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Bacchus

@bacchus666.bsky.social
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Father. Husband. Patriot. Enjoyer of cats, carpentry, and literature. Liberal.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Generations. Several of them.
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Bacchus @bacchus666.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just like the tariffs, you and I are paying for this folly. Every single day.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump regime has killed at least 234 people by bombing boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean since last September. Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. This is a danger to us all.
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This courage— from the woman who witnessed and filmed Alex Pretti’s murder—is like nothing I’ve ever seen OMG 😭 Thank you to Senator Blumenthal and Rep. Garcia for giving Stella an opportunity to finally tell her story.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war: With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, database shows. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war
With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Jeffrey Dahmer thinks we should be less judgmental about murder comma cannibalism.
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Bacchus @bacchus666.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hard agree.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Highest levels of Islamophobia, a bastion for bipartisan bigots. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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How anti-Muslim rhetoric is influencing the pivotal Michigan Senate race
Attacks aimed at Democrat Abdul El-Sayed have brought back painful memories for some in a contest that has raised questions about the acceptability of Islamophobia in politics.
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Bacchus @bacchus666.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hard to deny.
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Bacchus @bacchus666.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Froomkin nails it.
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Bacchus @bacchus666.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Because they are?
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And don’t sleep on the part where we bust Cleta Mitchell (yes, that one) for helping to hatch a campaign finance cover-up:
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What does a sniper position at Memorial Circle actually defend against? Not China. Not a submarine. Not a missile. It overlooks a bridge, a traffic circle, and the front door of the National Mall. Those are places where Americans march. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Bacchus @bacchus666.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
All in fewer than nine months. Extraordinary. Read the full stats here: www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
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More Affordable, Safer, Better Run: Mayor Mamdani’s First Management Report Shows ‘Pothole Politics’ is Working Across City Government
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
WHAT IS A WOMAN? Here's an answer for Democrats who should know better and keep taking the fuckin bait re: trans women in sports: espiers.medium.com/the-correct-...
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The Correct Answer to “What Is A Woman?”
There’s a real answer, but it’s not a good faith question.
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Bacchus @bacchus666.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hypocrite.
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Bacchus @bacchus666.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When you know you are working for the President and not the American people.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Imagine a job where, faced with a difficult decision, you could just stop going to work www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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House to leave early, punting Hegseth impeachment vote until after November elections
House Republican leaders cancelled votes planned for Thursday. Members won’t return to Washington until Nov. 9.
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Bacchus @bacchus666.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Oh. So it was our bombs then?
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Here’s another “Trump Says …” headline in the New York Times. Headlines like this translate to: “World’s Biggest Liar Says Something.” Not exactly news.
Trump Says His Son Will Pay Back Russian Businessman for Wedding Party
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Bacchus @bacchus666.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ding!
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So Trump caves after creating a crisis that was massively costly to key US alliances, and will declare victory for, and lie about the scope of, a “deal” that enshrines the status quo ante but leaves what were good faith relations laden with distrust & resentments. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/u...
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U.S. and Denmark Reach Security Deal on Greenland, Trump Says
The full contours of the deal were unclear, but Denmark and Greenland both indicated they expected an agreement to be signed soon.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Because of course she was
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When the public finally learns the full accounting of the damage done in this war, it’ll probably be too late to hold anyone in the Trump administration accountable. But this is insane. And they’re lying to the American people.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Your regular reminder -- yes, I'm going to keep on with this -- that Republicans in Congress are just fine with everything he's doing.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 14/09/2026
Somehow this gets worse and worse the more you read
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Well that’s it. AI’s gonna kill us all
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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Don Trump Jr’s luxurious wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin. A saga involving private islands, the Olympics, and a Russian government-backed biker gang: www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/09/2026
One time, and I promise this is true, Bush gave a flip remark about violence while playing golf and it became a defining moment for his legacy. This president shrugging about a war he started while overseas at a golf tournament that is lining his own pockets won’t be remembered in two weeks.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Credit to PBS News. This is by far one of the most accurate descriptions of what trump did. None of the sanewashing we saw with so much of the news coverage.
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Bacchus @bacchus666.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Should be a story. Should be impeachable, honestly.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11/09/2026
Making a powerful person mad by demanding an answer they don't want to provide is precisely the job description.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 11/09/2026
The institutions of democracy are fragile, and require constant defense by men and women of honor. Shattering those institutions is easy and filthy, and it harms all Conservative and Liberal Americans.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Because it’s make-believe, that’s why!! FFS, people Don’t be stupid
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Bacchus @bacchus666.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
DJT lied?? Shocking.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Symbolic but still important; the Trump admin declares war on American communities. Secretary Mullin says DHS is "at war," so he's changing The Great Seal. This comes after dozens died in ICE custody and ICE officers have shot and killed multiple people this year, including two American citizens.
The Department of Homeland Security has decided that the agency needs a new official seal. Where the ubiquitous American eagle faced the direction of the olive branches in its right talon, now the eagle will face the opposite direction — towards the arrows it clasps in its other talon.

“We’re actually changing our seal to make it look towards the arrows because … when it looks towards the arrows is when it means we’re at war,” Secretary Markwayne Mullin revealed in a Fox News interview this weekend. “Homeland Security is at war every single day against bad actors trying to hurt our backyards, and we’re not gonna allow that to happen.”

So in other words, the United States is at war here at home — but Iran somehow isn’t a war. What?

In October 1945, seven weeks after the Japanese surrender in World War II, President Harry Truman issued Executive Order 9646, the first order in American history to define the great seal in legal language, with the eagle’s head codified as facing toward the olive branch. Truman said it was to reflect the new world of peace. Churchill quipped: “Why not put the eagle’s neck on a swivel so that it could turn to the right or left as the occasion presented itself?”
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Bacchus @bacchus666.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Louder.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
As I explained the last time this dumb argument made the rounds, if Congress was never allowed to change the Court’s size (something it’s done seven times), that would mean four of the *current* justices (all of whom are Republicans) hold unconstitutionally created seats: www.ms.now/opinion/repu...
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Republicans say court packing is 'unconstitutional.' They're wrong.
The argument that court expansion is unconstitutional is weak, transparently political — and most importantly, wrong.
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Bacchus @bacchus666.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This thread. 🔥
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.”
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Bacchus @bacchus666.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/09/2026
It’s impossible to calculate how much of what I’ve been able to accomplish is because of women like Gloria Steinem. Rest in power. www.npr.org/2026/09/03/n...
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Gloria Steinem, trailblazing journalist and activist, dies at 92
At a time when women were largely limited to domestic roles, Steinem challenged gender stereotypes and championed feminist ideals like equality, sisterhood and reproductive freedom.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Asshole. US 'won' invasion of Panama, under first George Bush. And 'won' Gulf War, 1991, also under GHWB. Never lost as stupidly or badly as now, under Trump, Hegseth, and this guy.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is obscene. No one in the GOP will say a word about it.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is why North Korea is the richest country of all.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I like that this design appears to show the birth date of liberty as 1776, and its death as 2026
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