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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 5h

The Theatre of Punishment: when authoritarian states rely on the expressive, visible power of "shock punishment" to project absolute dominance when their political legitimacy feels threatened.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5h

I note how Christian Nationalists, who think the public execution of Jesus was the most horrific thing humans ever did, are giddy at the prospect of getting to watch a public execution on live streaming—being so “pro-life” and all . . .

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 3h

This is simply evil.

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 17h

"Donald Trump told television host Billy Bush about his approach to women. “I don’t even wait” to start kissing them, he said. “And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.... Grab ‘em by the p***y. You can do anything.” Exactly how multiple women described his attacks.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

Only in a government run by Trump and a State Dept run by Rubio can an unqualified grifter like Kim Guilfoyle remain Ambassador to Greece after all the scandals that have come out just in the last week. But she obviously has A LOT of dirt on the president’s son, so tough to fire.

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This was the perfect come back to an out of touch Susan Collins. She also stated that in 1994 she didn't have healthcare. Like the healthcare industry hasn't changed at all since then? And for only one year? She's concerned, as usual, as always.

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Trump called out Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought, a key author of Project 2025, saying: “We have some big surprises coming up in another few weeks, right Russ? He’s gonna be one of the very important people in the history of our country in my opinion...”

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Land of the free, home of the brave

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"As Alito’s statement that the right of women to have control over their healthcare was simply an abstract idea that didn’t have to be protected suggested, undermining the post–World War II order has been a long-term project. In its place, Trump and his allies propose a dictatorship."

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The white evangelical movement split in the 1970s so those who hated civil rights, especially for women, could boost right-wing Republicans. Talarico is reclaiming the movement for the others, and it is a very different thing indeed. Jimmy Carter v. Jerry Falwell.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Job creation numbers: "The blue columns point to Biden’s presidency, while the red columns point to Trump’s..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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“You kidnapped my son”

ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"The fact that he is openly using taxpayer money to buy votes in the election suggests just how worried Trump is about Democrats winning control of Congress in the upcoming midterms." I hope his worries come true. The corruption of this administration, as well as his family, must end.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

NO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"This is still America,” Springsteen told the audience of the administration’s tyranny, “and this will not stand.” #vote

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"One three-time Trump voter in Ohio, who was one of 1,400 just laid off from a truck factory just days before Trump held a rally nearby, is now knocking on doors for Democrats. “Something has to change politically in this country,” ...“Seems like it just kept getting worse and worse and worse.”

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Nothing to lose." Read that again. It's the most dangerous phrase in business, in negotiation, and in war. Per US officials…Trump is reportedly weighing boots on the ground in Iran after the midterms. When a man stops counting the cost….we damn sure better be.

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I read as much as my brain could handle last evening. I wish I could say it's unbelievable, but, it's typical deranged Trump. Who happens to be our president. Scary.

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The fact that the United States Constitution and foreign affairs appear to be at the mercy of one man and the loyalists he has around him undermines the principles at the heart of our democracy. The fact that that one man’s mental acuity has collapsed is an immediate calamity." Scary times.

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is an excellent idea!

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

".. Pete Hegseth delivered a “State of the Force”...he transformed the military by enforcing the idea of “[n]o fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors.” “The ideological clowns are out,“The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top.” #WTF

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So what if you just want to serve your country in the military now and don’t want Christian nationalism shoved down your throat and pushed on you by military leadership? I guess you are out of luck. Because that was our military for the entire history of the country until now.

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Jawbreaker @jawbreaker0834.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We know who the real dirtbags are, thanks… #EricSchmittResign

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"As special counsel, Smith said, he and his office “took actions based on the facts and the law.” “Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in criminal activity,” he said." Yesterday's gotcha moment by Senator Schmitt was a cluster@#$%. Sad...

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"In the New Yorker, Susan Glasser wrote about “The Week Republicans Finally Panicked About Trump.” She notes that “[n]o modern president has ever gone into a midterm election this unpopular.” His approval rating is now twice as low as it was in 2018 when Republicans lost forty-one House seats."

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So the Republicans made up stories about Hatians eating pets to defame them; yet when their buddy Putin bombs an animal shelter, it's crickets.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Like everything else Trump “fixes,” the reflecting pool (along with the war in Iran, gas prices, beef prices, and mortgage rates) is in exponentially worse shape than when he started.

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rest up everyone, it'll be another unbelievably crazy week again in Trumpland. Sad...

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"But now it appears that Trump has yet another power move on his mind. ..Washington Post reported tonight that the administration is considering hosting a Major League Baseball game at a national park. It has been scouting where it could build a baseball facility in Grand Teton National Park." #WTF

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So true. There are times we all get down by the chaos around us, but it is not hopeless!

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"MAGA is falling apart, and he either lives in a fantasy world or hopes to stem that collapse by issuing propaganda that will convince voters he is actually winning." He definitely lives in a fantasy world, surrounded by sycophants who will never tell him the truth. Sad.

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"McCrery warned that Trump’s design did not have enough emergency exits or measures to contain a fire, which could spread quickly from the kitchen below the ballroom to the event space.., and pointed out that the design was not up to code. Trump waved off his concerns. “I am the code,” he said."

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Touting his own “Board of Peace” and continuing his fiction that he has solved multiple wars, he outlined a fantasy worldview of himself as a powerful dictator, a man of action who rejects the diplomacy at the heart of the U.N." The wirkd is laughing...

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Francis Ford Copulate @francis-f-copulate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

rats and ships and shit😂

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Those who ban the press and start state run media are never the good guys in history.

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"There’s that “national security” claim again: the same justification he’s using for building his ballroom and now his triumphal arch. It is also, not coincidentally, the excuse President Richard M. Nixon floated for covering up the Watergate break-in in June 1972." Drones stored in the arch. 😆

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Rutte outlined what he called NATO 3.0. If NATO 1.0 was the phase of the organization that pushed back against the Soviet Union... he said, NATO 3.0 is one in which the weight of NATO shifts away from the United States and toward the United Kingdom, Europe, and Canada." Russia, Russia, Russia

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NAACP president Derrick Johnson: “Donald Trump’s move to ban professional journalists who deliver the facts every day from the White House can only be described as authoritarian”

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So much to learn about our past.

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