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Dizzy

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So blue I'm basically indigo now 🔵 DMs may be shared publicly for group ridicule, send at your own risk Views are sadly my own, while I'm convinced they should be everyone's If you're reading this you already know too much about me Taken 💙 Gamer Any/All

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Dizzy @barondizzaster.bsky.social · 19d

I am calling on everyone in this moment to re-raise the stakes, and respond to these firings with a general strike. If they don't work none of us work

[The Great War & Modern Memory] @ps9714.bsky.social · 19d

"Since the Democrats have no control over any branch of government, this is less about winning than it is determining how they want to lose."

Opinion | How Trump just upped the stakes of a government shutdown

The prospect of mass firings across the federal government makes the Democrats' dilemma even more acute.

www.msnbc.com

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Dizzy @barondizzaster.bsky.social · 4h

Hey, maybe we should think about a general strike? I would love to hear some louder voices with bigger platforms start at least asking the question. It's the only way I can think of to stop them profiting from our suffering

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 4h

Trump and Speaker Johnson think that destroying our health care and jacking up the cost of groceries is about hurting Democrats.

It’s not. It’s about hurting and punishing the American people.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4h

AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals

You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing

If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 5h

Heard their original ringleader was a guy named George Washington.....

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Dizzy @barondizzaster.bsky.social · 4h

Idk, can you be Nazi adjacent when you are yourself a nazi? Like if there are 3 Nazis standing in a row, and the middle one is a couch fucker, is he part of a group of Nazis or is he "Nazi adjacent"?

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8h

On the Charlie Kirk show, Vought said federal firings could hit “north of 10,000” during the shutdown.

Companies lay people off to survive. This is different. He sounded like he’s enjoying the chance to fast-track his agenda. This isn’t about saving money, it’s about sabotaging the government.

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b1newtrail.bsky.social @b1newtrail.bsky.social · 12h

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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 5h

Republicans aren’t even pretending to govern…
PROTECT OUR HEALTHCARE. NEGOTIATE WITH DEMOCRATS.
@whipkclark.bsky.social
youtu.be/MnudTshs5l8

BEHIND the SCENES of the GOV SHUTDOWN!

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl

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Diane @dianesf.bsky.social · 16h

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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 9h

As a Supreme Court gets ready to strip the rest of the protections in the Voting Rights Act… California needs to set the tone for the resistance.
YES on prop 50.
youtube.com/shorts/PwCAq...

FIGHT back CALIFORNIA

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl

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Dizzy @barondizzaster.bsky.social · 1d

If they open that door we better take it off the hinges and club them over the head with it after mid terms. "Sorry Congress just passed a law that red hats are illegal and homophobia and racism are punishable by death, in a vote passed along party lines"

Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 1d

Looks like the Republicans are testing the waters regarding nuking the filibuster.

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Dizzy @barondizzaster.bsky.social · 1d

K. Either way, communism or capitalism, neither will work until we've fixed human nature to stop wanting to take advantage of others for our own benefit. Socialism is a nice middle ground where you can keep the leaders accountable and give all the people what they need

Dizzy @barondizzaster.bsky.social · 1d

Ive never heard of him before but he seems to be conflating an economic system with a political system. Democracy doesn't require capitalism, and authoritarianism doesn't require communism. Democratic socialism is, in my opinion, the ideal.

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Dizzy @barondizzaster.bsky.social · 1d

I imagine they won't do anything until unnamed masked individuals with Amazon purchased badges and ill fitting tac gear start throwing conservative representatives in unmarked cars and disappearing them. They don't care about suffering until it impacts them after all

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d

ICE targeted an apartment building near my home. Masked agents in unmarked cars. I've said this before. Democratic Governors & Mayors need to order their local police depts to arrest any & all unidentified & masked alleged ICE agents.

This anonymous denial of due process is deadly.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"Miller slipped up because even he knows it is an outrageous thing for Trump to claim absolute, unreviewable power to send active-duty military troops into American cities based only on his delusions."

Stephen Miller's radically bogus idea of "plenary authority"

This is not how the Constitution works.

www.publicnotice.co

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 1d

Right-wingers who think Classical Greek Literature is nothing but tradwife bullshit and alpha-male confirmation have obviously never read Classical Greek Literature.

I would love to sit a classroom of groyper incels down and introduce them to Tiresias... or Medea... or Sappho... or Aristophanes.

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Dizzy @barondizzaster.bsky.social · 1d

I've been saying we need a Lysistrata for years and years

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Young Republicans joke about rape and gas chambers, use slurs, and talk about how much they love Hitler.

This isn't an exaggeration. These are the current and future leaders of the Republican Party, all who have 10x the funding of Dem youth orgs.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 1d

If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx.

The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.

And that’s why we’re fighting back.