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Kit

@thewizardofboz.bsky.social

Oh my god he admit it

Pedro L. Gonzalez on X
@emeriticus
"Don't Tread On Me" bros warming up, stretching, hydrating, preparing to stoop the lowest they have ever stooped to lick Trump's boots as he ramps up his attacks on the Second Amendment

Response by Insight
@Insightingment
You have no idea how much fascism I am willing to tolerate to harm communists.

January 27, 2026 at 8:38 PM

Kit

@thewizardofboz.bsky.social

No, like really, you can have it, Mr President

January 27, 2026 at 8:34 PM

Kit

@thewizardofboz.bsky.social

Scabs

Mainstream Media @mainstream-media.bsky.social · 5h

Sherrod Brown loses fourth union endorsement to Republican Jon Husted

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...

January 27, 2026 at 8:17 PM

Kit

@thewizardofboz.bsky.social

"America is a republic, not a democracy"

January 26, 2026 at 8:39 PM

Kit

@thewizardofboz.bsky.social

A protestor hands out pastries to a squad of defecting policemen during the 1989 Romanian Revolution. This is in the midst of an active gun battle between loyalist and defecting security services.

January 26, 2026 at 1:13 AM

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱

@djinnandtonic.bsky.social

Kinda wanna sit down with a Republican with a graduate degree. What's going on, bud? Why do you cook up weird statements like "only communists don't have LinkedIn?"

Buddy, I don't have a LinkedIn because LinkedIn is a load of horseshit. Nobody has ever gotten a job through LinkedIn

Kit @thewizardofboz.bsky.social · 2d

The people the online right puts forward as being their "smart people" are also genuinely, in their bones, idiots who are terrible at their jobs

X: DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican
Of course it is!

In a sense, the lack of LinkedIn presence at age mid-late-30s gives it away.

Know what is literally the ONLY socio-cultural in-group that actively discourages a social media footprint?

Literally, the only one that trains its own acolytes from the very beginning to hide their presence online, even the professional polished part of themselves.

You guessed it: the extreme radical-left, Communist-aligned, foreign-country-aligned political movement.

It's not definitive proof, of course - but it's a pretty big breadcrumb that any professional doesn't leave an online presence these days.

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Alex Pretti has a LinkedIn presence.

January 25, 2026 at 11:10 PM

Kit

@thewizardofboz.bsky.social

If the media lickspittles are saying this, it's bad bad

Rachael Bade on X
@rachaelmbade
This feels like it's shaping up to be the biggest PR crisis of Trump 2.0

Even some WH allies say the admin's response to what happened to Alex Pretti on Saturday is straight cringe (at best) — and are asking WTF they're doing.

My latest: https://open.substack.com/pub/rachaelbade/p/the-biggest-pr-crisis-of-trump-20?r=bvo4i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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January 25, 2026 at 11:16 PM

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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱

@snarkranger.bsky.social

rando apolitical Facebook friends are posting "Tread on Me Daddy" memes and calling anyone who voted for Trump "either a traitor or a <slur>."

a big Scouting page posted a tribute photo of Alex and the comments are overwhelmingly supportive.

they are not winning the battle for hearts and minds.

Kit @thewizardofboz.bsky.social · 2d

The extent to which parts of the online right are placing themselves into a bubble and blindly insisting that everything is fine and going well is something to behold

Latinx Adjacent Doctor PhD on X
@TonerousHyus
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Eh, I think certain assurances have been given to our players in government doing the enforcing. Everyone’s getting pardoned, do what I say, ignore the cries and lamentations of the white lib women.
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Replying to @TonerousHyus
He wouldn’t say that unless he knows it was legally justified which it was. Believe me his team fully briefed him on it and there will be more to come out. Just like Rene Good. Just like Michael Brown.
Latinx Adjacent Doctor PhD
@TonerousHyus
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Minnesota will be brought to heel and already is. The groups continue getting smaller and less capable as more are arrested and disrupted. It’s working and will be over soon and onto the next city

Coddled Affluent Professional on X
@feelsdesperate
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They have Obama, the most important Dem in the country, pushing the button on this but it’s still a misfire.

This playbook doesn’t work anymore.

They don’t have the institutional capacity to manufacture consensus and the audience isn’t receptive

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John Quincy Adams Fan
@redfang58
Erickson is critical of Trump all the time so this is nonsense.
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Dasha Burns
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The fact that conservative influencers and outlets are critical of Noem in this moment is a huge red flag not just for the Secretary, but also for the White House.

Matt Kibbe on X
@mkibbe
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This civil war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous.
Morgan Warstler
@morganwarstler
Dude, we are going to HUAC2 them. And it'll work just like the last time.

