And that has long been the "pro-life" party's tactic. I actually know someone who got death threats for making Obamacare work in their state.
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Susan Wicklund is a friend. She spent most of her adult life in a bulletproof vest, keeping her home address secret, moving way too often, flying in to take over for murdered abortion doctors. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/susan...
feb 9, 2025, 9:06 pm • 2 0 • view
Clinical staff get death threats all the time too, but it seems the 5' 95lbs woman has bugger balls then a bunch of dudes with fucking private security
feb 11, 2025, 6:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Sorry, don't see this linked yet. Not always just a threat: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett...
feb 11, 2025, 5:17 am • 0 0 • view
Now the #domesticterrorists are winning.
feb 4, 2025, 8:33 pm • 944 45 • view
Dems probably should have done something about that when the FBI formally warned about it, or at any of the many times they've had power to do so over the last several decades But hey, gotta reach that hand across the aisle because bipartisanship or whatever. Literally negotiating with terrorists
feb 9, 2025, 8:30 pm • 328 11 • view
Friendly reminder to centrist libs who want to play white knight for the people who allowed this to happen just because they're on the blue team: the Block button is extremely effective on Bluesky. Use it on me if you want, or reply with some bad faith nonsense and I'll use it on you
feb 9, 2025, 9:38 pm • 118 3 • view
I’m a centrist lib who agrees 100% with what you said.
feb 9, 2025, 11:29 pm • 15 0 • view
The vast majority of non-Trumpers, for 14 years, have coddled Trumpers. We have forgiven them in advance, and invited them over for the usual social functions. And this is permission. We've been giving them permission all along. We're complicit with normalizing this depravity.
feb 10, 2025, 6:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Hundreds of thousands of Americans died while murdering Nazis to defend this country and our allies. The least we could do is not invite them to Thanksgiving. Too many non-Trumper friends and family defended "friends and family" over "politics". The rot is culture wide. It isn't just Trumpers.
feb 10, 2025, 6:25 pm • 2 0 • view
Yea, the party of Democracy forgot that the First Amendment 'Freedom of Expression' sometimes means stepping on some terrorists throats.
feb 9, 2025, 9:00 pm • 11 0 • view
Dems need a good house cleaning, out with the old guard and in with some young minds. No lifetime elected representatives. #TermLimits
feb 9, 2025, 10:58 pm • 8 0 • view
…so they are cowards. got it. Thanks.
feb 9, 2025, 10:04 pm • 12 0 • view
For now. But change will come! It always does.
feb 10, 2025, 3:34 am • 0 0 • view
Almost as though negotiating with and giving into terrorists only helps them.
feb 9, 2025, 12:18 pm • 208 9 • view
i feel like if you're a politician getting death threats is part of your job description since time immemorial fuckin resign and let somebody with the mettle for the work take over
feb 9, 2025, 4:29 pm • 183 7 • view
This is not normal. It’s not some off the rockers lone wolf you can just have more courage than. This is more like a dark web cartel with the power to inflict unimaginable harm on you and yours.
feb 9, 2025, 8:15 pm • 2 0 • view
then they need to resign and let somebody with more courage actually resist
feb 9, 2025, 8:16 pm • 9 0 • view
This feels like an unhinged ask. Politics are not a blood sport we need ufc fighters for.
feb 9, 2025, 8:20 pm • 0 0 • view
You’re right it’s definitely better to just have worthless fucks who let shitty republicans walk all over them and fuck us all in the process. Seems like a great plan
feb 10, 2025, 12:08 am • 4 0 • view
well then you don't believe trump is a fascist and there's no problem
feb 10, 2025, 5:48 pm • 3 0 • view
Lmao how on earth could you get here from anything I said? That’s crazy
feb 10, 2025, 6:14 pm • 0 0 • view
saying it's unhinged to expect politicans to risk their lives fighting a fascist is in itself unhinged. Either he's a fascist so everyone resisting is risking their lives or he isn't
feb 10, 2025, 6:16 pm • 3 0 • view
they are now
feb 9, 2025, 9:00 pm • 8 0 • view
they're normalizing this by not resisting with everything they've got
feb 9, 2025, 9:01 pm • 5 0 • view
-looks up at all the graves of their friends killed by policy decisions over the last 40 years and starts looking around for that astronaut meme-
feb 9, 2025, 10:21 pm • 4 0 • view
Report the threats or maybe that’s hard when you report them to an agency they are taking over .
