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"When People Show You Who They Are, Believe Them The First Time" - Maya Angelou | Perfect as the Enemy of Good Quickly Leaves You With Neither

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 6h
That's funny, I don't recall the Mayor tacking on a condemnation of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan/Iraq onto his post about the anniversary of 9/11, much less one three times longer than the initial statement.
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 9h
You could replace Biden with anyone you can think of and they aren’t going to be able to fundamentally restructure the judiciary with the narrowest legislative majority in American history. Biden would have preferred larger majorities! He’s a New Deal guy!
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 9h
Two things: 1. He sort of famously failed to overthrow the government, hence the indictments 2. “Biden should simply have skipped the inconvenient parts of criminal procedure” is a dumb take both because Biden (and Trump!) couldn’t do that and because it would be very bad if they could
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the CDC have stopped recommending seven vaccines for children, including vaccines that protect against hepatitis B, RSV, and meningitis. These vaccines have kept millions of children out of the hospital and saved countless lives. I'm suing.
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 23h
It really is kind of apparent how many folks believe that courts work necessarily on SVU time.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The talking heads on CNN are discussing the firing squad "making a comeback" and it's one of those things where yeah, the guy they're shooting now probably deserves it but as a general rule, "The firing squad is making a comeback," is the sort of sentence that sets off your Spidey sense, y'know?
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They "believe" immigrants deserve eternal prison as much as we believe Trump does, but only one of those thresholds has been crossed for a reason too. If you're not willing to uphold a right for whoever "deserves" it the least, it paves the way to lose it when someone decides you're "undeserving"
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
While very true regarding "permanently", we *have* seen cases under Trump where "indefinitely imprisoned without trial" has been the case, and it's very much a *bad* thing! And promises of "oh, we'll only do it to the people that deserve it" is *exactly* how we got to this.
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Reminder: we were told that we had to airlock the last president we had because of 20 minutes of a debate after an int'l trip supposedly proved he was so brain damaged as to be a danger to the nation. And that whole conceit ended up returning this guy to power after an incomprehensible 1st term
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 06/10/2026
every other fucking president has to choose their words very carefully to avoid misunderstandings, i am not giving our big wet special birthday boy a pass for being unable to articulate a thought
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 06/10/2026
i don’t really give a shit about straining to interpret trump’s meandering, word salad horseshit, he’s the president of the united states, if he’s being misinterpreted, that’s his problem
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
it is actually worth reading the entire op ed. it is Alito condescendingly explaining that yes, his “originalism” is made up bullshit that is *superior* for being made up bullshit apple.news/ACn4mQ2uDS7C...
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Opinion | Justice Samuel Alito: Even Originalists Make Mistakes — The Wall Street Journal
An interpretive method disciplines the decision-making process, but it doesn’t free judges of the need to exercise judgment.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
one funny thing about Alito is he is constantly fuming over his critics. just a big blubbering baby.
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Alexander Ross @hardpolitics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Over 100 newspapers called on Bill Clinton to resign. Something to think about when you watch the media response to Donald Trump expressing that he'd be fine with Iran taking out multiple cities in California.
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
It's mindboggling, especially since every single effective activist movement in American history worked with the understanding that the ballot was the most basic foundation of their success. That nearly everything banked on eventually getting votes, and the power and influence that came with votes.
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Remember, voting is the very definition of "necessary but insufficient". By itself it may not be able to enact change, but any genuine good change demands the vote at its foundation, otherwise there's nothing to build movements on.
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
That's always been the whole point behind 'just vote', as I've said before. It doesn't mean 'the only thing you need to do is vote', but 'every other means of political engagement means nothing without the vote'. It is literally the minimum baseline of actual political engagement that means anything
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is blithe as hell and acts like the act of rebuilding is as easy as the act of destroying. Especially since Dems are rarely given more than *two* years of power to rebuild, considering Dem presidents have faced more years of oppositional Congresses than trifectas since Clinton
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Shambling Corpse of Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com · 05/10/2026
A major problem with American presidentialism is that 4 years is plenty of time to wreck things but not a lot of time to build back
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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 05/10/2026
What's needed is to get people caring about politics as a process rather than a game to permanently win. Fascism never goes away, it's just kept at bay by various means: education, civic duty, etc.
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think it's moreso that Brazil essentially did most of the right things re:prosecuting and imprisoning both the insurrectionists and the former prez, only to want to send the pendulum all the way back with Bolsanaro Jr. Even w/o believing in the 'One Weird Trick' it's a pretty depressing regression
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The end of the intro to You Can't Do That On Television. Yes, I grew up weaned on Nickelodeon.
