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@bltsofttaco.bsky.social

Recovering latchkey kid. Unabashed Xanadu fan. Waiting for the prophesied return of a limited-time menu item from Taco Bell.

created August 24, 2023

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Profile picture Harry Turtledove (@hntdove.bsky.social) reposted

They are the same kind of people who told Jews on their way "to the showers" their belongings would be waiting for them when they came back. That kind of people.

31/8/2025, 9:29:46 PM | 168 40 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)

Now the tariffs have brought in 'TRILLIONS'!

31/8/2025, 6:24:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 𝕴𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖝 𝕾𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖎𝖆 (@infernatrixsophia.bsky.social) reposted

Still one of the wildest things about modern politics is how Neocons heard Trump has pretensions of being king and it has roused their Trotskyite blood feud against being ruled by an aristocrat.

31/8/2025, 3:17:41 PM | 23 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Fred Wellman (@fpwellman.bsky.social) reposted

This isn’t politics. It’s not left or right. It’s not conservative or liberal. Cutting funding to treat children with brain cancer is hate and greed.

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31/8/2025, 3:17:52 PM | 1184 475 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg.bsky.social) reposted

If you don’t believe that Trump’s authoritarianism can be defeated, look at how scared MAGA is of chalk:

30/8/2025, 9:53:17 PM | 2543 729 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent

It's time for Disney to remake The Black Hole! Oscar Isaac is the perfect Dr Hans Reinhardt!

30/8/2025, 11:03:20 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)

And RFK Jr doesn't care if you, your children, your family, friends or neighbors die because, to him, that proves you weren't worthy (like him) to live. Meanwhile, he and his family are getting ALL the vaccines and all the extra care that money can buy.

30/8/2025, 7:58:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

👇🏽🎯

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30/8/2025, 3:33:17 PM | 4251 1817 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) reposted

Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)

30/8/2025, 1:23:33 PM | 10550 2844 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) reposted

The only reason Trump dropped out of sight is because situations that require a human response - like the murder of schoolchildren in a church - give him the ick. Given his status as a shooting “victim” himself he would sound even more cold & gross taking the “thoughts & prayers” route on this one.

30/8/2025, 3:56:05 PM | 846 140 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent

He looks puffy and swollen.

30/8/2025, 2:12:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)

At least a million dollars spent arresting 2 men who MAY have used sidewalk chalk to write on the base of a flag pole. We REALLY need to have a national conversation about how weak, useless, ineffective and wasteful this is.

30/8/2025, 11:51:55 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul F. Tompkins (@pftompkins.bsky.social) reposted

At the very least it’s fun to think of this as a sort of tailgate party before the big event

30/8/2025, 5:49:52 AM | 5680 683 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent

I immediately thought the music would drown out his mad screams or confused wailings, but now I also don't place it below the VP and Cabinet to blast music to cover their conversations about him being gone from listening devices.

30/8/2025, 9:50:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent

I will bet one of the signs will be his inner circle dumping Trump-related stocks.

30/8/2025, 3:02:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Claire Willett (@clairewillett.bsky.social) reposted

C’EST MOI RN

30/8/2025, 2:18:26 AM | 182 10 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Becky Grambo 🍁 (@rebeccagrambo.bsky.social) reposted

This is amazing! The attention to detail is incredible!

18/8/2025, 2:38:01 PM | 11 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump sundowned hard and they are keeping him sedated in the Residence. He is decompensating and they can't have the world see that.

30/8/2025, 1:05:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Coach Finstock (@coachfinstock.bsky.social) reposted

It doesn't work and you're spending millions of dollars forcing it on to your customer base who doesn't want it either. Why? Because you believed some idiot snake oil salesman and now you're too embarrassed to admit you were wrong? Seems like a part of the AI pitch is preying on CEO insecurities

29/8/2025, 10:09:32 PM | 232 42 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent

Is this good? Is this bad? I can't tell.

29/8/2025, 8:35:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) reposted

Republicans aren't running for office...their polls are dropping...their own base is mocking them and yelling at them at town halls... And yet they seem very comfortable and unbothered. Ask yourselves why?

29/8/2025, 7:42:56 PM | 1263 282 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted

A great point, and I fear we know why: they don't anticipate there will be elections going forward—or if there are, their outcome will be structurally predetermined. This administration doesn't appear to have any expectation that it will ever be hamstrung or out of power. Not in 2026, not in 2028.

29/8/2025, 7:52:56 PM | 800 275 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture adam mahoney (he/him) (@adamlmahoney.bsky.social) reposted

NEW: Last week, oil literally rained down on a Black town in rural Louisiana where 60% of folks live in poverty. The company isn’t taking responsibility & the federal + state governments are saying residents have to clean it up themselves. capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...

