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Mr. Fahrenheit

@mrfahrenheit.bsky.social
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*born in Logan, UT *grew up in Phoenix, AZ and Fairfield, IA *moved around a lot *currently Sacramento, CA Just raging against he dying of the light over here. fervently anti-GOP she/her

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Semafor @semafor.com · 5h
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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What a life!
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1h
you gotta appreciate that the Bechdel cast has 49% of the vote and the official Harry Potter film podcast is sitting at 5% (This is because the Bechdel cast has actual fans)
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1h
Finally, the podcast everyone has been waiting for: Two uncomfortably moist men speak Truth to women
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h
Dems now leading GOP on every issue Quinnipiac polled, including the economy, national security, and immigration:
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 3h
😢😢😢 By redefining the meaning of “harm” in the Endangered Species Act, the administration is giving big corporations a gift they have long demanded.
thenation.com
Trump Has Made it Legal to Destroy Endangered Species’ Habitats
By redefining the meaning of “harm” in the Endangered Species Act, the administration is giving big corporations a gift they have long demanded.
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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 7h
Like, the US is very publicly losing a war of choice that rocked the global economy and is going to cost his party a massive election loss. And the SecDef’s priority is getting a bunch of subordinates together to lecture about how important lifting weights and tucking in your shirt is. Pathological!
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 3h
A Republican lawyer challenging a Nebraska law allowing U.S. citizens living abroad to vote in the state told a court Wednesday that the right to vote is “precious” — and that’s why it should be denied to other American citizens.
democracydocket.com
GOP lawyer seeks to disenfranchise ‘albino unicorn’ overseas voters
“I call it the ‘Papa was a Rolling Stone’ standard," the lawyer said.
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 4h
...something astonishing happened: In the four years since Roe’s demise, the number of abortions rose by almost 20 percent.
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Life after Roe
How the Dobbs decision gave rise to legions of pill smugglers and abortion abolitionists.
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 7h
Checks four out of six www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Hegseth invited Christian nationalist Doug Wilson to preach at Pentagon
The self-described “paleo-Confederate” has argued that wives should submit to their husbands, women should be denied the vote and Christian enslavers were on “firm scriptural ground.”
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 4h
 There’s this idea, this apocalyptic idea that instead of digging their own personal bunkers, the billionaires have to create new territories that will be designed to protect them and empower them in this terrible future they’re creating.
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The Real Technofascists of Silicon Valley: Why Big Tech Oligarchs Hate Democracy
When I first started seeing coverage of what seemed like a deranged plan from the Trump administration to take over Greenland, I felt like I was losing my mind. Not because I didn’t understand the …
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 4h
How do you cope when your sacred land becomes Times Square? The art of the first Native New Yorkers
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How do you cope when your sacred land becomes Times Square? The art of the first Native New Yorkers
A new exhibit of Lenape paintings, traditional dress and music proves their modern-day culture is vibrant and alive
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 4h
...the biggest reason to be skeptical of the administration’s narrative is the fact that it comes as the White House itself, starting from the very top, actively works to defraud the American people.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump Wants to Get His Hands on the Power of the Purse
The search for fraud in the federal government must always end in the same place.
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 5h
"Men shouldn’t require a daughter, wife, girlfriend or sister before sexual violence against women becomes important to them. Women are enough. And condemning sexual assault shouldn’t qualify anyone for a medal. The bar is on the floor. Step over it."
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 5h
You gotta wonder -- what really motivates a party to spend so much time fixated on whether students were born with a a penis or a vagina?
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 5h
The charges are senior officials’ latest attempt to heighten voter fraud concerns amid midterm election campaigning
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Trump DoJ indicts 10 individuals on noncitizen voting related charges in Minnesota
The charges are senior officials’ latest attempt to heighten voter fraud concerns amid midterm election campaigning
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 8h
A link to my piece in The New Republic about the Lancaster DA's 287g agreement (which doesn't make legal sense because it's a DA's office, but okay) newrepublic.com/article/2142...
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The Trump Administration’s Depraved Exploitation of Immigrant Children
The Department of Homeland Security is using underage-sex-trafficking conspiracy theories to bolster its mass deportation machine.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 6h
okay so i sincerely thought this was a joke
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 6h
Why We are Suing the City of Los Angeles to Save Libraries "I don’t see the lawsuit as attacking the library. I see it as defending the integrity and credibility of libraries."
