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Pierce

@pierceah66.bsky.social

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OG Kamala Harris supporter. 💛💜❤️ Always. “encyclopedic knowledge of her record & will vigorously rebut anything inaccurate”. Also like things like Ted Lasso, metal, & pokemon. DM’s allowed. NJ/PA. Likely not looking for your hot takes. Don’t waste my time.

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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · Sep 3

Let’s talk about why you need to stop acting like domestic abusers w/ your daily & usually bigoted vitriol towards Democrats who are in the MINORITY of the House of Representatives & Senate, don’t control SCOTUS, & aren’t in the executive office. This is a long thread.

CW: murder, abuse, language

a screenshot of a video game with the words " stay awhile and listen "

Alt: Deckard Cain in Diablo 2’s iconic phrase when interacted with, “Stay awhile and listen”.

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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 14m

a cartoon of a cat laying on a bed with the words i 'm bored above it

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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 1h

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 3h

And who also waited until Trump got into power to retire.

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 15d

Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."

Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.

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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 1h

a man with a beard is saying " don 't you dare settle for fine "

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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 1h

Watch Ted Lasso instead of suffering on such an important day.

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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 2h

In other words it’s not as big of a deal as it’s about to be made out to be but it was avoidable if they just refunded the other 70+ of these. Most coming in June just ahead of the primary seems like a bigger issue. If y’all get mad at an American PAC this should bother you more tbh. Be consistent.

Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 2h

Come on man you can’t let an idiot like Silwa be accurate about your campaign donations. Campaign has refunded about half of them. It’s a small amount overall but it does violate federal & state law to knowingly accept it & 1 of the refunded ones is his mother-in-law.

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Exclusive | Mamdani mayoral campaign took in $13,000 in illegal foreign donations, records show

Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign took in cash from nearly 200 foreign donors

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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 2h

💙💙💙💙💙

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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 3h

This poll had her winning white voters & barely over 50% of Black voters to sum up how ridiculous of a “nonpartisan” poll Rasmussen is. May as well be a Republican internal even if they weren’t accused of colluding with Trump’s campaign & didn’t get dropped from aggregates for their methodology.

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Democrats @democrats.org · 4h

Earlier this year, two Republicans were sworn in less than 24 hours after their elections.

It’s been 20 days since @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social won her race and Speaker Johnson’s still dragging his feet.

It’s time to swear her in.

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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 5h

Someone got shot at one of the bars near me overnight & my only surprise at this is I would’ve guessed it 2nd, not 1st.

Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 5h

These are the only sub-posts I do. If negative statements apply when I make them, that’s a you thing. Sometimes sentiment like this does need to be reinforced though. 🫡

Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 7h

Now & then I scroll on here & I see people who are already wildly attractive & then they have very good opinions about politics or some other nuanced topics & I magically turn into a sapiosexual, and can y’all stop? Are you not already god’s favorite?

Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 5h

He actually did excuse it in his text outreach. A group of volunteers including myself are why the PA Dems didn’t also defend it. There was a text reply about the incident that we broke down line by line to the PA Dems as a racist lie & it was removed for the entirety of the program.

Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 5h

This 1 inc multiple endorsements & campaign events, Trump’s campaign explicitly using AI to do racist fearmongering as the admin recently has, Trump’s campaign explicitly campaigning on using the Alien Enemies Act as they have been, & more.

Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 5h

Things happening about this time last yr re the Harris campaign (10/12/24):

Here was Kamala Harris helping pack diapers into aid kits as part of a Hurricane Helene relief supply drive. x.com/ebonyjdavis/...

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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 5h

Again, he ran on this. And he has been using it as justification to deport people. This was always what they meant by the “mass deportation now” signs. Here’s a short version article on it from earlier this year. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Alien Enemies Act: The 1798 law Trump used to deport migrants - BBC News

The wartime Alien Enemies Act has been controversially used to deport Venezuelans to a mega-jail in El Salvador.

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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 5h

It was used as the legal justification for the executive order that permitted Japanese internment in the United States. It was also used as the authority to detain, expel, or otherwise restrict Germans, Italians, and Austro-Hungarians.

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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 5h

They were established before SCOTUS established judicial review, & all 4 have been seen as likely unconstitutional & mistakes, but the safeguard of Congress being necessary to declare war was seen as a check against actually needing to repeal it. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res....

The Alien Enemies Act, Explained

This detention and deportation power poses an alarming risk of abuse and rights violations in both wartime and peacetime.

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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 5h

Last night Trump‘s social media posted & he stated that he would invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 “to target and dismantle every migrant criminal network operating on American soil”. x.com/acyn/status/... The Alien Enemies act was a part of the collective Alien and Sedition Acts.

Acyn on X: "Trump: and I will invoke the aliens enemy act of 1798. This was put there in 1798. That is a long time ago, right? To target and dismantle every migrant criminal network operating on American soil. https://t.co/JQyWUr3eWE" / X

Trump: and I will invoke the aliens enemy act of 1798. This was put there in 1798. That is a long time ago, right? To target and dismantle every migrant criminal network operating on American soil. https://t.co/JQyWUr3eWE

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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 5h

The Trump campaign has requested military vehicles for extra security in the final weeks of the campaign. President Biden had signed off on the protection due to past events & not being an asshole. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-m...

Trump campaign requested use of military aircraft for final stage of campaign

Former President Donald Trump's campaign requested military assets to enhance his security in the final weeks of the campaign, two sources said.

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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 5h

Barack Obama was announced to be campaigning in Detroit for Kamala Harris on October 22. www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...

Obama to campaign for Harris in Detroit later this month

The former two-term president returned to the campaign trail this week, urging Black men in Pittsburgh to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.

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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 5h

Vance kept insisting Trump is responsible for how his mom received healthcare. She used Medicaid which Trump has consistently threatened, then the ACA that both actively ran on getting rid of after attempts by Trump to get rid of it last time. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...

JD Vance’s mom got health coverage under Trump — by using Obamacare

The vice-presidential nominee’s story about family members’ new health coverage illustrates how Republicans inherited — and benefited — from the current system.

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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 5h

He was still having legal fights to stop Trump from using “Rockin’ in the Free World” while he’s let Democrats use it and became a U.S. citizen in 2020 in part explicitly to vote against Trump.

Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 5h

Neil Young also endorsed Kamala Harris though this one isn’t a surprise. He pointed to her character, honesty and ability to be forthright, age, willingness to uphold the law, and policies that support the middle class instead of the wealthy. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Neil Young Pens Endorsement for Kamala Harris: 'She's My Candidate'

Neil Young has penned a resounding endorsement for Kamala Harris, detailing the reasons "why I love" the vice president.

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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 5h

The Trump campaign team kept posting racist images to fear monger about immigrants. They posted AI images where if you just look for more than a few seconds you can see warped faces or other obvious signs of fakes. Aka, what they’ve consistently been doing recently. meidasnews.com/news/trump-u...

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