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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 4h

“Some days are a crystalized scream. They tell us in no uncertain terms that we have been taken hostage by a malignant force that rejects not only our laws and values, but our history and memories.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/confrontin...

Confronting the Ongoing Onslaught

Trump's East Wing demolition, demands for $230 million and the ongoing murders in the Caribbean Sea are the latest reminders that we must remain vigilant and push back

www.americaamerica.news

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Mary Mahling Carns ✍️ 🎨 @marycarns.bsky.social · 4h

yup, I get MAJOR Fetterman vibes from that guy

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Mary Mahling Carns ✍️ 🎨 @marycarns.bsky.social · 4h

Plus it can be easily removed or covered up, often for free, depending on the removal place or artist. He's made a BAD choice.

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Mary Mahling Carns ✍️ 🎨 @marycarns.bsky.social · 7h

Some tattoo removal places will remove Nazi tattoos for free. He's looking at that tattoo every day and he's not ashamed of it.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 1d

I'm tired. We're all tired. This isn't hard to understand. You can't inflate prices of basic necessities like food and housing to ridiculous highs while keeping wages at poverty levels, then act surprised when luxury goods/services and large purchases become unattainable or payments unaffordable.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 22h

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

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oscar wilde women do 🇯🇲 @adrierising.bsky.social · 2d

the aws outage should be evidence that running half the internet on a single company's servers is a terrible idea but i fear nothing will change

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Mary Mahling Carns ✍️ 🎨 @marycarns.bsky.social · 1d

#UX Designers and developers are natural allies and we can learn a lot from each other - more in my latest newsletter 🧑‍🎨🤓💪 mary-mahling-carns-halftank-studio.kit.com/posts/breaki...

Discovering Common Ground in Tech

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Lisa Tozzi @lisatozzi.bsky.social · 1d

Kinda wild that Mamdani and Sliwa are the guys who won their primaries and there has been open, nonstop meddling to overturn that will of the voters and install the disgraced former governor and it’s largely being covered like this is perfectly normal shit

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Pumpkin Spice SwampLizard 🎃 @swamplizard.bsky.social · 1d

future grandchild: like shit, from an ass?

me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House

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Mary Mahling Carns ✍️ 🎨 @marycarns.bsky.social · 1d

Remember how every MSM outlet had a predator that got #MeToo -ed? They're protecting one of their own, they have experience.

Mary Mahling Carns ✍️ 🎨 @marycarns.bsky.social · 1d

It will look like this sooner or later, hopefully sooner

American soldier in Sadaam Hussein's former palace

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David Bailey @drgdave.bsky.social · 2d

Tell you what --- I don't want to hear another goddamn word from these fuckers about 'preserving our heritage' in the context of confederate statues.

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/ MOSA / @mosaisms.bsky.social · 3d

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

www.nytimes.com

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Butt Praxis @buttpraxis.bsky.social · 2d

Every time someone trips over a cord in Virginia and takes down half the internet, I’m reminded how powerful a unionized tech industry could be

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Mary Mahling Carns ✍️ 🎨 @marycarns.bsky.social · 2d

You've already got 7 million people thinking "I wish a motherfucker would"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

most people don't want politics that hurt other people. we just want a long overcoat like david bowie and affordable housing

David Bowie in Japan. He's waling up some steps while wearing a long black coat and smoking a cigarette.

David Bowie in Japan. He's standing in front of a train while wearing a long light-colored coat.

David Bowie in Japan. He's riding a subway car while wearing a long dark-colored coat.

David Bowie in Japan. He's walking away from a train while wearing a long black coat, gray checked scarf, charcoal trousers, and black shoes.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 3d

They don't let me in the White House press pool because my question every day for the next week would be, "Does the president still want to take a shit on Americans?"

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Mary Mahling Carns ✍️ 🎨 @marycarns.bsky.social · 2d

If you want to piss off an American, tell them what to do.

If you REALLY want to piss off an American, tell them what not to do.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

When do you think Trump and Republicans will realize they drove up No Kings protest attendance by calling it a “hate America rally”?

She nails it🔥

“I am a patriot and I will not… let anyone tell me that I am not here because I love my country.”

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 3d

If you’re in a creative field and you don’t lift up the work of your peers, you can’t expect people to care about your stuff

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 6d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 3d

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 3d

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 3d

Republicans certainly weren't shy about breaking polite conversation taboos when it came to obsessing over Bill Clinton's infidelity, Democrats should definitely bring up in every interview, "This president has sick fantasies about shitting on the American people." Let them bleep 'em.

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