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A.D. Blair ❌👑

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Rootless (American) cosmopolitan. Occasional screeds mostly in Liberal Currents. Anti-doomer, anti-authoritarian, anti-bigotry, pro-rule of law, abolish ICE. Moreover this SCOTUS majority must be destroyed.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13h
The Iran war is not unpopular solely because of gas prices. Sure that's part of it. But it was unpopular from the start because Americans genuinely are viscerally repulsed by the idea of yet another goddamned war in the middle east. Iraq and Afghanistan are generationally embedded scars.
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Call me Ishmaboo @billjank.bsky.social · 21h
Grifters gonna grift. Although, if history is a guide, Mr. Curry will soon be primarying Ted Cruz in the Senate to follow in Rick Scott’s footsteps of massively defrauding government healthcare and being elected to represent other rich Republicans.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"The Archdiocese of St. Louis has filed a lawsuit ... claims that the Ste. Genevieve County Jail and ICE have violated the First Amendment rights of immigrant detainees by preventing Catholic priests from delivering communion, hearing confessions and celebrating Mass." fox2now.com/news/missour...
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Archdiocese of St. Louis sues ICE officials over blocked religious services
The Archdiocese of St. Louis has filed a lawsuit against Ste. Genevieve County officials and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) leadership over alleged restrictions on Catholic religiou…
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 07/10/2026
for me two absolutely core aspects of intellectual discipline are reading and writing. no, not reading posts and writing posts: logging your ass off, reading a book, thinking hard about it, and then writing something else long-form in response. not a hot take: a genuine response.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pedophile politician Denny Hastert dies one day, and disgraced 1980s con man Jim Bakker dies the next, and I'm just going to let my mind connect the dots for the perfect completion of that trio and ...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As the Trump admin is calling in thousands of people here for years who are protected from persecution in their home country, Tom Homan is on TV saying people who want to avoid being sent to Africa can just "self-deport." So it's accept persecution or be deported to a third country.

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Tom Homan, President Trump’s border czar, said people in the U.S. illegally can avoid being sent to “third countries” in Africa and other places around the world by self-deporting to their home countries.

“There’s your quick answer. If you self-deport … you're 100% likely to go to your home country,” Homan told CBS News’ 
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This past week, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to continue its third-country deportation effort.

