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rationalpear.bsky.social @rationalpear.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@davidcayjohnston.bsky.social I’ve been waiting for your 200 pg tax code. Heard you say that somewhere. Here’s my try. Abolish the income tax…wait wait. Replace it with an accumulated assets tax. Treat ppl, corporations, billionaires the same. tax personal profits, corp profits, unrealized gains.
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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
There is still no independent way to remove an unfit president. Tell your Representatives to pass Raskin’s bill or own why they won’t. #RepublicansStarveUS
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Tell Congress: Pass Raskin’s Bill to Create 25th Amendment Commission
Contact Congress today!
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rationalpear.bsky.social @rationalpear.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
aah oooh. did @kalimurray.bsky.social find a cursed monkey paw to wish upon? articles of impeachment against vought!! it’s happening. youtu.be/v3s75hrBBLg?...
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Trump PANICS As House Dems Move to IMPEACH His CABINET!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Kateration @kateration.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Someone has been projecting images all over D.C. “It’s swampier than ever.” The Kennedy Center one is pretty hilarious. 😂😂😂
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Buttons (Ashley) 🏴‍☠️#OFMDForLife🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈🤡 @sevensugars.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2026
Trump on Somali-Americans in Minnesota: "They're low IQ. I can generalize. They're low IQ people. They're bad people." (Note that moments later he claims Indianapolis is in Minnesota)
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rationalpear.bsky.social @rationalpear.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?...
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A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
🧵 by @ilangoldenberg.bsky.social:
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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
@heidicuda.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heidicud...
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Before the Final Stage: America Is On the Edge of Genocide — A Q&A with Matthew Pearce
NAFO founding member Matthew Pearce led me to the work of Dr. Gregory H. Stanton on the Ten Stages of Genocide. This interview with Pearce shows we still have time to prevent the worst if we act fast
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
1. I keep seeing people say "if the war itself is illegal, then no act committed in that war can be legal, so why bother to distinguish between legal and illegal acts." This is profoundly mistaken, and let me explain why.
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rationalpear.bsky.social @rationalpear.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
23. System of concentration camps that includes children 24. Murder of an unarmed fisherman. 25 destruction of the international order 26 destruction of NATO and our secure alliances 27. Illegal tariffs 28. Supine Congress 29. Withholding emergency aid from Democratic states 30 tearing down the WH.
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If you didn't vote Dem, you helped make this: @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
18. Encouraging further media consolidation 19. Working with billionaires to ruin the information environment necessary for democracy 20. Lying about election fraud 21. Helping Putin undermine democracy in Europe 22. HOW MANY OF THESE THERE ARE JUST OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD 23...
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If you didn't vote Dem, you helped make this: @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
11. Ending global aid that benefitted us in the long run 12. DOGE stealing government data 13. Kid Rock et al 14. Using DOJ as his personal law firm 15. Stopping Ukraine aid 16. Sabotaging the global transition to clean energy 17. Ending protections for our food, air, and water.
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If you didn't vote Dem, you helped make this: @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
3. Flagrant domestic corruption 4. Flagrant International corruption 5. Blatant violations of the constitution 6. Aesthetic crimes against public property 7. Destruction of alliances 8. Friendliness with despots 9. Ending of research science 10. Encouragement of anti-vax & anti-science movements
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If you didn't vote Dem, you helped make this: @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
No one can be upset enough about everything all the time, so we're going to have to divide and conquer. I need you to pick only one of these atrocities to be dismayed and infuriated by, and let others handle the rest. 1. Domestic human rights violations 2. International human rights violations ...
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Democratic US | DotBlue News @dot-blue.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
NEW FOOTAGE: Protesters take over a Minneapolis Target Saturday to protest the retailer’s cooperation with ICE. This is a movement! Share so everyone is aware!
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
Screenshot of a TikTok video with error message at top saying “your video is under review and can’t be shared right now.”
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rationalpear.bsky.social @rationalpear.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
awesome round table of ppl that never pull their punches I would love to see: Sarah Paine, @hcrichardson.bsky.social , @anneapplebaum.bsky.social, and @timothysnyder.bsky.social. That would be a very unpredictable conversation.
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Mary Rose @maryr54.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
These are great ideas.
