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Kyle

@kbergan.bsky.social
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Nurse Practitioner / Historical Fencer / Board Game Enthusiast / Sci-fi Nerd / Craft Whiskey Magnificent Bastard / Former local blogger I probably don't have the political identity you think I do

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 30/09/2025
one can (and probably should) fault Clintonian/Blairite "triangulation," but "if we do this, the left will yell at us" was part of the strategy! if the left yelling at you is bad then it is a bad strategy!
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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Folk in Pennsylvania voted for John Fetterman because they thought he was a progressive and found out he was just Kyrsten Sinema in a funky hoodie and unwashed basketball shorts.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Two senior Republican appropriators agree it doesn't make any sense for Democrats to agree to a government funding deal unless Trump actually adheres to the deal. The Democratic alternative CR had language that would address this, but the White House came out strongly against.
“I don’t think the Democrats want to shut down either,” Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), a senior appropriator, told Bloomberg Government. “Their concern right now, and it’s a legitimate concern, is that, how can we agree to any deal when our OMB director will just impound the funds and say we’re not going to spend them there?”“If you’re a Democrat — even just like a mainstream Democrat — your predisposition might be to help negotiate with Republicans on a funding mechanism,” said Rep. Steve Womack, a senior GOP appropriator. “Why would you do that if you know that whatever you negotiate is going to be subject to the knife pulled out by Russ Vought?”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Hundreds of generals and admirals had to fly in from all over the world so Pete Kegseth can live out his Patton fantasies.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
"Dems will get blamed for a shutdown" as opposed to what, all the friendly coverage and positive credit they'd get for caving yet again? This whole premise is built on a delusion about what the alternative is. There's no cowering in the corner and being so inoffensive they won't still attack you.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I do not want the video. I will never watch the video. I usually won’t even give the video the effort of complaint. I just want to read the news story. Give me the text. This would be my Ted Talk but that would be text too.
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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Why? I dunno Maureen, maybe living under a fascist bootheel isn't so bad after all. Looks like there's a decent chance we're all going to find out thanks to you and yours Two-party system math isn't hard, and it's not brainwashing. Not voting against the fascist is the same as supporting them
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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Another leftist who wants fascism I mean, understanding how voting works in our shitty two-party system isn't hard
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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid
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a man wearing sunglasses and a bandana is standing in front of a field .
ALT: a man wearing sunglasses and a bandana is standing in front of a field .
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I know for a fact that Antifa is not an organization because I don't get emails from them asking for money.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2025
Trump leaked this story because he wants to you hear it. Let’s be clear :: Trump wants you to blame a shutdown for shit he is planning to do anyhow. If dems cave and fund him, he will STILL wield executive power and slash government programs. He HAS BEEN doing that with the government open.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
The woke left is alienating edgy young comics like Bill Maher and Jerry Seinfeld
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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Excellent example of a leftist strawman argument You didn't "fail" the politician, you failed your country and your fellow citizens by not voting for the candidate most likely to overcome a fascist in a two-party system
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Feds march into downtown Chicago; top border agent says people are being arrested based on ‘how they look’
chicago.suntimes.com
Feds march into downtown Chicago; top border agent says people are arrested based on ‘how they look’
Immigration agents wearing tactical gear and carrying long guns made arrests in downtown Chicago and the River North neighborhood Sunday. “This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of intimidatio...
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Imagine George W Bush causing 5k dead US soldiers 1 million dead Iraqis an occupation w/no WMDs a global recession Wall St meltdown derivatives & housing market crash blow off a hurricane crash economy while enriching millionaires... ...and he's still not the worst POTUS of the 21st Century.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
There is a difference between righteous anger, directed at injustice, and hateful anger, directed at those who are different. Authoritarian regimes deliberately conflate the two to silence criticism and create false equivalence. It's important we don't let those in power succeed in this endeavor.
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A Republic If You Can Keep It @arepublicif.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
EVERY time since Columbine that people have been slaughtered at school, house of worship, theater, etc. we have been screeched at by 2nd amendment freaks about the right to protect against tyranny. Where are they now? OH they’re masked in camo *checks notes* DOING ALL THE TYRANNY. #AbolishICE
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.
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John Paul Helveston @jhelvy.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Angry goose meme: "why can't they sell the harvest?!"
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 29/09/2025
Impeachment isn’t just a political strategy; it’s the last defense of our Constitution. Republicans must act now, decisively and unapologetically. If they do, they may yet save America and themselves… hartmannreport.com/p/impeach-or...
hartmannreport.com
Impeach or Perish: Why Republicans Must Choose Between Trump and the Constitution
Impeachment isn’t just a political strategy; it’s the last defense of our Constitution. Republicans must act now, decisively and unapologetically. If they do, they may yet save America and themselves…
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 29/09/2025
It seems that none of the Advanced Politics Knowers can explain why Sir is unpopular and they don't seem interested in talking to anyone who can.
