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USDemocracy @usdemocracy.bsky.social · 39m

Republicans ＆Trump are 100% responsible for the government shutdown.

DO NOT fall for MAGA's lies.
#TrumpsHealthCareShutdown
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 1h

I'm posting these to show how the right wing will try to spread lies. And Forbes listed Pam Bondi at $5 million while she claims that it's $1.5 million

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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 56m

The orange conman is always filled with hateful lies.

#USDemocracy

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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 45m

For those who are better at understanding things they read, like me, than listen to or watch, the link is the Wikipedia page about Rockbridge

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h

No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.

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Sam🏳️‍🌈🌊🏳️‍⚧️ @separker.bsky.social · 2h

Accurate. Who imagined all these institutions would roll over for the likes of Taco?
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h

No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 2h

I have the backstory on that as well; which I will post in a day or so.

It's happened because of a thing called "Project 100,000"

"Woke Content" will be in Vietnam for a few days.

There's hidden history we need to learn.

*sound*

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Sam🏳️‍🌈🌊🏳️‍⚧️ @separker.bsky.social · 2h

As we move deeper into the regime utilizing every possible monitoring tool on protestors, there are ways we can be much safer and still use our phones for videos.
#USDemocracy

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Surveillance Self-Defense

We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a member-supported non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty-five years. This is Surveillance Self-Defense: our expert guide to protecting ...

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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 5h

Well, we do hate the idea of having a dictator or a king but if there are any terrorists involved, they must be hiding their affinity for terrorism. They just don't like the idea of protests of any kind but the first amendment gives us the right.

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Republicans Call 'No Kings' Protest A 'Hate America' Rally, Suggest Terror Link

"The Antifa crowd and the pro-Hamas crowd and the Marxists, they're all going to gather on the Mall," Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said of pro-democracy groups.

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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 5h

Mike Johnson must have attended.

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Traffic doubled! #duet #grindr #charliekirk #memorial #app #maga #closet #DL #downlow #men #hmm

YouTube video by Hawk's Podcasts / mdg650hawk

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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 2h

Let him rail. Like the left leaning priests and pastors keep saying, we are more dangerous with words than guns. Look at the right wing gun nuts for any deaths

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Conservative influencer Benny Johnson accuses Democratic Party of violence as Pam Bondi announces arrest in his death threat | CNN Politics

A conservative influencer railed against the Democratic Party for having “mainstreamed violence as a political tool” during a Justice Department press conference where Attorney General Pam Bondi discu...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4h

This unwell man, who was President of the United States, is trying to rewrite history.

Nice try, Don. Biden wasn’t president on January 6, 2021. I would say even his own voters can’t be this gullible, but…

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Sam🏳️‍🌈🌊🏳️‍⚧️ @separker.bsky.social · 2h

Those on Truth Social just suck up everything he tells them, no questions asked.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4h

This unwell man, who was President of the United States, is trying to rewrite history.

Nice try, Don. Biden wasn’t president on January 6, 2021. I would say even his own voters can’t be this gullible, but…

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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 5h

I'm sure DeSantis could careless about this.

#USDemocracy

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Trump's 'Beautiful' Bill Cuts $3.8 Billion from Florida’s Healthcare System, Hurting Hospitals and the Poor | FlaglerLive

President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” will cut $3.8 billion from Florida’s health care system, with that money primarily affecting Florida hospitals. Five Florida programs are over a certain c...

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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 3h

I find it interesting that we have had several protests since he took office in January but all of a sudden, they have a problem with them and they have become terrorism. What changed? The fact that some MAGA

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Dangerous new MAGA lie: Republicans smear peaceful protesters as ‘terrorists’

“Trump and the MAGA cronies know there are likely to be millions of people in the streets on October 18th for the No Kings protests. And so their strategy is to preemptively paint patriotic, dissentin...

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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 3h

Say his name.

#SilverioVillegasGonzalez

How do you tell the innocent children that their only father will never come home?

#USDemocracy

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Elizabeth Pennysworth @epennysworth.bsky.social · 36m

Every bit of this mess that we’re currently enduring is because rich people need more money & they dgaf if you’re hungry or homeless or dead in order for them to get more money

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LorriefromCanada @lorriefmp.bsky.social · 36m

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 1h

Vance flies to Indiana to press for gerrymandering instead of trying to head off Affordable Care hits to 86,000 Indianans.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 1h

Good morning everyone
Stellar performance
The great Amy Poehler and Tina Fey on SNL last night

Last night Amy Poehler as Pam Bondi
"I'm not going to talk about my private conversations with the president
I'm not telling you who fell asleep mid sentence or who kept calling me Ivanka "🤣

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1h

Goons jump and tackle Captain America in
Portland.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 58m

The Trump administration has now reversed the layoffs of a lot of federal employees. At the CDC, officials said some staff were mistakenly terminated due to a procedural error.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 58m

oh this guy is delusional delusional

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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