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Søren Have @sorenhave.dk · 17/01/2026
“Hello Congress?” Danish comedian Huxi Bach spells out the current situation. Hilarious and scarily precise at the same time. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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Video: Opinion | Dear America, Greenland Is Not on Zillow
Trump wants Greenland? Its previous colonizer has some thoughts.
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If you didn't vote Dem, you helped make this: @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
It's pretty easy to have better policing by focusing on who you hire to be police. New Zealand figured it out, as @brianklaas.bsky.social wrote. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Focus on Who Police Are, Not What They Do
To improve its police force, New Zealand used humor to attract a whole different kind of cop.
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rationalpear.bsky.social @rationalpear.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
we need to replace the gadsden flag our own. i suggest yellow field (as homage). a spider in the middle of a web. motto? it’s our web. web in your face. we trap invaders. our network is vast. don’t even try. many eyes, many legs. we are legion. tyrants will be trapped. tyrants can’t escape.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Someone inside DHS leaked the names of 4,500 ICE and CBP officers to a nonprofit that tracks ICE. About 80 percent of those name are active. www.rawstory.com/ice-agents-d...
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Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw'
A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach fo...
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
A concept I've been meaning to float to make sense of what's happened to the US Constitution is an idea from the British constitutional tradition: "implied repeal." It's useful because it helps us to understand that Article I, & much else of the US Constitution, has been implicitly repealed.
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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 04/01/2026
Trump now threatening to kill Delcy Rodriguez if she doesn't do what he says. Uh oh, he big mad. Is he realizing he got played for a fucking fool yet again? Remember this from last year? This has "Ric Grenell's drug deal" written all over it. www.wonkette.com/p/your-lates...
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Your Latest Trump Regime Amateur Hour, Courtesy Of Marco Rubio And Ric Grenell!
Nailing it, guys.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
My second piece from Liberal Currents! Here I try and lay out the ethos that I think Liberals should adopt towards the criminality and corruption of the Trump Administration, and what virtues we should model while we work to turn the tide.
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Je me Souviens!
There will be a reckoning.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”
What is necessarily implied in this declaration of the Democratic Party? 1. That citizenship is not a birth-right, and from this it results that the majority may rightfully, in the several States of this Union, deprive the minority of all the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States. 
I submit that no greater political atrocity can possibly be committed by human agency. 
Let the people accept this proposition and they will become the architects of their own ruin. Nothing can be clearer than this, that under the representative system of government the rights of the minority are as sacred and inviolable as the rights of the majority. If the majority may rightfully disfranchise the minority of citizens on account of race, color or former condition of servitude, they may, with equal propriety, disfranchise citizens for want of stature or property, or on account of nativity, thereby, presenting to teh world the miserable spectacle of a government wherein a mere majority subjects to the absolute despotism of their will a minority of their fellow citizens, almost equal in number to themselves, and per chance, greatly superior in all the attainments and virtues which adorn, or elevate, or ennoble human nature.
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rationalpear.bsky.social @rationalpear.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
@strictscrutiny.bsky.social maybe I suggest we(you) give the shadow docket a more appropriate name? I would suggest the dictator’s docket. When the dictator needs something, he makes his request thru the dictator‘s docket, and the supremes dutifully comply.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
90% of elected Dems do not know how to fight, do not want to fight, did not run for office to fight, and are not smart enough or principled enough to fight. They entered office so they could fiddle with policy and feel important, they want to hide until it blows over, and will find excuses to do so.
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rationalpear.bsky.social @rationalpear.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
@raskin.house.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social where are your article of impeachment. you swore any oath and the constitution is under threat. where are you? an administrative coup is happening now. wtf?
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onion person @junlper.beer · 19/12/2024
every single elected democrat should be posting like this
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 10/12/2024
The EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, says Russia has learned how to influence elections through new technologies.
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Russia has learned how to influence elections, EU’s top diplomat warns
Kaja Kallas says today’s methods for evaluating the fairness of elections are outdated.
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rationalpear.bsky.social @rationalpear.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Sorry I’m in the camp with let him have whatever appointees he wants bc whoever goes in is going to be there to wreck the place and there is no changing that. The old political pressure rules don’t apply to trump. We must save our energy to fight the actual policies. Educate the public on those.
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