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Bespoke Mind Virus

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Executive Director of the Federal Alliance of Fighting Oligarchy (FAFO)

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Bespoke Mind Virus @bespokemindvirus.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
if every generation was a Hogwarts house, we'd be the only ones who aren't fascists
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
New: contra a major current of liberal thought, not all expressive politics is pointless or counterproductive. Boycotting or walking out of Trump’s address to Congress would be both satisfying and politically valuable. www.offmessage.net/p/boycott-th...
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Boycott The Donald Trump Show
Playing captive to the lies he’ll tell at his coming address to Congress is weak, conveys weakness, and surrenders the whole national stage to him.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/02/2025
relatedly, why is the entire political press completely uninterested in the verifiable fact that JD Vance has close relationships with online nazis?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/02/2025
these terminations are good evidence that this is just wanton destruction by deranged ideologues. there is no rhyme or reason other than whatever makes sense to a bunch of zoomer nazis and their bosses and enablers
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/02/2025
worth saying again that this was a bait and switch. if trump had openly announced he was running on allowing companies to discriminate against women and minorities he would not have won wapo.st/43aVQg1
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Trump officials start dismantling civil rights offices, as part of DOGE’s secret plan
Legal experts said that unwinding a civil rights-era bulwark designed to safeguard employees’ rights removes a crucial check on institutional power.
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Bespoke Mind Virus @bespokemindvirus.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
- Boycott the speech - Do a press conference with federal workers and people directly impacted by the cuts - Call out Musk’s illegal coup and demand an end to DOGE
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Bespoke Mind Virus @bespokemindvirus.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
…and no one organized a boycott
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Bespoke Mind Virus @bespokemindvirus.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
shut down the senate you coward
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Bespoke Mind Virus @bespokemindvirus.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
A Canadian tuxedo to celebrate Kendrick’s victory
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The point of excluding categories of people from the military like this is to send the message that they are unworthy of citizenship, it is pure bigotry and the assumptions behind it are disproven by the honorable service of the people being targeted in the first place bsky.app/profile/bran...
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Yea
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 26/02/2025
Elon Musk, who has said the beneficiaries of federal spending are a "parasite class," runs businesses that have pocketed $38 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies, loans and contracts www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The Washington Post and LA Times editorial pages have gone full MAGA, MSNBC has purged all of its anti-Trump anchors, and Twitter is owned by a literal Nazi. Here's why liberal media bias is still a problem.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I’ve been arguing for four weeks that Trump is basically a ceremonial head of state while Musk is the actual head of government. There is nothing in today’s Cabinet meeting that argues against that theory. Musk has even paid Trump $10M for the privilege! www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...
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Musk, Trump Establish New Era of Kleptocracy in America
A third dispatch comparing how the US media would cover this moment if it was happening overseas
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Bespoke Mind Virus @bespokemindvirus.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I’d imagine a fair bit of it is happening through Trump’s coin
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
It seems to me that people should start investigating what Elon musk has on Donald Trump to let him cuck him so spectacularly
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Brave to @jeffstein.bsky.social, WaPo's chief economics correspondent, for not wasting any time in stating what must be stated. Hopefully the first of many.
Massive encroachment by Jeff Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section today - makes clear dissenting views will not be published or tolerated there

I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side of coverage, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
If I were a Democrat, and I saw Trump do a purge of high-level generals who were women and people of color and wouldn't be "yes men," I wouldn't vote to advance JD Vance's college friend for Secretary of the Army. And yet....16 Democrats just did so
 YEAs ---66
Banks (R-IN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blackburn (R-TN)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Boozman (R-AR)
Britt (R-AL)
Budd (R-NC)
Capito (R-WV)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Collins (R-ME)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Cotton (R-AR)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Curtis (R-UT)
Daines (R-MT)
Durbin (D-IL)
Ernst (R-IA)
Fetterman (D-PA)
Fischer (R-NE)
Gallego (D-AZ)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hagerty (R-TN)
Hassan (D-NH)
Hawley (R-MO)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Husted (R-OH)
Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
Johnson (R-WI)
Justice (R-WV)
Kelly (D-AZ)
Kennedy (R-LA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Lankford (R-OK)
Lee (R-UT)
Lummis (R-WY)
Marshall (R-KS)
McConnell (R-KY)
McCormick (R-PA)
Moody (R-FL)
Moran (R-KS)
Moreno (R-OH)
Mullin (R-OK)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Paul (R-KY)
Peters (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)
Ricketts (R-NE)
Risch (R-ID)
Rosen (D-NV)
Rounds (R-SD)
Schmitt (R-MO)
Scott (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Sheehy (R-MT)
Sullivan (R-AK)
Thune (R-SD)
Tillis (R-NC)
Tuberville (R-AL)
Warner (D-VA)
Wicker (R-MS)
NAYs ---28
Alsobrooks (D-MD)
Baldwin (D-WI)
Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
Booker (D-NJ)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Coons (D-DE)
Duckworth (D-IL)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Hirono (D-HI)
Kim (D-NJ)
King (I-ME)
Lujan (D-NM)
Markey (D-MA)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Ossoff (D-GA)
Padilla (D-CA)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schiff (D-CA)
Schumer (D-NY)
Slotkin (D-MI)
Smith (D-MN)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warren (D-MA)
Welch (D-VT)
Wyden (D-OR)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/02/2025
Murphy: "The destruction of our democracy is part of this story ... this is super unpopular, what they are doing. Nobody wants their healthcare to disappear ... so how do you get away with it? You try to destroy our democracy. You try to crush dissent. You threaten members of Congress with arrest."
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
🚨🚨ALERT🚨🚨: If you want Democrats to hold the line on Musk's illegal funding/firing spree, **RIGHT NOW** is time to make your voice heard. This update below is about just that. Not clear how hard a line they're taking. GOPS are abt to shutdown the govt. Their leadership wants Dem help outmaneuver...
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Bespoke Mind Virus @bespokemindvirus.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
imagine being so famously wretched that millions of people are like, "yeah, seems like that guy had a botched penis enlargement operation"
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Bespoke Mind Virus @bespokemindvirus.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
incredible these people ever pretended to care about antisemitism
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
And 2018 and 2020.
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Bespoke Mind Virus @bespokemindvirus.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Listen -- it's not nuts to expect congressional Democrats to do something about the on-going coup undertaken by an unelected foreign oligarch. But, the WAY Democrats are doing it? By Just Asking Questions? This is just not serious stuff.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The richest man in the world has parasitically imposed himself on the federal government to insist that all employees generate content for his language-processing machine, conscripted the administrative state as monkeys at typewriters, all under penalty of dismissal should they refuse.
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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The jokes come easy here but the reality of having an entire political party existing above and beyond the law is fucking terrifying and signifies the end of our social contract.
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Bespoke Mind Virus @bespokemindvirus.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
extremely well said
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/o...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Considering that Musk routinely shares the personal data, addresses, etc. of people who make him mad and sics his degenerate legions on those enemies, is it any wonder people don't want him to have access to all their banking, social security, medical info?
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Bespoke Mind Virus @bespokemindvirus.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Call it a coup
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I feel like a lot of very normie very moderate liberals prefer AOC to most other congressional Dems and there’s something there, something to build on.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 21/02/2025
Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.
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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Look, I normally don’t use this page to fundraise, but I will likely need legal support. Chip in if you can. secure.actblue.com/donate/rg-doj
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Contribute to Robert Garcia
The success of this people-powered movement is dependent upon individual donors like you.
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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The stuff they're doing is deeply unpopular and they're rapidly heading in that direction. Stop treating them like they're untouchable. We can fight back.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The median voter loves…the rule of law???
28. If a federal court rules that something the Trump administration did is illegal,
do you think Trump administration...
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Should follow the court ruling
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Should ignore the court ruling
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No opinion skipped
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
They are gutting services you depend on to fund Elon’s next round of tax cuts and government contracts
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Bespoke Mind Virus @bespokemindvirus.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
“Where we’re going, we don’t need polls”
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 20/02/2025
THE DEMOCRATS FIND LITERALLY ONE NEW PERSON CHALLENGE
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Neera Tanden, a Leading Anti-Trump Voice, Returns to Center for American Progress
Neera Tanden, a fierce antagonist to President Trump during his first administration, will again lead the Center for American Progress, a major engine of Democratic policy in Washington.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
COOL JOB ALERT: We're looking for a senior leader to take on Indivisible's media operations, particularly with experience in the non-mainstream media space (influencers, podcasts, etc). Only downside is you have to work with me. Please apply or tell people to apply! jobs.lever.co/indivisible/...
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Indivisible - National Director of Media and Influencer Relations
Indivisible is a nationwide grassroots movement dedicated to advancing progressive values, building an inclusive democracy, and empowering local Indivisible groups to effect change in their communitie...
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Kash Patel is the fbi director Good luck everybody
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19/02/2025
The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20/02/2025
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
“I am a king and my will is law” isn’t a clever distraction from what he’s doing, it’s the central underlying justification for everything he’s doing.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
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