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emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 18h

Well, some of us remember how under Reagan, the IRS was used as a tool against those who opposed the US funding and training of paramilitary forces in Central America that were slaughtering hundreds of thousands of civilians. At our behest.

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emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 18h

Please set yourselves adrift but why not go vertical? Mars still awaits. Really we’re praying for some/any kind of rapture where you remove your xtra-special selves. We’ll pop the champagne and cheer your arrival anywhere outside of our orbit. Bon Voyage or Voltage or whatever it takes!

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emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 19h

Mini Me

emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps our Supreme Court should take stock, although there are a few who no doubt think the public repudiation of Taney was misguided.

emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 1d

Unless it is ectopic in which case you die—in a bizarre twist of the lady and the tiger

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emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 1d

So we get to wait to February to find out a great part of the country is disenfranchised?

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emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 1d

Is he writing for the Onion?

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emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, they’re all so fragile and exceptional.

emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 1d

Why has it taken so long to hear these words spoken?

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emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 2d

If race is being used once again to disenfranchise voters, then its use-by date has not expired.

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emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 2d

Plus when is racial discrimination unintentional? As in - Oops, swear I didn’t mean to burn that cross on your lawn or gerrymander you out of legal existence? Or will they argue that its being innate and unquestioned makes it excusable? Are they saying they should be rewarded for its practice?

emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 2d

Hard to feel helpless when Portland’s froggies stand fast on the front lines, when many tens of thousands throw down the gaintlet in Chitown,when Pentagon reporters refuse en masse to kow-tow, when MIT and Brown do us proud, and when LA County declares a state of emergency against federal invasion.

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emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 3d

Great opportunity to show billionaire class that the Democrats don’t need their money or paid-for policies

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emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 6d

Little little, little late .. but human lives are still at stake. Anyone know whether TX convo about allocating resources was legit (as in child camp attendees are out-of-towners so who cares about flood warnings & I don’t want sirens all night)? AI?

QA Resources AS

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emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 6d

Well, perhaps the more we’re provoked & threatened, the deeper down & further up we’ll reach for the riches—as artists, scientists, free thinkers?

emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 7d

Someone once said the definition of schizophrenia is wherever the hammer falls, it always finds the nail.

emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 7d

That (ahem) would be key if election interference were still on their minds .. esp. given that the heist of all our private data & its handover to private interests was already achieved in broad daylight. That and feeding the Moloch Putin our data.

emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 7d

Speaking of yellow lines what’s with the roadkill pattern? Not just hats but Black shoelaces make them Fa (not Antifa)

emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 8d

Likely a hacker? But still, if they get out, they should think about asking for asylum.

emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 10d

None of the oneupmanship antics of DJT’s star henchmen — Miller, Vought, Bondi, Noem, Hegseth etc. — seem aimed at currying public favor, beyond a minority of maga jackboots. So the question of whether they believe we’ll be holding elections or NOT gives pause.

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emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 10d

A looming WH power vacuum? As DJT sundowns, his minions are jockeying for frontman. Or maybe puppet master? In Miller’s case it’s like pulling back the curtain to discover Nosferatu subbing for the Wizard of Oz. But I don’t think they think we’ll hold real elections - so who picks the new dictator?

Oz.so

emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 10d

Oh no one sees a third term. Not for Trump given his decline. No one expects a valid election to take place either. Still, no doubt about it, Bondi has set her sites on POTUS. Forgetting her own petard awaits her. Or better yet prison.

emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 11d

It bears repeating that Trayvon Martin, a teenager, was killed without reason during a visit to his father’s fiancée’ home, inside her Fla. gated community, by a racist psychopath with vigilante fantasies—who was then exonerated & lionized by the right.

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emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 13d

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A Surgical Team Was About To Harvest This Man’s Organs — Until His Doctor Intervened - KFF Health News

A 22-year-old was shot in the head in St. Louis. As a surgical team prepared him for organ harvesting, his neurosurgeon raced to the operating room to stop it, saying that his patient had a chance at ...

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emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 14d

It’s that nice lady from IN who nearly jumped me, shouting how she “really loved” my glasses, “not like anything anyone would ever see in my hometown.” I had to gently explain how she would be a freak in my hometown — as the idea would never occur to her. She thought she had being American nailed.