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Maggie's Farm @slowdog.bsky.social · 10h

This is your new boss. She is a right-wing nut job.

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Maggie's Farm @slowdog.bsky.social · 10h

Do you know the Justin Townes Earle song "Rogers Park"?
It's one of the most lonesome songs ever written. Beautiful.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 16h

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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Maggie's Farm @slowdog.bsky.social · 15h

More of this. And if it causes a conflict so be it.
Generals must obey the Constitution and defy a tyrant. It's their job.
There is no wiggle room.

TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 1d

I just watched the video of the Portland Cop threatening to arrest an ICE agent if they drive their truck through a crowd. Now I see this where the General of the Oregon National Guard says if they get called up they will protect the protesters. People are fed up.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Oregon general’s testimony that National Guard troops ‘will be protecting any protesters’ gains traction online

Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold made the comments to state lawmakers Sept. 30, and they drew notice on social media this week.

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Maggie's Farm @slowdog.bsky.social · 15h

I wonder if Barack will ever reach the point where he makes a public announcement that it's time for people to take up arms against tyranny.
I'm convinced the country is headed that way. I don't see how it can't be.
I just don't know if his disposition would let him say that out loud.

Maggie's Farm @slowdog.bsky.social · 15h

I wish I shared your optimism!
I'm working on it.

a cartoon of spongebob saying " please " with his mouth wide open

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Maggie's Farm @slowdog.bsky.social · 18h

Here's part of your answer.
A U.S. Senator thanking the crypto industry for spending $40 million to "get rid of" Senator Sherrod Brown.
And they're just getting started.
Democracy died when corporations became people.
We've just been watching the death rattle.
apnews.com/article/cryp...

Crypto spent millions to defeat Sherrod Brown and elect allies. It's ready for a repeat in 2026

The cryptocurrency industry spent millions last year to unseat a longtime critic, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio, and install its allies in Washington.

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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 1d

Someone once described the libertarian as like a house cat: wholly convinced of her own fierce independence while being entirely dependent on a system she neither understands nor appreciates.

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Maggie's Farm @slowdog.bsky.social · 19h

See how easy it is to get rid of diseases?
Just can the people studying them.
Brilliant.

Maggie's Farm @slowdog.bsky.social · 19h

How a British politician used fear and anger over immigration to stoke the flames ...
That was in the 60s. It cost him his career.
Now he's being resurrected as a folk hero, and the politicians resurrecting him might soon run the country.

Don't we see right through this shit by now?
Don't answer.

Maggie's Farm @slowdog.bsky.social · 19h

He's also a nut. He embraces that same Russian-American fascist aesthetic that MAGAs embrace. Reality hyper-stylized so it looks internetty. The way they present themselves mimics their relationship to reality: They want to twist it into something none of us can quite recognize anymore.

Maggie's Farm @slowdog.bsky.social · 1d

No worries. The kids seem fine. Just ask Ramaswamy as he meets some of Charlie Kirk's teen disciples.
Such open minded, calm young folks.
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From the Fauxmoi community on Reddit: Vivek Ramaswamy goes to a Turning Point USA event in Ohio and quickly finds out that he is not on the team.

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Maggie's Farm @slowdog.bsky.social · 2d

What's so bad about that?
The corporations will own the farms and the former owners can just work the farm, and share the crops.
It's sharing!
Sharing crops.
Sharecropp

Oh wait....

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Maggie's Farm @slowdog.bsky.social · 2d

Shame on trans kids for ruining American Agriculture!!
Look what they made us do.

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Maggie's Farm @slowdog.bsky.social · 2d

As the planet cooks there will be millions of acres of previously fertile land that goes barren every year.
JD will sell cheap American farmland to those countries. Any wound inflicted on American agriculture is good for his business, AcreTrader.
www.farmlandgrab.org/post/32430-j...

JD Vance funded AcreTrader. Here’s why that matters.

The real estate platform streamlines investing in US farmland. Now farms are fast becoming a portfolio staple for investors worldwide.

www.farmlandgrab.org

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Maggie's Farm @slowdog.bsky.social · 2d

JD Vance's side-hustle "AcreTrader" is licking its chops. They're going to make bank hooking up foreign investors with some sweet foreclosed American farmland.
This is not a big it's a feature.
www.farmlandgrab.org/post/32430-j...

JD Vance funded AcreTrader. Here’s why that matters.

The real estate platform streamlines investing in US farmland. Now farms are fast becoming a portfolio staple for investors worldwide.

www.farmlandgrab.org

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Maggie's Farm @slowdog.bsky.social · 2d

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

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Maggie's Farm @slowdog.bsky.social · 4d

Many Germans were kept ignorant.
Many Americans know exactly what's happening and they're excited by it.

I suspect we will be the better lesson for kids 100 years from now. How the world's most enduring democracy finally paid for its original sin by falling into autocracy.

Maggie's Farm @slowdog.bsky.social · 4d

It's worse when people try to run a country as if everyone else must genuflect to their stupid fucking deity.

Am I a bad person?

Maggie's Farm @slowdog.bsky.social · 4d

The Dream of the 90s is truly alive.

Maggie's Farm @slowdog.bsky.social · 4d

I can't think of a bigger threat to MAGA than a happy PNW woman wielding a loaded ukulele.
Those machines kill fascists.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 4d

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

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Maggie's Farm @slowdog.bsky.social · 4d

The United States has become a nation of cowards. To think we once saved the world from fascism. Now we accept this as normal.
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From the Antimoneymemes community on Reddit: Tell me you leave in a fascist country without telling me you live in a fascist country #22

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Maggie's Farm @slowdog.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!

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