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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 3d

"We live in the worst timeline"

Laughs in "living in Paris under Louis IX, being ruled by a megalomaniacal monarch while shitting in a bucket and throwing it out the window 3x a day and also dying of dysentery due to aforementioned shit defenestration procedure"

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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 3d

What is this fungus? Always wanted to know the name.

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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 5d

Wow this Yankees game is ASS 😭

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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 6d

You must be more than kind. You must never utter a word even slightly suggesting there is anything wrong with these people or what they say or stand for. You must actively heap praise and respect on them, or else your employer will hear from the self righteous guardians of their sacred reputations.

Eph @emonet.bsky.social · 6d

Guys. We should be kind when we speak about people like Charlie Kirk, David Duke, and Adolf Hitler. They’re complicated men. And there are those who love them that we need to respect. I hope you can be a little more polite when speaking to their neverending hatred and bigotry.

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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 7d

Oh look the TV president is turning federal funding into a subscription service ala Disney+

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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 8d

Hey Juneau voters, the municipal election is October 7. If you are wondering who to vote for for school board, here is a suggestion from someone I trust.

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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 8d

Grateful for the Radical Left Socialist Universal Basic Income that the State of Alaska just deposited into my and my children's federally-insured bank accounts today.

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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 8d

Apparently it also made me forget how to conjugate the most common verb in the English language

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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 9d

TL;DR version of Hegseth's speech: you guys are too fat and too woke and if you don't like it you can GTFOH. Historic levels of esprit de corps!

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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 9d

This is 💯 Trump's policy for America. In addition to self-enrichment and self-aggrandizement, revenge against enemies real and perceived is a central pillar of his presidency. What a profoundly unpleasant timeline.

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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 9d

It was the best of times, it was the now we find out who's a complicit coward and who actually stands up for something when it matters of times.

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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 10d

The tyranny of pumpkin spice everything is back. You can set your watch by it.

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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 12d

The constitution is a contract between the government & its citizens. That's why Starbucks or Hobby Lobby can fire someone for expressing opinions they don't like & the government can't. This is "the state action doctrine" & it will be crucial during Trump's ongoing breach of contract with America.

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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 12d

I'm glad my former employer/Dunleavy, who unconstitutionally fired me for exercising my free speech rights, has apparently learned something about the First Amendment from losing a lawsuit. I'm confident his administration will now protect speech they don't like with the same zeal as speech they do.

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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 12d

This is a comforting series of headlines.

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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 14d

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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 15d

Black Rabbit on Netflix is 🔥

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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 15d

Maybe if I lie here between the refrigerator and the dishwasher something tasty will emerge

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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 19d

"I'm a free speech absolutist, but I think the government should be able to fire people for insufficient worship of political ideologues and that the president should be able to cancel comics for mocking him."

No.

You're not a "free speech absolutist." You're an "absolute word crimes jackboot."

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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 20d

My algo is finally 👩🏻‍🍳💋🤌🏼

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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 20d

No, alas

One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 20d

My grandpa was officially part of an Aunt Eefa organization in the 1940s. It was called "the United States Air Force." They even had their own planes that he flew if you can believe that.

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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks, Supanika ❤️

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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 22d

I was honored to do the talkback after the play "What Does the Constitution Mean to Me?" The play is at Perseverance Theatre in Juneau and Anchorage, and I highly recommend it.

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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 24d

"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."

--James Madison, 1798

There you have it folks, 'twas ever thus.

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