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29/8/2025, 2:02:45 PM | 1250 809 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)

They are ginning up support to put us in concentration camps. First it was the immigrants . . . . After Trans it will be the rest of LGBQ+. Then they will dig into voting records and go after Democrats.

29/8/2025, 2:28:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent

He's the Judge! (slap!). He's the Prosecutor! (slap!)

29/8/2025, 2:25:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent

Translation: "He needs to mind his own damn business!" <-- Dodging the question because the truth makes him look like horrible.

29/8/2025, 2:15:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Stiggy Pop @hamiltonburger.bsky.social (@hamiltonburger.bsky.social) reposted

Just so we're all clear on what's actually important to these people.

Laura Loomer complaining that Ashley Babbitt was shot by a black police officer on x
29/8/2025, 12:34:53 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.bsky.social) reposted

Every time you use ChatGPT or something like it, you’re helping to train an algorithm that is actually being developed to do things like this

29/8/2025, 12:55:05 PM | 1791 836 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)

AI death panels created by the Republicans who lied about the ACA/Obamacare having death panels. It is ALWAYS projection.

29/8/2025, 1:33:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)

This is going to kill our parents and grandparents. Full Stop.

29/8/2025, 1:28:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent

Removing Fed autonomy and replacing it with Trump and his Yes-Men is going to be the world economy's 'Demon Core' moment.

29/8/2025, 1:26:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)

The history of the Demon Core: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_c...

29/8/2025, 1:22:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent

Allied nations will be in the hallways outside the room and are going to get a dose based on how insulated they will make themselves. Anyone who is smart is hedging, insulating and just plain moving their finances outside of US influence.

29/8/2025, 1:21:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)

Removing the FED's autonomy and replacing it with Donald Trump and his Yes-Men will truly be the world economy's 'Demon Core' moment. The US will be stuck in the room and everyone should now be calculating their level of exposure to know how soon after they are going to lose everything (die).

29/8/2025, 1:21:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kai Ryssdal (@kairyssdal.bsky.social) reposted

Same, for the love of Pete. Saaaaaaaame

29/8/2025, 1:05:05 PM | 435 59 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent

Dollars to donuts he is going to do to the same to Biden and Obama.

29/8/2025, 1:11:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Hesse 👒 [bæddelstar galactica] (@thatdoll.online) reposted reply parent

Reddit really has a way of unweaving a human soul and laying it bare before God

29/8/2025, 12:44:56 AM | 61 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) reposted

Ashli Babbitt was an enemy of multiracial democracy. She stood on the same moral footing as the “redeemers” who sabotaged Reconstruction. And she is being celebrated by this administration for precisely that reason. That is where we are.

29/8/2025, 12:24:39 AM | 1160 230 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) reposted

demanding a do-over military parade because your birthday military parade was a huge flop is the kind of thing that the undead corpse of george washington would smash through his coffin and murder you with his bare hands for, if he could

28/8/2025, 6:41:15 PM | 895 206 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted

They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.

28/8/2025, 5:05:26 PM | 5465 2925 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture amanda moore 🐢 (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Should ask Joey if that interview with ICE is why he’s not been in America for months.

28/8/2025, 5:08:41 PM | 51 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 (@liz.sheshed.rocks) reposted

Christian Nationalism is a farce.

28/8/2025, 3:42:20 PM | 25 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent

Where are all the 'Government surveillance' and ' Mark of the Beast' people? They should be SCREAMING at this. Government-mandated health tracking devices you are required to wear everyday?

28/8/2025, 3:45:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent

He is going to ban vaccines for all children and women of childbearing age. Women will have to provide a doctor's note that they have gone through menopause to start getting vaccinated again.

28/8/2025, 1:53:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)

You would think national and international businesses would have someone on staff that could have warned them that Donald Trump would seek to rake control and ownership of them. And that the companies would then take action to fight back, together. But, no. They turned out to be weak and dumb.

28/8/2025, 1:45:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) reposted

New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...

28/8/2025, 1:19:55 PM | 4760 1879 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent

This is going to start happening to doctors in Emergency and Operating rooms, leaving patients to die.

28/8/2025, 12:51:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Constantine (@ajaxsinger.bsky.social) reposted

ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?

28/8/2025, 2:32:42 AM | 6662 2887 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent

Their quotas are more important than life and property that could be lost without those wildfire firefighters. How do you expect them to get that fat bounty/bonus? /s

28/8/2025, 12:37:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent

I am right there with you! I am legit organizing my worldly belongings into 'What to take if I have to leave suddenly and 'What to take if it is an orderly retreat'. 'What can be left behind or trashed' and 'What can I sell to increase my money supply'.

