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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 6h

We are in a hostage situation with our billionaires. They've made it clear that their accumulation of wealth (and the attendant degradation of democracy) only works in one direction. If it moves even an inch the other way, they blow the whole thing up and inaugurate fascism. Completely untenable

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 4h

Once again, only Republicans get to talk this way, & yet somehow The Narrative™️ about The Democrats and American Politics & Civility & all the other things never changes. It's maddening & we should be a more serious country. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12h

Also, not that this was in any real doubt, but it’s spectacular proof that Trump’s deportation machine is really about exercising extra-legal authority to jail and remove people he or Stephen Miller doesn’t like. ICE as a praetorian guard of stunted thugs.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12h

“The federal legal apparatus is working to strip the citizenship of a member of Congress and then deport her, because she’s from an ethnic group the president and his top aide despises,” is open executive-branch authoritarianism with no parallel in US history

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 9h

The denaturalization push against Ilhan Omar is so much worse than even previous abuses of federal authority and investigative power. It’s not just that it’s a targeted investigation, but that it’s an effort to achieve something that could NEVER possibly be legitimate.

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Sisyphus Rex @whatsmyageagain23.bsky.social · 9h

Yep, this is what textbooks on fascism say it's a common feature, starting with The Origins of Totalitarianism. Their constant lying is related. They know you know they're lying and want you to think there are no consequences.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 7h

attempting to take the citizenship of one of the only Muslim members of Congress, jointly the first Muslim woman to be in Congress along with Rep Tlaib, is the US conducting the kind of race war and ethnic cleansing that the skinheads dreamt about in the 90s

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 11h

This is a crime. I'd be nice if that meant anything anymore.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11h

Tl;dr: An ethics code that won’t be enforced, or whatever “one more minor legal tweak will fix this” you like is not going to stop John Roberts & co. from ignoring the law, history, data, & the plain meaning of words in the Constitution & end the authoritarian parlor games they’ve played since 2000.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11h

Tl;dr: There are only three ways to solve the lawless authoritarian crisis: - Somehow the authoritarians stop doing the authoritarianism (good luck) - The authoritarians are sent to jail forever - We call the authoritarians bluff, reform the institutions, & reach a new democratic equilibrium

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SPFHockeyfan, Esq. 🍁 @spfhockeyfan.bsky.social · 12h

Sagely stating that the GOP insanity of the last two decades is the Dems’ fault. Yes I am a fucking clown.

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ALT: Batman Pondering

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“are we screwed” they ask themselves after 5 years of pocketing all our money. no, youre not screwed you will be fine, your bank accounts are enormous because you took all our money

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

largest investment in american history and they all know it’s bull shit. we have to take their money away from them at the end of this. we put them in charge of everything and they failed. we need to take away their money, they are bad at having money and we have gotten nothing for our investment

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

they all know the bottom is falling out and instead of trying to prevent that they are ripping out the copper wiring

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12h

two years ago they were sending bomb threats to childrens hospitals and faced zero consequences

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12h

some deranged lunatic is going to storm an elementary school with an ar15 looking for the schools surgical center and the media is going to pretend we have no idea where they got that idea from

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

steve is concerned with the implications of all of this for the judiciary but, with all genuine respect, i really think that one has to approach this as a problem of game theory

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

strategic political capture of the court has, for 40 years, been a one-way ratchet. among other things, this has inculcated a sense among conservatives that they can act with virtual impunity. showing them that their opponents will play hardball is a necessary first step toward a better status quo.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

will try to answer these in a piece next week but for now i will say that part of the *point* of court expansion, in my mind, is to create a disequilibrium — a potential race to the bottom — that will force a truce.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 13h

The point of spectacles like this is not to deter terrorists; it is to debase the population. They want us cruel and vulgar, or at the very least, numb to cruelty and vulgarity.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20h

'Autumn Birch' by contemporary US pointillist painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt

Painting with many silver birch trees and a woodland floor with orange leaves

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14h

Diana Catchpole, contemporary UK printmaker #Womensart

Printvwith leaping fox in silhouette next.to a flying bird, flowers, radiating sun and cresent moon

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 14/10/2026

"If there’s a 'fraud' that Trump and his cronies see in [Ilhan] Omar," @moiradonegan.bsky.social writes, it's in her "claim to the dignity of equal citizenship; in the idea that a woman, born in Somalia, might be as equally and powerfully American as they are."

