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Gina (The Illuminated Scribe) @grl85.bsky.social · 1d

We'll have lots of soybeans to eat

Gina (The Illuminated Scribe) @grl85.bsky.social · 1d

You first, comrade

Gina (The Illuminated Scribe) @grl85.bsky.social · 1d

Bailouts for fascists but not American workers.

How is that America First?

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

The US has finalized its $20 billion bailout for Argentina, a main US competitor in the soybean market.

This is a move that will only further screw over American soybean farmers, who're being priced out of their own market.

A 90-second crash course in Trump's betrayal of American soy farmers

Here’s the geopolitical beans.

www.motherjones.com

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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 1d

from Jesse Duquette

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Gina (The Illuminated Scribe) @grl85.bsky.social · 1d

Sweetie, you're the one inserting yourself and demanding information.

Feel free to show yourself out

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Gina (The Illuminated Scribe) @grl85.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, complaint is all the keyboard warriors have.

It's the illusion of actually doing something.

Democracy goes up in flames, but at least some people said mean things on social media.

Meanwhile, some of us have set up networks and are protecting innocents.

But we're not doing anything, right?

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Gina (The Illuminated Scribe) @grl85.bsky.social · 1d

I've followed Oliver since the beginning of Media Matters, so I'm aware of his work.

WTF have you done besides offer an uninformed opinion?

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Gina (The Illuminated Scribe) @grl85.bsky.social · 1d

WGN, FFS

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Gina (The Illuminated Scribe) @grl85.bsky.social · 1d

The people who continually complain but take no action to remedy the situation, like, say, running for office, deserve condemnation based on their rank hypocrisy.

Straw men burn quickly

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Odd, how Laura Loomer has to speculate about what Hell must be like, whereas anyone who has ever had to spend time with her does not.

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Gina (The Illuminated Scribe) @grl85.bsky.social · 1d

Anti vaxx guy needs travel vax?

Lol.

I'm guessing he's had another stroke

Gina (The Illuminated Scribe) @grl85.bsky.social · 1d

I hope WHN sues for wrongful arrest and battery

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Gina (The Illuminated Scribe) @grl85.bsky.social · 1d

"The Dems suck" is not a specific solution

Gina (The Illuminated Scribe) @grl85.bsky.social · 1d

That is an actual policy plan and not just performative whining

Gina (The Illuminated Scribe) @grl85.bsky.social · 1d

Terrible analogy.

Democracy is not a clogged sink.

How does continual complaining fix anything?

It's easier than actually*doing* something meaningful, which is perfect for the keyboard warrior generation

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Gina (The Illuminated Scribe) @grl85.bsky.social · 1d

It's amazing and how much time you spend complaining without offering any solutions.

"They're always doing it wrong" it's not a solution. It's puerile whining worthy of rural Republicans with two teeth and family trees that are a wreath.

Do better

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Gina (The Illuminated Scribe) @grl85.bsky.social · 2d

Good. I generally stay away from WaPo editorials

Gina (The Illuminated Scribe) @grl85.bsky.social · 2d

She is incredibly brave and deserving.

As someone who avidly follows Latin American politics, her courage is inspiring for authoritarian victims worldwide

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Gina (The Illuminated Scribe) @grl85.bsky.social · 2d

Tim Snyder's advice : Do not comply in advance, and do not change yourself or your routine to suit the fascists

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Gina (The Illuminated Scribe) @grl85.bsky.social · 2d

Cilliza still hasn't walked off the end of a pier while coming up with these absolute bangers

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Gina (The Illuminated Scribe) @grl85.bsky.social · 2d

Monica Jesse?

Who TF is she?

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Frank Galton @frankgalton.bsky.social · 2d

King George is entitled to tax tea imports to the 13 colonies and the Boston protests are clearly antifa

By Jonathan Turley and Stephen Miller, NYT, 1773

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 3d

Good for him. More of this.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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