly, going to prove deadly accurate.
Vaccinated times create healthy people create health complacency creates anti-vaxxers creates unhealthy and dead people whose survivors create vaccines
September 6, 2025 at 2:22 AM
This is, sadly, going to prove deadly accurate.
Only thing we'll hear from this badministration about this: "THANKS OBAMA"
On X, economist Heather Long says, "The U.S. now has more unemployed people than job openings for the first time since April 2021."
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![Heather Long
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It's official: The US now has more unemployed people than job openings for the first time since April 2021.
In July, the US had:
7.18 million job openings
7.24 million unemployed people
This is yet another crack in the labor market that illustrates how much harder it is to get a new job right now than what we've seen in a long time.
[Note: The July data could be revised, but the trend is pretty straightforward to see]
[title of graph]
The U.S. has more unemployed people than job openings for
the first time since April 2021.
subtitle:
In July the U.S. had 7.18 million job openings and 7.24 million unemployed workers.
red = Job openings blue = unemployed
graph shows 2016 to 2025
the blue and red lines crossover
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics (via FRED)
10:09 AM · Sep 3, 2025 · 239.9K View](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2wyqv44lm72vasmddeqjgy72/bafkreih7iguz55fp6at6c2ybiu5zp6fk5cff3dhbdcy7wogvltctv3h2je@jpeg)
September 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Only thing we'll hear from this badministration about this: "THANKS OBAMA"
Correct.
And then cut/paste the process in other red states.
And then cut/paste the process in other red states.
Oklahoma is already facing serious teacher shortages. These "exams" will make those gaps harder to fill. And in the process, they'll erode the state's public education system, achieving the real goal of pushing families into private and charter options and into homeschooling instead.
The "exam" was created by dangerous, right-wing, fascist groomer Prager U.
Oklahoma will test incoming teachers from NY and California with ‘America-first’ exam www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Oklahoma will test incoming teachers from NY and California with ‘America-first’ exam www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
August 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Correct.
And then cut/paste the process in other red states.
And then cut/paste the process in other red states.
Correct.
If they manage to pass this, they will use it to ban all sex education and anything that acknowledges that LGBTQ+ people exist.
Romance writers? You are not going to be exempt from this. GOP senator's bill to make all porn a federal crime advances to committee www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/12/s...
August 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Correct.
No the fuck he is not.
Trump is president because 30% of America doesn't vote and another 20% think it's a sports contest.
Trump is president because 30% of America doesn't vote and another 20% think it's a sports contest.
The bill may be Trump‘s, but Trump is president because of Joe Biden
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 11:13 PM
No the fuck he is not.
Trump is president because 30% of America doesn't vote and another 20% think it's a sports contest.
Trump is president because 30% of America doesn't vote and another 20% think it's a sports contest.
Indeed. ICE will transform into the modern Gestapo. Except worse, thanks to technology.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Indeed. ICE will transform into the modern Gestapo. Except worse, thanks to technology.
Correct.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Correct.
This.
Don't play semantic games. Call the shit what it is.
Don't play semantic games. Call the shit what it is.
1) it was always fascism and fascism was the right word to use
2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use
3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them
2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use
3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them
July 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This.
Don't play semantic games. Call the shit what it is.
Don't play semantic games. Call the shit what it is.
She absolutely does.
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
July 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
She absolutely does.
I can, unfortunately.
I genuinely cannot believe how many Democrats are spending their energy on destroying Mamdani when the GOP is trying to turn ICE into a full on secret police by drastically raising their budget
June 29, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I can, unfortunately.
June 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I like Senator Wyden, but it's cute how he thinks there's still a "take turns" avenue existent in the future.
The orange conman isn't leaving until he keels over, and the notion that the remaining people in charge are willing to be voted out is ludicrous.
The orange conman isn't leaving until he keels over, and the notion that the remaining people in charge are willing to be voted out is ludicrous.
Republicans are getting what they paid for: a court willing to cede its power to an executive but only if a Republican is in power. But Democrats will retake power, and John Roberts is all but guaranteeing that Trump’s Supreme Court will barely outlast the Trump administration.
there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.
June 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I like Senator Wyden, but it's cute how he thinks there's still a "take turns" avenue existent in the future.
The orange conman isn't leaving until he keels over, and the notion that the remaining people in charge are willing to be voted out is ludicrous.
The orange conman isn't leaving until he keels over, and the notion that the remaining people in charge are willing to be voted out is ludicrous.
Yes.
States' rights has always meant "we will do what we want in our states, and you will do what we want in your states."
[whispers provocatively] the 1850 fugitive slave act is the model: reactionaries have the right to extend their authority across state lines, and their opponents have to actively assist them
June 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Yes.