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Bear Wilner-Nugent

@saltlick.bsky.social
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Lawyer (criminal defense, appeals, civil and administrative litigation), festival operations volunteer, musician, outdoorsbear, cook, lover, dad. You can find my professional contact information at bwnlaw.com.

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 15h
this is position of strength fundraising, not position of weakness
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 15h
no one reads the articles. all of the quotes assume this is because the party is broke because of (spins wheel) whatever that person is mad about today, but the reason they’re scrambling is because they’re trying to run moonshot campaigns in deep red districts they ordinarily would never attempt
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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 16h
Really not liking how many people have been reskeeting Faytuks Network lately. Buddies, that’s not a real news site.
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David Nir @davidnir.com · 17h
Roger Marshall charged his patients 18% annual interest on their unpaid bills. His bakery bill for $678.75 was due six years ago. At 18% interest compounded annually, the total he'd owe would be at least $1,800. Marshall just paid the bakery $1,300—far less than what his patients would owe.
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Glonzo In Exile 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇱 @glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This stuff also makes such a mockery of the people who did work very hard to get rid of the death penalty in blue states. Dems are not perfect, but they're generally moveable on these issues, and many Dems did move because people worked hard to make them move. Endless hopeless cynicism is useless.
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 23h
Republicans: "we're running on a platform of grinding all those T-slurs into dog meat!" Democrat: "I've voted in favor of every pro-trans bill and against every anti-trans bill ever, I have a pride flag outside my office" Queer think pieces: "these are the same thing"
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 10/10/2026
You know who the person is, you know his vehicle, just go get him later instead of thinking that you are the hero here. If he’s actually that dangerous, and he almost certainly isn’t, go figure out a safer way to pick him up, you’re terrible at your job.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 10/10/2026
Like, you’re acting like someone with a five year old old is such a risk that you have to smash his window and just grab him? The fuck is wrong with your assessment of the situation? Similarly every cop acts like a simple traffic stop is life and death and will draw at any moment.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 10/10/2026
One thing that I keep thinking about with policing overall, and this is a particularly egregious version of it, is that cops generally don’t have any sense of risk modulation. Either they act like there’s no risk or that there’s extreme risk and that assessment can change in a split second.
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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This isn't subskeeting anybody in particular, but I'm getting really tired of the anti-AI propaganda that anything that actually works isn't really AI, it's "machine learning," when it's all the same research applied to different datasets, and people don't want to admit that the research has value.
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The idea that people who have chosen to devote their entire lives to partisan electoral politics are indifferent to electoral outcomes is just facially insane
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
there are plenty of worthwhile things to push Democrats to be better on but "do not try to raise more money to take advantage of a generational opportunity to pick up seats in dark red districts" is a braindead hill to die on. you will not be successful & will hurt your credibility in better fights.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
if you read the replies to that politico post you'll see it accomplished its objective: giving knee-jerk haters of Democrats an excuse to shit all over them a month before Election Day. It is *good* that the DCCC thinks it can compete in Trump +15 districts! You don't have to be dumb about this!
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Headline makes it sound like the DCCC spent all their money on hookers and blow and now rent is due but the real reason is Trump and the Republicans are so toxic the DCCC thinks it can compete in districts Trump won by 13-20 points.
Specifically, Merz dedicates significant portions of the memo to four districts where the committee is desperate for more money in order to compete — all of which President Donald Trump won by double-digit margins in 2024:

— Florida’s 27th District (Trump +14.6)
— Nevada’s 2nd District (Trump +13.9)
— South Carolina’s 1st District (Trump +13)
— New York’s 21st District (Trump +20.7)
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I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟 @nied.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"We must ask ourselves if Republicans are really to blame for their actions when they do not play the CENTRAL role as protagonists of reality like Democrats."
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I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟 @nied.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"When a Republican does something bad, we should not lose sight of who's fault this REALLY is: Democrats."
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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Onion is a piece of shit and no one should give it the time of day. Also, Ben Collins is a creepy brigader. 
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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is my representative and I’m very glad to see her doing this work. 
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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Once again, accounts that follow more than 10,000 other accounts are near-uniformly untrustworthy. 
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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I posted a little while back that no one ever talks about this but I really wonder if people just didn’t see this or store it in their memory
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A barbaric idea, beneath our dignity as a country. Push back on this.
Trump admin wants to televise an execution
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
Immigrant New Yorkers belong here. ICE does not. If you need help, call our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 1-800-354-0365 or dial 311 and say “Immigration Legal.” Help is here in your native language, no matter your immigration status. More info: nyc.gov/knowyourrights
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Know Your Rights: Federal Immigration Enforcement (ICE) - MOIA
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That hard work will not be linear, there will be setbacks and disappointments, but the key is that it continue all the same.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Good things will happen soon, and those good things are the beginning of a lot of hard work, not the end.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026
we're seeing it in the senate and we're seeing it in the house: a lot of Rs who haven't had to run a competitive general election in years - or ever, really - are suddenly in a position where they have to, and none of them know how to do it
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/10/2026
if you would like to watch "MUSK" in the theater, which I strongly encourage considering the Ellisons have bought HBO where it is supposed to stream eventually, you can find a list of theaters nationwide here: bleeckerstreetmedia.com/editorial/fi...
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Find Theaters | Bleecker Street
The official Website for Bleecker Street, the film company that’s bringing you SPINAL TAP II, RELAY, RUMOURS, HARD TRUTHS and many more.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/10/2026
good morning, today is October 9 and Alex Gibney's documentary film "MUSK" is now playing at select theaters in New York and Los Angeles it's happening!
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 09/10/2026
My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

