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Ian Livingston

@ianlivingston.bsky.social

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Extreme weather and climate reporter. Forecaster. Former Brookings foreign policy. #wx #dc #dogs #climatechange #python #gis Weekday morning newsletter: https://www.weatherretort.com/subscribe

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve def reached the it’s way too dark before 8 pm season. The worst.

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 7h

Makes sense. Also an exodus there in recent years and people love to buy past their means

Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 7h

Now that you mention it it has been some time. Not sure what’s up there.

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 7h

Extremely unfun fact... my mother is buried in Ocala since my parents lived there for a while after I moved to DC. Still need to figure that one out some day.

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 7h

Lots of Republican areas. Too bad Republicans don't care about their constituents.

top 10 metros with highest foreclosure rates

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 7h

I have been informed this is not a joke I am allowed to make so please consider that while consuming it.

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 8h

Like how do you live day to day as that guy who hands him all the executive orders? He better also be a sexual matador.

Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 8h

As you can tell by the nonstop stream of executive nonsense they have a big team of the most evil lawyers in America trying to “legally” lay the groundwork for the authoritarianism.

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah it’s all related. If you’re at war war with Venezuelan “terrorists” your military tactics in American streets are more lawful at least in his fucked up little brain.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Jesse Singal Vapes Piss @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 8h

tweet from @cho00ch: hi, grandma? can u come pick me up from my rap battle? it's over. no, i lost. he saw u drop me off & did a pretty devastating rhyme about it

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 8h

Authoritarianism sucks www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcn...

Grand jury indicts N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James, a Trump opponent, on bank fraud charge

James, a Democrat, has clashed with President Donald Trump after bringing civil charges against him in New York.

www.nbcnews.com

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 8h

definite signs of spraying something

Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 8h

The bar for Republicans is so low these days.

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 9h

MTG making sense lately is giving me second thoughts about chemtrails being fake.

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 9h

the price at the fridge says 2.79 so it must have gone up again recently. can get it a bit cheaper at local grocery but remember when you get 2 for 2 or 2.50 not that long ago lol.

Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 9h

A 20oz Dr Pepper is 3.45 with tax at 7-11. The cure to addiction is obscene prices.

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 9h

It’s gonna be so great tho

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Michael Allen @mjallen176.bsky.social · 9h

Reminds me of the Jon Stewart @thedailyshow.com episode (2014) million ways to die.
Where’s that healthcare?

Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 9h

Holy hell

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18h

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 9h

dudes will crash all of health care if needed so we stop calling it the 'affordable' care act.

Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 9h

just wait 2 weeks... plus 520 more weeks

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 9h

Obama heavily paved the way to the overuse of executive orders etc etc under Trump. It's fun how we just ignore all these things about him.. maybe since he's so good at speaking out against autocracy now lol.

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 10h

this might have still been when we were killing a bunch of random people to spread democracy so it's okay.

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 10h

he then went on to drone more maybe those are bad guys of military age than anyone before him.

2011: “Turns out I’m really good at killing people. Didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.”

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 10h

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10h

If this stuff would end up on the news it would absolutely motivate voters. Plenty of people who don't give a shit about politics would absolutely give af about this.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 10h

potus is very unwell and getting worse by the day

Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 10h

another day in very normal times

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