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Christopher Plessinger

@plessinger.com

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Grandson of an original anti-fascist. Dad; hockey, futball, genealogy, and amateur cosmology. 20 years in I.T. Citrix: CCIA, CCE-V, CCP-AppDS VMware: VCP-DCV 2024, VCP-DM 2023 CompTIA: Linux+, Security+, Network+, A+ Zerto: ZCP I like to tinker.

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Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · Nov 8

If you start following me and you have an incomplete or not completed profile along with either 1k followers/ 1k posts / 1k following, I'm blocking you.

I've been on Twitter and I can smell bots/trolls.

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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 23h

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Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 13h

Average Texan: I just don't understand how after Greg Abbott and the State Legislature have threatened campuses for what they teach that Texas universities keep falling in national ranks.

I guess we'll just never know.

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 16h

Paul Noth @paulnoth.bsky.social

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · Jun 11

We feed you.
They hunt us.

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Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 1d

I have only ever seen this tale told this way end in one of these two avenues: car or insurance salesman.

Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 1d

Meal Team Six represent!

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 1d

The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

taskandpurpose.com

Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 1d

Yes.
Extra tongue.

Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 1d

Lol.
There are no white people in the Bible.
Especially not these three.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 1d

Lol. CS Research is polling trying to figure out why people hate the proposed Spurs deal in San Antonio.

The questions were so out of touch.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely crucial point here by Greg Sargent. When we don’t call propaganda what it is, we co-produce it, and hasten disaster.
newrepublic.substack.com/p/maga-implo...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

newrepublic.substack.com

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Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 1d

There is already great Chicago style pizza in San Antonio, called, ironically, Chicago's Pizza on Blanco. It's so freakin' good.

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Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 1d

Hell, he couldn't find all the voter fraud he wasted millions hunting.

Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 1d

So is the chocolate appreciably better outside the U.S.?

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Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 1d

But your Tang orange God says that they are corrupt and you can't trust them. You hear that MAGA? Don't fall for it.

Listen to your orange god.

WATCH: Trump again falsely claims mail-in ballots lead to fraud

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 1d

We'll all be heartbroken if they take all the fed minimum wage jobs with them ...the only jobs available if you work Spurs events.

Work food service at the Spurs Arena? Minimum. Work parking? Minimum. Work security? Barely above minimum.

My thought: Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 1d

I evidently missed this 6 years ago.
I hate this part in my life.
Everything that didn't suck about life is closing up shop.

Luigi's Pizzeria In Bellevue Closing After 42 years

After 42 years in business, Luigi's Pizzeria in Bellevue is saying goodbye.

www.cbsnews.com

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 2d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 2d

Machado dedi-what to Trump?

I know that Trump is no Maduro (yet) but what the fuck?

Jesus fucking Christ.

Venezuela's opposition leader Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize, dedicates to Trump

Marina Corina Machado, who lives in hiding, was blocked by Venezuela's courts from running for president and challenging President Nicolas Maduro.

www.reuters.com

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 2d

Your grandfathers didn’t storm Normandy so you could be afraid of the word antifascist or “antifa”

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Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 2d

Goddamn it.

And I just went to Trader Joe's recently for the first time and thought, 'I should come here more'

Now - nope, not anymore.

The NLRB exists because (very good) reasons.

Fuck anyone who advocates taking it away from us.

Trader Joe’s Follows SpaceX in Arguing US Labor Board Is Unconstitutional

Grocery chain Trader Joe’s is joining Elon Musk’s SpaceX in arguing that the US labor board, which is prosecuting cases against both companies, is unconstitutional.

www.bloomberg.com

Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 2d

No face has ever made me think of The Omen more.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 2d

kidnapping

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Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 2d

Fuck Paramount and CBS.
We haven't forgotten.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Qatari soldiers in Idaho will have better access to health care than Americans.

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