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🐝RCMhere @rcmhere.bsky.social · 1m

I watched The Substance yesterday. I think its HBOMax.

Wow. What a trip of a movie. I recommend for horror fans.

I liked the quirky feel of the whole thing.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 11h

Let’s not forget that every single Republican who stands by and enables Donald Trump could stop this recklessness today, tomorrow or any damn day of the week. Their failure—their refusal—to do so makes them complicit in his crimes and the crimes of his corrupt, lawless regime.

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Jake @my2bits4u.bsky.social · 11h

Our governor @gavinnewsom.bsky.social is brilliant . He knew what this shitshow would become so long before it got here he entered the podcast space to get on the field. So now he has as big a microphone as anyone except the Whitehouse. He knew a conman was on the march.

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Jack @wakeupangry.bsky.social · 12h

Mr. Prisondent

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 11h

I feel like there’s a lot of historical events that everyone used to wonder how people let them happen and now we’re finding out.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 11h

When was the last time a rich white billionaire was truly shunned for their behavior?

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 11h

When people wonder how Epstein continued to have powerful friends even after everybody knew, consider that a Nazi salute followed by blithely starving children and cutting off their life sustaining medicines wasn’t a deal breaker for anyone in power positions.

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🐝RCMhere @rcmhere.bsky.social · 11h

What?

🐝RCMhere @rcmhere.bsky.social · 18h

Let's get this done.

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🐝RCMhere @rcmhere.bsky.social · 18h

I suppose I'm most focused on putin, trump and netanyahu. 😊

It is hard to keep up all across this globe.🤷‍♀️

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🐝RCMhere @rcmhere.bsky.social · 18h

Same. It's pretty scary.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

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🐝RCMhere @rcmhere.bsky.social · 19h

I remember playing my cousin one time and he was wearing a cast on his arm. He'd hit the crap out of that ball and keep the momentum.

Not fair.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

With Larry Ellison in control of TikTok, we now have right-wingers or looney far-right wingers in control of most of the major social media platforms.

Right-Wing Moguls Dominate Social Media. One Legal Fix Can Help Stem the Tide.

Revising Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act would make outlets more accountable for the content they platform.

www.thenation.com

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🐝RCMhere @rcmhere.bsky.social · 20h

I'll take this as my answer. 😉💚

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet.

They make sure we have clean water.

They protect us from financial fraud.

They provide healthcare to our communities.

They make our government actually work for people.

Do not forget this.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle

His channel, MeidasTouch, puts out 15 videos a day exposing Republican failings – and it is getting bigger audiences than Joe Rogan’s. Is this the champion the American left has been waiting for?

www.theguardian.com

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

It was great working with Zeteo’s editors and rigorous fact-checker.

And I’m most grateful they let me say this in the last graf, something I’ve been try to get at with these ICE flights for awhile.

The disparity between the luxurious aircraft and its shackled, vilified passengers must have been quite a sight, but they are not unrelated. Corrupt officials transferring state funds to personal accounts, governments with empty treasuries and desperate citizens, luxury highrises, the criminalization of the unhoused and undocumented, billions spent on political campaign pageantry, aiding genocide from a faraway ballroom and calling it "charity," tax breaks for flying masked agents and nameless prisoners under cover of darkness - all are the spoils of oligarchy.

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🐝RCMhere @rcmhere.bsky.social · 20h

No motivation to deal w Republicans.

DO NOT TRUST THEM

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Rescission are something Dems have said is a reason for a lack of trust. What rescissions are you discussing?

JOHNSON: We have more than $37t in debt. We're doing everything we can to get us back to sound fiscal responsibility. What does that include? A rescission package is part of our process

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🧙‍♂️⚡️💥🧟💥 @writaobscura.bsky.social · 1d

More tax cuts for the rich and less healthcare for Americans please!

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Breaking Bad Punny @breakingbadpunny.bsky.social · 1d

maybe we should give another $20 billion to argentina or build another ballroom at the white house then

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 1d

Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.

Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.

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🐝RCMhere @rcmhere.bsky.social · 20h

Either I will go to Paris France OR I will stay home and watch Lu for the rest to go.

Decisions Decisions...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.

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