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Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 1h

Taking the dog to the vet then I’m going to the doctor this arvo. In between I guess I’ll clean my house 🥴

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Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 1h

I have a whole folder on my phone that beats this but I’m not into public shaming 🤨

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 9h

two big things happened imo: Trump winning in 2016 apparently proved they could utterly wallow in all their worst instincts and still win, and Elon buying Twitter and turning it into a) the default conservative comms platform b) an openly Nazi sewer

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 9h

"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 9h

there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly

and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

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CtlAltDel @ctlaltdel.bsky.social · 4h

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 4h

Gushing, fawning, shallow and ultimately servile. That’s the Albanese government all over in its dealings with Trump and the US.

”I’ve obviously not met president Trump, but everything I hear is that he’s very favourably disposed towards Australia,” Marles said.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 4h

Nurse: Asking our friends and neighbors[...]to pay more than double for their premiums is going to force people off their health insurance[...]instead of working with Democrats to lower health care cost, Republicans shut down the government and took a vacation.

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 6h

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 4h

I got coffee in bed this morning 😍

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Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 5h

Scumbags they should all be non profit

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Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 5h

I wish a billionaire would set up an insurance company that actually pays out on legitimate claims when they should and accepts risk.

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 5h

A year since the freak hailstorm that devastated the Victorian town of Casterton, Kim Jeffrey marked the anniversary the same way she has spent most of 2025 — living in a caravan in her driveway.

One year on, hailstorm victims still waiting to go home

A year since the freak hailstorm that devastated the Victorian town of Casterton, Kim Jeffrey marked the anniversary the same way she has spent most of 2025 — living in a caravan in her driveway.

www.abc.net.au

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Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 5h

Had a sleepover and now got today off. 🤓

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Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 15h

lol thanks 🤣

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Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 15h

Ta x

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Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 15h

Exactly how I feel about it too.

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Elliot 🥕 @nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 21h

whatever the solution is, I want to say on record that I welcome the idea that her mother may or may not be a doctor. It is so important to support women in STEM