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Hoppy Croaklightly

@hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social

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Amphibian. I have the Great Frog on speed dial. Frogs are the best result of the Big Bang by a mile. If you can manage it, please donate to PBS. Tax/Spend. Brekekekex koax koax! "wE aRe SoRrY tO SeE YoU Go"

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 43m

😡😡😡😡

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 2h

$40 Billion to Argentina. Don’t tell me we can’t have healthcare.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 56m

AOC: When one party wants the votes of another party. You negotiate, you come to a compromise and you pass a bill. That is schoolhouse rock. And that is how things should be

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 6h

Listen to how casually Justice Gorsuch presents as fact the idea that remedying racial gerrymandering requires racial discrimination.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h

WSJ: “.. the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors, some of the people said ..”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 7h

Roberts just calls "balls and strikes," if by "strikes" you mean deciding that a principle he discovered in the Constitution as amended in 1791 invalidates the black-letter text of amendments added nearly a century later.

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 7h

America has no kings. That’s kind of the whole point.

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World Peace Cookies @worldpeacecookies.bsky.social · 4h

This is incredibly helpful information for anyone who's applying to college in the next year or two.

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Dan Alley 🌹🦋 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🍉🇬🇪🇺🇸🇺🇳🌍🕊️ @lamprod.bsky.social · 4h

No need to request donations from this not-so-proud alumnus.

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 2h

"The new whatever."

Fuck mediocrity always and forever.

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 6h

Well on the the plus side we’re getting a pretty good list of universities never to attend

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 7h

Core to playing this down is pretending that "Young Republicans" aren't 40 years old with top positions in both the party and government. One's a state senator.

Nathan Bernard @nathantbernard.bsky.social · 8h

the "kids" were mostly 30+ years old and said they love hitler

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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 13h

Is it typical that multiple Governors and Senators openly say that the President has dementia?

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 6h

tl;dr this is, as I've been screaming into the wind about for a week now, not just illegal as shit but fundamentally means the Constitution as written is no longer in effect

That said if you want an even deeper dive on the subject than I've done, this is a very good thread

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 7h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16h

When I said we weren't here to be disappointed with Labour but to replace them. I meant it.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 2h

Him yelling it so casually from the popemobile reminded me of this.

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ACLU of Florida @aclufl.bsky.social · 2h

BREAKING: We filed a lawsuit challenging the map recently adopted by the Daytona Beach City Commission for unlawfully ignoring communities and neighborhoods in favor of racial gerrymandering.

See you in court.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6h

Trump: I want to thank Stephen Miller I would love to have him come up and explain his true feelings. Maybe not his truest feelings. That might be going a little too far

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 3h

"Once i was young and impulsive
I wore every conceivable pin
Even went to the socialist meetings
Learned all the old union hymns
But i've grown older and wiser
And that's why i'm turning you in
So love me, love me, love me, i'm a liberal"

- Phil Ochs, "Love Me, I'm a Liberal"

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 3h

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and the Trump admin are arranging ANOTHER $20B cash infusion for Argentina through banks and wealth funds. ANOTHER. Meanwhile, seniors at home are begging for COLA paperwork just to see if they’ll be able to afford groceries.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

Just a deep, dark cesspool of corruption like we’ve never seen before in US history at every single agency and level of government. Republicans in Congress continue to ignore all of it and if people still care about having a Republic they will vote them out as soon as they can.