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cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social @cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social · 3h

The irony is that the photographer was trying to make him look heroic with that low-angle shot against a blue sky with a halo-like cloud. Well, you can put lipstick on a pig, as the wise saying goes, but it doesn't work and it annoys the pig. How true.

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cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social @cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social · 3h

Demand paper ballots. Use absentee ballots IF there is a safe and secure drop-off point. Do not entrust them to Louis DeJoy's wrecking crew in the USPS.

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Jennifer Taylor @jtaylor27.bsky.social · 1d

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cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social @cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social · 3h

With Netanyahu there is exactly zero chance that he will either honor an agreement or hold off on the ethnic cleansing.

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cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social @cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social · 3h

And people currently actively engaged in lethal attacks on fishing boats while sending the military against their own citizens.

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cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social @cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social · 3h

But Time Magazine wrote a puff piece praising him to the skies and calling this the greatest achievement of his Presidency. And how did he thank them? By whining on X that the cover photograph was unflattering. It was taken from a low angle against the sky to make him look heroic, but failed.

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1prayerwarrior.bsky.social @1prayerwarrior.bsky.social · 12h

Amen

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 15h

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cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social @cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social · 3h

And breathing while homeless gets you capital punishment, per Brian Kilmeade.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

A notice from @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social.

Will run in newspapers across the nation.

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cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social @cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social · 4h

Oops, sorry, earlier than that. 1930s and 40s.

cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social @cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social · 4h

That is straight out of Heinlein's "Future History." The way the future was in the 1950's.

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cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social @cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social · 4h

Funny how they keep finding all this evidence in the files that Doge ransacked last winter.

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cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social @cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social · 4h

Disbar Bondi. She's deserved it 10 time over.

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cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social @cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social · 4h

They also said that the evil Commie government would send black army helicopters to attack them.

Guess what the Trump administration did in Chicago?

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cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social @cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social · 15h

And where was the Biden administration when a radical woke leftist attacked Harper's Ferry? Or when some crazy, woke feminist teenaged girl attacked the English at the battle of Orleans?

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

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

You gotta give ‘em hop.

A tweet from the Anonymous account says, “Make sure the dude in the frog costume in Portland knows he's an icon.” The image is a stylized poster of a frog wearing a stars-and-stripes scarf with the word “HOP” below, in the style of the Obama “HOPE” poster.

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cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social @cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social · 23h

It's part of the philosophy that force soves all problems, and the weak belong to the strong.

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cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social @cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social · 23h

The reason the effort to replace Obamacare was so traumatic for Mike was that he realized the R's could NOT do any better!The ACA already WAS the conservative, market based plan Romney had implemented in MA. But if a Black man to do the same it instantly became Communism.

cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social @cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social · 23h

A concept of a preliminary planning document of a pre-meeting meeting.

cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social @cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social · 23h

She's heard him say it. That drives parents crazy! Don't say anything to your kid that you can't tolerate when you hear them say it back.

cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social @cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social · 1d

The Bezos Daily Groveler is nothing like the late, lamented WaPo.

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Rick Paisano @sicilianrick.bsky.social · 1d

This Halloween, I'm giving away books.

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cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social @cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social · 1d

What happens next? Will they sell her to Ghislaine Maxwell?

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cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social @cassandrasilvestra.bsky.social · 1d

Just look at all that crime and carnage 🙄

Go, marathoners!

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