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castle_acker 🏴‍☠️🐀🌶️ @castleacker.bsky.social · 1h

I guess Wrath of Khan ripped this off but yeah that messed me up

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don't really know what to do with these pieces, because: 1. They refuse to used "illegal" & "unconstitutional" & "corruption" in the heds, deks, ledes, or body text 2. They disappear from the front page/headlines within 36 hours & never become THE NARRATIVE, contra EMAILS & BIDEN IS OLD, etc.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026

this administration illegally shut down federal agencies, impounded money from Congress, set up for-profit concentration camps and sent children there. They dismantled our public health infrastructure and children died of measles. Doing accountability for crimes against our Constitution is the work.

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castle_acker 🏴‍☠️🐀🌶️ @castleacker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Idk, "Tape Loop" and "Trigger Hippie" were never that sunny!

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/09/2026

What if post-Trump America is even *worse*? 1/

A nuclear mushroom cloud wearing a giant Trump wig. A decaying American flag fills the sky behind it.

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castle_acker 🏴‍☠️🐀🌶️ @castleacker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Marge, I'd like to be alone with the sandwich now.

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“I was asked not to mention the Times at all. I’m choosing not to honor that norm, b/c silence abt how accountability journalism gets suppressed is itself a form of suppression.” Read the back story of how @nytimes.com and @thebulwark.com killed @adambonica.bsky.social’s piece. What a mf badass.

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With Fear and Favor

Institutions don’t have courage. They have incentives.

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castle_acker 🏴‍☠️🐀🌶️ @castleacker.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Undoing What Little Progress We Made is a passion for certain pricks who unfortunately hold office in this moment

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castle_acker 🏴‍☠️🐀🌶️ @castleacker.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This one broke my heart. I have been in NM, mostly Santa Fe, since 1992. Everything is dry and crunchy. The smoke irritates my throat. The eerie pale orange of the sunlight and noncolor of the horizon are unsettling. But to think that summer will never be sweet again, only a gauntlet to be run 💔

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

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castle_acker 🏴‍☠️🐀🌶️ @castleacker.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

"presidential pissbaby" really captures something

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castle_acker 🏴‍☠️🐀🌶️ @castleacker.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

While you're at Verve get them to make you a Wilder Blend pourover. It is DOPE if you like fruity coffee.

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

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Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I want our next Dem president to bring back the WPA and just build infrastructure all across this country again. Build green energy, trains, housing, etc. We can have nice things (and nice bathrooms), but we have to invest in ourselves!

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It‘s just insane to me that a sitting president has made MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS peddling fucking fairy dust with no intrinsic value beyond his stature and power AS president, and it’s not treated as the biggest corruption scandal in American history.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I will just say, from Oregon, that to me a big part of why Mamdani and Lander blew up on a national level was that their shared values, mutual respect and solidarity across faith traditions (even while running against each other!) was like everything beautiful about both New York and America

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

1/ Five cases of New World screwworm have now been confirmed in the U.S., Texas has declared an emergency, and Canada immediately restricted livestock imports. Most people had never heard of screwworm until last week (or maybe just now). That's because we eradicated it from the U.S. in 1966.🧵

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castle_acker 🏴‍☠️🐀🌶️ @castleacker.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Green chile at Loyola's is excellent ... also check out Duran's Station on Menaul

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Again, every single person involved in DOGE, including Elon Musk, needs to be sent to jail for the rest of their lives for these unprecedented crimes & constitutional violations.

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No more billionaires! @emartineau.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I want a National Office for the Recovery of Public Assets, too!!

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The massive Orban defeat should prompt Dems to align themselves more firmly with anti-fascist and pro-democracy forces abroad. There's a powerful link to be drawn between the celebrations in Budapest and the confrontations with ICE in Minneapolis. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2090...

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Trump’s Humiliation in Orbán Defeat Stunner Is Only Just Beginning

For Viktor Orbán’s epic loss in Hungary to have real meaning in America, Democrats and liberals need to proclaim themselves part of the global anti-authoritarian movement.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

The US AID destruction is one of the sickest things anyone has ever done in human history. No one got anything out of it besides the gleeful thrill of mass black death. It’s truly bone chilling to even contemplate what this really was.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/04/2026

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

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BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I know I’m a broken record on this but: A handful of law profs are engaging in an effort to convince the Supreme Court to accept a reactionary administration’s effort to redefine American citizenship and render countless children stateless.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court. That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits. Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

One reason you can't just tinker with ICE/CBP is the whole thing is facially illegitimate. The intent is rotten. It's run by a white supremacist maniac and will continue producing white supremacist maniac results

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castle_acker 🏴‍☠️🐀🌶️ @castleacker.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

MC should get a Pulitzer for her Weird Little Guys episode on Charlottesville/Unite the Right alone. Spectacular reporting. I look forward to checking out this interview!

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

the Democrats should announce that they will not renew any contracts with XAI, Palantir, Tesla, or SpaceX and bankrupt the fucking tech right. announce that you have the votes to ban crypto too.

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castle_acker 🏴‍☠️🐀🌶️ @castleacker.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

"This doesn't hurt ICE" no of course it doesn't directly hurt ICE , what are you proposing JT?!? But keeping the shop open like it's a normal day sends a message that everything's fine which it 100% is not. Every station should be blasting the emergency broadcast signal all over the country rn.

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castle_acker 🏴‍☠️🐀🌶️ @castleacker.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Our national press is a mostly captured institution.

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Christopher Terry @christopherterry.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

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castle_acker 🏴‍☠️🐀🌶️ @castleacker.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I'm not saying it's a beautiful design or anything but the paint options are sweet. I have complimented strangers in parking lot on their delightfully garish Fits. 🤩

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castle_acker 🏴‍☠️🐀🌶️ @castleacker.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Yes there is one that's called electric blueberry or something and it really is cool. Kind of a metallic teal or sea-green.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.

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