feb 9, 2025, 4:40 pm • 27 0 • view
Anybody who has ever had convictions and is serious about solving a major issue in this country knows that it has always come with the territory. The fact that she is shock and afraid is because she never intended to do anything meaningful while holding office.
feb 9, 2025, 7:31 pm • 18 2 • view
feb 9, 2025, 7:33 pm • 18 2 • view
oh no, they gotta take their defense into their own hands just like the rest of us 😩
feb 9, 2025, 4:41 pm • 20 0 • view
yea but she was looking for an excuse to cave in anyway.
feb 10, 2025, 7:13 am • 0 0 • view
"I'm a coward" is not actually a good explanation for moral failing. I'm not sure if they know that
feb 9, 2025, 7:57 pm • 16 0 • view
i think its a very good explaniation. terrible excuse though
feb 9, 2025, 8:03 pm • 6 0 • view
if you don't got the stomach for it i understand accepting that something is important enough it's worth dying for is hard but for real, RESIGN
feb 9, 2025, 8:04 pm • 7 0 • view
seems like it's going around bsky.app/profile/mx0x...
feb 9, 2025, 8:00 pm • 2 0 • view
disabling quotes for this because so far it's been exclusively people going "BUT THEY DIDN'T ACTUALLY USED TO HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT DYING, YOU WOULDN'T STICK YOUR NECK OUT LIKE THAT" and lol; lmao
feb 9, 2025, 7:59 pm • 34 1 • view
JFK and Abraham Lincoln would like a word
feb 9, 2025, 8:03 pm • 8 0 • view
Teddy Roosevelt is on Line 2
feb 9, 2025, 8:03 pm • 7 0 • view
*touches earpiece I'm getting word that President Garfield had a bit of a tussle with someone named Charles Guiteau
feb 9, 2025, 8:06 pm • 7 0 • view
Pretty sure politicians are the safest they've ever been in human history. You just know if there was an ancient Roman social media app monitored by empire-spanning police, at least one of the conspirators would've slipped up and posted something completely ruining the whole "Ides of March" thing.
feb 9, 2025, 8:13 pm • 24 1 • view
idk, are we sure there wasn't graffiti about it? 👀
feb 9, 2025, 8:14 pm • 6 0 • view
I'm not an expert in ancient Roman graffiti, so all I know is the raunchy stuff from Pompeii that managed to make its way into public consciousness.
feb 9, 2025, 8:17 pm • 6 0 • view
There was a LOT of political stuff as well. Both supporters and detractors of various local officials scribbled on walls.
feb 9, 2025, 10:32 pm • 4 0 • view
There's also the case of Constantinople where chariot racing got INTENSELY political and you had graffiti about "official so-and-so claims to be a man of the people but he supports the red team!"
feb 9, 2025, 10:32 pm • 5 0 • view
they just like us fr
feb 9, 2025, 10:39 pm • 3 0 • view
There is/was. In 2018, in a bookstore in Santa Fe NM, women's bathroom. The walls surrounding a dimly lit mirror told an angry story. A population of locals and travelers consistently Scrawled the message "fuck Trump" in full colors that luminated that otherwise dark,shabby, historic loo.
feb 9, 2025, 8:56 pm • 1 0 • view
They have been winning for a decade.
