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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 45m

Fun fact: in chapter nineteen of the Second Treatise, John Locke writes that when the legislative power is usurped from that body in which the People have placed it, and exercised instead by a person or body not authorized to do so by the People, government is dissolved

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 4h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 43m

“Make sure he knows it was me”

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 45m

He cheats
There, i just saved you some time

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 1h

“I vibe with abusers. That’s my jam”

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 1h

Oh that looks terrible

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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 1h

Y’all remember when the smart Black Lady said she wanted to make housing more affordable?

Well this is the opposite of that🤷🏾‍♀️

www.barrons.com/news/trump-t...

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 1h

Very frustrating no one really brought up @karenattiah.bsky.social which felt incredibly similar

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5e1pt1mu5 Pr1me 🫘 @5e1pt.bsky.social · 4h

Amazing what happens when you put Dems in charge!

apnews.com/article/nort...

North Carolina effort wipes out $6.5B in medical debt for 2.5M people

Officials say a North Carolina government initiative is eliminating over $6.5 billion in medical debt for more than 2.5 million residents.

apnews.com

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 2h

Yep
Brings back the fever dreams i can tell you

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 2h

Fascinating

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you for bringing this to my attention

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 3h

Too late

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

This press release from a North Carolina GOP figure portrays the current redistricting wars as something *Democrats* started in Calif., ignoring the fact that this all began with the Trump White House and first unfolded in red Texas.

According to them, Republicans are once again The Real Victims™

House Redistricting Chairmen Brenden Jones (R-Columbus) and Hugh Blackwell (R-Burke) said, “We’re stepping into this redistricting battle because California and the radical left are attempting to rig the system to handpick who runs Congress. This ploy is nothing new, and North Carolina will not stand by while they attempt to stack the deck. President Trump has called on us to fight back, and North Carolina stands ready to level the playing field.”

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 9h

No one does

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James Gunn @jamesgunn.bsky.social · 9h

Join me tonight at 9pm ET on Threads for the final watch party for this season of #Peacemaker.

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 10h

I like calling it a kavanaugh stop

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

Anyone saying they’re not racially profiling is unserious

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 10h

Most corrupt administration in history

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 15h

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 15h

Also, ceasefires have happened under prior Presidents! The day he gets Palestine their own country he can be told he's the most special boy deserving of a shiny prize.

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 15h

“Ha ha ha i want to be a dictator”

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Margaret Cho @margaretcho.bsky.social · 1d

If Jan 6 was all Antifa then why did you pardon them?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Chris Murphy: "Republicans are boycotting negotiations to reopen the govt bc they're desperate to raise premiums on people by 75% in order to finance their tax cut for the wealthy. The other reason House isn't in town? They're about to have enough votes to mandate the release of the Epstein files."

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 1d

God Bless America is just a song by Irving Berlin. It’s not the national anthem. America is so far down the moron hole it will never get out

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 25d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 25d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the Gawker comments section, way back in the day. But as progressive movements swept through social media, others were tossed off Twitter and Facebook for stepping over a variety of lines, from allegations of harassment to claims of election misinformation. Pandemic era public health rules and fevered enforcement cost others their accounts.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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