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Leah @lkemp.bsky.social · 50m

Ok 😊

I only ask cause I grew up there for a fair chunk of my life. All over. Just curious lol

Leah @lkemp.bsky.social · 52m

@alphab0t.bsky.social where at in MN?

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 2h

"It is ridiculous that antifa has become this boogeyman. If they're going to tell us they are going to find the founder of Antifa, isn't the founder of Antifa...Winston Churchill? FDR? Didn't they lead a war against fascism? Wasn't that anti-fascism?" - me
zeteo.com/p/mehdi-conn...

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 18h

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 4h

Governor Newsom's press office for the win.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3h

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

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Leah @lkemp.bsky.social · 3h

Um-some of these "kids" were as old as 40. So. This is not a "let boys be boys" things, as STUPID as that statement is on its own.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

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Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 1d

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Leah @lkemp.bsky.social · 3h

Ok, considering im going as Corpse Bride for Halloween, I can verify there may actually be blue hair at a No Kings protest on Saturday lol

Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 9h

Blue hair anthropomorphic experiment

Leah @lkemp.bsky.social · 3h

Not just that, but he seems to be a serial stalker and that crazy ex who threatens anyone you try to date after.

Sounds like a peach.

Johnson surrounds himself with similar "good colleagues" bc he enjoys associating with men who think women are property.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 6h

Eric Trump, in three different right-wing media interviews over the past week, accused Jack Smith of "planting" evidence obtained in the Aug. 2023 Mar-a-Lago raid.

Problem: Smith didn't become special counsel until three months after that search. www.mediamatters.org/eric-trump/e...

Eric Trump attacks Jack Smith for “planting” evidence during Mar-a-Lago search that predated Smith’s service as special counsel

www.mediamatters.org

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Jamie Delaney L. 🏳️‍⚧️ @ljamied.bsky.social · 1d

#IAmANTIFAscist

Antifa isn’t an organization. It’s a movement of true American patriots standing up against fascism, which is characterized by authoritarianism, nationalism (including racial nationalism and religious nationalism), hierarchy, elitism, and militarism.

Poster art that reads, “Antifa means antifascist” across the top. There is an image of Wonder Woman towering over. She’s holding her shield on her left and pointing her sword down toward the viewer. She’s wearing her armor and her golden lasso hangs coiled on her right hip. Her left leg is forward. The bottom of the poster reads, “Proudly fighting fascism since 1941”. There is also a “#IAmANTIFAscist”

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 7h

The media are lying to you again

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Leah @lkemp.bsky.social · 6h

Ok I promise I'm not crazy, lol, but....
Peace in the Middle East and *checks revelations* a plague of frogs?
Trump actually could be the antichrist 🤷‍♀️

Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 6h

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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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 15h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Leah @lkemp.bsky.social · 7h

It's a tough one. And how much of it is manufactured? Look at what social media has become vs what we were told it would be. How much of that was just ...false?

We were able to take so much at face value that we can't anymore.

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Leah @lkemp.bsky.social · 7h

I have to think our being blissfully unaware of everything happening all the time, in real time, was probably better for our mental health. Better for the world...? I don't know. Does knowing everything is awful help everything be less awful? Is the good we find worth it?
I wish I had the answers.