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R.A. Roth (Where am I?)

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Rush the Band/Neil Peart fan, amberized author pushing Sisyphus's mossy stone up the same damn hill every day, why are you still here? nothing to see! Also on Spoutible, @fantagor

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R.A. Roth (Where am I?) @fantagor.bsky.social · Nov 13

The world is a story nobody has ever seen the end of. Death is a cliff hanger that never gets resolved.

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Renée in L.A. @reneepatrice.bsky.social · 3h

Anyone still taking pride in not voting for Kamala Harris is admitting they are sociopathic.

a boy is talking to another boy in a hallway with the words dont @ me , dont talk to me were done

ALT: a boy is talking to another boy in a hallway with the words dont @ me , dont talk to me were done

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 6h

Trust me, Democratic candidates already have done this and the answer is always "you can't just say what you're against, you have to tell us what you're for" while ignoring the actual policies Democrats are running to enact

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 6h

Any election pitch against these guys should be "Hey do you hear what they're saying they're insane"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 1d

BREAKING: I figured out how to solve the gvmt shutdown / health care crisis.

Here is how we do it:

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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 2h

Karoline Leavitt is a complete disgrace.

Her violent and unhinged rhetoric is going to get someone killed.

These extremists are sick people.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1h

Glad to see Jeffries call out Karoline Leavitt's hateful and dangerous rhetoric. No Democrat should let that slide.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 1h

To the extent anyone cares, the legality of tapping into tariff money is identical to the legality of tapping into federal income tax money, because they are both taxes that accrue to the treasury. Appropriations are still needed to spend it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Leavitt: "The president tapped into tariff revenue to keep WIC money going out the door. He found a creative solution to keep the troops paid. And rather than congratulate him for doing that, this unprecedented action to get our troops paid, Dems want to sue him for it. They're saying it's illegal."

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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 2h

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.

"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."

It's a must-read:

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Demblu🩵🕊ThankYouJoe Biden @phranklindb.bsky.social · 2h

Rep Eric Swalwell:

I’m leading the call for Kristi Noem’s resignation.

As the senior-most Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, I’ve seen a lot — but what Noem is doing at the Department of Homeland Security is beyond the pale.

Continued..

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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 1d

THE DNC AND ITS OFFICERS DO NOT ENDORSE IN PRIMARY ELECTIONS —PERIOD!

THE DNC IS NOT FOR— OR— AGAINST YOUR FAVORITE CANDIDATE. WE SUPPORT THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES CHOSEN BY VOTERS.

WE FOCUS ONLY ON BEATING REPUBLICANS SO GOVERNMENT WORKS FOR US.

THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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Forbestonow @forbestonow.bsky.social · 2d

When I studied the Second World War I genuinely could not understand how the Germans found so many people to participate in their worst excesses. And I mean across the whole war, not just concentration camps.

I don't have a problem understanding it any more...

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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R.A. Roth (Where am I?) @fantagor.bsky.social · 16h

I have no qualms with the Bible being taught in public schools provided it's taught as a work of fiction, which it is. Anyone who accepts a book full of magic, wizardry, and tall tales as the unvarnished truth is a dangerous imbecile with no business teaching children.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16h

Oklahoma's new public schools superintendent is rescinding a mandate from his predecessor that forced schools to incorporate the Bible into lesson plans for students.

New Oklahoma schools superintendent rescinds mandate for Bible instruction in schools

Oklahoma's new public schools superintendent is rescinding a mandate from his predecessor that forced schools to incorporate the Bible into lesson plans for students.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

For the love of America, NoKings.org.

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R.A. Roth (Where am I?) @fantagor.bsky.social · 17h

I hate him in the Premier League. Glad he departed for Dubai, that bastion of freedom and liberty ruled by a monarchy with zero tolerance for democratic ideology.

R.A. Roth (Where am I?) @fantagor.bsky.social · 17h

Yes, it was a good idea to let a local gangbanger do my hip replacement surgeries and not an accredited orthopedic surgeon with 20 years of experience. I saved a bundle and the only side effect was having both legs amputated after the gangrene set in.

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Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 1d

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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R.A. Roth (Where am I?) @fantagor.bsky.social · 17h

I used to do it but my head is such a bed of coals now that I make both sides about equally hot so flipping the pillow doesn't offer much. Sleeping exclusively on my back changed things for the less cool.

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R.A. Roth (Where am I?) @fantagor.bsky.social · 17h

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The REAL Jesse Coffey @therealjessecoffey.bsky.social · 1d

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from firing workers during the government shutdown, saying the human cost "cannot be tolerated.”

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Simon's Cat @simonscatofficial.bsky.social · 1d

New Film Coming Soon!

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R.A. Roth (Where am I?) @fantagor.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone else besides Republicans struggling to keep swastikas and Nazi flags from accidentally magically appearing in their offices, on their lapels, car bumpers, and/or flag poles at home?

Anyone?

Buehler? Buehler? Buehler? Buehler? Buehler?

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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🦄)))🕊️🎗️✡️🐇 #VoteYesOnCAProp50 @melisandra01.bsky.social · 1d

“Genocide Joe! Killer Kamala!”

It was only ever about fucking up the Democratic Party in service to fascism.

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R.A. Roth (Where am I?) @fantagor.bsky.social · 1d

The frog and T-rex costumes are so effective because the last thing one of those brain dead ICE goons wants is to get captured on video arresting a person dressed in a fucking floppy frog outfit. It would look as absurd as arresting a windsock man and reduce their Orange Fuhrer to a weak jester.