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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 3h

"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."

-Karis Nemik, Andor

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 4h

The secret power of a people’s movement is that it’s random.

It’s neighbors protecting immigrants from ICE. It’s millions canceling Disney+. It’s a man throwing a sandwich. It’s inflatable frogs dancing.

Dictators struggle to fight a movement, because they can’t do what they want most—control us.

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EccoMi! @skigirlid.bsky.social · 1h

Your daily reminder that that it's grifters and criminals all the way down.....

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Trader Who Made $192M Shorting the Crypto Crash is Betting Against Bitcoin Again

On-chain analysts and traders have dubbed the address an “insider whale.” Some even argue that the position itself could have accelerated the crash.

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EccoMi! @skigirlid.bsky.social · 9h

Cookies are always reasonable as is chocolate. And Sense 8 is lovely. I’ve watched it all the way through twice. Enjoy!

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EccoMi! @skigirlid.bsky.social · 13h

As we all should be.

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EccoMi! @skigirlid.bsky.social · 14h

That’s a really interesting point. And it would make perfect sense since it was the “adults in the room” that held him back in his first term from going full fascist on us then.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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EccoMi! @skigirlid.bsky.social · 23h

Wait, so Israel isn’t abiding by the terms of the ceasefire? Color me shocked!

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EccoMi! @skigirlid.bsky.social · 1d

Money and attention. That’s the motivation behind all these influencers.

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it's Candy Love @candylovely.bsky.social · 1d

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Immigration Hotline.

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EccoMi! @skigirlid.bsky.social · 1d

It was wild. They didn’t care about us at all. Puny humans. 🤣

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EccoMi! @skigirlid.bsky.social · 1d

Remember the horrible things the male commentator says in the movie Pitch Perfect and it’s a funny joke?People really said that shit. Millennials have no idea the crap that men used to say, and think, about women. I can’t even believe the stuff we tolerated when I was young.

a man and a woman are standing next to each other with the words everything else seems wrong below them

ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other with the words everything else seems wrong below them

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EccoMi! @skigirlid.bsky.social · 1d

How about a picture of some moose that got in the way of my paddle boarding this summer? I am told they were both males. We ended up carrying our paddle boards around them since moose are not very friendly.

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EccoMi! @skigirlid.bsky.social · 1d

Took them long enough.

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EccoMi! @skigirlid.bsky.social · 1d

I was going to say exactly this. I’m a registered Republican, and it KILLED me when I changed my party affiliation. But it had to be done to keep the crazies out of office.

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EccoMi! @skigirlid.bsky.social · 1d

I love that Weiss is anti-DEI after acknowledging that she was a DEI hire at the NYT. These people are so utterly clueless and clearly they don’t allow differing viewpoints in their personal lives or someone would have clearly pointed out she was a massive hypocrite!

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 2d

I'm glad that the ... [checks notes] ... Transportation Secretary and acting NASA Administrator has so capably handled all of his duties that he has the time to look into peaceful, domestic First Amendment activity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

This Is Fascism

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EccoMi! @skigirlid.bsky.social · 4d

The US doesn’t even give Americans healthcare. What makes you think that illegals would get it? They don’t and never have.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

Trump is Nixon with no capacity to feel regret or shame, and enabled by a party and Congress that won't put the country first. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-nixo...

Trump’s Abuses of Power Show We Didn’t Learn Much From the Nixon Era

That failure is implicit in nearly every frame of a new documentary about Katharine Graham.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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EccoMi! @skigirlid.bsky.social · 5d

It seems this has been in the works for a long time. Found this article about it from back in 2022. Still don’t think it’s a good idea though……

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$12 billion deal may bring hundreds of Qatar, US Air Force members to Idaho base

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5d

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EccoMi! @skigirlid.bsky.social · 5d

Whoohoo they wrote a continuing resolution. How about writing a damn budget?!?! The GOP controls all branches of government and they can’t get anything done.

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EccoMi! @skigirlid.bsky.social · 6d

It’s heartening to see people of faith out there with protesters to counteract the myth that to be a Christian you have to support mass deportations.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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