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The Outlaw Josey & the Pussycats

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 29/09/2025
I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.
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The Outlaw Josey & the Pussycats @laura718.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Why would a 31-year-old man make a career out of debating and trying to humiliate college students 10 years younger than himself?
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
What you would do when authoritarianism comes to the United States is what you're doing right now
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
i just… i cannot even mentally wrap my head around how profoundly bad the media coverage of the dc situation is like if it was a crisis in a media market where reporters are parachuting in that’s one thing but these journalists are walking by troops and agents every day now …crickets
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Democrats have so failed this moment in US politics.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I respect Jeff’s work but we should be careful about what we forecast & how inevitable we make it seem. We are not close to a civil war, but I worry we are perilously close to a mass casualty event because of the undisciplined nature of irregular security forces & an extremely armed civil society
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
'While customers sitting outside at the Logan Circle cafe munched on avocado smash and matcha pancakes, two and then an additional four masked agents beat the shit out of the man in broad daylight. This is America.' Please read this and support @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
The White House is mobilizing red state military forces to occupy a Democratic stronghold and let me tell you: No one has ever pretended something isn't happening harder than Democratic leaders are pretending this isn't happening right now.
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victorblackwell.bsky.social @victorblackwell.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Spike Lee endorses Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
We have the money for universal healthcare, they just decided to spend it on tanks attacking American cities instead. Remember that the next time they ask anyone left of center “how will you pay for it?”
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
DHS obviously has no business attending a governor's press conference about redistricting. The fact that they are is a sign things have progressed beyond policy or law enforcement into general oppression of Democratic governance.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Mamdani's enemies talk about socialism. Mamdani talks about transit issues of concern to the Far Rockaways. Which is why he will be elected.
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The Outlaw Josey & the Pussycats @laura718.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
As a former resident, I can tell you that the only crime plaguing DC is that it is criminally boring
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
i want to see democrats on cnbc absolutely ripping into our titans of industry for backing the worst economic president of our lifetimes and refusing to break ranks
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The Outlaw Josey & the Pussycats @laura718.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
"I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened." "So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." (ht @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social)
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LOTR The Fellowship of the Ring - Extended Edition - Gandalf speaks to Frodo in Moria
YouTube video by EgalmothOfGondolin01
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
In authoritarian crackdowns, it’s important to randomly ensnare some people whom one would think would be safe, so that everyone is at least a little bit afraid that something could happen to them. The regime scales up its power of intimidation over a much larger group than those directly affected.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Texas DA once paid for an abortion — then charged a woman who had one with murder, court filing claims www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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Texas DA who charged abortion patient with murder accused of once paying for one
Three years after Texas prosecutors charged a woman with murder for inducing her own abortion, the local district attorney is accused of paying for an abortion while having an affair decades ago.
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Mindalorian @mindalorian.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
POTUS is speaking about using the military inside the U.S. and federalizing municipal police. They no longer will be controlled by local officials. He's conquering the country from within. He will control all government agencies. Remember, he said there will be no need for elections anymore.
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Every day there are 3-4 things out of Trump that should make that particular day "a day that will live in infamy." But we barely get time to reflect and organize before it's something else. Every day, infamous. The DC fascist spectacle in particular is more horseshit than "I barely knew Epstein."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
there are so many open layups and somehow dems can’t make them. republicans are literally pulling cancer treatment from children and they can’t message on that??? like what the fuck are we doing here
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Trumpism has proven the Jamie Dimons of the world are nihilists at heart. They don't care about anything, not America, democracy, law, nor even capitalism. All their chest-puffing about the importance of free markets, liberty, and prosperity gone instantly in favor of an aging addled authoritarian.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Good morning, the biggest story in public health today is still that the United States is building illegal concentration camps
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 31/07/2025
He has no intention of leaving.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
a thin white woman in head to toe lululemon screaming at these thugs makes me think ICE has jumped the shark
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 26/07/2025
The increasingly egregious leveraging of pardons is just another one of those things that tells me that while they won’t actually come out and Say It say it until like 2027/8, they ain’t planning for there to be another election.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
We are seven months in, and the speed with which vital civic institutions are capitulating to authoritarian demands we once would have regarded as inconceivable in an established liberal democracy is jawdropping. I hadn't thought I was polyannaish about America, but it's really stunning.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
If I had a nickel for every time the Democrats turned away from a fight preemptively because the giant brains who run the party decided they can’t win anyway I’d have a ton of money. They just don’t understand that people want them to fight all the fights including the losing ones.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 18/07/2025
It’s pretty bad when this whole episode, as funny as it is, brings absolutely zero relief. Nothing reverses the fact that someone of this magnitude of perversion, failure, and corruption easily ascended to the highest office on earth and destroyed everything around him in under 6 months.
