frogboiling.bsky.social
@frogboiling.bsky.social
(very) concerned citizen
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I think it's important to confront the fact that, for the most part, to be male, under 28, and "conservative" is to be an actual Nazi. There are exceptions, but that's what they are. Exceptions.
I wrote a piece a few weeks ago claiming antisemitism was on the verge of going mainstream. It was clear to me that most people had trouble buying it.

That's understandable. But it's happening.

Example: Conservatives themselves are now saying that 30 to 40% of Zoomers in Washington are Groypers.
What I Saw And Heard In Washington
Groyperism's Spread Among Generation Z Conservative Apparatchiks Is Real
roddreher.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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McGovern: He would rather appeal to the highest court in the land to starve people than simply provide them with the food assistance that he is legally obligated to do. That is the Republican policy position. We will give you your food if you let us take away your health care.
November 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Jeffries: We are not going to be lectured by anyone on the other side of the aisle about fiscal responsibility when the bill that you just passed is the most fiscally irresponsible piece of legislation ever…
November 12, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Josh’s post is worth reading in its entirety. The points:

1) kill the filibuster
2) court reform
3) DC/PR statehood
4) clean up laws on presidential power
5) outlaw extreme gerrymandering

These strike me as a really good starting point of foundational necessities.
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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when i was 15 i was convinced i wasn’t good enough for my very pretty girlfriend so i did all her homework for her, which eventually included reading “slaughterhouse-five,” which immediately led to me ignoring the fuck out of my very pretty girlfriend as i read kurt vonnegut’s other 13 novels.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!

tell me about a book that changed you

for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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DeLauro: The president went to the supreme court to deprive kids of food. Unbelievable. And now wants to deny their parents healthcare.
November 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Leaked footage from inside an ICE detention facility near Houston. No beds, no bathrooms, hundreds of men, women, and children in one combined cell/room. They are kept in freezing conditions.
November 12, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs.

So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract.

Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:
Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts
A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.
boltsmag.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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#ResistanceRoots

Today in history, 1898: After voters elect a biracial city council in Wilmington, N.C., a mob of white supremacists overthrows the local government in a coup d’état. The mob also killed as many as 300 black residents in what is known as the Wilmington Massacre. /1
November 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Starting to think that putting a deeply partisan sycophant with no housing policy expertise in charge of US housing policy was not a great idea.
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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We will be boycotting all business owned by or invested in by the NC GOP legislators that voted for the racist, undemocratic maps. @themath_aintmathin created a doc with the businesses of these undemocratic members starting with the NC GOP state senators
#ncpol
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
NC State Legislators.xlsx
docs.google.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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❌️🧊 ICE & Trump’s agents keep terrorizing our communities—kidnapping people, violating rights, trying to silence protesters.

This Wednesday, six Broadview protesters face arraignment. Stand in support!

Join us Wed Nov 12, 12:30pm Federal Plaza, 230 S Dearborn. We won't be silent. Stop ICE. Resist!
We Will Not Be Silent: Stop ICE · Indivisible Chicago
ICE and Trump's agents continue to attack our communities, kidnapping residents based on racial profiling and creating fear in our neighborhoods. They continue to use force against Chicago residents i...
www.mobilize.us
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Why is Trump going after America's air traffic controllers, today of all days?

It's one more way to distract from his decision to increase your health insurance premiums."
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Honored to represent the Golden State in Brazil today — proof that clean energy and innovation strengthen our economy, communities, and planet.

While Donald Trump is busy handing the future to China, California continues to build and invest in it.
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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We just filed a petition today seeking protection for Stansell's daisy under the #ESA.

A botanical unicorn, these rare flowering plants only survive on low-nutrient, rocky soils at two sites in #Oregon on the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest.

Read on ➡️ bit.ly/4qSaBh9
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy.

For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy.

The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.
November 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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It’s the same old same old. Republicans do a tantrum and break the dishes. The Democrats clean it up. It’s an abusive relationship.
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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It was “NO” yesterday.
It’s “NO” today.
And it’ll be “NO” when it gets to the House.

I’m not voting for something that forces millions of Americans to choose between seeing a doctor and putting food on their table.
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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People like this guy are the ones in charge of the Republican party. There are some more reasonable ones in the grassroots, but they have no power. All policy is being driven by people like Joel Webbon.
Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon says that women today are dumb, wicked, vile whores: "Women are atrocious today." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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we are going to win
NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs.

So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract.

Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:
Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts
A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.
boltsmag.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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i’m pretty sure clarence thomas has a tote bag that says “substantive due process is a legal fiction.” alito has a back tattoo in gothic font.
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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From the Kim Davis petition for cert wherein her attorneys call substantive due process a “legal fiction”

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Good to see two of our stand-up governors standing together on this one. (As they have on many other issues.)

@governor.ca.gov just weighed in to similar effect.
This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.

Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.

Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Maybe, I don't know, we should have elected the joyful Black lady?

Maybe, I don't know, we shouldn't have stuck a knife in the back of the old white guy?

Just spitballing here.
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Also some kind of national voter ID law, some anti-trans nonsense, and probably some nasty changes to WIC/SNAP. There's a lot bad that they would plausibly have an easy road to do with a 50 vote threshold.
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM