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Sean Selvig🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷 @seanselvig.bsky.social · 8m

Well, thank god that at least it wasn't his nudes.

Sean Selvig🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷 @seanselvig.bsky.social · 16h

The more I think on it, the more I realize that Jamelle Bouie was absolutely spot-on when he characterized the current administration's approach as "Cargo Cult Fascism." For those unfamiliar with cargo cults, I am happy to explain...

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Sean Selvig🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷 @seanselvig.bsky.social · 17h

"This was Bob Hope's turf. Frank Sinatra's. Spiro Agnew's. It seemed inappropriate to be haggling about nickel/dime bribes for the parking lot attendant." -Hunter S. Thompson

⬆️This passage says far more than it appears at first glance...

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Sean Selvig🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷 @seanselvig.bsky.social · 23h

"Peppers, please..."

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Sean Selvig🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷 @seanselvig.bsky.social · 1d

"The enemy from within are attacking Christians--wait, hang on...[shoots priest in head with pepper ball round at close range]--so anyway, as I was saying, the enemy from within are attacking Christians..."

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Sean Selvig🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷 @seanselvig.bsky.social · 1d

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Sean Selvig🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷 @seanselvig.bsky.social · 1d

What say you, evangelicals? Is this the work of the Lord's vessel, or that of another golden calf...or perhaps a talking serpent?

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Sean Selvig🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷 @seanselvig.bsky.social · 1d

If it weren't considered gender-affirming care, I guarantee Don would have undergone breast-reduction surgery on all 6 of his tits by now.

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Sean Selvig🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷 @seanselvig.bsky.social · 1d

The press needs to start pushing them much harder whenever they try to dodge a question. If they refuse to answer when asked politely, then ask a decidedly less polite follow-up question such as, "Why are you protecting 'pdf files'?"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away

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Sean Selvig🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷 @seanselvig.bsky.social · 1d

You can almost SEE the diet coke can getting slightly dented by his tiny hands in his latest fit of impotent rage...

Jimmy Kimmel Celebrates Beating Trump in Approval Poll: 'You Know I Don't Like to Upset Him'

Jimmy Kimmel celebrating beating Donald Trump in a new poll about their favorability on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live.'

www.rollingstone.com

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Sean Selvig🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷 @seanselvig.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile, in Portland...

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Sean Selvig🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷 @seanselvig.bsky.social · 2d

As long as we're playing hide-the-salami with jurisprudence, we might as well officially designate Don & Co. as sponsors of terror and therefore legitimate enemy combatants, considering that they've declared war against...America.

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Sean Selvig🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷 @seanselvig.bsky.social · 3d

The Dream of the 90's [i.e., the last decade Americans can remember that didn't totally suck] is ALIVE IN PORTLAND!

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3d

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

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Sean Selvig🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷 @seanselvig.bsky.social · 3d

Col. Kurtz: "The neurodivergence. The neurodivergence..."

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Sean Selvig🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷 @seanselvig.bsky.social · 5d

It's always the ones you most suspect...

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Sean Selvig🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷 @seanselvig.bsky.social · 5d

It just occurred to me that this is the first time in U.S. history that the President's own family, as well as those of his cabinet, have so consistently, actively DISTANCED themselves from a sitting President's administration.

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Sean Selvig🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷 @seanselvig.bsky.social · 5d

Ladies, I pray you...

Hear me, and hear me well:

If a man's own mother condemns her own son, in no uncertain terms, for a lifelong pattern of highly untoward behavior, and roundly impugns the very essence of his moral character...that's a red flag.

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Sean Selvig🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷 @seanselvig.bsky.social · 5d

TIL that Howard Lutnick's surname is in fact pronounced "𝑁𝑈𝑇𝐿𝐼𝐶𝐾."

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Sean Selvig🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷 @seanselvig.bsky.social · 6d

How it started: [Don reads 'Mein Kampf']

How it's going: "Instructions unclear. Dick stuck in ceiling fan."

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Sean Selvig🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷 @seanselvig.bsky.social · 6d

GOP: The shutdown defunds many vital government services that WE wanted to cut!

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Sean Selvig🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷 @seanselvig.bsky.social · 7d

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Sean Selvig🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷 @seanselvig.bsky.social · 7d

I've been warning my Hebrews for some time now that no matter what anyone says, this administration ain't your boyfriend. While that much has become increasingly clear in recent months, this is a particularly alarming development that none of us can afford to ignore.

FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League, FBI director says

The FBI said on Wednesday it cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish group that tracks antisemitism, after conservatives criticized the group for including slain activist Charlie Kirk's organization in a glossary on extremism.

www.reuters.com

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Sean Selvig🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷 @seanselvig.bsky.social · 7d

Did anyone else get the impression that Pete Hegseth was, um..."checking out" some of the flag officers yesterday?

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Sean Selvig🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷 @seanselvig.bsky.social · 8d

MATZO BALLS OF STEEL.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

COLLINS: So you're telling me you're willing to vote no every time?

BERNIE SANDERS: Damn right

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Sean Selvig🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷 @seanselvig.bsky.social · 8d

There are 57 Islamic states in the UN. Guess how many Jewish states there are? Even Israel isn't a Jewish state, given that they practice secular pluralism. There are Muslims in the Knesset. Guess the Jewish population of the Islamic world? It's not zero, but it's close, as they were all expelled.

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