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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 4h

I dont really like blocking, but I'll make an exception.

Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 7h

If we get out of this alive, we need a constitutional convention, and we have to revisit the toothless tiger that is impeachment, the electoral college, and the pardon power.

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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 7h

You might be right.

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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 8h

Or, they could just not play it.

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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 13h

Is she wrong, though? No one will ask about it again, and it will be the end of the story. When I use music on my social media posts, I'm intentional about not using sections that contain slurs. They either do it deliberately or can't be bothered. It's gross.

Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 14h

They're just murdering people.

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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 14h

Excellent question. I have a pretty high stress job, yet I manage to check the news once or twice a day. He's either completely disconnected from current events or an inveterate liar. Either is disqualifying.

Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 1d

They can only force you (legally) if they have a warrant for your phone that specifically includes language regarding the use of biometrics.

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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 1d

www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/p...

ICE arrests police officer in Chicago suburb and accuses him of being in US illegally | CNN Politics

The Department of Homeland Security says the officer, Radule Bojovic, overstayed a tourist visa that expired in 2015.

www.cnn.com

Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 1d

I stopped watching Grey's Anatomy around 2011. How is it still going on?

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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 1d

Just thinking about how I played D'Angelo's "Brown Sugar" album out when I was in college. If it had been a tape instead of a CD, it would have popped. What an amazing talent. Gone way too soon.

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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds as if he doesn't like cold-blooded murder.

Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 1d

These are people who want you to believe they care about crime.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

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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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 2d

I recently spoke to admissions personnel for a private college. They lamented the large gap between male and female admissions and how they would have to lower standards to admit more young men. They also acknowledged how this gender gap created a poor social experience for the female students.

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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. Dateline was one of my last guilty pleasures. Oh, well.

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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 2d

That this is a headline in the United States of America in 2025 is just so sad and sickening.

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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 2d

Not messages he sent, but messages "attributed" to him. He can't even take full responsibility. And I'm sure the lesson he learned is not to trust the group chat and put your racist thoughts in writing.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 3d

JD Vance can dismiss the Young Republicans as a college group chat.

But let's be clear: the group chat includes a State Senator, a Trump Admin official, and multiple Republican staffers — and some of the worst comments came from folks associated with Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Lawler.

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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 3d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry

www.nytimes.com

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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 3d

I was behind Joe Biden from Day 1 of the 2020 election cycle. When people were asking who was next in 2024, J.B. Pritzker was the name on my lips. You heard it here. White men with a bit of money who can talk shit to Republicans are it.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 3d

He told you he wasn't getting into heaven.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 3d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 3d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 3d

I don't see a single lie in any of these posts.

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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 3d

I'm going to work every day to make involuntary campaign contributions to some dude in Argentina and prop up Trump's billionaire friends. Great.

Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 3d

Portland is putting on a clinic in nonviolent protest. I hope everyone follows their lead this weekend. They want violence and arrests. Make them look silly. Expose their lies about who we are. Support your fellow citizens and don't be provoked. #nokings

Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 3d

They claim the "American people" want this but do everything possible to silence the voices of Americans speaking up against it, including violence and prosecttion threats. Do most people want to see their neighbors dragged from their homes or snatched off the street in school pick-up lines?