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Chris Ladd

@chrisladd.bsky.social
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Former Republican and political orphan

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 22/03/2026
the left nimby program in a nutshell 1: "decommodify housing" 2: sadly, no new housing is built 3: i inherit my parents' house
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Chris Ladd @chrisladd.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Ya gotta admit, Watergate feels painfully adorable now
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
All Americans should root for the downfall of a wicked regime that tries to dictate religion to its citizens. And also the one in Iran.
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Blitz the Goddamn Dragon @blitzthedragon.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
It'd be poetic if an oil crisis and stagflation ends up being the thing that first killed New Deal liberalism in the 70s, then revived it in the 2020s.
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Chris Ladd @chrisladd.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
"White Democrats under white supremacy are forever Atticus Finch, forever losing, forever consoling themselves that they served honorably while ignoring their own failure to disrupt an evil system." www.politicalorphans.com/democrats-ar...
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Democrats Are Misunderstanding the Trans Rights Trap
The controversy stirring in Democratic circles over transgender rights is a classic framing trap. Republicans have manufactured this “issue.” Democrats are about to fall for it, again.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 07/03/2026
Gavin Newsom, Kristi Noem Nod Silently To Each Other In Plastic Surgeon’s Office
Gavin Newsom, Kristi Noem Nod Silently To Each Other In Plastic Surgeon’s Office
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 03/03/2026
My opinion: Jamelle Bouie is the best national political columnist in America. This doesn’t mean he is always right or you always need to agree with him. But he consistently elevates the form. Conservatives and liberals who make deranged personal attacks on him just make themselves look bad.
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krat @kwholesaler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
You think "the online left" is unhinged, dog please talk to an independent voter IRL. They want universal healthcare and abolish taxes. They want to dissolve the coast guard. They want to rename the army the coast guard. They want their alien implants removed, and they also want more alien implants
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
i can't describe directly what should happen to this 39% of people but let's just say i have some ideas
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 20/02/2026
New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF
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A fake ICE tip line reveals neighbors reporting neighbors
A Nashville comedian’s deportation hotline, set up as a joke, has gone viral among viewers who say it shows the “banality of evil personified” in the U.S. immigration crackdown.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16/02/2026
The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 12/02/2026
It ain’t over til Minnesota has ICE’s battle flag
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 09/02/2026
Has the right ever NOT complained about a Super Bowl halftime show ever?
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 09/02/2026
That Ring “search party” ad was unsubtle enough that even my 10yo watched it and was like “are they gonna use this for ICE?”
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/02/2026
"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)
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Opinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 04/02/2026
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This is what one afternoon drop looks like for one (1) Minneapolis mutual aid distributor (read: random mom who wants to help families at her kids’ schools)
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
We need to use the rhetoric and framing that Bush used with Iraq against the Trumpers. Regime. Regime elements. Etc
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
oh commuters just found the motherlode of ice agents at a suburban hotel, including, potentially, bovino himself. a bunch of confirmed ICE and CBP cars from the bovino convoy there. spring hill suites in maple grove. people of the twin cities, do with this info what you will.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
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Chris Ladd @chrisladd.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Why does he keep saying "thank you for your attention to this matter?" WTF is that?
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Every poll these days is like: - Mad Nazi Pedophile King: 39% - The Democrats: 42%
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Unarmed woman executed by state may have been on committee to fight against unarmed women being executed by the state
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Chris Ladd @chrisladd.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Basically, using GoFundMe as murder for hire
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Chris Ladd @chrisladd.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
More on Jonathan Daniels youtu.be/7s8fiVFJBy8?...
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Episode 20 - Jonathan Daniels
YouTube video by Why Is Grampa Like This
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Chris Ladd @chrisladd.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Again and again until we grasp the seriousness of this situation - "There is no electoral solution to this conflict." www.politicalorphans.com/theres-no-al...
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There’s No Alternative to Regime Change
There is no electoral solution to this conflict.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The hack Trump has discovered is that if you escalate endlessly, at some point Democrats will stop escalating their response to you, because they’re scared of acknowledging what you are and what it obligates them to do. At that point you have total freedom to break any rule, do anything you want.
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Chris Ladd @chrisladd.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Soon...
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Chris Ladd @chrisladd.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The only just ending for this mess
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Chris Ladd @chrisladd.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The only appropriate end to this mess:
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Chris Ladd @chrisladd.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
How the Trump Era ends
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
basically the resistance vibe is that donald trump is the only bad guy and that everyone else was kinda nasty but not super duper evil, and if you even hint that its a little deeper than that youre suddenly a trump apologist. which is kooky stuff.
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Chris Ladd @chrisladd.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Community gardens? This is the kind of "fighting" people do underground, potentially for decades or longer, after the real fight was lost.
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Chris Ladd @chrisladd.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
A massive primary campaign? Seriously? When are we gonna wake up and fight? "We live under a uniquely American electoral Fascism. That Fascist regime cannot be replaced without constitutional changes which can’t be achieved through our electoral system." www.politicalorphans.com/theres-no-al...
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There’s No Alternative to Regime Change
There is no electoral solution to this conflict.
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Chris Ladd @chrisladd.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Yup www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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What You Need to Read in the RNC Election-Autopsy Report
It's an astonishingly frank document that calls for major changes in how the party addresses minorities, women, and its own campaign processes.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/12/2025
the main reward you are likely to get for total loyalty to trump is the destruction of your career and your reputation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
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Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress
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Chris Ladd @chrisladd.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I don't know how state this clearly enough, but none of that is true. These terrible misconceptions played into the complete failure of that strategy.
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Chris Ladd @chrisladd.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Still can't understand why people went after Tesla instead of twitter
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
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Chris Ladd @chrisladd.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
35 years ago this week I was a student in London. Saved up my food stipend to go to a show with some friends. It was fantastic. Still have the tshirt. Thanks @10000maniacs.bsky.social @nataliemerchant.bsky.social
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Chris Ladd @chrisladd.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I mean, no one wants anyone to lose healthcare, but some of our flights were delayed
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PJ Manney @pjmanney.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
In a future history of the US: the nation fell because @schumer.senate.gov and the rest of the Senate folded when Americans needed them most. Corporate capture destroyed democracy. Maybe we'll find out which CEOs called Schumer et al and told them it was time to fold, because they were losing $.
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Chris Ladd @chrisladd.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I think about that 59-number a lot
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
What the far right has figured out is that if they can construct an artificial social environment where they're seen as more numerous, strong, and popular, and their enemies seem few, timid, and dominated, many people will side with them, regardless of what the respective parties are actually saying
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Chris Ladd @chrisladd.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
The US Congress doesn't show up anymore, or swear in new members who oppose the regime. Vote however you want, folks, there's no going back to the before times. We have to build something new and that's not gonna be pretty. www.politicalorphans.com/theres-no-al...
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There’s No Alternative to Regime Change
There is no electoral solution to this conflict.
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Chris Ladd @chrisladd.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
This is starting to look like the 70s...the 1770s www.politicalorphans.com/theres-no-al...
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There’s No Alternative to Regime Change
There is no electoral solution to this conflict.
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Chris Ladd @chrisladd.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Why hasn't Gov. Newsom stopped CHP from helping ICE invade Oakland? CHP is out there right now working against Oakland's residents @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov
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Chris Ladd @chrisladd.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I was told that Charlie Kirk was a free speech hero theintercept.com/2025/10/23/c...
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The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme
Larry Bushart Jr. posted trolling memes on a Facebook thread about a vigil for Kirk. He’s been in a Tennessee jail ever since.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
god grant me the confidence of a man with a nazi tattoo to run as a democrat for senate
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