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Walrusseal

@walrusseal1.bsky.social
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A Walrus, MD. In Residency PGY-2. I mainly talk Politics and Foreign Policy. He/Him

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
ugh. I really dislike having to share a country with these nitwits. Not the least of which because they know so little of their own history so as to be unaware that the United States has tried - more than once! - to invade Canada and it never goes well.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The president of the US posing memes of one of his predecessors and his wife being apes feels like a thing the news should be covering but anyway here's another debate about whether DEI is bad
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
This story is enraging, particularly as a fan of Pizza Luce. The simplest reform Congress could insist on is that CBP/ICE officers are civilly and personally liable for cases of wrongful detainment — especially of US citizens. They can’t violate the 4th Amendment willfully without consequence.
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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Maybe I'm just built different in that I try to cultivate a sense of adventure in the mundane. There's a whole world of extraordinary opportunity out there and you shouldn't have to wait for a job applicant to list "olive oil" as an interest with no explanation to find it!
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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A VA nurse who dedicated his life to helping others, murdered by a man who has dedicated his life to hurting others.
A PHOTO OF ALEX PRETTI
WITH THE WORDS:
MURDERED FOR STANDING 
UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 24/01/2026
Glory to the martyrs who defend the Republic
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 24/01/2026
UPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
To repeat: Abolish ICE.
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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
If you’re a grown ass man in full tactical gear asking a child to show you ID or proof of citizenship you failed at life. Utterly & completely failed. Loser.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
all men who believe in freedom are my brothers :)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/01/2026
i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
this Greenland shit is fucking insane. it’s fucking insane. the fact that anyone is humoring him is fucking insane. the biggest problem in the world today is that nobody is taking the president seriously for the fucking psychopath he is. this isn’t all some fucking joke
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
it’s so funny when the media is like “why are libs cutting Trump voters out of their lives? clearly it’s the intolerant left!” when in reality we are just fed up by the dumbest most evil people we know speedrunning the destruction of our country in slavish devotion to the cult of a mad king
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I see we’re at the, “C’mon, the Alabama state troopers were really being treated disrespectfully at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Also, a couple of them got scratches that day,” level of ICE apologetics.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14/01/2026
this is worth reading. the Minneapolis PD chief is not any kind of liberal obviously but he's clearly very upset about what ICE is doing www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/p...
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‘A Breaking Point’: The Minneapolis Police Chief on ICE
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
ICE are thug scum.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The dishonesty of “conservatives” about the killing of Renee Good makes me want to quote Lincoln: “When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/01/2026
i think this professional liar is one of the most disgraceful people in media
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
it's all so bloody stupid
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Decker Eveleth @dexeve.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
A federal judge waking up, checking his email, and seeing the Maduro arraignment on his schedule
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a man in a chef 's hat is looking at a piece of paper
ALT: a man in a chef 's hat is looking at a piece of paper
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/12/2025
why would immigrants do this www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Tbh it’s one thing to be a natcon, it’s outright repulsive to me how Vance is constantly talking about a lack of gratitude towards America while constantly demonizing the immigrants who build our homes and grow our food, along with the foreigners who make our consumer goods
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
My contempt for a large number of my fellow citizens knows no bounds
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/11/2025
you know what? good advice.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
he has repeatedly said that he does not support any country's right to exist exclusively for the benefit of a single religious community, a position he takes from postcolonial scholar... Mahmood Mamdani.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
“The Trump administration is basically claiming the right to kill anyone anywhere, with bombs or missiles or drones, for any reason or for no reason, with no evidence provided and no accountability to Congress or the American people.” www.thebulwark.com/p/under-trum...
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Under Trump, the Law Is Just a Speed Bump
The president’s spurning of the War Powers Act is just his latest claim that he can wield deadly force outside the law.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
ICE is thug trash.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Nagging suspicion that the US economy is riding on a combo of: -if we just build enough data centers, superintelligence will emerge and tell us how to make money -the benefits of corruption and ending rule of law will be large and widespread -Who cares, I can ride this upswing and get out later
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/10/2025
oh just straight up gutter racism!
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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I still can't get over the fact that the people who think Buttigieg briefly working for McKinsey is disqualifying are somehow caping for a blackwater mercenary with a death camp tattoo who said he loved to fight in colonial wars.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/10/2025
It's long past time for state and federal authorities alike to put an end to Stephen Miller's jerkoff fantasy of masked thugs kidnapping people of color off the street with impunity. Yes, there are Americans who want this. But they are a woefully small minority. Why are we still letting it happen?
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The dooming on this site is getting out of control. Every time you post anything about politics some rando condescendingly wonders how you can't possibly know that elections are over and all hope is lost. If you've completely lost hope, I'm sorry, but shut the fuck up, OK? You're not helping.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Jesus Christ, man
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
again, the sooner Platner reads the room and bows out with some kind of grace, the sooner a plausible alternative to Mills can be stood up
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Also note how Rep Adam Smith connects bombings to troops in cities: "How far are we away from Trump deciding to use the US military to do a kinetic strike on people within the US because he sees them as a threat, by whatever definition he wants to throw out there?" newrepublic.com/article/2019...
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
about 70% of the world eats like this. This tweet is the most racist thing I've seen in years
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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
As a Brown man who grew up with a family who all eat like this, I can't tell you how deeply this hurts and genuinely cuts. The racism is unbelievable. I eat like this and am proud to do so but it doesn't stop how painful the shock is that someone views you this way.
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it. Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...
Q: So I wonder what you think about that, about the phrase “globalize the intifada” and what we've seen as some anti-semitism coming from the left-wing protesters. 

