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Michael Gorton
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Some guy from Jersey

Made an accidental career out of my interests in Tech and Design. Grateful for my opportunities. Looking to learn more, and help more, going forward. Interested in photography, writing, art, music, science, nature...
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jamellebouie.net
i honestly do not believe that people hate that guy enough. an evil man.
January 29, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Also hope that 2026 is when people bring back earnestness. Sincerity is GOOD.
January 29, 2026 at 2:31 AM
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wilwheaton.net
Four years ago, I recorded short material that I pulled from the public domain. I did my best to release one a week, as an experiment that lead to It's Storytime.

This is Umberto Eco’s essential 1995 essay, Ur Fascism. It was shockingly relevant in in 2020, and it remains so today.
ur fascism by umberto eco
Four years ago, I recorded and released narrations of short material that I pulled from the public domain. I did my best to release one a week, as an experiment. I wondered if I could, one day, so …
wilwheaton.net
January 26, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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vituperativeerb.bsky.social
I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage
January 26, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
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January 26, 2026 at 1:16 AM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Whether it's Donald Trump's DHS Secretary saying that protesters deserve to be shot or a low-level Biden staffer asking Facebook to correct COVID misinformation, but sides have a checkered relationship with the First Amendment.
January 26, 2026 at 4:04 AM
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dapati.bsky.social
The most charming delivery of this message:
Scott Hechinger on Instagram: "Shut the fuck up."
370K likes, 3,866 comments - scotthechinger on February 22, 2025: "Shut the fuck up.".
www.instagram.com
January 25, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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johngcole.bsky.social
btw with everyone organizing in their cities in preparation for ICE coming to their communities, a huge shout out to Trump and MAGA for actually fucking creating Antifa
January 26, 2026 at 1:52 AM
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silvermansecurity.bsky.social
None. And none were arrested. If I'm remembering correctly this guy had several open warrants for his arrest at the time & eventually showed up at Bundy 2: Malheuer.
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d
Remember the Bundy insanity during the Obama years? Armed guys occupied a federal office and one of their buddies took position with a sniper rifle aimed at federal agents?

Exactly how many of those guys were shot and killed?
January 26, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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thegodpodcast.com
Why can’t the Democrats replace Schumer Jeffries? Why can’t that happen? why? how can God help make that happen? Would frogs help? 🐸
January 25, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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silvermansecurity.bsky.social
No @chrismurphyct.bsky.social, you're wrong. At a minimum their unions need to be decertified. Every agent, officer, & employee needs to be suspended pending a full review & revetting. The bulk of them need to be terminated. A significant number need to be prosecuted. That's what has to happen.
chrismurphyct.bsky.social Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 6d
We should not fund DHS without serious reform. We could return CBP to border. We could require warrants for immigration arrests. We could beef up training and require identification.

The list of possible reforms is long. What's unacceptable is the current lawless status quo.
January 25, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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internethippo.bsky.social
I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal
January 25, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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faineg.bsky.social
Absolute banger of a comment on r/military:

