eejo
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a wizard without magic
(he/him)
Black Lives Matter
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Black Lives Matter
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someone posted after 2016 something like "i just dont know how to convince you that you should care about other people" and i think about that a lot
one of the most deeply infuriating aspects of american politics is close to half of americans would love if 20% of the country starved to death
October 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
someone posted after 2016 something like "i just dont know how to convince you that you should care about other people" and i think about that a lot
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“…we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
Kevin Roberts president, Heritage Foundation, July 2024
Kevin Roberts president, Heritage Foundation, July 2024
In their own words the Republicans declared war against the United States and now they are waging it.
I guess we should have taken "The South will rise again" both literally and seriously.
October 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
“…we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
Kevin Roberts president, Heritage Foundation, July 2024
Kevin Roberts president, Heritage Foundation, July 2024
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1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC.
If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.
If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.
September 18, 2025 at 2:08 AM
1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC.
If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.
If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.
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I mean, here's what Republicans are openly saying should happen to people like me. Seems a bit Nazi-like, tbh!
September 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I mean, here's what Republicans are openly saying should happen to people like me. Seems a bit Nazi-like, tbh!
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Don’t trust the experts”? That’s not democracy, that’s recklessness.
On a plane, I want a pilot.
In a hospital, I want doctors and scientists who understand the evidence.
Expertise isn’t religion or authoritarianism — it’s training, accountability, and data.
Ignore it and we all pay the price.
On a plane, I want a pilot.
In a hospital, I want doctors and scientists who understand the evidence.
Expertise isn’t religion or authoritarianism — it’s training, accountability, and data.
Ignore it and we all pay the price.
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
August 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Don’t trust the experts”? That’s not democracy, that’s recklessness.
On a plane, I want a pilot.
In a hospital, I want doctors and scientists who understand the evidence.
Expertise isn’t religion or authoritarianism — it’s training, accountability, and data.
Ignore it and we all pay the price.
On a plane, I want a pilot.
In a hospital, I want doctors and scientists who understand the evidence.
Expertise isn’t religion or authoritarianism — it’s training, accountability, and data.
Ignore it and we all pay the price.
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it needs to be asserted at every opportunity that the catholic school shooting is the end result of detrans grifting and white supremacy
Not sure if trans Bluesky had analyzed the possibility, but perhaps, the Minnesota shooter had detransitioned owing to the far-right?
![A Facebook post from Sophie Labelle, reading:
“"I only keep [the long hair] because it is pretty much my last shred of being trans. I am tired of being trans, I wish I never brain-washed myself."
These are the words of the detransitioner shooter who cowardly opened fire on children yesterday in Minneapolis.
It's right there in his manifesto. I will be using he, because of his own admission that he wasn't trans, he only "brain-washed himself" into believing so.
Right-wing detransitioners who have been fighting against trans rights around the world for years now have been screaming that their narratives weren't being heard. They will find that the words of the Minneapolis shooter are eerily similar to what they've been repeating in courts and committee hearings everywhere.
What we have here is a clear case of right-wing anti-trans indoctrination.
The Minneapolis shooter was a radicalized right-wing detransitioner.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ckhgxna3isqjqtvegqu3wkoi/bafkreifrbyg46okoxfi4yklrcvhwz2u73vbpjocmp2krhiwb5vw3kptfia@jpeg)
August 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
it needs to be asserted at every opportunity that the catholic school shooting is the end result of detrans grifting and white supremacy
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90%(!) cuts at the National Park Service to maintain DC parks.
Now it's National Guard solides doing the work, who aren't exactly cheaper.
Another DOGE "cut" that is anything but
Now it's National Guard solides doing the work, who aren't exactly cheaper.
Another DOGE "cut" that is anything but
National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments.
Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
August 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
90%(!) cuts at the National Park Service to maintain DC parks.
Now it's National Guard solides doing the work, who aren't exactly cheaper.
Another DOGE "cut" that is anything but
Now it's National Guard solides doing the work, who aren't exactly cheaper.
Another DOGE "cut" that is anything but
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For folks not in DC:
- There are full-on police checkpoints most nights
- Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC
- National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter
- Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl
- Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
- There are full-on police checkpoints most nights
- Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC
- National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter
- Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl
- Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
August 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
For folks not in DC:
- There are full-on police checkpoints most nights
- Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC
- National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter
- Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl
- Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
- There are full-on police checkpoints most nights
- Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC
- National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter
- Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl
- Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
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It's not deportation if a person is not from there.