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Much as I'm still giving her stinkeye for her role re:Biden, this IS what Pelosi was talking about when she said she wanted a "strong conservative party". She wanted an opposition that was strong enough to resist authoritarianism that our Republic wasn't at stake every time Dems were out of power
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"The Wild Card" "Touch and Go (Away)" "Know When To Fold 'Em" "All Take and No Give" "Worth The Gamble" "Stealing the Moment" "All Take And No Give (Reprise)" "Hand In Hand"
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There has been, in fact, negative incentive to do impeachment without sufficient numbers, as folks on the left have pretended Dems tried wrong on purpose if they didn't succeed and the right & the media decided it meant he had to be totally stainless and innocent. Dem'd if you do, Dem'd if you don't
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Unfortunately, as we've already seen, folks keep expecting Dems to already be doing magic in the minority, and that Dems might not be able to overturn a Veto is already being used as reason to scorn Dems, not focus blame on obstructionist GOPers. Case in point:
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So, you know how much was made about vague "oligarchs" and how we needed to fight them without actually naming names? *This* is what an actual oligarch looks and sounds like. Someone who not only sincerely believes he knows better on how you should live, but has the power and authority to impose it
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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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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Alito in the dissent: "Declaring untrue something that President Trump has said is a direct violation of his constitutional right to free speech, and therefore anything that contradicts the president should be declared insurrection tantamount to treason"
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No argument there. But grace where it's deserved, Jack got to a place that a lot of Trump voters never even get to.
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I have very low sympathy for Jack. I have only venom for the mom Diana, who is very clearly a vile racist that tried to indoctrinate Jack into being the same kind of racist. That Jack at least shows contrition is a minor step in the right direction.
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Who could've guessed that letting an electric mouse free in a location dependent on precision electronics for survival may, just may, have been a bad idea.
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Not even just that. It's that we're in over a decade of institutions bending over for Trump by dint of being specifically a political media fascination, after 3 decades of being a car crash media fascination, and folks still act like he was some uniquely *weak* opponent Dems were too stupid to beat
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
hard to think of a cartoon that better sums up the mind of a Trump voter than this
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Don't you love self-demonstrating replies sometimes?
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump, very specifically, seems to have a special stranglehold on the media which privileges him to nigh-infinite advantages that no other political figure is offered.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
also thanks jd vance and christopher rufo
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
She's in the story literally insinuating that Pierre, the man who was hit by the truck, was a potential suicide bomber and was noted as, personally, the source of all of Jack's misinfo about Haitians and specifically the ones in Ohio.
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ah, yes, it's the alive white folk who are being abused and dehumanized, not the man whose live was literally ruined by legalized and institutionalized racism that it drove him to seek death as a way out.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I appreciate the attempt to build bridges here but: 1) there's not a single thing stopping Republican voters from asking genuine, curious questions from the other side of the river; and 2) this genuinely underestimates how deranged and nasty baseline MAGA discourse has become. I don't need that.
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
One of the worst headwinds that the Dems continually have to fight against is folks refusing to believe that the GOP is as bad as the GOP themselves say they'll be, nor that Dems will actually ever be anywhere as good as they promise to be. Media-fed frames of 'GOP good, Dem bad' soaked into it all
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Like I truly don’t understand how you could have been anywhere in the vicinity of Springfield Ohio even before the election and thought that he’d only go after “criminals.” Trump, Vance, and CO werent subtle in the slightest. I can only really conclude this was a lie the median voter told themselves
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Every single one of these stories is like this and it pisses me off to no end
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's not just the 'it can only good happen' problem. It's the whole conceit of 'everything is the worst ever so any change must be good'. Everyone's scale of of things is so whacked out and informed full of holes that they refuse to believe proof of what is and isn't even when offered to their faces
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's one half Casino Gauntlet, one half Iron Man
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Contains still one of the best Don't Fear The Reaper covers to date
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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There is no such thing as a protest vote, and refusing to vote isn't protesting, it's surrendering. Anyone trying to convince you not to vote is trying to manipulate you for their own ends, to use your gullibility to profit off of. Do not listen to them, do not trust them. Vote. Always. Period.
Not voting is not a statement.

It's rendering yourself invisible.
It is silencing your own voice.
It is self-marginalization.
It's allowing your future to be
determined by other people and
pretending that's a victory.
Register.
Vote.
Make a statement.
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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The message and the fact that it's making folks upset in WWE makes me think better of Rock and even worse of WWE than before. It came off as a legit heartfelt and personal message, and that he did so despite it upsetting folks in the fed makes it even more worthwhile
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