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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 8h

In case you were wondering, as I was, the last time any party had a 66-member (impeachment conviction level) majority in the Senate was 1967.

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 8h

This, uh, is not actually worse than joking about gas chambers for your political opponents

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 9h

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 8h

Incredible to base your whole shtick on Christian identity but not even feign shock when Christian clergy are getting shot at over communion.

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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 18h

Shooting unarmed and non-threatening clergy in the head with pepper balls does not cross the line, he says.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 8h

As many have noted, we're making our way down the "first they came for" list, and anyone comforting themselves with their natural-born citizenship is a fool.

No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 8h

Digital stasi, complete with your neighbors denouncing you for speaking against the party

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 8h

This is what peak performance looks like

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 9h

Just spent more time preparing a participatory Laity Sunday service than I'd have spent writing a sermon

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 9h

I am very sick of having to either "confirm I'm human" or wait on some Cloudflare check to evaluate my humanness in order to access a website and it sucks that the internet is universally getting worse

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 12h

Trump playing up his bullet dodging skills at the Charlie Kirk memorial is really beyond parody.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 11h

Something that I've noticed here is that Black people wear masks much more frequently.

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 11h

Tim Cook just gave Trump that big fancy gold Apple trophy though!

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 12h

I cannot think of an incident offhand where a state-sponsored massacre ended up being a turning point in their favor. But the Trump admin is built different, I'm sure.

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 12h

It is time for Americans to learn fascism does not in fact make the trains run on time, but immiserates everyone. Unfortunately some of us knew that already.

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 12h

Lol there's no donor who is going to PAY THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES MILITARY

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 12h

I have to imagine the flailing is going to start to look more and more desperate as it becomes clear they have no path planned to end the shutdown

Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 14h

Don't look now but Trump just freaked out the market again by continuing to escalate the trade war.

I believe that China purposefully not buying our Soybeans, and causing difficulty for our Soybean Farmers, is an Economically Hostile Act. We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil, and other elements of Trade, as retribution. As an example, we can easily produce Cooking Oil ourselves, we don’t need to purchase it from China.

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 12h

I see we're continuing the convention where Hamas keeps "hostages" while Israel only has "prisoners"

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 12h

Israel simply cannot stop murdering civilians!

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 17h

BREAKING: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza, accusing Hamas of violating ceasefire with slow release of dead hostages, AP sources say.

Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

The tenuous ceasefire in the two-year Israel-Hamas war is being tested as complex issues remain a day after widespread jubilation over the return to Israel of the last 20 living hostages held in Gaza and the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange.

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Lindsay but pumpkin-spiced @lindsaynicolle.bsky.social · 14h

"When there was only one set of footprints? That was when I carried you."

Me to Jesus Christ.

Pumpkinspacci Sequins @brentwaggoner.bsky.social · 17h

It's funny bc you don't even need to be a religious person or know anything about religion really to know that "we're saving God" isn't a thing.

Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 17h

I am not a religious person and I am swiftly tiring of having to care so much, and know so much, about the Bizarro World version of Christianity that the MAGA cult practices.

Just fucking read the Bible. Once! Without using some megachurch scammer's For Dummies notes!

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 16h

I find it almost alarming that Obama is freaked out enough to embrace a gerrymander

Barack Obama: California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 15h

Every one I know who's done keto seems to painfully blast out a pound or so of buckshot like once a week.

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 16h

I just don't feel as furiously angry about Janet Mills as seems to be the consensus, though I would prefer if she loses the primary.

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 17h

Not that anybody comes to me for Maine politics, but the fact that the Democrats successfully convinced a 77yo Governor to primary the 41yo progressive, is today's example of why the Democrats fucking stay failing.

Susan Collins is 72 and if Schumer gets his way, she'll be the YOUNGER choice!

Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 16h

Everyone actually needs fiber, but they want protein because its connotations are "this is what people who work out eat"

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 17h

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 17h

Or as if the self-avowed Marxist was obviously unaware that class struggle is kind of the whole thing

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 17h

Luckily Americans don't historically get fired up over the government driving up the price of their preferred morning hot beverage

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