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Joe Discenza @jdiscenza.bsky.social · 1d

ApPEASement never works.

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Joe Discenza @jdiscenza.bsky.social · 1d

I keep misreading this as “Bribery Vote”, and, y’know, I might not be wrong.

Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 2d

Former GOP Election Official Buys Election Machine Vendor That Trump Attacked After His 2020 Loss. Dominion Voting Systems is now Liberty Vote. gizmodo.com/former-gop-e...

Former GOP Election Official Buys Election Machine Vendor That Trump Attacked After His 2020 Loss

Dominion Voting Systems is now Liberty Vote.

gizmodo.com

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Joe Discenza @jdiscenza.bsky.social · 1d

Three years ago I flew from Tampa to Cleveland for the wildcard game. You know, the FIFTEEN INNING wc game. I left my college roommate in the stands after 11 because I had to catch my plane.

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Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 3d

Free Texas!

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

A peaceful protest rally under the Tom Paine motto "No Kings" is being held on the mall in Washington and in hundreds of other sites around the country. Prior No Kings rallies have attracted 11-12 million attendees, the largest political rallies in US history. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Joe Discenza @jdiscenza.bsky.social · 1d

I wasn’t saying it was a good thing. I’m waiting to be able to turn off the AC and open the windows in the morning (perhaps this week!).

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 2d

We need to see a fuck-ton of litigation and suing as American citizens seek redress from ICE misidentification of American citizens.
Make the need to do things properly too expensive for this government to ignore.

Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 2d

So this IL Hospital Association memo describes an incident where ICE detained a US citizen, gave them HEART PROBLEMS, took them to a hospital where the fought with medical personnel, then left when they realized they detained a CITIZEN.

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Joe Discenza @jdiscenza.bsky.social · 2d

… of January (Tampa)

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Dirt Dork. @dirtdork.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think these guys have thought about how calling a bunch of teachers and retired postal workers "terrorists" is going to work out for them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Joe Discenza @jdiscenza.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing says “America First” like buying $2Bn in Argentine pesos when their farmers are replacing Americans as China’s soybean source.

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 2d

Humor, whimsy, levity = powerful tools in disproving the lies of the regime. We are not violent domestic terrorists. We are non-threatening Americans in silly costumes. This is how we make the regime look both extreme (bc they are) and show their claims are ridiculous.

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Joe Discenza @jdiscenza.bsky.social · 2d

100% is correct, because it’s “over and above” what they’re currently “paying”, and CHINA DOESN’T PAY THE TARIFFS; WE do.

Joe Discenza @jdiscenza.bsky.social · 2d

This is exactly the theme of the play that gave us the word “robot”: Capek’s RUR, Rossum’s Universal Robots.

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Joe Discenza @jdiscenza.bsky.social · 3d

“I’ll leave crumbs in *your* bed, Bert!”

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 6d

BREAKING: Photo of the violent insurrectionists causing politicians to fear for their lives.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 8d

"a tradition"???

It's literally the law.

This matters because the law is not self-executing. If we treat it as non-binding, its constraints grow even looser.

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Joe Discenza @jdiscenza.bsky.social · 3d

This is certainly less than half my CDs. I am old.

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Joe Discenza @jdiscenza.bsky.social · 3d

Welcome to my OnlyBeans page #ProofOfCat

White cat lounging on her side, showing pink toe beans

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Joe Discenza @jdiscenza.bsky.social · 3d

*DOT here being “Transportation”.

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Joe Discenza @jdiscenza.bsky.social · 3d

You say “dod + treasury” as if USCG wasn’t DOT before being moved to DHS. DOD should not have a hand in border issues; militarized border enforcement is part of the problem.

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LA Blue Dot in GA @namwella1961.bsky.social · 6d

I wish Republicans were as outraged that Trump is ignoring court orders, using ICE as his Gestapo, and using the military against US citizens, as they were that time Barack Obama wore a tan suit.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

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Joe Discenza @jdiscenza.bsky.social · 4d

Who believes a Black man hangs /himself/ from a tree in the Deep South?

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8d

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Reportedly Finds Trey Reed Didn’t Die by Suicide — Family Attorney Ben Crump Hasn’t Confirmed

According to a source who isn't authorized to comment publicly, the autopsy of Trey Reed reveals that his death was not caused by a suicide.

www.blackenterprise.com

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Joe Discenza @jdiscenza.bsky.social · 4d

Our former family physician liked to joke, “Why did God make children? Because viruses don’t have legs!”

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 6d

Someone looking at all this with a cold eye might say that Miller and Hegseth are seeking control over the power ministries before a Vance ally invokes the 25th Amendment.

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 6d

OMFG🤬

Truly unbelievable. These folks are absolutely despicable if they want women to be executed for having an abortion…women need to start voting like our lives depend on the outcome of elections (which we all should have been doing all along)

Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 6d

ICYMI: One of Turning Point USA’s first campus events since Charlie Kirk’s murder is a panel of abortion “abolitionists” — extremists who want women executed for ending their pregnancies.

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Turning Point USA Hosts Campus Event Pushing Death Penalty for Abortion Patients

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