"Today in Marble Hill, ICE agents fired multiple shots at a man in his vehicle while his 5-year-old child was in the back seat.
ICE's already unwelcome presence in our city has been growing more escalatory and dangerous by the day. Today's shooting is a grave development that requires a swift and immediate response to protect the safety of all New Yorkers.
First, we must have a full and independent investigation of this incident.
"There must also be a full and immediate release of all body camera footage of the incident.
In addition, the Target Corporation must stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials. Target opening up large, active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk.
ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency.
It does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America. Abolish ICE.”
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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Denying Catholic priests the ability to administer sacraments to Catholic prisoners is objectively insanely offensive to Catholicism in a way that almost nothing else could be
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 09/10/2026
none of these rubes have ever faced a hostile, political regulatory regime and they’re behaving like the last dodos wandering aimlessly on the beach
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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Wynkyn de Worde is a true aptronym for a pioneer of printing. And his little seal or whatever totally fucks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynkyn_...
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Wynkyn de Worde - Wikipedia
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
he is notable in his personal life for bragging about committing atrocities he could not possibly have had anything to do with. stealing dishonor.
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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 09/10/2026
In fact, Ossoff is quite literally stating what the ICC has already said! Why would anyone be upset about that?
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Mattie Electric Air Line @mrbtx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Preemptive dooming is such loser energy
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
recalling now that Ossoff came in throwing sufficient high heat in the 2020 debates that Perdue opted to no-show the last two
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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I like a big pink front door.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 09/10/2026
The basic principle here is that punishment must always be constrained, for even the most seemingly commodious of punishments that can be inflicted by a state are still *pretty fucking horrible* if you think about it for five seconds.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 09/10/2026
It is hard to get people to understand that punishment cannot and should not be capriciously infinite. That, even for the most hideous crimes, there is a moral limit to the amount of suffering one can inflict in return. To take away someone's freedom *alone* is a huge violation, after all.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
come 2028 vance will be cutting ads specifically denouncing his in-laws for coming to the united states
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I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟 @nied.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's actually really easy to say that Israeli civilians didn't deserve to die because of the actions of their government prior to 10/7 just like Palestinian civilians don't deserve to to die because of the actions of their government on 10/7.
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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
One of the surest ways to have a better experience on here is to unfollow everyone who follows 3000 or more accounts and block everyone who follows 10,000 or more accounts. Accounts with all kinds of follower counts have valuable contributions. But accounts with high following counts do not. 
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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's quite literally human sacrifice. They continue to cargo cult fascism, because "fake it until you make it" is the only thing they know. They're hoping a ritual public killing will bring their flagging power and legitimacy back, no different from previous sacrifice religions.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Can you imagine what this administration would do with the "people who would watch a public execution" data set?
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A major part of the reason why they want to live stream the execution is so that you personally will get upset with them for live streaming the execution, because upsetting you makes them happy. It’s all just so exhausting
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The Dude @jurisdudence.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He’s also paralyzed. So they’re shooting a guy in a wheelchair.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 08/10/2026
Would they be doing this if he was a white guy? Absolutely not, and that’s just part of what makes this barbaric.
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 08/10/2026
fwiw if you want to make a strategic case for congressional democrats trying to impeach trump if they take majorities, i think the first step is impeaching hegseth, the bar is lower and the likelihood of success is probably much higher
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238, 297 (1972) (Brennan, J., concurring) “No longer does our society countenance the spectacle of public executions, once thought desirable as a deterrent to criminal behavior by others. Today we reject public executions as debasing and brutalizing to us all.“
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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Don’t watch this. Don’t tell people to watch it. You wouldn’t be bearing any purposeful witness, you would be doing yourself a moral injury. 
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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Every Republican who does not immediately and loudly denounce this shares the culpability for all of the harm caused by it. 
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