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Tony Colletti

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More and more, my initial reaction to news stories is “WTF is wrong with people?!”

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Tony Colletti @tonyc007.bsky.social · Nov 12

In grade school, we had to write to somebody famous. I wrote Pres. Nixon to express my fear of the war shown on the news each night.

Change the names/dates in his reply and it could have been written by every President since.

Pray one day this comes true.

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Tony Colletti @tonyc007.bsky.social · 2h

Wait, the Constitution can be amended by a simple memo?

Tony Colletti @tonyc007.bsky.social · 2h

Is firing missiles at a U.S. State an act of terrorism and/or treason?

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PizzaCake @pizzacakecomic.bsky.social · 15h

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 4h

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 9h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Tony Colletti @tonyc007.bsky.social · 4h

Gee, seems not too long ago Texas was trying to arrest legislators who refused to conduct business.

Tony Colletti @tonyc007.bsky.social · 4h

Since when has “swinging” a foreign power to the right ever been a good idea? Not enough theocracies and brutal dictatorships in the world already?

Tony Colletti @tonyc007.bsky.social · 23h

Hillary was being way too nice when she referred to them as “deplorables.”

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

NEW: Adrian Fontes has CERTIFIED the results of the AZ-07 election of Adelita Grijalva. Mike Johnson is OUT of EXCUSES and should swear her in.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Not that anybody comes to me for Maine politics, but the fact that the Democrats successfully convinced a 77yo Governor to primary the 41yo progressive, is today's example of why the Democrats fucking stay failing.

Susan Collins is 72 and if Schumer gets his way, she'll be the YOUNGER choice!

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Tony Colletti @tonyc007.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds an awful lot like the “welfare queens” imaginary bogeyman that Republicans used decades ago.

Tony Colletti @tonyc007.bsky.social · 1d

Someone needs to slap the smug expression off that little sh*tweasel.

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Tony Colletti @tonyc007.bsky.social · 2d

Lucy saying “go ahead, Charlie Brown, this time I REALLY will not pull the ball away.” 🤦‍♂️

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3d

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Tony Colletti @tonyc007.bsky.social · 3d

WhO iS vLaD’s SpEcIaL boy?

a shiba inu dog is laying down on the floor and being petted by a person .

ALT: a shiba inu dog is laying down on the floor and being petted by a person .

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Tony Colletti @tonyc007.bsky.social · 3d

Republicans in Congress:

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

I hope reporters will ask all the Republicans in Congress for comment here.

Be sure to have them take the ball gags out of their mouths first.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Per WSJ, the Trump regime and Bannon are bragging they’re “ruling Congress with an iron fist” and that it is “largely ceremonial” like the Russian Duma.

Shameful. Not what the founders intended. 🇺🇸 @MarshaBlackburn @RepTimBurchett @AndyOgles

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Tony Colletti @tonyc007.bsky.social · 3d

Well, maybe they should do their job and actually finally resolve issues?

Tony Colletti @tonyc007.bsky.social · 3d

If Trump deems these protests “insurrections,” then Trump and his flunkies need to be charged with inciting insurrection since they are the ones causing all this.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Save this graph for the next time @MarshaBlackburn @SpeakerJohnson @JDVance try to hold $50 Billion for rural hospitals out as a of win for the 🇺🇸 people

We’re bad at math but $1.1 TRILLION in cuts (for tax cuts for the rich) > $50 BILLION

They think we are all morons

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 3d

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

Page One in Boston.

@bostonglobe.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

Nice recap

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 4d

No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.

Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 4d

No fingerprint or DNA tests were conducted in Jeffrey Epstein's cell after his death. Sus AF.

Release the Epstein files. Now.

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