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Eric R Fairhurst 📚 🦋 🎷🎨 @efairhurst.bsky.social · 7h

Story time
Back in the day when suicide was against Indiana law so they made you go to psych wards. While I was there to visit a friend, while waiting, a woman jumped into the chair next to me and proclaimed “if your hearts on the left side of a dollar bill, your gay”

I think of that often

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 9h

Miller seethes when people make fun of him online, so I do think ridiculing him is impactful.

Better, though, would be to start calling him President Miller and telling folks he’s really in charge - that’ll drive Trump nuts.

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Eric R Fairhurst 📚 🦋 🎷🎨 @efairhurst.bsky.social · 8h

I got my antifa decoder ring today

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine

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Anti-Trumpism @forabettertomorrow.bsky.social · 11h

YES: A Wyoming librarian fired for refusing to pull LGBTQ books just won a $700,000 settlement for violation of her First Amendment rights. 👏 Let this be a warning to every censor-happy official in the country.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Eric R Fairhurst 📚 🦋 🎷🎨 @efairhurst.bsky.social · 10h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

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Eric R Fairhurst 📚 🦋 🎷🎨 @efairhurst.bsky.social · 12h

Anyone seen Tulsi lately?

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💙🦋🌊 Political Americans 🌊🦋💙 @politicalamericans.bsky.social · 14h

Tragic. Sad. And true.

"Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It"

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

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Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

newrepublic.com

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Eric R Fairhurst 📚 🦋 🎷🎨 @efairhurst.bsky.social · 12h

No!!?? Really???!! Well slap my ass and call me First Lady

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Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h

Trump is using our tax dollars to buy Argentine pesos to bail out the country's failing libertarian economy.

My friend Rohit Chopra explains how this will hurt struggling Americans here at home.

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Eric R Fairhurst 📚 🦋 🎷🎨 @efairhurst.bsky.social · 13h

We can send 20 billion to Argentina and layoff thousands of Americans all in one day

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Eric R Fairhurst 📚 🦋 🎷🎨 @efairhurst.bsky.social · 13h

Awesome sunset clouds tonight

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Eric R Fairhurst 📚 🦋 🎷🎨 @efairhurst.bsky.social · 15h

Why is everything so extreme with these people. Abortions on demand, schools performing sex changes, etc

Yet, the pedophiles are LITERALLY in their party

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

Eric R Fairhurst 📚 🦋 🎷🎨 @efairhurst.bsky.social · 15h

They think we are stupid

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 15h

I know Mike Johnson says there is nothing for the House to do but there is.

You see by law a budget was supposed to be in place by Sept 30th, but Rs haven’t passed one. The reason? There isn’t a GOP budget. They haven’t even started working on one. This is what the House should be doing FFS!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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WatchYourRepsSC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 16h

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Mail Ballots Were Found in an Amazon Box in Maine. Some Suspect a Political Dirty Trick.

Read more here...

www.democracydocket.com

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 17h

Soybean farmers should dump their beans on Capitol Hill…

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Eric R Fairhurst 📚 🦋 🎷🎨 @efairhurst.bsky.social · 17h

They are all deranged

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Eric R Fairhurst 📚 🦋 🎷🎨 @efairhurst.bsky.social · 17h

For the party of Medicaid work requirements, only working 15 days since July is kinda their own self‑inflicted irony.

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Eric R Fairhurst 📚 🦋 🎷🎨 @efairhurst.bsky.social · 18h

Trump thanking Putin for saying he should have won the Nobel Peace Prize is just another example of him embracing praise from authoritarian leaders while dismissing criticism from democratic allies.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

The corruption and self-dealing is staring you in the face. Hello?

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Eric R Fairhurst 📚 🦋 🎷🎨 @efairhurst.bsky.social · 20h

Like I said, the GOP party is FULL of perverted repressed groypers

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to head up the Office of Special Counsel, cancelled a female colleague’s hotel reservation on a work trip so he could stay with her, and they ended up sharing a room after she learned she didn't have a hotel room. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Key Trump nominee accused of sexual harassment

Paul Ingrassia has been investigated for allegedly harassing a lower-ranking colleague, according to administration officials. Fearing retaliation, the woman later withdrew a complaint, and Ingrassia ...

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Eric R Fairhurst 📚 🦋 🎷🎨 @efairhurst.bsky.social · 20h

Isn’t it time we send the straights to straight conversion therapy

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