Nate (he/him)
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Not sure if any of my Charlotte friends follow me on bsky, but boosting just in case:
If you're interested in telling the folks at Hendrick Motors what you think about their multimillion dollar no-bid contract supplying CBP/ICE with vehicles, there will be protests at their HQ 4-5pm today, Thursday, and Friday. 6000 Monroe Rd, park at the Aldi across the street.
November 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Not sure if any of my Charlotte friends follow me on bsky, but boosting just in case:
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Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message.
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/13 Why? For proximity to power. For prestige. For attention.
Some tongues were made to praise God. Some tongues were made to sing. Some were made for poetry, some for prose, some to agitate and some to soothe.
But some tongues were made for the boot.
Some tongues were made to praise God. Some tongues were made to sing. Some were made for poetry, some for prose, some to agitate and some to soothe.
But some tongues were made for the boot.
November 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
/13 Why? For proximity to power. For prestige. For attention.
Some tongues were made to praise God. Some tongues were made to sing. Some were made for poetry, some for prose, some to agitate and some to soothe.
But some tongues were made for the boot.
Some tongues were made to praise God. Some tongues were made to sing. Some were made for poetry, some for prose, some to agitate and some to soothe.
But some tongues were made for the boot.
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Re: Epstein’s emails
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Re: Epstein’s emails
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Its not good enough to delete our existences at home. Our existence has to be deleted overseas too.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Its not good enough to delete our existences at home. Our existence has to be deleted overseas too.
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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
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"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
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Voted to table impeachment this year.
"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered, but we have this consolation: The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph." —Tom Paine
October 19, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Voted to table impeachment this year.
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It is very unclear to me why Gov. Pritzker is allowing the Illinois State Police to act like this…..
“They literally ushered us into the street to protest and immediately after started beating the shit out of us.”
State Police Led Broadview Protesters Into Street And Attacked Them, Demonstrators Say
Protesters have said state and local police officers have attacked them and tried to stifle their attempts to speak and protest freely outside the Broadview ICE facility. Police accused protesters of ...
blockclubchicago.org
October 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
It is very unclear to me why Gov. Pritzker is allowing the Illinois State Police to act like this…..
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12 Democrats just joined Republicans to advance a District Judge nominee from Trump. Why do they keep doing this?
Coons
Durbin
Hassan
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Schiff
Shaheen
Welch
Whitehouse
Coons
Durbin
Hassan
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Schiff
Shaheen
Welch
Whitehouse
October 17, 2025 at 2:23 AM
12 Democrats just joined Republicans to advance a District Judge nominee from Trump. Why do they keep doing this?
Coons
Durbin
Hassan
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Schiff
Shaheen
Welch
Whitehouse
Coons
Durbin
Hassan
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Schiff
Shaheen
Welch
Whitehouse
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The thing about the Roberts Court is they're not evil geniuses, because they're not geniuses.
“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”
Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The thing about the Roberts Court is they're not evil geniuses, because they're not geniuses.
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These your guys, @govpritzker.illinois.gov?
Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.
October 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
These your guys, @govpritzker.illinois.gov?
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October 7, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.
Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest
An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.
www.oregonlive.com
October 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.
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Stop lying. Your state cops attacked protesters alongside ICE yesterday. I was there. I and others were violently attacked by ICE agents. Your state cops acted in concert with them during the attack.
State, county, and local law enforcement have been working together and coordinating to ensure public safety around the Broadview ICE facility, and to protect people’s ability to peacefully exercise their constitutional rights.
October 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Stop lying. Your state cops attacked protesters alongside ICE yesterday. I was there. I and others were violently attacked by ICE agents. Your state cops acted in concert with them during the attack.
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This is an outright lie.
State, county, and local law enforcement have been working together and coordinating to ensure public safety around the Broadview ICE facility, and to protect people’s ability to peacefully exercise their constitutional rights.
October 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This is an outright lie.
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Calling on @govpritzker.illinois.gov to do more than just utter strong words. Governor, it may be time to get out of your comfort zone for the people of Illinois and stop this.
NEW — So, there are multiple things happening today in Chicago.
