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16th Gen from Mayflower servant Geo Soule

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Fascism has come to roost. Re: CE Republican politicians Don't listen to what they say-it's theatrics. Just watch what they do.-RM There's the truth that gives them away. We are in trouble.... We are in so much trouble -SLJJ CLARION CALL Yes, we are.

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16th Gen from Mayflower servant Geo Soule @pattistoll.bsky.social · 7d

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Andy Heppelle🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇳🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @andyheppelle.bsky.social · 7d

Nazis lied to German voters, fascists lied in Italy and Spain #DontBeASucker USArmy movie shows lies by Nazis & fascists that led to dictatorships in WW2. In 2025 USA POTUS, Speaker, GOP & minions try 2 manipulate us with lies at Portland, Chicago, D.C. #ProtectTheConstitution🇺🇸 youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4

Don't Be a Sucker

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 8h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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16th Gen from Mayflower servant Geo Soule @pattistoll.bsky.social · 18h

I just want everyone to know that I spelled that "ordnance" on the first type. I didn't notice that the BlueSky spell checker or maybe and AI thingy changed it. I know the difference between the two words. Anyone in the military or living in military areas also usually know, too. But not AI. smdh

16th Gen from Mayflower servant Geo Soule @pattistoll.bsky.social · 20h

#Kitsap #Poulsbo #Silverdale #NavalBaseKitsap

I learned about this mess last week, because I subscribe to the Homer News. In discovering that Homer News was bought out by a non-U.S. financial group, I also discovered so were the small Kitsap newspapers under Sound Publishing.
Am going to cancel all

The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 5d

The resignations, which include two editors and two reporters based in Homer and Kenai, were scheduled to take effect in two weeks, but managers at Carpenter Media Group fired all four immediately.

James Brooks reports. An Alaska Beacon reprint. #CdnMedia #uspoli

BC Paper Owner Sparks Mass Resignation Over Charlie Kirk Story Intervention | The Tyee

Alaskan journalists quit after Carpenter Media execs unilaterally changed an article about a vigil for the far-right activist.

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16th Gen from Mayflower servant Geo Soule @pattistoll.bsky.social · 21h

I kind of counted Mary Peltola winning the old Don Young seat as flipping that one.

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16th Gen from Mayflower servant Geo Soule @pattistoll.bsky.social · 23h

This is a hard one. She wasn't that old, IMO. I thought she was doing great health-wise.

Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 1d

Goodnight screen goddess and style icon. 🙌
Diane Keaton - R.I.P.

16th Gen from Mayflower servant Geo Soule @pattistoll.bsky.social · 23h

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

First Wives Club “You Don’t Own Me” is circling in my brain always. youtu.be/dRLdtDYoVX8?...

RIP, to a legend and style icon.

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16th Gen from Mayflower servant Geo Soule @pattistoll.bsky.social · 1d

End the ICE and Trump's brutality.
End Ice and federal judges must stop the police brutality that the Trump administration is actively doing, repeatedly. It is on purpose to make the populace fearful and it opens the federal government up to big lawsuits, which wastes taxpayer money.

16th Gen from Mayflower servant Geo Soule @pattistoll.bsky.social · 1d

Most of us know she will lean hard towards the conservative lies. It is no longer worth wasting our time to tune in to CBS news, if you want to hear anything you can trust.

But I've felt that way for a long time, now, and this just cinches that deal.

16th Gen from Mayflower servant Geo Soule @pattistoll.bsky.social · 1d

Sure. They can just take it out of the ordinance fund. /s

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16th Gen from Mayflower servant Geo Soule @pattistoll.bsky.social · 1d

People like Rod Blagojevich, who trump pardoned, doesn't help the reputation. That is why corrupt politicians do so much damage to our systems.

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Ruth @poofer.bsky.social · 2d

Translation: I'm getting rich off your money because of my tariffs, you should thank me because I raised your grocery prices and the cost of your everyday needs , soon you will have to choose between heat or food and maybe you will go homeless.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 1d

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 2d

“Uncritical adoption of AI, will inevitably create people without critical thinking, and this may be a feature - not a bug, as it represents an attack on human agency itself.”

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The infrastructure of meaninglessness

Listen, there are two realities that we should be aware of. AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete. Let me try to break down this theory, which...

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16th Gen from Mayflower servant Geo Soule @pattistoll.bsky.social · 1d

But then there is Big Bird with the biggest activism song of all, singing the Carpenter’s “Sing”.

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16th Gen from Mayflower servant Geo Soule @pattistoll.bsky.social · 1d

Alaska is remembering its Democratic history before the conniving oil people invaded the state.

16th Gen from Mayflower servant Geo Soule @pattistoll.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone know if there is a mask of this guy's face out there, for Halloween? I'd love one.

#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 2d

Russ Vought Announces Firings of Federal Workers: ‘The RIFs Have Begun’

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Russ Vought Announces Firings of Federal Workers: ‘The RIFs Have Begun’

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16th Gen from Mayflower servant Geo Soule @pattistoll.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, except he can't get rid of Russ. He's the Xtian Nationalist's guy. Trump made the deal with the Heritage/Federalist/etc that he would let them have control over the government they want to change into a nonsecular one. He knows he can't remove them without it all falling apart.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

Russell Vought embodies the radicalization of the conservative movement; his example captures how far removed from democratic politics the Trumpist Right is. Vought is convinced to be fighting a noble war against a vast leftist conspiracy that has supposedly taken over the country.

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16th Gen from Mayflower servant Geo Soule @pattistoll.bsky.social · 1d

Shifty-eyed Johnson defines the derogatory, "poser".

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6d

Mike Johnson: “Russ Vought takes no pleasure in this.”

Mike Lee: “Russ Vought has been dreaming about this since puberty.”

Watch the whole episode here: www.youtube.com/live/PkEOK7J...

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

The Daily is committed to sanitizing Vought and ignoring what they regard as unsavory ideology. Because engaging with what is actually animating Vought would make it very hard to uphold the “normal politics” framework that defines much of mainstream political journalism.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 5d

Lawless Russell Vought thinks he can nullify a law by deleting it from an FAQ

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OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance

An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking the law so he can endanger the nation, Russ Vought arches an eyebrow as he strokes a white Persian cat on his lap.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy.

Some thoughts from my new piece:

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We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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