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The Center Holds @mornba.bsky.social · 1h

Jimmy Savile. An absurd television personality. Strange cultural icon. Serial sexual predator.
Sound familiar?
We made our Jimmy Savile president.
What is it that makes people so blind to such creatures?

The Center Holds @mornba.bsky.social · 4h

Goodbye, Cheryl Hines. I'm sorry you've been sucked down the rabbit hole of ignorance. But...goodbye.

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The Center Holds @mornba.bsky.social · 4h

Gift Article.
A lot of people of color voted for the American Riech. Let's hope they only voted for second class citizenship and not something even worse...and yes, I'm talking Stephan Miller worse.
Anyone who voted for Child Rapist is a 100% fool. But non-white voters? 110% fools.

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

www.nytimes.com

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The Center Holds @mornba.bsky.social · 6h

Nice Texas tactical patch on that one dudes shoulder. He has already succeeded.

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The Center Holds @mornba.bsky.social · 7h

Seriously, what remaining member of the GOP is driven by ethical considerations or a commitment to the public good?
Exactly. The whole apple barrel is a putrid mess.

Jane Austen's Political Tweets @vee40below0.bsky.social · 1d

Trying to think of the name of one "Republican Good Apple"....

a woman with pigtails is making a funny face while standing next to a man .

ALT: a woman with pigtails is making a funny face while standing next to a man .

media.tenor.com

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The Center Holds @mornba.bsky.social · 7h

I just don't know how we get out of this mess when the Supreme Court seems personally vested in having a one-party dictatorial regime in place.
5 or 6 justices seem to be quite ignorant about how the world really works or are simply power-hungry themselves.

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The Center Holds @mornba.bsky.social · 19h

Democratic Socialism is basically a grown-up version of anarchism.
Libertarian Socialism is basically Democratic Socialism. It's all just different labels for believing in:
a) An individual's liberty to choose a life customized for their happiness.
b) That gross wealth inequality makes 'a' tenuous.

The Center Holds @mornba.bsky.social · 19h

How has Child Rapist bloviating about deliberatly punishing Democratic districts for political reasons with funding cuts not made those same cuts subject to being overturned in court?
Any insight would be appreciated.

The Center Holds @mornba.bsky.social · 1d

An unabridged chart of the current U.S. president's decision-making process. Very useful. Highly predictive.

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The Center Holds @mornba.bsky.social · 1d

“Young Republican National Federation condemns all forms of racism, antisemitism, and hate. I want to be clear that such behavior is entirely inconsistent with our values and has no place within our organization or the broader conservative movement.”
Scumbags. Such behavior defines their movement.

TheGratefulDeadpool @gratefuldeadpool.bsky.social · 1d

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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The Center Holds @mornba.bsky.social · 1d

The worst people are supposedly in charge.

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The Center Holds @mornba.bsky.social · 1d

Proud that Seattle-Tacoma airport is refusing to play Kristi Troll-Gnome's politicized TSA ad in the airport, correctly citing it as a violation of the Hatch act. Good job Sea-Tac (and others)!
Do not comply in advance with fascism. Make them expend time and resources to force you to do it.

Portland, Sea-Tac and Westchester airports among those refusing to play Kristi Noem video in TSA lines | CNN

Some US airports are refusing to play a video of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the federal government shutdown.

www.cnn.com

The Center Holds @mornba.bsky.social · 2d

The inmates must really hate her guts.

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The Center Holds @mornba.bsky.social · 2d

Based purely on my experience playing the board game Risk, I suppose China is sitting back and enjoying everything that is going on in the world right now. They seem to be mostly outside all the main conflicts as their rivals weaken themselves in various ways.

The Center Holds @mornba.bsky.social · 2d

A takedown of Sam Altman and tech bros with too much money, loud mouths, and oversized egos. It uses one example to make a larger point.
I thought Dyson Spheres were plausible. I had not thought hard about it because I AM NOT AN EXPERT.
Experts: Identify them. Respect the expertise. Listen to them.

dyson spheres are a joke

YouTube video by Angela Collier

www.youtube.com

The Center Holds @mornba.bsky.social · 2d

I wish I could push back against the stereotype that U.S. citizens are stupid. I'm afraid we have a sizable chunk of the country that pulls us into the school basement. So yeah this is, as a whole, a country brimming over with idiots. If we don't like it, we need to fix it. Not holding my breath.

The Center Holds @mornba.bsky.social · 2d

U.S. citizens, as a whole, have not been considered among the smartest people in the world for quite a long time. Having a Child Rapist babble about on a public stage like a drunk village idiot will cement this stereotype for decades to come. We are, in aggregate, the stupidest.

The Center Holds @mornba.bsky.social · 2d

The news media needs to spoon feed a simple story. Ignore how the Child Rapist encouraged the widespread destruction of Gaza and now bring "peace" after the hit is done and a coordinated photo-op can take place. Joke. We live in stupid times where stupid people are fed heaps of stupid.

When Biden visited Israel, wounds were fresh and tension was mounting. Two years later, Trump arrives with prospect of peace | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump’s brief visit to Israel this week to preside over the Gaza truce he helped broker will nonetheless be a valedictory one, and a moment he’s been envisioning for months.

www.cnn.com

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The Center Holds @mornba.bsky.social · 3d

Remember when it was controversial for the Federal government to bail out the auto industry and U.S. banks? Comparatively little noise about the current regime bailing out Argentina.
It's all so terribly normal these days.

The Center Holds @mornba.bsky.social · 4d

The Italian fascist blackshirt motto was "I don't care".
I totally see that intellectual DNA in the MAGA movement.

The Center Holds @mornba.bsky.social · 4d

Yes. For sure.
I don't understand why people are enthralled with people like this.

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The Center Holds @mornba.bsky.social · 4d

The die-hard ones will never admit fault. I just want their wives, friends, kids and coworkers to not be able to see anything other than a suspected pedophile when on their company. It's the reddish-purple folks that are cult-adjacent and can socially isolate the MAGA freaks who I want fully-aware.

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The Center Holds @mornba.bsky.social · 4d

GOP folks need to all look to the person on their right. To that person, you are a 'leftist'. Either now, or soon.
The crazy does not end.

The Center Holds @mornba.bsky.social · 4d

In America, everyone gets to live in their own reality because there is no incentive by media companies to challenge the desires of their audiences. People don't like being presented with uncomfortable truths, so why bother. Just tell them they are right and show them more ads.

The Center Holds @mornba.bsky.social · 4d

Wow. Mussolini sure had serious.a-hole vibes.

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