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A Grim Omen

@tugrim.bsky.social
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White, rust-belt Ohioan. Blue dot. Athiest. B.Sc Enjoyer of Trek, SW, Comics, Magic and other Sci-fi/Fantasy. Marvel Rivals usually but newly obsessed with Palworld. Jack of all trades, master of none; sometimes better than a master of one.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.
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'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common Dreams
Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 05/10/2026
Your premise is incorrect. A person is not allowed to pirate all their textbooks because they learn from them. A person is not allowed to download every book in the world because they plan to write a future novel.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NAACP files federal civil lawsuit, asking court to order Justice Dept to turn over records about its "election monitor program" NAACP argues Trump Admin is "searching for evidence related to unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud", rather than "ensuring access for voters"
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026
“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
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Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict (Gift Article)
Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 03/10/2026
An Alaska lawmaker argued at a hearing in July that allowing unlimited campaign spending “not only grants undue influence to the ultrawealthy, but it also exposes our elected officials to the risk and perception of quid pro quo corruption.”
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After Years of Runaway Spending, Alaskans Vote to Reinstate Cap on Campaign Donations - Bolts
The success of Measure 1 brings back campaign contribution limits after a court ruling ended them. But the reform can
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today's jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy. What's required is investment in working people — and better wages. When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs. Remember this.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
By the way @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social if you think this is OK behavior and that we should turn the page on this then you are the same as them. This needs to be punished in such a way that they don't feel comfortable just being outright Nazis to cheering audiences. If you can't lead, then quit
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end
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A Grim Omen @tugrim.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I don't understand the criticisms of the last season of The Boyz. I thought it was an excellent ending to what it was. I guess i really don't understand what some people want. Idk.
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 24/09/2026
Donald Trump promised gas below $2. It's above $4. He promised no new wars. Then started a new war with Iran. He promised a $2,000 tariff dividend. Nothing ever came. This President is a serial liar and a fraud.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There's plenty of corruption, crimes against humanity, and downright evil shit to focus on, but every so often it strikes me how thoroughly we USians have been exposed and disgraced on the world stage. A country who can elect such a man—twice!—is not a worthy country. We need radical reformation.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At core, they do not believe democracy *should be allowed* if their side isn’t guaranteed to win. And that becomes the inescapable problem.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One thing that is interesting about raising my kid in Texas is we have a window into seeing how authoritarian parents raise their kids. So many fear appeals, so much us v them, so much “don’t disrespect us or else.” It’s terrorism.
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A Grim Omen @tugrim.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Oh so there really is a cottage cheese shortage.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 18/09/2026
The Trump administration illegally terminated a $7 billion program intended to make solar power accessible to more than 900,000 lower-income Americans. www.washingtonsun.com/energy/judge-…
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Judge Rules the EPA Illegally Terminated a $7 Billion Solar Program
The program was intended to make solar power accessible to lower-income Americans.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A college administrator calls the cops on a student reporter A college QB laughs at an AI video of his coach slapping a woman journalist The president lunges at a Black woman reporter who dares question him It's past time to fight back against anti-media violence www.inquirer.com/opinion/viol...
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Violence toward journalists is a symptom of a terminally ill U.S. democracy | Will Bunch
From Trump’s unhinged outbursts to calling the cops on a student journalist, a free press dies in tandem with the American Experiment.
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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A Grim Omen @tugrim.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I win again, Lews Therin
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In which my colleague Dave Pozen and I articulate the (uneasy) case for a constitutional convention. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Back to Philadelphia? The Uneasy Case for a New Constitutional Convention
<p><span>No country has ever had a written constitution in longer continuous operation than the United States. Such resilience is cause for commemoration. But f
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A Grim Omen @tugrim.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
What's the word on Schrödinger's Senator lately?
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That Guy Jordan @jordamusprime.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Earlier today I heard someone say that they're going to stick Mitch McConnell's brain into John Fetterman's body like Krang and I have no self control
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If this is true, and Schumer and the Dems don't expel him from the caucus immediately, then it's time for a revolt.
