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Hobbit Korkie

@korkie.bsky.social

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Tolkien nerd, Star Trek (all) nerd, political/historical/sociological nerd, believes science, gardener, herbalist, scratch cook, Christian Wiccan Presbyterian, Lesbian, Chronic Pain Pt, LOTRO Hobbit/Dwarf/Elf.

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Hobbit Korkie @korkie.bsky.social · Feb 12

In 2024,
154M votes were cast
168M voters were registered 2024
How many of 14M votes were either not cast or not counted?
How many of 44M eligible voters had their registrations tossed, lost, or delayed?
The article has some answers.

hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost...

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Hobbit Korkie @korkie.bsky.social · 4h

Interesting point

Hobbit Korkie @korkie.bsky.social · 7h

Cruelty is the objective.

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@Peg33 @peg33.bsky.social · 21h

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Hobbit Korkie @korkie.bsky.social · 7h

All we have to decide is what to do with the time given us. And Frodo carried the burden, Sam carried Frodo. We have a time given to us as well. Can we carry the burden. Can we throw Trump into Mt Doom?

Hobbit Korkie @korkie.bsky.social · 7h

Too many people like death and killing. Like Game of Thrones.

Hobbit Korkie @korkie.bsky.social · 7h

Sauron is replaced.

Hobbit Korkie @korkie.bsky.social · 7h

It's fantasy, not reality.

Hobbit Korkie @korkie.bsky.social · 7h

Game of thrones is just kinky sex and death. and more death. and more hopeless death. and gratuitous death. and excessive death. and then there's zombies.
Some of the actors made really good charactrers but the eavil and violence really made it all so pointless.

Hobbit Korkie @korkie.bsky.social · 8h

Who the fuck banned the Hobbit and why?

Hobbit Korkie @korkie.bsky.social · 8h

I'm mad at Thiel for using the term Palantir for his company.

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Hobbit Korkie @korkie.bsky.social · 8h

Ooo cool, I want to play!

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 17h

THESE are the promises I want to hear.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 18h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Hobbit Korkie @korkie.bsky.social · 11h

It's called creating trauma and insecurity. I do believe that they are doing this on purpose

Hobbit Korkie @korkie.bsky.social · 16h

That seems to be their main tactic, throwing women to the ground.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 20h

The President using the military as his personal police force to intimidate American citizens is deeply un-American. This is the behavior of an autocrat. Full stop.

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Dr. Mansa Keita @rasmansa.bsky.social · 1d

It still amazes me how many people assume that diversity means unqualified, and yet can't see what that says about their mode of thinking.

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grizpapa.bsky.social @grizpapa.bsky.social · 18h

Reminder that the Steele dossier was originally funded & researched by Republican "oppo" researchers, not Dems. The Dem party got it second-hand.
Also, Trump's own family talked to the press about their Russian funding sources for his business ventures, so there was ample "probable cause".

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Mitch Jackson ⚖️ @mitch.social · 1d

The President of the United States has a longer rap sheet than nearly everyone he’s trying to deport.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 19h

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, I'm no expert on cognitive illnesses, but it feels a bit detached from reality for a sitting POTUS to forget that he was in power during an attack on the U.S. Capitol, doesn't it? Do you know anyone in journalism with experience covering dementia-like symptoms?

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Matthew King @matthewkingart.bsky.social · 1d

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 1d

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Carrie @carebear620.bsky.social · 2d

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Eli The Cat loves Fergus 🧡🧡 @elithefat.bsky.social · 2d

Todaye Ime deddikait mine #hedgewatch #streetwatch too Fergus, hims mumm @catsofyore.bsky.social an dade an hims sissfur Francie 🧡🧡. Wether iss overcasst butt myld. Hyooge birbs whomst showt AAARK AAARKKK hav gon butt an magenpye wass hippyhoppin abowt. Traffick iss lite, busses am runnin on tyme.

Eli the orange and white cat is sitting on a windowsill looking out to the street. He can see a small car park, a road, a bus stop and the small church opposite. Out of shit to the left he can also see the roof of the single storey building below where his mum never throws food for the birds. No sirree, never.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

This Is Fascism

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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 2d

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