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Julie @jaespy.bsky.social · 3h

Good on the Aussie’s… she can’t even go down under. 🤔🤭😂

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h

“Kavanaugh stop” is a great phrase. Evocative, critical, memorable, and on point.

The internet tells me the term was coined and popularized by @akalhan.bsky.social and @sifill.bsky.social. A big hat tip to them.

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Julie @jaespy.bsky.social · 3h

I have no complaints about a fair primary but if the dem sens throw their weight behind someone before the people have chosen… no sir. Ft.

Julie @jaespy.bsky.social · 4h

Beyond that well made point, has he never watched her ? 😂 She has a pretty pristine bs detector.

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Julie @jaespy.bsky.social · 5h

Nope. Man fucking down.

That shouldn’t have been a hard ask. Good on her for asking the stupidly obvious Q’s others won’t.

And we know Booker lives his AIPAC money. Just didn’t think he’d be so blatant about it. 😒

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 8h

There is simply no equivalent, not even close, of this anywhere on the center or far left. There is no ‘both sides’ here, media.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 13h

"Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely — and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party’s next leaders."

Can't call them fascists?

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Julie @jaespy.bsky.social · 6h

Bwahahaha that’s year round in rural S. FL.

Bring it. Cobb/spider webs = less blood loss if injured here. Survival skills. 😜😂

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h

If you can’t sell your soybeans because of Trump’s tariffs after Argentina stepped in and took your customers, you can take solace that the guy you voted for also just gave $20 billion of your tax dollars to the country that is bankrupting you.

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Julie @jaespy.bsky.social · 6h

Oh the trauma! [cue the fainting couch]

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Julie @jaespy.bsky.social · 6h

Does he think the rest of the world’s hydrology works like S. FL’s?

Julie @jaespy.bsky.social · 8h

This hit the year I was born(?) but my bestie and I totally rocked out to this playing dress up years later. 😂

Thank you.

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Julie @jaespy.bsky.social · 8h

Consider checking out @marialanakinter.bsky.social. Not affiliated or my district. I’m further south but she seems great and kept hitting my feed before I deleted TikTok.

Julie @jaespy.bsky.social · 9h

Sounds like North FL problems.

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Julie @jaespy.bsky.social · 9h

Finishing up listening doing chores. Good trip down memory lane. A reminder why my dad liked going there so much.

Just got to the end & remembered the stupid tourist boats. 🙄 Better than nothing for ed. but it was far more adventurous & fun navigating before them.

Julie @jaespy.bsky.social · 10h

a man in a suit and tie is looking at something

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is looking at something

media.tenor.com

Julie @jaespy.bsky.social · 10h

So people with money for professional signs couldn’t possibly have morals and not like his regime? 🙄

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Julie @jaespy.bsky.social · 10h

The projection is boring.

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Miami Herald @miamiherald.com · 10h

NEW: A criminal investigation related to millions of dollars steered from a Florida Medicaid settlement to the state-created Hope Florida Foundation entered a new phase on Tuesday, with two key figures appearing to have testified before a grand jury.

Hope Florida grand jury begins work as nonprofit leader, Rep. appear at courthouse

Amy Ronshausen, whose anti-drug nonprofit last year received $5 million from the Hope Florida Foundation, was called Tuesday to the Leon County Courthouse.

www.miamiherald.com

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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 11h

President Convicted Felon will be at $1M-a-plate fundraiser in #Florida this weekend while the "No Kings" protests are going on www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/t...

donald trump is sitting at a desk drawing a circle

ALT: donald trump is sitting at a desk drawing a circle

media.tenor.com

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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 11h

Former employee of #Fkorida Gov. Ron DeSastrous' Everglades concentration camp worker fears his father could end up as an inmate www.wtsp.com/article/news...

Former Alligator Alcatraz worker fears his father could end up in Florida's migrant detention center

'THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT CRIMINALS': The worker described what it was like inside the facility and how he fears his father, who was detained by ICE, will end up there.

www.wtsp.com

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Julie @jaespy.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks. You’re rapidly becoming the misinformation, etc. guru.

I didn’t know whether it was real or not when I seen it here the other day but thought the odds of anyone actually admitting to eating that was slim. 😂

Julie @jaespy.bsky.social · 11h

Guess all their hype about No Kings being a hate fest wasn’t gaining traction. 🙄

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 12h

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12h

NEWS: The Supreme Court will not stop Florida from killing Samuel Smithers today. There were no noted dissents.

(ORDER LIST: 607 U.S.)

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2025

CERTIORARI DENIED
25-5829 SMITHERS, SAMUEL L. V. FLORIDA
(25A406)

The application for stay of execution of sentence of death
presented to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court is
denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 12h

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📣 ICYMI: Yes, Bill Gates is an owner of Signature Aviation, which services ICE Air flights at airports across the country. www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-g...

Donald Trump's Mass Deportation Agenda Has A Surprising Stakeholder: Bill Gates

One of the billionaire's investments has become a linchpin in the day-to-day machinery of Trump’s immigration enforcement apparatus.

www.huffpost.com

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