28/8/2025, 12:34:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Coach Finstock (@coachfinstock.bsky.social) reposted

I was not kidding

28/8/2025, 5:53:47 AM | 2348 486 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)

Seems . . . problematic.

28/8/2025, 11:16:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent

RFK Jr is basing this off the TSA scanner photos he spent 10 minutes looking at. It's not a microscope, CT Scan or MRI machine, Robert. You can't use it for diagnosis.

28/8/2025, 9:11:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)

I guarantee this raggedy man has never seen a mitochondria and would struggle to describe what it is.

28/8/2025, 9:08:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.bsky.social) reposted

The incredible thing about the Pod Save America guys is their utter inability to read the room The transphobia bit is going to completely alienate the people most likely to listen to their shows and buy their merch and they will never quite be dick enough to win the other folks over

28/8/2025, 1:05:15 AM | 200 21 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent

Of course its fake, just like he is.

27/8/2025, 11:42:22 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Confusing Fall Warbler (@plumicorns.bsky.social) reposted

You could express your masculinity this way, or you could be like my father, a genuine military veteran who instead owns a copy of every Conan the Barbarian comic

27/8/2025, 10:55:36 PM | 10 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)

I am convinced RFK Jr makes sure he gets ALL the vaccines while working to prevent access to the rest of us. Everything about him is a lie. He is a grifter through and through that has a serious eugenics fetish to compensate for his own moral weakness.

27/8/2025, 11:39:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent

Looks more and more like Vichy D.C. everyday.

27/8/2025, 10:51:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Corey Frayer (@csfrayer.bsky.social) reposted

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

27/8/2025, 8:22:22 PM | 5344 2627 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture think-about-it.bsky.social (@think-about-it.bsky.social) reposted

This is incredibly disheartening. These ICE representatives are rude ignorant personal who are blocking little children and their escorts. Curiously make a line and stand on one side of sidewalk. Pedo-Party President is a fool and the devil in the flesh. May he burn in HELL!

27/8/2025, 10:26:55 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief (@katie.bzky.team) reposted

there's an interesting divide on social media between people who post because they like posting and people who post because they are trying to earn money as on occasion you'll see the latter very upset at the former for any popularity which they feel is taking away opportunity and success from them.

27/8/2025, 7:29:10 AM | 1450 144 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl T. Bergstrom (@carlbergstrom.com) reposted

You’re not dropping a single, asshole. If you’re actually knew anything, it would be criminal not to reveal it now. But of course, this is a bullshit publicity stunt.

THE HILL HEALTH CARE RFK Jr. says agency will reveal causes of autism in September BY JOSEPH CHOI - 08/26/25 4:01 PM ET
27/8/2025, 2:41:32 AM | 7061 1278 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture call634-5789 (@call634-5789.bsky.social) reposted

If burning a flag gets you one year in jail….what does beating up cops with a flag get you?

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27/8/2025, 9:17:51 AM | 74 27 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent

No one matters to these fuckhead ICE agents. Only their NUMBERS matter.

27/8/2025, 12:55:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent

They used the Yellow Dancer/Lancer Cyclone toy from Genesis Climber Mospeada/Robotech: New Generation for Cy-Kill?

27/8/2025, 12:53:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rom 💽 (@cdromarts.bsky.social) reposted

Ai abomination in the wild LMFAOOO

27/8/2025, 12:28:42 AM | 138 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)

I'm sure they are happy about being paid shit to pick up trash rather than working their real job back home as their bills pile up.

27/8/2025, 12:37:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rodger Sherman (@rodger.bsky.social) reposted

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

26/8/2025, 11:41:55 PM | 45906 11600 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent

I swear I've gone to this haunted house.

27/8/2025, 12:35:37 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sheryl Weikal, still wishing ill on JK Rowling (@leftistlawyer.com) reposted

Most Americans genuinely believe there's some grand overarching force that stops illegal things from happening. That's the truth. We think there's a Boss who says "I won't allow this" and are genuinely surprised when an illegal or unfair thing happens anyway.

26/8/2025, 3:37:35 PM | 1374 273 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Barbara Castellano (@barbcast60.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

One million taxpayer dollars a day for garbage pick up! What a farce!

26/8/2025, 10:33:10 PM | 65 13 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.onestnetwork.com) reposted

National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC

26/8/2025, 10:22:56 PM | 9593 2649 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dinner is 6 pm (@internethippo.bsky.social) reposted

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

26/8/2025, 7:51:13 PM | 12136 2270 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent

If this was the 80s, the Satanic Panic abuse would have been real and it would have been from AI companies.

