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Lin💎 @klin.bsky.social · 15h

Shouldn’t come as a surprise: he failed to protect them during his first Presidency too.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19h

I sense a pardon on its way.

A tweet by Jacob Shamsian reads: “The Wall Street Journal reports that Ghislaine Maxwell had a meeting with an unknown person in her new prison camp, during which the entire prison was on lockdown. Inmates say she’s getting unusually favorable treatment by the prison.”

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20h

“Epithets like “f----t,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined”

If you ever had any doubt that the youth wing of the GOP is fully radicalized and proudly racist these days:

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 22h

Nearly every media outlet is announcing they will refuse to sign the Pentagon’s new rule stating they cannot report information if it’s not government “authorized.”

Even Newsmax is refusing to sign.

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Lin💎 @klin.bsky.social · 21h

There goes Elon’s chance to change the eligibility for President that requires candidates be natural born Citizens. No way they’ll touch that now.

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Lin💎 @klin.bsky.social · 22h

Alex Jones is no longer of use to Trump so the Supreme Court gets to operate like an actual Supreme Court. All Trump’s toadies need to remember that.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Lin💎 @klin.bsky.social · 2d

It’s the excuse Project 2025 and the Republicans were looking for to reduce federal services and benefits for anyone but billionaires. If it wasn’t this excuse it would be some other excuse.

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Lin💎 @klin.bsky.social · 2d

Can students annotate them to highlight the specific Commandments Trump has broken?

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Lin💎 @klin.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent! Now we know how to get republicans to do the right thing: take away Congress’s own healthcare coverage until they vote to provide universal healthcare for all Americans.

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Lin💎 @klin.bsky.social · 2d

You mean support for women who haven’t already been laid off the moment they hit age 50.

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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 2d

The Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, when a violent mob swarmed the U.S. Capitol, occurred while Trump was still in office.

Donald Trump falsely says 'Biden FBI' placed agents in Jan. 6 crowds

The Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, when a violent mob swarmed the U.S. Capitol, occurred while Trump was still in office.

bit.ly

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Lin💎 @klin.bsky.social · 2d

China has a grown up with a long term plan running things. The USA has an enraged toddler with a loaded gun running things. Neither is good for America.

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Lin💎 @klin.bsky.social · 3d

What: WSJ thought we’d fanboy this fascist thug?

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Lin💎 @klin.bsky.social · 3d

He can likely read one. Otherwise it will be a rambling mess of accusations and self-congratulation with a few really weird observations about, I don’t know, windmills and toilet paper.

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Lin💎 @klin.bsky.social · 3d

I’m going with he had a stroke then.

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Lin💎 @klin.bsky.social · 3d

Not sure what you mean about scaring stroke victims.

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Lin💎 @klin.bsky.social · 3d

Elon’s paying them?

Lin💎 @klin.bsky.social · 3d

Probably.

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Lin💎 @klin.bsky.social · 3d

President Trump just got one in Maryland and people say he isn’t particularly woke. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Trump gets Covid vaccine and flu shot during second check-up of the year

The visit, which the White House described Wednesday as a "yearly check-up," was his second examination at Walter Reed in six months.

www.nbcnews.com

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Lin💎 @klin.bsky.social · 4d

Ah. So that’s why Republicans want to take away healthcare from American citizens, cut government services, and rob our soldiers of their paychecks: to give the money to repressive countries who praise Trump.

Lin💎 @klin.bsky.social · 4d

Meanwhile Republicans are fine with letting our soldiers and their families go without a paycheck during the shutdown even though Dems signaled they would vote to pay them.

Lin💎 @klin.bsky.social · 4d

Cue blue collar workers to start complaining that ‘white collar workers are taking our jobs.’