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Ryan McTague @piscadork.bsky.social · 17h

Religion: Where the most cringe among us compete for dollars from the low information pray-ers

Ryan McTague @piscadork.bsky.social · 17h

As long as the Sacklers are free its clear no one in charge actually cares about the opioid epidemic

Ryan McTague @piscadork.bsky.social · 17h

Lying is a sin

Ryan McTague @piscadork.bsky.social · 17h

Whats the incentive to come to him for a deal if he can just do this?

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Ryan McTague @piscadork.bsky.social · 1d

I guess reading the BBB would have been a good idea...

Ryan McTague @piscadork.bsky.social · 1d

It doesn't matter if drugs are on those boats, that isn't sufficient justification to just drop a missile on citizens of another nation.

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Ryan McTague @piscadork.bsky.social · 1d

Did they get his dog too?

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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Ryan McTague @piscadork.bsky.social · 1d

I went to buy a kayak on Monday and did bar trivia last night. None of those required me to fend off any violent attackers or avoid any broken glass.

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Ryan McTague @piscadork.bsky.social · 1d

This whole administration needs to be in jail.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · Sep 2

Dictators silence our freedoms. In America, the people will be heard. Oct 18: #NoKings. RSVP: nokings.org?utm_source=5...

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Ryan McTague @piscadork.bsky.social · 1d

Do you need a whole episode to say "attention addict pick me"?

Ryan McTague @piscadork.bsky.social · 2d

I'm enjoying my time on this platform but the internet as we know it isn't long for this world, right? I barely use it for anything besides paying bills and bitching about the dystopian nightmare we have been subjected to for the last decade. Everything else is just a minefield of scams and bots.

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Ryan McTague @piscadork.bsky.social · 2d

Using "foreign imagery" to LIE to their constituents about the situation in Portland is a wild distinction to draw.

Ryan McTague @piscadork.bsky.social · 2d

So you're saying the tariff shelf isn't a real legal thing?

Ryan McTague @piscadork.bsky.social · 2d

"Jesus please let us shoot immigrants, amen"

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Ryan McTague @piscadork.bsky.social · 2d

We are semantics-ing ourselves into authoritarianism. Journalists and Democrsts keep pointing out the ever decreasing light between President and Dictator behavior while the administration thinks screaming "Bomb!" in a theater constitutes justification for using emergency powers.