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Joseph Galbo @josephgalbo.bsky.social · 9m

If you are a decent person who tries hard keep being that.

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Evelyn "Cheeky Ginger" @cheekyginger.bsky.social · Mar 31

If America dies, her epitaph will read, "They wanted whiteness more than they wanted a country."

No wonder so many of you still socialize with your GOP families and friends: you think they sort of have a point.

You tell Black people to set race aside while clinging desperately to it yourselves.

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 16m

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Large Professor at 214 Mulberry

YouTube video by Aimé Leon Dore

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Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · 30m

Demagogic president seizes money to pay standing army, arrogating to himself legislative power, while his cronies keep Congress out of session is honestly more or less exactly how the Founders thought this would end

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👻 Eastern European hard candy 👻 @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social · 23m

Just listen to the opening track. It's a goddamn pop masterpiece youtu.be/PZ3BOfapvU4?...

Papas Fritas - Hey, Hey You Say

YouTube video by mintyfreshrecords

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👻 Eastern European hard candy 👻 @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social · 25m

If stealth is what you want, then stealth is what you're gonna get

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 1h

Exactly.

himham @himham.bsky.social · 6h

Jumping up to say "impeachment is impossible" is completely missing the point of the conversation.

One, it's not true. You are talking out of your ass.

Two, if it's true, then you should be arguing for revolution.

There's no other internally consistent argument to be made.

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 48m

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 10h

"The president is illegitimate and should be removed from office" is the minimum pitch for anyone nominally opposing him

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 51m

wait what

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1h

The Trump admin is apparently finalizing plans for two days of events under the pretext of the 250th anniversary of the Marines. Sources close to MTN describe the closure as part of a “vanity parade” that may involve Navy warships shooting live missiles into Camp Pendleton as a “show of force.”

Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 1h

Afaict even Brooks himself disingenuously believes he is a useful idiot and not an avid collaborator

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 2h

Our neighborhood is beautiful

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 19h

"Good news, everyone. We're going to try to stop it from getting you to kill yourself. Don't ask how. Also, you can fuck it. Don't ask why."

And the US is spending more on *that* than consumer spending. Every company relentlessly trying to cram *that* into their product. The government included.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 8h

The funniest part of all the billionaires are building bunker stories is the part where they’re sure the class hierarchy will survive the apocalypse.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

www.bbc.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7h

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 9h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Trans Journalists Association @transjournalists.org · 7h

What journalists can learn from how we covered the attack on trans rights in Trump's first 100 days.

Big takeway: based on analysis of a representative sample of articles, 70% of news stories about anti-trans executive orders didn’t quote a single trans person.

bit.ly/TJA_visible

How journalists covered Trump's first 100 days

Trans perspectives were rarely present in articles about the consequences federal actions would have on their lives, according to an analysis conducted by Berkeley Media Studies Group in partnership w...

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 8h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 10h

America is a place where a black man can go to federal prison for dog fighting and a white man can get elected President with 34 felonies.

You got nothing for this, so keep it.

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lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 1d

it’s that time of year again 🍂🍃

four simplistic drawings of a fluffy white dog rolling around in red, yellow, and orange leaves while exclaiming “leaf, leaf”

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 22h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 12h

Marriage is between one uncomfortably warm and one uncomfortably cold.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 12h

They keep telling us who they are and all we get from the media is soft euphemism

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 12h

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 12h

One of the biggest issues in democratic politics is how the consultants everyone hires sees voters as just a cash machine and they pummel them with messages asking for money instead of activating them for politics. It rightfully makes people extremely cynical.

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