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Silent Recusant

@silentrecusant.bsky.social
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Armchair historian and political junkie silently witnessing the rise of American authoritarianism. Occasional commenter. Bon mots not guaranteed.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 9h
Seriously 👇
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
From Robin Rouby-Progressive Cartoons
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE TOO.......
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Silent Recusant @silentrecusant.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Never again" means "never again." We've collectively failed miserably at that: Biafra, Indonesia, Cambodia, Guatemala, Rwanda, Bosnia, Uigyur, and Gaza. It's time humanity stepped up and followed through on these words, because so far, they're meaningless.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good question
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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God @thegodshow.com · 12/09/2026
Trump made people pledge to tamper with the midterm elections, ordering them to "cheat like hell." If you are a Democrat or a Progressive, you need to vote like your life depends on it this year.
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WOBBLY BLACK CAT 🍉 @eleventimezones.com · 12/09/2026
How do Americans still not understand that every time we attack another country we are inflicting a 9/11 ON THEM
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/09/2026
French prosecutors have found new investigative leads in the Epstein case, and have identified 13 new victims. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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France's Epstein probe identifies 'potential recruiters'
Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau revealed said that new leads had been identified as part of an investigation into alleged human trafficking.
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
His wife, his staff, and Jennings should all face legal consequences. 😠😡
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Impeach Fetterman
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
RELEASE THE UNREDACTED TRUMPSTEIN FILES TODAY, TODD BLANCHE AND DONNIE DIPSHIT...
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Here’s your daily reminder that when you go to cast your ballot in November please vote all the way down the ballot. The further down you go, those races really do get closer to your front door and ultimately your wallet. Let’s turn these laboratories of autocracy back into democracy.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
In the past, the rich used to pay higher taxes. Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich. It's a big switcheroo that we need to talk about if we're going to talk about the national debt.
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The Secret Way the Rich are Getting Richer
The biggest untold story about how we pay for government involves a big switcheroo by America’s wealthy. Watch.
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God @thegodshow.com · 29/08/2026
The MAGA billionaires who own corporate media want you to keep fighting with each other over stupid bullshit so they never have to pay taxes. It’s not about left vs. right or left vs. center. It’s about the bottom vs. the top.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In the 6 months since Trump launched his War on Iran: -Deaths: 7,900+, including 18 US troops -Military spending: $1B per day -Increase in gas prices: 38% -Big Oil profits: $93B+ -Strait of Hormuz: still closed He's losing his own war of choice — and we're paying for it.
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Michael O' 🇮🇪🇺🇲🇨🇦 @socratesxxx.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
BREAKING: Israel just bombed a water desalination plant in northern Gaza. Not a military base. An essential infrastructure built to provide water to civilians suffering through an extreme water crisis. Gaza is running out of water. This is an act of genocide. x.com/sahouraxo/st...
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BREAKING: Israel just bombed a water desalination plant in northern Gaza. Not a military base. An essential infrastructure built to provide water to civilians suffering through an extreme water crisis. Gaza is running out of water. This is an act of genocide.
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Lady with an opinion @ladymitopinion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
When an illegitimate SCOTUS allows a criminal President to destroy the integrity of elections, that’s not just a problem - that’s a coup
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 24/08/2026
"ICE tactics, already sadistic, are looking increasingly like torture," writes @judith-levine.bsky.social. "The slim avenues to legal recourse and the refusal of transparency or accountability by the perpetrators of de jure and de facto torture are driving detainees to desperate measures..."
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ICE’s tactics look increasingly like torture | Judith Levine
Plans for gloves that can deliver electric shocks underline the homeland security department’s sadistic practices
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A Republic If You Can Keep It @arepublicif.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
North Korea is good. Canada is bad. Coal is good. Solar is bad. Measles is good. Vaccination is bad. Child rapists are good. Childcare is bad. Pointless wars are good. Universal healthcare is bad. Anyone supporting the unrelenting chaos of the #GOP deserves zero respect. #RemoveTrump
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God @thegodshow.com · 21/08/2026
This is fascism.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/08/2026
NEW: Congress appropriated $1 trillion for defense this year, more than twice as much as the combined budget for agencies overseeing health, veterans affairs, education, housing, agriculture and justice. We’re setting out to report on how this public money is being spent.
