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Adam O @adamsramblings.bsky.social · 8h

What the GOP supporters don’t understand is that gerrymandering undermines their vote too. If those maps go through, then effectively your vote doesn’t matter whether you would vote blue OR red, the mapmakers have already decided for you.

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Adam O @adamsramblings.bsky.social · 8h

I’m in NC and feel like our maps are already quite rigged. To see all the blue in the state get sucked up is horrifying

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Adam O @adamsramblings.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks for helping them out.

Amazing what happens daily in the richest country in the world

Adam O @adamsramblings.bsky.social · 11h

Mike is just fomenting more violence. Right wing nutbags are going to target protesters as he frames them as enemies of the state. And don’t be surprised if police, national guard, or homeland agents get deployed to violently disperse peaceful gatherings.
No Kings, I’ll still be out there!

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Full of Contempt @m-theory3.bsky.social · 1d

This is the nation that we are now. This nation is unbelievably sick.

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Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 1d

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 17h

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3d

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 3d

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 8d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 8d

Here’s video of the incident

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Adam O @adamsramblings.bsky.social · 8d

Devil Cat and Toblerone stand with workers. A fair wage for a days work!

Orange tabby and calico cats snuggled on chair

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 8d

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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Aunty Em @everycourthouse.bsky.social · 9d

“We are home now. We marched from the park to ICE, very peaceful crowd. We were standing around ICE pushed us down, sprayed us with chemical and I was hit in the head with a projectile. This was so unprovoked. People have to know that the Feds are attacking people with NO provocation whatsoever.”

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 9d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 9d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10d

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11d

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

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Adam O @adamsramblings.bsky.social · 12d

Check out Bagged & Boarded: The Game of Collecting Comics by Nick McCollum on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/enj...

Bagged & Boarded: The Game of Collecting Comics

Build the most valuable comic collection in this thematic, rummy-inspired, economic worker-placement game

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 13d

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

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ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 17d

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.”

Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins?

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Man in custody after 3 killed, at least 8 injured in shooting at a waterfront bar in North Carolina, officials say | CNN

A 40-year-old man is facing murder charges after allegedly pulling up on a boat to a waterfront bar in North Carolina Saturday night and opening fire, killing three and injuring at least eight others.

www.cnn.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 19d

Took fire to the face. ICE definitely isn’t aiming at ground and firing at people’s heads again.

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Adam O @adamsramblings.bsky.social · 19d

Sorry Matt, we are the same age as old dudes now.

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Adam O @adamsramblings.bsky.social · 20d

Congrats on your nutmeg beef and spaghetti. 🤢🤮

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 20d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Brent Terhune @brentterhune.bsky.social · Aug 12

The Truth About Washington DC

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Adam O @adamsramblings.bsky.social · 22d

I’m not having a go at the man’s orthodontia, but this motherfucker is toothless.