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birdandmax.bsky.social @birdandmax.bsky.social · 5d

@markwarner.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov
Please don't give in to MAGA blackmail. Even if you capitulate, they'll RIF anyway.
VA11, federal employee.

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birdandmax.bsky.social @birdandmax.bsky.social · 23d

I hope the makers of Tylenol sue these fools into screaming oblivion.

birdandmax.bsky.social @birdandmax.bsky.social · Sep 15

Dear Leader has claimed that 300 million Americans died from drugs last year. The population of the U.S. is estimated at about 340 million in 2024. I expect housing, gas, grocery etc prices to be much lower due to vastly decreased demand. With only 40 million left, we'll all be rich!

birdandmax.bsky.social @birdandmax.bsky.social · Jul 13

Israel is deliberately luring starving people with food in order to slaughter them. This is genocide in action.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Jul 3

It appears that the United States is going to celebrate its Semiquincentennial Anniversary by burning itself to the ground and then salting the earth. Glory!

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birdandmax.bsky.social @birdandmax.bsky.social · Jul 3

What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow? Freedom? Democracy? Both are either dead or dying in this country. So what are we celebrating?

birdandmax.bsky.social @birdandmax.bsky.social · Jun 15

Fairfax, VA
Springfield, VA

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birdandmax.bsky.social @birdandmax.bsky.social · May 7

They've been written about for years. One example from 2018.
www.npr.org/2018/06/22/6...

In The Event Of Attack, Here's How The Government Plans 'To Save Itself'

In Raven Rock, Garrett Graff describes the bunkers designed to protect government leaders and the roles for various agencies in the event of catastrophe. Originally broadcast June 21, 2018.

www.npr.org

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birdandmax.bsky.social @birdandmax.bsky.social · Apr 18

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · Apr 17

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God @god.bsky.social · Apr 17

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Apr 15

DOGE has reportedly gained access to sensitive NLRB data — including info on union activity, workplace complaints, and names of organizers.

Coincidentally, the NLRB has multiple lawsuits against SpaceX and Tesla.

The conflicts of interest just keep getting more blatant.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · Apr 9

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?

Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.

Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Graphic: As many as 69 million American women lack access to valid birth certificates

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birdandmax.bsky.social @birdandmax.bsky.social · Apr 5

The penguins are massing their forces! They have assembled a large number of mackerel missiles which they will lob at their enemies! They will swim up the Potomac and crap all over the south lawn and the rose garden!

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birdandmax.bsky.social @birdandmax.bsky.social · Apr 2

RFKjr fired 40% of the staff that administers Meals On Wheels. The whole program is now at risk of shutting down. The entire staff of the division that helps low income people pay heating and cooling bills were also fired.

birdandmax.bsky.social @birdandmax.bsky.social · Apr 2

In Wisconsin, money buys neither happiness nor supreme courts.

birdandmax.bsky.social @birdandmax.bsky.social · Apr 2

Thanks, Wisconsin.

birdandmax.bsky.social @birdandmax.bsky.social · Apr 2

If Trump can run for a third term, so can Obama.

birdandmax.bsky.social @birdandmax.bsky.social · Mar 30

Eid al-Fitr Mubarak!

birdandmax.bsky.social @birdandmax.bsky.social · Mar 30

In the 9 weeks he has been in office, Dear Leader has spent nearly 30 million taxpayer dollars golfing. Why won't muskrat axe that?

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Hate Liberals? Bite Me. @happyliberal.bsky.social · Mar 28

Text: the irony is that the most well-informed, intellectually competent person on the chat was the one who wasn’t supposed to be there.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Mar 28

Republicans want to fully repeal the estate tax.

This would result in a massive tax cut for the wealthiest families and further entrench an American aristocracy.

How will Republicans pay for it?

With major cuts to social programs like Medicaid and SNAP.

Trickle up economics.

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birdandmax.bsky.social @birdandmax.bsky.social · Mar 28

And all the other Americans were fine, upstanding, white Christian men and their submissive little Stepford wives.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

www.whitehouse.gov

birdandmax.bsky.social @birdandmax.bsky.social · Mar 28

Black people were desperate to be slaves in America, traveled here in luxury and were fed on sweet cream and strawberries as they contentedly and with great satisfaction picked cotton and tobacco in the blazing hot sun.

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