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haunted beeswax 🪷 🇺🇸 🪦 @missbeeswax.bsky.social · Jan 20

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2h

Welcome to Bluesky: Weird Al is on here but you sometimes don’t immediately get told that. That’s most of the important information.

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haunted beeswax 🪷 🇺🇸 🪦 @missbeeswax.bsky.social · 15m

He ran in the Democratic primary

He isn't a member of the Democratic Party

Let him tell you:

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 4h

Honestly, the White House press corps should do the same but they're too scared nobody will come to their dinner party

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

(AP) — Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military further from the seat of its power.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 11h

"Why No One Really Knows How Much Money The Trumps Are Making Right Now"

Oh.

@danalexander21.bsky.social for @forbes.com

Why No One Really Knows How Much Trump Is Making Right Now

A crypto company has taken in more money than almost any other entity in the president’s empire. But thanks to a secretive agreement, it remains unclear who is really receiving the cash.

www.forbes.com

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meta @metatheory.bsky.social · 5h

ANYBODY asking these thieves where the money is coming from?

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 7h

What the fuck are we doing?

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Lalo Alcaraz @laloalcaraz.bsky.social · 6h

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Support the art of award winning visual artist LALO ALCARAZ and get a cool piece of artwork for your wall! Various sizes! Print is not signed, as it is DIRECTLY dropshipped to you for maximum efficien...

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 18h

What do you think when you see this hand sign? Live long and prosper? Well this is a headstone in the Jewish cemetery in Frankfurt maybe 400 years old. It’s the sign of the kohanim priestly blessing, which Leonard Nimoy is said to have remembered from his childhood, and which he adopted for Spock.

A pair of hands both showing the characteristic four fingered V used in Star Trek.

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haunted beeswax 🪷 🇺🇸 🪦 @missbeeswax.bsky.social · 3h

Sweetie

You're so emotional

It's a marathon and a relay, not a solo sprint

Get some real-life allies and start planning your big tax move

I look forward to seeing it happen

Go get 'em, tiger!

haunted beeswax 🪷 🇺🇸 🪦 @missbeeswax.bsky.social · 3h

Buddy, I just pointed out why people saying "why don't blue states withhold their funding?" isn't so easy

You are talking to someone on a fixed income watching Congress fuck around with Medicare, so cool the attack language

Be the change you want to see, stop putting it on others to do the work

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 3h

Pentagon severs relations with free press.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
PPA

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Lalo Alcaraz @laloalcaraz.bsky.social · 6h

Hey Portlandians, it's our first fundraiser for our amazing musical compilation and concert benefit CONTRA-ICE, tomorrow night in Portland, featuring artwork/prints/merch by yours truly, so GO GO GO!

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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 4h

his what now

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 6h

Hakeem Jeffries posted pictures of two Rep. Members posing with “Young Republicans” who were part of a racist text thread (as reported by Politico).

In response, Mike Davis (well-connected in Trump World & on the Hill) called Jeffries a “house slave” for George Soros - proving Jeffries’ point.

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Kat4Obama @kat4obama.bsky.social · 4h

Haunting Halloween echoes from the Bern It All Down undead: "Don't use SCOTUS to guilt me into voting for Hillary/Kamala!"

Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 4h

To be clear, the biggest offender here is SCOTUS. They six GOP justices have flagrantly violated the Constitution and willfully created the very thing which the American Revolution was fought to prevent; they should be impeached and disgraced, at the very least.

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haunted beeswax 🪷 🇺🇸 🪦 @missbeeswax.bsky.social · 3h

Buddy, you start

Lead us to that promised land

Show us how it's done

haunted beeswax 🪷 🇺🇸 🪦 @missbeeswax.bsky.social · 3h

The money is paid by individual citizens from payroll deductions

You withhold *your* taxes from the IRS and let us know how that goes

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 6h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 4h

wat

Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 5h

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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haunted beeswax 🪷 🇺🇸 🪦 @missbeeswax.bsky.social · 3h

They SHOULD be shunned. They aren't

There were women IN THE CHAT. One of them is MARRIED to the VT state senator

Reflexively excusing Republican women for their own actions is a continuing problem

Example: trying to make Melania Trump and Usha Vance into sympathetic "hostages" who need rescuing

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Jeremy @jabooby.bsky.social · 6h

Well, 38-year-old white Republican men are kids, but 15-year-old Black teenage boys are men. It's the American way.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 6h

JD Vance (41) defending hate speech from 40 year olds by saying "kids will be kids" is some weapons-grade telling-on-yourself

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 7h

Also a reminder these weren’t “Kids”! Some of these “Young Republicans,” which includes ages up to 40, were elected officials or government appointees.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 7h

Also a reminder these weren’t “Kids”! Some of these “Young Republicans,” which includes ages up to 40, were elected officials or government appointees.

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haunted beeswax 🪷 🇺🇸 🪦 @missbeeswax.bsky.social · 4h

Did you shut out the murder of Heather Heyer? The Charlottesville white riot?

The backlash to BLM? The pro-Nazi t-shirts at J6?

There are loads of examples all around us

Neo-Nazi Who Rammed His Car Into Charlottesville Protesters Gets Life : NPR share.google/sBOLO3iRWmUn...

Neo-Nazi Who Killed Charlottesville Protester Is Sentenced To Life In Prison

James Fields rammed his car into a crowd of anti-racist protesters in 2017, killing Heather Heyer and injuring many others. He pleaded guilty to 29 federal hate crimes, avoiding the death penalty.

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haunted beeswax 🪷 🇺🇸 🪦 @missbeeswax.bsky.social · 4h

You had to have the entire media apparatus join together to declare that THIS particular affair or funny yelling was beyond the pale, though

There were lots of affairs that just got to slide, and lots of "quirky ways of speaking"

We haven't had a media pile-on like that since...Joe Biden got older

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Professor Bigfoot @professorbigfoot.bsky.social · 13h

We don’t have to go to a country thousands of miles away to understand these people.

They are CONFEDERATES. They are the white people who believe the South was right; that the Civil Rights Acts were illegitimate; that there should be a rigid social hierarchy with THEM at its top.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14h

/3 But a huge plurality, at least, of the modern GOP is of the opinion that noticing bigoted trash is more un-American and destructive than BEING bigoted trash: that dehumanizing fellow Americans based on immutable characteristics is morally superior to criticizing anyone for doing that.

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