Bear Wilner-Nugent

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Lawyer (criminal defense, appeals, civil and administrative litigation), festival operations volunteer, musician, outdoorsbear, cook, lover, dad

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i’m the worlds most basic man and i spend my summer in a vacation town and i’m telling you nobody is paying attention to any of this shit. i pet ten dogs on my way to the post office this morning and their humans were all talking about which fucking gelato they were going to try or whatever. cálmate

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Among the many, many issues here, it's clear that ICE has way too much money to play with.

ICE created a fake university in order to defraud, rob, and deport students. The depths of depravity there know no bounds. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

Students at fake university in Michigan created by ICE can sue US, court ruleswww.freep.com An appeals court ruled in favor of students who said they were tricked by ICE into enrolling at a fake university in metro Detroit.

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the thing about people who explicitly tell you not to vote is that they are absolutely going to vote

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Joe Biden has been an excellent president, and I highly doubt he lost his marbles in the last few months

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If you’re going to argue about the execution of America as an idea, then you aren’t understanding the power of internal mythology and you’re part of why conservatives can keep claiming it. The point is the promise of America, and the discussion should be how we can better live up to the promise.

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This 4th of July, take a little time to think about how the Left can try to reclaim patriotism from conservatives. Seems like the story of a country that cast off a king and fought a civil war to free the slaves is fertile ground given our present moment.

On a roadtrip, every RV name is improved if you begin it with “Anal” (Lance, Quest, Surveyor, Country, Cougar, Eagle, Patriot, Storm)

Amidst it all, I am leaving for 13 days of helping coordinate the communications and emergency response systems of my home festival, the Oregon Country Fair. Come join us July 12-14! www.oregoncountryfair.org

Celebrating Art, Music, Food & Family | Annual Event in July, Philanthropy All Year - Oregon Country Fairwww.oregoncountryfair.org The Oregon Country Fair hosts a 3-day event every July in Veneta, Oregon with 500+ performances on 17+ stages, art, handcrafted goods, and delicious food.

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One thing that annoys me about the Democratic consultant class is how they act like they're brass-knuckle streetfighters and yet don't have the stones to run nonstop ads about Trump's extensive connections to Jeffrey Epstein. It's all true! It's documented! There are photos!

Trump later appointed this federal prosecutor as his first U.S. Secretary of Labor. www.kare11.com/article/news...

Florida prosecutors knew Epstein raped teenage girls 2 years before cutting deal, transcript showswww.kare11.com Florida prosecutors heard graphic testimony about how Epstein sexually assaulted teenage girls two years before they cut a plea deal, according to transcripts.

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the answer to "is your life better now than it was four years ago?" is yes, because there is not a white Christian nationalist in the Oval Office

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It also makes me feel insane that the rat fuck around Biden’s age and mental capacity is being uncritically spread around by Democrats when Trump is *incredibly obviously* grotesquely mentally incapacitated, in a way that is genuinely terrifying.

It makes me feel very much unmoored from reality to see all this *buying into* the Biden Too Old ratfuck narrative, days after the Supreme Court ruled that Trump gets to be dictator for life, just weeks after Trump became a convicted felon (oh, and there’s the Epstein stuff that just came out).

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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"

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The answer to political anxiety is political organizing.

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This is... not good news for Donald Trump.

BREAKING: Advocates submit double the amount of signatures needed to put a constitutional right to abortion on the ballot in Arizona.

Abortion-rights advocates in Arizona submit needed signatures to put the issue on November ballotapnews.com Abortion-rights advocates in Arizona have submitted more than enough signatures to put the issue on November’s ballot in the key swing state.

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If only our news media institutions found "ex-president promises to jail and try opponents for treason if he takes back power" as newsworthy as "unnamed aide said current president gets tired after having a full day of work."

Presidential candidate who the far-right members of the Supreme Court just placed above the law tells voters how he will exercise his new powers.

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It seems foolish that we aren’t talking about Trumps extremely bad polling numbers

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i swear to god. people will spend eight goddamn years complaining about how friendly the new york times is to donald trump and then just... keep accepting their framing. apparently forever. it's a provincial newspaper run by a sixth generation failson. have some self respect

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I am an upper-middle class white guy but it consistently blows my mind that the Trump plan to put a permanent ICE contingent every Latino neighborhood (because that's what it would take to deport every illegal immigrant) has garnered almost no coverage. They're aren't kidding, they're gonna try.

The basic problem here is the voters think that the Trump presidency was great actually. I am convinced this is some kind of trauma response to 2020 where people think bad things can never happen. If the race keeps going this way I guess we'll find out.

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Presidential candidate who the far-right members of the Supreme Court just placed above the law tells voters how he will exercise his new powers.

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sam alito salivating at the chance to make this life for americans

Update: Cambodian court handed jail terms of up to 8-10 years to 10 activists of an environmental group on charges of plotting against the government and insulting the king www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/c...

www.hindustantimes.com

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"Not dropping out" is extremely potent political magic.

Trump gritting through the pussy tape is illustrative here. He refused to drop out & a few weeks later his polls rebounded & the press just dropped it. Obviously the fact that the press likes fascism & wants it to win is a factor but the fact it didn't change anything was EMBARRASSING for them.

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I wrote yesterday that the way through on this might be to make the NYT's obsession with it a joke but I didn't know how. I'm starting to wonder if the right play is to let them keep barfing this garbage out & have it continuously not move the needle. Eventually it's just embarrassing.

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At this point my standard response to doomers in my mentions is “fuck you, grow a spine, coward”. Because their shit is just cowardice. They’re scared and hopeless and want everyone else to be as devoid of hope and light as they are. Fuck ‘em.

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what left and the right both understand is that we are approaching a moment of constitutional rupture. what the right understands and the left does not is that extraconstitutional violence is not some magic "i win" button. rather the rupture will proceed through the forms and orders of american law.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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We know what impunity looks like. It’s law enforcement.

Civil rights attorney Jill Collen Jefferson took on the police force in the small town of Lexington, Miss., collecting evidence of abuse, falsifying evidence and assault. Then they arrested her.

She took on a small Mississippi town’s police. Then they arrested her.wapo.st How civil rights lawyer Jill Collen Jefferson convinced the Justice Department to investigate allegedly racist and abusive policing in tiny Lexington, Miss.

Even whacked-out covid doomers like Katie Mack get it about the presidency.

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This is how cops work without accountability. This is the future Trump's immunity ruling promises for us all.

Civil rights attorney Jill Collen Jefferson took on the police force in the small town of Lexington, Miss., collecting evidence of abuse, falsifying evidence and assault. Then they arrested her.

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I do not regret analogizing these people to the men who took photos of themselves at lynchings www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

This is all a group mind that we’re thinking together and it’s totally fine to quote anything by anyone as long as you attribute it.

How do people on the BlueSkies feel about being quote-skeeted? Maybe half of my posts are quotes, usually because I agree with the poster and I have something to add, but a lot of people quote-skeet primarily for dunking or a quote from a big account brings assholes to their mentions...

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continue to think that white columnists are missing a big and fucking important part of the story of this election (and continue to be uncomfortable commenting about it because black and brown people are doing it better)

“Taraji P. Henson made Project 2025 the talk of the BET Awards. The host of this year's BET Awards warned viewers on multiple occasions about the far-right plan to dismantle and remake the government in Trump's image.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/sh...

Taraji P. Henson made Project 2025 the talk of the BET Awardswww.msnbc.com The draconian plan supported by conservative groups to dismantle the government if Donald Trump is elected was the talk of the Black Entertainment Television Awards.