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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 11h

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

~ William Butler Yeats (1919)

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GrampaBill56 🇺🇸 @grampabill56.bsky.social · 6d

This!

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 5d

I can't imagine a world without Diane Keaton. I worked with her on a movie project back in the day, and she was everything you'd expect and want her to be. Hilarious, kind, authentic, unassuming. Real. RIP to one of the greatest ever.

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 5d

The man’s frontal lobes are completely fried. He is incapable of separating fantasy from reality… or even making reasoned choices.

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Bill Brooks @beantownbop.bsky.social · 6d

Elect a criminal,expect some crimes.

The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 6d

Who knew sending the military to shoot pastors in the head with pepper balls and to attack your own citizens was a disqualification? Sorry Donnie! Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader Machado. #TrumpIsUnfit #EpsteinFilesCoverup
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Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Venezuela Opposition Leader Machado — Bloomberg

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for fighting for democracy at a time when political freedom is increasingly at risk from the rise of authoritar...

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 6d

I expect many more crimes, each one worse than the previous one… unfortunately.

The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 6d

They were all about Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion… until pastors started bringing up all this “Jesus Stuff”. #DemocracyIsDying

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 7d

"... part of rising faith-based pushback to the Trump administration..."

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Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 6d

Who knew sending the military to shoot pastors in the head with pepper balls and to attack your own citizens was a disqualification? Sorry Donnie! Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader Machado. #TrumpIsUnfit #EpsteinFilesCoverup
apple.news/AKmSX7rwfTX6...

Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Venezuela Opposition Leader Machado — Bloomberg

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for fighting for democracy at a time when political freedom is increasingly at risk from the rise of authoritar...

apple.news

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 6d

RFK Jr. again shows he knows dick all about autism. #RFKJrIsAnIdiot #TrumpIsUnfit www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

RFK Jr. again shows he knows dick all about autism

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday came up with a new and novel way to blame parents for their children's autism, this time linking circumcision with the ...

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 7d

Let’s just start calling them:
Pam Maxwell and Kash Epstein.
#Proudblue #ConstitutionalCrisis

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 12d

The police are getting more and more violent. They feel like they have permission from Trump. www.instagram.com/reel/DNRpg1H...

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Mike McIntosh @mikemcintosh.bsky.social · 18d

Add in a high probability of civil unrest, partisan violence, and institutional failures.

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 17d

Indeed.

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 17d

"So let me get this straight. Trump gets into a trade war with China. China stops buying American crops. Argentine farmers fill the gap, screwing US farmers out of billions. Trump then sends $20 billion to help out Argentina's economy. How is this winning? What am I missing?" ~ Marc Pocan #ProudBlue

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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 17d

So, why is the Trump Administration gifting Argentina $20 billion dollars for “infrastructure” when Natives on the Navajo Nation Reservation must have water trucked in because reservation water is polluted from decades of non-Native mining?

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Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 17d

Guys. Guys. GUYS!

I just spontaneously uttered a phrase that I will henceforth use every time someone begins mainsplaining to me:

“I’m sorry but I’m not here for this conversation”

Just delivered to a bozo who literally sat down so he could lecture me on nuclear weapons.

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PhillipUSA @phillipusa.bsky.social · 17d

Republicans are shutting down the government because they don’t want to release the Epstein Files. They want to protect themselves and their big donor Republicans.
Especially the pedophile in the WH.
#RepublicanShutDown

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 17d

Imagine you're a career military general being summoned for a pentagon strategy lecture by a former game show host and a former weekend talk show host.

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 18d

Think about the over-valuation of Tesla, AI stocks, the thousands being laid off because of AI. The amount of investment crypto products and NFTs that could become instantly worthless. Some part of this bubble is going to pop… and it won’t be pretty.

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 18d

The economy was actually better before the 1929 crash than it is now, although conditions are remarkably similar.

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 18d

What the USA DID have in 1929 that we don’t have now is STABLE to slightly DECLINING INFLATION, and LOW GROCERY PRICES driven by agricultural overproduction.

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 18d

This decade also featured extreme income inequality, excessive stock speculation that drove valuations to unsustainable highs

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 18d

The crash was also precipitated by overvalued utility stocks, which were propped up by speculative investment trusts. When the utilities sector began to fall in October, it triggered panic selling that spread to the entire market.

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 18d

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) hit a historic high of 381.17 on September 3, 1929, an increase of 218.7% since 1922.

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 18d

Stock prices in 1929 were unsustainably high and far exceeded their actual value based on company earnings.

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