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shockashocka @shockashocka.bsky.social · Apr 14

This guy. From my #nature #photography account.

shockashocka @shockashocka.bsky.social · Apr 12

Wow. Whaddaya know? After creating waves of iPhone and laptop panic buying, computers and phones are now exempt from
tariffs. I wonder if Apple knew about this all along? HMMMMM.

shockashocka @shockashocka.bsky.social · Apr 10

This has been so clear from the start. And you know big tech is in on it too. BUY IPHONES AND MACBOOKS NOW BEFORE TARIFFS GO INTO EFFECT!!

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · Apr 10

“THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT,” the president wrote, a mere four hours before announcing a 90-day pause.

Insider trading is a very illegal practice that involves using special or private information to give yourself an advantage in buying and selling stocks.

shockashocka @shockashocka.bsky.social · Apr 10

This has been so clear from the start. And you know big tech is in on it too. BUY IPHONES AND MACBOOKS NOW BEFORE TARIFFS GO INTO EFFECT!!

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · Apr 10

“THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT,” the president wrote, a mere four hours before announcing a 90-day pause.

Insider trading is a very illegal practice that involves using special or private information to give yourself an advantage in buying and selling stocks.

Trump’s Tariffs Whiplash Is Open Corruption. He Admitted It Himself.

Trump posted a message to his followers just before pausing the bulk of his tariffs.

newrepublic.com

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shockashocka @shockashocka.bsky.social · Apr 10

Featuring this beauty on my new Flashes mature account which… someone on Bluesky needs to do a better job promoting that IG alternative!

natureyes @natureyes.bsky.social · Apr 10

Vertical series. Gorgeous Eastern #ratsnake formerly known as the #blackratsnake. #snake #herping #nature #photography #wildlife #appalachia #southcarolina

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shockashocka @shockashocka.bsky.social · Mar 24

Madness.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Mar 13

West Virginia Republicans just legalized sexual assault against children. This is the child predator enabling act.

www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/gop-...

News (USA)
GOP lawmakers pass bill allowing child genital exams without parental consent
And that was actually an improvement over a previous version of the bill.
By Alex Bollinger Tuesday, March 11, 2025

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Mar 13

West Virginia Republicans just legalized sexual assault against children. This is the child predator enabling act.

www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/gop-...

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Kira Grunenberg @shadowmelody1.bsky.social · Mar 13

If you called your senators yesterday and told the “VOTE NO” on the Continuing Resolution *and* Cloture, CALL AGAIN TODAY.

@schumer.senate.gov is full of it and gave us lip service.

CALL YOUR SENATORS AND TELL THEM VOTING NO AND STOPPING THE GOP AND THIS BUDGET IS THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE ACTION.

Screenshot of three tweets about the Democrats’ plan for the Continuing Resolution vote in the senate. The text reads as follows:

Okay, Schumer's speech was a head fake. This is the Senate D caucus trying to fool their own supporters. Sorry to say that but that's what's happening.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social • 1h
2/ The plan seems to be to vote for cloture and then Thune agrees as his part of the bargain to allow a vote on basically an amendment to the bill. Probably something like Murray's bill. So you give up the 60 vote threshold. Have a vote on each version and the GOP one wins. End of story.
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Josh Marshall
@joshtpm.bsky.social
3/ The point of this to temporarily confuse the issue so that Senate Ds can say they vote for their version while allowing the
GOP version to pass. The critical point is that it's handing the GOP the 60 vote threshold for nothing.