Involuntarily moving someone to another country is human trafficking and every bureaucrat involved should be prosecuted.
Involuntarily moving someone to another country is human trafficking and every bureaucrat involved should be prosecuted.
All of this is performative cruelty directed solely to avoid admitting they fucked up when they illegally sent him to cecot in March.
JUST IN: On X, DHS says that Kilmar Abrego Garcia “will be processed for removal to Uganda.”
August 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
It's not deportation if a person is not from there.
Involuntarily moving someone to another country is human trafficking and every bureaucrat involved should be prosecuted.
Involuntarily moving someone to another country is human trafficking and every bureaucrat involved should be prosecuted.
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This article is so clear eyed. I just wish all journalists would be this clear.
I loved @vermontgmg.bsky.social's latest piece so much that I asked if I could republish it on The Handbasket and he so generously said yes.
If you haven't read it yet, please do. It's essential:
If you haven't read it yet, please do. It's essential:
America tips into fascism (GUEST POST)
"Something is materially different in our country this week than last," writes historian Garrett Graff.
www.thehandbasket.co
August 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This article is so clear eyed. I just wish all journalists would be this clear.
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Words/phrases Democrats should never use:
* bipartisan
* my Republican friends
* real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans)
* yea (when voting on Republican bills)
* distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did)
* woke (in derogatory sense)
* bipartisan
* my Republican friends
* real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans)
* yea (when voting on Republican bills)
* distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did)
* woke (in derogatory sense)
August 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Words/phrases Democrats should never use:
* bipartisan
* my Republican friends
* real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans)
* yea (when voting on Republican bills)
* distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did)
* woke (in derogatory sense)
* bipartisan
* my Republican friends
* real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans)
* yea (when voting on Republican bills)
* distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did)
* woke (in derogatory sense)
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The president of the United States, wearing a novelty hat that says he’s always right and sitting next to the World Cup trophy he stole, insists that “African American ladies, beautiful ladies” are demanding he invade Chicago with the military.
Trump: After we do this, we will go to another location and make it safe too. Chicago is a mess. That will probably be our next one after this. They are screaming for us to come. African American ladies, beautiful ladies are saying "Please President Trump, come to Chicago, please."
August 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The president of the United States, wearing a novelty hat that says he’s always right and sitting next to the World Cup trophy he stole, insists that “African American ladies, beautiful ladies” are demanding he invade Chicago with the military.
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This is legitimately unhinged. How are you going to argue that the US is a free country and also argue that *25 year olds* are too young to have bodily autonomy?!? I don’t think I’ll ever be able to respect anyone who thinks this man should be president.
Gavin Newsom suggesting that 25 years of age is too young to transition and agreeing to right-wing entryism of concern trolling about trans people in sports. This is your opposition leader?
I will never vote for Gavin Newsom anyone who thinks trans people are actual humans will follow suit.
I will never vote for Gavin Newsom anyone who thinks trans people are actual humans will follow suit.
August 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This is legitimately unhinged. How are you going to argue that the US is a free country and also argue that *25 year olds* are too young to have bodily autonomy?!? I don’t think I’ll ever be able to respect anyone who thinks this man should be president.
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Gavin Newsom suggesting that 25 years of age is too young to transition and agreeing to right-wing entryism of concern trolling about trans people in sports. This is your opposition leader?
I will never vote for Gavin Newsom anyone who thinks trans people are actual humans will follow suit.
I will never vote for Gavin Newsom anyone who thinks trans people are actual humans will follow suit.
August 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Gavin Newsom suggesting that 25 years of age is too young to transition and agreeing to right-wing entryism of concern trolling about trans people in sports. This is your opposition leader?
I will never vote for Gavin Newsom anyone who thinks trans people are actual humans will follow suit.
I will never vote for Gavin Newsom anyone who thinks trans people are actual humans will follow suit.
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FWIW, "yours for the restoration of the Republic" was a common salutation American fascists gave to each other in the 1950s and 1960s. This is from a 1952 letter by Ohio white supremacist terrorist Peter Xavier. The rest of the rhetoric here might be familiar too.
