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Peth @peth101.bsky.social · 57m

This would anger the wife but I could dig it.

Peth @peth101.bsky.social · 58m

two men are sitting in front of a crowd talking about strategy

ALT: two men are sitting in front of a crowd talking about strategy

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Peth @peth101.bsky.social · 59m

Does seem like a strange message to send out to Americans.

Peth @peth101.bsky.social · 1h

Seems like a bad thing for AD if 2 million people are not out there spending their money. Not to mention all the sales tax income for local and state governments.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

EISEN: What do you think is driving the slowdown in job growth?

BESSENT: Between deportations and voluntarily deportations we've seen 2 million people leave the workforce

Peth @peth101.bsky.social · 3h

Dude ain’t working, he has plenty of time on his hands.

Or.

His line is just way different than my line.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 11h

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

Peth @peth101.bsky.social · 14h

Let’s go Caps!!

(Have to admit, this is bittersweet as the Dad is in the last stages of Alzheimer’s and he is the reason I have been a Caps fan since 1984 or so)

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Peth @peth101.bsky.social · 16h

For the record, chapter 2 on illegal immigration is just amazing.

Peth @peth101.bsky.social · 16h

Fall Break reading material.

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Peth @peth101.bsky.social · 16h

Fall Break reading material.

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Peth @peth101.bsky.social · 16h

And I thought I had difficulty finding a girlfriend in college.

This dudes.

Can’t imagine any women being in the same area code as this dumbasses.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 19h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Peth @peth101.bsky.social · 17h

Southgate got you to semis and finals. This guy has to win it all. Y’all have quite the squad going for you. Have to be a top 3 favorite.

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Peth @peth101.bsky.social · 17h

The wife is heading out of town this weekend so this means I get to go to the protest without someone worrying about my safety.

Someone get me a Jabber Jaw costume, STAT!

a cartoon of a shark and a man walking

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Peth @peth101.bsky.social · 17h

It’s coming home.

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Peth @peth101.bsky.social · 17h

And you want to be my Assemblyman … (technically, not really as I live in Atlanta but you get the joke)

a group of people sitting on a couch with the words and you want to be my latex salesman below them

ALT: a group of people sitting on a couch with the words and you want to be my latex salesman below them

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Peth @peth101.bsky.social · 17h

They work for us.

We vote for them.

And we can vote them out.

Make sure you are registered to vote.

Set an alarm on your phone to check your registration once a month.

Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · Jul 13

Presidents don’t own the country.

It doesn’t belong to them.

It’s ours.

Never forget this basic fact.

It’s ours.

Never normalize dictatorial power grabs.

They’re NOT normal.

Peth @peth101.bsky.social · 17h

It wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be.

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Peth @peth101.bsky.social · 19h

Does that predate Hammurabi’s Code?

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Peth @peth101.bsky.social · 19h

I was once young and Republican but I was never a POS like these idiots are.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peth @peth101.bsky.social · 19h

Latvia playing with two banks of six it seems.

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Peth @peth101.bsky.social · 20h

That is what we call an active imagination.

Or delusion.

Pick your poison.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"