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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A.D. Blair ❌👑 @adblair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wherein @jamellebouie.net succinctly pops the balloon of bullshit that is Spencer Cox’s reputation as some sort of centrist kumbayah singer as well as the idea that the problem in our politics is mutual polarization and not just right wing lawlessness and extremism. youtu.be/gwW90Xrfon4?...
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Forget about "polarization"; the real problem with American politics is the radicalized right-wing
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A.D. Blair ❌👑 @adblair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A very good thread.
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Glonzo In Exile 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇱 @glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
McLaughlin had Orban's Fidesz winning by 6 this year (they lost by 20)
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 05/10/2026
On the one hand, it’s comforting to know that Americans aren’t uniquely stupid, voters everywhere have skulls filled with mush and worms. On the other hand, global fascism is probably not an ideal state of affairs.
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A.D. Blair ❌👑 @adblair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What a game, huge win. Always sweeter when it’s against the raiders.
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Andy Reid: How Bout Those Chiefs!
ALT: Andy Reid: How Bout Those Chiefs!
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A.D. Blair ❌👑 @adblair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Chiefs are stressing me out. My conspiracy theory is they’re in cahoots with Big Xanax and they’re getting kickbacks.
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McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In addition to the direct harm, this is also blatantly unconstitutional. Of course, the NYT refers to this act of dictatorial lawlessness as "creative ways to work around Congress."
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Charles Xavier Van Damme @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Lots of whites means there can be no tension. Image unrelated.
Yugoslavia
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 03/10/2026
It’s weird to see so many higher education leaders beat their chests about “the decline of trust” from the public while refusing to acknowledge the conservative movement organizing to destroy it. Imagine someone stabbing you repeatedly while you complain about not having enough blood to bleed out.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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A.D. Blair ❌👑 @adblair.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Emperor Palpatine's 'Gooooood'
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rare you get live visuals of state capture.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have a hard time deciding which are worse. The retributive fake indictments against longtime Trump "enemies" or the ones where just a random person is picked out because of the need to retrofit reality to a latest Trump tweet/meltdown.
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A.D. Blair ❌👑 @adblair.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Very good thread on criminal contempt hearings in the Broadview 6 case.
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 01/10/2026
It’s politically wrote to cite “uncharted territory” or to say something is “unprecedented” but here, where we are with this DOJ, of course there is no relevant example of when the government has exercised the Hyde Amendment or when a judge has used 42B the way Perry would want to in these ways.
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 01/10/2026
we should normalize the social shaming of bad people. sorry you don't think your Maine summers are as idyllic as they used to be, John Roberts. but you sold democracy to the highest bidders among your friends you don't get to summer without sometimes seeing a kayaker with a poster that says you suck
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I want people to behave decently because they're decent people. But there will always be people who aren't. And I want THOSE people to be too afraid to behave indecently
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On the Hegseth thing, I just stop every so often to sit in the disgust of a government official just casually tossing around slurs in a prepared speech
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A.D. Blair ❌👑 @adblair.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Useful reminders.
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Thesaurus Wrecks 2547 🎃👻🧛‍♂️ @thesauruswrecks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On this remote stretch of Maine Coastline it was a tradition. Wake up and give Donald Trump permission to continue 3rd -country deportations to a foreign torture prison and then it was off to the local dock to nurse a half-caff and Cinnamon bun. But now the woke mob is trying to take all that away.
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A.D. Blair ❌👑 @adblair.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His neigbors’ opprobrium dampening his vacations is the ansolute bare minimum Roberts & his co-conspirators deserve. In a functioning democracy, all of them wouldve long since been impeached & removed from office and driven into humiliating exile from polite society. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When I say John Roberts is a liar, hack, anti-democracy ideologue, and enemy of the Constitution, I do so in a civil manner. No yelling or cursing here. But since he will be remembered as an utter disgrace who tried to destroy the republic but failed, some in the future might say it less civilly.
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A.D. Blair ❌👑 @adblair.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A disgusting farce in Tennessee last night. SCOTUS Republicans vacated a temporary stay from the 6th Circuit without even bothering to explain why and then Tennessee promptly botches the resulting execution & tortures this woman for several hours before eventually rushing her to a hospital.
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
See also: that guy who spent the night of Yom Kippur replying to me about how the Belleville synagogue shooting was justified resistance to Israel and Zionism, and then the shooter turned out to be right-wing former military who thought Jews created COVID.
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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It is actually Not Good to expose yourself as directly as possible to the atrocities that turn people into suicide bombers.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
it is possible to be propagandized by things which are true.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
whenever anyone says "watching a genocide in realtime," i know that they're one of the people who made a virtue of watching the eqiuvalent of LiveLeak videos and boiled their entire brain
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gawd this is the most toxic kind of poster on Bluesky. The absolute worst.
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It was extremely notable to me that almost nobody gave a shit about this It is maybe one of the worst discreet events to ever happen and just fucking crickets
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pete Hegseth, who has been rebuked by the pope and the leaders of several other churches for a stream of heretical statements (statements inconsistent with Christian theology and dogma), appoints himself the supreme authority over all chaplains serving in the US Armed Forces.
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026
To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Are there any old heads still working in news who can remember the firestorm a racist utterance in the WH like this would’ve kicked up.
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The okayest poster there is @ok-post-guy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Plus you have to square it with the reality that: 1) Biden did threaten to cut off military assistance to Israel, 2) Bibi interpreted it as Biden *actually* cutting off aid AND NOTHING FUCKING CHANGED IN HOW ISRAEL PROSECUTED THE WAR
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A.D. Blair ❌👑 @adblair.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Get in everybody, we're making measles great again!
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i dont think people deluded themselves really…they were told by republicans that “mass deportation” was criminals and the media didnt fact check and democrats moved right on the issue there was no alternative offered to mass deportation, no one even argued against it
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
show me one (1) article from the 24 cycle explaining in detail that “mass deportation” would mean kicking in doors and ripping people from their families. just a single article showing this would be impossible without using nazi tactics
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 29/09/2026
To quote a @chrislhayes.bsky.social jape at the Roberts Court: "They go fast when they want to go fast and slow when they want to go to slow and the decision is *always* an ideological one."
Steve Vladeck, a professor a Georgetown Law, writes up breaking developments from the Supreme Court. The last post in the three-post thread is the kicker, for our purpose here.

"#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal). 

"Link: [URL of a supremecourt.gov PDF]

"By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in."
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 30/09/2026
consolidated corporate extraction-class owned media LOVES to put the lie unchallenged in the headline it's like their absolute favorite thing here too, notice ZERO mention that Trump has defanged regulators
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Trump says tech execs signed ‘morally binding’ accord to help police AI
The president floated forming a 10-person committee that he said would play a role in overseeing the artificial intelligence industry.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 30/09/2026
there's just a parade of these stories helping the President pretend he's erecting useful guardrails for AI none of them think it's important to mention Trump has taken a brutal hatchet to U.S. corporate oversight and consumer protection regulators
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Trump's AI "constitution" crowns day of accelerating ambition
The terms were simple: Press ahead, project optimism and police yourselves.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 30/09/2026
I'm absolutely fascinated by "journalism" that can't seem to tell readers an obvious truth. Like the fact this is absolutely meaningless bullshit designed to pre-empt real oversight
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Trump releases AI accord with tech executives
President Donald Trump released a document on Tuesday that his administration cast as an accord ​on artificial intelligence and which he said earlier was signed by ‌him and tech executives that he met...
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