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Chris 🍁
@chrischoptain.bsky.social
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🍁😷🌈 Just a progressive gen x mutt wondering if someone could conjure up an asteroid & put us out of our impending misery (no lists please not a great fan of dms) warning: there will be cussing #SlavaUkraine #Accessability #BeKind
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Chris 🍁 @chrischoptain.bsky.social · Jul 4
If they don't do a forensic audit of every single tabulation machine in america after the NY case gets proven, the mid terms won't mean shit
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11h
California just banned employers from forcing workers to pay a debt, fee, or penalty to leave their job.

Bosses have increasingly been trapping workers with debts incurred in training and other exploitative fees.

Now that's illegal in the nation's biggest state.
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Matt McNeil Show @mattmcneilshow.bsky.social · 6h
Dude, @brittlestar.com, you have to stop making me laugh during the radio show!
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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 10h
I know it’s early but…
Wondering what to buy for the Secret Santa swap at the Antifa Christmas Party?
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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 2h
I will go out of my way to make sure I never hire someone who worked for ICE in this administration. I hope others do the same.

They deserve prison and I hope that happens to them. But I can do my part regardless.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h
I’m a subscriber to The Onion print edition and trust me, the ads alone are worth it
Fake Apple ad Remember when those Chinese factory workers were all committing suicide? Neither do we!
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Chris 🍁 @chrischoptain.bsky.social · 1h
corporate dms are little better than the old republicans

maintain the status quo at any cost

there's a reason most of the rest of the democratic world has surpassed america in social safety networks, educational standards and basic fundamental safety, and its not just 'conservatism'
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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 3h
Mills entering the race against Planter: totally fine

Gillibrand, Schiff and Kelly backing a centrist septugenarian over a chud-coded progressive while strong-arming Kleban into droping out: something I'm actually angry about
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 5h
Sad to see a proud newspaper neuter itself.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
The Situation: Democracy Dies in Both Sides-ism
The Washington Post editorial on the Comey indictment was a failure of moral reasoning.
www.lawfaremedia.org
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 9h
every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple 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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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 4h
It is a very short step from the military killing alleged drug traffickers off the coast of Venezuela to the military, ICE, or others killing people inside the US for crimes, real or imagined, as directed by the president.
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🇨🇦 l.faraday 🇨🇦 @mizati.bsky.social · 8h
We tried to warn them he’d do nothing for them. I guess they had to find out the hard way. 😂😂. He’s such a loser.
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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 9h
INCORRECT HEADLINE: Reporters refuse to sign Pentagon’s new press rules

CORRECT HEADLINE: Pentagon launches sweeping effort to censor the news, kicks out major media outlets
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 12h
Mamdani is going to win. The question will now be, "Can you reproduce this?" It's doubtful. He's talented. But it's possible, first of all, if you remember all politics is local, and the more local you get - the more people recognize you - the more things like age and parties cease to matter.
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Renée in L.A. @reneepatrice.bsky.social · 6h
Sen. Padilla's Prop 50 ad is very effective. They used the footage of him being shoved to the ground and cuffed. I swear, my blood pressure goes through the roof each time I see it.

Thank you, @padilla.senate.gov, for this ad. #Yeson50

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2hz...
Yes On Prop 50: All of Us (Senator Alex Padilla)
YouTube video by Yes on 50
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The Epiphany Times @theepiphanytimes.bsky.social · 21h
Gunther Eagleman is a tool.
Gunther Eagleman tweet
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12h
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h
It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2h
Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the most important redistricting and voting rights case of the term. Democracy Docket isn't just covering it for the day. It has been covering this case for years.

Support its vital work to help keep you informed. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 11h
Farmers grow what they grow because of farm policy.

We don’t need all the soy and corn that we grow, but those are the commodities that receive subsidies and markets.

If we want something better, if we want to heal the Earth and grow food, now is the time to do it.
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Mjkwho @mjkwho.bsky.social · 1h
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6h
It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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Xennial Farmer @xennialfarmer.bsky.social · 1d
Whatever immunity they think they have will not save them.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h
🔥 COUNTRY SINGER @bryanandrewsmusic.bsky.social : "You don't get to call yourself a Christian and laugh when families are torn apart — and think it's okay that the highest court in the land just gave a green light to ICE agents to target people because they’re brown or speaking Spanish.”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5h
Parnas: A lot of people are saying this idea that, well, Graham Platner hasn’t won statewide, and Janet Mills has.

Platner: We have a number of excellent senators who had never run for office or won a statewide race before.

That’s an argument the establishment makes to protect itself
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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 3h
Students Banned From the Library

Thank you Kelly Jensen and @bookriot.bsky.social for reporting on what's now happening in one Texas school district... just like we feared/knew would happen.

New Braunfels ISD has closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.

bookriot.com/new-braunfel...
A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries
In order to ban books from its libraries, New Braunfels Independent School District has just closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14h
One thing that I’ve come around on in comics is it used to seem corny and childish that a bunch of guys would call themselves the Legion of Doom and meet in an old castle where they’d be like ”hiss let us defeat the ideas of hope and love hiss” but that’s what they’re actually doing in real life lol
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