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Grace @equinox55.bsky.social · 6h

And “terrorists” can be summarily executed.

Grace @equinox55.bsky.social · 6h

Dump Emmer. Common voters!!!

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 8h

Well-known internet personality Robby Roadsteamer makes fun of ICE and calls them Nazis. They prove his point & come out to arrest him for trespassing after shoving him over the property line.

Just like Russia, if you protest the regime, men with guns come to take you away.
youtu.be/HHTuJ7P8YiM?...

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Grace @equinox55.bsky.social · 7h

Oil

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Grace @equinox55.bsky.social · 7h

Tell that to a roomful of construction workers.

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Grace @equinox55.bsky.social · 7h

Ask him about his pension.

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Grace @equinox55.bsky.social · 8h

Divide and conquer.

Grace @equinox55.bsky.social · 8h

I wonder if they’ve ever seen a snow monkey.

Grace @equinox55.bsky.social · 8h

Not surprised. Their deregulation made it moot. Bank sent out new terms of service within months of orange ass taking office. New rules and not for the benefit of the people.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 8h

nothing says "america first" and "free markets" like bailing out another country's libertarian failure because (1) the corrupt clown president who caused it says nice things about our own corrupt clown president and (2) our big banks don't know how to do capitalism and are the hook for a lot of it

Argentine Bonds Jump on News US Lining Up $40 Billion in Aid

Argentina’s sovereign bonds jumped Wednesday after media outlets reported that US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent outlined financial aid that would total $40 billion to Javier Milei’s government, dou...

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Grace @equinox55.bsky.social · 8h

Government for big business but paid for by working folk.

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 8h

Several St. Louis County commissioners are under fire from constituents for signing NDAs related to a massive data center proposed by an unknown company.

St. Louis County leaders blasted for signing data center-related NDAs

Three commissioners signed nondisclosure agreements related to the proposed Hermantown data center.

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Grace @equinox55.bsky.social · 8h

Nothing easier than sitting back and criticizing.

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Grace @equinox55.bsky.social · 8h

What are you doing about it?

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Grace @equinox55.bsky.social · 9h

Costly mistake.

PPL Comics @captainlinguini.bsky.social · 11h

Lots of people will try to do the right thing, but we've made the costly mistake of relying on an honor system. Then it just takes one greedy trick or treater to ignore the sign and take the entire bowl of Reese's cups.

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Grace @equinox55.bsky.social · 12h

Dictatorship behavior is not the American way.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h

"When Good White Folk
Speak Truth"
(Tim Wise)

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Grace @equinox55.bsky.social · 12h

Why not now? Enough vacation #HouseRepublicans

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 12h

Republicans more and more admit they need to extend Affordable Care credits, but disagree on WHEN to start negotiating. Seriously, they're shutting down the government over WHEN to negotiate healthcare? Why not now?

Grace @equinox55.bsky.social · 14h

It’s just rampant selfishness.

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Grace @equinox55.bsky.social · 14h

Fear of being ostracized at the country club. I’m sure we can all relate to that. 🙄
The church thing has been a reality since 2016 or even Bush era. I have friends that had to leave a church because they were against Hump.

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Blanche Devereaux @gingerkap23.bsky.social · 17h

What are your thoughts on this? I had heard about R’s being afraid of deranged magas or DT himself, but this sounds like cultural and societal pressure, which just tells you how embedded maga is in so many parts of the US and in so many facets of everyday life:

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Grace @equinox55.bsky.social · 15h

Snap

Grace @equinox55.bsky.social · 15h

They steal the value of your labor.

Grace @equinox55.bsky.social · 15h

😂

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Grace @equinox55.bsky.social · 15h

Yet Tom Emmer says the left is where political violence is. How are reasonable people voting for him?