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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 1h

Oh so now we’re just going to criminalize being a Republican politician?

Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 3h

Oh good, not just lawless but also a boondoggle

Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 4h

I can’t understand your Brokkyn accent

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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 4h

And so the authoritarian state collapsed under the withering strike of a few people living in the woods

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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 9h

Can they even get center-left media to scold Leavitt?

Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 1d

Or…many many high-ranking officials are negligent with classified information and the scandal of Hillary’s Emails was based on naivete (and more) about this reality

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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 1d

As I read it, he did report getting hacked but didn’t disclose that his email account contained protected information

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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 1d

Not enough digital ink for the amount of throat-clearing all of the late-2028 “Prosecuting Trump Administration Officials Would Be Bad for Democracy” columns will require.

Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 1d

A significant chunk of Republican voters understand and oppose the GOP’s position on healthcare but simply bank on Democrats or the courts acting as a check on GOP policy.

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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 1d

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Archive photos of school integration in Clinton

See the News Sentinel's pictures from the tumultuous period following the integration of Clinton High School in 1956.

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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 2d

The founders were monarchy-curious and the constitution should be interpreted in that context.

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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 2d

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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 3d

a cartoon of a man standing next to a girl with pink hair saying krieger-san my cherry blossoms

Alt: krieger-san my cherry blossoms are wilting

media.tenor.com

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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 3d

TBF, 18 to 40 is also the youth wing of the Dems

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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 3d

Oh don’t worry, after these headlines shuffle off the front page they’ll be back to denying they restrict aid at all

Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 3d

And the same media would meltdown if Dems “redrew” the Supreme Court to add four justices.

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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 4d

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Yet what could she do—in the state in which they were left by the General, to be free at her death, she did not feel as tho her Life was safe in their Hands, many of whom would be told that it was there interest to get rid of her— She therefore was advised to sit them all free at the close of the year

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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 4d

Well she was so concerned that they would kill her that she freed them early, so probably yes.

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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 5d

It says “unforeseen military requirement.” The regular payroll to military is not unforeseen and the government shutdown is not a military requirement.

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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 6d

May have been a hint when video evidence of police brutality was met with responses like “should have complied!”

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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 6d

Inconceivable!

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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 6d

Yes that’s definitely why people find this place exhausting and not people’s inability to detect sarcasm. You are so smart.

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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 6d

The ”artificial“ in “AI-generated media” modifies the word “intelligence,” not “media”. So the intelligence is artificial but the media is not!

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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 6d

That train carrying antifa?

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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 7d

But that letterhead…