Fredrick Kunkle
@blueskytrotsky.bsky.social
White-knuckling the crash landing into Trump’s authoritarian dystopia
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I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."
November 21, 2024 at 8:43 PM
I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."
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And the motherfucker wants a Nobel Peace Prize
🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.
October 19, 2025 at 3:37 AM
And the motherfucker wants a Nobel Peace Prize
And here I thought we had to put up with routine school shoutings because guns would keep us free?
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The Second Amendment was supposed to protect us from tyranny. What happened?
Red American gun owners seem awfully quiet about Trump's authoritarianism
open.substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
And here I thought we had to put up with routine school shoutings because guns would keep us free?
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Kavanaugh stop
This is terrifying!
ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)
This is Trump’s America.
ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)
This is Trump’s America.
October 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Kavanaugh stop
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This is the administration that just fired a bunch of FBI agents for kneeling at a BLM protest five years ago.
Hegseth: "You should not pay for an earnest mistake for your entire career. That's why today, at my direction, we're making changes to the retention of adverse information on personnel records."
September 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This is the administration that just fired a bunch of FBI agents for kneeling at a BLM protest five years ago.
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The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
September 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
Nearing final scene with der Führer in the bunker drooling and raving about the “enemy within”
September 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Nearing final scene with der Führer in the bunker drooling and raving about the “enemy within”
The most reliable institution in the land today is Justice Roberts’ Supreme Court. You can absolutely count on it to curtsy before President Trump, even if it means trampling its own precedents
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...
Supreme Court Allows Trump to Fire F.T.C. Commissioner
www.nytimes.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The most reliable institution in the land today is Justice Roberts’ Supreme Court. You can absolutely count on it to curtsy before President Trump, even if it means trampling its own precedents
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...
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This was after Colbert was canceled. Which was two months ago.
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
September 17, 2025 at 10:54 PM
This was after Colbert was canceled. Which was two months ago.
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under this language charlie kirk would not have been allowed to speak on clemson’s campus
"We stand firmly on the principles of the U.S. Constitution, including the protection of free speech. HOWEVER, that right does not extend to speech that incites harm OR UNDERMINES THE DIGNITY OF OTHERS."
Emphasis added because holy fuck
Emphasis added because holy fuck
![@ClemsonUniv on X: A statement from Clemson University: [image of statement]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreid6n6w5ec7olzm2wahdjop6juf2tpvrean5lqesze2m7xtbpr2laa@jpeg)
September 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
under this language charlie kirk would not have been allowed to speak on clemson’s campus
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These deaths are a real feather in the cap of Brian Kilmeade and Fox News.
FOX news host suggests we euthanize the homeless, someone goes into two encampments and starts shooting.
13 people shot and Jacob Frey and the media are just talking about it as the new best reason to clear the encampments
13 people shot and Jacob Frey and the media are just talking about it as the new best reason to clear the encampments
'We're shutting this thing down': 8 shot at Minneapolis homeless encampment hosted by landlord, Frey pledges action
That shooting came less than 12 hours after another shooting just two miles away that left five others injured.
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September 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
These deaths are a real feather in the cap of Brian Kilmeade and Fox News.
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We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
September 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
Karen Attiah’s firing is outrageous. I’ve not always agreed with her but always respected her passion and courage. Once again I wonder why I still subscribe to a paper I loved and wrote for now that Jeff Bezos and his craven underlings have gutted it
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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
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September 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Karen Attiah’s firing is outrageous. I’ve not always agreed with her but always respected her passion and courage. Once again I wonder why I still subscribe to a paper I loved and wrote for now that Jeff Bezos and his craven underlings have gutted it
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
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There’s no evidence that any leftist group or network had anything to do with Kirk’s murder. Even Cox said he acted alone.
They’re going to try to claim the people who celebrated his death or ridiculed him are supporting terrorism, map out any groups they’re affiliated with, and work backward.
They’re going to try to claim the people who celebrated his death or ridiculed him are supporting terrorism, map out any groups they’re affiliated with, and work backward.
