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VJM4democracy @vjm4democracy.bsky.social · 3h

This is hilarious!

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 4h

For all US States dreaming of escaping the Trump chaos and wanting to join Canada.

Your cases have been reviewed, and here is the verdict, state by state.

Your move! (no pun intended . . maybe)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv-D...

50 States, 1 Verdict.

YouTube video by Tod Maffin

www.youtube.com

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VJM4democracy @vjm4democracy.bsky.social · 3h

I hope we are both wrong.

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VJM4democracy @vjm4democracy.bsky.social · 3h

"We need the truth about panics: that they are a form of deliberate politics based upon scripted lies. And we need this truth now."

LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 4h

Professional panickers

The Truth about Panics

One is being generated right now

snyder.substack.com

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VJM4democracy @vjm4democracy.bsky.social · 3h

#Canada #Cdnpoli #neverpoilievre

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Full of Contempt @m-theory3.bsky.social · 1d

This is the nation that we are now. This nation is unbelievably sick.

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VJM4democracy @vjm4democracy.bsky.social · 4h

"2,900 pages of chats, shared among a dozen millennial and Gen Z Republicans between early January and mid-August...the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely"

The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 6h

I was a Young Republican for a brief time in the 1980s (for real). I promise you they talked like this back then. They didn’t know I was Jewish, so the Holocaust jokes flowed freely. It all helped radicalize me against the right.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

“Epithets like “f----t,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined”

If you ever had any doubt that the youth wing of the GOP is fully radicalized and proudly racist these days:

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 19h

These strikes are illegal for about 7 reasons:
1. Not self-defense
2. No (or any) Congressional authorization
3. No evidence of criminal wrongdoing
4. Occurred in int'l waters
5. No open state of hostilities
6. Criminal groups are not terrorists legally
7. No id on people killed or group targeted

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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VJM4democracy @vjm4democracy.bsky.social · 4h

"Solar and batteries can be installed much faster than natural gas and nuclear power plants. Solar and batteries have also become cheaper, while the cost of building gas power plants has soared."

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

Renewable Energy Is Booming Despite Trump’s Efforts to Slow It

www.nytimes.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21h

⚠️ Warning: these back-to-back scenes are hard to watch unless you’ve got a depraved heart.

These are thugs, not officers with any real training. We keep seeing it again and again, and at this point, it’s clearly the op.

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VJM4democracy @vjm4democracy.bsky.social · 19h

They can take your ID and say it "isn't real" just becuse they don't like what you post or how you vote.

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ray 鄺羡華 @raykwong.bsky.social · 19h

Woohoo! It's #TacoTuesday! 🌮

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VJM4democracy @vjm4democracy.bsky.social · 1d

#Cdnpoli #CanadaPost #LabourRelations

VJM4democracy @vjm4democracy.bsky.social · 1d

I love this for Bezos. And the Executive Editorial team.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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VJM4democracy @vjm4democracy.bsky.social · 1d

Agree with all that.

But didn't we all sing "Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world. Red and yellow Black and White they are precious in his sight...."?

VJM4democracy @vjm4democracy.bsky.social · 1d

What happened? Where did everything go so wrong?

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Reformed Reformer and Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🏳️‍🌈 @reformedreformer.bsky.social · 1d

Reason 350 million plus one why Canadians are beyond ecstatic that we aren’t American.

I can’t imagine having this family at the head of my country, for literally my whole life.

Just another tiny mushroom trying spread his spores.

Maca Iglesias🇺🇸Thank You, President Biden🇺🇸 @rotterdamvvg.bsky.social · 2d

Please correct me if my memory is not accurate.

Didn't the MAGA Republicans spend the entire Biden presidency trying to impeach him based on allegations that he abused his office for his family's financial gain?

And why is it now ok for a president’s son to get a company board job?

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VJM4democracy @vjm4democracy.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so sorry.
Sending healing thoughts.

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VJM4democracy @vjm4democracy.bsky.social · 1d

Second to women.
Others to come.

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 1d

Betcha didn’t even know that the Trump admin was protecting the church and child abuse — it’s why you should be reading me on substack —

It’s now official:: Washington state agrees not to require clergy to report child abuse disclosed in confession 👇🏼 FUCK!!!!

Trump Protects Clergy Confessions, Crucifies the Children Confessing.

Trump defends the church’s right to hide child rape, guts the office fighting human trafficking, and buries Epstein ties—abandoning children and survivors at every level of power.

substack.com

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 1d

A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that is designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the justices knocked out another pillar of the 60-year-old law.

U.S. Supreme Court Takes Up Republican Attack on Voting Rights

A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that's designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week.

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VJM4democracy @vjm4democracy.bsky.social · 2d

@thejacksonite.

VJM4democracy @vjm4democracy.bsky.social · 2d

Block this troll.

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VJM4democracy @vjm4democracy.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, lucky kids!

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