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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 39m

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 1h

The fact that Platner is former Blackwater mercenary should be disqualifying for ANY Democrat, and I don't understand why the hell he has so much support.

He's literally going to be the next "Fetterman", who we warned everyone about, but again, NO ONE IS LISTENING TO US.

You dismiss us. Why?

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 1h

It should though.

And the fact that all the same people that warned everyone about Fetterman are warning you about this guy should also carry some weight.

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 1h

The fact that he even went on Chris "Trump is to the Left of Hillary" Hayse' podcast is a red flag.

The dude is Fetterman all over again. He admires Josh Hawley. He worked for Blackwater.

HOW MANY RED FLAGS DO YOU NEED?

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 1h

Graham Platner is not the "real deal".

He worked for Blackwater. He admires Josh Hawley. He's Fetterman all over again.

Stop being ageist. And start listening to the same people that warned everyone about Fetterman that are all warning you abut this guy. Stop being so damn shallow & gullible.

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 1h

You guys shriek "AIPAC" the way the Right shrieks "SOROS" and you think it's not anti-Semitism.

They are one PAC out of many, and hardly the biggest, and you make a ton of assumptions about them that you apparently don't about many other PACs. So color me skeptical of your knowledge & motivations.

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 1h

Yes.

Unsurprisingly, you're not listening.
You're being dismissive.

Exactly like everyone was about Fetterman.

You assholes will never learn.

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 40m

Lord Voldemort, maybe...

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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 3h

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Bernie is a failure, and AOC is a poser!!! @africanprincess7.bsky.social · 42m

Happy for the hostages being released to their families. I will never know the pain of the families who are getting the bodies of their loved ones, but I pray this brings closure. I continue to pray for healing and end to the atrocities.

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 45m

I mean... it's literally what he does. It's ALL he does.
He lies, he cheats, he steals, he casts aside anything that doesn't benefit him in the moment. He's a user, a conman, a thief, a fraud.

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 23h

We warned you. We screamed and yelled.
You ignored us all. You weren't suckered.
You chose him and dismissed us.
We were right.
Maybe listen to us in the future.

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Kraig Peck @kraigpeck.bsky.social · 11h

If ICE or Border Patrol comes to your home or business or place of work or school: Do not admit them unless the warrant is for your specific address and is signed by a judge--not by anyone except a judge.

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Vanity Fair @vanityfair.com · 1h

When 'New York Times' financial reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin set out to write about the economic climate that led to the Great Depression, he found a cast of characters that seemed, depending on your point of view, distressingly familiar.

Andrew Ross Sorkin Sees Parallels to 1929 Everywhere He Looks

When the New York Times financial reporter set out to write about the economic climate that led to the Great Depression, he found a cast of characters that seemed, depending on your point of view, dis...

www.vanityfair.com

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 11h

This is really stupid.
This is completely clueless.
This is beyond irresponsible and ignorant.

Bari Weiss is a dishonest liar, narcissist, and a huckster.
She is wholly unqualified, she's not a journalist, she's a fraud.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 23h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 1h

Yes.

Unsurprisingly, you're not listening.
You're being dismissive.

Exactly like everyone was about Fetterman.

You assholes will never learn.

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 1h

You guys shriek "AIPAC" the way the Right shrieks "SOROS" and you think it's not anti-Semitism.

They are one PAC out of many, and hardly the biggest, and you make a ton of assumptions about them that you apparently don't about many other PACs. So color me skeptical of your knowledge & motivations.

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Misty Sparkle @mialynneb.bsky.social · 1h

I have so many stories of cop corruption. I've seen that thin blue line in action a few times in my years. They're also somehow more gossipy than teachers, which is saying A LOT.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

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Jason S @jasonswritings.bsky.social · 2h

Exactly. And those two assholes were never ever ever going to let Joe Biden or Kamala Harris have the optics of having success in this situation. They put people's lives in jeopardy for a fucking photo op. I'm glad that the hostages that are alive anyway are back but this was just PR to those two.

THEE Acting Lore @portgreen.bsky.social · 2h

This shit is so fucking repetitive. Same shit in the 90s, “oh let’s just wait for the next administration” I fucking hate this shit. They put people’s lives at risk because of their small dick energy. Disgusting.

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Nefarious Means @nefariousmeans.bsky.social · 1h

So now that there's a ceasefire, will the pro-pallies finally stop harassing Black politicians at events?

(LOL! Of course not. They will actually get worse.)

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 14h

We remain in the dumbest timeline.
open.substack.com/pub/logicall...

America’s Economy Is Not a Reality Show

Trump keeps mistaking policy for spectacle, and this one could cost us trillions.

open.substack.com

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 2h

HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY

TODAY
We celebrate and honor the first people of North America
Their history, culture, and resilience
Trump cannot sweep history away
Honor and Respect

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 11h

The level of kleptocratic corruption in this regime is breathtaking, e.g.:

—Selling off Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae to big banks

—Bribes from ABC & CBS

—TikTok sale to Ellison

—Everything Qatar: the plane gift, the Idaho military base

—Whoever has bribed him by buying his scam meme coins

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1h

In which John Oliver methodically unpacks how thin it is to claim you’re all about “the truth” when you’re only running essays don’t get properly fact-checked — and don’t hold up to even basic reporting scrutiny www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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