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Mark

@markbretts.bsky.social

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Mentally unprepared for the pluto/klepto/kakistocracy [and now a shitpostocracy]. Helicopter cat parent. Fight the disinformation ✌️❤️ Everything has been hijacked and weaponized. #FoxtrotDeltaTango

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9d

I don’t buy for one second that Trump voters didn’t know Project 2025 would be his playbook. They just didn’t think it would touch them. Oops!

CNN needs to own its role too, letting Trump lie unchecked and pushing that lazy “both sides” framing between him and Kamala Harris.

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Mark @markbretts.bsky.social · 8d

Yup 😏

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Mark @markbretts.bsky.social · 9d

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@deadder.bsky.social

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Michele Hornish @hornish.bsky.social · 9d

Government officials are speaking the language of abusers.

“Look what you made us do.”

“If you would’ve let us do what we wanted, it wouldn’t be so bad.”

“You deserved it.”

They’re tapping into layers of trauma and deep systemic power imbalances.

We have to lift each other up. Stand together.💙

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 9d

I don’t want to hear another word from the right whining about dangerous, incendiary, violence-inciting language from the left. Once again, here’s their dear leader, the most divisive person on the planet.👇

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 9d

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10d

They’re baaack. 🤣

Repairs and all…

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Curly sue @moocowsue.bsky.social · 10d

It wasn't Hitler or Himmler who kidnapped me, beat me, and shot my family.
It was the shoemaker, the milkman, and the neighbor who were given uniforms and then believed they were the master race."

Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 10d

RUSS VOUGHT ARCHITECT OF PROJECT 2025
wants to cut $8 billion in climate funding for CA NV CT NY CO IL DE HI MA MN MD NJ NH NM OR VT WA

These states generate 80% of the country's revenue
And thousands of jobs
Lots of Independents and Republicans in those jobs btw

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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 10d

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Adam Zyglis @adamzyglis.bsky.social · 10d

Hegseth’s Department of War…

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11d

Hertling: His comments about putting hands back on recruits… We moved away from that 30 years ago because it’s ineffective…

You know where it didn’t go away? The Russian army.

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Mark @markbretts.bsky.social · 11d

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Avatar for sure

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 11d

Ted Cruz is celebrating the thought of people getting fired because they don’t agree with him politically

But you better not call him a fascist or anything

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11d

This is pretty unbelievable. Qatar giving Trump that jet is really paying off for them in a big way.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11d

Trump has decided that no jobs report will issue on Friday due to the government shutdown. But it turns out there is a different reason: that report will, when issued, be catastrophically bad.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

CNBC: "Very disappointing. It's a weak number. This is private sector jobs for September. The total comes in -32,000. And that was a surprise because economists were looking for an increase of 51,000. Also, the revision was not good. August now showing -3,000 compared to the initial read of 54,000"

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Mark @markbretts.bsky.social · 11d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."