feb 8, 2025, 2:35 pm • 72 0 • view
Decades because no one wanted to call out Christian nationalists- the mainstream Christian’s bring all their shit to bear as well- making the cartel behavior look more widespread and backed than it is
feb 8, 2025, 7:13 pm • 8 0 • view
Winning longer than that. Since 2000
feb 8, 2025, 3:49 pm • 6 0 • view
I remember thinking "this isn't a good precedent" during the 2014 Bundy standoff. I think we are now seeing the consequences of coddling RW terrorists again and again.
feb 8, 2025, 2:57 pm • 209 15 • view
This. My previous expectations if I did what Bundy or J6ers did was I would probably get shot by police.
feb 8, 2025, 4:48 pm • 59 0 • view
If you did what they did for left wing or liberal goals, you absolutely would be. This tolerance of violence goes one way and one way only
feb 8, 2025, 6:15 pm • 49 2 • view
I agree. The responses to the "Black Lives Matter" protests and the covid mask/lockdown protests were polar opposites.
feb 8, 2025, 6:25 pm • 23 1 • view
I remember thinking the same thing when I read about how America didn't execute the leaders of the confederacy. We didn't put them down and now they are flying their flag in the White House.
feb 8, 2025, 7:22 pm • 30 1 • view
Lol, you should pair that with a deep dive down an Operation Paperclip search.
feb 9, 2025, 6:27 am • 6 1 • view
I’d also recommend this. The Dulles brothers were essential for spreading the religion of capitalism around the world.
feb 9, 2025, 1:10 pm • 2 0 • view
The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government a.co/d/5oKgSNs
feb 9, 2025, 1:10 pm • 2 0 • view
YES!!! Excellent recommendation!
feb 9, 2025, 6:34 pm • 2 0 • view
this one is incredible and so is Operation Gladio www.amazon.com/Operation-Gl...
feb 10, 2025, 5:52 pm • 2 0 • view
I read that one too! Agreed 👍🏻
feb 10, 2025, 6:31 pm • 2 0 • view
📌
feb 10, 2025, 7:32 pm • 2 0 • view
Totally agree—BOTH Bundy standoffs. DOJ actually fxxked up the case in 14 too. The standoff and the case were seriously mishandled from start to finish.
feb 8, 2025, 7:22 pm • 9 0 • view
the standoff was good. The cops should not be in the business of killing anyone. However, the FBI intentionally botching the prosecution was bad and something no politician is willing to address
feb 10, 2025, 5:50 pm • 1 0 • view
they have been winning since Reconstruction
feb 8, 2025, 5:29 pm • 9 1 • view
History proves time and time again that peaceful protestors only ever get what they ask for when it is the only way to appease the violent protestors who are cutting off the heads of the powerful. Power was never, ever, surrendered willingly. That's why democracy was seen as such a radical idea.
feb 8, 2025, 7:20 pm • 130 12 • view
Churchill is... an ironic person to have said that quote, considering.
feb 9, 2025, 7:07 am • 33 0 • view
He didn't. It's a misquote attributed to the wrong person.
feb 9, 2025, 7:43 am • 23 0 • view
Who is the correct person to attribute this quote to?
feb 9, 2025, 7:44 am • 4 0 • view
winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/americans-wi...
feb 9, 2025, 7:49 am • 5 0 • view
If I’m reading this article correctly, it’s saying that there is no evidence that Churchill said the quote.
feb 9, 2025, 7:53 am • 4 0 • view
Hillsdale is very very right-wing. Distrust anyone turning to them for any actual facts. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
feb 9, 2025, 10:46 am • 15 0 • view
Here's a good explainer having sifted through endless sites misattributing it to Churchill. The internet is just an amplifier of myth these days.
feb 9, 2025, 11:07 am • 11 0 • view
If I remember correctly it was an Israeli ambassador or maybe PM on a visit to Japan and it wasn't directed specifically at America?
