Tony Almquist

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2/2 "..That’s the highest form of rebellion, participation without possession.

"The Sovereign Mind is not anti system.
It’s post"

Living Without Fucking Permission You don’t need permission to exist.

by @streamlinedpmllc.bsky.social
1/2 "You don’t need to move off grid to be free.
You just need to stop letting systems script your identity.

"Freedom isn’t found in isolation, it’s built in awareness.
You can live inside society and still think outside its code..

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Felon Trump refused to tap emergency funds to pay food aid during the Republicans' federal shutdown.

They don't care that 42 million U.S. citizens would go hungry,

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In America, we don’t do kings.

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Trump & his Republican enablers don't care that Medicaid cuts are a catastrophe for millions of U.S. citizens.
They just want their oligarch bosses to suck up our tax dollars.

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The Trump Coin I'm adding my design submission

by @anntelnaes.bsky.social

2/2 "..When not whimpering over costumed protestors or a sandwich assailant, they regularly incur the ire of courts for their abusive and cruel conduct as well as dishonest testimony. Their incompetence is roundly mocked. Trump is sending the worst of the worst”

Lawless Enforcement The feds are out of control

by @jenrubin.bsky.social
1/2 “Mockery is critical to undermining fascism but that does not detract from the damage to the integrity, reputation, & effectiveness of federal law enforcement in this regime. Trump has turned their personnel, undertrained & poorly lead, into a national embarrassment..

2/2 "..There must be Romans peering across the ocean, a knowing look in their eyes. They’re surrounded by the remnants of their own Trump Era that tossed their great experiment into the large compost heap of history”

Golden Idol, Empty Soul: Trump’s Real-Time Failure of Humanity Cameras rolled, a man fell, and the self-anointed savior of America didn’t even blink — proving you can gild rot, but it still stinks.

by @cliffschecter.bsky.social
1/2 “Americans are going hungry, and a classless jack-in-the-box is gilding everything. A narcissistic dunce whose sociopathic shrug in the White House is the best single moment to explain everything that’s wrong with our rotting republic..

2/2 "..or a run for higher office, she’s obviously decided it’s to her benefit to put some distance between her and Trump”

Marjorie Taylor Greene flees Trump's sinking ship Even hardcore MAGAs are eyeing the emergency exits.

by @nberlat.bsky.social
1/2 “Greene is still most likely the same hateful liar she’s always been. She is now, however, a hateful liar who thinks her political fortunes depend to some degree on tacking away from Trump and towards the center. Whether she’s looking at reelection in her district..

Absolutely correct

2/2 "..it quite literally can appeal to an authority greater than whoever leads the state

Propaganda, Rather than Pandemic Policies, Caused the War on Public Health The backlash narrative ignores basic facts of the case.

by @zeblarson.bsky.social
1/2 “Authoritarianism can’t abide the concept of public health, for a few different reasons. It proposes limits on both government and individual activity, and the rationale for those limitations is grounded in the scientific process..”

The Week Ahead November 9, 2025

Today's Must-Read by @joycewhitevance.bsky.social
"Not all Democrats are on board this proposal. While the vote would have the effect of forcing each Republican to take a position in public on healthcare costs and access as we head into the midterms, some Democrats likened it to caving in"

2/2 "..those who fight and those who risk their own lives to try to save the lives of others"

Freedom is Action -- Finishing the Job Help save the lives of the courageous

by @timothysnyder.bsky.social
1/2 "We are approaching November 11, which much of the world treats as a day of remembrance of the First World War and of those who gave their lives in war. Please have a thought for those who are defending their country in a war on the scale of 1918 and 1945..

2/2 "..the outlook of most older people is shaped by their disappointments and failures as much as by their successes and joys. That’s OK, too; there’s wisdom in it. But the wisdom is too often laced with caution, prejudice, fear and spiritual desiccation. Those are not good building materials”

The Sunday Poem Youth will be served

by @terrymoranabc.bsky.social
1/2 “it’s something deeper than blunders or the hopeless unhipness of the old that’s driving politics and culture in societies during moments like this one. It’s the human demand for energy and optimism. By the time they reach their 60s and 70s and beyond..

2/2 ".. were extended just a year.

“Instead of reading the room and mending his ways, Mr. Trump blamed everyone else, told Americans to go hungry, threw a party for his rich friends, met with Orban to give a gift to Putin, and left Washington to go play golf”

Trump plays golf while Americans line up at food banks Americans want government to do its job, and we want the folks we elect to step up and get it done.

by @eisendrath.net
1/2 “In the face of such a clarity, Speaker Johnson ordered the House to remain out of session for a record eighth straight week. Over in the Senate, that body refused to pass a Democratic bill that would have reopened the government if expiring health care subsidies

2/2 "..when we can all see that he’s a doddering racist grandpa who doesn’t know how tariffs work. It’s time to stop treating him like he’s some sort of genius who Understands Things and start working to destroy his movement and everything—and I do mean everything— it stands for”

Trump Is Not Magic Tuesday’s results suggest he underperformed in 2024.

by @nberlat.bsky.social
1/2 “It is shameful that Americans elected this racist, fascist, nincompoop to the presidency twice. But we do not have to compound the error by convincing ourselves that he has some sort of unique, authentic rapport with Americanism, or by insisting that he is a savant..

2/2 "..and parts of the judiciary might have bailed on rescuing America’s sinking liberal democracy, citizens have not. Trump faces far greater resistance than Orbán or Modi ever did. They never became widely despised in their countries in a way that Trump is right now"

Trump Has Taken Only Months to Accomplish the Level of Authoritarian Consolidation That Took Orbán and Modi Years But America's aversion to tyranny gives it a much better chance of restoring its liberal democracy than their countries

by @shikhadalmia.bsky.social
1/2 "America is different. It has a deep cultural aversion to autocracy, reflected in the massive turnout for the No Kings protests on Oct. 18. Tuesday’s election was a referendum on Trump—which he failed miserably.

"This shows that while Congress..

2/2 "..in need of law and order. But Sandwich Guy isn’t a criminal — he is a man who was standing up for the people against tyranny — sandwiches be damned"

by @democracydocket.com
1/2 "After many victories on Tuesday, it was another win for the opposition movement. Because, remember: this was never just about a sandwich. Republicans wanted to make an example of Sandwich Guy — to prove that Washington, D.C., was a city riddled with crime..

2/2 "..his adrenal glands.

“While the Surgeon General stood calmly to his left explaining the symptoms of cognitive decline, Trump slumped in his chair, trying to summon his last living neuron like a séance medium reaching out to the ghost of basic alertness”