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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 16h

Good morning welcome to Tippetty tap tap Thursday

Let’s start each day anew, taking only what we’ve learned and leaving the rest behind.
Yesterday has done its work; today is where we live.

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Avi @cricketmice.bsky.social · 8h

According to conservatives, the civil rights act means that racism is over and solved therefore it’s unfair to keep bringing up race, also the election of a black president means they have to destroy the constitution by making trump king

Avi @cricketmice.bsky.social · 11h

The president? Who’s that? You're finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us

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Avi @cricketmice.bsky.social · 19h

Maybe the Supreme Court and President have infinite calvinball authority to auto win every game. Ok sure. But everyone forgets about Calvin’s babysitter who has double super calvinball authority

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Avi @cricketmice.bsky.social · 22h

imagine being an ATC or TSA guy showing up unpaid and hearing this

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Avi @cricketmice.bsky.social · 1d

None of these guys have ever faced real heat. Trump was keeping stolen goods in the bathroom and no one knew until the fbi came knocking

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Avi @cricketmice.bsky.social · 1d

Doesn’t have to be a political persecution. He’s done actual fraud with Tesla. He lies to customers and investors. Illegal drugs on a security clearance. Intervening in the Ukraine war with starlink. Xtwitter is full of CSAM. I mean my god will every law go unenforced except one?

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Avi @cricketmice.bsky.social · 1d

Feel like the US equivalent would have to be RFK banning McDonald’s or Coca Cola or something

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Avi @cricketmice.bsky.social · 2d

“Jd Vance commiserates with his group chat” would be a good SNL cold open

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Avi @cricketmice.bsky.social · 3d

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Avi @cricketmice.bsky.social · 3d

He’s lobely

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Avi @cricketmice.bsky.social · 4d

I can’t prove this but I have believed since 2020 that the Times editorial board hated Biden (and Harris) because he went to state school. They are all ivy leaguers and they do not believe anyone not from Harvard/yale should be president

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Avi @cricketmice.bsky.social · 4d

Only trump the magic money man from TV could build a coalition of white people who want to burn the country over “press 1 for English” plus immigrants mad at fellow Latinos for immigrating too easily

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Avi @cricketmice.bsky.social · 6d

Every YouTube ad I get now is either incomprehensible AI garbage for fungus cleaning or weight loss or total scams, OR normal companies like Geico. It’s almost a relief to see a professionally produced ad for McDonald’s

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Avi @cricketmice.bsky.social · 6d

“How do we build a social consensus that gop is bad and build a durable majority to prevent this shit from ever happening again” is the thing

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Avi @cricketmice.bsky.social · 6d

Everyone against stove touching is forgetting the context that the first trump term ended in an earth-shattering catastrophe he was responsible for, the voters forgave him, and we are now reacting to his reelection. “How do we convince the public Trump isnt magic money man“ is difficult!

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 6d

you can call her a dogkiller on tv, it's legal and true

pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 6d

in the second cnn portland city councilor hit of the day, the anchor couldn’t keep a straight face

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 8d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 10d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Avi @cricketmice.bsky.social · 7d

There’s obviously thousands of red triangle emoji accounts on here and twitter who poison the discourse and spread anti-semitism, I know because I’ve blocked so many of them

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Avi @cricketmice.bsky.social · 8d

gop voters treating the entire country like pouring cement in the integrated pool

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Avi @cricketmice.bsky.social · 8d

I know not all is lost, but it’s quite distressing to think that we made the entirety of media production for decades be about wwii, but as soon as it passed out of living memory the cultural consensus vanished and half the world seems ready to elect fascists out of pique and ignorance

Avi @cricketmice.bsky.social · 9d

Desires by Celia dropkin is incredibly well written but very distressing and upsetting

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Avi @cricketmice.bsky.social · 9d

Policing your own tent for dems looks like bitter intra-party fights over anarchism, socialism, zionism, etc, it’s effective regardless of the merits. The gop *could* get in gear but so far the gop has only been willing to do this to kick out anti-trumpers while leaving the back door open

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Avi @cricketmice.bsky.social · 9d

Really underdiscussed how we need to get liberal info into the WhatsApp family groupchats

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