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Sparkling Ice @sparklingice1776.bsky.social · 1h

It’s funny that Labour is the left leaning of the major parties.

It’s a good reminder that left of center does not necessarily equal, “liberal,”.

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Sparkling Ice @sparklingice1776.bsky.social · 1h

He’s a senator IN the state of Wisconsin.

Not a US Senator FROM the state of Wisconsin.

He has no authority or ability to change national policy.

His best effort is what he has already done…bring attention to this.

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Sparkling Ice @sparklingice1776.bsky.social · 2h

I say Miller because we know Trump isn’t actually running the government.

It’s all Stephen Miller, Russell Vought, and Suzie Wiles - Trump just gets to play the POTUS on TV - he has no actual authority, just a big, sad, orange figurehead.

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Sparkling Ice @sparklingice1776.bsky.social · 2h

I’ve found it surprising how many people have been arrested for protesting as pro-Palestine, and then to do it under terrorism laws is just ridiculous.

It’s extra ridiculous when you understand how the entire Palestine/Israel mess was started. Thanks Lord Balfour!!

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Sparkling Ice @sparklingice1776.bsky.social · 2h

Bad guys never go away, they just merge and reincorporate.

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Sparkling Ice @sparklingice1776.bsky.social · 3h

I’m glad my senators aren’t complicit in furthering Stephen Miller’s packing of MAGA into the courts.

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Sparkling Ice @sparklingice1776.bsky.social · 3h

There are many people that don’t realize that the Pinkerton Agency still exists.

They’re part of Securitas and are still scummy and still used for anti-union efforts by companies like Amazon and Starbucks.

Whenever workers want to organize, the Pinkerton’s will be there trying to destroy them.

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Sparkling Ice @sparklingice1776.bsky.social · 4h

Time to become a vegetarian.

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Sparkling Ice @sparklingice1776.bsky.social · 4h

So who’s going to volunteer to eat Argentina’s infected beef supplies?

Any takers?

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Sparkling Ice @sparklingice1776.bsky.social · 4h

American farmers are all planting money tree this year I’d wager.

My Farmer’s Almanac says that next year is going to be a bumper crop of corruption, theft, gaslighting, and stupidity.

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Sparkling Ice @sparklingice1776.bsky.social · 4h

The Constitution is what the Republican Party hides behind while they are figuring out ways to ignore The Constitution.

Except the bits they like such as guns, until the “leaders” decide they don’t want ANYONE to have guns but them.

Oh & pardons, they like those too but they don’t understand them.

Sparkling Ice @sparklingice1776.bsky.social · 5h

I have a small art piece that is the entire script of The Princess Bride on my wall.

The black text is laid out to create a negative image of Columbo reading to a sick in bed Kevin Arnold.

It was also the only movie my platoon could agree on at any given moment, and was recited by the group.

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Sparkling Ice @sparklingice1776.bsky.social · 6h

Frank was trying to refute Chick’s statements and said something like “SSA has historically had all that data in the cloud and it’s secured.”

1. Bullshit - Not historically in the cloud, as it was completely segregated from wider access.

2. I’m so glad that AWS crashed yesterday - Not secured

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Sparkling Ice @sparklingice1776.bsky.social · 6h

Oh we’ll often add many additional descriptors as well.

When it comes down to a simple exclamation of “Dickhead!!”, the whole family knows who we’re 99% likely to be referencing.

I look forward to the day when I can refer to the WH occupant as simply just, “The President”, again.

Sparkling Ice @sparklingice1776.bsky.social · 6h

That part of the video just triggered that old memory. I can’t even remember it myself!

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Sparkling Ice @sparklingice1776.bsky.social · 16h

We just use “dickhead” in my household.

When anyone mentions:

“well did you see what dickhead said…”

Three generations of my family immediately know who we’re talking about.

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Sparkling Ice @sparklingice1776.bsky.social · 16h

Sorry, I did. Typos got me again.

“It may be satire…”

Was what I meant to say. It was totally believable until the fish thing. That’s part of an old joke I heard 100yrs ago.

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Sparkling Ice @sparklingice1776.bsky.social · 17h

It may satire, but it’s not unbelievable.

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Sparkling Ice @sparklingice1776.bsky.social · 17h

Dumbasses

Sparkling Ice @sparklingice1776.bsky.social · 17h

Fred if you do that one more time, we’re not coming to help you.

Sparkling Ice @sparklingice1776.bsky.social · 18h

That’s quite nice to hear that an organization that’s often reviled is getting some love (or at least pity) from the people that they support.

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Sparkling Ice @sparklingice1776.bsky.social · 18h

I should have said executives.

The SES level is where all the BS threats come from, though there are plenty of bootlicker supervisors as well in all the agencies.

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Sparkling Ice @sparklingice1776.bsky.social · 18h

81 years ago anti-fascist freedom fighters returned to the Philippines.

apnews.com/today-in-his...

Today in History: October 20, MacArthur returns to the Philippines

1803: Senate ratifies Louisiana Purchase 1973: Nixon's 'Saturday Night Massacre' 2011: Moammar Gadhafi killed in Libya

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Sparkling Ice @sparklingice1776.bsky.social · 20h

Maybe he slipped a girlfriend some mifepristone when she wasn’t looking.

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Sparkling Ice @sparklingice1776.bsky.social · 20h

And he’ll be confirmed along party lines.

Maybe a couple will be allowed to vote their consciences this time, as long as he gets through.

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