• Pritzker says Trump intends to send 300 troops here in the coming hours
• Protestors are going off in Brighton Park, where federal agents shot a woman.
thetriibe.com/2025/10/trum...
• Pritzker says Trump intends to send 300 troops here in the coming hours
• Protestors are going off in Brighton Park, where federal agents shot a woman.
thetriibe.com/2025/10/trum...
Trump to federalize 300 Illinois National Guard troops soon, tensions rising in Brighton Park after immigration agents shoot woman • The TRiiBE
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker announced that the Trump administration “intends to federalize 300 members of the Illinois National Guard” within the coming hours.
thetriibe.com
October 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Calling on @govpritzker.illinois.gov to do more than just utter strong words. Governor, it may be time to get out of your comfort zone for the people of Illinois and stop this.
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i took a stab at editing ezra klein’s most recent comments about trans people and electoral politics to make a point often lost by the american liberal commentariat
![Klein: I think, from your perspective and from my perspective, we probably don’t believe hugely different things. But a huge amount of the country, a majority of the country, believes things about [edit: the jews], about what policy should be toward [edit: the jews], about what language is acceptable to [edit: the jews], that we would see as fundamentally and morally wrong.
And what politically — not in a column or something, but politically — should our relationship with those people be? Do we win them over? Do we compromise with them?
This feels like a very salient question. The Republican Party is going to make sure this is a relentlessly salient question.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qqx7bauacsfwi7yufzfqio32/bafkreifs4mi34rjqmefdfpu42ms3nwz7h4ldmccn6xggr366kwlhxelq74@jpeg)
September 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
i took a stab at editing ezra klein’s most recent comments about trans people and electoral politics to make a point often lost by the american liberal commentariat
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Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide!
It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.
It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!
It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.
It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!
September 26, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide!
It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.
It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!
It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.
It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!
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I’m literally under siege daily by obnoxious Dem fundraising texts from all over the country. There is no way to stop or block them and there is never a plan, only a plea.
September 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I’m literally under siege daily by obnoxious Dem fundraising texts from all over the country. There is no way to stop or block them and there is never a plan, only a plea.
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If you are a white person who subscribes to the Washington Post, your solidarity should not be expressed in "feeling badly" but in cancelling your subscription today if you have one. Otherwise no one wants to hear anything from you.
September 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
If you are a white person who subscribes to the Washington Post, your solidarity should not be expressed in "feeling badly" but in cancelling your subscription today if you have one. Otherwise no one wants to hear anything from you.
Shopping for a plan on healthcare.gov. I had a question not covered by any materials on the website or linked to it. So I called #UnitedHealthcare to ask and the rep refused to answer unless I gave all my information so she could produce a quote. My question was about policy, not pricing.
August 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Shopping for a plan on healthcare.gov. I had a question not covered by any materials on the website or linked to it. So I called #UnitedHealthcare to ask and the rep refused to answer unless I gave all my information so she could produce a quote. My question was about policy, not pricing.
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I really enjoyed this @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social pod about Covid & MAHA, but one thing it repeatedly revealed is a habit of liberals that drives me crazy. A short 🧵.
MAHA Is a Bad Answer to a Good Question
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 08/22/2025 · 1h 22m
podcasts.apple.com
August 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I really enjoyed this @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social pod about Covid & MAHA, but one thing it repeatedly revealed is a habit of liberals that drives me crazy. A short 🧵.
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You know, as a parent I'm a firm believer in natural consequences (as opposed to punishment).
It's not even that these guys never got punished.
They never experienced the natural consequences of insurrection.
Not after the Civil War.
And not after Jan 6.
It's not even that these guys never got punished.
They never experienced the natural consequences of insurrection.
Not after the Civil War.
And not after Jan 6.
The Confederacy never ended because we didn't punish them.
August 13, 2025 at 12:52 AM
You know, as a parent I'm a firm believer in natural consequences (as opposed to punishment).
It's not even that these guys never got punished.
They never experienced the natural consequences of insurrection.
Not after the Civil War.
And not after Jan 6.
It's not even that these guys never got punished.
They never experienced the natural consequences of insurrection.
Not after the Civil War.
And not after Jan 6.
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.