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birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 1h

When I was on Instagram, I tried to warn Trump supporters that authoritarians don't allow an armed citizenry. 🤷‍♀️

birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 1h

That's because Republicans consider taxpayer money their own to play with.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 2h

Desantis wants every Florida university, and college, to designate/rename a street after Charlie Kirk, a guy that never graduated from any school of higher learning... anywhere.

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Harry👊🇺🇸🔥 @scondrasht.bsky.social · 8h

Mike Johnson can call the House back into session at any time. He’s choosing not to.

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birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 2h

This protest will be in support of the U.S. Constitution, but right wingers will only hear propaganda about it.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering

Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.

www.politico.com

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Jul 2

This seems ominous. Trump just appointed Josh Craddock—who recently signed a letter urging the DOJ to use the Comstock Act to curtail the distribution of abortion pills—to serve as Deputy Assistant AG in the OLC at the DOJ. 1/

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birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 22h

I've heard reds trash reds, and then watched them vote with them anyway. They're phony as hell.

birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 22h

Blues NEED reds, particularly in red states.
Blues need reds to turn on those that have never given a sh.. about them anyway.

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like these guys never got to the part of literally any color revolution or scifi movie or famous Super Bowl commercial where the regime's symbolic omnipresence just creates endless potential sparks of revolution.

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · Jul 16

Hadn’t realized we reached the Fascist Leader Talking In An Endless Loop At Sites Of Mass Transit stage of the dystopia.

Good to know.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 1d

Release the Epstein Files.

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MGB💙 @wtpmary.bsky.social · 1d

Az loves Sen Gallego

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH- @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the "incredibly dishonest and downright dangerous new talking point being pushed by MAGA:"

“Republicans on Capitol Hill are claiming that peaceful protesters are part of a terrorist network hell bent on destroying America.”

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 23h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

REMINDER: American businesses and consumers will pay the 100% import tax www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/t...

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birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 23h

Florida is not free.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, at less than 2 bux a gallon, oil will be cheaper than milk!

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birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 1d

Trump doesn't understand; his supporters don't understand, and I'm not a hundred percent sure Trump's cabinet understands, either... or am I not 600 percent sure...maybe I'm not a thousand percent sure... 🤔

birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 1d

...but they are pro-life. 🤷‍♀️

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birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 1d

Dr. Oz is a quack.
He wants AI to determine whether a Medicare patient should receive the procedure, or care, their Dr has prescribed.
"We've done BANANAS!" (Monty Python reference)
We've been here before. Insurance companies just used to use humans to deny services to patients.

birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 1d

Now that 2 of Marjorie Taylor Greene's kids have aged out of her insurance coverage, she's fighting Republicans on the bill she voted for.
These people only care when it affects them directly.
They're all sociopaths.

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Lock Wilford @lockwilford.com · 2d

Quite a stalemate we have going on here, one side wants to provide health care the other side wants everyone that doesn't look like them dead

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birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social · 1d

This started with GW Bush and the Patriot Act.
He also created "protest zones" in order to put protesters out of sight.