Your Place Is In The Resistance

Monday Morning Open Thread

by Anne Laurie| March 30, 20265:59 am| 166 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Republicans in Disarray!, Trumpery, Your Place Is In The Resistance

Every political cartoonist in the world is currently bashing their desks in frustration.

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— Joe Scaramanga (@joescaramanga.co.uk) March 29, 2026 at 2:33 AM

Astonishing iconography.

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— Malaclypse the Middle (@malaclypse.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 3:20 PM

Walz: We will never leave the side of our Somali Minnesotans. Here's our pledge to you, our Somali Minnesotans, your great grandchildren will still be here when that orange clown is in the dustbin of history.

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— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) March 28, 2026 at 3:46 PM

The U.S. Constitution is not a suggestion box.
It means due process, equal protection, and the right to free speech.

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— Janet Mills (@janetmillsforme.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 4:57 PM

"The third No Kings protests were an unmistakable display of political force…"
"Two-thirds of participants live in suburban, small town or rural areas, a 40% increase over last time in protesters from outside big cities…"
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p…

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— Rachel Maddow (@maddow.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 6:39 PM

More Republican lawmakers are retiring ahead of the midterms than at any point in nearly a century, according to an ABC News tally of retirement announcements and a review of historical data since 1930 compiled by the Brookings Institution.

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— Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 11:53 AM

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So far, 61 House members have decided not to run again, including 39 Republicans and 22 Democrats. The GOP exodus is the largest since 1930 other than in Trump's first midterm year of 2018. (The GOP lost 40 seats that year.) www.nytimes.com/interactive/…

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— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt.bsky.social) March 28, 2026 at 4:59 PM

Wonder why that would be so?…

"We had to destroy the village in order to save it."

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— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 2:13 PM

“.. US government officials and Wall Street analysts are starting to consider the prospect that oil prices might surge to an unprecedented $200 a barrel.”
@bloomberg.com ⛽️
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202…

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— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 2:35 PM

Humanitarian relief going instead to the pockets of Trump's pals.

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— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) March 26, 2026 at 2:35 PM

To the people who are standing in long lines at the airport – know that this problem is avoidable.
We passed bipartisan legislation in the Senate. Speaker Johnson refused to bring it to a vote in the House.

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— Senator Andy Kim (@kim.senate.gov) March 29, 2026 at 5:01 PM

Normal supporters in a democracy can acknowledge that their leader is a human being with both strengths and weaknesses. Only worshippers at an authoritarian altar need to imagine them as godlike and able to do anything.

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— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 11:22 AM

My point is that, yes, the story is ridiculous. But their need to believe and promote it is even more ridiculous.
It's like when Trump stumbled down that ramp. What's hilarious isn't that he stumbled, but how he could not admit it.

— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 11:50 AM

Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat.

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— NPR (@npr.org) March 29, 2026 at 11:43 AM

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Late Night Open Thread: On Doomerism

by Anne Laurie| January 13, 20262:20 am| 102 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Your Place Is In The Resistance, social media

This is a petty issue, not an important one: a trifle, comparatively.
If you think we’re doomed, you’re free to think so. If you think the law and protest and politics are pointless, likewise. If you think methods and issues people are talking about are irrelevant, that’s for you to think.
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— Fucking Bitch Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) January 9, 2026 at 1:07 PM

/2 But if, when folks are risking their lives to oppose ICE, and people are talking about how to best defend them and how we might support each other and do right, the role YOU are called to is to slump in and tell us what we are talking about is naive and meaningless, you can just fuck right off.

/3 That sort of performative emo narcissism is a personality between you and your therapist and the Lord your God and get it fuck off my thread, I am blocking your tedious ass.

Our ancestors were real breathing people who turned sticks into fire, their descendants spent thousands of years building a regime of unsurpassed global peace and prosperity, and we shall not entertain the suggestion that it all ends here just because the man with the golden toilet says so.

— Michael Engard (@engard.me) January 9, 2026 at 1:10 PM

It's totally understandable if you're dooming about any facet of the American experiment right now. So your feelings are "valid" in the sense that they represent real anxiety, and I get that. But to vent that anxiety in other people's spaces is wrong for three reasons.

— Ken Jennings (@kenjennings.bsky.social) January 7, 2026 at 10:39 PM

First, it’s factually wrong. There will be elections in 2026 and 2028 under Trump, just like there were elections last year under Trump and during his first term. This despite one of the two major parties now harboring a lot of anti-democratic elements and ideas.

