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Musician, lover of dogs & soccer, proponent of democracy & bold action on climate change. Don’t blame me, I voted for the laughing lady.

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jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · Jun 22

The saddest thing about the whole Trump era is that Americans, in general, are so easily duped by a snake oil salesman, repeatedly. Even after seeing that they were duped, repeatedly, they just sign right back up again. OK, that snake oil, again, didn't work, but he's got a new one out now!

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Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 19m

ICE arrests & disappears our neighbors to inhumane foreign prisons without due process, violating their habeas corpus right where a court reviews detention/imprisonment to determine whether lawful. Say "NO" to Felon Trump's racist & criminal actions.

Support our campaign to oppose MAGA extremists

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

CARTOON OF THE DAY

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jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 30m

Inventing emergencies / realities as pretext for their agenda - it's their whole game & they have the cover of the RW propaganda machine & feckless legacy press. When you can invent your own realities & get away with it, you never lose. The press is failing us by not calling it out in plain terms.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

Imagine that

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jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 44m

Yeah, we're entering the "blow up the citizens in your country whom you don't like" phase. It's not great... :-(

jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 1h

Exactly. The protestors are the ones whi *love* America and want to see it get back on the right path. As always, he has it completely backwards.

jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah that’s rich. Here’s the truth. Putin is a hideously murderous war-criming dictator. If there’s any justice in the world, Trump’s coddling of Putin should keep Trump out of consideration for a Nobel for the rest of his life.

jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah the gaslighting is so thick. She drops the Melissa Hortman murder just after the “antifa” thing in an attempt to gaslight people into thinking that “antifa” had something to do with it. These people are completely shameless liars.

jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 10h

Nice to see some media org giving Trump's health and fitness for office 1/100 of the attention that Biden's got.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 11h

Republicans just blocked a bill to pay the troops

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 12h

and would have probably gotten away with it. If the "pee tapes" exist and are ever released, or heck, compromising Trump tapes from Epstein, they will surely claim that they are fake, and may get away with it by virtue of the power of the RW propaganda machine. /2

jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 12h

Yep, if anything seemingly real can be fake, anything seemingly fake can be real. And of course Trump leverages the latter already. The Epstein book / note are "fake". If LLM's had existed in their current state at the time of the Access Hollywood tapes Trump could have claimed they are fake /1

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jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 12h

I'll DM you.

jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 13h

Is the mainstream media calling out these lies anywhere? Hello? If Biden lied even 1/1000th as much about something the NYT would be covering it for 6 months and Jake Tapper would have written a 12-volume set about it.

jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 13h

Well I think the question is if regime change can be achieved peacefully. I don’t know Machado well enough to say, but based on her comments about Trump I get the feeling she’d be fine with a violent regime change as long as it’s Trump throwing around American might and not her own people fighting.

jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 18h

So basically, he doesn't even need to hide the fact that he's just spewing propaganda for the west. The American RW will carry water for him anyway, because they want his help in grabbing power here in the US. These are the ultimate traitors.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21h

When Putin talks to a Russians he consistently says that they invade Ukraine to destroy the state and nation and correct the path of history. NATO and similar framings are just for the useful foreigners.

Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 10d

Pu spells out Ru's imperialist motivations for the war. He calls the conquest a long-held dream and historical destiny.

He beclowns those who insist NATO expansion caused the war. Let's see if anyone from the Mearsheimer fan club admits the claim has been falsified.
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Обращение по случаю Дня воссоединения ДНР, ЛНР, Запорожской и Херсонской областей с Россией

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jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 18h

protected status - fine!! Regime change in Venezuela would be great, but if it it's done by force of war, I don't think know how that would result in anyone involved in or advocating for that should be getting a Nobel Peace Prize. /2

jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 18h

Maria Machado is kissing Trump's butt because she wants us to force regime change in Venezuela, so it wouldn't completely surprise me. Intra-judicial killings of Venezuelan citizens off the coast of Venezuela - fine! Horrendous treatment of Venezuelan immigrants in the US and removal of their /1

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jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 19h

That's one org. They have data that shows that their funding was cost effective. We need more of that, by orders of magnitude, in order to take on the massive RW propaganda machinery and global RW oligarch / autocrat consortium.

jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 19h

My guess is that Dem fundraising is way down, with D's approval way down because people can't understand why they can't magically wield eons of power right now when we didn't give them enough votes to have power in any branch of our govt. 🤷‍♂️

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 20h

He’ll either pretend that the failures to convict happened and just try to run with the whole “they were indicted therefore they are corrupt” charade, or he’ll rail against “deep state judges” and start trying to fire more of them.

jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 21h

Countdown until the Trump adminstation brands people in animal suits as "terrorists" and starts slicing up their costumes, pepper spraying them, and detaining them.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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