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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 1d

The authoritarian takeover of America is in full swing.

But they have no idea what they are getting themselves in for.

Watch America crumble when the states like California and New York no longer provide money for the United States.

I’m serious.

This will not go well.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 16h

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 15h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 1d

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Shane Lear @shanelear.bsky.social · 2d

Lying to him, is like breathing. He needs to do it for his monstrous ego. #POSpresident

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 2d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 2d

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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 2d

We need to stop calling them:

"Billionaires,"

And start calling them by who they really are:

"Robber Barrens."

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 2d

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 3d

"Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes more uncertain."

-Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence