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ShitILearned 💙 🇺🇦

@shitilearned.bsky.social

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Girl dad and husband first. Scientist with a PhD in whatever. Business owner. Healthcare and business analytics are my crafts. Data will show the way.

This is where I vent and snark.

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Front Range, Colorado.

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ShitILearned 💙 🇺🇦 @shitilearned.bsky.social · Oct 24

Let ICE know they are hated and despised.

Often and loud!!

Blasphemous Jones @blasphemousjones.bsky.social · Oct 22

"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown."

Source:
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Aletheia S.R.

@aletheia225.bsky.social

They're a link in this global fascist chain.

They're desperate.

We must foil their plan.

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4h

November 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM

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Christopher Webb

@cwebbonline.com

When they can’t bury the truth at the Capitol, they try to drown it in the river.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM

ShitILearned 💙 🇺🇦

@shitilearned.bsky.social

Fucked

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

The Trump economy is being propped up by a giant speculative bubble of AI and crypto, with a small group of people getting insanely wealthy and everyone else getting screwed while the Mad King tells us everything is great and everyone is thriving.

November 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM

ShitILearned 💙 🇺🇦

@shitilearned.bsky.social

It must be done!!

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 21h

. @rbreich.bsky.social explains how we can neuter Citizens United through the states, without changing the Constitution or requiring all 50 states to sign on. It sounds like a great idea to me.

www.rawstory.com/citizens-uni...

This grassroots rebellion can decapitate Supreme Court's catastrophic mistake

Several of you have told me that the first step out of the mess we’re in is to get rid of the Supreme Court’s bonkers Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision of 2010, which held that c...

www.rawstory.com

November 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM

ShitILearned 💙 🇺🇦

@shitilearned.bsky.social

Holy shit it keeps getting worse.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Local police officers and sheriffs in Mobile, Alabama, are abducting a man from the waiting room of a car dealership mechanic shop on behalf of ICE/DHS. During the kidnapping, he is administered an unidentified sedative.

November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM

ShitILearned 💙 🇺🇦

@shitilearned.bsky.social

Investigate the bros!

Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 1d

Doge is dead, next

November 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM

ShitILearned 💙 🇺🇦

@shitilearned.bsky.social

This about sums it up.

Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 1d

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

November 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM

ShitILearned 💙 🇺🇦

@shitilearned.bsky.social

Actually, you go to fucking prison to be ass raped into oblivion.

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

New rule: if you’re a Supreme Court Justice and you’re mentioned in the Epstein files, you have to recuse from any future lawsuit about the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

November 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM

ShitILearned 💙 🇺🇦

@shitilearned.bsky.social

We are definitely the bad guys now 😭

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

I so relate to this, and it makes me very sad.

Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 1d

November 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM

ShitILearned 💙 🇺🇦

@shitilearned.bsky.social

Fuck

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

We’re about to invade Venezuela because trump wants their oil. No other reason. The airspace has been cleared. Embassies are being evacuated. Flights are being canceled.

He’s going to kill people for oil.

November 24, 2025 at 3:13 AM

ShitILearned 💙 🇺🇦

@shitilearned.bsky.social

Agreed. Stop giving those fuckers your content.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”

Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

November 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM

ShitILearned 💙 🇺🇦

@shitilearned.bsky.social

If you haven't left yet, you are still part of the problem.

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d

Twitter now displays where accounts are from and it has confirmed that too many of the political accounts are out of country bots.

Why are folks still there? To argue with bots? A waste of precious time while enriching the richest man on Earth.

Delete your account.

November 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM

ShitILearned 💙 🇺🇦

@shitilearned.bsky.social

This is great!

Karen Dippity 🐾 🌵 🎀 🐸✌🏻 @karendippity.bsky.social · 2d

Happy weekend! I came across this amazingly well written synopsis of the Trump/Mamdani meeting from Bruce Fanger. Worth the read. 1/2

Thirty Minutes in the Lion’s Den: The Interview Trump Thought He Controlled
White Rose USA — November
There’s a strange thing that happens when you watch the full thirty-minute interview instead of the clipped version the internet tosses around. The edges soften. The masks slip. And you start to see the actual geometry of the interaction — where power sits, where insecurity leaks, where the tone changes, where the truth speaks by accident. The viral clip makes it look like a moment. The full meeting reveals a dynamic.
This wasn’t a showdown. It wasn’t a humiliation. It wasn’t a triumph for either man. It was something far more revealing: a case study in how a bully behaves when he can’t rely on fear, and how a principled politician behaves when he refuses the role of the victim.
The meeting begins as all Trump meetings do — with noise.
The first five minutes are pure Trump: monologues disguised as greetings, numbers inflated beyond physics, scattered recollections of the 1980s like the era froze and preserved

