A K Urban
@urbanzoo.bsky.social
5-hr drive to Canada, 5-hr flight to Cozumel, stuck in the middle.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
percentage of tru cult members
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What if POTUS decided to simply demo the entire White House, pave it over, and conduct all business from some other location.
Camp David. NYC. Moscow.
If he just allowed to do that? No notice? No permission?
The answer now seems to be: Sure.
Camp David. NYC. Moscow.
If he just allowed to do that? No notice? No permission?
The answer now seems to be: Sure.
October 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
What if POTUS decided to simply demo the entire White House, pave it over, and conduct all business from some other location.
Camp David. NYC. Moscow.
If he just allowed to do that? No notice? No permission?
The answer now seems to be: Sure.
Camp David. NYC. Moscow.
If he just allowed to do that? No notice? No permission?
The answer now seems to be: Sure.
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The rest of the world knows what time it is. Only American voters are clueless.
Carney: "We can't control the trade policy of the US. We recognize it has fundamentally changed from the policy in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, & it's a situation where US has tariffs against every trading partner... what we we can control is developing new partnerships, including w/econ giants of Asia"
October 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The rest of the world knows what time it is. Only American voters are clueless.
american taliban
minority rule
we must make this regime the agonal breath of this nonsense
minority rule
we must make this regime the agonal breath of this nonsense
we’re about to see a second wave of teen reddit atheism the world has never seen before
Ken Paxton is now "recommending" that Texas school children recite the Lord's Prayer at school.
September 3, 2025 at 4:07 AM
american taliban
minority rule
we must make this regime the agonal breath of this nonsense
minority rule
we must make this regime the agonal breath of this nonsense
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This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor.
Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1996...
Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1996...
The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Gunning for Susan Collins
Graham Platner’s campaign launch has been a sudden sensation. But what he’s building now is rooted in the work of a lifetime.
newrepublic.com
August 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor.
Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1996...
Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1996...
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People are misreading him when they say he’s going to appeal Trump voters by *avoiding* “culture war” issues. He just doesn’t want to debate them because, to him, there’s no debate.
August 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
People are misreading him when they say he’s going to appeal Trump voters by *avoiding* “culture war” issues. He just doesn’t want to debate them because, to him, there’s no debate.
Just let it all happen. The President is the king.
He has spoken.
JFC!!!
He has spoken.
JFC!!!
NASA now primarily does "intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work." per this latest EO.
Further Exclusions from the Federal Labor-Management Relations Program
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7103(b)(1) of title 5,
www.whitehouse.gov
August 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Just let it all happen. The President is the king.
He has spoken.
JFC!!!
He has spoken.
JFC!!!
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Excellent research by my colleague @hannahomestead.bsky.social!
NEW: Trump's National Guard deployment in D.C. is costing taxpayers up to and over $1 million per day, IPS @nationalpriorities.bsky.social researcher @hannahomestead.bsky.social calculated in newly released findings. “It’s unconscionable."
@nickturse.bsky.social in @theintercept.com:
@nickturse.bsky.social in @theintercept.com:
Price Tag for Trump’s D.C. Military Surge: At Least $1 Million a Day
An analysis conducted for the Intercept found that the militarization of D.C. could end up costing hundreds of millions.
theintercept.com
August 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Excellent research by my colleague @hannahomestead.bsky.social!
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Public servants should face the public. So why are federal agents wearing masks to hide their faces?
Check out our mobile billboard driving around Washington, D.C. right now demanding federal agents take their masks off!
Check out our mobile billboard driving around Washington, D.C. right now demanding federal agents take their masks off!
August 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Public servants should face the public. So why are federal agents wearing masks to hide their faces?
Check out our mobile billboard driving around Washington, D.C. right now demanding federal agents take their masks off!
Check out our mobile billboard driving around Washington, D.C. right now demanding federal agents take their masks off!
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Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.
August 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.
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When even a Supreme Court justice is using the term “Calvinball” it feels like we can drop the pretense that laws are real
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
August 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
When even a Supreme Court justice is using the term “Calvinball” it feels like we can drop the pretense that laws are real
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I’m pretty sure SCOTUS will see that the transfer of power won’t happen and so will find a way to “legally” un-require it.
Because if a coup is legal it’s not a coup.
Because if a coup is legal it’s not a coup.
