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John Tuttle

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Democracy is a process, not a static condition

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GOP Delenda Est @preposterousgreen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In 2026 I no longer have any patience for people who are wishy-washy about voting D because D isn't perfect enough. My patience has been replaced by white-hot rage. Shut up and get to the polls before the Republicans literally kill us all.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
TRUMP'S VIEW OF AMERICA: A farmer in the rural Midwest sits on the porch, looking out on the land that has been in his family for generations, the land he just had to sell to keep from declaring bankruptcy. He glances at his phone. "Yes!" he exclaims. "Ballroom!"
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule👇 Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it. I'm as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases!
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John Tuttle @tuttle.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Teacher: there’s enough water in the cup for 3 students. I have 36 students. I bring in my own water from home, it’s still not enough and I am attacked by society for not doing a good job.
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John Tuttle @tuttle.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Are we great yet?
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
NEW: President Trump makes four false claims in a 43-word post about Tina Peters. Peters is 70 (not 73), does not have cancer, was sentenced by a judge in Mesa County (not the Governor), and did not expose fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
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John Tuttle @tuttle.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
“Stop crying and learn to win an election” Wow. The irony is just completely missed here. Are things better for the Arab world or Palestinians or students or people expressing 1st amendment rights? No? Then maybe you screwed up here. Yours isn’t the only voice or the only viewpoint.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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John Tuttle @tuttle.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Boy, I bet FIFA feels dumb right now.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything. It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in. Long thread.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/
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John Tuttle @tuttle.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Good tread discussing how lots of right wing behavior isn’t based on facts or experience or logic, and yet liberals constantly give them cover by scrambling for some kind of rational explanation (one which frequently blames liberals themselves). Stop it.
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Pam🫘🧶💙🏳️‍🌈🐸 #NoKings🚫👑 @pmmcdaniel.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I have curated a list of state and local reporters from all 50 states. Follow to keep up with state and local news. Let me know if you have a favorite reporter you would like added to the list.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Breaking:   DHS Secretary Kristi Noem says she supports the Trump admin suspending habeas corpus.   Habeas corpus refers to people's right to challenge their detention in court.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Donald Slump
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Matt Johansen @mattjay.com · 18/04/2025
🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
It all matters but I think to maximize the impact of this, Dems need to tie this lawlessness to tariffs & DOGE. You have an unconstrained leader acting like a king and usurping our democracy — & look at the results! To our safety net, our economy, our basic rights. Make the case it’s all connected
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Harvard FTW: "The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government."
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The Declaration of Independence lists 27 specific grievances against King George III, so I started highlighting the same offenses that Donald Trump has also committed. So far I count 10 in whole & 4 in part, while Trump is threatening/planning several more (items 5, 9, 11, 15, 20, & 23). Thoughts?
Screenshot of a list of the 27 specific grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump has committed at least 14 of them in whole or in part, highlighted in yellow and listed below:
"1.	He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
2.	He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
3.	He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither (partial offense)
4.	He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
5.	He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
6.	He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.




