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Otis Meyer @elevatorguy.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

It's time to study Marx to see what he got right and wrong. It's time to study Lenin to see what he did wrong and right.

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Otis Meyer @elevatorguy.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Here's an interesting thought. If we worked for an economy that worked for everybody, it would better work for everyone. So why don't we? The only reasons to not do so are based on wanting others to not succeed. Not a very comfortable thought.

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Otis Meyer @elevatorguy.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

"Netanyahu Releases Letter Nominating Trump for Nobel Peace Prize" How do I begin to describe how cringe worthy that headline is?

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Otis Meyer @elevatorguy.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

A more fitting name for the new Nazi-style "detention" camp in Florida? Alligator Auschwitz. Or perhaps Gator Gulag. Yeah. Times are that bad.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Rep. @aoc.bsky.social on ny1 : “People are going to get sick and go hungry… They’re giving people crumbs and taking away the whole loaf… One of the saddest days in 🇺🇸 history.”

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

i would like to start one day without something completely fucking insane.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

This is a really bad time to be a person who understands history well… Everything may not look exactly the same, but it rhymes.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Birthright citizenship is a Constitutional RIGHT. Any attack on it is an attack on us all. This is an attempt by far-right justices to attack immigrant communities and remove protections from any American who questions Trump. Your rights are nonnegotiable. We can’t compromise on that basic fact.

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PeterBMeme @peterbmeme.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

RECIPE FOR DISASTER Ignorance and Gut Feelings

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Otis Meyer @elevatorguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

So Trump has declared the Iran bombing to be a "victory". That's a sure sign it's a complete failure. Iran has a long memory and a penchant for revenge. And America is now directly in the line of fire.

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Otis Meyer @elevatorguy.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Bomb Iran. Now there's a truly horrible idea. I fear the blow-back from this. Regime change? Have we learned nothing from every other time we've tried this? And all to keep people from noticing the Constitution being ignored. Ever wonder how Germany become Nazi? Just look around you.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/06/2025

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

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Otis Meyer @elevatorguy.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

"To many holidays" on Juneteent. "Jose" Padilla the very next day. This is what blatant open racism sounds like. And so many Americans are happy about this. It makes me cringe to think about it. I thought America was so much better than this.

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Otis Meyer @elevatorguy.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Let's take everything we've done wrong in the past and do it again, only bigger and meaner.

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Otis Meyer @elevatorguy.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Hope. Caring. Compassion. Thanks to my parents for installing those feelings in me. I'm glad to have them to inspire me in these often difficult times.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The lack of historical knowledge on display in this "just asking questions" march through loving and/or hating Russia, Germany, and Japan is just plain jaw-dropping🗃️ What did happen after #WWII? Hmmm, what about that whole #ColdWar? What has happened with those nations from the 1990s to now?

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Otis Meyer @elevatorguy.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Racism is a core problem in the United States. It's why the electorate chose a lying felon over the smart black woman. It's why the Mexicans looking for work at the local Home Depot are being rounded up and deported. It's not about jobs or anything else. It's open rampant racism.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I've tried to work with him. You can't work with Donald Trump. You can only work FOR him. And I will not - I refuse - to work for Donald Trump."

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Our Revolution @our-revolution.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

“This is not law and order—it’s tyranny. “When power is concentrated in the hands of a corrupt few, and dissent is met with armed repression, democracy itself is under siege. We must call this what it is: a threat to the republic.” - Our Revolution Executive Director Joseph Geevarghese.

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Otis Meyer @elevatorguy.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

United States Marines deployed to LA to help ICE agents deport people? I'm living in a police state America I don't recognize.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

The National Guard has arrived in Los Angeles, but they were not requested by California. Both Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass made it clear that the state did not authorize or want federal troops deployed.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

everyone who’s spent years stockpiling weapons and screeching about “tyranny” and “government overreach” sure is fucking quiet right now

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Otis Meyer @elevatorguy.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

So here we are wondering if the current pissing match between the world most powerful baby and the world's richest man child is real or just another snit along the road toward oligarchy and authoritarianism.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 06/06/2025

America has never needed an effective opposition party as badly as it needs one now; instead we have the most feckless Democratic leaders of the past 100 years. trib.al/qGVZwb7

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Is This the Best the Democrats Can Do?

Recent comments from Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries suggest that the party’s leaders are ill suited for the moment.

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Otis Meyer @elevatorguy.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

It's hard to celebrate a "victory" when a federal court overturns some insane action the Trump administration is taking. They will just ignore it until it gets to the Supreme Court who may well allow it.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

EVERYTHING IN CRISIS

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

It’s now Marxist to understand that the Constitution only authorizes Congress to impose tariffs.

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Otis Meyer @elevatorguy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

The last time the United States was as sharply divided as it is now was over the right to own other people as slaves. Now it's about what? Believing a lying, cheating, grifter is somehow good for America despite his deliberate repeated failure to uphold the US Constitution?

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

So he raised the tariffs, paused that raise, paused that pause, then paused that pause of the pause. And no-one knows if it'll be paused again (and if such a pause will be unpaused) or what happens when (or if) the pause whose pause was paused concludes.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Do you know why this matters? Because the right to suspend habeas corpus is in ARTICLE I, the part of the Constitution which provides powers to CONGRESS. That Lincoln suspended habeas corpus (and retroactively got Congress to agree) doesn't mean it's an inherent presidential power.

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Otis Meyer @elevatorguy.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

With a President actively defying the Constitution, a Congress controlled by a party completely complicit in allowing it and a Supreme Court actively avoiding any measures to address it, and we have a crisis in democracy unlikely to be solved by waiting for the midterm or presidential elections.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/05/2025

"The Constitution prohibits public officials from accepting a present from a foreign state" -- Mike Pence has discovered the Emoluments Clause!

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Otis Meyer @elevatorguy.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Have you ever stood up at a public bathroom and had the toilet reflush over and over as you pulled up your pants and adjusted them? That is AI in a nutshell.

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Could you imagine the response if a democratic president said they didn’t know if they had to uphold the Constitution? How fast would the articles of impeachment be drawn ? 20 minutes at the most

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

AOC: If anyone is breaking the law in this situation, it’s not members of Congress — it’s DHS. It’s people like Tom Homan and Secretary Kristi Noem. You lay a finger on Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman or any of the Representatives that were there… we’re going to have a problem.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Bribery in plain sight.

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Otis Meyer @elevatorguy.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

We need new political parties to arise in America. I am more than a Democrat. But I can't ever imagine voting for a Republican, so I'm stuck with them. And Republicans can never imagine voting for a Democrat, so they're stuck too.

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Otis Meyer @elevatorguy.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I turn to Bluesky for solice from a world of madness and misinformation. Intelligent people and a world based on facts can be found here.

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Hear me out. It might be a good time to better understand American Constitutional history. And @historians.org has a series of booklets covering Constitutional topics such as judicial review, political parties, and immigration. They are about 50–70 pages, so a quick read. (And teachable!) 🗃️

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