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Wild Bill

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•❤️ 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 & their NATO allies (except 🇭🇺 & 🇹🇷 of course) Support 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇲🇽 •🖕 Putin and his cronies, that includes the wannabe Cheeto King •Vote for democracy, vote Democratic 💙 •Courageous Republicans are extinct •MAGA is 🙀 weird •DM = Block

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Wild Bill @whyld.bsky.social · 23d

1A of US Const. :

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 50m

Newsom: This president appears unhinged… seems listless… he seems, dare I say, in decline—cognitively, and… physically. These are just the rantings of someone who needs an intervention, needs some help, needs to be stabilized.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 40m

I urge our nation to use this weekend's No Kings marches as a declaration of independence against the tyranny and lawlessness currently running this country.

Use your voice. ACT PEACEFULLY. Protect yourself and your community.

THERE ARE NO KINGS IN THE UNITED STATES.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 47m

Politics often depends on the richest in society.

That's why I'm SO proud of our campaign. We're funded small dollar donors. We've raised almost 6x more in donations under $200 than the next five candidates in my race COMBINED.

We're by and for the people — NOT corporations and billionaires.

screenshot of a FEC fundraising table, sorted by amount raised from brackets of donations. It's sorted by $200 and under donations:

Abughazaleh, Katherine M.
$1,158,374.00

Biss, Daniel
$70,333.23

Fine, Laura
$43,578.61

Huynh, Khai-Hoan
$39,758.40

Simmons, Mike
$22,965.33

Andrew, Philip Jerome
$21,469

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Wild Bill @whyld.bsky.social · 10m

No Kings!
No Court Jesters either!

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24m

This is grossly dark. These are broken people.

But it's also so politically dumb.

How do they think Americans will react to being told that anyone who doesn't support Trump is a terrorist?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 5h

South Carolina is demanding that public officials swear an allegiance to God. That's illegal. Let's see if the Supreme Court still stands for religious freedom.

www.friendlyatheist.com/p/south-caro...

South Carolina bars atheist from serving as election worker unless he swears oath to God

The state’s insistence on poll workers saying "so help me God" has turned a civic service into a religious loyalty test

www.friendlyatheist.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

VARNEY: Some Iowa farmers are frustrated because Trump is putting $20b into Argentina to bail them out. They're worried that the administration is focused on foreign financial aid at the expense of American farmers.

BROOKE ROLLINS: The president's focus remains 100% on America first

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 7h

...the most wholesome & necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate & pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; & when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them."

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 7h

From the Declaration of Independence:
"The history of the present King...is a history of repeated injuries/usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws..

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Wild Bill @whyld.bsky.social · 4h

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Wild Bill @whyld.bsky.social · 20d

“Stop calling us NAZIs”.

Sure, just as soon as you stop walking in their footsteps.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 7h

"Literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. But there are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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Wild Bill @whyld.bsky.social · 4h

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Wild Bill @whyld.bsky.social · 20d

“Stop calling us NAZIs”.

Sure, just as soon as you stop walking in their footsteps.

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Wild Bill @whyld.bsky.social · 4h

OMG, what’s wet and hitting my back on a cloudless day? It’s not rain like you’re telling me it is.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 6h

Oklahoma’s new public schools superintendent announces he is reversing a mandate from his predecessor that forced schools to place Bibles in classrooms and incorporate it into lesson plans for students.

New Oklahoma schools superintendent rescinds mandate for Bible instruction in schools

The turnaround comes after the last state schools superintendent, Republican Ryan Walters, quit to take a job in the private sector.

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Wild Bill @whyld.bsky.social · 5h

🤦‍♂️

Wild Bill @whyld.bsky.social · 5h

Sounds like typical Republican doublespeak.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

THUNE: Fund the government the old fashioned way -- I don't think you need rescissions

VITALI: Have you said to the WH, maybe don't do another rescissions package? Feels like it's poisoned the well

THUNE: It's in everybody's best interest, including the WH, to do a normal appropriations process

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Wild Bill @whyld.bsky.social · 5h

Cynical and/or dumb?

Wild Bill @whyld.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t need to be convinced anymore…

Republicans are taking America deeper and deeper into authoritarianism…

and they are happy about it.

It feels surreal.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h

The lying liars who lie are really losing their shit over #NoKings.

That should be reason enough for us to go.

Saturday. Everywhere. Go, and ask everyone you know to go.

👉 nokings.org/#map

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Wild Bill @whyld.bsky.social · 9h

Can we get a chorus of “Awwws” together
for this snowflake?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1d

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

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Wild Bill @whyld.bsky.social · 10h

Is that last statement by Bessent a threat or what?
I didn’t watch the interview bc you know 🤢🤮.