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If "Trump TV" or some other such house organ has exclusive streaming rights, that would be difficult to influence. But any GOP House member currently up for re-election should have to answer two questions: do they approve of the live-streaming - and if not, will they vote for Hegseth's impeachment?

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 1h

No way in hell the US government should be live-streaming an execution.

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 6h

Refugee advocates like @cwsglobal.bsky.social @rcusa.bsky.social are speaking out against cutting off Medicaid to refugees and asylees (that have not yet received green cards). Those populations are definitionally traumatized; a large percentage of them are torture survivors.

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Looking forward to someday seeing words reunited with their meanings.

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That's right - "abolish ICE" doesn't get to the root of the problem. No reason to have the multifaceted issue of immigration policy enforcement reduced to a security frame.

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

He is WILDLY over-estimating the percentage of American citizens who approve of Elon Musk

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The in-gathering of the oligarchs - or, putting the boyars under control of the tsar.

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s hard to out-bullshit Trump, but certain people feel they need to try.

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And its arch-rival Miniwestpoint

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The emperor's new pronunciation guide

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Musk’s “Sounds Correct” is the bleating of the world’s #1 cheerleader for fascism.

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Their glee at destroying lives while simultaneously taking a sledgehammer to the US economy is deeply pathological.

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah special dispensation for the monster aspirin eater

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Because he didn’t finish breaking the country with DOGE

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I really need to know more about why micro payments don’t work because ultimately that’s got to be the solution. I cannot possibly keep up an infinite number of subscriptions, whether it be for newsletters, or streaming channels. All of this fragmentation does a disservice to everyone.

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He's vamping until Congress reconvenes and impeaches him.

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

With the sound off, this looks like a high-school talent show performance of the big monologue from the movie “Patton.”

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maybe November will bring Thermidor

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Send crayon sharpeners - because I think we found the weak link in the 64-pack

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

An apology is indeed in order. Adding a rank insult to a false accusation based on mistaken information? Not worthy of a US Senator.

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This same guy is illegally interfering with Congress's power of the purse through pocket recissions dripping with racial animus.

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Let them eat paintings of cake

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He’s a nonsense meme generator

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We must somehow rearrange things so that billionaires cease to be gatekeepers of speech.

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Those who claim some human beings “aren’t real people” are expressing one of the core tenants of fascism.

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The administration’s treatment of Haitians is unconscionable.

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

UNGA week measure? The only other time I saw ICE at the departure gate in a Chicago airport was boarding a flight to Boston the day of the marathon there.

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm wondering about the terms Jif and Skippy

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bluesky a bubble? In the immortal words of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (as voiced by Jenny Slate): “Compared to WHAT?”

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Trump administration's refugee program is highly discriminatory. More than 450 state and local elected officials from across the country are calling for the US to welcome as refugees "those fleeing persecution, regardless of their race, religion, or country of origin." tinyurl.com/2tpr5j8n

refugeeadvocacylab.org

450+ U.S. State and Local Elected Officials Call to Restore Refugee Program — The Refugee Advocacy Lab

WASHINGTON—Today, more than 450 state and local elected officials across the country delivered a letter to the Trump administration calling to rebuild a refugee program that is fair, strengthens our c...

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The United Nations was founded to preserve peace. It’s a horrific turn of events to have the US president take the podium there boasting of war crimes and threatening to commit more.

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lawyer for Texas man shot by ICE, Wilber Garcés Perez: No more traffic stops by ICE. ICE does not know how to conduct traffic stops safely. We need our members of Congress to put a stop to ICE stopping people in traffic

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s ridiculous that we’re this far into the 21st century and it’s more complicated to watch television than it was 40 years ago! We need a complete reboot. Let us watch any streaming service we want, subscription-free & set up a micropayments system so that everyone who needs to get paid gets paid.

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There is no good reason for the White House to be micromanaging scientific research - only bad reasons.

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is getting ridiculous

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A president who bans the free press should not be president.

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

After all this, the term "fake news" must be thoroughly expunged from political discourse

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don't know, but we've seen quite enough of orbs lately

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

AFL-CIO report: "Taxpayers are losing access to vital services while paying an average of $2,358 per year to support this [immigration enforcement] agenda that runs directly counter to the economic interests of working families."

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

More from the AFL-CIO/ACLU report: "Dramatically increasing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) budgets and corporate contracts while gutting healthcare and other key programs shifts costs onto working families."

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

From AFL-CIO/ACLU's report: "Trump’s immigration agenda is worsening the affordability crisis for everyone: Mass deportations create an 'economy of fear' that: enables workplace exploitation, stunts business activity and revenue creation, drives up prices, and kills jobs." aflcio.org/reports/citi...

aflcio.org

Citizenship and the Affordability Agenda | AFL-CIO

After nearly four decades of punitive enforcement focused immigration policies, it is time to rebalance our system. A path to better jobs, higher wages, and prosperity for all.

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The White House's failure to understand the economic contributions of immigrants is as damaging to this country as its failure to understand international trade. The must-read new AFL-CIO/ACLU report shows how mass deportations DRAMATICALLY WORSEN the affordability crisis aflcio.org/reports/citi...

aflcio.org

Citizenship and the Affordability Agenda | AFL-CIO

After nearly four decades of punitive enforcement focused immigration policies, it is time to rebalance our system. A path to better jobs, higher wages, and prosperity for all.

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

These are things institutions do to try to survive under authoritarian regimes. In the mid-2000s, I was part of consortium that helped a university in Belarus relocate to Lithuania after the Lukashenko regime tried to impose rigid ideological controls. It enrages me to see the US follow that path.

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For a country where liberty is so central to our political imaginary, it should be no stretch to condemn widespread abuses and abductions by masked federal agents, arbitrary detention under inhumane conditions, and summary deportations without due process.

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