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A.D. Blair ❌👑

@adblair.bsky.social
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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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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 2h
This is like something I read from a Japanese civilian in WWII talking about how he realized they were losing when the IJN's "glorious naval victories" kept getting closer and closer to the Home Islands.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We’re living through a campaign of discrimination comparable to many historical abuses. It’s shocking to me how many people are capable of identifying state-sanctioned bigotry when they encounter it in a history book, but cannot recognize it at all when they encounter it in a newspaper.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Trump is openly trying to incite violence against this ethnic group (most of whom are American citizens, not that it matters). He is using the tools of the government to persecute them.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Also it’s time for the news to stop treating this administration’s racist war against Somalis as “Trump being Trump.” They targeted Minneapolis because they hate an ethnic group here, and now they’re targeting the most prominent political figure in that group with thinly rationalized state violence.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 4h
All of which is to say that this is a BFD. Not just the money. Not just the constitutional issues. But because Mike Johnson, and his wife are elevating their faith over all others. They oppose the openness and tolerance on which our country was founded. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Faith-based ministry run by House speaker’s wife raises ethics questions
Kelly Johnson’s counseling services are the centerpiece of an organization that does not disclose its donors.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 4h
...all of those wouldn't just violate the 1A promise that we don't have a national religion or endorse any faith over another. They also would make for a hostile workplace against anyone who's ability to do their job was paced by whether or not their beliefs jibed with House leadership...
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 4h
...ask yourself how you'd feel if a muezzin called some of us to prayer every day. Or if a room in the house was set aside for Torah study. Or if every day, the House opened up with a secular humanist, explaining why there is a higher morality than anyone religion which we must all consider...
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 4h
There are a host of faiths in Congress. Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, non-believers. Various denominations of each. Probably more that I am not aware of because it's none of my business. It's not only unconstitutional to elevate any one of them, but offensive to those of other faiths...
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 4h
Tillis is a Trump enabler who is trying to cash in on a twinge of regret without acknowledging the role he played in getting us into the terrible mess we are in. It's like an unrepentant menace to society trying to bullshit his way past the parole board.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 4h
What does Tillis truly regret? And when did he develop pang of conscience? Tillis could've demanded officials’ removal, sought to hold them in contempt or voted vs. the Iran War (before he finally broke with Trump in September). Count me as unimpressed by anbelated political deathbed confession.
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A.D. Blair ❌👑 @adblair.bsky.social · 15h
lolll hell yeah. Drip drip drip, keep those scandals coming. 😂
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A.D. Blair ❌👑 @adblair.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Look at Solidarity in Poland (or the contemporary fight for democracy in Poland for that matter) or our own civil rights movement or any other dissident movement. You don't defeat authoritarian movements by capitulating in advance and agreeing with them that elections and laws don't matter.
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A.D. Blair ❌👑 @adblair.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yes. And more to the point, what we say and believe and the narratives we spread matters. Conceding in advance that elections don't matter and the opposition won't be seated does their work for them. 1/2
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ossoff is acting like Trump/MAGA/GOP and what they’ve done to the country is Actually Bad. Charismatic and well spoken, which sure helps. But no “my friends across the aisle,” no acting like the imaginary “Baileys” are the only ones who matter, no “don’t talk values, only kitchen table.” That’s it.
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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Denying Catholic priests the ability to administer sacraments to Catholic prisoners is objectively insanely offensive to Catholicism in a way that almost nothing else could be
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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Excommunicate every ICE agent, Leo. The Blessed Virgin is waiting to high five you
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“These include a trip to a small town in Hawaii months before his family’s blind trust bought land there; 24 trips to Utah, where the trust owns five properties; and 53 trips to Florida, where Paxton and the trust have two houses and a townhome.”
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A.D. Blair ❌👑 @adblair.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
All of these people, from Trump, Homan, and Miller on down to the rank and file brown shirts like this guy, need to go to prison.
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A.D. Blair ❌👑 @adblair.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is doomerist garbage. It’s both wildly wrong (despite their best efforts we’re going to win both houses in a few weeks) and it does the fascists’ work for them.
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A.D. Blair ❌👑 @adblair.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Worth noting also that martyrdom was famously one of his main goals for the attack. As with most jihadist terrorists, he actively wants to be a martyr. So I mean bang up job giving him exactly what he wants I guess?
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“…most commonly carried out in a handful of countries including Iran, North Korea and the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan. “releasing video of executions is most often associated with extremist militant groups like the Islamic State...” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...
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Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says
If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent
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A.D. Blair ❌👑 @adblair.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not going far enough with Reconstruction and capitulating too early to the Redeemers and Klan terrorists is one of the biggest mistakes in our history. We're still dealing with the consequences to this day.
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A.D. Blair ❌👑 @adblair.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Part of Hassan’s explicit goal in the attack, like most Jihadist terrorists, was to become a martyr. So I mean bang up job giving him what he wants ig.
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A.D. Blair ❌👑 @adblair.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You know who doesn’t give a singular shit about their troops’ sexuality, or hair cuts, beards, waste size etc? Ukraine. Cuz they’re facing an existential threat, so all they care about is competence. Meanwhile, Secretary Date Rape here recently disbanded our dedicated drone experimentation unit.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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 · 07/10/2026
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
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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A.D. Blair ❌👑 @adblair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Some truth to A, but if you’re a political party you kind of have to harness C.
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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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A.D. Blair ❌👑 @adblair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The hopium is strong with this one.
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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
Also, The Davis family, the Raiders organization in general, and Raiders fans are bad people. I will not be taking questions at this time.
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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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Count Xavier Van Damned @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Lots of whites means there can be no tension. Image unrelated.
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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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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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