August 23, 2025 at 5:21 AM
FWIW, "yours for the restoration of the Republic" was a common salutation American fascists gave to each other in the 1950s and 1960s. This is from a 1952 letter by Ohio white supremacist terrorist Peter Xavier. The rest of the rhetoric here might be familiar too.
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Trump already tried once to cling to power via fraud and violence. Everything he has done over the past six months virtually screams that he will do the same thing again, but with far more planning and preparation.
i am far from an alarmist but i have been operating under this assumption since he won. it’s why i thought that he should have been asked, at some point, whether he intended to leave office on january 20, 2029.
You can think what you want, but from where I sit there is no indication Trump intends on giving up power in 2028, and we should just assume he’s not.
August 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Trump already tried once to cling to power via fraud and violence. Everything he has done over the past six months virtually screams that he will do the same thing again, but with far more planning and preparation.
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The President expresses his intention to deploy the military to occupy Chicago.
Trump on DC: "We haven't had to bring in the regular military, which we're willing to do if we have to. And after we do this, we'll go to another location and we'll make it safe also ... Chicago is a mess. And we'll straighten that one out probably next"
August 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The President expresses his intention to deploy the military to occupy Chicago.
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We talked about this back when the first trial for lenacapavir first said the magic words everyone wants to hear, "halted for efficacy"(*), so a recap: this is not a vaccine or a treatment. It's PrEP aka "pre-exposure prophylaxis": you take the drug so if exposed to the virus, you will not catch it.
If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
July 28, 2025 at 4:05 AM
We talked about this back when the first trial for lenacapavir first said the magic words everyone wants to hear, "halted for efficacy"(*), so a recap: this is not a vaccine or a treatment. It's PrEP aka "pre-exposure prophylaxis": you take the drug so if exposed to the virus, you will not catch it.
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On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
August 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
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i remember when jd vance blamed the haitian immigrants to springfield for rising home prices. well, the prices will come down, because a mass departure of haitian workers will crash the local economy.
An Ohio City Faces a Future Without Haitian Workers: ‘It’s Not Going to Be Good’
www.nytimes.com
August 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
i remember when jd vance blamed the haitian immigrants to springfield for rising home prices. well, the prices will come down, because a mass departure of haitian workers will crash the local economy.
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one question to ask the editorial board is whether there is a minimum bar for what constitutes "american democracy." if most people in most states are gerrymandered out of effective political representation, is that democracy?
August 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
one question to ask the editorial board is whether there is a minimum bar for what constitutes "american democracy." if most people in most states are gerrymandered out of effective political representation, is that democracy?
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One of the biggest blunders (when well-intentioned) and betrayals (when not) in Democratic rhetoric over the years is their impenetrable insistence that what voters respond to is somebody who begins by finding common ground with their opponent, no matter who that opponent is or what that ground is.
August 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
One of the biggest blunders (when well-intentioned) and betrayals (when not) in Democratic rhetoric over the years is their impenetrable insistence that what voters respond to is somebody who begins by finding common ground with their opponent, no matter who that opponent is or what that ground is.
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Gotta give people who have despaired something to register for. Promise consequences and severe ones. Promise no bipartisanship or common ground. Promise a never-ending string of impeachments and expulsions, prosecutions and convictions. Promise to abolish and punish ICE. Make it believable.
You don’t have to be a big fan of the Democratic Party to recognize that this Republican boom is an extreme catastrophe in the age of Trump.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
The Democratic Party Faces a Voter Registration Crisis
www.nytimes.com
August 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Gotta give people who have despaired something to register for. Promise consequences and severe ones. Promise no bipartisanship or common ground. Promise a never-ending string of impeachments and expulsions, prosecutions and convictions. Promise to abolish and punish ICE. Make it believable.
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If Democratic politicians do not fight this because it's a "distraction," it will simply happen. They need to get in front of every mic and say that we will not allow Trump to destroy American history. He wants a culture war? GIVE HIM ONE. There are no distractions. Have every fight.
August 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
If Democratic politicians do not fight this because it's a "distraction," it will simply happen. They need to get in front of every mic and say that we will not allow Trump to destroy American history. He wants a culture war? GIVE HIM ONE. There are no distractions. Have every fight.