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Crissa @crissakentavr.bsky.social · 3h

Okay. That seems something I should write in my letter.

There's a reason to how the governor times his vetoes...

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Crissa @crissakentavr.bsky.social · 3h

So jelly.

Crissa @crissakentavr.bsky.social · 3h

Oh no, the person who inherited a company wasn't horrible when everyone else who did was!

Crissa @crissakentavr.bsky.social · 3h

You should probably be removed from their lists, too.

Crissa @crissakentavr.bsky.social · 3h

Dude, you should delete more of your posts.

You said it took decades to get our rights and decades to lose them.

...when the rights you cited were only country-wide for less than a decade.

Hopefully you can do the math on that.

Crissa @crissakentavr.bsky.social · 3h

Do they have a session planned?

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Crissa @crissakentavr.bsky.social · 7h

And yes, I heard about the Defense authorization. One got through, pitting 15k of our jobs against tens of millions of people's healthcare and jobs, and that sucks.

But it also doesn't actually change the situation, as the administration was already firing them as Republicans weren't stopping him.

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Crissa @crissakentavr.bsky.social · 7h

It also requires the officers identify themselves to establish authority.

If they're just yelling police while threatening, they haven't established they're not fake authority.

Crissa @crissakentavr.bsky.social · 7h

Sure, but it wouldn't work.

Running around hoping to find ICE agents to interrupt is just needle in a haystack work - a needle which would be avoiding you and has friends to frustrate your efforts.

Bystanders and citizens can do it because of happenstance and prior anonymity.

Crissa @crissakentavr.bsky.social · 7h

I hate how bsky can't tell the difference between this and raw porn insertion video.

This is adorable.

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Crissa @crissakentavr.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah no.

This is where the 'distraction' talk comes from - if they do enough bad things, no one opposing them has enough time or support to mention every bad thing.

Which makes it easier to break the opposition apart as we all want our call out and attack each other instead.

Crissa @crissakentavr.bsky.social · 8h

Some reviewers (and commenters) would rather write their preconceived notions rather than the movie as delivered.

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Crissa @crissakentavr.bsky.social · 10h

It wouldn't make it past filibuster if those votes hadn't been there.

There are some battles to have, and 15k trans people vs tens of millions of jobs and healthcare is a horribly lopsided one.

Crissa @crissakentavr.bsky.social · 10h

"They could have filibustered it," ≠ "Republicans don't need their votes to pass it."

If they can filibuster it, Republicans need their votes to pass it. (Otherwise they can't even vote to pass it.)

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Crissa @crissakentavr.bsky.social · 10h

...And unlike defending lies, I can just... Block them. And they're no longer in the thread.

Crissa @crissakentavr.bsky.social · 10h

- I think you mean the 2025 NDAA.
- They could have filibustered both of them. But that would have also harmed children.

You think there was no need. But all those millions of people who wouldn't get healthcare and paychecks might disagree.

That's the power the bigots have. Don't help them.

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Crissa @crissakentavr.bsky.social · 10h

Isn't it weird you're uhh... 'knowingly making false and misleading statements'?

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