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Thomas @coffeekeepsmealive.bsky.social · 1d

Did desperately terrible things to pay back creditors

Refused to admit mistakes, choosing to double down on his bad choices

Lies about the state of things for appearances and money

Rapist

Still has supporters, despite a multitude of heinous acts

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Thomas @coffeekeepsmealive.bsky.social · 1d

Ways in which Col*mbus was the Tr*mp of his time:

Refuses to accept commonly accepted, well-established science

Takes credit for other's accomplishments

Caused disease to spread among the locals, killing hundreds of thousands

Directly ordered human trafficking and death

Columbus Day - How Is This Still A Thing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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SayItToMyFace🚫👑 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 6d

Love this! So talented and creative. It’s the soundtrack to the scientific apocalypse we are living in! I follow @ellecordova.bsky.social here but this wasn’t posted. This was from TikTok! Enjoy!

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Thomas @coffeekeepsmealive.bsky.social · 8d

We are in the dumbest timeline. A fascist takeover by the stupid.

I know many people who aren't smart. I respect them if they are honest, diligent, & kind.

"It does not merit my intellectual respect."

This perfectly encapsulates my sentiments. I have no respect for deliberate ignorance or evil.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 8d

AOC: "I thought that fascist takeover attempts were going to be architected by evil geniuses. I was not expecting how unearned, nepotistic, mediocre and just dumb so many of the people architecting this were going to be"

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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 14d

The Warrior Ethos
For @rawstory.com
Follow my work on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

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Thomas @coffeekeepsmealive.bsky.social · 23d

This priest actually makes me consider re-joining Christianity.

Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 23d

I told the Reverend he made me proud to be a Christian.

Photo of ICE thugs using chemical weapons on a Reverend.

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Thomas @coffeekeepsmealive.bsky.social · 24d

20 years ago, it was angry rhetoric from the bully pulpit.

Today, it's termination and censorship.

The sentiment that elected him doesn't just go away.

Next time an autocrat comes to power will they commit murder?

Or has today's government failed so much they'll be killing us next month?

Chancellor on TV with Gordon and V - V for Vendetta (2005) - Movie Clip HD Scene

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Thomas @coffeekeepsmealive.bsky.social · Sep 10

Guns don't help protect rights.
Guns kill people.
Unrestricted firearms access is dangerous and helps no one.

From the chaoticgood community on Reddit: How protecting the fucking 2nd amendment working for y'a

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Thomas @coffeekeepsmealive.bsky.social · Sep 5

"If they don't like the data in your graphs, they'll just turn the lights out in your lab."

The scientific method is the best and only way to keep ignorance and fear at bay.

For our scientists

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Thomas @coffeekeepsmealive.bsky.social · Sep 4

11 years now and they would have to change it to "A $13 increase can make a living wage."

"...I don't get these birds for free!"

Mary Poppins Quits with Kristen Bell

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Thomas @coffeekeepsmealive.bsky.social · Sep 4

If he looked his age, maybe people wouldn't take him as seriously.

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Thomas @coffeekeepsmealive.bsky.social · Aug 25

These two burning a flag were more honest and patriotic than those who would criminalize behavior and speech.

Penn & Teller: Fool Us - Flag - Season 2 Episode 9 (2015)

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Thomas @coffeekeepsmealive.bsky.social · Aug 13

"Life is perpetual change...Once again, it is a heady time and a fraught time. A time of hope and a time of challenges. That is always the case. Every moment we are alive, we are soaring into the future. A place where no one has gone before. What we'll find there depends on what we do today."

It Rhymes With Takei

Following the award-winning bestseller They Called Us Enemy, George Takei's new full-coloUr graphic memoir reveals his most personal story of all-told in full f

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Thomas @coffeekeepsmealive.bsky.social · Aug 12

A good overview of the consideration of religion and government. How it evolved in early colonial founding, to the monumental passage of the first ammendment, to the modern stripping of the understanding of the function and needed separation of these two institutions.

America's Best Idea

A historian and ordained Episcopal priest offers everything you need to know for shaping and defending your own beliefs on the role of religion in American life

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Thomas @coffeekeepsmealive.bsky.social · Aug 2

4. No one can remember the past. People have a hard time recalling events and people; what they did and why. They are all too obsessed with the present. This makes it easy for the government to change events and manipulate history to their favor.

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Thomas @coffeekeepsmealive.bsky.social · Aug 2

3. People have really short attention spans. They have to constantly have a screen in front of them playing news or entertainment. Going without is akin to torture. Being away from a device to communicate with work causes anxiety.

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Thomas @coffeekeepsmealive.bsky.social · Aug 2

Ted Rall wrote in 2004 a prediction of the future in the style of Orwell's 1984. The most accurate and horrifying predictions:
1. A dystopian technocracy in which corporations were the ruling class. Amything that improved shareholder value was good.
2. Trade war with everyone.

2024: A Graphic Novel

Move forward two decades. See the world as the giant me…

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Thomas @coffeekeepsmealive.bsky.social · Jul 27

Got 'em!

From the gifs community on Reddit: Somebody had to do it

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Thomas @coffeekeepsmealive.bsky.social · Jul 24

Make Donnie mad. Portray him as the senile, pedophile, grifting, crybaby, mob boss, felon he is.

Relax, Guy

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Thomas @coffeekeepsmealive.bsky.social · Jul 24

In case you didn't see it...
This is absolutely perfection. Just when I thought they'd be out of ideas.

From the southpark community on Reddit: Here is a link to the PSA. Share it everywhere.

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Thomas @coffeekeepsmealive.bsky.social · Jul 20

Stephen Miller is so filled with hate and racist ideology, and appears to have been that way since childhood.

Hatemonger

Stephen Miller was one of the most influential advisors during Donald Trump's tenure as US President. Miller crafted Trump's speeches, designed immigration poli

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Thomas @coffeekeepsmealive.bsky.social · Jul 14

If every leader acted like our clown. Made back when it was sadly funny.

Now it's just horrific.

Mexican Donald Trump with George Lopez

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Thomas @coffeekeepsmealive.bsky.social · Jul 11

The diseased position of holding the nation hostage unless their narrow, regressive, and disproven antics are adopted has been around for a while.

The Mad (Republican) Tea Party

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Thomas @coffeekeepsmealive.bsky.social · Jul 6

Our own government is hurting, beating, detaining, assaulting, traumatizing, and soon to be killing innocent people. Citizen or not, this is evil. They have declared war on resistance, on critical thinking, on due process, and on ordinary people.

From the EyesOnIce community on Reddit: What happened at the Portland ICE facility yesterday

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Thomas @coffeekeepsmealive.bsky.social · Jul 4

This video is 8 years old. Are we great yet?

Pussy Riot - Make America Great Again. (Official Music Video)

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