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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 1h

Many can be debunked

Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 1h

I mean, what are the odds that two separate people shot RFK at the same time, and the starting defensive line of the Rams, who happened to be with him, only caught one of them?

Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 1h

Sirhan Sirhan says that he shot RFK, and neither his son nor his scientific witness are credible. Or more accurately, forensic analysis of modern recordings is unreliable, much less of a nearly 60 year old reel-to-reel, and semi-related, gunshot aware software is total horseshit.

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 1h

Lincoln! Lincoln was irrefutably assassinated by a conspiracy. They were trying to kill him, Johnson, Seward, and other cabinet members and create a constitutional crisis, but obviously only one was actually successful, and he was super famous, so it was the worst one for all involved.

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LymeScience @lymescience.org · 12h

Another example of why you should subscribe to Wired 👇

Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 12h

The CDC's union estimates that a quarter of the agency been gutted under the Trump administration. Here's our story at @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...

A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

www.wired.com

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 2h

So you’re saying that the Venezuelan Caribbean is closer to Miami than El Paso is to DC

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Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social · Nov 11

4 decades ago the Federalist Society was created to destroy the fabric of the most successful democratic nation in history. It was a reaction to civil rights and the regulatory system that had built the middle class. They wanted unrequited wealth. They won. Now everybody’s miserable, even them. Yay

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Noah Joad @noahjoad.bsky.social · 13h

Hey, remember when people got fired for posting about Charlie Kirk?

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, they knew what they were getting, that’s on them

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 13h

if you invite donald trump to speak at your loved one’s memorial, you deserve to have to watch him insult your dead loved one

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · 5h

wondering for real just who actually *loved* CK, as in an actual relationship.

the widow seems increasingly sus, the kids are very young.

Candace Owens?

idk. I think all these people are such fucking assholes they have no real love for each other. "Prove me wrong."

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 13h

if you invite donald trump to speak at your loved one’s memorial, you deserve to have to watch him insult your dead loved one

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 2h

What. We had these in elementary school. As a fundraiser. In the 90s.

Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 2h

And he’s better than a woman who has won statewide races multiple times, is standing up to trump, and is protecting trans kids because the “working class” guy endorsed by the 85 year old is younger than the woman who is the sitting governor that the state democratic party prefers.

Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 2h

It’s hilarious to see this thread come up in feed today while he and an expensive press shop (paid by pixies, not PAC money) are heavily pushing a former Blackwater contractor who’s never run for office, who “likes guns and has a lot of them,” and “doesn’t consider himself a progressive” for senate

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 2h

Women’s rights ARE people’s needs, particularly in a country where women are more likely to be the primary earners or heads of household, more likely to be raising grandchildren, more likely to have a degree, more likely to be responsible for housework and emotional labor, and still face a wage gap.

Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 3h

“I have no idea who these men on stage with me are, I’ve never even heard of the party’s youth structure” (paraphrasing) is an amazing denial from a gubernatorial candidate.

I totally believe that Kris K Kobach, who is somehow still around, had no idea his comms guy was a massive racist, though 🙄

Nash Is Here for It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 7h

Read all the disgusting details here: kansasreflector.com/2025/10/14/k...

Kansas Young Republicans shut down after Politico report on racist, violent encrypted chat • Kansas Reflector

Politico reports the chairman and vice chairman of Kansas Young Republicans participated in racist, antisemitic encrypted chats with GOP political peers.

kansasreflector.com

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 3h

It’s a good start. Might want to disband the entire GOP to be sure.

Nash Is Here for It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 7h

The Young Republicans worship the same ideologies as the old Republicans. We should only be surprised that this leaked, not that it was happening in the first place.

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 3h

If you south of the Canadian border, you south
—Malcolm X

And that’s the only way they were from the south

Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 3h

When Roger Stone is clearly shocked and embarrassed by the level of racism, or at least the fact that they committed it to writing in their campaign chat, you done messed up.

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 3h

I really want to know more about the explanation of the leak as a vast (not as?) right wing conspiracy by at least two of the dudes in the chat—they say some guy at state blackmailed one of them?

Like, okay, obviously it hurt you, but also you wrote all those things and he knew about it, so…

Nash Is Here for It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 7h

The Young Republicans worship the same ideologies as the old Republicans. We should only be surprised that this leaked, not that it was happening in the first place.

Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 3h

States’ rights have always, always been the right to discriminate, and in particular the right to ignore Brown, desegregation orders, the Civil Rights Act, etc.

Yes, Goldwater too. If you’re south of the Canadian border, you south. None of the folks in today’s GOP scandal were from the south.

Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 3h

Did the VP candidate’s 33 year old daughter say something about the dumb GOP PR stunt ironically called the Brooks Brothers riot? idk google it

She was shoring up votes on the center and right because the person with the most votes wins, not the white guy deemed to have the purest politics

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 4h

They don’t take him literally or figuratively or seriously or see his tweets or…

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Alt: Brooklyn Nine Nine GIF How was I supposed to know there’d be consequences for my actions? .

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 4h

For 50 years the GOP voted in every single election at every level to get a deep bench, appoint judges, and overturn Roe, and idiots blame Biden because he was stuck with the 6-3 Supreme Court that was the result of them staying home in 2014 and 2016 in the first place. Infuriating.

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 4h

I want a lot of new housing, free healthcare, not to have to take the bus, and low taxes. What?

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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 20h

Every angry screed about how Biden blew it just does not acknowledge the whole reason Biden was unpopular was because he did the exact economic policy they claimed to want instead of pummeling the workers with austerity until Doordash servants worked for pennies and Subway footlongs were $5 again.

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