7.	He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
8.	For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
9.	For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
10.	For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
11.	For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
12.	(Partial offense), abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
13.	(Partial offense), and destroyed the lives of our people.
14.	He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and (partial offense)"
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John Tuttle @tuttle.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Not just the movements, but the actual policy goals as well. Even if you elected a progressive majority to the House, Senate, and White House and they passed a bunch of progressive laws, the Trump court would just strike them down. Re-electing Trump has doomed progressive laws for 50-60 years.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Starting a new thread called: The oldest elected president in US history has lost his mind, and it's insane that the media isn't talking about it every day like it did with Joe Biden.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The US constitution was built to avoid centralized power and tyranny. It is not the constitution that is failing us. It is the partisans who have promised to uphold the constitution that are failing us.
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John Tuttle @tuttle.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
It’s not the job of Democrats to save us from Trump’s destruction. They can’t In our system the check on a destructive/criminal president is Congress and Democrats don’t control Congress. Until a good chunk of Republicans help, Dems can’t do anything Start demanding Republicans do things, not Dems
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John Tuttle @tuttle.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
A thread worth pondering. He’s right. If we’re the unstable element and willing to use our economic power to hurt allies at any moment… then it’s time for an economic divorce. And that’s gonna hurt the US long term and permanently.
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John Tuttle @tuttle.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Agree. You don’t have to claim that she’s right on literally any other issue (she’s not). But if you’re not willing to recognize Republicans who stand up to fascism then no Republicans will stand up to fascism and fascism is going to win. She’s a patriot. Wrong on lots of issues, but a patriot.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
If you truly care about collegiate women's sports, instead of arguing about ~10 trans women competing in NCAA sports, go look at these huge issues & their consequences: NIL (name/image/likeness); employment lawsuits; online harassment (related to both NIL and gambling); conference restructuring.
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John Tuttle @tuttle.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
A good rundown on how NIL deals might impact women’s sports in college. This is someone who is actually paying attention to the big issues in women’s collegiate sports rather than getting frantic about a few trans athletes.
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John Tuttle @tuttle.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Good quick hits on some immigration related facts.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
THREAD Here are a 20 quick points to remember the next time a loved one at the holiday party tries to make you fear the "illegals." 1. Trump is an illegal. $25 mil for education fraud, $2 mil for charity fraud, $364 mil civil fraud, $88 million for sex abuse & defamation, 34 felony convictions.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
I’m enjoying the MAGA v. DOGE fight as much as anyone. On the other hand, it’s kind of depressing that both sides in this dispute within the governing party of the U.S. are deplorable. Idiotic nativists and reprehensible eugenicists. Neither side believes in the principles of the Declaration.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
In my first year of college, someone set a serious fire to my dorm house floor. I was told by the RA the cops wanted to talk to my downtown. I assumed they were doing this with all the students who lived on that part of the floor. So I went, completely idiotically oblivious…
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/12/2024
Speaking of shut the fuck up Friday, I’ve been seeing some people say that the FBI has contacted them for questioning after seeing social media posts, and my extremely urgent advice is that you should under NO CIRCUMSTANCES talk to the Feds without a lawyer.
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John Tuttle @tuttle.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
100% there are few people that make me roll my eyes harder. Taking Abramson seriously, is an instant unfollow as it demonstrates you can’t tell good takes from bad and whatever good take got me to follow you was an accident at best.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Seth Abramson is one of the worst Resistance Era peddlers of bad ideas backed up by no relevant expertise and should be relegated to the dustbin of cheap inexpert opinion givers. It was bad stuff in 2018 and demonstrably bad now applying a mere scintilla of hindsight.
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John Tuttle @tuttle.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I knew about the “lawyer dog” but not the rest. This is a very good read. Quick, easy to understand, knowledgeable. How Miranda has been eroded over time:
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John Tuttle @tuttle.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Yes. 100%. Empowering Trump - and the damage he will cause - is 100% the fault of those who didn’t vote for Harris. It doesn’t matter why you didn’t vote for her. You knew it was Harris or Trump and you chose not to help. The far left just refuses to recognize basic electoral realities.
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John Tuttle @tuttle.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The fact that Musk can be CEO of 3 companies and the head of a federal “department” is all the proof you need that executives don’t actually have real jobs and are GROSSLY overpaid. There literally aren’t enough hours in a week for you to do 4 of your job but Musk can do it with time to spare.
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John Tuttle @tuttle.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
If you’re a good person (someone adamantly opposed to Nazis) but someone who can’t leave the country and has real things to lose (family, career, life, liberty)… what are you supposed to do in 1933 Germany when everything is still legal and the awful is likely but hasn’t yet started?
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John Tuttle @tuttle.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Fortunately half the population isn’t going to listen to Trump or his appointees. Unfortunately half of Americans are. Trump is gonna kill so many Republicans. #LeopardsEatingPeoplesFaces
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John Tuttle @tuttle.bsky.social · 15/05/2023
Durham report. Jesus. Twitter is going to be unbearable tonight. But Durham is wrong. I don’t care how raw or unverified the intelligence. If you have an even vaguely credible accusation that a POTUS candidate is colluding with a hostile power to undermine US elections then you investigate. Period.
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John Tuttle @tuttle.bsky.social · 13/05/2023
This place needs gifs. It’s my primary method of communication. I can’t possibly be expected to continue using words…
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John Tuttle @tuttle.bsky.social · 11/05/2023
Can Carroll sue Trump again for his denial tonight?
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John Tuttle @tuttle.bsky.social · 10/05/2023
I need some kind of lawsplainer about Trump appealing the Carroll verdict. I know next to nothing about civil appeals.. how do they work? What are his chances? Etc I searched Twitter and all there is are a bunch of MAGAts saying Trump will appeal and win. Nothing of substance @kenwhite.bsky.social
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John Tuttle @tuttle.bsky.social · 10/05/2023
Damnit. @georgesantos.bsky.social joins BlueSky and I decide to post “George Santos lied” memes on literally every post he makes. But now he’s gonna go to jail and stop posting. My project ends before it even really takes off.
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