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Why We are Suing the City of Los Angeles to Save Libraries
Jenan Matari and Nora Lester Murad are award-winning authors with children’s books featuring Palestinians. They have filed a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles after their invited author talk …
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 7h
“It’s kind of a let’s-take-matters-into-your-own-hands situation. No one’s coming to save us; we have to save ourselves.”
motherjones.com
Inside the clandestine network of abortion-pill mules
“There may come a time where we are one of the only, if not the only, option for the nation.”
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 8h
Representative Jamie Raskin on Youth Gun Deaths, Nonviolent Civil Movements, and the Supreme Court
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Watch: Representative Jamie Raskin on Youth Gun Deaths, Nonviolent Civil Movements, and the Supreme Court
Trace Editor in Chief Tali Woodward’s conversation Raskin, a Maryland Democrat and ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, was the keynote conversation of 2026 Safer Together forum.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 10h
“some things we need to do so urgently that we need to slow down.”
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“Regular, rigorous, and Reliable.” How to Keep Fighting for a Better World
We can cultivate qualities that help us to stick around in struggle. This is something that came up when I spoke in 2023 with Philadelphia activist Suzy Subways about her decades of movement experi…
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 9h
😳 On 9/29/26, Argentina’s Supreme cleared the way for President Javier Milei’s administration to scrap historical restrictions on foreign land ownership, opening the door to the likes of Peter Thiel & Sam Altman who have shown great interest in the region … 1/ share.google/t7nTsPAkbpC8...
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Supreme Ct clears way for Milei to scrap limits on foreign land purchases
Opposition parties condemn the ruling, question its scope and warn that it leaves the door open to unrestricted foreign ownership of rural land.
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 9h
New Poll From The 19th News Shows Public Turning Against Republican Anti-Trans Healthcare Bans The poll even shows faltering Republican support for such bans.
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New Poll From The 19th News Shows Public Turning Against Republican Anti-Trans Healthcare Bans
The poll even shows faltering Republican support for such bans.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11h
I'm sure it wasn't the first time it happened, but this was the first time I noticed the pattern where conspiracy theorists declare complete vindication on the basis of LEAKED SECRET DOCUMENTS that even more strongly prove that they are wrong.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 10h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10h
Wrote about how Trump’s tantrums over the Supreme Court reveal the not so hidden subtext of what Republicans expect from the justices. Also a mention of how Supreme Court politics resemble the Calciopoli scandal. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
As is nearly always the case with the president’s accusations, this was an illuminating projection. Trump fears that public pressure on the Supreme Court can sway the justices and how they rule. So when they don’t side with him, he assumes that’s what happened, and he trashes the Court in the hope that it will side with him the next time. He views criticism of the Supreme Court much as he views laws in general: When Trump or one of his allies wants to do something, such as use taxpayer dollars for cultish campaign ads, it’s legal. When his opponents want to do something, it’s illegal
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 10h
We need higher taxes in America. Decades of Republican tax cuts have left America in dire fiscal straits... GOP sabotage of our nation’s finances is not limited to the tax code. The IRS itself has been crippled by Republicans to enable tax evasion by the richest Americans
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Tax the Wealthy, Not Wealth
Don’t miss the forest for the tallest trees.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11h
It's disgusting the way people look past someone refusing to stand up for trans people or women or people of color or immigrants or victims of genocide. It is an ethical and moral line and once you stand on the wrong side you have revealed yourself to either be a coward or undeserving of power.
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 12h
From the early 1400s, a lavishly illustrated vellum scroll (almost 18 ft long!) of the works of English physician John of Arderne, one of the founding figures of modern surgery: publicdomainreview.org/collection/a…
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 18h
Schrodinger’s USAID. Simultaneously dismantled by the great Donald Trump in 2025, and currently conspiring with foreign and domestic enemies to destroy America.
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Everything you see happening to the United States is an intelligence operation run by professionals who know how the system works.
They have access to unlimited funding through the American taxpayer via NGO's & U.S. agencies like USAID. The only way to defeat these people is to strip the system and rebuild it from the ground up with people of integrity.
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Iowa City Police Log @iowacitycoptoons.bsky.social · 12h
Always loved this one both for how deranged the original police call was and for the way I was able to use a dying brush pen to my advantage in the art
A FEW GENTLEMAN OR CREATURES WERE ON A LITTLE MOTORCYCLE AND RP ASKED WHAT THEY WERE UP TO WHEN SHE TOOK HER GARBAGE OUT AND THEY TOOK OFFA FEW GENTLEMAN OR CREATURES WERE ON A LITTLE MOTORCYCLE AND RP ASKED WHAT THEY WERE UP TO WHEN SHE TOOK HER GARBAGE OUT AND THEY TOOK OFF
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 11h
I love fungi. So cool.