www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...
jaderemedy • 4h ago And now comes the most nauseating part of this whole goddamn mess: the hypocrisy. The same loud-mouthed idiots who spent years screaming about tyranny are suddenly dead fucking silent, or worse, cheering, now that it's their side doing it. "ThEy'Re cOminG fOr OuR gUnS!" "GoVerNMenT oVerReAch!" "ShAll nOt bE inFrinGeD!" All that chest-thumping bullshit evaporated the second armed federal agents started terrorizing people they don't like. Let me get this straight: a civilian gets shot dead by federal agents, and the only thing you brainless cunts can muster is "well, DHS says he had a gun"? THAT'S your red line? Guns are sacred when they're strapped to your waist, but magically become a death sentence when they're used as a post-hoc excuse by the government? Either the Second Amendment applies to everyone, or you never believed in it at all. Fucking pick one and own it. This is exactly what tyranny looks like, by the way. Not jackboots marching in formation, but armed agents roaming neighborhoods, stopping people, killing civilians, and then daring the public to question it. Tyranny is execution followed by a press release. Tyranny is labeling the dead a "threat" so the state doesn't have to explain why someone's life just ended in the street. Tyranny is demanding obedience while shredding due process and calling it order. And all you so-called "freedom lovers" are fucking fine with it, as long as it's brown people, immigrants, protesters, or anyone you've already dehumanized. Turns out "don't tread on me" actually meant "tread on them." You weren't afraid of tyranny. You were afraid of losing dominance. There's a difference, and this moment exposes it completely. "Just comply" isn't a principle. It's cowardice dressed up as common sense. It's the language of people who have already accepted that the state gets to decide who deserves rights and who doesn't. And once you make that deal, don't act shocked when the line moves, because it always fuckin…
January 25, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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esqueer.net
Screenshot of a post on X (Twitter) in dark mode. The verified Democrats account (@TheDemocrats) posts the text, “You’re a fucking liar with blood on your hands.” The post quotes a tweet from Stephen Miller (@StephenM), also verified, saying: “A would-be assassin tried to murder federal law enforcement and the official Democrat account sides with the terrorists,” followed by a truncated link. The post shows a timestamp of 4:31 PM on Jan 24, 2026, and 599.4K views.
January 24, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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marceliusb.bsky.social
“This is not who we are.”❌

“I’m going to speak up and take action to make sure this is not who/what we continue to be.”✅

“We’re acting like [insert region/country/oppressive group outside the U.S.]”❌

“The U.S. has a long history of oppression, discrimination, and harm that informs the present.”✅
January 22, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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theradr.bsky.social
Just keep hitting those upper two quadrants ok
ziibiing.com ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 10d
how’s it goin? oh, ya know.
2026 survival cycle pry yourself out of bed, do something good, consume the daily horrors, disassociate
January 21, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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silvermansecurity.bsky.social
A lot of folks wondering what partisan underground resistance under occupation is like should read this article from @kyivindependent.com.
January 19, 2026 at 1:53 AM
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fraying.bsky.social
It is 100% about dominating cities and states that didn't vote for Trump. Narcissistic injury expressed as civil war.
mrsbettybowers.bsky.social Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12d
Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.
January 19, 2026 at 1:54 AM
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marceliusb.bsky.social
To add to this, almost all of the U.S.’s problems are linked to its hatred of Black people and that it hates Black people more than it loves anyone else. Our laws and policies are largely based on making sure Black people (and sometimes other groups) don’t benefit even at the expense of others.
adambonica.bsky.social Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 18d
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:

America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.

What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.
January 17, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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pmskinner.bsky.social
I’m not to blame but I am responsible. I wrote this during the protests & riots after the murder of George Floyd. What I knew then is what I know now: that we all matter or none of us do.
Please read this.
And act accordingly.
Courage. Use it.

www.sunjournal.com/2020/06/07/i...
I’m a cop. I won’t fight a ‘war’ on crime the way I fought the war on terror.
The failed strategy I participated in for years as a CIA officer is not how to police people I consider my neighbors. It's not how to police at all.
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January 19, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
"Before you say “Those people are just hypocrites,” it’s more than that. This isn’t just it’s-ok-when-my-side-does-it partisanship. The people who used to be so worked up about the dangers of government tyranny are not just silent right now, they’re positively gleeful about what’s happening."
January 18, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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rabbet.bsky.social
A couple more film pics from my little hike.

📷 : Nikon AF600
🎞️ : Fuji 400
📍 : Rhinog Fawr, Cymru
July 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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burritojustice.bsky.social
Burrito Railgun Sunset
the Burrito Railgun at sunset, with the windows of the hills of Oakland ablaze
January 13, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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acyn.bsky.social
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 13, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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ndrew.bsky.social
things off the top of my head that i can think of that conservatives have called tyranny

- health care subsidies
- seeing pronouns in an email
- being suspended from a social media platform
- pride month
- baking a cake for a same sex wedding
- legal rulings against donald trump
- EV benchmarks
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d
Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity.

(vid via Ford Fischer on X)
January 12, 2026 at 9:51 PM