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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 1d

People voted for Trump who clearly indicated what he would do if elected - dictator on day 1. Those who voted for Trump thus voted for a paralyzed government system. No one gets away with "gosh, I had no idea".

Aletheia S.R. @aletheia225.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody voted for a paralyzed government system.

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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 1d

Because we were stupid enough to vote for it.

Aletheia S.R. @aletheia225.bsky.social · 1d

Remind me again, why is everyone paying taxes for a government that is fictional and absent?!

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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 1d

The little girl on the end was just arrested by ICE

Christine @chrisser25.bsky.social · 1d

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Arresting 6 year olds.

Donald Trump making America a Fascist shithole.

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Deborah Weeks @deborah-10.bsky.social · 1d

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Margo @retire411.bsky.social · 2d

Remember this:

To all the non voters out there, this is what happens when you stay at home and think your vote won’t count.

Look at us now and look at what is happening to our country.

YOUR VOTES COUNT. We don’t want to go through this ever again.

Thanks,
America

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Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 1d

It has been upsetting watching the establishment hurl itself at Mamdani but I think the other way to read that is that there really is a *better* politics possible and he shows that it is REAL.

We could have this.

They wouldn't fight it so hard if it wasn't achievable.

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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 1d

Great idea, and Trump wants one very badly so he should do the requisite action to make it possible.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel Peace Prize, in my opinion, should only ever be given posthumously.

Given that so many people who champion peace or even achieve temporary peace can also champion war in other circumstances, it should be based on a totality of work.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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💙💙🤔CJ🤨🤣🧐💙💙🇺🇸 @cnice59.bsky.social · 1d

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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like fun!

Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 1d

That's nothing, America is going full throttle to destroy the world.

European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 1d

The numbers of electric vehicles sold in Europe in 2024 are in:

⚡ 1.45 million new battery-only EVs registered
📈 +32% growth in the total electric fleet
🔋 13.6% of all new car registrations are electric

Europe is going full throttle to a clean future.

link.europa.eu/cNKjkh

A color-coded map of Europe titled "Share of electric vehicles sold in each EU country in 2024," showing the share of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) as a percentage of total new passenger car registrations. The EU average is 13.5%. Countries with the highest shares (>20%, darkest shade) include Sweden (35%), Netherlands (34.5%), Finland (29.5%), Luxembourg (27.4%), Belgium (28%), and Denmark (51%). Other countries like France (16.5%), Portugal (19.9%), and Austria (17.5%) are also in the <20% range. Several Eastern and Southern European countries (including Italy, Spain, Poland, and Czechia) have shares below 10% (the lightest shades).

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TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 2d

I just watched the video of the Portland Cop threatening to arrest an ICE agent if they drive their truck through a crowd. Now I see this where the General of the Oregon National Guard says if they get called up they will protect the protesters. People are fed up.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Oregon general’s testimony that National Guard troops ‘will be protecting any protesters’ gains traction online

Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold made the comments to state lawmakers Sept. 30, and they drew notice on social media this week.

www.oregonlive.com

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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 1d

the ongoing amphibious assault in Portland from Antifa

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 1d

This is (1) undermining and mocking the despicable claim that the anti-Trump protests are terroristic AND (2) quietly reclaiming frog symbolism from the alt-right. Our amphibian friends deserve better than the notoriety of perpetual Pepe.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

I love this image.

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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 1d

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 1d

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 1d

rescind his diploma now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "

Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 1d

talking about Trump winning the Nobel Peace prize is like talking about a 12 year old winning the Nobel Chemistry prize because he got a chemistry set and added base to acid with phenolphthalein.

Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 2d

Sure everybody here knows this but..."Nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize close on 31 January of each year, according to the awards website, just days after T***p took office."

Guy was never gonna win anyway...

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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 2d

Does everyone realize that had Trump been in power we would still be polluting the air with leaded gasoline, poisoning our children with water from lead pipes, and giving each other cancer by smoking at restaurants, bars, and public transportation. I feel like a character in a dystopian novel.

Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 2d

Reagan was a conservative but could make an exception if convinced it could help people. Trump claims to be a conservative but will make an exception if convinced it could harm people.

hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 9d

It is true that undocumented immigrants get health care benefits in this sense: under a law signed by Ronald Reagan, hospitals cannot turn away patients who need emergency care but are not insured. They have to treat them.

digby @digby56.bsky.social · 9d

This ostentatious Christian with the big cross around her neck is really saying that people who cannot prove their citizenship in an emergency room should be left on the sidewalk to die. And that's what she believes.

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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 2d

Many of those who claim to have nominated Trump are dishonest sycophants who could never do the actual research to support a nomination but want to tell Trump they nominated him, and know that Trump won't find out they didn't for fifty years.

Colin Boylett @baggiesman.bsky.social @baggiesman.bsky.social · 2d

The Noble Prize Committee gets thousands of suggestions for winner of their Peace Prize. 99% are from Trumputin.

Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 2d

It is called the Prize of Conviction and is awarded at the Hague

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Do they have a prize for blowing up boats in the Caribbean and then bragging that people who made their livelihood fishing there for generations are now afraid to go out on the water?

Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 2d

If Kennedy wants to benefit humankind he could get together with the others around this table, implement the 25th amendment, and get rid of pathological Trump derangement syndrome once and for all.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

Hhs sec is a rich failson who lacks a basic understanding of human anatomy but like most aristocrats is adept at kissing ass bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 2d

anyone who doesn't have Trump Derangement syndrome is not sentient.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

Hhs sec is a rich failson who lacks a basic understanding of human anatomy but like most aristocrats is adept at kissing ass bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 2d

He wants to be a Burger King, but always ends up being Ronald McDonald, the clown.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.