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Office of NYC Comptroller Mark Levine @nyccomptroller.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Immigration court felt like a murderous reality show today. The judge granted two gentlemen asylum hearings in 2029. But it was all a sham—They were abducted by ICE before they left the building. There is more the City & the State must do. We cannot allow the rule of law to be eroded case by case.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
“Try Zohran — the people’s anti-depressant.”
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
“The fact that organized protest can break the spiral of silence, and correct our impressions of what other Americans think, is one of the most immediate and important values of protesting in the first place. Scientists have [shown] protests update our impressions of what other citizens believe.”
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What a ‘Spiral of Silence’ Can Do to a Democracy
Protests show people they are not alone in caring about an issue.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
There are currently more kids in Texas with measles than there are transgender collegiate athletes in all of America. Guess which one they want you to focus on.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
UTAH… this is not a game…
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
The position of ICE/DHS is that there is no law they have to obey, you cannot see their names or faces, you cannot tell anyone where they are or record them, and they can detain anyone indefinitely regardless of citizenship status. This is completely incompatible with a remotely free society
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
GOP SENATOR CHUCK GRASSLEY GETS CALLED OUT AT IOWA TOWN HALL
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
It is journalistic malpractice for news outlets to keep repeating that Trump's attack on Harvard has anything to do with alleged antisemitism. The president who uses antisemitic slurs and hires Nazis is not doing anything out of concern for antisemitism. His actions are about control.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 10/07/2025
You can’t shrink government to the size where you can drown it in a bathtub and then be surprised when it can’t rescue people from a flood.
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Stephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com · 10/07/2025
Another reason it's so infuriating that Democrats refuse to even discuss impeachment. Yes, they'd probably lose, but you'd have to at least make it clear that this is not acceptable. There has to be more consequences than expecting Republicans to feel shame.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
This is a real tweet from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
DHS Twitter account: 
FIRE UP THE DEPORTATION PLANES!

Image of a skeleton doing squats with the text MY BODY IS A
THAT TURNS
MACHINE
ICE FUNDING
INTO
MASS DEPORTATIONS
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The Outlaw Josey & the Pussycats @laura718.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Asked about responsibility following a helicopter tour of the devastation, Mr. Abbott called that the “word choice of losers” and compared disaster response to football: “The losing teams are the ones that try to point out who’s to blame,” he said, while champions respond, “We got this.”
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At Least 161 Still Missing in a Single Texas County, Governor Says
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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 07/07/2025
It looks like ICE is going to bring Los Angeles-style immigrant raids to NYC: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Those violent and visible raids will incite militant anti-ICE protests. Will Trump then call in the National Guard and Marines to suppress them?
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Trump Immigration Enforcer Says ICE Will Boost Raids in New York
Tom Homan, the border czar for President Donald Trump, said that immigration agents will ramp up arrests in New York City as part of a broader crackdown on sanctuary jurisdictions that limit cooperati...
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
An astonishing figure in this piece: Last year, the U.S. budgeted $12.8B for new affordable housing. This country is now poised to spend $45B on immigrant detention centers. That's nearly *four times* as much on cages as on homes—in the middle of a devastating housing and homelessness crisis.
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Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America?
If you think that’s far-fetched, then you really haven’t been paying attention to what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been up to lately.
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The Outlaw Josey & the Pussycats @laura718.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
“Taxpayers won’t pay for it [a flood warning system],” Kerr County official Mr. Kelly said. Asked if people might reconsider in light of the catastrophe, he said, “I don’t know.” —NYT today
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
where the fuck are @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
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The Outlaw Josey & the Pussycats @laura718.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
This is some Children of Men shit
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