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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 11h

"During the 1994-2004 federal assault-weapons ban, mass shooting deaths fell. According to U.S. Senate data, massacres of six or more killed dropped by 37%. After the ban expired, they skyrocketed by 183%. That is not coincidence." www.startribune.com/mn-assault-w...

Opinion | Some things are just stupid, and to call guns ‘God-given’ is one of them

"God did not hand out AR-15s on Mount Sinai," Dr. Christopher L. Moertel writes.

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Sam Boles @sboles1701.bsky.social · 13h

He’s been impeached, twice. He needs to be impeached, convicted, *removed*, and sent home in disgrace.

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Sam Boles @sboles1701.bsky.social · 13h

Please! This is something you can actually legally do with an executive order signature.

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Sam Boles @sboles1701.bsky.social · 13h

You really can’t make this up:

Mike Johnson calls “No Kings” a “hate America” rally.

The name United States of America first appeared in the Declaration of Independence, a unapologetic No King statement.

Directly follows that M Johnson says the USA was *created* at a Hate America rally.

QED

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Sam Boles @sboles1701.bsky.social · 14h

And what else is new? As in, any time in the last 70+ years?

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Sam Boles @sboles1701.bsky.social · 15h

Sorry for being repetitive but, we *are* talking about people who, while predicting Civil War for decades, when given power insulted, alienated, and even fired the people best equipped and experienced to roundly defeat them if it happens.

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Sam Boles @sboles1701.bsky.social · 15h

Saying it again: last two years of her life my mother needed serious medication to keep her even marginally cognitively functional under constant supervision, and even so she had a better connection to reality than anyone associated with 47.

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Sam Boles @sboles1701.bsky.social · 15h

“How is this even legal?”

Better question-is besmirching a reputation with knowingly false information done on video considered slander (speech) or libel (print)?

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Sam Boles @sboles1701.bsky.social · 16h

Sad but oh so true.

To paraphrase something someone I won’t name said, I voted but am now stuck with a government I don’t deserve.

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Sam Boles @sboles1701.bsky.social · 16h

There does seem to be mounting hard evidence…Not theories or conspiracy conjectures but empirical data.

Sam Boles @sboles1701.bsky.social · 16h

This is news?

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Sam Boles @sboles1701.bsky.social · 16h

The very name of our Country “United States of America” comes from the Declaration of Independence and the sole point of that document is that we accept No King.

If “No Kings” is to hate America, then we invalidate our very name and our own existence as a people.

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Sam Boles @sboles1701.bsky.social · 17h

I’m not military, but it sure seems unwise to alienate and even dismiss the people best equipped and prepared to defeat you if that Civil War the Right keeps predicting (and at times seems to actively want) happens.

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Sam Boles @sboles1701.bsky.social · 17h

Parenthetical addition to the last line: (or human being for that matter)

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Sam Boles @sboles1701.bsky.social · 18h

No Kings is Hate?

Somebody better inform the 56 people who signed the Declaration of Independence.

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Proud Veteran @roghair.bsky.social · 1d

Her silence was the loudest YES ever

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Sam Boles @sboles1701.bsky.social · 1d

Speaking as a religious person, at least somewhat, i absolutely agree with you.

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Sam Boles @sboles1701.bsky.social · 1d

Is it bigger on the inside?

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 1d

Also from earth 5556

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Daniel Vaughn @corbindallas58.bsky.social · 1d

Remember kids

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Sam Boles @sboles1701.bsky.social · 1d

Err-the exact same thing, word for word?

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Diosa Luna @rainsong9.bsky.social · 1d

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Sam Boles @sboles1701.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve said it elsewhere: what would have made it perfect would have been for DT to be *totally ignored* and appear nowhere in the press at all today…

Sam Boles @sboles1701.bsky.social · 1d

Coupled with Dominion being bought, this dragging feet situation with sweating in has very disturbing potential implications for the midterms.

Sam Boles @sboles1701.bsky.social · 1d

Because there is no mechanism to deal with it when Congress and the Judiciary abdicates the responsibilities given them by the writers of the Constitution.

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