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Pal (she/they) @48oniram.bsky.social · 34m

i cant explain why this is so fucking funny to me. i just cant get the idea of someone calling bashar al assad a f*g out of my mind. it is absolutely killing me. i can't eat or sleep.

Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 4h

Some kid is doing the standard “ur mom” voice chat trash talk and they got no idea they’re talking to bashar al assad

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 54m

This whole series has been great, and genuinely moving, despite (or because of) being polished campaign video.

It is so rare to see those techniques—with that *surety*—used to say things like this, from positions like this, with a platform like this. No hedging, here.

Makes me want to do the work

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Pal (she/they) @48oniram.bsky.social · 1h

Hard to argue this is all the democrats’ fault when you have demonstrated you can spend or not spend and fire whoever you want and overrreach your grasp all the time

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Pal (she/they) @48oniram.bsky.social · 1h

like, as people start getting hurt and losing services and pay they're going to be like "Well, who's in charge"

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Pal (she/they) @48oniram.bsky.social · 1h

maybe they're right and people will blame the dems, god knows the propaganda is strong, but it seems wild that they think anyone would not blame the party that is in power literally in entirety. they have complete control of everything and an autocrat prez. it's all their fault

CNN @cnn.com · 6h

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

GOP leaders steadfast in shutdown stance despite rising pressure inside party | CNN Politics

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

www.cnn.com

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2h

Hard to find a more obvious example of the journalism adage “If someone says it’s raining outside and someone else says it isn’t, your job is not to quote them both, your job is to go outside.”

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 4h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Pal (she/they) @48oniram.bsky.social · 2h

people here are calling for Hurts and the coaches to be fired. they just won the super bowl and he was the MPV! like it's wild to me. And also, they are 4-2! it's not like theyre having an awful season. it was two bad games!

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Pal (she/they) @48oniram.bsky.social · 2h

lmao ok man

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3h

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

The IRS is laying off people during the shutdown, even though it was rehiring staff it previously fired because it was so shorthanded.
This one stands out because firing IRS employees costs the government money, since they bring in about $6-8 for every dollar spent on tax enforcement

IRS Halts Layoff Plans, Begins Rehiring Amid Staffing Shortages
The agency is attempting to rebuild its workforce and restore public confidence.

Treasury Department: Treasury cut 1,446 employees on Friday. Two Internal Revenue Service employees confirmed layoffs were taking place at the tax agency, which has already shed more than 25,000 employees. One employee who was laid off was working Friday and exempt from shutdown furloughs.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 13h

[disclaimer: i'm just talkin, these are normative statements, idk and am not commenting on what infrastructure exists irl]

there has to be a way to absorb some of these people into state health departments..or set up an interstate body to keep tryna do this work..we just cant lose all this capacity

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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LUBNA 💚 @lo--ps2.bsky.social · 7h

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LUBNA 💚 @lo--ps2.bsky.social · 7h

💔💔 We lost everything in the war— our homes, our jobs, our safety. All that's left is hope, and even that fades a little more each day without your support. You may have moved on, but we’re still here, still struggling. Please, don’t forget us. We still need you💔🙏
gofund.me/edd687b8

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 10h

Honestly, it’s exhausting that people think Gazans should only ask for help to survive to eat, to stay alive but not to dream, to study, or to rebuild their lives. Wanting education, safety, and a future isn’t greed. It’s being human.

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Pal (she/they) @48oniram.bsky.social · 22h

poor little bluesky's poor little put upon mods might get all aflutter at my naughty language.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

nobel peace prize goes to Trump’s little extrajudical murder supporting friend

What a pack of fucking loser weirdos that panel is

Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 1d

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Pal (she/they) @48oniram.bsky.social · 22h

maybe i'll get banned but i'm tired of pretending these people aren't gross, evil pieces of fucking shit

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Pal (she/they) @48oniram.bsky.social · 22h

another example of the "evil rots you" phenomena. Look at this fucking disgusting twerp.

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Pal (she/they) @48oniram.bsky.social · 22h

jesus fucking christ he's only 9 years older than me??? Man, that's one thing I guess. Evil does rot your fucking body. I thought he was at least late 60s.

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Pal (she/they) @48oniram.bsky.social · 22h

it's just too much. it's too much fucking much that these whiny, dorky, fucking losers get everything they fucking want. i'm so fucking tired.

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Pal (she/they) @48oniram.bsky.social · 22h

a football player wearing a blue helmet with the number 4 on it

ALT: a football player wearing a blue helmet with the number 4 on it

media.tenor.com

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Pal (she/they) @48oniram.bsky.social · 22h

meanwhile i have to worry about making sure one of my parents has enough to live on because to get medicaid you have to have drained all your funds and medicaid is the only thing that pays for assisted living for the other parent when we get there. and my debt barely goes down every month.

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Pal (she/they) @48oniram.bsky.social · 22h

sure, he's a fascist. because he knows that il duce allows him to get no pushback while he destroys any kind of administrative state or regulation and also enacts his absolutely insane Christian theocracy laws as much as he can. i dont believe in hell but sometimes i fucking hope its real.

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Pal (she/they) @48oniram.bsky.social · 22h

completely fucking illegal. he does not stand for strong executive branch if the executive branch is anybody except his meat puppet. he's written of as believing in something but he doesn't, he believes in what can get him what he wants. he wants a strong executive because that's what gets him this

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Pal (she/they) @48oniram.bsky.social · 22h

if this administration is ever brought up on charges he should be the fucking first.

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Pal (she/they) @48oniram.bsky.social · 22h

every time i see this fuckwad's fucking face. knowing how gleeful he feels, that he feels he's won, that he's gotten exactly what his demented, lunatic, extremist brain has always wanted, i feel such rage at how unfair this world is, how stupid this country is.

Axios @axios.com · 22h

LATEST: Health and Human Services and the Treasury departments have sent out layoff notices, spokespeople confirmed to Axios

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