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People are selling out to authoritarians for shockingly small sums.

Here’s my theory on people like this, as well as constitutional originalists and biblical literalists. It’s projection and/or a lack of theory-of-mind. They don’t actually mean what they say, so they assume that’s true of others as well.

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

This a federally-monitored website. The regime is on highest alert. Anyone posting advocacy for violence right now is a fedposter or a fool. This has nothing to do with what is right or wrong or what you have a right to say. It's simply a fact.

I taught myself to knit as an adult from library books before YouTube existed.

I casually took the bus downtown today and everything seemed safe and fine. The only thing out of the ordinary was there wasn’t a dog on TriMet. Perhaps Portland, Maine has been destroyed?

I actually really love finding out so getting to fuck around beforehand is just a bonus

Thei wante us talkinge on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.

I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was

if you’re a politician and thinking about using some variation of the word “bipartisan,” i recommend reading the sentence aloud while adding “with nazis” right after “bipartisan” and see if it still scans as something as you want to say.

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

“In defense of” articles usually work better when they aren’t authored by the person being defended. What a fucking turnip.

"got caught in the crossfire". The video is literally attached! You can see that they're lying!!! But there's such a rigid and disciplined commitment to making it seem like the cops were "provoked" somehow that it's impossible to actually get people to understand Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

The problem with civil disobedience as a strategy is that the media adapted to it by fully committing to just straight up lying about what cops do at protests. You all saw that video of a cop just shooting a journalist point blank and then her news outlet saying she Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Hear me out. @sheaserrano.bsky.social and @netw3rk.bsky.social are great examples of emotionally intelligent, kind, healthy masculinity. Get more young people listening to them and they’ll learn more than a buncha cool basketball shit.

Stephen Miller is talking about suspending habeus corpus and @repdexteror.bsky.social is skeeting about a failed budget amendment, @wyden.senate.gov about higher prices, and @jeff-merkley.bsky.social is AWOL for more than a week. We’re cooked if y’all don’t do something to protect the constitution.

there are 400 million guns in this country Every adult and child above adolescence in this country should have stop the bleed training

This could have been you @repdexteror.bsky.social but there’s still time for you to co-sponsor it! @citizensimpeachment.com

Finally got response from @jeff-merkley.bsky.social re Signalgate. He assured me he’s very concerned and is working hard to hold everyone accountable. Bro wrote TWO letters to the admin asking them why they suck AND said Hegseth should resign. Then kept approving unanimous consent. Fucking useless.

Meanwhile, @repdexteror.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov and @jeff-merkley.bsky.social haven’t said anything about it and I once again sent emails to all 3 begging them to do their jobs because we are in a constitutional crisis. I look forward to getting perfunctory form responses in 2 weeks.

the only way kidnapping and illegally detaining lawful permanent residents (or citizens!) in foreign concentration camps "plays out" is we all live our lives under fascism or the fascists are jailed and many of them executed. that's it. read a fuckin book.

If the U.S. cared about privacy we'd pass a real privacy law. If the U.S. cared about propaganda we'd take an aim at the biggest one ever built: the GOP right wing pseudo-news industry. If we cared about national security we'd regulate data brokers and wouldn't be firing cybersecurity experts

I received 2 truly perfunctory replies from @repdexteror.bsky.social this morning. Don’t fucking tell me you’ll do everything in your power to hold Trump accountable when you haven’t brought a single article of impeachment for any of his many impeachable acts. This is malpractice. Primary them all.

Honest to god I think the @trailblazers.bsky.social forgot they’re bad and have been playing out of their goddamn minds