Rick B
@arbiterassassin.bsky.social
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He/Him. BLM. Fuck fascists and bigots.
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Fan of Halo, Cosmere, Dropout, Tabletop Gaming and more!
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He/Him. BLM. Fuck fascists and bigots.
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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A lot of US policymaking now goes:
1) Do something stupid for stupid and/or corrupt reasons
2) Lie about it, denounce people warning of consequences
3) See negative consequences mount, do an ad hoc move to try to mitigate those consequences while generally keeping the stupid approach
4) Repeat 1
1) Do something stupid for stupid and/or corrupt reasons
2) Lie about it, denounce people warning of consequences
3) See negative consequences mount, do an ad hoc move to try to mitigate those consequences while generally keeping the stupid approach
4) Repeat 1
It only took 10 months of daily @josephpolitano.bsky.social posts about how dumb these tariffs are to make the Trump administration do the most obvious thing imaginable.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Plans Move to Ease Prices on Coffee and Bananas, Bessent Says
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent indicated that the Trump administration would soon unveil reductions in import duties on coffee, bananas and other foods — taking action after voter anger over the cos...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
A lot of US policymaking now goes:
1) Do something stupid for stupid and/or corrupt reasons
2) Lie about it, denounce people warning of consequences
3) See negative consequences mount, do an ad hoc move to try to mitigate those consequences while generally keeping the stupid approach
4) Repeat 1
1) Do something stupid for stupid and/or corrupt reasons
2) Lie about it, denounce people warning of consequences
3) See negative consequences mount, do an ad hoc move to try to mitigate those consequences while generally keeping the stupid approach
4) Repeat 1
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They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
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I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy.
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."
www.gravityisgone.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy.
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
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It's been 15 years and nobody's leaked a single bit of this plan, my man
Mike Johnson talks about the Republican "healthcare plan" like it's highly classified information: "We're not gonna be on a conference call explaining all our plans and strategies for healthcare reform, because they're leaked in real time."
November 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
It's been 15 years and nobody's leaked a single bit of this plan, my man
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Not a word from the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt on Tucker hosting Fuentes. Amazing.
I just checked his Twitter feed and plenty on Mamdani and even Norway (!) but not a word about a top conservative podcaster hosting an infamous Holocaust denier.
Greenblatt is beyond parody at this point.
I just checked his Twitter feed and plenty on Mamdani and even Norway (!) but not a word about a top conservative podcaster hosting an infamous Holocaust denier.
Greenblatt is beyond parody at this point.
October 31, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Not a word from the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt on Tucker hosting Fuentes. Amazing.
I just checked his Twitter feed and plenty on Mamdani and even Norway (!) but not a word about a top conservative podcaster hosting an infamous Holocaust denier.
Greenblatt is beyond parody at this point.
I just checked his Twitter feed and plenty on Mamdani and even Norway (!) but not a word about a top conservative podcaster hosting an infamous Holocaust denier.
Greenblatt is beyond parody at this point.
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No there isn’t you Vichy bastards
There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles
Trump 2028
There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles
econ.st
October 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
No there isn’t you Vichy bastards
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These freaks keep getting on TV talking about opposing antifa and how they believe antifa wants to destroy them, and not a single person in mainstream media has asked or commented on what is the opposite of antifascism and who is threatened by antifascists
October 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
These freaks keep getting on TV talking about opposing antifa and how they believe antifa wants to destroy them, and not a single person in mainstream media has asked or commented on what is the opposite of antifascism and who is threatened by antifascists
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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 6:55 PM
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.
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BREAKING: WE WON!!!
💥 💥 💥
Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com
Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...
www.courtlistener.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
BREAKING: WE WON!!!
💥 💥 💥
Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
💥 💥 💥
Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
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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.
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1. A day after the Michigan church shooting, Republicans are silent after learning the shooter was a MAGA extremist.
No investigations of Trump supporters as terrorists. No national conversations about the rights of cisgender men.
The silence is deafening.
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No investigations of Trump supporters as terrorists. No national conversations about the rights of cisgender men.
The silence is deafening.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Deafening Silence After Mormon Church Shooter Not A "Transgender Leftist" But A Trump Supporter
The event is a case study in how shootings are covered in America.
www.erininthemorning.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
1. A day after the Michigan church shooting, Republicans are silent after learning the shooter was a MAGA extremist.
No investigations of Trump supporters as terrorists. No national conversations about the rights of cisgender men.
