Donettes

Donettes

@donettes.bsky.social

30s, NC, cat father, novel reader, traveler, gardener, man about town.

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These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

Zero surprise that these are explicitly designed to cause pain without leaving a mark, not to incapacitate. Yes, we're spending $20M to buy ICE agents torture devices.

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good example of how interviewers can humiliate MAGA guys not by arguing with them but just getting them to straightforwardly describe their beliefs

NBC News@nbcnews.com

Los Angeles mayoral candidate and reality star Spencer Pratt sat down with NBC Nightly News Anchor Tom Llamas to talk about his crystal collection, saying he believes "anything God put on this earth has energy."

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Khanna: They’re saying this technology is going to be bigger than nuclear, bigger than electricity, bigger than aviation. Last I checked, we have an FAA for aviation, nuclear energy is regulated, and electricity is regulated.

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it feels trite to say at this point but that would be murder & illegal & i'm pretty sure advocating for it is also illegal

Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social

the washington post op-ed page gets more horrifying every week

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KINDLY FARMER: Come on inside, Dick. Martha has a hot plate for you. DON DRAPER: (shoveling a pile of manure) Thanks, Hank. You've taught me something important about the human condition. [later] BUCKTOOTHED RUBE ON TV: Dove soap can even wash the shit off my stupid country ass FARMER: what the hell

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Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

Berny Belvedere@bernybelvedere.bsky.social

Much of reactionary politics today is best understood as a Confederate restoration project.

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on this team and gonna keep saying: behind the extremely thin veneer of concern and responsibility of anti-Bluesky takes is the desperate attempt to portray something that is obviously their problem as though it were our problem. nice try. go with God, have a blessed day

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damn, but that would mean that all the smirking jagoffs who spent the entire election cycle telling us voters wouldn’t care about the administration’s reprehensible support of an obvious genocide were….. wrong??

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social

NEWS Top Democratic officials who worked on the party's still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration's approach to the war in Gaza.

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It sounds like a joke, but it's not. If a Republican politician ever accuses Democrats of something, there's a very high chance that it's something they did. It's almost pathological.

Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃@caseyexplosion.bsky.social

I must reiterate that the entire Pizzagate/Qanon conspiracy only came about in the first place because of allegations coming out from former Miss Teen pageant contestants, it was literally cooked up to defend a pedophile when news reports of his pedophilia came out, you owe conspiracists squat!

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‘Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.’

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

Breaking MS NOW: DHS has launched a nationwide campaign to investigate and prosecute naturalized citizens who may have improperly voted in past elections — an effort spurring deep concern that the admin's true goal is to intimidate voters from participating in future elections.

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So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume

SFGATE@sfgate.com

An unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume angrily confronted Santa Clara city officials during a joint meeting of the City Council, city authorities, and the Santa Clara Stadium Authority on Monday, using his public comment to condemn the city’s stance on cooperation with ICE.

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we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

Ben Mullin@benmullin.bsky.social

Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.” This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker

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Amy when you’re done self-promoting do you think you could go get that kid out of that concentration camp

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The old panthers did not say it was about immigrants. This is a lie.

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

The New Black Panther Party has been banned from using the name due to the original Black Panthers not agreeing with their support for illegal immigrants.

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Another thing we saw in Chicago. They terrorize neighborhoods but pretend no one actually lives there. A man in my neighborhood just happened to be coming home during a CBP kidnapping and ended up with six broken ribs.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.

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Members of Congress should be openly stating right now that military action against Greenland will result in impeachment and removal of the President and the Vice President.

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Next up: a phased system of tax credits available to victims of ICE harassment with incomes under $75K who were brutalized in calendar year 2025 & have been enrolled in community college for a year or more but less than four years, notwithstanding other deductions.

Ritchie Torres@ritchietorres.bsky.social

I am introducing the Quick Recognition (QR) Act, which requires ICE and CBP officers to wear uniforms featuring QR codes. When scanned, the code would generate a digital ID displaying the officer’s name, badge number, and law enforcement agency. ICE should be unmasked both physically and digitally.

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this is all it’s really about for them. Not domestic policy, not “economic anxiety”, just an endless desire to punish stand-ins for the Mommy who forced them take a bath, even if it tanks their own quality of life.

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You gotta realize, they should be ascendant right now. They control every branch of government. The Maduro thing was seen as a _win_ to them. They are barely a year into this illegitimate presidency and they're despondent.

Jim Stalnaker 🇺🇸🇺🇦@jstalnaker1.bsky.social

Remarkable thread at the other place of MAGA/Cons lamenting at increased political pushback from their families.

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The guy who shot Marimar Martinez, which resembles Renee Good's shooting in many ways, shouted "Do something bitch" as he shot her. He is also a weapons instructor.

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social

In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.

You mean running the democrat playbook of stabbing the left flank of your party in the back over and over again while never delivering anything and trying to appeal to the right wing by conceding every argument to their framing is stupid, reckless, and will never work? Who could have known?

Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social

Glad the FT is asking the question. Even if I’m not convinced they found a compelling answer. I get that Starmer & Reeves are unpopular, I really don’t understand the extent of the dislike. www.ft.com/content/1995... ‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves