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Hobbit Took

@hobbittook.bsky.social

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Refugee from (X)Twitter. Let's use the Power of Social Media to strategize our resistance. Lifelong Democrat. #BlueWave #Resister since 2015.

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Hobbit Took @hobbittook.bsky.social · Apr 1

This is not a left or right moment.. it is a right or wrong moment. Senator Corey Booker

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Hobbit Took @hobbittook.bsky.social · 1m

Will someone tell the regime in the White House that the problem they have is not the judges, it's the lawbreaking.

Hobbit Took @hobbittook.bsky.social · 37m

Well, that association...er, relationship...er, mutual obligation to obfuscate, goes a long way back. #PedophileProtectorPam

Photo closeup about 2004 of Trump and Pam Bondi standing close side by side, with Jeffrey Epstein in background. Caption: Did you ever wonder why Pam Bondi is trying so hard to keep the Epstein files hidden? Meet Trump, Bondi, and Epstein!!

Hobbit Took @hobbittook.bsky.social · 50m

For those in the back, that's the one that says in time of peace. no soldiers shall be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner....

Lydia Kauppi tweet on X: ICE is really upset that local businesses in Chicago and Seattle won't let them use the potty and I just have to admit, I apologize to the 3rd Amendment for previously underestimating its importance.

Hobbit Took @hobbittook.bsky.social · 3h

He said the quiet part out loud. #NaziMiller

John Moffitt 🌊🌊🧢 @johnmoffitt.bsky.social · 3h

Miller is 100 percent in charge, as Trump plays golf when he's not drooling in his shoes.

Hobbit Took @hobbittook.bsky.social · 3h

The MAGA regime has concentration camps.

Where people are forced to sleep on floors or in overcrowded dirty conditions, poorly fed, denied essential medication.

Paid for by our taxes.

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 5h

Sen. Sanders: No, Speaker Johnson, the #NoKings rally on Oct. 18 is not a hate America rally. It’s a Love America Rally. It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in our Constitution, in the American Freedom, and who’s not gonna let you or Trump turn this country into an authoritarian society.

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Hobbit Took @hobbittook.bsky.social · 3h

They RIF'd staff of the federal cyber security office. IT security requires maintenance; the bad people keep shifting attack modes. Vought is going to regret it when he logs in one of these days & the OMB system has been hacked.

Maybe he's relying on the DOGE kids to maintain system security.

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Tom Warren @realtack.bsky.social · 1d

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Hobbit Took @hobbittook.bsky.social · 14h

I have seen downtown Portland and there's no plywood buildings. No plywood over store windows.

Who told the guy occupying the Oval Office such a silly and patently untrue story?

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Hobbit Took @hobbittook.bsky.social · 14h

Speaker Johnson talks like a person terrified.

Scared of the largest peaceful, non-violent First Amendment action by more than 5 million people, taking place on October 18th.

Marchers are going to say: Freedom! Protect and honor the Constitution. No one is above the law.

Why is that scary?

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Hobbit Took @hobbittook.bsky.social · 15h

No, Speaker Johnson, you are wrong. And you are not going to frighten us with your pathetic attempt to characterize No Kings peaceful march as "political violence."

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 17h

Federal employees at ANY agency, I’m curious to hear from you about RIFs and whatever else is happening these days, Signal is davelevitan.26 and you can remain anonymous.

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 23h

NEW: Is it good if your boss asks you to let them know if you get fired?

My latest from inside NOAA, EPA, elsewhere. Please sign up and subscribe to the new very reasonable paid tiers.

Federal Employees Have Been Asked to Tell Their Bosses if They Get Fired

Multiple people at multiple agencies said their bosses have told them to email up the chain if they hear about RIFs, because, per one source, "they probably won't be told if people are fired."

www.gravityisgone.com

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Hobbit Took @hobbittook.bsky.social · 1d

They are engaged in a massive messaging campaign to label the No Kings march as a violent activity simply because it exists.

Hobbit Took @hobbittook.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA regime re-labelling First Amendment free speech actions as political violence, so they can use tactics of "enforcement" (see NSPM-7). We who believe in democracy & the democratic republic are using the tactics we've used before on how tolerant societies "should" respond to intolerant forces.

Hobbit Took @hobbittook.bsky.social · 3d

🤣 FOX entertainment "Faux News" does it to the max.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 4d

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

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Hobbit Took @hobbittook.bsky.social · 4d

!!!!!! 😠

That is NOT how to behave at a hearing by the committee that oversees your agency.

Hobbit Took @hobbittook.bsky.social · 4d

Well this says it in a nutshell.

A drawing of three people in military gear facing another person in a military fatigues standing next to a sign that says operation circular reasoning. Caption: we're being deployed because of the protest about us being deployed.

Hobbit Took @hobbittook.bsky.social · 4d

Puerto Rican citizens are American citizens. Duh.

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Hobbit Took @hobbittook.bsky.social · 4d

Headline: "Supreme Court rejects Ghislaine Maxwell appeal."

Release the #EpsteinFiles

Hobbit Took @hobbittook.bsky.social · 5d

Felon in White House ordering gas-masked armored teams in riot gear to stand outside a detention center facing peaceful protestors in sweaters with cardboard signs, fire tear gas & take photos centered on the armored teams & tear gas victims is what makes it look like a "war zone."

#Propaganda

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 6d

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.

Text card: Listen for dangerous words.
Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.
#OnTyranny

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Hobbit Took @hobbittook.bsky.social · 6d

Please read, and subscribe to Robert Reich! His wisdom is helpful.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6d

Friends — I’d like to talk with you about a difficult subject. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-a-national-trauma

Hobbit Took @hobbittook.bsky.social · 6d

Don't jump too much, your face will slide off.

Oh, and hey, girl, have you ever read the Flag Code?

Hobbit Took @hobbittook.bsky.social · 6d

Meanwhile, the whole state of Oregon is peaceful & he looks even more like a Nazi a**hole.