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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
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readingman.bsky.social @readingman.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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a man with sweat on his face is holding his hand up in the air and says `` if he dies , he dies . ''
ALT: a man with sweat on his face is holding his hand up in the air and says `` if he dies , he dies . ''
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
There's so much to unpack -- his childish understanding of the world, his raw nerve of grievances, his sociopathy -- but I can't get past what a whiny, pathetic loser you'd have to be as president to stamp your little feet and cry that the media isn't "allowed" to be mean to you. Mom said so guys!
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025
This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.
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Chris Washington @cwashington.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned. Thought you'd enjoy this.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
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readingman.bsky.social @readingman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We can totally put to bed the idea that the right in America ever cared about #freespeech now, right?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Cowards. Shameless, morally bankrupt cowards.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Wow that’s a lot no wonder the line at Panera Bread was shorter
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
beginnings of a recognition of the scale of the catastrophe they've created for their own core policy of reshoring industrial factories. still deputy secy of state mcrandoson probably wont cut it.
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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
An element of fascism is a kind of upside down where the meanest, most rapacious, and least virtuous of society are loosed to bully and abuse people who genuinely uphold civic ideals of service and sacrifice. Public service isn’t what the system is about. It’s about conditioning the national body.
In a FaceTime video call from the other firefighter to The Seattle Times, firefighters in their gear were seen sitting on logs in front of federal officers. Some firefighters were dismissed back to their vehicles.
One firefighter attempted to walk over to his company vehicle to get something to drink and appeared to have been called back by federal officers.
In images shared by firefighters from the scene, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle is parked nearby. Officers wearing
"Police" vests are seen arresting a firefighter, while another appears to be restrained.
According to one of the firefighters, they were denied the chance to say goodbye to the detained crew members.
"I asked them if his (family) can say goodbye to him because they're family, and they're just ripping them away," the firefighter told the Times. "And this is what he said: 'You need to get the (expletive) out of here. I'm gonna make you leave.'"
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readingman.bsky.social @readingman.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Haha so true. Whenever I hear that somebody has been 'nominated' for the Peace Prize I joke that well I'm going to nominate Dolly Parton, or Kermit the Frog or aome crazy figure. ANYONE can be nominated, there are 10s of thousands of people who can nominate. It means NOTHING
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readingman.bsky.social @readingman.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Been saying this for a while, but maybe someone will pay attn? "But for too long, “market judgment” has been treated as, if not infallible, at least the best judgment given the evidence and information available. The response of the stock market to events of the past year shows how false that is."
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readingman.bsky.social @readingman.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
“This is the work of a death cult.” Good job America!
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
A former CDC staffer adds: “This is the work of a death cult.”
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RFK Jr. Sends CDC Spiraling, Leading to Wave of Resignations
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been pressured to support vaccine policy changes, and several leaders have resigned
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CHOPPER - Woke Boomer @unclechopperrip.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
SORRY (from Australia) The USA should not be allowed to host the world cup next year 🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/08/2025
one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder
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readingman.bsky.social @readingman.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Secret footage of #Trump negotiating with #putin from Alaska
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a man with a beard is sitting in a chair talking on a cell phone
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readingman.bsky.social @readingman.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
#MAGA has gone 100% in on Trump and the cognitive dissonance as he's proved to be a bumbling weak incompetent every day won't break, it will build and build until it finally explodes
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Sue Mac @soozoff.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Trump is a total embarrassment to the U.S. He is a small, ugly, insecure, desperate loser. 🤦‍♀️. Everyone who voted for him should be utterly ashamed.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
the right spent the early COVID pandemic whining about how they weren’t allowed to do various things because of the virus, then, by scientific magic, our best minds quickly developed a medicine which allowed people to do those things ASAP. and the right decided they hated that too. Still weird
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Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
You know that scene in an action movie when the bad guy runs through the kitchen of a restaurant and pulls down all the pots and pans behind him to slow down his pursuers? We're in that part of the Trump presidency.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I think people aren't describing the Emil Bove corruption adequately. He blew off an order from a judge SO THAT he could send hundreds of mostly innocent men to a concentration camp, based on false claims of gang ties.
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 17/07/2025
i'm just a simple country lawyer, but the administrative stay entered by Judges Katsas and Rao and the effort to jam through Bove's nomination are sure looking like a concerted effort to cover-up criminal contempt of court
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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 18/07/2025
It's pretty funny that the predominant conspiracy theory on the American right is about needing a national savior to purge the child sex abusers, and the national savior it latched on to is the most prominent guy who keeps giving all sorts of signals he participated in child sex abuse still alive.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Here’s JD Vance-influencer Curtis Yarvin advocating a return to slavery. So that’s how things are going on this July 4th.
I wonder if there’s another domestic population capable of agricultural labor
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readingman.bsky.social @readingman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Tldr: fascism
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/06/2025
The theme of today in particular but this era in general is that everything Trump does is completely transparent in intent and eventual outcome and sane people are left sitting around and waiting for his supporters to slowly experience reality crashing on the rocks around them.
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readingman.bsky.social @readingman.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
When #FOTUS accuses anyone of 'treason', when you look through the addled reasoning behind it, what he's actually accusing them of 'lese majeste'. I'm still stunned by how 1/2 of the #USA is ok with a president happily behaving like a monarch. #MadKing
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readingman.bsky.social @readingman.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The entire world goes up and down on the whims of the #madking. Every country in the world trying to figure out how to disassociate from the afflicted nation. #tariffs #USA #FOTUS
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
If it were your active mission to destroy the geopolitical standing of the United States, I don't know how you could do a more effective job than the current administration short of, like, invading Switzerland or nuking the Vatican.
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Why does every single major technology breakthrough in the conservation space end up becoming the Spiderman Dinosaur meme?
Spiderman telling a villain he could cure cancer and the villain insisting he'd rather turn people into dinosaurs.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
As Dan Drezner recently wrote there’s a deepy embedded bias toward seeing politics as basically rational. You’ll get criticism of the policy, but there’s real resistance to coming straight out with “This is a crazy person. It is dangerous to let him keep running the country.”
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readingman.bsky.social @readingman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
In the future, #USA skyscrapers will skip the 45th and 47th floors. That is if there's any more engineers left to build any. #tariffs #FOTUS
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readingman.bsky.social @readingman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Non-USA newspapers right now: #Trump unleashes chaos upon the entire world. Will America survive? 🇺🇸 newspapers: the times appear to be chaotic, who can say why? Here's our MAGA whisperer explaining why we might be better off all working 3 jobs anyway 😀
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readingman.bsky.social @readingman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Big crowd milling around the oval office. #FOTUS is telling everyone how wonderful his #tariffs are for the market, such beautiful tariffs. But then someone from the back blurts out "Shame the markets tanked". All of a sudden, silence. #FOTUS yells out "Navarro, Bessent, Lutnick, CNBC" stay and /n
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readingman.bsky.social @readingman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
oh this is interesting, #TRUMP #FOTUS will of course laugh about screwing over the europeans, canadians and easter asians. But there's no way in hell he'll resist an ounce of pressure coming from #MBS ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/mideast...
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Mideast stock markets tumble as US tariffs and low oil prices squeeze energy-producing nations
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Middle East stock markets tumbled Monday as they struggled with the dual hit of the United States' new tariff policy and a sharp decline in oil prices, squeezing ene...
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readingman.bsky.social @readingman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
the #FOTUS administration is pro-measles and I just found out, pro-cancer too wapo.st/42yttHQ
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NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.
A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.
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The Democratic Difference @demdifference.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Inconvenient reminder for Speaker Johnson:
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Joseph Britt @zathras5.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I’m still shaking my head at people who remembered January 2021 — with wreckage still littering the Capitol and hundreds of Americans dying every day from a virus their President had assured them would just go away — and thought, “let’s do that again. That’s our best choice.” I mean, my God.
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readingman.bsky.social @readingman.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Man #trump #fotus is really going to go down as the number 1 & 2 worst president in history. #obliterationday
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Trump just instituted the most crushing tariffs in modern history, higher than the Smoot Hawley tariffs that devastated the economy, highest in the world by a huge margin. Every newspaper: “Trump enacts new tariffs, some prices may go up”
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