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Crazed father of 5️⃣, small biz owner, and long time youth ⚽ coach. Politics junkie 🤬 with those who would destroy our democracy for their own personal gain/beliefs. 💪🇺🇦 Waiting for blee73♾️ Also a tech nerd that owns a MSP - you've been warned - geek skeets

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MB in NC 🇺🇸⚽💻♾️🇺🇦🐈 @mbinnc.bsky.social · Feb 2

I'm a GenX cynic with decades of IT experience and even I am blown away by what's happened so far. I laughed off DOGE as a joke. Didn't foresee Elmo taking over the entire Executive IT division within days, especially the payments dept. The oligarchs have completely taken over the levers of power. 🧵

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MB in NC 🇺🇸⚽💻♾️🇺🇦🐈 @mbinnc.bsky.social · 3h

Of all the states, Mississippi is the one advancing in literacy? Make it make sense.

Why are we refusing to hold kids up to achievable standards? Make kids achieve while allocating resources to help them get there. Seems like a no brainer.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy

Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.

www.theatlantic.com

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 6h

Was it America First or Argentina First? Somehow there’s $40 billion for Argentina.

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MB in NC 🇺🇸⚽💻♾️🇺🇦🐈 @mbinnc.bsky.social · 3h

The US has its head in the sand. We could go toe to toe with China on science, automation, technology. But instead we're arguing about Bad Bunny and kicking tons of motivated workers out of our country. 🤷‍♂️

futurism.com/robots-and-m...

Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China

Western executives warn that China's heavily roboticized manufacturing industry could quickly leave the West behind.

futurism.com

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Rissa Montañez @rissavoices.bsky.social · 1d

I live in Chicago and this shit is real.

It isn't a gimmick. It isn't an improv show.

Please pay attention to what's happening here because you do NOT want any of this coming to where you are.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 5h

$40 Billion to Argentina. Don’t tell me we can’t have healthcare.

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MB in NC 🇺🇸⚽💻♾️🇺🇦🐈 @mbinnc.bsky.social · 4h

That article was crazy town 🤯

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Meghan “Hostile to Motor Vehicles” Arnold (she/hers) @meghancarnold.com · 11h

This morning in PDX I had a man FOLLOW ME into my hotel and slip on to my elevator (I thought he was a guest, he was not a guest) to confront me about flipping off his cybertruck.

I am shaken, but safe.

And I am proven correct that men who drive cybertruck are the most insecure men possible.

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Ravi 🇨🇦 @medical91.bsky.social · 6h

Trump says US looking at land attacks in Venezuela after lethal strikes on boats – live

Trump also claims without evidence that every US strike on a suspected drug-smuggling boat saves thousands of lives

Trump confirms that he authorized covert CIA operations in Venezuela

Trump says US looking at land attacks in Venezuela after lethal strikes on boats – live

Trump also claims without evidence that every US strike on a suspected drug-smuggling boat saves thousands of lives

www.theguardian.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
PPA

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 7h

Insurance rates up $2000.

Food benefits cut off.

Farmers unable to sell their crops.

Skyrocketing national debt.

$40 billion to Argentina.

America First!

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17h

A 20 year old black woman was just sitting in DC and EVERY agency possible shows up to arrest her!

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Bad Horse @badhorse.bsky.social · 17h

Man labeled "ICE" looking at a butterfly labeled "playing clarinet" and asking "is this a terrorism?”

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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MB in NC 🇺🇸⚽💻♾️🇺🇦🐈 @mbinnc.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, but Trump is too stupid to know that 🤷‍♂️

MB in NC 🇺🇸⚽💻♾️🇺🇦🐈 @mbinnc.bsky.social · 6h

Usually Trump just talks Trump. And maybe this is that. But the whole administration seems to have suddenly gone ALL in on Ukraine. If true, that's great, but definitely an interesting U-turn.

Will be interesting if anyone can ever leak why Trump turned on Putin.

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MB in NC 🇺🇸⚽💻♾️🇺🇦🐈 @mbinnc.bsky.social · 8h

Putin stopped paying 🤷‍♂️

MB in NC 🇺🇸⚽💻♾️🇺🇦🐈 @mbinnc.bsky.social · 8h

So... We realize Trump is going to try to steer World Cup matches to Republican cities that can't possibly handle them. Because he wants them to make money.

Or he'll try to get Democratic cities to bend the knee

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Trump threatens US cities with relocation of World Cup matches

President Donald Trump on Tuesday again suggested that he may pull 2026 World Cup matches from US locations he claims are not safe, as his power struggle with Democratic-led cities continues. "If some...

www.yahoo.com

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 18h

The Speaker of the House thinks a naked bike ride is terrorism.

This is a sentence I never thought I’d write when I got a degree in professional writing for journalism.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 18h

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 1d

I thought they said it was wrong for an administration to ask a social media platform to take stuff down.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 18h

Dear Dem Governors,

Why haven’t you done anything to protect us from ICE?? Start ARRESTING these criminals!!! WTFFFFFF. They are committing CRIMES in your state!! WTF HAPPENED TO STATES RIGHTS??? You aren’t even using it??

FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF.

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Troy Dillon @troydillon.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so glad this came out. Those of us who live in conservative areas are well aware, but I’m not sure much of the nation realizes how openly racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. much of the right is now. Pure evil. Trump has taken the worst people and made them feel empowered to openly hate again.

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Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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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