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Gayton Gomez

@gpgomez.bsky.social

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A lawyer; not your lawyer. I'd tell you more but it's a surprise. Blocking is my hobby. She/her. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦. Go Bills 🏈.

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Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · Jul 28

In honor of the late great Tom Lehrer, let us all close our evenings with this cheery thought

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Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 8h

The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.

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Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 7h

I ordered a little American flag to carry in the next No Kings March. We need to reclaim the flag.

And it will be ever so appropriate when I am attacked and arrested by Trump's thugs while peacefully exercising my first amendment rights and carrying the American flag.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 10h

Jesus. I hate to post something from the bad place, but this is. From the stolen valor to the mockery of the people Trump unlawfully blew up, it is fucking horrifying.

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Kristi Noem on X: "President Trump LOVES the American people. That is why drug traffickers and narco-trafficking boats will no longer be allowed to transport deadly drugs into American territory. Thank you, @POTUS Trump for protecting our shores! https://t.co/q2kDrZEovZ" / X

President Trump LOVES the American people. That is why drug traffickers and narco-trafficking boats will no longer be allowed to transport deadly drugs into American territory. Thank you, @POTUS Trump for protecting our shores! https://t.co/q2kDrZEovZ

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19h

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

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Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 10h

If this video is still playing when it's time for me to take my trip overseas, I'm going to yell "fuck you, puppy killer!" at the screen like a crazy person until they drag me away

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

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

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 12h

The Republicans don’t want to pass their budget on their own. It’s full of ugly and unpopular stuff. They want Dem cover. We cannot give it to them.

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 12h

The founders in fact did NOT create the filibuster, but they DID give the Senate and House each the power to set their own rules, which includes changing rules to allow passage of appropriations bills with simple majorities

ringwiss @ringwiss.bsky.social · 15h

“And that’s why we nuked it twice in the past month.”

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Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 13h

BUT MY PANS ARE ALL REALLY EXPENSIVE AND I LIKE THEM

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Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 13h

I have never, in my life, even when I had covid and a fever of 102, have I ever left dishes in the sink overnight.

It is one of those things, like brushing and flossing my teeth, that I am absolutely religious about.

Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 13h

Ah, but then I'd have to wash dishes including a pan.

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Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 13h

I went with delivery largely because eggs would require me to wash things afterwards, and I deserve better than a frozen dinner

Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 14h

Frozen dinner, eggs, or delivery? That is the question. Am much too tired to cook anything more complex than eggs, or to leave the house

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Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 14h

Frozen dinner, eggs, or delivery? That is the question. Am much too tired to cook anything more complex than eggs, or to leave the house

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Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 16h

Oh, there are a pile of projects too, and other less expensive housing that contain not-so-rich kids. The upper west side has a pretty surprising range income-wise. And of course gobs of kids, along with playgrounds and other kid accoutrements

Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe this is a neighborhood thing. I live on the upper west side, which is loaded with families (also dogs). I can't walk down the sidewalk without almost getting hit by a kid on a scooter or hustling out of the way of a stroller

Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 16h

I don't know, I see an awful lot of families with kid out and about in New York City

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Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 17h

Oh. He's playing the tariff game again.

Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 17h

So I just checked in on my financial accounts and screamed. What did Trump do to scare the markets today?

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Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 1d

I increasingly do not think we are going to have fair elections in the future. Don't get me wrong, I will continue to vote, but I get more apprehensive and cynical by the day

Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 1d

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Horrifically creepy and emblematic of this rape-coded administration, but also a govt employee staying at the fuckin ritz on a business trip shows you how much the DC world has changed since the DOJ muffin scandal of 2011.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
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