feb 9, 2025, 8:35 am • 3 0 • view
Commenting that the passage of time offered the best hope of an end to the problems of Israel and her neighbors, he said: “Men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other resources.” Abba Eban, Israeli politician/diplomat, 1967
feb 9, 2025, 11:58 am • 2 0 • view
One of my (many) hot takes is that 99% of the time, protesting does absolutely nothing. When you're shouting in front of the capitol building, the people inside don't even know you're out there. Sometimes it does less than nothing, because some people think protesting is a substitute for voting.
feb 9, 2025, 3:12 am • 25 0 • view
And it exhausts people, leaves many with arrest records etc
feb 9, 2025, 3:32 am • 4 0 • view
The only effective protest today is a Luigi protest simply because the GOP approves of political violence.
feb 9, 2025, 6:15 am • 32 3 • view
Bootlicker
feb 9, 2025, 4:23 am • 3 0 • view
I'm licking no boots. I'm just realistic about what actually gets crap done. And protests don't get crap done. At least, none that are orderly and polite. We're in this situation directly because of the results of votes. No amount of angrily waving signs is gonna fix that.
feb 9, 2025, 8:24 am • 5 0 • view
You can point to a SMALL NUMBER of protests that actually had a measurable influence on something. And usually, that influence only happened because they were backed up by voting in people who were actually willing to do what the protesters wanted. So in the end, VOTES get stuff done, not protest.
feb 9, 2025, 8:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Protests & marches have affected congressional votes ib the past.
feb 9, 2025, 9:11 pm • 2 0 • view
Discouraging people grin civil discourse supports the oppressor.
feb 9, 2025, 8:15 pm • 2 0 • view
Both are necessary
feb 9, 2025, 8:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Historically, no peaceful protest has ever made a difference in America without someone killing a rich person or a group of more violent protestors doing so much damage to property that the wealthy gave the peaceful protestors what they wanted just to calm down the violent ones.
mar 10, 2025, 11:12 am • 0 0 • view
Angry sign waving brings community, increased moral and the media. Without major protests the oppressors think everyone is compliant.
feb 9, 2025, 4:37 pm • 5 0 • view
Angry sign waving has never once convinced a person with power to give up that power. Historically, there has only been one effective solution to stopping fascism and rich people have spent generations telling poor people it's never okay.
mar 10, 2025, 11:18 am • 1 0 • view
Those things mean nothing if the oppressors just do whatever they want anyway. I live in a blue city in a red state. Liberals are constantly organizing protests outside of the capitol about the terrible legislation happening here. You know what that does? Nothing. Zip. Nada. Votes are power.
feb 9, 2025, 8:10 pm • 3 0 • view
We all respond differently. I see blue dots gathering and making their voices heard and it gives me hope that if they have the bravery to get out there in the face of shitty rulers then the rest of us have zero excuse. Reds are trying to take over NY. They gained ground this election. #complacency
feb 9, 2025, 9:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah but your voice is mean nothing to these people in charge. They don't care what you think. They just want their money and power. Unless there is a direct threat to their lives, money, or power, nothing will ever change. That has always been true at every point in human history.
feb 9, 2025, 9:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Protesting is nice but it isn't a means to any end. Protesting should be a tool for gathering people to take the actions necessary to bring about change.
feb 9, 2025, 9:39 pm • 2 0 • view
No, in fact, protesting isn't a substitute for voting. You still have to vote, or you wind up ignored.
feb 9, 2025, 7:01 am • 2 0 • view
Churchillian Drift: it’s a thing www.forbes.com/2009/08/12/n...
feb 9, 2025, 7:46 am • 1 0 • view
No - they want you to think that they are - fight back! Watched the movie Number 24 last night. Inspiring - plan and resist!
feb 9, 2025, 2:19 pm • 4 0 • view
It's really funny, which domestic terrorists they just keep letting win, And which peaceful protestors get labeled domestic terrorists and that's all the justification needed to retaliate with impunity. I wonder why the discrepancy /s
feb 9, 2025, 11:35 pm • 277 20 • view
Society is a pretense exploited by abusers and fascists.
