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Mike @neejix.bsky.social · 13h

Someone tell Trump to go make his own peace prize so he can award it to himself. That should keep the toddler busy for a couple days at least.

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Mike @neejix.bsky.social · 13h

These asshats have had 15 years to present a viable alternative. They refuse to do so and refuse to allow improvements to the existing system.

There is a zero percent chance they will ever present a plan much less a bill.

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Mike @neejix.bsky.social · 16h

Idiocracy was far, far too kind about the possibility of stupid people ruling us, and the depths of their stupidity.

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Mike @neejix.bsky.social · 20h

Republicans never answer the question because they know no one will like the answer.

The Republican healthcare plan for America is one word: die.

It will never be anything else because they only care about power and rich donors.

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Mike @neejix.bsky.social · 1d

This thing really needs to be added to a meme generator. The chevrons are perfect to fill text into.

Mike @neejix.bsky.social · 1d

They’re doing the important work of ducking town halls, sending phone calls to voicemail, and hiding from constituents trying to visit their local offices.

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Mike @neejix.bsky.social · 3d

Why shouldn’t he be smug? Not a single one of them challenges him or calls out his hyperbolic bullshitting.

The man gaslights to the max and not a single reporter questions it.

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Mike @neejix.bsky.social · 5d

A lot of people need to crack a book. Somewhere around 77 million people.

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Mike @neejix.bsky.social · 8d

Isn’t Argentina also the country that China is buying soybeans from instead of US farmers?

Mike @neejix.bsky.social · 9d

It’s the true great American pastime. Blame others for your problems instead of solving problems together.

It’s gotten much worse as billionaires took over all the media and social media, and want to keep people fighting each other while they rob the larder.

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🎃 Komod-o'-Lantern Dad @komododad.bsky.social · 14d

Ok, I'm popping out of my NatSec hole because I see people passing this around and hyperventilating and going "this is so bad" and like, you know how a people are always saying "you can't really do a whole lot with an executive order?" Take that and multiply it by about ten for a NSPM.

Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence

NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

www.whitehouse.gov

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Mike @neejix.bsky.social · 14d

There goes home improvements crashing into a wall…

Mike @neejix.bsky.social · 15d

So they want citizenship to be a subscription service?

Mike @neejix.bsky.social · 16d

I believe he is 1500% correct.

Mike @neejix.bsky.social · 19d

What is the supposed policy objective here? I can’t see one other than pure distraction. Why would we even want the damn thing back?

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Mike @neejix.bsky.social · 20d

The era Carr refers to didn’t have corporations that owned those local stations across 35+ states. There’s nothing local about stations owned by billionaire controlled corporate conglomerates.

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Mike @neejix.bsky.social · 23d

What’s next? Felony not enough pieces of Trump flair?

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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 25d

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26d

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things.

I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father.

Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking.

She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking.

I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person.
My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right".

None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing,

enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got.
Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived.

Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.

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Mike @neejix.bsky.social · Sep 4

Beautiful. Nice work!

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Mike @neejix.bsky.social · Aug 22

You might not be able to afford groceries, or your energy bill, or be able to take your kids to the doctor for the disease they contracted because they can’t get vaccines any more.

But by god the grass will be green in DC.

We’re saved everyone! Saved I tell you.

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Chris Shehan_Comic Art @chrisshehanart.bsky.social · Aug 2

“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.”

Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · Aug 8

I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.

A very mistaken list of the last 12 presidents of the United States and their years in office produced by the Ph.D level scholar known as ChatGPT-5. Includes John F. Katwady, president 1991-1968; George W. bush, president 220Z-1999), and Bill Christen, president 1999-2001

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · Aug 3

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine

How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

open.substack.com

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