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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 1h

Big, if true!

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 1h

Very polite squirrels 🐿️

BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 1h

It's like they're trying to make these big.... I don't think that's the case. I want to be clear, I don't think they're setting us up.

I think they talk like this because they're arrogant.

And they've convinced themselves that all opposition is fake.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 3h

LOL, Bill Kristol with Tim Miller talking about "the last time the government demonized their opponents..."

(ME, thinking: Is he gonna say Iraq? Be awesome, say Iraq")

"...was civil rights protestors in the 1960s."

OOOOO, so close...

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 3h

He's just asking questions

" Noticing" things....

BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 4h

Everyday that the Democrats don't hold a press conference about whatever yesterday's ice abuses were is a wasted day

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 4h

I don't know about anybody else, but these tariffs have inspired me to spend a lot less money.

I totally stopped shopping at Target. My Amazon spending is at about 5% of what it was 6 months ago.

I'm saving money and paying down debt.

Thanks Mr. Trump!

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 4h

This is the only thing I want Americans to come away understanding.

I was hoping Democrats would learn this message but... That hope seemed to be naive.

The lesson here is the Israelis never wanted to live alongside the Palestinians.

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 4h

Trump to americans: NO POWER FOR YOU

BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 4h

Aaron sorkin first
Mamet next

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 4h

This exactly why I don't think word any risk of people " giving credit to Trump" in this situation

... Because I don't think anybody really thinks Trump did anything that couldn't have been done by literally anybody else at any point earlier.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 7h

i do not have a lot of tolerance for people whining that Netanyahu fucked Biden over in order to get Trump in office so he could do whatever he wanted. yeah. he absolutely did that. that was obvious before 10/7.

there is no person on Earth more incompetent as a foreign policy thinker than Biden

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 4h

Also biden: And I'm going to demand that my handpic successor also maintain this position!

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 10h

“I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They beat us while we were naked day and night.

Until our last day, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.

We couldn’t even sleep. They told me they killed my children.”

- released Palestinian prisoner

Palestinian prisoner Shadi Abu Seed has given a harrowing account of life inside an Israeli prison after his release as part of the ceasefire deal.

“I went hungry for the past two years. I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They kept us naked. They beat us while we were naked day and night. We were tortured,” Abu Seed said.

“Until our last day in Israeli prison, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.

“We couldn’t even sleep. They threatened us with our children. They told me they killed my children. They told us that Gaza was destroyed. I arrived here and found that everything was gone. It looked like the end of the world. Everything is different.”

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 8h

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 8h

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 7h

He has improved week on week.

I guess I should expect that from a veteran who's getting more snaps.

It's just nice to see is all.

BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 7h

Chicago has 3x the population of MS....

BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 7h

Being lied to about this genocide for the rest of my life is going to drive me insane.

BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 7h

That's one of my big take aways from 2020.

ForEVER Americans have been told how earth shatteringly impossible it would be to support workers the way we support capital.

And...then we just did it. And it was easy. And good. And popular. We just sent checks!

Then we stopped...

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 7h

I am once again reminding news they can stop covering the president

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 7h

Speaking for myself, my answer would be:

1) not all spending is equal. Spending on roads, Bridges and infrastructure is good but less directly impactful to voters.

2) the political language of the Democratic party remained " small government conservatism" despite their willingness to spend.

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 7h

brilliant take. Great stuff

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Katie Cannon @katiecannon.bsky.social · 7h

I think it’s just that we’re not allowed to critique 50 years of neoliberalism embraced by both parties

I personally think that’s the main reason Harris lost - not being able to critique Obama’s austerity

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 7h

What's wild to me is Biden understood this when Bolsonaro attempted a coup in Brazil but then couldn't connect this same thinking to Trump in the US...

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 7h

I don't think about him as a person or political actor basically ever.

He is an account that posts things I like to talk about.

Not much different than if I designed a program to do it.

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