26/8/2025, 11:41:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 🔩Joan (@screwedjoan.bsky.social) reposted

remember like five days ago when it was revealed that facebook has specifically set parameters for its ai to have sensual encounters with children and then no politicians or major media outlets wanted a followup

20/8/2025, 10:51:26 PM | 768 271 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Micah (@rincewind.run) reposted

I have worked in big tech for fifteen years and I do not even work directly on security stuff and I simply cannot overemphasize how much you Do Not Do This we have security standards for a reason

26/8/2025, 6:27:27 PM | 477 126 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture amanda moore 🐢 (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) reposted

Just some of the National Guard milling around Metro Center in DC.

26/8/2025, 7:16:53 PM | 240 80 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)

They are going to try and take children away. To camps. To 'cure' them.

26/8/2025, 7:15:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent

I will bet they will say the reason for autism is DEI and the LGBTQ.

26/8/2025, 7:13:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social) reposted

I just can’t believe people don’t all tell him to fuck off

26/8/2025, 5:14:56 PM | 30 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)

👀 Just watch: That 'something' is going to do some HEAVY fucking lifting soon.

26/8/2025, 6:47:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 (@liz.sheshed.rocks) reposted

Horseface admits Trump’s regime is the most corrupt in history but she doesn’t care as long as the wall is built. She really cares about our country. 🙄🫠

26/8/2025, 5:31:54 PM | 24 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted

From the New Republic, May 16, 2024. Everyone was warned but those warnings went unheeded. archive.ph/E6qwI

But there is a frighteningly imaginable scenario of things getting even worse in America. The chasm between the world views of left and right during the first Trump administration, especially in summer 2020, has not closed. Ronald Brownstein at The Atlantic has argued that Trump’s promised policies toward “blue cities and states could create the greatest threat to the nation’s cohesion since the Civil War.” Trump might seek to use federal authority, including military forces such as the National Guard, to deport millions of undocumented migrants, round up homeless people, fight crime, or quell protests—in short, to make war on Blue America. There could be actual standoffs between local police and National Guardsmen.
26/8/2025, 6:00:25 PM | 219 48 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)

That the country isn't out in the streets when we have news chyrons like this fucking breaks my heart.

26/8/2025, 6:20:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)

Another DC spitting arrest. This time at the zoo. This time by the FBI. THE FUCKING FBI! And this time, they are refusing to release her after a judge ruled her to be released. Soon, spectators at football games will be arrested for not standing for the National Anthem.

26/8/2025, 6:19:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)

There was a time that talk like this from an old man would have resulted in a mental health evaluation followed by placement in a memory care facility.

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Profile picture Coach Finstock (@coachfinstock.bsky.social) reposted

ChatGPT not only helped the kid with the planning but it also helped him correct the mistakes he made the first time so he'd get it right when he tried again.

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Profile picture Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Jeff Lazarus (@jlazarus.bsky.social) reposted

Yeah, this is bad. This is really, really bad. Like, five-alarm fire bad.

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Profile picture BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)

FELONY charges for spitting on National Guard members.

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Profile picture Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) reposted

I think you've got a little conflict between numbers 2 and 3 there, buddy

JD Vance tweet: Few things: 1) Antonin Scalia was a great Supreme Court Justice and a genuinely kind and decent person. 2) The President's EO is consistent with Texas v. Johnson. 3) Texas v. Johnson was wrong and William Rehnquist was right. 5:49 AM · Aug 26, 2025 · 724.3K Views
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Profile picture Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social) reposted

Just casually laying the groundwork for violent repression of the opposition

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Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

We are very far off the cliff here folks. 🇺🇸

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Profile picture Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted

Oh look, it's the thing every fascist government says about the opposition party before they dissolve them and turn the country into a one party state.

Alt text: A screenshot of a Fox News tweet. The tweet reads: “Stephen Miller on @seanhannity: ‘The Democrat Party is not a political party. It is a domestic extremist organization.’” Below is a paused video of Stephen Miller speaking on Fox News, wearing a suit and tie. The word “KILLERS” in red text appears over his mouth. The tweet timestamp shows 10:10 PM, Aug 25, 2025, with 185.1K views.
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Profile picture Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social) reposted

Republican fascist abuse of power REQUIRES lying about their opponents otherwise it just looks like they hate America.

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Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

New in PN: Trump's red state army threatens America's cities "What this latest executive order purports to do is to allow Trump to send red state guard members into blue states, shattering the entire concept of state sovereignty."

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Profile picture Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 (@liz.sheshed.rocks) reposted

It is clear the Federal Government under Trump has begun a war with every blue state. We are no longer united.

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Profile picture Kevin Elliott (@kjephd.bsky.social) reposted

And the way to explain it, sadly, is that political principles are entirely pretextual among a certain kind of political actor. When what's driving someone's politics is a categorical rejection of the legitimacy of the other side's right to rule, any hypocrisy or abuse of principle is justified

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