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Nissim @nissimss.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
The government’s projection of a violent left is a perfect mirror of what they want to inflict themselves—organized violence.
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johnny deformed @bizzo.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
i thought medbed stepped down for putin to run again
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I promise to stop comparing MAGA to Nazis as soon as MAGA stops acting like Nazis.
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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
❗️ WE DEMAND THE RELEASE OF JOURNALIST STEVE HELD. Federal agents detained Chicago journalist Steve Held of the independent press platform Unraveled @unraveledpress.com on Saturday, Sept. 27, while he was reporting on the ongoing protests outside the ICE Processing Facility at Broadview, IL. (1/3)
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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
1/ I get why people are annoyed with Minority Leader Jeffries, but until the time comes that Speaker Johnson's caucus fractures and he comes crawling to Jeffries for votes, Jeffries has no power.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
New Dem leadership. Churchill, not Chamberlain.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
“Stance on children’s health“ like, he’s against it?
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.
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Matthew @dlthings.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions
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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
@durbin.senate.gov, will you be a #quisling or will you and @schumer.senate.gov actually stand up to the Trump regime and refuse to vote for cloture until your reasonable demands are met?
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Jared Rutecki @jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Broadview’s mayor decried the “relentless deployment of tear gas, pepper spray, mace, and rubber bullets” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents against protesters outside a suburban processing facility.
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Broadview Mayor Calls on ICE to Stop ‘Making War’ After Using Tear Gas, Rubber Ammo Against Protesters
Mayor Katrina Thompson in a letter to the ICE Field Office Director Russell Hott on Friday claimed ICE’s response to protesters exercising their First Amendment rights outside the Broadview facility i...
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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
While Portland is correct to organize and prepare, I will believe that Trump is sending troops there when they actually arrive. So much of the shit Trump says is a trial balloon. Shoot it down like @govpritzker.illinois.gov and Mayor Brandon Johnson did and Trump will turn his stupidity elsewhere
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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I am disappointed by this compromise. The bungalow belt is part of the problem
blockclubchicago.org
New Coach Houses, Basement Units To Be Allowed Citywide — With Restrictions In Single-Family Areas
The City Council passed a compromise plan to allow the construction of additional dwelling units citywide. The units will still be banned in certain districts unless individual alderpeople opt in.
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Fight The Right… 👊🏼👊🏽👊🏿 @wtafc.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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Forbes @forbes.com · 25/09/2025
In previous shutdown negotiations, right-wing Republicans have threatened to allow the government to shut down.
forbes.com
Democrats Could Benefit From A Government Shutdown—Here’s Why
In previous shutdown negotiations, right-wing Republicans have threatened to allow the government to shut down.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
This chart just blows my mind.
Comparison of media coverage for Obama's tan suit versus the Comey indictment.
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suzette sommer @suzette.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I am so old that I remember when the federal government backed up farmers due to bad weather destroying crops, not because a stupid president destroyed their sales contracts.
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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
@durbin.senate.gov, don't be a #Quisling - stand up to the administration this time and refuse to allow cloture on the CR without significant concessions
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Benny @bennydiego.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
This cartoon is spot on. @bagleycartoons.bsky.social
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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The "male loneliness epidemic" has the same causes as the "economic insecurity" that prompted support for Trump in 2016: 40+ years of the effects of Reaganomics hitting average people, who then direct their rage not at the actual causes but against the same old targets: women and minorities
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House Democrats @housedemocrats.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Instead of working with Democrats on a bipartisan spending bill, House Republicans have left town. Government funding runs out in just FIVE days. If the government shuts down, it will be on Republicans.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 26/09/2025
For you kids who don’t remember Scooter Libby, here’s a fun exercise: read Lindsey Halligan’s bio and then read this one for Patrick Fitzgerald, who will be defending Comey. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick...
en.wikipedia.org
Patrick Fitzgerald - Wikipedia
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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Those who tout Obama's Nobel Peace Prize forget/ignore the fact that he basically got it for not being Dubya. If Trump manages not to die of a stroke or heart attack before his term ends, his Democratic successor will likely get the same treatment
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JoyousPanther @joyouspanther.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Left: Wow. We need gun reform. Right: Wow. We need to put the left in concentration camps. Media: Ok. It's time for the the left to bring down the political temperature here. Enough is enough.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2025
You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.
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donoteat @donoteat.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
i feel like this problem could be avoided if the railroads didn't have a business model that required 200-car, 2.5-mile-long trains full of imported TVs and washing machines to idle in unsecured sidings for hours on end while waiting for other traffic to clear
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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 24/09/2025
"What if... hear me out.. we COULD split the baby?" - dems on various civil rights issues for 30 years
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