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Brianna Chesser

@chessercat.bsky.social

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Not the character of the day 🫶 “That’s a matter between me and my grammarian”

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · Jun 17

Arrests the right has been calling unjust government overreach for 30+ years

Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, being led out of his cabin by an FBI agent who looks like a rancher. No tactical gear, just a cowboy hat, and jeans.
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The surrender of Randy Weaver, who was Ashli Babbitt before Ashli Babbitt. In a black and white photo, Weaver is holding his infant daughter and flanked by an FBI agent and aⁿ Idaho state trooper whom he appears to be holding hands with, though maybe they’re cuffed to each other. They’re all wearing jeans, and there’s some uniformed officers behind them. There are two people in the foreground, both civilians, one of them in his teens. The FBI agent is arresting a literal terrorist with what appears to be a cell phone on his belt, and a button-down, not a bunch of body armor.

Weaver sold automatic rifles to Nazis, and also a federal agent. He was small fry, but he got most of his family killed by entering a standoff with the Feds—he told his middle school aged sons to fire on federal officers. For whatever reason (president was a democrat/they love Nazis), republicans thought that this was egregious government overreach, something they couldn’t claim about the idiot in Oregon because we all saw the video of him pointing a gun at cops, and heard the audio clearly. This was impossible for Babbitt because she was surrounded by a bunch of other screaming terrorists, allowing them to create their own fantastic narrative.
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 6h

Let me turn my phone off cause this type of shit here...

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 6h

There are 2.5x as many people in the United States than in the 1960s, so even that seems like an odd comparison, and it’s completely ignoring the BLM and George Floyd protests, whether or not you want to include them in the civil rights movement overall.

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Black Guy Does Sociology @blackmanbeyond.bsky.social · 6h

That is such a ridiculous claim because even if there were metrics to support it, wth is the point of the statement? & this feels like another one of those things where the person making the argument probably hasn't read enough on the subject. The multi-facetedness of the CRM is a KEY characteristic

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 6h

THIS IS NOT THE CANON

Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 6h

thats right

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 7h

JD Vance argues that Republicans don’t love Nazis in general, just Hitler specifically.

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Democrats @democrats.org · 7h

@aoc.bsky.social on the GOP shutdown: When one party wants the votes of another party, you negotiate and you pass a bill. That is Schoolhouse Rock, and that is how things should be.

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 10h

The Antideficiency Act prohibits the US gov't from entering into a contract that is not "fully funded" because doing so would obligate the gov't in the absence of an appropriation adequate to the needs of the contract.

So what 47 is doing re. funding of his ballroom is against the law.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 12h

Exclusive: More than three dozen organizations and individuals are expected to attend a dinner with Trump on Wednesday after opening their checkbooks to support a $250 million White House ballroom.

Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner

The dinner is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.

on.wsj.com

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 7h

I’m not an expert, but are you supposed to *announce* the fact that you’re authorizing a covert CIA action?

It seems need-to-know to anyone outside the NSC, Intelligence Committees, and Gang of Eight until after the fact?

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

www.nytimes.com

Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 9h

It’s a longer, more expensive to convince non-voters to register and make a plan to vote, especially if they’re being bombarded with misinformation.

They felt like a breath of fresh air because they got a lot of positive earned media coverage. Then it was back to the trump show, not self-sabotage.

Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 9h

Swing voters and centrists vote. Non-voters don’t. That’s why candidates try to appeal to swing voters and moderates.

No one was ever going to be perfect enough for the people loudly proclaiming that they aren’t voting—now protecting women’s rights is why, even though women ARE economic rights.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 12h

Insurance rates up $2000.

Food benefits cut off.

Farmers unable to sell their crops.

Skyrocketing national debt.

$40 billion to Argentina.

America First!

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 10h

Presumably, most American men over 30 are, but I’m certainly not going to check.

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bobcrunkle.bsky.social @bobcrunkle.bsky.social · 16h

Wake up, Cheryl
I think I got something to say to you
It's late September & all the kids are back in school
I know that vaxes work, but my brainworm says "Be a jerk"
Oh Cheryl, I couldn't have tried...any less

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 10h

He wrote a similar one in the NYT like 6 months ago

Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 10h

So excited that he could return to Congress next year

Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 10h

They should make a Boland Amendment Peace Prize

Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 10h

Oh, that guy! I only knew his blog name.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Meanwhile, Justice Gorsuch is nodding along to oral arguments at the Supreme Court about how there’s no racism in politics anymore

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 12h

This guy was a clerk for Justice Gorsuch. Anyone want to argue this is not a racist (and damn stupid) taunt?

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 11h

imo if your workplace culture is such that employees feel comfortable displaying swastikas in their cubicles then the swastika-displaying employee is somehow not actually the biggest problem