Stephen Miller: “We are gonna channel all the anger we have over the organized campaign to led to this assassination to uproot & dismantle these terrorist networks … we are going to use every resource we have at the DOJ, Homeland Security & throughout this govt to dismantle & destroy these networks"
September 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
There’s no evidence that any leftist group or network had anything to do with Kirk’s murder. Even Cox said he acted alone.
They’re going to try to claim the people who celebrated his death or ridiculed him are supporting terrorism, map out any groups they’re affiliated with, and work backward.
They’re going to try to claim the people who celebrated his death or ridiculed him are supporting terrorism, map out any groups they’re affiliated with, and work backward.
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Kirk didn't serve in the military or hold office. The war hero treatment -- half-mast flags, military guard, Air Force Two escort, calls for a statue at the Capitol or to lie in the Rotunda -- shows that for MAGA, service to Trump has become the highest, most honorable form of service.
September 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Kirk didn't serve in the military or hold office. The war hero treatment -- half-mast flags, military guard, Air Force Two escort, calls for a statue at the Capitol or to lie in the Rotunda -- shows that for MAGA, service to Trump has become the highest, most honorable form of service.
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Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
September 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
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This is going to get worse, not better. Never underestimate the American public’s thirst for performative cruelty towards The Other: defendants, foreigners, anyone they’ve been conditioned to see as less than human. We’re the country that made lynchings into picnics.
Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
March 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
This is going to get worse, not better. Never underestimate the American public’s thirst for performative cruelty towards The Other: defendants, foreigners, anyone they’ve been conditioned to see as less than human. We’re the country that made lynchings into picnics.
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Putin keeps winning.
Trump to start lifting sanctions on Russia even without the full 30-day ceasefire he originally proposed, accepting a limited halt to strikes in Black Sea and on power plants while the rest of the war rages on. @constantmeheut.bsky.social @nechepurenko.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/w...
Ukraine and Russia Agree to Cease Fighting in the Black Sea, White House Says
The agreement announced after parallel sets of talks in Riyadh would be the first significant step toward the full cease-fire the Trump Administration had been pushing, but it still would fall short.
www.nytimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Putin keeps winning.
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Hold on, so Steve Witkoff was participating in the Signal group discussing war plans against Houthis while being physically in Moscow, perhaps even in the Kremlin? He met Putin late on March 13. Obviously the odds of Russia not compromising any device he would bring there are pretty slim.
March 25, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Hold on, so Steve Witkoff was participating in the Signal group discussing war plans against Houthis while being physically in Moscow, perhaps even in the Kremlin? He met Putin late on March 13. Obviously the odds of Russia not compromising any device he would bring there are pretty slim.
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Look, we are talking about a dipshit who almost killed someone with axe on live TV.
March 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Look, we are talking about a dipshit who almost killed someone with axe on live TV.
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Judge Boasberg just ruled against the government again, and note this point: The Venezuelans designated "alien enemies" actually get due process, and Trump doesn't get to merely declare them alien enemies by fiat. Remember, Rubio is fully on board with this abuse of power (see below).
March 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Judge Boasberg just ruled against the government again, and note this point: The Venezuelans designated "alien enemies" actually get due process, and Trump doesn't get to merely declare them alien enemies by fiat. Remember, Rubio is fully on board with this abuse of power (see below).
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The FBI is now moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for “conspiracy to defraud the United States.”
This comes after EPA Director Lee Zeldin eliminated the EPA headquarters in D.C. and 10 other regional offices.
This comes after EPA Director Lee Zeldin eliminated the EPA headquarters in D.C. and 10 other regional offices.
Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.
newrepublic.com
March 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The FBI is now moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for “conspiracy to defraud the United States.”
This comes after EPA Director Lee Zeldin eliminated the EPA headquarters in D.C. and 10 other regional offices.
This comes after EPA Director Lee Zeldin eliminated the EPA headquarters in D.C. and 10 other regional offices.