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Martha 🥄 near Seattle

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Born-inside-the-Beltway politics nerd, public education advocate, Xitter refugee fighting despair. I AM ANTIFA; come at me, bro!

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · Jan 31

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Trump’s Final Term Ends in: - Countdown Timer

Trump’s Final Term Ends in: Countdown Timer

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 46m

Could be worse. Zoning in Ann Arbor forced way-too-small parking lots to encourage people to use the bus. You know how folks love to schlep groceries on the bus.

Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 48m

And how nice that the radical left has reclaimed frogs. 😊

Alt Acadia National Park @altacadia.bsky.social · 10h

We 💯 support Amphifa! Give me ribbety, or give me death. 🐸

A poster for "Amphifa: amphibians against fascism" showing a black and green flag with a green frog

Three protestors dressed in inflatable frog costumes holding a sign that says "Portland frog brigade"

Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 49m

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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 9h

Why there isn’t a restaurant or food truck already called Auntie Phở idfk

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 6h

Number of days since Republicans shut down the government to carry out their Project 2025 agenda and protect the Epstein files: Eleven.

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James B. Greenberg, Professor Emeritus @zavaletas.bsky.social · 6h

October 18 is being framed as treason, and ordinary acts of citizenship are recast as betrayal. The phrase “Hate America” is no longer rhetoric—it’s a governing logic.

#Democracy #Repression #Protest #Rights #Anthropology #HateAmerica

The Enemy Within: The Politics of Repression in America

How dissent is reclassified as disloyalty and the state turns citizens into suspects.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 7h

in comments some questions about how vivek could possibly think MAGA wouldn't turn on him. 1

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1d

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 1h

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 7h

To quote Mr. Mankewicz and Mr. Wells: "It's no trick to make an awful lot of money if all you want is to make a lot of money."

When most of the U.S. electorate awakes to finally realize great wealth is no way conditional to or dependent on intelligence or morality, this country begins to heal.

Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Thiel is Palantir co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors. He is president of Thiel Capital, and a partner of Founders Fund, a venture capital firm.

Everyone who remains in his circles is complicit.

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 1h

If only we had a federal government that still prosecuted such insider trading.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

Imagine that

Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 1h

Where are their RIFs, Russell Vought?

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 9h

They must be exhausted.

Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 1h

Look at this hellscape!

Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 10h

Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 8h

Again, and forever, if Trump -- with the leverage he has now -- can't compel the release of Marwan Barghouti, then he is content with only another pause in the century of bloodshed in The Levant. Barghouti marginalizes and affronts extremists on both sides and means real negotiations and two states.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10h

"Nobody will do that though." Oh I guess there's nothing to be done, then. Very convenient if what you'd like is to avoid having to do anything.

I've noticed "we're cooked, it's over" is often the call of the person whose strategy is to hope they will not be in the oven.

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George Wright @georgewright.site · 11h

Pulp magazine cover vignette of FFOTUS chaos. The woman has escaped the disaster of her sinking ship only to fall victim to another disastrous fate. Just when we thought we were safe from 45, the chaotic First Felon of the United States becomes 47, dragging us all down.

A maritime disaster! as two passenger vessels founder and sink in the background, a giant, green sea-monster claw rises from the depths, clutching a horrified woman survivor in nothing but a soaked slip.

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 1h

Coulda sworn we fought a civil war over that.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 11h

Only a government run by billionaires would berate its employees for not wanting to work without pay.

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 1h

Let the countdown to crony capitalism #CORRUPTION begin.

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 13h

The defense secretary released a memo that give the new Barracks Task Force 30 days to produce a plan to overhaul military barracks. trib.al/8WWeLD0

For barracks overhaul, Hegseth steers towards private contractors

The defense secretary released a memo that give the new Barracks Task Force 30 days to produce a plan to overhaul military barracks.

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 1h

The solution: everyone admits to being Antifa.
I AM ANTIFA.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

THIS!! 👇👇

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 1h

The solution: everyone admits to being Antifa.
I AM ANTIFA.

Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 1h

Excellent, thorough reporting here!

Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 1h

I need an “Antifa HQ” lawn sign.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4h

Just got my CAVA bag stuffed with cash from George Soros to attend the #NoKings rally on October 18th. Still waiting to hear from Antifa headquarters if one of their corporate jets is available. Otherwise, I'll use my Delta "American Terrorists As Bad As Isis Fly Free" coupon. Glory!

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 4h

Republicans are 💯 responsible for shielding the pedophiles they once promised to expose.

Republicans are 💯 responsible for stoking civil unrest across the country. They’ve peddled in inflammatory rhetoric for years, outlawed anti-fascism, weaponized the DOJ, ICE and the National Guard.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 16h

Oh, of course they did! Just like taking credit for the infrastructure programs they voted against. Like blaming Dems for not supporting $50B for hospitals after cutting $150B. Republicans think voters are stupid.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 21h

Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Rob Wittman, R-Va., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, all voted for cuts to the CFPB.

Yet collectively, they routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints to the agency, ProPublica found.

(Published August)
By @joeljacobs.bsky.social

These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency.

Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards, lo...