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Semi-retired lawyer -- had the “Western Civilization” education that right wingers want for all, but read the books. Very worried about how our institutions are failing us, one by one.

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14.10.2025 06:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Go figure out the protest nearest you.

And if you are in CA please also vote YES on 50.

Do it now. You have your ballot.

13.10.2025 22:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason. Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

12.10.2025 12:01 — 👍 11829    🔁 6119    💬 345    📌 346
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Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, I'm no expert on cognitive illnesses, but it feels a bit detached from reality for a sitting POTUS to forget that he was in power during an attack on the U.S. Capitol, doesn't it? Do you know anyone in journalism with experience covering dementia-like symptoms?

12.10.2025 15:05 — 👍 12538    🔁 3862    💬 284    📌 245
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She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

Much of what he did before Kirk’s death sounds pretty awesome. Politics aside, I would like him a lot, I think.

Now Mike Arnold should apologize to Danielle Meyers and help her get her job back.

12.10.2025 15:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | Should They Just Go Ahead and Put Up a Gold Trump Sign on the Supreme Court?

Should They Just Go Ahead and Put Up a Gold Trump Sign on the Supreme Court? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

“ Give a president total firing power and combine it with his pre-existing pardon power over federal crimes, and you’d allow the federal government to be run as a criminal enterprise.”

12.10.2025 15:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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11.10.2025 20:35 — 👍 33405    🔁 12743    💬 742    📌 681

Grotesquely irresponsible.

“The leadership of the center that oversees immunization and respiratory diseases was also fired. It is one of the agency’s largest centers, with responsibility for immunization, influenza surveillance, and tracking of coronavirus and other respiratory viruses.”

12.10.2025 14:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

CA voters!

The only accountability Trump and his minions will have in the next 3+ years is if the Dems take back the House.

Prop 50 will help. It is a temporary, conditional measure (offsetting Trump's manipulation in Texas). But it is critical. Please vote YES.

11.10.2025 23:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The only accountability Trump and his minions will have in the next 3+ years is if the Dems take back the House.

Prop 50 will help. It is a temporary, conditional measure (offsetting Trump's manipulation in Texas). But it is critical. Please vote YES.

11.10.2025 23:48 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you Tom!

This is critical.

11.10.2025 23:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘No Kings’ rally and protest set for Oct. 18 in Santa Cruz and Watsonville Political organizers in Santa Cruz and Watsonville are planning to bring big local numbers to a nationwide protest against the Trump administration. The second "No Kings" protest, following the first…

Political organizers in Santa Cruz and Watsonville are planning to bring big local numbers to a nationwide protest against the Trump administration. The second "No Kings" events, following the first in June, are slated for next Saturday.

11.10.2025 23:00 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 1

The only accountability Trump and his minions will have in the next 3+ years is if the Dems take back the House.

Prop 50 will help. It is a temporary, conditional measure (offsetting Trump's manipulation in Texas). But it is critical. Please vote YES.

11.10.2025 22:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The only accountability Trump and his minions will have in the next 3+ years is if the Dems take back the House.

Prop 50 will help. It is a temporary, conditional measure (offsetting Trump's manipulation in Texas). But it is critical. Please vote YES.

11.10.2025 22:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The only accountability Trump and his minions will have in the next 3+ years is if the Dems take back the House.

Prop 50 will help. It is a temporary, conditional measure (offsetting Trump's manipulation in Texas). But it is critical. Please vote YES.

11.10.2025 22:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The only accountability Trump and his minions will have in the next 3+ years is if the Dems take back the House.

Prop 50 will help. It is a temporary, conditional measure (offsetting Trump's manipulation in Texas). But it is critical. Please vote YES.

11.10.2025 22:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The only accountability Trump and his minions will have in the next 3+ years is if the Dems take back the House.

Prop 50 will help. It is a temporary, conditional measure (offsetting Trump's manipulation in Texas). But it is critical. Please vote YES.

11.10.2025 22:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The only accountability Trump and his minions will have in the next 3+ years is if the Dems take back the House.

Prop 50 will help. It is a temporary, conditional measure (offsetting Trump's manipulation in Texas). But it is critical. Please vote YES.

11.10.2025 22:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The only accountability Trump and his minions will have in the next 3+ years is if the Dems take back the House.

Prop 50 will help. It is a temporary, conditional measure (offsetting Trump's manipulation in Texas). But it is critical. Please vote YES.

11.10.2025 22:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
My ballot for prop 50 filled out with a “yes” vote

My ballot for prop 50 filled out with a “yes” vote

California! Vote YES on 50, and tell Trump to fuck off with his vote rigging schemes!

09.10.2025 19:47 — 👍 802    🔁 129    💬 29    📌 7

The only accountability Trump and his minions will have in the next 3+ years is if the Dems take back the House.

Prop 50 will help. It is a temporary, conditional measure (offsetting Trump's manipulation in Texas). But it is critical. Please vote YES.

11.10.2025 22:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good for Tom Steyer.

The only accountability Trump and his minions will have in the next 3+ years is if the Dems take back the House.

Prop 50 will help. It is a temporary, conditional measure (offsetting Trump's manipulation in Texas). But it is critical. Please vote YES.

11.10.2025 22:45 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Judge "You are going to jail"
"I'm rich."
Judge "Why didn't you say before! We can't have you going to jail, nudge, nudge, wink, wink"

11.10.2025 21:27 — 👍 618    🔁 257    💬 11    📌 6
The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News. A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

11.10.2025 21:27 — 👍 5779    🔁 1998    💬 107    📌 147
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This seems like incitement to violence against judges.

04.10.2025 18:02 — 👍 6239    🔁 1973    💬 722    📌 190
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When Anti-antifa means Pro-Nazi (video) Notes from a Presidential "Roundtable"

The Trump administration is creating an imaginary enemy called “Antifa”. There is no such organization in the U.S. but the Trump propagandists need “Antifa” to be scary, hidden, with old roots which they placed in the Weimar Republic.

@timothysnyder.bsky.social

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11.10.2025 19:03 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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From the somethingiswrong2024 community on Reddit: Finance bros outraged by Trump - blatant stock market manipulation Explore this post and more from the somethingiswrong2024 community

“Finance bros outraged by Trump - blatant stock market manipulation”

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11.10.2025 18:17 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

They keep leaving out an essential preposition, "at", which completely changes the meaning of the sentence from a self-aggrandizing lie to a banal truth: She stared down AT protesters. Big deal. What next, "Steven Miller looked out of a window"? "RFK Jr examined his fingernails"?

11.10.2025 17:34 — 👍 145    🔁 27    💬 1    📌 2

Whatever you think of the propriety of their decision to talk to the NYT, the fact that federal judges did so — reportedly more than three dozen! — means they are pulling the proverbial fire alarm.

11.10.2025 18:37 — 👍 176    🔁 54    💬 2    📌 0

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