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Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 19h

One of the World's Oldest Surviving Peoples
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02/10/25 Scientists Reveal Shocking Truths About Armenian DNA

YouTube video by PHYSDEP SEMINAR

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Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 19h

Great discussion on the Nobel Peace Prize, Venezuela, Ukraine, Gaza, RFK & autism.

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INTEL Roundtable w/ Johnson & McGovern - Weekly Wrap 10-Oct

YouTube video by Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom

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Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 19h

GOP Candidate: It’s Not Discrimination to Fire Someone for Being Gay

“That’s not discrimination, nooo,” Earles-Sears said yet again.

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GOP Candidate: It’s Not Discrimination to Fire Someone for Being Gay

Virginia Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears had a truly wild debate performance.

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Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 20h

(Stop these clowns' paychecks while they can't resolve a government shutdown)

Speaking w/Fox Business Friday morning, Rep. Buddy Carter said that (instead of working to end the government shutdown) he & his colleagues were going to file resolution “today” to honor the president w/Nobel Prize.

Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 20h

GOP Rep Reveals Nonsensical Revenge Plan After Trump Loses Nobel Prize

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GOP Rep Reveals Nonsensical Revenge Plan After Trump Loses Nobel Prize

Representative Buddy Carter is furious that Donald Trump didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 20h

GOP Rep Reveals Nonsensical Revenge Plan After Trump Loses Nobel Prize

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GOP Rep Reveals Nonsensical Revenge Plan After Trump Loses Nobel Prize

Representative Buddy Carter is furious that Donald Trump didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 20h

Three More GOP Reps Split From Mike Johnson Over Shutdown

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Three More GOP Reps Split From Mike Johnson Over Shutdown

The House speaker is losing control of his party.

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Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 20h

Newsom & Pritzker Are Showing How to Attack Authoritarian Crook

In "Right Now With Perry Bacon", Dem strategist Arkadi Gerney argues that the US is in the midst of “cold civil war.” For liberals to win it, they must use “hardball” tactics...
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Newsom and Pritzker Are Showing How to Attack an Authoritarian Crook

Arkadi Gerney, a Democratic strategist, says Democratic governors and attorneys general have the greatest ability to stop Trump—and they’re doing it in ways that are underappreciated.

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Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 20h

Johnson, Scalise & Emmer do not represent their constituencies, much less American citizens!
Talk about dangerous terrorist genocidal civil war instigating buffoonery.

First amendment!
Get out there on NO KINGS DAY, October 18th!!!!!!

Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 20h

House Speaker Mike Johnson & House Majority Leader Steve Scalise referred to peaceful “No Kings” protest planned for October 18 as “Hate America rally,” House Majority Whip Tom Emmer called it a “terrorist” event.

Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 20h

Republican Rep Claims Everyone at “No Kings” Protest Is a Terrorist

This is how the Republicans begin to dismantle the First Amendment.
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Republican Rep Claims Everyone at “No Kings” Protest Is a Terrorist

This is how the Republicans begin to dismantle the First Amendment.

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Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 20h

Republican Rep Claims Everyone at “No Kings” Protest Is a Terrorist

This is how the Republicans begin to dismantle the First Amendment.
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Republican Rep Claims Everyone at “No Kings” Protest Is a Terrorist

This is how the Republicans begin to dismantle the First Amendment.

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Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 20h

Stephen Miller Accidentally Says “I” When Discussing Trump’s Powers

Stephen Miller may have just accidentally confirmed that he, not Trump, is the one calling the shots in regard to deportation raids and National Guard deployments.

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Stephen Miller Accidentally Says “I” When Discussing Trump’s Powers

Miller’s slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge.

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Dennis Fahey @52-blue.bsky.social · 20h

WTAF??????????????????????????????????

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 20h

(File this with the total WTF files. Seriously????)

MAGA Melts Down Over Trump Giving Qatar a Military Base in U.S.

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MAGA Melts Down Over Trump Giving Qatar a Military Base in U.S.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that Qatar would build an Air Force base in Idaho.

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Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 20h

(Yet to appease him, NPP did not go to whom the committee really wanted to give it [org in Sudan]. That's ao absurd)

White House Flips Out After Trump Loses Nobel Peace Prize

Donald Trump didn’t win the peace prize he so desperately wanted.
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White House Flips Out After Trump Loses Nobel Peace Prize

Donald Trump didn’t win the peace prize he so desperately wanted.

