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We can no longer stand by while the criminal-in-chief ransacks our government and lays waste to our democracy. Time to knuckle down.

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Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 13h

Stephanopoulos sliced him to ribbons at the end of their interview today, and then went to break with Vance sputtering to reply. Master class in Not Suffering Fools.

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 13h

Quick, change the locks.

Also: The government is shut down. So who is paying for the Orange Plague to flit about the world, showing his ass on this continent and that?
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Live Updates: Trump Flies to Israel as Region Awaits Hostage-Prisoner Swap

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Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 19h

On behalf of the Trump admin, VP Vance announced today that Republicans no longer control the fed government.

Accordingly, I call on Thune & Johnson to be replaced promptly by Schumer & Jeffries.

Schumer then replaces Trump, and Jeffries, Vance. Next: Leader elex for Senate, House.

Who’s with it?

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Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 19h

Inspiring!

I’m starting an organization of stamp collectors (philatelists) fighting fascism.

WE ARE PHIFIFA!

(our mascot)

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 19h

The downside about making up idiotic bullshit is that you have to pretend you believe it.

The further you extend the lie, the more absurd, comical and cringe it gets.

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 20h

Well, you tried.

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 20h

Poll after poll shows far more Americans rightly blame Trump and his party for the shutdown than Democrats.

Undocumented immigrants aren’t eligible for federal health benefits, which you might know if you didn’t take your, um, “news” from Jesse Watters and Alex Jones.

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 20h

Oh, Bill Clinton caused the shutdown. Got it.

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 20h

Even the simplest American uses words - subjects, verbs, etc. - to explain themselves on the daily. The idea that we wouldn’t understand the nuances of SCOTUS’ sophisticated parlance is absurd.

In truth, they’re scared of exposing the fact that in most cases, they’ve already determined the outcome.

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 21h

Oh, Dems are to blame bc we won’t sign off on their fascist budget, aid and abet taking health care from 35M Americans?

Nope.

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 22h

Look, innocent citizens running from the war-torn hell of Chicago. Oh the humanity

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING: Dems are now in charge of the federal govt. VP Vance said so today on *multiple* news shows!

Not Trump, who apparently no longer holds the White House, or Congress, which I thought was held by GOP majorities, or the Trump - er, Supreme Court.

Who knew? Let's GO!

("Sincere concern" ⬇️)

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 1d

This, btw, is “balance” for MTP: Sloppy lies and talking points vomited out by partisans as though they are valid arguments.

But I digress. Pucker up, Lanhee: Trump’s fat ass is going to need another shameless, demeaning 💋 - and another, and another, and ….

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Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 1d

check back in w/ Chen when the brief ceasefire - in truth, delivered by Qatar & the Saudis - disintegrates and Israel’s atrocities resume.

Meanwhile, Kristen Welker handed most of her show to JD Vance and Lindsey Graham for tiresome monologues of barely-checked lies, partisan attacks & smugness.

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Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 1d

So he piles on the high-profile shows of loyalty & obedience, no matter how intellectually dishonest, in hopes it will save him & his. I get it.

Elsewhere, Chen praised Trump’s unorthodox “diplomacy,” pretending it delivered … well, whatever has *really* been delivered in Gaza.

Be sure to …

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Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 1d

You can hardly blame him. Chen, after all, is a former senior staffer for Trump blood enemy Mitt Romney.

And he must imagine the inevitable day when Trump’s ICE will come for his Taiwanese American family, as it comes for everyone who doesn’t fit Stephen Miller’s Aryan-like image of Americans.

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Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 1d

doesn’t end in a good place.”

No mention of the unprecedented Trump-ordered off-cycle redistricting in Texas and Missouri that was the unwanted predicate for Newsom’s measure.

Chen’s use of MAGA dog whistle “lawfare” was the chef’s kiss for the bowl of cherries carefully picked for Trump.

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Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 1d

🧵 Here’s how Hoover Institution fellow Lanhee Chen framed the shocking attacks on our democracy today on #MeetThePress:

“It’s scary. It’s the manipulation of legal and democratic norms by people like Gavin Newsom to redraw maps that I think is deeply problematic. Look, the cycle of lawfare …

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Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 1d

Same. Out and proud.

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 1d

Folks with a certain Aryan flair, proficient at gargling their favorite president’s cajones tenderly, publicly with shame.

“Sir, it is an honor to debase myself for you. Here, have my wife and bank account. It’s the least I can do.” Sobbing, he chops off his right hand in tribute.

That kinda guy.

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 2d

I’m in. Are you? #Oct18 #NoKings The people united can never be divided 🔥🔥🔥

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 2d

I’m in. Are you? #Oct18 #NoKings The people united can never be divided 🔥🔥🔥

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 2d

whooping cough, measles, Ebola, and hundreds of other dangerous, fatal diseases. We have no eyes and ears to detect trouble early.

Should a terrorist or foreign nation try a bio attack on the U.S., we wouldn’t know until it’s too late.
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Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

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Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 2d

the ENTIRE WASHINGTON STAFF, and editors” of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. MMWR is the weekly bulletin to the world on disease outbreaks and newly emerging communicable diseases.

The above leaves the United States defenseless against a major disease outbreak like bird flu, COVID...

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Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 2d

The US Centers for Disease Control (#CDC), the world's best public health surveillance and rapid response team, is now being completely destroyed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

In the latest hack at the Centers, Kennedy last night fired “dozens of disease detectives, high-ranking scientists ...

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