perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Anybody with whom DOJ still has credibility left to lose is pretty far behind the curve. 010
Reposted by perspicio🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 20/07/2026ICE has STOLEN an Indigenous Tribal ELDER from NM, who was on her way to CHEMO. She stopped for gas, ICE then approached her, she showed all of her proper, legal documentation. They still stole her away. They're denying her of life saving CHEMO. When will it be enough. #ShedShed #ViVaHerAlliance 19964804655
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Guy has a history www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/c...bellinghamherald.comBellingham man accused of hate crime has case dismissed due to delays at state hospitalThe man, who was charged in early April 2022, has been waiting more than 100 days for treatment. 010
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 11/07/2026A first rate journalistic enterprise would not choose phrases that minimize the transgression. 000
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 09/07/2026It's not just a betting site, either. It's rife with manipulation. 010
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 06/07/2026More accurately, he has cognitively mutilated himself by uprooting the concept of truth and jamming in the lust for power in its place. He's a fascist wirehead. 010
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 29/06/2026"Putative" is an appropriate term for his candidacy, but it would be pithier if you lopped off the last syllable. 000
Reposted by perspicioHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Representative Barbara Jordan. Still, after all these years, a mic drop.millercenter.org‘My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total.’ | Miller CenterMy faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. And I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction, of the Constitution. 511851507
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Thank you. I was there on Jan 3, 2025 to add my small measure of vigor to try to jump-start the corpus but instead it felt pretty elegiac. Glad to see there's still some life. Every little bit counts. 000
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 28/06/2026"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must.. undergo the fatigues of supporting it." -Thomas Paine, 1777 050
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 28/06/2026"A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. When the People once surrender their share in the Legislature... they can never regain it." -John Adams, 1775 141
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 28/06/2026"It is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power... In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." -Thomas Jefferson, 1798 141
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 28/06/2026"Liberty is not a gift to be received once and for all, but a condition to be maintained by perpetual vigilance... The people must ever be on their guard, for tyrants never sleep." -John Milton, 1660 240
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 28/06/2026"Manus haec inimica tyrannis: Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem." (This hand, enemy to tyrants, seeks with the sword a quiet peace under liberty.) -Algernon Sidney, 1683 130
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 28/06/2026"The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do... Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God." -Susan B. Anthony, 1872 150
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 28/06/2026"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." -Thomas Jefferson, 1787 141
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 28/06/2026"A republic, if you can keep it." -Benjamin Franklin, 1787 160
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Who knew?? Everybody with a lick of sense knew!! "If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning." -Frederick Douglass, 1857 121
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 28/06/2026As a picture of the size of the white contingent of the committed resistance to white Christian nationalism that is prepared to make personal sacrifices, the image is true to scale. 110
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I like to think that if I were a Jew, the fire of my commitment to peace and justice would burn brightly and fiercely enough for me to do the same. I just don't see that the taint of Revisionist Zionism at the core of Israel's founding is compatible with Tikun Olam. 120
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Color me ignorant, but those don't look like horrible engagement numbers to me. 000
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Whatever you imagine you're running from, Tuck ... wherever you go, there you are. 010
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 17/06/2026As one who experiences it essentially daily, this causes me to doubt your entire premise. 000
Reposted by perspicioCorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 12/06/2026When democracy is tested, we need leaders who fight back! Melissa Chaudhry took on the federal government & won! “When you stand up to bullies, they fold.” #SheShed #VoteMelissa4Congress #CareCourageConstitution WA-9 • U.S. House 2026 VoteMelissa4Congress.com 45628373
Reposted by perspicioScott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Ken Paxton tried to shut down ActBlue after his opponent raised a record $27M. But a federal judge saw right through the stunt, blocked the lawsuit, and called Paxton's bad faith "overwhelming." Read how the small-dollar money keeps flowing: 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-nam... 1327995
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 14/06/2026The default should be to assume so, provable cause and effect be damned. The fascist cognitive short circuit is also its superpower right up until it's used relentlessly against them. To wit: Peg their EVERY objectionable act and trait not just as connected or even identical, but as identity itself. 000
Reposted by perspicioQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 11/06/2026In reality, y’all loathed Obama because you’re racist. We loathe Trump because he’s racist. 19451121
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 11/06/2026It looks to me like you're painting LLMs with a broad brush that the posted excerpts themselves belie. While they can be annoyingly Clippy-like, LLMs in general, and ChatGPT in particular, are not validation engines with respect to evaluating the consistency of factual claims. 111
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 11/06/2026WaPo is D-E-D daid to me, and an editorial by Jeff fucking Flake is not going to resurrect it. That mofo practically pioneered the coward's retreat from public office. 000
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I'd expect a lawyer to know what a non sequitur is, and an ethical one to eschew using them distortively. 050
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Israel's putrid Zionism that brands as antisemitic any pushback whatsoever, even so much as questioning its goals, strategies, or tactics, has empowered those who behave that way. Those who flatten the world into binarisms, then wage war for monism, are the Grand Wizards of intolerance. 4390
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Counterpoints: 1. Authoritarianism means never having to ask permission. After all the loyalty purges, the idea that the Republican Party still fancies itself something more meaningful than an autopen is cute. 2. Propaganda and threats will fix that. 3. Any sane person knows that argument is DOA. 040
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Hoping SCOTUS does the right thing is abused spouse mentality. 190
Reposted by perspicioemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026I think Democrats should come out and say Blanche's "settlement" and the Slush Fund generally is one act in a continuing January 6 conspiracy, extending statutes of limitation for another 3 years. 9441781200
Reposted by perspicioOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026People who oppose expanding scotus have to be run out of the Democratic Party 911296190
perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 14/05/2026It's wild that a seven day suspension would include two weekend days. Great journalism pointing that out. 040
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perspicio @perspicio-oic.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Yes, too much. Enough to nudge me toward unfollowing and muting. 010