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leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 1m

How is he 50 years old, period? The Economist must really take a toll.

leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 8m

As a (frequently conflicted) lifelong Dodger fan, happy they won. But couldn't help think when Andy Pages was doing the post-game interview through a Spanish translator with the crowd cheering - that if he was in front of a Home Depot - masked agents would've kidnapped him...

leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 3h

I was trying...I can only imagine what a horrendous person she is.

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leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 3h

I hope. But it sure would be nice to have some organized, institutional help because we're going need a bigger boat.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 4h

Be nice if any single national Democrat promised to hold these fuckwads accountable for malicious prosecution should the wheel ever turn around.

But, whatever. Everybody who opposes Trump will just have to weather this bullshit.

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leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 3h

Robert Bork fires special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Bork believes the order to be valid and appropriate.

Nothing to see here...

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 4h

You cannot reason with a fascist. You can’t endear yourself to a fascist. They will turn on everyone, including their own family, their allies, their sycophants and collaborators.

Fascists hate themselves and they hate the world. This doesn’t stop unless it is stopped.

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leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 3h

Absolutely. Wake the fuck up.

Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 5h

We are witnessing the most lawless behavior by a leader in American history, just daily, extraordinary abuses of power. National Democrats must speak out in a loud and clear voice against Trump's escalating authoritarianism. It is time now.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 5h

The Guardian reports that Letitia James has been indicted

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 3h

There is no "Saturday Night Massacre" with Trump. It's just another day. But it's still a fucking scandal.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 7h

these people are actually out of their fucking minds and im so sick of being told we need to pretend otherwise

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 8h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 6h

Dems: “Sorry, we can’t talk about this. We’re too busy trying to get those masked agents healthcare in case they get injured."

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leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 6h

I think there is room on that rocket for RFK Jr. as well...

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 9h

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leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 6h

I don't care if it's term limits, rotating judges, defunding, ignoring, impeaching, or taking away their black robes and making them show up to work in shorts and crocs. This corrupt & anti-democratic Supreme Court needs to be burned to the ground and salted.

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leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 6h

I was thinking more slo-mo with Samuel Barber's "Adagio for String" playing (Platoon).

leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 7h

a man and a woman are talking to each other in a crowded room

Alt: a man and a woman are talking to each other in a crowded room

media.tenor.com

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leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 7h

Blond woman politely telling RFK Jr to kill himself.

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leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 9h

The worse the music, the louder it is. That's just the rules.

leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 9h

Democrats will reopen the government if we extend healthcare subsidies but NOT halt this?

Unacceptable. Democracy is not negotiable. Fascism is not negotiable. First and foremost, this needs to STOP.

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leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 9h

America 2025

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

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

leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 9h

A reminder, not just to Pam Biondi, Susie Wiles, Stephen Miller, and Todd Blance - but to all of us that justice is possible.

Mug shots of President Nixon’s aides Attorney General and campaign manager John Mitchell, Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, advisor John Ehrlichman and advisor and special counsel Charles Colson, all of whom went to prison for Watergate offenses under Nixon

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leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 9h

A reminder not just to Pam Biondi, Susie Wiles, Stephen Miller, and Todd Blance - but to all of us that justice is possible.

Mugshots of Attorney General and campaign manager John Mitchell, Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, advisor John Ehrlichman and advisor and special counsel Charles Colson

leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 9h

“Nazism overcame Germany not by attack from without or subversion from within, but with a whoop and a holler. It was most Germans wanted or — under pressure of combined reality and illusion — came to want.” They Thought They Were Free

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leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 9h

As a teenager I dismissed The Grateful Dead based on some immature reaction to the cliche dead head (this was in the 1980s). As I got older and actually started listening to the music -- I was really blown away. So good.

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leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 9h

Why do we demand healthcare, which in many cases, will overwhelmingly help those in red states/counties to reopen the govt - but do not demand troops & masked agents out of blue cities?

Why do Dems go to the mat to ultimately help Republicans but not to save our democracy?

Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 1d

This is why making the shutdown about healthcare was always risky.

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 1d

If Dems win the standoff and get their policy demands, yes they will have substantively helped millions of Americans (a good thing, to be clear), but also they will have kept Republicans from a self-inflicted wound in upcoming elections

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