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Musician, lover of dogs & soccer, proponent of democracy & bold action on climate change. Don’t blame me, I voted for the laughing lady.

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jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · Jun 22

The saddest thing about the whole Trump era is that Americans, in general, are so easily duped by a snake oil salesman, repeatedly. Even after seeing that they were duped, repeatedly, they just sign right back up again. OK, that snake oil, again, didn't work, but he's got a new one out now!

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jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 6h

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jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 7h

All enabled by the RW propaganda machine that allows them to create an alternate reality and successfully push it down to their "base", dragging mainstream media halfway along. If people understood that they are useless performative con artists and not governing, they'd be voted out.

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 8h

Trump and Johnson could be protecting military paychecks. Democrats have a bill to do it. But their top priority is blocking the release of the Epstein files.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 11h

"Donald Trump and Mike Johnson are engaging in a cover-up to shield people who were involved in raping children."

Rep. Melanie Stansbury

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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 16h

Listen to what real presidents sound like versus Donald Trump.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 21h

1) WHY isn't this a bigger story? High food prices were cited time and again as a major 2024 campaign issue?

2) Democrats said said over and over again this was going to happen.

3) Why didn't the MSM take it more seriously, when trump LIED over and over again about bringing food prices down???

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Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 19h

ICE arrests & disappears our neighbors to inhumane foreign prisons without due process, violating their habeas corpus right where a court reviews detention/imprisonment to determine whether lawful. Say "NO" to Felon Trump's racist & criminal actions.

Support our campaign to oppose MAGA extremists

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CARTOON OF THE DAY

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jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 19h

Inventing emergencies / realities as pretext for their agenda - it's their whole game & they have the cover of the RW propaganda machine & feckless legacy press. When you can invent your own realities & get away with it, you never lose. The press is failing us by not calling it out in plain terms.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

Imagine that

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jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah, we're entering the "blow up the citizens in your country whom you don't like" phase. It's not great... :-(

jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 19h

Exactly. The protestors are the ones whi *love* America and want to see it get back on the right path. As always, he has it completely backwards.

jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah that’s rich. Here’s the truth. Putin is a hideously murderous war-criming dictator. If there’s any justice in the world, Trump’s coddling of Putin should keep Trump out of consideration for a Nobel for the rest of his life.

jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah the gaslighting is so thick. She drops the Melissa Hortman murder just after the “antifa” thing in an attempt to gaslight people into thinking that “antifa” had something to do with it. These people are completely shameless liars.

jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 1d

Nice to see some media org giving Trump's health and fitness for office 1/100 of the attention that Biden's got.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans just blocked a bill to pay the troops

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 1d

and would have probably gotten away with it. If the "pee tapes" exist and are ever released, or heck, compromising Trump tapes from Epstein, they will surely claim that they are fake, and may get away with it by virtue of the power of the RW propaganda machine. /2

jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, if anything seemingly real can be fake, anything seemingly fake can be real. And of course Trump leverages the latter already. The Epstein book / note are "fake". If LLM's had existed in their current state at the time of the Access Hollywood tapes Trump could have claimed they are fake /1

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jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 1d

I'll DM you.

jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 1d

Is the mainstream media calling out these lies anywhere? Hello? If Biden lied even 1/1000th as much about something the NYT would be covering it for 6 months and Jake Tapper would have written a 12-volume set about it.

jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 1d

Well I think the question is if regime change can be achieved peacefully. I don’t know Machado well enough to say, but based on her comments about Trump I get the feeling she’d be fine with a violent regime change as long as it’s Trump throwing around American might and not her own people fighting.

jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 1d

So basically, he doesn't even need to hide the fact that he's just spewing propaganda for the west. The American RW will carry water for him anyway, because they want his help in grabbing power here in the US. These are the ultimate traitors.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

When Putin talks to a Russians he consistently says that they invade Ukraine to destroy the state and nation and correct the path of history. NATO and similar framings are just for the useful foreigners.

Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 11d

Pu spells out Ru's imperialist motivations for the war. He calls the conquest a long-held dream and historical destiny.

He beclowns those who insist NATO expansion caused the war. Let's see if anyone from the Mearsheimer fan club admits the claim has been falsified.
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jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 1d

protected status - fine!! Regime change in Venezuela would be great, but if it it's done by force of war, I don't think know how that would result in anyone involved in or advocating for that should be getting a Nobel Peace Prize. /2

jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 1d

Maria Machado is kissing Trump's butt because she wants us to force regime change in Venezuela, so it wouldn't completely surprise me. Intra-judicial killings of Venezuelan citizens off the coast of Venezuela - fine! Horrendous treatment of Venezuelan immigrants in the US and removal of their /1

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