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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
In exchange, Russia will recognize Trump’s annexation of Venezuela and/or Greenland and/or Canada.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Pretty sure this so called Department of War isn’t even American. It’s origin is surely “Eastern Europe (non-EU)”
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
They also need to acknowledge that universal healthcare isn’t socialism. It’s just healthcare. Socialism is when the workers own the means of production.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I thought that if an order was illegal, soldiers knew they weren’t allowed to follow it.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Illegal to tell soldiers they shouldn’t follow illegal orders and also illegal to tell soldiers they should follow illegal orders.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I’ll never get over “peace and love” Ringo being the one to tell me Henry deserved it being sealed up in the tunnel.
Henry the engine getting bricked up in a tunnel.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
When the machines rise, it will be poetry that defeats them.
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Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
What’s the over/under on War with Venezuela?
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I have to wonder how much of the $4 million was getting kicked back to those Dems for their vote?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/11/2025
AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
"The most important thing was for the children to understand and enjoy the text," Adams said. "And from that understanding and joy of reading, the words on the page would just pop out at them." Having done a lot of unenjoyable reading, this is bonkers to me. This won’t get you through civil statutes
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I don’t understand. If they want a new Bond it makes sense that the old one would be dead. I thought it was implied that’s what was happening anyway every time there’s a new Bond. Otherwise he’d be 87 years old.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
WTF The Weather Channel is 90% ads and they’re ads for like Man Who’s Half-Chicken Invents World’s Best Sandwich, order one from my drop shipping site!
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
If you vote for a Democrat, but they vote with the Republicans, you are voting for a Republican.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
These are the so-called Dems who voted to more than double your health care costs: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
It needs to be the end of more than his career.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
We need to primary all of them. The shutdown was hurting Repubs and we could have saved healthcare. But leave it to the Dems to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory yet again. I don’t know whose side they’re on, but it’s not ours.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
So the shutdown was for nothing then?
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This should be the reverse. First the Repubs vote to extend healthcare and then the Dems promise to vote to reopen the government.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Remember that time the police helped somebody with something and it wasn’t protecting a rich dude’s property?
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
The Democrats definitely did not learn this.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
The raw data file download of detention statistics on ice .gov hasn’t been updated since Sept 25. Really want to see the latest data, but the shutdown…
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
In the US, some say immigrants weren’t raised with American values and don’t see democracy as their legacy, so they’ll destroy what this country is. But look around right now. American values & democracy, aren’t being destroyed by immigrants, but by the most racist faction in power now.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Jefferies and Schumer must be so relieved now that they can keep ignoring progressives and instead court Repub voters who aren’t accepted by the white Christian nationalists.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
It’s not fair that ICE is allowed to offer cash bounties for people, but I’m not allowed to offer cash bounties for ICE.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Capitalism! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems!
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
This book changed my life
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The key is “arrested”, which ICE can’t do to citizens, and “detained” which means booked into an immigration detention facility for a violation. So citizens are being snatched up and held, but not officially arrested or detained.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I have a family of 4 and just looked at what our spending on groceries is. The USDA seems spot on, I’m averaging just shy of $300 a week, or $1,300 a month, or $15,600 a year. A SNAP benefit of $4,200 a year is nothing.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
There is actually a danger. As written, the 22nd amendment only bars a person from being *elected* President more than twice. He could run for a third term as VP and direct his puppet President as he wishes, or have some deal where that President resigns so he can re-assume the role.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
This Reagan quote really illustrates how back in the ‘80s, the free trade globalists supported the GOP and hated tariffs, while blue collar labor wanted to put tariffs in place to protect American manufacturing and production jobs. Reagan won. Now those constituencies have flipped.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
We also need to realize that even if they do leave, that’s still good for us.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Is this person not familiar with Mamdani’s policy platform? Because real estate investment regulations and tax reform will do wonders for supply and be a downward pressure on both rents and home prices.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Melania is selling pieces on EBay if you’re interested.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I kind of feel the bigger scandal isn’t just the destruction and bribery but the bunker enhancements to protect Trump during implementation of the more radical portions of Project 2025. That’s where most of the cost is going isn’t it? Even a really big fancy room wouldn’t cost $350 million.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Would shooting a pastor in the face make you cream your jeans? Join ICE!
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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 25/10/2025
OMG. What an ad!
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
ICE are the ones committing felonies. Sure you can’t stop them from doing their official duties, but you sure as shit can stop them when they’re committing a crime. Reducing crime is the whole point of this operation, right?
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Yep. The mayor is the city’s executive. The executive is unitary now. This cat is out of the bag.
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James Bennett @ubernostrum.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Chesterton, maddeningly, had it right and people like that one have it completely wrong. bsky.app/profile/uber...
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I hope I’m wrong, but I’ve seen too much. If America won’t do anything about kids being shot, I’m not expecting America to do anything about kids being SA’d.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Fine by me. We should have people whose job really is to help us instead rather than police and policing.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Ok but my point is I don’t want cops to be what they are. We should make them something different.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Yeah, we probably need a new organization with law enforcement powers dedicated to the protection of people instead of property and different requirements for joining.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Yes. Let’s change that.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Yeah, it be cool if we changed that. Why is everyone ending their posts with “hope that helps”?
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Given the Supreme Court’s expected next ruling, I think this will be the normal behavior going forward. Whatever party takes power will maximally gerrymander the state’s districts to their advantage as frequently as possible.
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Local and State governments really need to do more to get police forces to see their people as *their people*. Like, hey cops these are your people, you’re responsible for their well being. What are you doing to protect them? How will you keep them safe at the protest or on the streets?
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The Seneschal 🇺🇸 @theseneschal.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Cool cool. Don’t cut the healthcare tax credit for low income families then. Put that in your CR and pass it.
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