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Floridian parent and tech educator on sabbatical. Pert opinions mine. One cannot "love freedom" AND ban books. 🖼️: Gulf of Mexico, July '24, red-eye home ✈️ It is going to take all of us. 💪 Also: @shutthefupstephen.bsky.social 🚧

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Don't Say "Enola Gay!" @aviatrixt.bsky.social · Jan 28

Goebbles

Google homepage text with Goebbels rearranged in idiom of googol

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 7h

JD Vance when people makes jokes about Charlie Kirk: "call their employer."

JD Vance when Republican staffers say "I love Hitler" and fantasize about throwing political opponents in gas chambers: "that's what kids do...we're not canceling kids because they did something stupid."

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 4h

one thing that's interesting about tech is the very stupidest people rise to the top. and the middle and bottom

Diamond Hands: Master Bag Holder @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 5h

It turns out, financially incentivizing viral slop, rage bait, hate, divisive politics, porn bots, and other generally horrifying vaudevillian behavior was a really quick way to destroy that app. Who could have seen that coming, except for everybody who used it?

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Don't Say "Enola Gay!" @aviatrixt.bsky.social · 7h

#CoryTheCreep #FL07

Ken Bazinet @kenbazinet.bsky.social · 7h

"She filed for the restraining order when she says Mills began threatening to share nude photos and videos with others, and allegedly threatened her future boyfriends," WESH in Orlando reported.

www.wesh.com/article/flor...

Florida Congressman Cory Mills ordered to stay away from former girlfriend

She filed for the restraining order when she says Mills began threatening to share nude photos and videos with others, and allegedly threatened her future boyfriends.

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Don't Say "Enola Gay!" @aviatrixt.bsky.social · 7h

That happened to me when I posted a film still from Blazing Saddles that exactly mirrored an image of the first lady.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 8h

Quite a day.

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Don't Say "Enola Gay!" @aviatrixt.bsky.social · 7h

No paywall:

The investigation is focused on the charity’s $10 million contribution last fall to political committees backing a campaign led by Gov. Ron DeSantis to defeat abortion and medical marijuana amendments.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Florida Grand Jury Hears Evidence in Investigation of Charity Tied to Casey DeSantis

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

New in PN: The 1,287,923 defects in the Comey case ... so far

"Dismissal is probably the best result for the government, since it would spare the DOJ having its dirty laundry aired in court before getting spanked for having brought such a garbage case. But even so, it'd be very, very funny."

The 1,287,923 defects in the Comey case ... so far

Welcome to the Rocket Docket, Lindsey Halligan!

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 11h

Itamar Ben Gvir is a real monster www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11h

SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:

During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭

Why that matters 🧵

DOE Consolidates Office of Science Advisory Committees

Six long-standing committees advising the Department of Energy’s Office of Science have been rolled into one.

www.aip.org

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Don't Say "Enola Gay!" @aviatrixt.bsky.social · 11h

She is not a state representative; she is a Republican committeewoman.

Don't Say "Enola Gay!" @aviatrixt.bsky.social · 11h

Future Monster serial killer series subject Mike Johnson.

Don't Say "Enola Gay!" @aviatrixt.bsky.social · 11h

Karma still having its way with Tricky Dick

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WholesomeMemes @wholesomememe.bsky.social · 12h

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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 12h

Well we realize that DL Demon Queen Mike Johnson isn't concerned about the:
- release of the Epstein files;
- colleagues that engage in domestic violence;
- American people hurt by the shutdown;
- truth-telling.

About Cory Mills:

🧾 www.mediaite.com/crime/restra...

📺 bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Don't Say "Enola Gay!" @aviatrixt.bsky.social · 12h

#CoryTheCreep #FL07

bennythesnitch.bsky.social @bennythesnitch.bsky.social · 12h

WHAT IS IT WITH THESE GUYS
Florida Republican Rep. Cory Mills slapped with restraining order after judge sides with former girlfriend
Mills was also accused of assaulting a the co-founder of Iranians for Trump in Washington D.C www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Florida Republican Cory Mills slapped with restraining order by judge

Mills was also accused of assaulting a the co-founder of Iranians for Trump in Washington D.C.

www.the-independent.com

Don't Say "Enola Gay!" @aviatrixt.bsky.social · 12h

A wife and two mistresses, one 20 (he was 40) y.o. on a pageant circuit when they began dating and the other of which is an Iranian spy. Brilliant.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 12h

Bari Weiss launched her own path to stardom with the argument "it is oppression to dislike me for being bad" and now we will get to see what an entire media ecosystem built with that philosophy looks like

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 13h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 13h

"no kings" is perhaps *the* foundational truth of this republic, I mean that's what they wrote first

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 12h

Lord North in 1775:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 13h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 12h

Section 2 of the 15th Amendment explicitly delegates to Congress the right to decide how to enforce Black voting rights. That's what the text says. And that's the original intent of the framers.

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Don't Say "Enola Gay!" @aviatrixt.bsky.social · 12h

If a naked bike ride made him uncomfortable I can only imagine what the soft crepey folds of elderly neck skins draping provocatively from a man's collar a'la Eraserhead are giving Mike Johnson at this moment.

Don't Say "Enola Gay!" @aviatrixt.bsky.social · 12h

There will be hell toupée!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

Apparently, the official GOP response to the leaked Young Republican chats is “come on, it’s not a big deal that these guys are using racial slurs and praising Hitler, that’s totally normal” and, uh, that sorta raises more questions?

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