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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 16h

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 13h

If not for the widespread misery and privation they are causing, the sheer bumbling, overreaching incompetence of the Trump administration would be pretty funny.

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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 14h

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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 16h

“Meritocracy.”

Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 18h

Republicans support our troops… just not financially.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 23h

"Only the brazen can say, 'I was not here'…

It never occurs to them that they live on the cumulative hurt of others.

They want to start the clock of social justice only when they arrived. But one is born into history, one isn't born into a void."

- Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door…, publ. 2001

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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 1d

I’m pretty skeptical of No True Scotsman arguments. But they are unresolvable.

Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently the cops are permitted to ignore a medical emergency if it is drug-related.

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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 1d

Are the MAGAts not “true” conservatives? Or were the more reasonable archetypal conservatives of the past just as awful in a world that had not sufficiently devolved to allow their depravity to fully flower?

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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 1d

I wrestle with this daily. I have not conceded. But I see so many (not you) who seem to avoid that trap by failing to understand or admit how bad things really are.

Defeatism and denial are both bad. Navigating a path between them is a constant struggle.

Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 1d

They finally withdrew the legal justification for undeclared war-making *after* ceding pretty much all their power to an administration that categorically rejects the idea that it needs legal justification for anything.

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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 1d

All government policies involve tradeoffs. If we want to have a cruel and arbitrary police state, we have to also accept economic pain.

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

www.washingtonpost.com

Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 1d

We (and especially they) are living in a real life version of Monsters, Inc. that is neither funny nor cute. This administration and its goons feed on fear.

Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 1d

Definition of a progressive: someone who is usually right, but too soon.

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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 1d

I expected the fascism, the assault on the social safety net, the governance by grievance and vengeance.

I did not anticipate this kind of pointless insanity.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 1d

“You should fear us. And your fear is all we need to arrest you.”

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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t love her music. But the woman is a saint.

Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 1d

Trump isn’t going to like that.

So someone should put it into an ad to be played on Fox News.

Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 1d

Kavanaugh stop.

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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 1d

That works, too.

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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 1d

a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .

ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .

media.tenor.com

Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 1d

Waiting for the video of 100 people in frog suits goose stepping.

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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 1d

Gonna write a new definition of “frog marching”

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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 1d

Good for MIT.

Now where are the rest of them?

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

A college president is slamming President Donald Trump's political agenda, saying the top university "cannot support" it in exchange for federal funding.

'Cannot support': Top university president first to reject Trump's big request

A college president is slamming President Donald Trump's political agenda, saying the top university "cannot support" it in exchange for federal funding.Massachusetts Institute of Technology is reportedly the first to reject and condemn Trump's dubious deal to nine universities, WSOC-TV reports Frid...

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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 1d

Schumer and AIPAC Shakur will respond as they always have: by punching the hippies.