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Manze

@manze.bsky.social

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Board game enthusiast. Traveler. Socialist. MeFite. Husband. He/him. Here to rant about politics and make silly jokes. If you don't like it, don't follow. 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

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Manze @manze.bsky.social · Aug 16

Fuck cancer.

I just helped save a life

You can save one, too. Donate now.

donate.cancer.org

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Manze @manze.bsky.social · 20h

For the record, this is $1 trillion: $1,000,000,000,000. If you worked nonstop for $40/hour (more than twice the minimum wage) it would still take you almost 3 million *years* to earn the amount they're cutting from Medicaid.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "We're fighting for healthcare as well. Not just in word but in deed. We put in the one big beautiful bill, real reforms to Medicaid to make it work better."

(The bill in fact cuts nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid.)

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Manze @manze.bsky.social · 20h

Almost. The Roberts Court ruled that corporations that participate in politics cannot be restricted, not all that corporate entities have an inalienable right to political participation. The difference is not just semantics, it's the "loophole" that the Montana amendment is attempting to exploit.

Manze @manze.bsky.social · 21h

It all starts with 240 square feet of dignity.

Home Page - Veterans Community Project

With your support, our proven model is giving the dignity of home back to those who took the oath to serve us.

vcp.org

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 2d

this was in the British food section of the grocer. is England okay

a pack of Shrimps and Bananas candy. looks to be heavy on the shrimp, light on the bananas. caveat emptor

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Manze @manze.bsky.social · 1d

It's a Supreme Court case. This is an open dare to the Roberts Court to declare a corporate right to political speech. Fine. Go for it. Goodluck. But no matter who wins, Super PACs, 501(c)(4)s, etc will still exist. The money will flow. If centrists ever embrace electoral reform then I'll have hope.

Manze @manze.bsky.social · 1d

Who's shitting on anyone? Despite my personal cynicism on the outcome, I still hope they succeed. The idea that legal fictions should ever be allowed to participate in politics is anatural and abhorrent. Quit trying to start beef where there isn't any. We're all in the same foxhole against fascism.

Manze @manze.bsky.social · 1d

If only Citizens United could be defeated by One Weird Trick. Let's be clear: even if Montana succeeds in this, all it will do is change the name of who signs the checks.

David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 3d

This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇

Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.

Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book

Rolling Stone excerpt about Montana’s ballot initiative to combat Citizens United

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Courtney Shannon @cshannonpdx.bsky.social · 2d

Hell yeah, that’s me, I’m the squirrel!
Photo by Edwin Nunez on Facebook.

No Kings March, a lot of people with signs, me as a blowup squirrel, and a red agent nearby.

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Manze @manze.bsky.social · 3d

Well at least the US has standards, said someone in another timeline.

George Santos' prison sentence commuted, ex-GOP congressman to be released 'immediately': Trump

Santos was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison earlier this year after being convicted of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

abcnews.go.com

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Kelly Fitzpatrick @wastedwings.bsky.social · 4d

I saw Mitch McConnell was trending and I got my hopes up.

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Manze @manze.bsky.social · 5d

Yet they still built fainting rooms...

Manze @manze.bsky.social · 5d

Me when I don't eat lunch.

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 5d

The real king of the jungle..⚜️💙⚜️😲⚜️💙⚜️

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Brian O @proudcanadaveteran.bsky.social · 6d

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Manze @manze.bsky.social · 5d

Won't someone think of the children?!

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

Portland has fallen!

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 5d

Imagine thinking domestic violence isn’t “really serious”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Manze @manze.bsky.social · 6d

What? You mean Republicans' supposed fight against antisemitism at colleges wasn't actually genuine?! I am shocked! Shocked, I tell you!

‘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

Manze @manze.bsky.social · 7d

Capitalism at its finest.

Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 7d

“Patrek Chase, kidney transplant program director at Parkland Health in Dallas, claimed that patients at his hospital – which generally serves a poorer population – were passed over for a healthy organ in favor of patients at UT Southwestern Medical Center, which generally helps the affluent.”

Whistleblower claims Dallas hospitals kept kidneys from poorer patients

Kidneys that were deemed unsuitable for patients at Parkland hospital were allegedly given to others at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

www.texasstandard.org

Manze @manze.bsky.social · 11d

Definitely no violations of the US Constitution here...

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 11d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 11d

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Manze @manze.bsky.social · 11d

Is it a "snub" if you were never in the running? 🤔

MAGA steams at Trump’s Nobel snub

Many in the GOP are accusing the Nobel Committee of favoritism.

www.politico.com

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 12d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 12d

As discord suffers a massive data breach of people's personal data and ID documents congrats to the UK Government for bringing in the undercooked law that made it absolutely inevitable this would happen, repeatedly