Relax we got this

January 25, 2026 at 10:38 PM

Kit

@thewizardofboz.bsky.social

The extent to which parts of the online right are placing themselves into a bubble and blindly insisting that everything is fine and going well is something to behold

January 25, 2026 at 10:28 PM

Kit

@thewizardofboz.bsky.social

Protect our smol bean (but very smart) ICE agents

Cernovich on X
@Cernovich
High IQ people don’t respond well to shrill noises. From smoke alarms to those hearing loss causing machines that terrorists use against ICE. Tbh those things should be considered a violent weapon. They damage hearing for life.
11:18 AM · Jan 25, 2026
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January 25, 2026 at 7:53 PM

Kit

@thewizardofboz.bsky.social

Thinking about this

The shoulder patch worn on the Minnesota State Guard uniform during World War II.

January 25, 2026 at 5:17 AM

Kit

@thewizardofboz.bsky.social

Jesus Christ, they lost one of the barstool bros

January 25, 2026 at 4:36 AM

Kit

@thewizardofboz.bsky.social

"If trump does not rein in his administration...we are going to lose every election for decades"

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

For example:

working-mama- • 53m ago • Edited 41m ago
I thought Renee Good's case was borderline but likely legally justified, they still should have still had a formal investigation just because of the lethal outcome. This case...l don't see how anyone reasonable can side with ICE here. On top of that, the person killed turned out to be an ICU nurse, not some unemployed professional protestor. I wanted an enforcement of law and order, this doesn't look like it. Bad, bad look.
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jesuss_son • 2h ago
Stop coping - this was another bad look by ICE. We are allowed to bear arms. These ICE agents are clearly untrained and see ghosts.
Many such cases!
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Running_Gamer • 2h ago • Edited 2h ago
There needs to be an investigation. Otherwise, public support for immigration enforcement will go down, and we'll lose our borders torever.
Edit: There is a massive bot problem on Reddit. I have had this comment posted for exactly one minute and my stats show that I have received 1.2k views on this comment.
Edit 2: Just saw Stephen Miller's response. Why do they think people will believe whatever they say? I've been MAGA from day 1, and my post history shows that. If trump does not rein in his administration from letting their low IQ behavior hurt this administration's goals, then we aren't just going to lose this midterms, we are going to lose every election for decades.
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longroadtohappyness • 2h ago
This doesn't look good on ICE. It almost seems like they disarmed him, a gun was misfired immediately after someone yells he has a gun. Then the other officers just started firing. There should be a full investigation and any officers who acted outside the law, or even on the line, should be put in front of a jury.
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Merril|1066 • 1h ago
agreed: I don't like the way ICE initially took that guy down--he was simply raising his hands and shouting for them to lay off the woman behind him. The ICE agent blasts mace in his face and then the guy gets rat-packed. It was way too aggressive
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violinspider86 • 2h ago
I agree. I'm sure tensions are high, but this is a really bad look for ICE.
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January 25, 2026 at 12:35 AM

Kit

@thewizardofboz.bsky.social

When people are sufficiently angry to go out protesting in sub-zero weather, that means you're actually winning

unseen1 on X
@unseen1_unseen
Just an FYI, people do not go out in -15 degree weather to protest and try to disrupt something if they are winning. If they are winning they sit in their warm homes and laugh at the losers out protesting in -15 degree weather.
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January 24, 2026 at 11:10 PM

Kit

@thewizardofboz.bsky.social

Heartbreaking.gif

Tim Pool on X

@Timcast
Trump isn't Lincoln, he's Buchanan
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January 24, 2026 at 10:04 PM

Kit

@thewizardofboz.bsky.social

The reason they call it fly-over country is that it deserves to be flown over

IN State legislator Andrew Ireland on X
@AndrewIrelandIN
It’s beautiful

January 24, 2026 at 6:04 PM

Kit

@thewizardofboz.bsky.social

Right, so its about as safe as the White River

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

A massive pipe rupture has sent sewage spilling into the Potomac River. The spill of about 40 million gallons of sewage a day is turning part of the river gray upriver of Washington, D.C.

Massive sewage spill flowing into Potomac River upstream from Washington

A massive pipe rupture has sent sewage spilling into the Potomac River. The spill of about 40 million gallons of sewage a day is turning part of the river gray upriver of Washington, D.C.

bit.ly

January 24, 2026 at 5:31 AM

Kit

@thewizardofboz.bsky.social

These people are eventually gonna get around to raiding a Catholic mass or a Pentecostal service

Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill @cagraham.bsky.social · 4d

SIL in St. Paul reports that a Spanish speaking AA meeting got raided.

January 24, 2026 at 4:38 AM

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Sharon

@sharonk.bsky.social

we should expel the ambassador for this, not even joking

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bessent pushes Albertan independence from Canada: "Albertans are very independent people. There's a rumor they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not. People are talking. People want sovereignty. They want what the US has got."