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MBR

@flame89.bsky.social

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Can’t say too much about my job these days but international affairs (especially Asia) is my specialty. I love films, novels, and history. Opinions are entirely my own. He/him

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MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 3d

Every Republican President of my lifetime has ended their term with a higher unemployment rate than when they began while every Democrat has finished with a lower unemployment rate than they received - and yet the public almost always rates Republicans higher on the economy.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15h

Lot of guys just coming out and saying that Nazism is not a big deal to them. Very much a tell us who you are moment.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15h

These were the same people who were like “I would never vote for Kamala because she welcomed former Republicans”

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MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 5h

Sure

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18h

/2 It’s just hilarious how this situation has caused these brahs to just completely melt down and erupt with every resentment and grievance they’ve ever accumulated in their careers of saying banal things for clicks and money

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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 13h

any ways if Kamala Harris was President the East Wing of the White House would still exist.

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MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 10h

a man in a robe is holding a cane and saying you want the baby boy 's hole you gotta pay the troll toll

ALT: a man in a robe is holding a cane and saying you want the baby boy 's hole you gotta pay the troll toll

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MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 12h

I just got a thumbs up from a worker at the grocery store and for a second I didn’t know why. Then I remembered I had worn my MAGA IS A FASCIST CULT t-shirt.

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Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋 @yaqiu.bsky.social · 19h

A reminder to anyone who thinks this madness will burn itself out just because it's too crazy to last. The Great Leap Forward went on for 3 years and killed roughly 40 million people. The Cultural Revolution raged for a full decade. Insanity can go on and on if people don't stand up and stop it!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Drug prices are going to be coming down 500 percent."

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MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 16h

Again, not endorsing everything said in here. But just worthy of note how this Argentina bailout is playing within MAGA.

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MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 17h

People aren’t fully grasping how big the Argentina bailout story is playing in conservative circles. It’s really big.

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MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 18h

Right on! 👍

MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 18h

I mean I agree but even when we try to do it the media (and seemingly the country) doesn’t go along with it. Kamala said “We love our country” at every rally. Often multiple times, amidst other patriotic rhetoric.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 1d

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Harry @harry.bsky.team · 1d

A note for sports: Bluesky’s engagement rate was x10 higher than X’s across a sampling of identical posts made on both platforms by @rapsheet.bsky.social (sharing with permission)

Fwiw we see a similar trend across all communities, not just sports. Real people, real conversations.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

In what constitutional universe is "the President is telling the Justice Department to pay him $230 million" not an abuse of power?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

> @wutangforchildren.bsky.social

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MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 20h

I said it yesterday

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

AZ AG Mayes: We have people in Arizona who are being actively harmed by Mike Johnson playing politics and apparently trying to protect the Epstein files. That’s not okay. We’re going to fight as hard as we can to put an end to it and to get Adelita Grijalva sworn in.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 1d

I know it’s the Washington Times but this is really worth reading in full.

www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc...

‘He lost us’: Generals, senior officers say trust in Hegseth has evaporated

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has lost the trust and respect of some top military commanders, with his public “grandstanding” widely seen as unprofessional and the personnel moves made by the former ...

www.washingtontimes.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

That clampdown on the Pentagon press corps has done wonders. 🤡

@jamiedupree.bsky.social
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc...

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MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 1d

It takes even longer to delete X (I know. I did it.)

Jamelle offered to speak to you privately about it. Just be adult and talk to him instead of presuming to know his intentions.

MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations!

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The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat @lorenzothecat.bsky.social · 2d

Destruction of the White House East Wing began today. Here it is in better times with better residents.

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MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 2d

I know… it’s awful… but I still think it’s always worth trying to do what we can as citizens.

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