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The $1 Trillion Black Box
The U.S. military budget is vast and opaque. Projects touted as engineering marvels end up facing years of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spe...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.
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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
ICE doesn't need to simply be abolished. Its agents and officers need to see criminal trial for civil and human rights abuses. We're not joking when we demand Nuremberg 2.0 for these rat bastards.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/08/2026
Listen to Commander Adama.
"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If all income in excess of $400,000 were subject to the Social Security payroll tax, Social Security’s solvency would be guaranteed forever. We could also expand Social Security benefits. There’s no reason even to consider reducing Social Security benefits or raising the age of eligibility.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thomson Reuters, which owns news agency Reuters, has signed a $125M deal giving ICE access to its databases of personal data. USA Today has partnered with Palantir to gain "actionable intelligence" on its audiences. The media should be opponents of Trump's police state — not collaborators.
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jimmycraig42.bsky.social @jimmycraig42.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
We need to stop fining corporations for the crimes they commit and start jailing the execs who make the decision to commit crimes If corporations are people because people run corporations, then people ought to go to jail for the crimes the people running those corporations commit
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Silent Recusant @silentrecusant.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Libraries are the only "data centers" we need. When libraries disappear, we lose knowledge, history, culture, and a part of our community. We need to fund our libraries, and use them.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
America has experienced oligarchy thrice in its brief history. The first was under the slaveholding founders The second, the robber barons, a century later. A third American oligarchy emerged around 1980 — and has only gotten more powerful.
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The Enshittification of Everything (Part 2)
And how to disempower the oligarchy
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1kr5ur43m.bsky.social @1kr5ur43m.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is significant. But it is not enough. Do not be satisfied with this administration's slow walking the release of files that were supposed to be released last December.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
These signs should be on every hiking trail in Oregon and across the US .
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
If you don’t approve of Donald Trump, then you don’t approve of his Republican enablers. Every Republican in the House and Senate votes with Donald Trump over 99% of the time. Show them how you feel about that with your vote in November!
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Marc Riggsbee @marcriggsbee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Heed the warning.
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Stefan 🥼 @stefank1117.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Hating Netanyahu and hating genocide is not one bit anti-semitic.
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PeterBMeme @peterbmeme.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“Same Script. Different Actor.” This editorial cartoon uses mirrored imagery from two different eras of American politics to invite viewers to consider how political rhetoric and public accusations can echo across generations.
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BitcoDavid (I am the enemy within) @bitcodavid.net · 27/07/2026
I just heard something that hit home. ICE isn't law enforcement. It's a government agency hiring criminals to commit crimes against innocent Americans.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 26/07/2026
The FCC is demanding certain ABC stations file license renewals earlier than they're otherwise scheduled to in apparent retaliation for Jimmy Kimmel's jokes about the Trump administration. Help us flood the FCC with comments objecting to this attack on freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must get big money out of politics. It is the root of our dysfunction.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
For months, Senate Republicans said Jack Smith "spied" on Congress and broke the law. A judge just unsealed the files. Inside: routine phone records—that a call happened, when, how long. No message content at all. They lied. Here's the proof:
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While Trump Ranted On TV, He Was Losing Everywhere Else
The courts ruled against him again and again. Here’s the week he didn’t want you to see.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
ICE shared Medicaid data, which it wasn't even supposed to have in the first place, with Palantir. Anyone else worried about this? Here's what you should know about Palantir. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_VwyhErd88
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The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?
The AI surveillance state is real — and it's being built by Palantir.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The Pentagon is withholding causality and hit numbers. The CDC is withholding infection rates. The FDA is withholding information about food contamination. The EPA is withholding pollution and climate data. This corrupt administration is ALL about concealing the consequences of its incompetence.
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Silent Recusant @silentrecusant.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This is correct. Getting the money out of politics and reforming the judiciary is the key. Even after Trump, everyone who enabled him will still be around. There's a lot of work to do.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is how to speak to every single one of those sycophants.
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