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shockashocka @shockashocka.bsky.social · Mar 9

New Flashes (IG alternative) seems legit. Using new account to post nature stuff.

natureyes @natureyes.bsky.social · Mar 8

#hermitthrush #birds #birding #photography #appalachia #southcarolina #nature

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shockashocka @shockashocka.bsky.social · Mar 9

Started a nature account on BlueSky’s new Flashes (IG alternative).

natureyes @natureyes.bsky.social · Mar 9

I guess it’s spring? #springazure #butterfly #nature #photography #southcarolina #appalachia

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shockashocka @shockashocka.bsky.social · Mar 6

Democrats are a fucking joke. Anyone hoping that they will lead a unified resistance needs to look elsewhere. #resist #fucktrump #fuckrepublicans #fuckdemocrats

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shockashocka @shockashocka.bsky.social · Mar 3

How the media is enabling Trump to dismantle our democracy right before our eyes. TOYED with ignoring federal courts? He is ACTIVELY IGNORING court orders. BILLIONS of dollars of obligated USDA funding is still frozen in defiance of multiple court orders. The constitutional crisis done been here.

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shockashocka @shockashocka.bsky.social · Mar 1

When will EVERYONE realize Trump doesn’t care about approval ratings or losing his base because he knows there won’t be free and fair midterm elections?

Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Mar 1

If the market continues to trend down, and the Atlanta Fed turns out to be right, the midterms will be very interesting.

The battle between republican self preservation and MAGA will be intense

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shockashocka @shockashocka.bsky.social · Feb 27

Totally sure these will be in no way redacted or doctored.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Feb 27

Epstein files apparently being released soon by Bondi and the DOJ.

two men are standing next to each other in a room .

ALT: two men are standing next to each other in a room .

media.tenor.com

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · Feb 27

If the president defies the courts and Congress does not impeach him for it, the Constitution simply ceases to exist.

The Law’s Trump-Size Hole Is Suddenly Exposed

The judicial system has started to rule against the administration’s decimation of the civil service. If only it could actually enforce its rulings.

newrepublic.com

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shockashocka @shockashocka.bsky.social · Feb 27

Trump had more Black voters than any Repub in the last 50 years.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Feb 27

They're getting extremely brazen about resegregation.

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · Feb 26

White nationalist Lana Lokteff says we have to "repeal the Civil Rights Act" to stop black people from invading "all our white spaces": "All of this because they couldn't drink [from] the same water fountain or use the same toilet. Was it really that big of a deal?"

shockashocka @shockashocka.bsky.social · Feb 25

They better fucking not.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Feb 25

This is the way.

shockashocka @shockashocka.bsky.social · Feb 20

This? WHO CARES? Trump has never admitted to any kind of responsibility for anything negative. We are in the midst of a real-time autocratic coup. It is happening under our noses. RIGHT NOW. Focusing on what Trump says or how much eggs cost is playing into his hands. So frustrating.

shockashocka @shockashocka.bsky.social · Feb 18

#troutlily #wildflowers #springephemeral #southcarolina #appalachia #nature #flower #photography

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shockashocka @shockashocka.bsky.social · Feb 17

Safe space. Happy place. #southcarolina #appalachia #mountains #nature #home

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shockashocka @shockashocka.bsky.social · Feb 16

It’s eugenics plain and simple. How many poor MAGA’s in red states will need to die before they realize they’re in a death cult?

Henry L Niman PhD @hlniman.bsky.social · Feb 16

"Laboratories in a national network of 58 facilities responding to the spread of bird flu were notified Friday that 25 percent of the staff in a central program office coordinating their work were fired"

Emerging 4th world country in North America!
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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D’Epitomee of 92% @epitomee.bsky.social · Feb 15

cc: @Gavin Newsome It’s time to build a CDC & NIH in California with the folks who were fired from the feds. In fact, I think each blue state governor needs to scoop up these scientists, healthcare workers and laboratory workers asap. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Feb 15

Republicans for much of 2024: "How DARE you call our candidate Mr Trump a fascist?"

*President* Trump in 2025:

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shockashocka @shockashocka.bsky.social · Feb 15

Ok deep staters working in biolabs: AIDS, but for old white Republicans. Annnnnd… GO!

Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · Feb 15

Trump’s USAID freeze hits HIV programmes: 'My wife fears sex, I fear death'

Despite a US waiver allowing the resumption of humanitarian help, life-saving services have shut.

www.bbc.com