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What Would John Brown Do?

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Legal nihilist. Set fire to the preacher who is promising you hell. Free Palestine. Free Everyone. (He/they)


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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”'s avatar pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social
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I’m no expert, but it’s probably not a good sign for a political campaign when the best possible thing that could happen to it is the candidate dropping dead

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Gary Alexander's avatar Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social
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Well, in the immortal words of [checks] Barack Obama, "don't underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up."

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The saddest girl to ever hold a martini 's avatar The saddest girl to ever hold a martini @lifeisterrible.bsky.social
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idk everyone, things are looking bleak, send a cutie some $, tell your crush you’re crushing, eat an extra bowl of ice cream, change your hair, call off work to do nothing, find a little extra joy any way you can

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 ستایشگر خیبر شکن 🚀🔻's avatar ستایشگر خیبر شکن 🚀🔻 @pastures.bsky.social
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Absolutely--Virginia is a big one. HUGE Muslim community there, esp. in FFX, Loudoun, Prince William, Alexandria...everyone is talking about Michigan and PA, but VA may be an unpleasant surprise too. That area's my roots and my heart and community are still there.

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What Would John Brown Do?'s avatar What Would John Brown Do? @johnbrownsbody.bsky.social
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Did Manchin and Sinema say that? I can’t remember, but I know that Biden himself said he wasn’t going to do it. He’s truly delivered on his campaign promise that nothing would fundamentally changed while he was president

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Just looking at your bio, Biden told people who wanted court reform to shove it up their ass and has presided over a massive spike in the cost of housing, which idk if he’s ever even mentioned. His main legislative achievement was corporate welfare masquerading as climate change legislation

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Matt Seybold's avatar Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social
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“Patriotism I s a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn’t a foot of land in the world which doesn’t represent the ousting & re-ousting of a long line of successive ‘owners,’ who each in turn, as ‘patriots,’ with proud swelling hearts defended it… 8/9

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journeyman folklorist's avatar journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social
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The hate in my heart for the evil so-called nation of Israel knows no bounds. Witnessing the rapid erasure of an entire people while our president takes a nap

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Nick Brumfield's avatar Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
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Happy Fourth of July Your reminder that a large majority of Native Americans sided with the British during the American Revolution because they knew its success would result in their dispossession and that after the war Washington's inner circle spent the next 20 years ethnically cleansing Ohio

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Your standards are embarrassingly low and completely ill-suited to the moment we’re living in

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Ahhhhh's avatar Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com
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Is this a good July 4 shirt

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Jeremy Stanley's avatar Jeremy Stanley @jeremydstanley.com
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good on Real Salt Lake for taking action at... wait a minute... what's the name of the stadium?

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Liz Neeley's avatar Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social
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All of DC (and Pentagon, Arlington Cemetery & Reagan National airport - DCA) are currently under a boil water advisory. Check for updates, Tell your people.

www.dcwater.com/about-dc-wat...

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illumi's avatar illumi @illumi.me
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Not getting America any presents for it’s birthday this year because it’s been bad

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DaveAnthony's avatar DaveAnthony @daveanthony.bsky.social
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It's not up to any of us and the people it's up to are making it known what they want.

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He’s gonna drop some bombs on brown people

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Pickle Tiedrich's avatar Pickle Tiedrich @prettyliltakemachine.is-extremely.gay
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the whole ‘actually, killing the villain makes us just as bad as him’ trope had done incomprehensible damage to society and i’m not kidding

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Patrick Cosmos's avatar Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer
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as bad as everything is we can all have a hoarse little gallows laugh that america got itself a king the week before independence day, even if it hurts to do so, like you recently broke a rib

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I’m sure Biden will get better soon!

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Bluntzkrieg420's avatar Bluntzkrieg420 @bluntzkrieg420.bsky.social
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Falling out of the coconut tree and hitting every branch on the way down

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Nick Brumfield's avatar Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
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I like how lawyers and judges can just start making stuff up and if they just keep repeating the stuff they made up for like 20-30 years they get to say it's an established fact

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jasper pilled's avatar jasper pilled @hoovybaby.bsky.social
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you ever think about how most of trumps enablers aren’t under secret service protection

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Asawin Suebsaeng's avatar Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social
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Increasingly convinced Lawyer Brain is what paves the path to ruin more so than any other category of Brain

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cₑₐₛₑfᵢᵣₑ ₙₒw's avatar cₑₐₛₑfᵢᵣₑ ₙₒw @self.agency
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how are these people still walking around? how are their offices still standing? all these folks who are afraid for their lives and no one doing shit about it.

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Daniel Feldman's avatar Daniel Feldman @dfeldman.bsky.social
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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US.

Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare.

The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it.

Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail.

www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

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Kyle D. Long's avatar Kyle D. Long @blatherscribe.bsky.social
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I can synopsize Harry Potter: in a society that normalizes child abuse, autocracy, and torture, some magical children are trained as soldiers for a war their elders don't want to fight. Eventually they do, some die, the words "child soldier" are never spoken, and when they win they become cops.

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What Would John Brown Do?'s avatar What Would John Brown Do? @johnbrownsbody.bsky.social
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Given that you posted this and dropped this podcast just a few hours apart, one might conclude that you are pro-monarch

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badly-drawn bee 🐝's avatar badly-drawn bee 🐝 @soapachu.bsky.social
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rolling out this gem again

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Mr. Am I Being Detained 's avatar Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Just a funny comic for pals to read!!

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The latest in and endless chain of exhibits demonstrating that lawyers will not be allies in any real fight against actual fascism

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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy's avatar Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy @ugarles.bsky.social
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the conservative theory of law in one headline

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utopia deferred's avatar utopia deferred @utopia-deferred.bsky.social
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A burst of 20th century style violence is always possible/don’t want to blithely write it off, but IMO 21st century despotism in the developed world is a “soft” authoritarianism that dehumanizes “only” a “few” millions of people in countries of hundreds of millions. That’s the very problem itself.

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logo ⓘ suffering online's avatar logo ⓘ suffering online @logophobe.bsky.social
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Look I'm not really a "doomer" so much as I don't see any way at all that our social tensions get resolved without radical change, and also that the right currently have the only political machine with a radical vision and will, and also that this country is kinda full of guns, so

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You are exhibiting the worst possible iteration of your bio

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Although the outright fascists have not yet captured the federal government, we are living under fascism in the USA. Navigating the legal system is one thing, but any lawyer or non lawyer advocating deference to the law is advocating fascisms, consciously or unconsciously

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Tequila Sunset 🥥🌴's avatar Tequila Sunset 🥥🌴 @pepperonidave.bsky.social
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"the president can't wave a magic wand" *SC hands him a magic wand* "Nevertheless!"

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Gary Alexander's avatar Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social
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Well, one difference between Republicans who say Democrats are commies, and Democrats who say Republicans are Nazis, is that the former at least behaves like they believe it.

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Imagine showing up on July 1, 2024 and saying that our leaders should confine the scope of their actions to what the Supreme Court says is legal.

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