The first five minutes are pure Trump: monologues disguised as greetings, numbers inflated beyond physics, scattered recollections of the 1980s like the era froze and preserved him in amber. You can practically hear his brain flipping through its greatest hits, trying to set the tone: This is my room. My chair. My story.
But Mamdani doesn’t react to any of it.
And that is the first hinge of the meeting.
A man like Trump needs emotional feedback to function. Fear works. Flattery works. Even anger works. Mamdani gives him nothing. He sits there with the calm of someone who refuses to let the other person set the emotional tempo. It’s a small thing, but with Trump, it’s enough to break the cycle.
Then comes the shift — the “gracious Trump” phase.
People mistake this for maturity or diplomacy. It’s not. It’s a reflex Trump only deploys when he can’t dominate the room. The tone goes soft, the eyebrows lift, the compliments come out in forced, syrupy bursts.
“You’re doing great work.”
“New York is lucky to have you.”
“You’re a very smart guy.”

“You’re doing great work.”
“New York is lucky to have you.”
“You’re a very smart guy.”
It sounds statesmanlike until you remember the same man called him a communist threat two weeks earlier. What’s happening here isn’t respect — it’s adaptation. A chameleon trying to match the color of the wall.
Trump is gracious when graciousness benefits Trump.
As Mamdani shifts to policy, Trump drifts into autobiography.
This is the most telling stretch — minutes twelve to eighteen. Mamdani tries to talk like a mayor-elect:
transit
housing
Rikers
federal cooperation
immigrant protections
Real issues, real stakes, real governance.

Trump responds by vanishing into his own mythology. Crime statistics from memory that don’t exist. Grievances about prosecutors. Stories from “the old days.” Complaints about how unfairly he’s been treated.
It’s not sabotage — it’s incapacity.
Mamdani is speaking a civic language Trump’s brain can’t decode.
They aren’t having the same conversation.
They aren’t even on the same continent.
Then comes the moment everyone’s dissecting — the “fascistic tendencies” line.
And yes, it happened in the room, not after. Mamdani doesn’t weaponize the word. He doesn’t turn it into a headline. He does something more dangerous: he analytically names the pattern.
Immigrant raids.
Political retribution.
Targeting dissent.
Erosion of checks and balances.
Threats against the judiciary.
He lays out the evidence and names the behavior: fascistic tendencies.

November 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM

ShitILearned 💙 🇺🇦

@shitilearned.bsky.social

I hope their lives are ruined, but Musk must suffer the most.

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 2d

"Musk had not been just their visionary leader. For them, he was their protector: the man who had a direct line to Trump, who they believed could pick up the phone and secure a presidential pardon if the worst came. Without his presence in Washington, they were suddenly exposed.”

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 2d

Lawyer up, you little shits.

“Current and former DOGE staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to haunt them with the possibility of criminal prosecutions.“

November 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM

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Khashoggi's Ghost

@urocklive1.bsky.social

This is interesting.

Anthony Andrews
@anthon7yandrews
If you have never read this, please do. If you have, please do again. It is a cleaned up version of an FSB agent interview Christopher Steel shared with the FBI during his own interview with them in October 2017. Read every word. It tells us the entire game.

This is from Chris Steele's FBI interview in 2017, and it's too long to type out. TLDR: Trump is a Russian asset because they've had dirt on him for decades, showing that he's cruel, dark, has mental issues with women, and Lordy there are tapes stored in multiple places.

November 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM

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The Tennessee Holler

@thetnholler.bsky.social

Genius

November 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM

ShitILearned 💙 🇺🇦

@shitilearned.bsky.social

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Travis R. Eby @travis-robert.bsky.social · 3d

Someone with terminal Fox News brain fuming about imaginary communists and then doing a 180 the second they meet someone in real life is honestly the perfect encapsulation of the last ten years of American politics

November 23, 2025 at 2:48 AM

ShitILearned 💙 🇺🇦

@shitilearned.bsky.social

🥴

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 2d

So the US was aware that the world thought the document was US endorsed, yet waited until now to clarify that it wasn't?

How could the US have communicated to Ukraine that they had to accept the proposal or lose US support without clarifying that the Russian proposal wasn't actually their proposal?