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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The FBI right now could probably use all those experienced senior career professionals with decades of investigative experience that they fired for absolutely no reason.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2025

all of this makes total sense when you recognize that “freedom” here means the freedom to dominate those you view as your subordinates and “tyranny” is when someone threatens that “freedom” or worse, when those subordinates try to claim power as political equals

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 17/08/2025

I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally

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Melisa @melisa23.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

People crawling out of their caves to kiss Trump's fat orange ass in public. At least we'll know who to ostracize, shun, and ignore when this stupid, pathetic regime finally shits the bed.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/08/2025

Newsom: "He's a failed president. Who else sends ICE at the same time we're having a conversation like this? Someone who's weak. Someone who's broken. Someone whose weakness is masquerading as strength."

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zoobadger @zoobadger.net · 04/08/2025

Lack of objection to Trump ending reliable economic statistics tells us that billionaires feel completely shielded from market downtowns or economic declines. They stay filthy rich no matter what. No need to make decisions based on sound and reliable data.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/08/2025

if i were a pro-trump financial type i might view the destruction of reliable government data with the kind of anger and apprehension that might lead me to reevaluate my politics, but then if i’m a financial guy throwing my weight behind strongman rule, i’m already too stupid to breathe

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Samuel L Jackson said this Two Years ago........

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

(Fox News, two weeks from now) "Pedophilia is good, actually. It *literally* means you love children. I guess Democrats hate children? Pathetic."

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 21/07/2025

The fact that the President of the United States posts a fake video of a kneeling Barack Obama being handcuffed and we’re supposed to pretend it’s perfectly normal, everyday stuff shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

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rondezvousWA @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Saw this! Great review Marcus Green. In a time when the right openly applauds mass cruelty and cheers people being rounded up like cattle in Los Angeles parks, while its religious arm dares to somehow preach with a straight face that empathy is actually toxic... www.thestranger.com/film/2025/07...

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The Undocumented Socialist Alien Who Keeps Saving America

A summer blockbuster about an undocumented alien with unyielding socialist values who continuously bails out a country clearly undeserving of him. Is it any wonder that James Gunn’s Superman movie, re...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2025

the more i think about this the more i think that his campaign was a showcase for how centrists *say* they want democrats to campaign. the issue is that what this looks like varies from place to place. i would not expect mamdani to be able to win in virginia, but a mamdani-style campaign could!

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Teslas are still garbage-on-wheels. SpaceX is still an expensive fuckup blowing up rockets through incompetence and corner-cutting. Twitter is still a dumpster fire of Russian bots and dickless Nazi trolls. Everything about Elon Musk is shit. No decent person should go anywhere near any of it.

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Dear tech-bro oligarchs, Every time I am forced to scroll past a bad A.I. summary of an email, my implacable hatred for you grows stronger. Your LLMs are garbage. We don't want them. We don't want your expensive, resource-guzzling bullshit machines to think for us. Stop trying to dumb us down.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

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God @thegodshow.com · 10/06/2025

“The distance between what is said, and what is known to be true, has become an abyss…The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands - we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest.”

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

once again: millions of “criminal illegals” simply don’t exist, so they’re just snatching anyone they can to meet trump and miller’s arbitrary arrest quotas

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Sen Bernie Sanders (I-VA) just now on CNN: "We have a President moving this country rapidly into authoritarianism. He's suing media who criticize him. He's going after law firms that have clients who were against him. He's suing universities who teach courses he doesn't like"

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

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Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant

Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 05/06/2025

Everyone on Twitter right now.

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zoobadger @zoobadger.net · 05/06/2025

I know one thing for sure: we're not nearly angry enough.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/06/2025

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

A bad President, for
instance, has the power to do what? What can he not do? If he wanted to
revolutionize this government, he could easily do it with this ponderous
power; it would be an auxiliary power. He could cry “havoc, and let slip the
dogs of war,”29 and say to the conspirators: “I am with you. If you
succeed, all is well. If you fail, I will interpose the shield of my pardon, and
you are safe. If your property is taken away from you by Congress, I will
pardon and restore your property. Go on and revolutionize the government;
I will stand by you.” The bad man will say or might say this. I am not sure
but we have got a man now who comes very near saying it. Let us have done
with this pardoning power. We have had enough of this. Pardoning! How
inexpressibly base have been the uses made by this power—this beneficent
power. It has been that with which a treacherous President has trafficked.
He has made it the means of securing adherents to himself instead of
securing allegiance to the government.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

An actual question I have is whether Tom Cruise has recorded a video, stored with his lawyers to be played upon his death, where he tells the world that yes, actually, he DOES want everyone to go see the movie with the stunt that killed him.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Donald Trump’s inner circle is charging $5 million for a private dinner with a president. But at least they aren’t hiding his cognitive decline from the press the way that Biden’s inner circle did.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 19/05/2025

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

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Anonymous ⩜ @youranona.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Weaponizing the Justice Department to silence dissent is a hallmark of authoritarianism. Trump's attacks on former officials like Taylor and Krebs aren't just personal vendettas; they're a chilling message to current officials: fall in line or face the consequences. #3E

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The President of the United States is egregiously mentally ill. This should be the headline every fucking day.

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NO THANKS TO KINGS @wallawalla-99.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

ChatGPT weighs in: America still calls itself a democracy. Reality disagrees.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The idea that Dems just need to say the magic words in the right order to win is an attempt to put a bandaid on a broken civic system where many voters do not even know how the government or the things they rely on to live work

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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/05/2025

Man Can’t Believe He Has To Download Stupid App Just To Bribe President theonion.com/man-can...

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