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Kala 🦕 @kalasaurus.bsky.social · 53m

"Remember the time Trump posted an AI video calling himself a king and then dumping diarrhea all over America?"

"Remember the time Trump did this to the White House?"

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Kala 🦕 @kalasaurus.bsky.social · 57m

"Cis" is a slur because Elon Musk thinks it's offensive, but this kind of content gets a pass on Twitter.
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Kala 🦕 @kalasaurus.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder of why I deleted my XTwitter account and never looked back.

Thread on Elon Musk's XTwitter:

Bad Medical Takes @BadMedicalT....
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Dan Raudenbusch @Raudenbusch1
This seems like an attempt to express racial preference in a PC manner, but it leaves out the most important issues; Biracial people are functionally genetic hybrids and can take neither blood or organs from either race that composes them, they also have more inherent defects.
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Victorian era "race science" 🥴
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Okay and? Racemixers should be shut.
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Kala 🦕 @kalasaurus.bsky.social · 53m

"Remember the time Trump posted an AI video calling himself a king and then dumping diarrhea all over America?"

"Remember the time Trump did this to the White House?"

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Kala 🦕 @kalasaurus.bsky.social · 57m

"Cis" is a slur because Elon Musk thinks it's offensive, but this kind of content gets a pass on Twitter.
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Kala 🦕 @kalasaurus.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder of why I deleted my XTwitter account and never looked back.

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Kala 🦕 @kalasaurus.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you 🍕

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Kala 🦕 @kalasaurus.bsky.social · 1d

My ADHD makes it easier for me to express myself through writing than speech. Writing allows me to organize my jumbled thoughts into a cohesive statement.

I don't intend to sound like an "authority" or condescending in my writing, even if it sounds that way.

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Kala 🦕 @kalasaurus.bsky.social · 1h

It's Trump's unapologetic extravagance and personal enrichment while the country struggles from his destructive economic policies.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 5h

Soybean farmers are most concerned about the President getting his ballroom. This is just common sense.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

Threads post from julieceye

At my local Home Depot today in Evanston, IL. They abducted 5 people in my immediate area.

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In Essence @blueskykate101.bsky.social · 8h

This is a blatant attempt to appeal to ageism and dissuade younger people from participating. Imply that the protests are by groups they least want to be like (seniors, middle aged women). Don’t take the bait.

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Kala 🦕 @kalasaurus.bsky.social · 5h

When people mock all those wine moms at the No Kings protests and it's casual misogyny.
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Kala 🦕 @kalasaurus.bsky.social · 3d

When you see a wine mommy up close.

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Kala 🦕 @kalasaurus.bsky.social · 1h

Trump said it on Truth Social, because this is how we do international diplomacy now, and he's never lied when it's convenient.

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 4h

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Kala 🦕 @kalasaurus.bsky.social · 1h

Trump said it on Truth Social, because this is how we do international diplomacy now, and he's never lied when it's convenient.

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Kala 🦕 @kalasaurus.bsky.social · 1d

Look at this textbook example amygdala-bait (lizard brain) language. It sounds like they're having a stroke listing these nonsensical propaganda trope enemies of America.

This is how fascism makes cruelty feel "good" bc dominance = safety, & ignorance feel "safe" bc awareness =/= sense of identity.

The No Kings protest was really the Hate America protest. The unifying message of the LGBTQIA+ furries, mentally deranged grifters, geriatrics, NEA public school teachers, Antifa vandals, BLM race pimps, Communists, childless cat ladies, illegal aliens and Democrats was HATE AMERICA.

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Kala 🦕 @kalasaurus.bsky.social · 3d

I really want to clarify that my goal isn't to "dunk on the leftists" w/ this point. I wasn't trying to look down on anyone & score rhetorical points.

That's the opposite of what I wanted to do: Emphasize the importance of solidarity when we need it most, & not miss the forest for the trees.

Kala 🦕 @kalasaurus.bsky.social · 4d

I sometimes see people dismissing the No Kings protests as performative.

Protesting *is* inherently performative. It's unity in the face of injustice, to inspire more people to notice and join. That leads to change.

It *is* brave to protest under a government that attacks dissenting speech.

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Kala 🦕 @kalasaurus.bsky.social · 4h

We need to confront our country's past and present injustices to ever get out of this. This was always possible.

Fascists thrive on denial and weaponize ignorance. The only way we move forward, and stop repeating history, is to face that hard truth.
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Kala 🦕 @kalasaurus.bsky.social · 1d

Hitler admired the United States' racial hierarchy and Jim Crow laws, a blueprint for his vision of Nazi Germany.

After WW2, Germany confronted its history of racism and brutality. America, meanwhile, clung to the myth of "exceptionalism" to deny those roots that always existed.

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

genuinely why do so many americans have a nazi phase or become genuine nazis. on a fundemental level you’d think that we’d have as much shared hatred for nazism as we do for the british

Kala 🦕 @kalasaurus.bsky.social · 4h

"How did we get here?"

"This isn't our country."

American exceptionalism includes the belief that our country was immune to what we see when other countries fall to authoritarianism. That it could never happen to us. I believed it too.
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Kala 🦕 @kalasaurus.bsky.social · 1d

Exceptionalism is taught from the beginning, it's at the core of our country's identity. Anyone who *does* try to correct that truth gets shunned & silenced, as the ongoing attacks on education turn historical fact into "anti-American ideology."

I keep trying, but I hate the Cassandra effect.

Your friendly neighborhood Eli @elithek.bsky.social · 1d

This is why I don't have any real hope for the future of the U.S. There are not enough Americans (and hardly any in positions of power and influence) willing to do the hard, ugly work of admitting, confronting, and working to change the terrible things we've done.

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Kala 🦕 @kalasaurus.bsky.social · 5h

When people mock all those wine moms at the No Kings protests and it's casual misogyny.
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Kala 🦕 @kalasaurus.bsky.social · 3d

When you see a wine mommy up close.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11h

America has a dictator who loots the government for his private gain, locks up his opposition and launches dubious military strikes without any oversight.

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Kala 🦕 @kalasaurus.bsky.social · 5h

Anti-American often means saying anything that contradicts the mythology of exceptionalism, even (or especially) when backed by evidence and historical fact.

If it sounds Orwellian it's because it is.

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Kala 🦕 @kalasaurus.bsky.social · 21h

If the Nazi tattoo was such a stupid mistake he would have gotten the thing covered or removed. It also wasn't a stupid mistake like a cartoon character tattoo, it was a fucking Nazi tattoo. You don't keep that unless you want it.

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 1d

This is very true and I’d go further to say thankfully it’s found out now so another democratic candidate can build visibility. The election is over a year away. It is incredibly stupid to be like “actually that guy should stay in this race” when you’ve got 13 months left in a senatorial race

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time.

All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."

It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

it's dizzying to me that stories like this -- a corrupt grift built on democracy-wrecking lies that culminated in a coup attempt -- barely breakthrough anymore. they're just daily background noise now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

COLLINS: The NYT is reporting your legal team is seeking $230 million from your own DOJ now in response to the investigations into you. Is that something you want?

TRUMP: It could be, yeah. I don't even talk to them about it. All I know is they would owe me a lot of money. They rigged the election.

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Kala 🦕 @kalasaurus.bsky.social · 11h

I'm right there with you.

He could have gotten it removed. You don't keep a Nazi tattoo unless you want it.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Raskin with Jeffries: "It's an alarming situation where now we have many of these January 6 defendants who have been picked up on other defenses. The Department of Justice is not zealously prosecuting them for other crimes they have committed ... it's a very dangerous situation."

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