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Magical creatures don’t exist, eh? Roughly 400 million years ago, before the birth of trees, there were giant mystery cones called “Prototaxites,” which grew nearly 30 feet tall. We literally have no idea what they were. Plant: no Mushroom: no Animal: no Tell me this isn’t a little bit magic
Sunset with giant mystery cones Prototaxites https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/prototaxites-fossil-explained-why-this-prehistoric-colossus-still-baffles-scientists-1773173
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 12h
Tennessee’s first execution of a woman in 200 years was halted by a court on Wednesday morning an hour before it was set to take place.
theguardian.com
Tennessee halts plan to execute woman for first time in 200 years
State governor and supreme court earlier refused calls for clemency for Christa Pike, who was convicted of murder
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 12h
ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for nearly a year.
propublica.org
The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting
ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 13h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...
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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan
How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 12h
Utah Bans 7 More Books From All Public Schools; 44 Titles Now Banned Statewide
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Utah Bans 7 More Books From All Public Schools; 44 Titles Now Banned Statewide
Last week, a judge approved a lawsuit against Utah's state-sanctioned book bans. This week, the state banned seven more books.
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 13h
With the threat of political violence at unprecedented levels, state and federal GOP candidates are openly sharing racist, pro-militia, anti-vaccine, sexist, antisemitic, and secessionist views.
wired.com
These Extremists Are Running for Election in November
With the threat of political violence at unprecedented levels, state and federal GOP candidates are openly sharing racist, pro-militia, anti-vaccine, sexist, antisemitic, and secessionist views.
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This.
nytimes.com
Opinion | I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This. (Gift Article)
A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time.
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 23h
Although often solely attributed to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the White House’s regressive reconfiguration of the administrative state has been, and is being, orchestrated by OMB Director Russell Vought, who has been described as the “shadow president.”
donmoynihan.substack.com
Unions Against Voughtism
Federal unions can connect the dots to reveal the dangers of gutting government capacity.
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 23h
Fascists are using fashion to normalize radical perspectives and groups into normie society.
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The 'MAGA Makeover' is Over, and Its Replacement is (Even More) Terrifying
Fascists are using fashion to normalize radical perspectives and groups into normie society.
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 22h
Bipartisan as these laws may seem, there’s a reason the author of Mississippi’s ban is advocating for a baby drop box: Safe Haven laws are a backdoor to funnel money to anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers.
jessica.substack.com
At the Ballot Box: Anti-Abortion Republicans Want to Look Reasonable in Blue States
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 22h
Bipartisan as these laws may seem, there’s a reason the author of Mississippi’s ban is advocating for a baby drop box: Safe Haven laws are a backdoor to funnel money to anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers.
jessica.substack.com
At the Ballot Box: Anti-Abortion Republicans Want to Look Reasonable in Blue States
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 22h
The Republican National Committee (RNC) is piloting a training program for Wisconsin election observers to identify discrepancies with voting machines, as the GOP piles additional scrutiny on voting processes in the swing state.
democracydocket.com
GOP trained Wisconsin election observers to target voting machines in pivotal swing state
The new RNC program appears to mark an escalation from typical poll watching activities.
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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
there is a point past which even a bad person with rotten right-wing politics is sincerely offended for the right reasons by financially predatory conduct and arresting a pregnant mom in front of her toddler for the crime of poverty is well past that point
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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the fight for abortion rights is the fight for trans rights is the fight for foundational bodily autonomy for all of us. every issue is a queer issue and if you haven't realized this yet, don't worry. they'll show you.
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 23h
Fascists are using fashion to normalize radical perspectives and groups into normie society.
theflytrapmedia.com
The 'MAGA Makeover' is Over, and Its Replacement is (Even More) Terrifying
Fascists are using fashion to normalize radical perspectives and groups into normie society.
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 23h
Although often solely attributed to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the White House’s regressive reconfiguration of the administrative state has been, and is being, orchestrated by OMB Director Russell Vought, who has been described as the “shadow president.”
donmoynihan.substack.com
Unions Against Voughtism
Federal unions can connect the dots to reveal the dangers of gutting government capacity.
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