feb 10, 2025, 4:03 am • 65 5 • view
See also: bsky.app/profile/theo...
feb 10, 2025, 4:04 am • 84 8 • view
Wait - I thought The Onion was FAKE news...
feb 10, 2025, 5:11 am • 28 1 • view
They're really leaning into the Lathe of Heaven/Hit by the Dodgeball of Prophecy thing
feb 10, 2025, 6:19 pm • 2 0 • view
Maybe that should be Dogeball...
feb 10, 2025, 7:02 pm • 2 0 • view
I thought about that, but I can't make that kind of libelous comparison without risking a smiting from Apollo (even worse than the dodge ball).
feb 10, 2025, 10:25 pm • 2 0 • view
It used to be. But we now live in a post-satire world.
feb 11, 2025, 4:50 am • 0 0 • view
That’s literally the playbook.
feb 10, 2025, 7:03 pm • 18 1 • view
The problem with this twisted thing is: a politician job is voting laws not sheriff them.
feb 10, 2025, 10:20 pm • 5 0 • view
True. And the Executive Branch is to carry out those laws - “faithfully execute” them. But MAGA thinks electing someone as President means they get to just rule, do whatever they want. And GOP complicity is now complete. They’re too afraid do anything much less stand up to him. It’s mob rule.
feb 11, 2025, 4:23 pm • 3 0 • view
🎯🎯🎯
feb 10, 2025, 1:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Their 40 year terror campaign against abortion worked pretty damn well
feb 9, 2025, 1:01 pm • 12 0 • view
If only a dozen of them stepped forward as a group to push back! There are rich Dems that would pay for their security.
feb 10, 2025, 3:36 am • 3 0 • view
Worked for an abortion clinic in the early 1980’s in DC. It was quite the scene 5 blocks from the WH. Limousines, Elizabeth Arden red doors, newly homeless everywhere and bomb threats. Evacuated 3 times at least.
feb 9, 2025, 11:23 pm • 0 0 • view
I probably watch too much TV, but have long assumed that Congresspeople regularly receive envelopes w/ pics of their kids or grandkids in rifle sights & other plausible threats. With that much at stake & ruthless murderous creeps involved, I'd expect it. So they need enough cover to do what's right.
feb 9, 2025, 8:22 am • 1 0 • view
About 25 years ago my mother in laws OB/Gyn was assassinated in his livingroom by a pro- lifer
feb 9, 2025, 8:56 pm • 0 0 • view
I mean, this demonstrates their weakness. If a sitting United States senator is afraid of getting killed with all their resources for protection and they can’t stand up against the HHS secretary nominee who will bring biblical plagues down upon us then what is the point of them?
feb 4, 2025, 8:37 pm • 64 6 • view
If they won't represent you then you shouldn't have to pay taxes. No taxation without representation.
feb 8, 2025, 3:43 pm • 11 2 • view
A tiny anti-death penalty protest I regularly attended in Oklahoma 25 years ago received death threats on occasion. Police always stationed a car nearby for our protection.
feb 9, 2025, 3:19 pm • 1 0 • view
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feb 9, 2025, 1:17 pm • 8 1 • view
Doll, everyone in the public eye gets death threats. It's the American way.
feb 9, 2025, 10:29 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s so fucking sad you just accept thats the way it is & should be. This country is so fucked.
feb 10, 2025, 12:39 am • 0 0 • view
LOL! You poor child. When you're worn out from changing things you can't maybe you'll learn how to deal with them. Homo sapiens are not the delightful creature you imagine them to be.
feb 10, 2025, 4:22 pm • 0 0 • view
They are not now, nor have they ever been, “pro-life,” only pro-birth. After that, you’re on your own until you kick it.
feb 9, 2025, 8:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Abortion providers have faced very real death threats for decades
feb 9, 2025, 8:10 pm • 2 0 • view