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Rainwalker @rainwalkerak.bsky.social · 6m

Just keep giving them rope, as they say. They’ll hang themselves eventually.

Americans are dumb, but they’re also entitled and used to having things like air travel. They’re going to eff that up, and maybe voters will chuck them out for a few decades.

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Shoshanah in Alaska @shanahstone.bsky.social · 1h

If you weren’t personally upset seeing your retirement savings vanish because Grandpa doesn’t understand how the economy works even Alaska Republicans will be upset over the price of oil. This bodes badly for the drill baby drill folks. Where will Alaska get money?

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Rainwalker @rainwalkerak.bsky.social · 10m

If that’s real, it’s another nail in the “Jesus Christ, this effing Orange ape is a traitor” coffin.

Rainwalker @rainwalkerak.bsky.social · 13m

He could do us all a solid by excommunicating all the Catholics on the extreme court.

Rainwalker @rainwalkerak.bsky.social · 40m

Looks like the perfect place to post this gem from the late great Representative John Dingell toward the end of the 2018/19 35-day, $13 billion shutdown…

We did John’s memory dirty by letting that felon escape justice, by the way.

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 9h

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ALWAYS at least one thing that will not just interest you, but that'll you want to retain

It was the last Post thing I subscribed to.

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 17h

They don’t want you to realize that the House has been on a weeks-long paid vacation because they’re scared of a vote to release the Epstein Files.

What are they trying to hide?

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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 14h

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Rainwalker @rainwalkerak.bsky.social · 6h

His own mother lamented in an interview that she had raised “a monster.” Her word.

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Alt-IRS @alt-irs.altgov.info · 18h

Mother fucker! The House has been in session only 15 days since July.

Its October!

GOP are loser slackers! Imagine if you only showed up to your job 15 days in 4 months.
They get 175k a year in salary.

#GOPShutdown

House Recess Extended to Oct. 19 As Government Shutdown Continues

The House clerk reads a communication from Speaker Mike Johnson designating October 14 to 19 a district work period for members, meaning that the House will be in recess except for pro forma sessions ...

www.c-span.org

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13h

This is dedicated to those who believed DJT and legacy media coverage that Project 2025 was nothing to be concerned about.

Also, this isn’t legal.

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Secret Agent Number Six @designationsix.bsky.social · 7h

If an asshole had an asshole it would be Kid Rock.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.

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Scary Werewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 9h

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Rainwalker @rainwalkerak.bsky.social · 7h

Before I die, I would like to hear the sound of a prison door slamming behind Russ Vought. And while I believe 8x8 cells in a Supermax are crimes against humanity, I would make an exception for him occupying one.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Jwingnut @jwingnut.bsky.social · 15h

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

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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Rainwalker @rainwalkerak.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, well, it’s going to be in Idaho, so chances are those ruby ridge, white supremacist, mouth breathing inspirations for Far Cry 5 will take one look at men in long “dresses” and that will be the end of that. 🍿

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 21h

A single mother in Marshall, Minnesota making $40,000 will pay an EXTRA $140 every single month to get health insurance for herself and her two kids if we don’t get a shutdown deal.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 13h

“The National Guard’s mostly quiet walks through Washington, D.C., are expected to cost a little more than $200 million…”

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

A Very, Very Expensive Way to Reduce Crime

The Trump administration’s National Guard deployments are highly inefficient.

www.theatlantic.com

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 10h

RIFed: National Center for Immunization & Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), Office of Director

OD sets tone for the rest of the center, determine priorities, review high profile science, etc

NCIRD focuses: Flu. Whooping cough. Polio. Covid. Meningitis.

Yeah, you want this center to fully function 🤯

www.cdc.gov

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 18h

A couple in their early 60s in Duluth, MN making $66,000 will pay an EXTRA $252 every single month to get health insurance if we don’t get a shutdown deal.

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Rainwalker @rainwalkerak.bsky.social · 10h

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 12h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 12h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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