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Thanks, I Hate It @thanksihateit603.bsky.social · 1d

The dog’s name was Chop.

Zero indication that they had a warrant to enter this home.

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Thanks, I Hate It @thanksihateit603.bsky.social · 1d

"Please make it longer and more subservient to power."

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Thanks, I Hate It @thanksihateit603.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry, what?

Thanks, I Hate It @thanksihateit603.bsky.social · 1d

The employment lawyers should have an interesting time with the promise to keep the info in the "strictest of confidence".

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Thanks, I Hate It @thanksihateit603.bsky.social · 1d

What is it about no kings that they don't understand?

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Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 1d

the defining image of the early 21st century is an agent of the state pointing a gun at a person, and a citizen pointing a smartphone camera back at them

we see this scene reenacted every day, around the world

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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Thanks, I Hate It @thanksihateit603.bsky.social · 1d

Remember the night we all were convinced that you know who had you know what?

That was the secret in action. Apparently it doesn’t work.

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Thanks, I Hate It @thanksihateit603.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah what the fuck was this grand jury smoking?

Thanks, I Hate It @thanksihateit603.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a suit and tie says " serious people "

ALT: a man in a suit and tie says " serious people "

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Thanks, I Hate It @thanksihateit603.bsky.social · 1d

Then just what am I paying you $1k/hour for?

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

Your Honor the prosecution asks that the “what’s taking so long on that malicious prosecution” DM be excluded

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Thanks, I Hate It @thanksihateit603.bsky.social · 1d

Not to ruin the (very good) joke, but this is actually the kind of pre-trial issue that could get up to SCOTUS, right? I mean as a technical matter.

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Thanks, I Hate It @thanksihateit603.bsky.social · 1d

This is a glonzo centipede. Keep up the good work.

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Thanks, I Hate It @thanksihateit603.bsky.social · 1d

"Sustained pressure" from Trump or a direct order that he sent to the AG as part of a scandal that would have immediately led to the impeachment and removal of any previous president?

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Thanks, I Hate It @thanksihateit603.bsky.social · 1d

They support it. Most of them gleefully.

Thanks, I Hate It @thanksihateit603.bsky.social · 1d

"At the express direction of the president as political retribution in a scandal that would have immediately led to the impeachment and removal of any other president in US history."

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Thanks, I Hate It @thanksihateit603.bsky.social · 1d

"I always say that the Sacramento Kings are the New York Knicks of California."

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Thanks, I Hate It @thanksihateit603.bsky.social · 1d

Who??

Thanks, I Hate It @thanksihateit603.bsky.social · 2d

By late-January 2021 vaccines were already being rolled out and Milley/Pelosi/Pence just barely delivered the transfer of power.

Everything was worse in Oct/Nov 2020 - the holidays were cancelled and 6 year olds were still going to "virtual school" that everyone had basically given up on.

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Thanks, I Hate It @thanksihateit603.bsky.social · 2d

Just casually discussing mass rape, enslavement, and the most horrific torture imaginable in the pages of the NYT. These people are irredeemable.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Thanks, I Hate It @thanksihateit603.bsky.social · 2d

Would be extremely easy to do this with Republicans who center their Christian faith as their public persona and then spit on the poor, refugees, etc.

I wonder why that never happens?

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Thanks, I Hate It @thanksihateit603.bsky.social · 3d

That seems like it would be an unalloyed good thing?

Thanks, I Hate It @thanksihateit603.bsky.social · 3d

Freedom, Family, Fish - let's go.

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