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Alt Newt @altrandall.bsky.social · 3h

Do you read Order of the Stick by any chance? There was a panel a few years back with a dragon versus caster fight that involved anti-magic and guess who it didn't go well for

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Alt Newt @altrandall.bsky.social · 3h

Bro you accidentally called Homelander

Alt Newt @altrandall.bsky.social · 3h

They're just trying to keep themselves out of jail, it wasn't because they have ethical compunctions about promulgating government propaganda

Alt Newt @altrandall.bsky.social · 3h

I'm kind of surprised that hasn't happened already, with how much they already mix those two things?

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Alt Newt @altrandall.bsky.social · 3h

Admitting this in mind, I am giving up trying to not be cranky, at least for the rest of the day. Fuck it.

Alt Newt @altrandall.bsky.social · 3h

I mean that's only like 150 bucks per American. That's like three tongue depressors at current healthcare gouging standards

Alt Newt @altrandall.bsky.social · 3h

Typical trust me bro entitled white guy bullshit. I don't know why anyone would expect anything different of Brett "I like beer" Kavanaugh

Alt Newt @altrandall.bsky.social · 3h

72 hours after the novavax protein-based 2025 covid vaccine, and I'm going to keep it real with you, I have felt kind of crappy the whole day.

Zee German in me be like "Das machst es arbeiten..!¡"

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Alt Newt @altrandall.bsky.social · 3h

This weekend has "No Kings" rallies which honestly are pretty weak tea. "No secret police and concentration camps" might be more to the point.

Personally, I've got competing non-profit work, though I'm seriously considering canceling to send the message that Things Are Not Normal.

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Alt Newt @altrandall.bsky.social · 3h

The resistance is mostly standing around America's dumbest, worst men carrying AR-15s and yelling at them and hoping like hell they don't find an excuse to shoot you. It's got a lot of heart, but the worst outcomes are "death," and the best outcomes are "questionable."

Boycotts and strikes needed.

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Alt Newt @altrandall.bsky.social · 3h

Fully 40% of the country are rallying behind Trump because Nazi shit is exactly what they wanted.

Most of us are disgusted, pissed off, a bit scared, and absent competent, effective leadership there's not a lot to be done except get your name on a watch list for running your mouth.

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Alt Newt @altrandall.bsky.social · 3h

All the same stuff Germans did, of course.

Moneyed intelligencia are fleeing the country. People are getting deported, other people are going to jail. Lots of people are staging half-ass "resistance" against the largest best-funded military that ever existed. Stocking supplies for hyperinflation.

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Alt Newt @altrandall.bsky.social · 3h

Well, I mean, he's retired, so he's got time to craft pithy missives

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 6h

I really do think one key to this whole thing is they think everyone is as hollowed out awful as they are and act accordingly.

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Alt Newt @altrandall.bsky.social · 5h

About Time

Rick Cooley @rcooley123.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson Has 48 Hours To Swear In Adelita Grijalva Or Arizona Is Suing Him
www.politicususa.com/p/mike-johns...

Mike Johnson Has 48 Hours To Swear In Adelita Grijalva Or Arizona Is Suing Him

Arizona AG Kris Mayes has sent Speaker Mike Johnson a demand letter, giving him two days to inform her when he is swearing in Adelita Grijalva, or he will be sued.

www.politicususa.com

Alt Newt @altrandall.bsky.social · 6h

Let's not pretend Fox News suddenly discovered ethics.

There's more to it than that, most notably a high risk of them going to jail or being fined for reporting something the shitbirds in charge of government didn't like. They don't care about "America" at all, just their own fucking skins.

Alt Newt @altrandall.bsky.social · 6h

As a fun reminder, the Trump administration routinely refers to *The president of Venezuela himself* as a "narco terrorist," and they're sufficiently freaked out by warships blowing up random boats in their waters that they have petitioned the UN.

Alt Newt @altrandall.bsky.social · 7h

I honestly prefer it to when the Republicans show up for work, which is worse

Alt Newt @altrandall.bsky.social · 7h

That woman in particular has been a loose cannon, even by Trump administration loose cannon standards, for weeks. Look up some of the other stuff she says online, it's bananas

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10h

He gives $20 Billion of OUR dollars to bailout Argentina without consulting Congress or the American people. Does that seem like the actions of a KING to you?

Join us & let him know just what you think about that this Saturday, 10/18

#NoThronesNoCrownsNO_KINGS 👑

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Alt Newt @altrandall.bsky.social · 7h

We just tell ourselves things like this to make us feel better when horrible people are running things, as they so often are.

When he goes out to dinner we pay for it. He has groupies.b huge amounts of vacation, comprehensive healthcare... No, their lives are pretty great.

Alt Newt @altrandall.bsky.social · 7h

Montana is one of the most corrupt states in the country, which is why they're attuned to this sort of thing. It's either not going to pass or there's some sort of hideous Monkeys Paw twist

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Alt Newt @altrandall.bsky.social · 8h

"Well if they call you a terrorist, you call them a terrorist right back."

They're not the ones wearing masks and breaking into people's houses at night to abduct them, you fucks.

Alt Newt @altrandall.bsky.social · 8h

California and maybe New York are rapidly becoming the only places in the United States worth living.

They really should secede. There's no reason jackasses in West Virginia or Kansas should be telling California and how to live.

Alt Newt @altrandall.bsky.social · 8h

Of course we already know which way the decision will go. The supreme Court is bought and paid for, literally. Clarence Thomas had a gigantic bribery scandal and his response was basically "So what? Try to do something about it." Most people have forgotten about it already because we're morons

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