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Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 1d

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

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M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

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Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 1d

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘Antichrist' & US destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” likely to take the form of critic of technology.
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Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 1d

Thiel’s main argument: politics should be framed apocalyptically, & Silicon Valley—potentially an agent of the Antichrist—should be empowered to do whatever it wishes because it alone can save (or destroy) the world.

Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Thiel says Antichrist ‘Wants a Nobel Peace Prize.‘
Leaked Highlights from Tech Billionaire's Secret Antichrist Lectures

“Am I a genius or an insane person?” asked Thiel in his fourth lecture. Of course, the two are not mutually exclusive...
www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-...

Peter Thiel says Antichrist ‘Wants a Nobel Peace Prize.‘

Leaked Highlights from Tech Billionaire's Secret Antichrist Lectures

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Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Thiel says Antichrist ‘Wants a Nobel Peace Prize.‘
Leaked Highlights from Tech Billionaire's Secret Antichrist Lectures

“Am I a genius or an insane person?” asked Thiel in his fourth lecture. Of course, the two are not mutually exclusive...
www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-...

Peter Thiel says Antichrist ‘Wants a Nobel Peace Prize.‘

Leaked Highlights from Tech Billionaire's Secret Antichrist Lectures

www.thenerdreich.com

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Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 1d

The same states that helped draft the rules have worked just as hard to ensure that those rules almost never apply to their own leaders. This selective enforcement is not a flaw in the system. It is the system.

Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 1d

..postwar order promised universal standard of justice.
...it has delivered something else: a system that shields the powerful and their allies, & reserves prosecution for poorer, weaker countries.

Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 1d

Who Gets Away With Crimes Against Humanity?

How dictators and Nazis have eluded the international justice system—with help from their friends

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Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 1d

..postwar order promised universal standard of justice.
...it has delivered something else: a system that shields the powerful and their allies, & reserves prosecution for poorer, weaker countries.

Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 1d

Who Gets Away With Crimes Against Humanity?

How dictators and Nazis have eluded the international justice system—with help from their friends

newrepublic.com/article/2011... via @newrepublic.com

Who Gets Away With Crimes Against Humanity?

How dictators and Nazis have eluded the international justice system—with help from their friends

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Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 1d

Who Gets Away With Crimes Against Humanity?

How dictators and Nazis have eluded the international justice system—with help from their friends

newrepublic.com/article/2011... via @newrepublic.com

Who Gets Away With Crimes Against Humanity?

How dictators and Nazis have eluded the international justice system—with help from their friends

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Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 1d

Vought is not some temporary White House employee who’s dabbling in the art of sabotaging the government before he returns to his “job” as the world’s richest man. He is Trump’s personal hatchet man...the Grim Reaper personified.

...as the cuts get deeper, the mood will quickly turn sour.

Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 1d

Russ Vought Is Going to Damage Trump Even More Than Elon Musk Did

Americans, and even many Republicans in Congress, don’t like it when an unelected bureaucrat makes huge cuts to the government.

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Russ Vought Is Going to Damage Trump Even More Than Elon Musk Did

Americans, and even many Republicans in Congress, don’t like it when an unelected bureaucrat makes huge cuts to the government.

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Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 1d

Russ Vought Is Going to Damage Trump Even More Than Elon Musk Did

Americans, and even many Republicans in Congress, don’t like it when an unelected bureaucrat makes huge cuts to the government.

newrepublic.com/article/2014... via @newrepublic.com

Russ Vought Is Going to Damage Trump Even More Than Elon Musk Did

Americans, and even many Republicans in Congress, don’t like it when an unelected bureaucrat makes huge cuts to the government.

newrepublic.com

Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 1d

Trump ICE Raids Take Unnerving Turn as Dem Gov Drops Bombshell Warning

...time is now for Americans to rise up against authoritarianism before it's too late.

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Trump ICE Raids Take Unnerving Turn as Dem Gov Drops Bombshell Warning

With Trump’s occupation of Chicago worsening, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker shares new details about what’s happening—and tells us the time is now for Americans to rise up against authoritarianism bef...

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Marty Ema @emaenoiaen.bsky.social · 1d

The Time to Impeach Trump Is NOW
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The Time to Impeach Trump Is NOW (w/ Ralph Nader)

YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel

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