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The raid on Ilhan Omar’s house is dangerous political theater | Moira Donegan

The raid is meant to cast an air of suspicion and criminality over Democratic candidates who, like Omar, are facing the voters in a matter of weeks

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SPFHockeyfan, Esq. 🍁 @spfhockeyfan.bsky.social · 22h

Damn I’ve always wondered what I’d say if someone offers me a 747!

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Stephen Barry @wa3zgt.bsky.social · 22h

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Or perhaps even both at the same time bsky.app/profile/jona...

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The absolute flood of leaks about this case is maybe an indication that people inside govt aren’t feeling too great about it

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

So Trump not only disarmed Ukraine by removing the Starlink/Starshield capability with defensive drones (the system only operates in Ukraine), he blinded it too with withholding advanced warnings of Russian missile attacks. How evil, cowardly and craven. Is Kash Patel still in Moscow

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Johanna T 👻 📚 @johannamation.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I’m obsessed

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

'Autumn Hide & Seek' by contemporary English painter Emma Haworth #WomensArt

Painting featuring an autumn forest landscape

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Seems like a binary distinction here, given that "are you an attorney" is a very heavily-regulated and licensed question in every jurisdiction! "Legal experts aren't sure" is ass-covering so far beyond what is necessary here that its only effect is to disingenuously obfuscate the truth.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

President Trump and the Republicans had a two year romp through every political fantasy nourished in their heart since The John Birch Society and Richard Nixon, and you know what: it turns out their ideas were bad and are tanking the economy.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 14/10/2026

Incredible stuff, seeing the stream of this come in. They can't break from the party line because the party line is now a cult of personality. It doesn't matter if their constituents hate them and their responses, it's more important to stay loyal to the senile pedophile. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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SPFHockeyfan, Esq. 🍁 @spfhockeyfan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

According to my Boomer MAGA mom, “you don’t cut off family because of politics.” 🙄You may not, but I do.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

At some point we also have to deal with the fact that one of the two parties is openly hostile to democracy. If you have to win big every election or else the country falls into despotism we're all just playing Russian roulette every few years

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Scott Uhl - North Texas (D) @scottuhltx.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

UPDATE # 3: #KenPaxton spent $3,300,000 in Texas Taxpayers money for travel security for about 1,000 trips during his 12 years as Attorney General, of which he took almost 3 YEARS OFF of the 12 years in office. ProPublica only connected 138 of the trips & $553,000 of the $3.3M to state business.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Republicans traded in a sturdy, high turnout coalition for an extremely fickle, low turnout one that can only be assembled by one guy that also somehow doesnt have downballot benefits even when hes on the ballot—& now that one guy will never be on the ballot again. Good luck with that going forward.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

An annoying thing about this era is I can already tell that "Donald Trump: electoral juggernaught" is going to be this truism among the commentariat long after he's gone even tho his actual record is "middling performer save by efficient distribution who becomes an anchor on party during midterms"

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frankenstonk's monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

a drizzly autumn day

looking outside from a very dark room through a small door and window that look out onto a little yard filled with orange leaves

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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/annelouiseav... Patreon: patreon.com/annelouiseav...

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

just a casual reminder that inciting violence against his political opponents and others he dislikes has been a core feature of Donald Trump's approach for more than a decade. It is a defining characteristic of Trump and his movement, but rarely centered as such by corporate media.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Today is #AdaLovelaceDay #ald26 to highlight and celebrate #womenInSTEM today and throughout history. While they have faced discrimination and been too often forgotten, if you look for them, they were there! Here’s my most recent #sciart portrait and a thread of my scientist portraits. #histsci 🧪

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

'Autumn Woods' by Emily Carr (1871-1945) Canadian painter #Womensart

Forest landscape in autumn colours of orange, gold and brown

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