A: The first thing as you were saying is anti-semitism is a real issue in our city and it's one that can be captured in statistics, the ones that you're citing. It's also one that you will feel in conversations you have with Jewish New Yorkers across the city. And I remember one conversation I had with a friend of mine after the horrific war crime of October 7th. He was telling me that he went for Shabbat services at his temple and he was facing forward when he heard the door open. And he turned back with a chill going up his spine because he didn't know who was coming in. And that's more than a year ago. 

And then just a few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a Jewish man in Williamsburg who told me that the same door he would keep unlocked for decades is one that he now locks out of a fear of what could happen in his own neighborhood. And I think that this is something that has to be the focus of the next mayoral administration, is not just talking about it, but tackling it. And these are the conversations that have informed our commitment around increasing funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800% in our Department of Community Safety. 

To the question of language that's being used. I am someone who I would say am less comfortable with the idea of banning the use of certain words and that I think it is more evocative of a Trump style approach to how to lead a country. And- 
Q: Does that just make you uncomfortable? Like the phrase globalizing intifada. And like the phrase from the river to the sea, does that make you uncomfortable? Or do you think- 

A: Okay, those are different. Those are super different.

Q:  They're not really. 

A: Those are like different genres. 

Q: I'm sorry, I'm asking so wrong. Then they're not really different to me. And to some people they are not different. 

A: I know people for whom those things mean very different things. And to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights. And I think what's difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw ghetto uprising into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle. And as a Muslim man who grew up post-911, I'm all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning. And I think that's where it leaves me with a sense that what we need to do is focus on keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe. And the question of the permissibility of language is something that I haven't ventured.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
This is a shockingly racist call by a House Republican for Zohran Mamdani to be denaturalized and deported. But instead of being viewed as unserious, it's now being promoted and circulated by LibsOfTikTok, Benny Johnson and MAGA regulars. Democrats need to understand that Republicans are serious.
@RepOgles on X: Zohran "little muhammad" Mamdani is an antisemitic, socialist, communist who will destroy the great City of New York. He needs to be DEPORTED. Which is why I am calling for him to be subject to denaturalization proceedings. 

Attached is my letter to @AGPamBondi.
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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Cry more, fash freaks
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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
it’s that time again
headline of the classic Onion article published March 26, 2003: “Point / Counterpoint: This War Will Destabilize the Entire Mideast and Set Off a Shockwave of Anti-Americanism VS. No It Won’t “
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Walrusseal @walrusseal1.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Yeah maybe we shouldn’t have listened to these guys after all
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant. This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
This is an absolute betrayal of promises made by Congress to protect the people who protected American soldiers. A betrayal by people who think American greatness is based on half-assed military parades rather than being a credible ally to those that risked their lives for America.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
In Donald Trump's America, if you say "I am Senator Alex Padilla, I have questions for the Secretary," you get thrown to the floor and handcuffed.
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