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birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 16h

That's because the Greatest Gen moved and acted en masse to lift the world out from under the threat of worldwide fascism.
My dad fought in WWII, in France.
Our parents and grandparents would never have believed their children and grands would have voted for, and support fascists and fascism. 💔

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 22h

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birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 16h

A corporate press born from a section of Clinton's Telecommunication Act of 1996.
This should have been repealed by any Democrat, or red lover of democracy, but nope.

birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 16h

And I will sob that he will be venerated in The People's Capitol.

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birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 16h

I was going to post the photo, but the headline running with that TIME photo is, "His Triumph."
Yeah...nope, eff that.

birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 16h

The right's response to the left's attempt to stop the right from completely destroying the U.S. Constitution is so gross.

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Harlow’s Musings @harlowsmusings.bsky.social · 1d

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Rep-Elect Adelita Grijalva announces her election results will be OFFICIALLY certified tomorrow, destroying Mike Johnson’s last excuse to delay her swearing in.

“Mike Johnson needs to do his job so I can do mine.”

No more lies.
No more delays.
Swear her in!

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birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 20h

Msm lifted the entire maga movement.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 2d

Good For You Senator Schiff 👏🏻
We Will All Stand With You against
Chump's Authoritarian Regime.......

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

In twelve days, New Yorkers will begin to cast their ballots and face a stark choice.

A choice between democracy and oligarchy. Between a city you can afford or more of the same. Between the hope of a brighter future or a broken past.

We will choose the future.

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birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 23h

Florida used to have world-class universities; international students sought them out.
Desantis has now destroyed the higher education system in Florida.
I hope out-of-staters rethink coming to Florida for an education.

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Tampa Bay resister 🇺🇸🇨🇿🇨🇴🏴‍☠️⚡️🐶🎧 @depechemodefan101.bsky.social · 23h

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

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birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 1d

"Trump is the son, and grandson, of immigrants: German on his father’s side, and Scottish on his mother’s. None of his grandparents, and only one of his parents, was born in the United States or spoke English as their mother tongue."
History.com

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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when this was the norm?

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birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 1d

Desantis is doing a bang up job of voter suppression too.
FLORIDIANS!
*Call your county Supervisor of Elections!
*Check on your voter status; Desantis has purged voter rolls.
*Request your mail-in ballot! Desantis has changed the rules regarding receiving mail-in ballots; it's no longer automatic.

birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 1d

It's true. Citizens United ended representation for the actual "we the people."

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birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 1d

I can't imagine dwelling on another person's life like this. To build up such hate against another person for their most intimate nature.
💔💔💔💔💔

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birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 1d

How can that have been 27 years ago?
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

James Baldwin wisdom

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a3minutewonder.bsky.social @a3minutewonder.bsky.social · 3d

#signsonSunday
East Putney

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birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 1d

The only way these so-called Americans can act this way towards other Americans is "pack mentality."

birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 1d

Ummm...some of us lived thru that, and thought, hoped, Watergate, Nixon, would be the worst to happen in our gov't, in our lifetimes.
This Republican Congress is as mental as Donald Trump; as greedy; as unethical; as immoral.

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