Unmuzzled Poochyena

25 Oct 2025

Was a bit sick of not having an outlet, so here I am I guess. A few ground rules+info, beside the obvious: -No spam accounts. -No performative BS. -No petty drama. -I am a thorough pinko. -Free Palestine. End the apartheid. -I'm from Upstate NY, but am looking to relocate eventually.

Honestly I straight-up don't use this account anymore because I get upset dealing with the news anymore. I have too much on my plate in my personal affairs. Dunno if I'll close it but consider it deprecated.

26 Apr

Mom's already going full-on BlueAnon over this one oh boy. Beginning to think maybe Republicans and Democrats really do have something in common (being susceptible to conspiracies).

26 Apr

Look, I'm not saying it's IMpossible for them to stage this, but... at a nothingburger event like this, really? Come on lol. Don't jump to conclusions.

8 Apr

I really do think we are going to have to collectively unpack what it means to be American sometime soon, given how poorly our country treats people abroad -and- at home. I see little pride to take in a country that can gleefully threaten genocide to get what its top 1% wants.

8 Apr

I love my fellow countryman as much as the next guy, but there's a non-insignificant percentage of our country who would be glad to be rid of me for my ethnicity and/or sexual orientation, and I have it relatively easy given I pass easily as white, straight and cis.

7 Apr

Sorry I haven't posted to this account in a while, I have been going through it™. Had to step away from the barrage of politics as I was driving myself into madness. Your regularly scheduled screaming into the void shall resume shortly.

7 Apr

I'll keep my deeper thoughts on the war with Iran to myself, but the effects of the Strait of Hormuz being closed are fucking hilarious. Poor Americans can't get their Dubai chocolates? LMFAO. Funnier still is how the media has to launder it through that lens to get our national swine to care.

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Julian Sanchez

@normative.bsky.social

25 Feb

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

Asha Rangappa@asharangappa.bsky.social

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

As an additional note, if you want to boycott American products (understandable), you can buy domestic, sure, but buy from your fellow allies too. Do not give in to protectionist, jingoistic rhetoric. Protectionism is a disease in our modern world.

As a Yank, as much as I respect PM Carney from down here, I can't help but feel a bit disappointed in his capitulations. I was disappointed at the pulling of that ad campaign, and concessions to oil companies, and the mourning for Kirk, and the non-statement on my country's invasion of Venezuela...

In nearly every regard better than Trudeau, but I get the feeling his centrist leanings will only prove to be an obstacle. If you really want to be better than us, you need to confront the facets of your society that led to mine ending up where it is now. The one that almost got you Poilievre.

Normally I don't like dancing on the graves of people I don't like, but I feel vindicated in hating Noam Chomsky now that his Epstein ties have been revealed. He's always come off as a self-important prick, not to mention his shitty takes on Russia and Cambodia.

No matter how positive some of his contributions to linguistics and sociology were, he's always been an absolute prick. History shall not remember him fondly.

That said, I can also see that he was a huge influence on other leftists and they aren't taking it too well. I refuse to browbeat people for looking up to idiots before the worst of their excesses have come to light, so if you looked up to him: Take your time to grieve.

30 Jan

Sometimes I wonder what it's like being Trump, with nearly 2/3 of your own country hating your guts and maybe at least 50% of the world's population cheering at your health problems, and then remember he quite literally does not care. And if he does, he shows it through threats and spitting bile.

30 Jan

The most dangerous people are the ones in power who feel no shame. That includes everyone in the Trump cabinet and the remaining portion of our country that are in the Trump cult.

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@erinmayequade.bsky.social

30 Jan

i’m just so tired of donald trump man

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mtsw

@mtsw.bsky.social

28 Jan

Once you start noticing it you can't stop: when the real Trump falters and is incapable of defending his administration (more and more frequent) the actual Trump is "subbed out" of news coverage for an invented, imaginary, often explicitly hypothetical version of Trump who is reasonable and cogent

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social

A few hours ago the msm unquestioningly repeated the White House spin that Trump had changed his “tone.”

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Erin Maye Quade

After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.

Matt McDermott@mattmfm.bsky.social

Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

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Kat Abughazaleh

@katmabu.bsky.social

newrepublic.comA Dem Senator’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Hits Home: “Breaking Point”As Trump scrambles to contain the damage from the latest ICE horrors, Senator Chris Murphy offers a sharp indictment of Trump-ICE lawlessness—and explains how Dems can meet the urgency of the moment.

ICE does not need more training. They’re doing exactly what they’re trained to do. Democrats cannot vote for a single cent to ICE.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

Dems coalescing around 5 restrictions on ICE, I'm told: DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big) CBP stays at border warrants for arrests IDs, bodycams ICE out of churches, schools "That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2057...

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mtsw

@mtsw.bsky.social

Reminder of the pattern: when the real trump falters, he is removed from the news and replaced my in headlines by a fake, imaginary trump who is instead doing reasonable and popular things.

Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC@mattnegrin.bsky.social

Trump is not doing this and the media is lying to you because they want to take him to the dance and kiss

Sometimes I remember Zei exists and I have to facepalm all the way through my skull. It would be too charitable to call them an idiot when they're clearly malicious. Arguably award-winning levels of Twitter addiction moonbattery.

Post-Left Watch@postleftwatch.bsky.social

Zei Squirrel just proved AOC right.