I’m not particularly interested in convincing anyone on this point and won’t try, the future is the future. But if the left side of the political spectrum is still the domain of scholarship and expertise, take note that you don’t find scholars and experts you worrying about canceled US elections.

Second, and probably most importantly, it’s tactically wrong. “No point discussing political opposition to fascism, there won’t be elections anyway” cedes victory to your enemies. It’s defeatism and nihilism.

Finally, it’s wrong AS A MATTER OF ETIQUETTE. Entering a total stranger’s discussion and leading with your private anxiety is as off-putting in social media replies as it would be in real life. If you wouldn’t interrupt a stranger at a party to announce that America is doomed, don’t do it here.

If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that’s fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn’t a strategy. It’s selfish and adolescent. It’s a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.

Take a second and think before posting the easy Eeyore reply. You might have something substantive to say instead. Or, even better, you can say nothing at all.

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Open Thread: The Wine Moms Are Winning

by Anne Laurie| January 11, 20269:19 pm| 130 Comments

This post is in: Criminal Justice, Proud to Be A Democrat, Your Place Is In The Resistance

This is not a novel observation, but I really don't think the admin quite understands the level of radicalization that is happening to opposition elements that were not previously radicalized in the slightest.

— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) January 11, 2026 at 2:15 PM

NOW: Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino hounded by activists and shoppers protesting his presence as he and a federal agent caravan leave a Target in St Paul, Minnesota for a restroom break.

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— 🌽 Tales from the Cornfield 🌽 (@childrenofthecorn.bsky.social) January 11, 2026 at 6:50 PM

Leaving Midway Target frustrated is just part of the St. Paul experience.

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— RandBall’s Stu (@randballsstu.bsky.social) January 11, 2026 at 3:08 PM

Deluded Wine Moms is a great band name.

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— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) January 11, 2026 at 7:11 PM

"The enemy of the state is wine moms" is not uh.. well it's not tactically brilliant

— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) January 11, 2026 at 4:39 PM

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— Bruce Little (@brucedlittle.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 7:56 PM

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Somali aunties were giving out samosas to the anti ICE protesters in Minneapolis.

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— Sarah.M.L.Engineer (@galaxyinfernocodes.bsky.social) January 11, 2026 at 3:51 PM

i love the part where absolutely everyone cheers and laughs at this asshole breaking his own tailbone

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— 𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 (@thoc.bsky.social) January 11, 2026 at 7:01 PM

all policing is by consent, the public always outnumbering any police force….. thats the real reason you do deescalation

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— Henry (@henrythedog.bsky.social) January 11, 2026 at 4:21 PM

I'm sorry, but you cannot reason with folks who are not embarrassed to wear this kit on the streets of the United States of America.

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— Blue Heron Farm (@blueheronfarm.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 9:49 AM

Everybody in Minneapolis should just have a poster board that just says "cringe" on it in the back of their car, in case they need to stop and stand next to some of these guys for a photo op.

— Blue Heron Farm (@blueheronfarm.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 9:53 AM

I'm struck by MAGA pearl-clutching for the poor ICE and CBP agents allegedly threatened by peaceful citizens trying to monitor and limit their lawlessness. A half century ago MAGA types were denouncing the trouble "outside agitators" were causing for poor, beleaguered Bull Connor and his men.

— Bill Kristol (@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social) January 11, 2026 at 4:13 PM

Inside you are two wolves and here's the other

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— First Wordle Problems (@fwordleproblems.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 2:39 PM

So THAT's why they wear masks!

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— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 9:01 PM

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— Zeddy (@zeddary.bsky.social) January 11, 2026 at 10:36 AM

What does it mean to fight for America? What does it mean to be an American? People thought they had easy, comfortable answers to these questions. Now we're here. Now we are led by men who are looking into the abyss, waving their feet over the edge, & giggling

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— Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST (@chathamharrison.bsky.social) January 11, 2026 at 12:08 AM

A lot of you thought a moment like this would come sooner, some time last spring or summer maybe. I tended to be skeptical it would come at all. I didn't see anything like "mass popular anger" out there and wasn't sure I would.
But here we are, and suddenly things begin to look rather 2020ish.

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— First Wordle Problems (@fwordleproblems.bsky.social) January 9, 2026 at 9:44 PM

We know why NOW of course and it's terrible that it came to that. But people said it would and it did. Deep down I really thought that really only people like US really cared about this stuff. Most people would hate this all in the usual "annoyed at the government" way but it wouldn't make them MAD.

— First Wordle Problems (@fwordleproblems.bsky.social) January 9, 2026 at 9:48 PM

But there ARE still things that can make that happen, get unfamiliar anger muscles firing in people unused to it. And anyway, it turns out there are quite a few "people like US."

— First Wordle Problems (@fwordleproblems.bsky.social) January 9, 2026 at 9:48 PM

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Sunday Morning Open Thread: Purple Revolution

by Anne Laurie| January 11, 20267:40 am| 206 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Your Place Is In The Resistance

“Do not get lost in a sea of despair.”
– John Lewis #RIP

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— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 12:34 PM

"we'll take away their share of revenues while continuing to tax them, that will show them!"

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— Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST (@chathamharrison.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 5:38 PM

Obviously the next thing to do is push a shipment of Teslas into the Mississippi while dressed as Vikings. Purple Revolution

— Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST (@chathamharrison.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 5:42 PM

If you don't have a horned helmet handy, perhaps a raspberry beret

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— Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST (@chathamharrison.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 5:44 PM

Maybe a little tarring and feathering, as a, uh, treat

— tweety fish (@sifu.tweety.fish) January 10, 2026 at 6:00 PM

Personally I would prefer we stopped reenacting the Revolution before we get to the really grisly bits!

— Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST (@chathamharrison.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 5:54 PM

“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
-Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

— Henry (@henrythedog.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 5:40 PM

A reason I get sort of annoyed by the “this is part of a plan” stuff—besides these guys lacking enough foresight to find their own dicks—is that they are so totally disconnected from reality that any plan they could actually make would be useless

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— Vituperative Erb (@vituperativeerb.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 4:03 PM

I think, if you’ve been around long enough*, at this point you have an obligation to (i) know that the struggles are longer than any event or war, and (ii) spread messages that bias to resilience and long-term engagement and strength
*anyone over Bluesky’s Age

— Snowden St. (@snowden.st) January 11, 2026 at 12:19 AM

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— NainRouge420 (@nainrouge420.bsky.social) January 8, 2026 at 9:44 PM

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread

by Anne Laurie| October 22, 20256:31 am| 480 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Open Threads, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You, Your Place Is In The Resistance

Two weeks from today:

It's not going to get better on its own. Support the 911 March for Health and Science.
RFK Jr. Must Go!!
kffhealthnews.org/news/article…

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— Science Accountability Institute (@scienceai.bsky.social) October 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM

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It’s really notable how — in just the past week — business lobbies have begun to push back on White House tariff, immigration and export/trade policy.
@wsj.com @cnbc.com @bloomberg.com @reuters.com

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— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) October 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM

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(Bloomberg) – Small businesses are urging the US Supreme Court to affirm lower court rulings that President Donald Trump's global tariffs amount to a massive illegal tax on American companies.
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article…

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— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) October 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM

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ACKMAN, on @cnbc.com this am: “Trump is the most pro-business President in history.”
Everyone else:

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— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) October 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM

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By 57% to 22%, voters disapprove of Trump's bail out of Argentina, per the new Economist/YouGov poll. Trump voters disapprove by 40% to 35%, even with Trump's name attached to it.

— Geoff Garin (@geoffgarin.bsky.social) October 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM

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Saturday Morning Open Thread: NO KINGS

by Anne Laurie| October 18, 20254:33 am| 190 Comments

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Facts don’t care about the GOP’s feelings — there’s nothing more American than rejecting a mad king. Please join us tomorrow: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i… #NoKings

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— Indivisible ❌👑 (@indivisible.org) October 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM

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or you could just smile and wave and chat with a grandma or two

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— Zeddy (@zeddary.bsky.social) October 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM

Look I went to one in June imagine a school pep rally where everyone there actually wanted to participate. Which is what a mass movement historically feels like when you have the numbers which we do.

— Zeddy (@zeddary.bsky.social) October 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM

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Republican officials have spent years psy-oping themselves into thinking that there are no sincere, good faith liberals or progressives anywhere in America. So no wonder they're totally unequipped to deal with a large crowd of normal people waving American flags.

— Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM

So far they seem to be oscillating between:
-"These normal people waving American flags hate America, actually."
-"What we have here are millions of paid protestors."
-And my favorite, "No kings is bad and unamerican, actually."

— Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM

People got mad at me during Trump I when I suggested that black bloc and the far right are actually symbiotic life forms, but it couldn't be clearer that the GOP *wants* black bloc to be their main enemy and don't know what to do about the fact that it isn't.

— Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM

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just go to the protests
take whatever precautions you personally feel comfortable with but these are massive, joyful events, go and have fun

— Micah (@rincewind.run) October 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM

I have come out of both previous events feeling energized and happier and it’s been really good for my overall mental health given how much time I spend online
I suspect I am not alone in that

— Micah (@rincewind.run) October 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM

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?Welcome to No Kings Eve. Trump is sounding and behaving kingly, and Republicans are at DEFCON 1 on the desperation meter. You can tell by their hallucinatory talking points, which are untethered from both reality and the Constitution. New from me at @msnbc.com:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb…

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— Jill Lawrence (@jilldlawrence.bsky.social) October 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM

You might find this hard to believe, but Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans are making stuff up. This is a go-to move when they fear their power and corrupt authoritarian plans are at risk, and that’s happening a lot lately. Now, with millions of people signed up to attend thousands of “No Kings” demonstrations Saturday across America, the GOP’s desperation meter is at DEFCON 1.

The alarm is clear from the overwrought Republican leaders spouting hallucinatory talking points in which “No Kings” protests become “‘Hate America’ rallies.” They are weaving a tale of extremists, terrorists, Marxists, agitators, “the pro-Hamas crowd” (House Speaker Mike Johnson’s phrase), and professional protesters supposedly paid by billionaire George Soros. It’s straight-up fearmongering.

In truth, anti-Trump protests, like the first “No Kings” demonstrations earlier this year, have drawn people of all backgrounds, united not by payment but by their deep concern — even despair — about what’s happening to their country. Some may show up this weekend wearing inflatable costumes as frogs, chickens, bears, dinosaurs or unicorns, as they have in Portland, Oregon, and outside Chicago. In D.C., we might once again see and hear a trombonist with the stage name Michael McTrouserpants…

While the president and his allies have been known to revel in violence against Trump’s political opponents, the No Kings website features links to primers on safety, de-escalation, and “sacred” religious protest traditions, and this stern warning: “A core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events.”…

The fictional GOP portrait of protesters as deplorables and undesirables is part of a strategy to stop the resistance before it flexes its growing power against a president who is already decidedly unpopular. Nonviolent public protests can generate dramatic changes in public opinion and, ultimately, in public awareness and public policy as well.

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TGIFriday Morning Open Thread: Good Day for A Doc Dump?

by Anne Laurie| October 17, 20257:12 am| 256 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Your Place Is In The Resistance

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— Mike Luckovich (@mluckovich.bsky.social) October 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM

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@ccscott.bsky.social
Celebrating No Kings early in the original No Kings city.
😊💙

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— TheBionicBee 🐝 (@suewho82.bsky.social) October 16, 2025 at 8:18 AM

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Pritzker: "It's clear that Donald Trump has diminished capacity, which I think is sad — that the people around him are not getting him help, and instead they're just taking advantage of him. And that's what Stephen Miller is."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) October 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM

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man, texas national guard is a fucking shit job

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— GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) October 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM

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282 former DOJ officials signed a letter sounding the alarm about "this administration’s degradation of DOJ’s vital work, and its assault on the public servants who do it."
The fact that hundreds felt compelled to say this speaks volumes.

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— CREW (@citizensforethics.org) October 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM

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OTHER COUNTRIES are having NO KINGS events as well!! NoKings.org

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— ❌👑 Bernadette🫘🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🟧💙🐈‍⬛ (@vintageknits.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM

lmfao

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— cait (and adonis) (@cait.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM

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Reality always gets a vote in the end.

The National Guard is not Batman.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

Usually wrong but never in doubt

“But what about the lurkers?”

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Let me file that under fuck it.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

People are weird.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

The way to stop violence is to stop manufacturing the hatred that fuels it.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

Let there be snark.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.

Monday Morning Open Thread

Open Thread: The Wine Moms Are Winning

Sunday Morning Open Thread: Purple Revolution

Wednesday Morning Open Thread

Saturday Morning Open Thread: NO KINGS

TGIFriday Morning Open Thread: Good Day for A Doc Dump?