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Exclusive: Fetterman to praise Trump in bombshell GOP convention video
His stunning turn is a dramatic escalation in the senator's growing estrangement from Democrats.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In what universe would a white Mayor be told he could not attend a commemoration in Oklahoma City because "Timothy McVeigh?"
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For the past two years I've been tracking every bill proposed in state legislatures across the country to figure out what Republican plans for the future are. The answer, based on these 1,182 bills, is that they want to repeal the 20th Century heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...
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Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century – Heartland Signal
Republicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,1...
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
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A Grim Omen @tugrim.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"I appreciate the question, but what i don't appreciate is Donald Trump lying about 9/11 or that no one from your organization is asking him WHY he's lied about 9/11."
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Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026
i think much of the democratic party's low ratings reflects a palpable sense that it is institutionally incapable of standing up for itself or going on the hunt
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/09/2026
we have had extensive ratfucking campaigns run by foreign countries in support of the republican party and it is high time the world's liberal democracies got in on the ratfucking in the other direction it's an existential issue for them
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Your regular reminder that normal, pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform Also, a reminder that, even if Democrats win in Texas & nationally in November, the elections will not be fully free & fair, & we aren't a full democracy
Przeworski, Democracy and the Market coverPrzeworski: democracy is a system in which parties lose electionsRobert Dahl, "Democracy and its Critics" coverDahl: Criteria for Democratic Process (1989)
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I don't understand what the average computer dork wants from us. Does AI do some coding thing well? Ok bud! Why do I give a shit? Why do you want my approval? Cigarettes and alcohol help me write essays and poems. I don't require you to be proud of me for using them. They are very harmful!
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Moderation isn’t the answer — progressive populism is. I don’t understand how some members of my party hate the DSA and Hasan Piker more than literal white supremacists in our government. Especially if Democrats actually want to win.
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm a staff writer at @wired.com and I'm looking to speak with parents of immunocompromised kids, especially those in areas with measles outbreaks, and how you're dealing with back to school with rising cases. emily_mullin@wired.com
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
John Billionaire is getting yeeted out the airlock in the first 24 hours by the support staff is what I’m trying to say here
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/08/2026
I think I can say categorically: there is not a single prominent right-wing media figure, including many that regularly campaign with & for Republican candidates, who has not said worse things than the worst thing Hasan Piker has ever said on at least a weekly basis. Why does no one care?
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“No, we stole that term from you Black folk. And now it’s ours, because we use it. We use it to mean that the concerns and perspectives of you Black folk are annoying or wrong or dangerous, as a way of ignoring and dismissing those concerns and perspectives. Like I’m doing now—does that make sense?”
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A Grim Omen @tugrim.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
What's the word on Schrödinger's Senator lately?
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vomitgoblin.bsky.social @vomitgoblin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Idk how anyone can listen to these people talk so casually about people dying and not think they're some of the most evil assholes on the planet. Truly just no empathy whatsoever, anyone not in their immediate circle is trash to be thrown away.
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A Grim Omen @tugrim.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I watched the movie Dogma last night for the first time in a long while. Watched it many times over the years but the last time was probably a decade ago. I can't help but think about how much our productions have self- censored themselves over the last two decades. I miss irreverance.
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A Grim Omen @tugrim.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Had a bug in my pants today. Fun.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026
it is in fact just the media, which has devoted more attention to this than it has to the fact that multiple republican lawmakers are dealing with “we hired nazis” scandals and that the “we hired nazis” problem extends to the white house
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A Grim Omen @tugrim.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Y'all suck. All y'all
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A Grim Omen @tugrim.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Why's it always avocados and Starbucks that need sacrificed and not yachts, gold plating and vacation homes?
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A Grim Omen @tugrim.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Him speaking in front of anyone in uniform after the Guardian report about payroll shortages is batshit.
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A Grim Omen @tugrim.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I look forward to the day when the myth of supply side economics gets thrown into the garbage forever.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Army Sgt. Hedar Leonel Turcios Juarez said he hoped enlisting would help expedite his wife’s naturalization process. But on Monday, the Trump regime deported her instead. americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/abuse-of-p... #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Abuse of Power Watch - August 28th
A weekly collection of articles and stories of the federal government's abuses of power.
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