Even on the things they *were* right about, they always had a horrible, holier-than-thou attitude that made them insufferable at best. That's not even to begin with how boneheadedly confident they were in being wrong!

@kenklippenstein.bsky.social

24 Jan

Every Dem that voted for this should bear a mark of shame that hangs over their heads forever. Same with every Republican, but that goes without saying.

Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social

Very cool that Congress just renewed ICE's budget with absolutely zero concessions

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Ken Klippenstein

24 Jan

Very cool that Congress just renewed ICE's budget with absolutely zero concessions

Anyways, we are in a fascist country. If we have an unfettered dictator in all but name, and a toothless, complicit "opposition", what else do we reside in? I only hope that the killing blow we are stricken with is swift and the fallout be less painful than it could be.

I wonder what the fallout would be like. Would we Balkanise? Would we become like China after the fall of the Qing, ruled by powerful warlords or a modern equivalent thereof? Would Peter Thiel get his wishes and establish neo-feudalism? What kind of refugee crisis would emerge?

I dunno about any of you, but I'm quite done waiting for some sort of legal recourse against Trump. The law is no holy, infallible thing. It has been used to justify injustice since the beginning of this country's existence. It will not protect you or me.

While "what Trump's doing is against the law" is true, neither he nor his cronies care. It doesn't matter. What I presume they'll do, as authoritarians have done in the past as well, is leverage the law against *you*.

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donald trump wants you to live in hell where you will be snitched upon by your neighbors and where the state is always watching you and kill you without any discretion if you disagree with them

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i’m fascinated by this new strategy wjere multiple ai company CEOs have been going on tears tours this year so far complaining about how anti ai sentiment has hurt their businesses

Unusual Whales@unusualwhales.bsky.social

Jensen Huang of Nvidia, $NVDA, has said relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has done a lot of damage, per Techspot.

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shaunt

@shaunvids.bsky.social

oh, they 100% know what he meant, they're just reporting what they prefer he would have said

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

it's bizarre to see both CNN and CNBC run with chyrons reporting that Trump said he won't "use force" to take Greenland, when the comments in question were clearly a threat to take Greenland by force. How naive are we at this point?

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Guardian US

@us.theguardian.com

theguardian.comWe ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start | Claire Finkelstein

"Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, which I direct," writes Claire Finkelstein.

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Acyn

@acyn.bsky.social

20 Jan

Mamdani: I am in support of abolishing ICE… I'm tired of waking up every day and seeing a new image of someone being dragged out of a car, dragged out of their home, dragged out of their life.

THAT THING can't happen soon enough. Until THAT THING happens, it is my duty to ensure I can do whatever I can to ensure the damage he's doing to the world - and to us - is contained from within. But it feels so difficult when our elected officials refuse to listen to us.

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I took a look at his social media and he's being flamed in the replies for voting with Trump and being passive on our foreign aggression. LMAO, but also we need to keep it up. I know we can do it, Upstate. Riley doesn't even do all that much great for us.

Oh, and it turns out he wanted to "congratulate" ICE recently too. How much of a tool do you have to be? You claim to be "Upstate first", but ICE have stolen away many people, immigrants -and- citizens alike, up here too. Utterly shameful.

My representative accepts blood money and vacations in Israel while we're left holding the bag. He constantly votes against our best interests. I'm hoping someone better steps up to the plate and primaries him. I'm done being a passive voter.

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

20 Jan

It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "They're paid agitators and insurrectionists. Nobody talks about the fact that $19 billion at a minimum is missing in Minnesota, given to a large degree by Somalians. They've taken it. Somalians. A lot of very low IQ people."

The USA's hegemony had to come to an end sometime, but, christ, I wish it didn't have to go this way.

18 Jan

It's kind of mixed for me because I can understand the conditions that led to people supporting him in 2016 (even if I would have still begrudgingly voted Hillary that year if I were voting age). Anytime after that though gives me less and less hope for their personal moral character.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social

Nuanced take: I think it's really important to give *normal citizens* who supported Trump and off-ramp and *professional writers, pundits and politicians* who supported Trump should have to wear it like a scarlet letter for the rest of their lives

18 Jan

Ultimately, sure, they can exist in society as can anyone else. But I do think that publicly expressing support for him should be scorned and shunned. That's for Joe Schmoe however, I think pundits and politicians who supported Trump should be marked for life for enabling this all to occur.

12 Jan

Abolishing ICE is the moderate position. Frankly I'd like to see the DHS dismantled too but who knows if that'll ever happen the way this country is.

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

12 Jan

anyway as i have said many times — and literally just wrote on saturday — i think we should abolish ICE as well as unravel DHS and i welcome elected officials who embrace both outright but i am also aware that any senate majority will contain moderate and conservative democrats who need an on-ramp.

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

9 Jan

at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

8 Jan

Journos who keep writing apologia for ICE or trying to give Trump's take on today's murder any consideration should be stripped of their journalist title, I think. No ifs, ands or buts.

8 Jan

Some absolutely ghoulish misrepresentation of the facts. I wish I could say I'm surprised but the swamp things of NYT and CNN keep carrying water for our wannabe dictatorship as if they won't shoot them in the back of the head once they're of no more use to them.

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7 Jan

the most concerning thing about them justifying murdering an obviously completely innocent murder by ICE is if they can justify and defend this, there’s nothing that’s too far for them. anything you can imagine them doing is very likely something they’ll stand behind