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Emcee Hammerpants

@emceehammerpants.bsky.social

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I’m a very grumpy person and I’m not really that smart. If you’re thinking of following me you probably shouldn’t. I have no insights to give you.

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Emcee Hammerpants @emceehammerpants.bsky.social · 13d

Noooooope. Nothing for the bad guys. Nothing.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 2h

MIT “became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump administration’s higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment… “the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit”

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

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Greetings from U.S. District Court Judge April Perry’s courtroom in the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is present, waiting for the high stakes hearing to begin. @wttw.bsky.social

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

FULL STORY: As lawyers for the Trump administration defended the president’s unprecedented decision to send National Guard troops to Chicago despite the objections of Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson, officials acknowledged that California troops had also been sent to Illinois. @wttw.bsky.social

Judge to Decide Whether to Block National Guard Deployment as Trump Sends California Troops to Illinois

Lawyers for the Department of Justice told U.S. District Court Judge April Perry the president deployed the National Guard because “levels of violence against federal law enforcement executing their l...

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Emcee Hammerpants @emceehammerpants.bsky.social · 16h

You just have to laugh like hell

Emcee Hammerpants @emceehammerpants.bsky.social · 1d

But. Her. Emails.

I will never forgive his voters. I will never forgive the credulous media that supports him.

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 1d

To understand the Trump administration’s vision for American education, @megomatz.bsky.social and I studied dozens of hours of political appointees’ speeches and podcasts and essays. What emerged is a desire to dismantle the nation’s system of public schools.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Emcee Hammerpants @emceehammerpants.bsky.social · 1d

Two weeks, right guys?

Emcee Hammerpants @emceehammerpants.bsky.social · 1d

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Emcee Hammerpants @emceehammerpants.bsky.social · 1d

Look. Man. It can’t possibly be meaningless that all of the Autobots were construction or working civilian vehicles and all of the deceptions were guns, tanks, planes or straight up spy tools. That means something. And it is my whole ideology.

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MisterBenjaminPaulDavidson @benjaminpaul.bsky.social · 1d

@aaron.wrotkowski.ca Thought you’d appreciate this.

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Emcee Hammerpants @emceehammerpants.bsky.social · 1d

‘S nephew’s cousin’s former roommate.

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 4d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Emcee Hammerpants @emceehammerpants.bsky.social · 1d

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Emcee Hammerpants @emceehammerpants.bsky.social · 1d

Can you get the Munsters pinball machine in the break room fixed? I’ve got the high score but the display is busted so I can’t show anyone.

Emcee Hammerpants @emceehammerpants.bsky.social · 1d

Woah. They get 30% of republicans on that one

Emcee Hammerpants @emceehammerpants.bsky.social · 1d

They’re F-150 guys, but yeah, basically.

Emcee Hammerpants @emceehammerpants.bsky.social · 1d

Does anybody even know what an “outrageous government conduct” motion is? It sounds fake. Why do we keep having to pull crazy shit out of old rulebooks to describe the stupid crap this government gets up to?

Emcee Hammerpants @emceehammerpants.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s my question: if fossil fuels become obsolete, can we get a handle on greenhouse gases and mitigate climate change?

Feels good to ask a question that’s about a real problem.