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Nerdy Pete @nerdypete.bsky.social · 3h

So America second? Or, I guess, America is yours to do with as you please?

Nerdy Pete @nerdypete.bsky.social · 4h

You need to refer to Ernst using stronger language like "Joni 'gaslighting fear monger" Ernst.

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Nerdy Pete @nerdypete.bsky.social · 4h

I think the most important thing to do is to focus on getting Republicans to impeach. Trump & his lackeys need to be gone ASAP. It's starts with impeaching Trump and then Vance and then Johnson. It sounds nuts but there is no other way. Otherwise, we're in a full-on dictatorship.

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Nerdy Pete @nerdypete.bsky.social · 4d

#NerdyForDemocracy edition #16! How can we get along with our “enemies”? I have an idea! Watch this video!

Get #NerdyForTheConstitution !!!

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Nerdy Pete @nerdypete.bsky.social · 5d

I mean, if you think legality still matters is 2025 America you should wake up and start guilt tripping Republicans in Congress. They need to be encouraged to get their spines reinstalled so they can start impeaching everyone in the Executive.

Nerdy Pete @nerdypete.bsky.social · 5d

Man, if reality could just slow the hell down a bit, that'd be great.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 5d

A huge and consequential argument in the SCOTUS tomorrow. Is SCOTUS hell-bent in gutting the Voting Rights Act?

The Two Section Twos
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

The Two Section Twos

The Protection Against Racial Gerrymandering in Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is Constitutional. Just Read Section 2 of the 14th Amendment.

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Nerdy Pete @nerdypete.bsky.social · 5d

Attention #NYC ers: Anybody want a free #JurassicWorldRebirth #PopcornBucket? #LincolnSquare #AMC in #Manhattan has a table in their ground floor lobby piled up with them! They're literally giving them away. Get 'em while they last!

Nerdy Pete @nerdypete.bsky.social · 6d

Wait, isn't that where a bunch of the Nazis from WWII retired?

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Nerdy Pete @nerdypete.bsky.social · 6d

Hate to be a party pooper but this was debunked by Snopes during Trump 1.0. Please stop spreading hope where there isn't any. www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

If the President Is Impeached for Treason, Is Everyone Else Removed from Office as Well?

Some confusion over the meaning and process of impeachment resulted in the spread of false information about the potential results of treason charges against a U.S. president.

www.snopes.com

Nerdy Pete @nerdypete.bsky.social · 7d

See? The red underwear looks so much sexier on the outside!

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 7d

The fact that top Republicans are already fearmongering about, lying about, the No Kings rallies this Saturday, across the US, tells you how worried they are about public pressure and protest against their reactionary, autocratic, anti-American agenda.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 7d

"I don't like Trump, but you have to admit--"

Nope, we're good, you can stop right there--actually, back up about five words, pull over, and get out of the car you're about to drive over a rhetorical cliff.

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Nerdy Pete @nerdypete.bsky.social · 7d

Isn't this exactly what Trump and pals want? Without Congress in session there is no worry of impeachment and SCOTUS is already in Trump's back pocket. Hell, Trump could just do an Executive Order to shut down the Congress all together and we'd be 100% a Trumpian dictatorship.

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Nerdy Pete @nerdypete.bsky.social · 7d

I feel like we're already there.

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Nerdy Pete @nerdypete.bsky.social · 10d

So that was REALLY FUN!!!

Nerdy Pete @nerdypete.bsky.social · 11d

GREETINGS, PROGRAMS! About to see #TronAres. Wish us luck! At the very least the #NineInchNails score with sound AMAZING in #IMAX!! The visuals will also look incredible. Setting the old expectations to a low setting.

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Nerdy Pete @nerdypete.bsky.social · 12d

I paraphrase the Internet.

He's nuts.

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Nerdy Pete @nerdypete.bsky.social · 12d

70 years TO THE DAY after Doctor Emmet Brown discovered the Flux Capacitor, I'll be at my local moving picture house enjoying a little time travel movie with my best girl!*

Anyone else seeing it that night?

*OK, it's my wife, she's not a girl but she is my best and only!
#BackToTheFuture

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13d

Just some light reading for today... www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...

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