The silence is deafening.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
No investigations of Trump supporters as terrorists. No national conversations about the rights of cisgender men.
The silence is deafening.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (Published 1939)
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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•ABC fires Kimmel for mocking Trump
•CBS fires Colbert for mocking Trump
•ABC: fires Moran for slamming Miller
•MSNBC: fires Dowd for calling out hate speech
•FOX: Protects Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of homeless
Corporate Media Has Failed Us
www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-cancel...
•CBS fires Colbert for mocking Trump
•ABC: fires Moran for slamming Miller
•MSNBC: fires Dowd for calling out hate speech
•FOX: Protects Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of homeless
Corporate Media Has Failed Us
www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-cancel...
The Cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel
By indefinitely suspending him, ABC is reminding us that trust in corporate media is dead for a reason—but there's something even more sinister afoot we cannot ignore
www.qasimrashid.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
•ABC fires Kimmel for mocking Trump
•CBS fires Colbert for mocking Trump
•ABC: fires Moran for slamming Miller
•MSNBC: fires Dowd for calling out hate speech
•FOX: Protects Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of homeless
Corporate Media Has Failed Us
www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-cancel...
•CBS fires Colbert for mocking Trump
•ABC: fires Moran for slamming Miller
•MSNBC: fires Dowd for calling out hate speech
•FOX: Protects Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of homeless
Corporate Media Has Failed Us
www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-cancel...
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Ezra Klein went beyond opposing political violence to extol Charlie Kirk for doing politics "exactly the right way," making up a fictional version of Kirk to praise.
That distortion, with its indulgence of bad faith, is a perfect illustration of the larger media failure that helps Trump.
My latest
That distortion, with its indulgence of bad faith, is a perfect illustration of the larger media failure that helps Trump.
My latest
Ezra Klein Accidentally Shows How the Media Brought Us Trump
The prominent liberal pundit made up a fake version of Charlie Kirk to praise, laundering his reputation the way a lot of mainstream media launders MAGA
www.arcdigital.media
September 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Ezra Klein went beyond opposing political violence to extol Charlie Kirk for doing politics "exactly the right way," making up a fictional version of Kirk to praise.
That distortion, with its indulgence of bad faith, is a perfect illustration of the larger media failure that helps Trump.
My latest
That distortion, with its indulgence of bad faith, is a perfect illustration of the larger media failure that helps Trump.
My latest
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November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...
September 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM
November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...
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An instantly-leaked internal bulletin at the politicized federal law enforcement agencies just so happens to say what the Trump admin and its allies want it to say.
This is how it works in authoritarian regimes, the cops are too busy with propaganda and repression to actually solve crimes.
This is how it works in authoritarian regimes, the cops are too busy with propaganda and repression to actually solve crimes.
Ammunition engraved with transgender and antifascist ideology was found inside the rifle authorities believe was used in Kirk’s shooting, sources say.
Ammunition in Kirk Shooting Engraved with Transgender, Antifascist Ideology: Sources
Investigators found ammunition engraved with expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology inside the rifle that authorities believe was used in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, according to an internal law enforcement bulletin and a person familiar with the investigation.
The older-model
on.wsj.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
An instantly-leaked internal bulletin at the politicized federal law enforcement agencies just so happens to say what the Trump admin and its allies want it to say.
This is how it works in authoritarian regimes, the cops are too busy with propaganda and repression to actually solve crimes.
This is how it works in authoritarian regimes, the cops are too busy with propaganda and repression to actually solve crimes.
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The "top stories" about Kash Patel actually combine to tell one very compelling story.
September 11, 2025 at 4:12 AM
The "top stories" about Kash Patel actually combine to tell one very compelling story.
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“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.”
So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.
So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.
September 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.”
So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.
So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.
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Losing my goddamned mind.
We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.
We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.
September 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Losing my goddamned mind.
We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.
We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.
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Reports suggest this wasn’t about “undocumented” workers. At worst, it was visa infractions—the wrong paperwork, the wrong classification. Instead of sorting it out, we humiliated our allies and hauled their workers off in shackles.
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September 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Reports suggest this wasn’t about “undocumented” workers. At worst, it was visa infractions—the wrong paperwork, the wrong classification. Instead of sorting it out, we humiliated our allies and hauled their workers off in shackles.
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