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@chrisbanks3.bsky.social

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just a sillymortal man following his sillymortal path. ready to return to our secular liberal democratic roots and totally reject the pull toward Christian nationalism and fascist autocracy underpinned and controlled by the oligarchic derp state. USAF vet

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sillymortal 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @chrisbanks3.bsky.social · Nov 30

I block bullshit. Dissenting opinion is fine. Debate is welcomed. Mutual acceptance of sets of facts is required and not optional.

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sillymortal 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @chrisbanks3.bsky.social · 2h

that guy looks a bit like Kyle Rittenhouse to me.

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butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 1d

Mainstream media not covering this news. #alaska #hurricane

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sillymortal 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @chrisbanks3.bsky.social · 21h

True Americans will naturally fight Fascism and Fascists, foreign and domestic, as Fascists are the natural enemies of liberal democracy, upon which our nation is founded.

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 23h

Today, with more than a dozen global media partners, we’re exposing a surveillance firm whose untraceable phone-tracking tech has been used around the world to target politicians, journalists, and executives—and maybe even you. Check out this extraordinary investigative reporting. ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

ow.ly

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sillymortal 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @chrisbanks3.bsky.social · 22h

No Kings organizers should be tallying their crowds and consolidating the national collective results and push those numbers to the media willing to report it.

sillymortal 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @chrisbanks3.bsky.social · 22h

there is no lie low enough that they won’t tell

sillymortal 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @chrisbanks3.bsky.social · 22h

there is no lie low enough that they won’t tell

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sillymortal 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @chrisbanks3.bsky.social · 1d

she looks worried.

sillymortal 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @chrisbanks3.bsky.social · 1d

something that should happen before 2026 midterms…should be a mass party switching by a dozen or so republican congresspersons, and many a couple republican senators.

sillymortal 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @chrisbanks3.bsky.social · 1d

it’s a federalized domestic terror campaign enlisting untrained, prone to violence vigilante bounty hunters as the terror agents.

sillymortal 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @chrisbanks3.bsky.social · 1d

wealthiest nation in the history of nations should have already made 100% access to medical, dental and eye care available to all its citizens long ago. we are the only developed nation that makes profit the priority in healthcare, to the detriment of us all. it’s actually ruthlessly barbaric.

sillymortal 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @chrisbanks3.bsky.social · 1d

American socialism is not Marxist.
American communities are not communist.
American progressives are not radical left.
American conservatives believe in liberal democracy.
American democracy needs both progressives and conservatives.

Radical reactionaries have taken over our government.

sillymortal 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @chrisbanks3.bsky.social · 1d

he’s a good white Christian nationalist

sillymortal 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @chrisbanks3.bsky.social · 1d

I’m guessing the 12 that agreed were Trump appointees (not that ALL of his nominated judges work for him, but some obviously do.)

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 2d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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sillymortal 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @chrisbanks3.bsky.social · 1d

Central Casting is still finding a good candidate to frame/fabricate.

sillymortal 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @chrisbanks3.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not completely trusting this yet. But it’s entirely likely that there’s hundreds maybe thousands of UXOs in Gaza with as many munitions Israel dropped so it’s going to be dangerous going back…to a devastated home

sillymortal 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @chrisbanks3.bsky.social · 1d

democracy needs conservatives and progressives.

reactionaries despise and deride democracy. literally. they think it’s for suckers.

sillymortal 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @chrisbanks3.bsky.social · 1d

that’s literally what these radical reactionaries are trying to do: reorganize society into a Constitution-less status quo ante feudal state. another reason I bristle at characterizing these traitors as conservative. there is nothing remotely conservative about them.

sillymortal 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @chrisbanks3.bsky.social · 1d

100%

sillymortal 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @chrisbanks3.bsky.social · 1d

they’re so used to saying anything they want, regardless of basis in fact, to their think skinned Fox/OANN/Newsmax infotainment propaganda bubble…that they just say it without thinking.

sillymortal 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @chrisbanks3.bsky.social · 1d

Apologize to witches.

sillymortal 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @chrisbanks3.bsky.social · 1d

White Americans are never going to do those kinds of jobs. It’s “beneath them”.

sillymortal 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @chrisbanks3.bsky.social · 2d

it’s all performative with these pretenders.

sillymortal 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @chrisbanks3.bsky.social · 2d

We must have massive turnouts for No Kings and any other large peaceful non violent protest or strike and we must have >80% voter turnout in 2026.

Democracy defeats fascism. Always.