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Egalitarian. Nonpartisan. Nonconformist. Dreamer of a More Perfect Union. Only Speak Truth. Justice is North™️⚖💖 Secure By Design. Refugee escaped Twitter. No DMs.

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M @msderohanes.bsky.social · Mar 8

Clearly, he cheated & used illegal hit on her back, instead of fighting fair.

Unfair, she can't stand it.
#InternationalWomensDay

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · Mar 8

celebrate #InternationalWomensDay by fighting like a girl

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M @msderohanes.bsky.social · 24m

Our Country is in deep trouble if US Senators feel the need to hold the Senate floor to say "The President is not a king and the Constitution is not a suggestion."

www.youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...

Merkley Holds Senate Floor to Protest Trump’s Threats to Democracy

YouTube video by Senator Jeff Merkley

www.youtube.com

M @msderohanes.bsky.social · 3h

It's been exactly the same here, but Trump is doing it regardless.

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M @msderohanes.bsky.social · 3h

Would that be a coup? 😳

M @msderohanes.bsky.social · 3h

This would also be consistent with the Constitution.

The President is prohibited from receiving ANY money from the Federal Government or the States other than the salary determined on the day he is sworn-in.

constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay...

ArtII.S1.C7.1 Emoluments Clause and Presidential Compensation

Article II, Section 1, Clause 7 of The United States Constitution:

The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.

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M @msderohanes.bsky.social · 3h

Maybe he figures, if we're giving Argentina money for being our Treasury Secretary's ideological friends, why not give money to Trump himself?

M @msderohanes.bsky.social · 4h

This is why we need reforms & laws to make sure any President's former criminal defense lawyers are automatically disqualified for appointments at any DOJ positions.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22h

It looks even worse by video 😢

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M @msderohanes.bsky.social · 22h

The White House is a National Monument, not just a Govt office building.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23h

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

www.wsj.com

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M @msderohanes.bsky.social · 23h

"deportation officers"

Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 1d

Nazigate

Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: new racist Republican groupchat has been leaked to Politico featuring texts from Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel.

Ingrassia’s texts include vile pro-Nazi & racist messages targeting Black people, Chinese people, and Indian people.

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 1d

In June we warned Ingrassia was unfit to lead the Office of Special Counsel, the agency responsible for protecting whistleblowers and investigating discrimination…

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.

Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts

Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

www.politico.com

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M @msderohanes.bsky.social · 1d

Release the Files!

M @msderohanes.bsky.social · 1d

Bc we can never be numb to the damage being visited on our Country and its institutions.

M @msderohanes.bsky.social · 1d

How do the crypto bros justify bragging about crypto security when entire crypto exchanges could disappear into thin air so easily without recourse?

If AWS didn't recover, all the crypto "assets" stored in Coinbase would be gone, right?

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DESIGN THINKING! Comic @designthinking.lol · 1d

With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.

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M @msderohanes.bsky.social · 1d

Oh OK, I was worried that her work would be disrupted.

M @msderohanes.bsky.social · 1d

It breaks my heart just to look at that picture. 😔💔

Screenshot of Google's definition of "Allegory," it reads:

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al·le·go·ry
/ˈaləˌɡôrē/

noun

a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one."

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M @msderohanes.bsky.social · 1d

The East Wing is where the First Lady's offices are.

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M @msderohanes.bsky.social · 1d

How can they see fit to conduct live fire exercises over millions of Americans' heads?

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d

Conducting a live fire exercise over a civilian highway is fucking stupid.

It doesn’t really matter if I-5 fell within the minimum acceptable risk threshold for the exercise. Those standards are designed for controlled environments, not civilian highways.

M @msderohanes.bsky.social · 2d

It's been irritating to learn that opinion columnists who kept failing to make accurate analysis haven't apologized for getting it wrong and are still doing similarly erroneous analysis years later.

Lack of accountability lowers the quality of the opinion content a newspaper produces.

M @msderohanes.bsky.social · 2d

Abysmal. Press freedoms are much more eroded than we thought.

M @msderohanes.bsky.social · 2d

To be more human is to be more powerful than the AI machines and their effects.

M @msderohanes.bsky.social · 2d

It is disturbing. For those of us old enough to remember the sheer storm of media criticism after "peal clutching" & "basket of deplorables" to see complete silence on this.

This situation would say it all about the "news" media.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

When someone uses this emoji 🤣 they are more mad than they have ever been in their entire life

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M @msderohanes.bsky.social · 2d

If it leads to the ending the term, it would automatically be the replacement, I think.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 2d

NYT forgot to mention that the White House account is the second most blocked account on Bluesky.

NYT: White House and Government Agencies Join Bluesky, Then Attack Democrats

The Health and Human Services and Homeland Security Departments were among the agencies posting messages that blamed Democrats for the federal shutdown.

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