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Serienya @serienya.bsky.social · 3h

“Balance”

Serienya @serienya.bsky.social · 13h

And Dems will be blamed for not fixing it fast enough.

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Serienya @serienya.bsky.social · 17h

Gee, would have been nice if the media had treated Project 2025 as an actual threat to democracy.

www.huffpost.com/entry/stephe...

As Trump Moves Toward Autocracy, Top Aide Stephen Miller Is Way Ahead Of Him

The president’s chief propagandist accuses opponents of “insurrection” and attempting a “coup” — while declaring Trump has “plenary authority.”

www.huffpost.com

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Serienya @serienya.bsky.social · 17h

They don’t have to pretend anymore.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 17h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Serienya @serienya.bsky.social · 17h

I really liked the 2nd movie (Daft Punk did it for me).

I just don’t want to support Jared Leto.

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Serienya @serienya.bsky.social · 17h

That would be blasphemy, TBH.

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Serienya @serienya.bsky.social · 17h

Add sexual predator.

Serienya @serienya.bsky.social · 18h

I wanted a new Tron movie, but I don’t want Leto.

Serienya @serienya.bsky.social · 18h

*condone means

Darn lack of sleep!

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 19h

Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.
A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC
News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 19h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 19h

I’m not trying to give @pbs.org ideas for raising money—but I am. I would buy women’s fit T-shirts of all my favorite childhood shows. Reading rainbow, 321 contact, square one, zoobiliee zoo. I feel like two generations will run to donate even more money for shirts with Levar Burton on them…

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Serienya @serienya.bsky.social · 18h

Catholics, Protestants, and the Vatican did not exist in the time when Jesus is presumed to have lived (per Christian belief).

Saying what he does or does not condone is means you’re trying to speak for a deity.

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Serienya @serienya.bsky.social · 1d

isportlandburning.com

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Serienya @serienya.bsky.social · 1d

Articles about what people were saying about the news instead of the actual news.

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Serienya @serienya.bsky.social · 1d

“Exceptional health”, LOL.

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 2d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Serienya @serienya.bsky.social · 1d

I saw that!

Serienya @serienya.bsky.social · 1d

Obama was truly confused as to why he got it, too. He certainly did not campaign for it himself or through surrogates. And donated the prize $.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

On the 18th we need to be vigilant for increased violence and provocation by both law enforcement and counter-protestors, both of which will be used to try to justify more violence and authoritarianism.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

We live in a country where the government honors insurrectionists who sacked the Capitol, and defines peaceful protest, even before it occurs, to be terrorism.
They know their position is weak, they know they are unpopular, which is why they are seeking to stamp out dissent.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2d

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Serienya @serienya.bsky.social · 1d

And it is harder to get propaganda footage.