Thinking about the DC takeover in light of Jan. 6.
How will the next legally required transition of power go?
How will the next legally required transition of power go?
August 17, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I’m pretty sure SCOTUS will see that the transfer of power won’t happen and so will find a way to “legally” un-require it.
Because if a coup is legal it’s not a coup.
Because if a coup is legal it’s not a coup.
No one wants to protect sex offenders. It's bullshit that wealthy have a different justice system 🤬😡
Somewhere out there are very powerful men using every privilege and leverage they have to keep their Epstein-affiliation under wraps. Yep, it probably includes Clinton and other Dems. I don’t care who these fuckers are or what the fallout will be. I despise being of a country that covers this up.
August 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM
No one wants to protect sex offenders. It's bullshit that wealthy have a different justice system 🤬😡
Meatpacking jobs used to be desirable, good-paying, difficult job. So many in ag have taken advantage of these undocumented or temp doc workers for decades-- using them while simultaneously scapegoating them.
Dems need to stop going along with this. Make them citizens. Stop caving in
Dems need to stop going along with this. Make them citizens. Stop caving in
@adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social spoke to @gallego.senate.gov about the Democratic Party's failures on immigration.
Only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/senator-ru...
Only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/senator-ru...
Gallego Gets Candid About His Party’s Immigration Failures
Democrats should be paying attention.
www.thebulwark.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Meatpacking jobs used to be desirable, good-paying, difficult job. So many in ag have taken advantage of these undocumented or temp doc workers for decades-- using them while simultaneously scapegoating them.
Dems need to stop going along with this. Make them citizens. Stop caving in
Dems need to stop going along with this. Make them citizens. Stop caving in
Farmers animals have better airflow requirements.
Boycott Florida and anyone who supports this.
Boycott Florida and anyone who supports this.
Attorney James Hollis says that over 80% of people in Alligator Alcatraz are sick, many with Covid symptoms.
This is eugenics.
People have already died in ICE custody. Many will be disabled.
The inhumane conditions are ripe for the spread of disease.
This is eugenics.
People have already died in ICE custody. Many will be disabled.
The inhumane conditions are ripe for the spread of disease.
August 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Farmers animals have better airflow requirements.
Boycott Florida and anyone who supports this.
Boycott Florida and anyone who supports this.
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Every activated Guardsman has a family, a job, school, or something that they are leaving to do their duty.
It’s one thing when it’s a war… or a real mass civil disturbance, which those only last a few days.
But to rip these people from their lives for a show… is awful.
It’s one thing when it’s a war… or a real mass civil disturbance, which those only last a few days.
But to rip these people from their lives for a show… is awful.
August 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Every activated Guardsman has a family, a job, school, or something that they are leaving to do their duty.
It’s one thing when it’s a war… or a real mass civil disturbance, which those only last a few days.
But to rip these people from their lives for a show… is awful.
It’s one thing when it’s a war… or a real mass civil disturbance, which those only last a few days.
But to rip these people from their lives for a show… is awful.
I'm going to have to watch this nightly for inspiration
August 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I'm going to have to watch this nightly for inspiration
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Anyone downplaying what is going on in this moment by claiming correct analysis is “alarmist” is not a safe person to be around especially as people grasp for any kind of stability they can in the rising tide of open fascism and its accompanying ambiguity, atomization and unreality.
August 12, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Anyone downplaying what is going on in this moment by claiming correct analysis is “alarmist” is not a safe person to be around especially as people grasp for any kind of stability they can in the rising tide of open fascism and its accompanying ambiguity, atomization and unreality.
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It truly cannot be overstated how deep Americans are in the hold of what I have been coming to call authoritarian entropy, basically the infrastructure building and hardening phase of state power being reconstructed as a fascist force.
August 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
It truly cannot be overstated how deep Americans are in the hold of what I have been coming to call authoritarian entropy, basically the infrastructure building and hardening phase of state power being reconstructed as a fascist force.
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Wasn’t Trump’s rally on January 6th the most violent day in DC in like 50 years?
August 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Wasn’t Trump’s rally on January 6th the most violent day in DC in like 50 years?
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This is a deeply unsatisfying pitch. But it's the best I can do.
www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-mak...
www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-mak...
August 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This is a deeply unsatisfying pitch. But it's the best I can do.
www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-mak...
www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-mak...