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Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 22m

I’m in. Are you? #Oct18 #NoKings The people united can never be divided 🔥🔥🔥

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 24m

I’m in. Are you? #Oct18 #NoKings The people united can never be divided 🔥🔥🔥

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 32m

whooping cough, measles, Ebola, and hundreds of other dangerous, fatal diseases. We have no eyes and ears to detect trouble early.

Should a terrorist or foreign nation try a bio attack on the U.S., we wouldn’t know until it’s too late.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

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Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 32m

the ENTIRE WASHINGTON STAFF, and editors” of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. MMWR is the weekly bulletin to the world on disease outbreaks and newly emerging communicable diseases.

The above leaves the United States defenseless against a major disease outbreak like bird flu, COVID...

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Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 32m

The US Centers for Disease Control (#CDC), the world's best public health surveillance and rapid response team, is now being completely destroyed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

In the latest hack at the Centers, Kennedy last night fired “dozens of disease detectives, high-ranking scientists ...

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Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 1h

Trump is scared shitless about #NoKings next week.

He knows how deeply America despises him and how he’s increasingly vulnerable as GOP support weakens.

That’s why he and his administration are lying so furiously about it - to discredit it and justify use of force against us.

Bring it, fat boy.

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Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 3h

Whaaaat? Trump wanted something but didn’t get it???

What a whiny little bitch.

How can America be led by such a sad, pathetic, corrupt dictator and caricature of a man?
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White House blasts Nobel Committee for not awarding Peace Prize to Trump - BBC News

A spokesman says the Nobel Committee placed "politics over peace" in awarding the coveted award to Venezuela's opposition leader.

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Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 20h

If they make up an award called the Noble Prize and give it to him, he'll never know the difference. They can let Lee Greenwood sing a song at the award ceremony and have Cabinet members say nice things about him for an hour. All good.

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 21h

Grindr Mike strikes again:

"House Speaker Mike Johnson joined the chorus of MAGA criticism, saying it was a 'terrible decision' to choose Bad Bunny. He said the Super Bowl should be headlined by an artist like Lee Greenwood, a country singer known for his song 'God Bless the USA.'"

MAGA Halftime:

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Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 21h

Senate Maj. Leader Thune's shutdown plan: Nothing.

Repubs won't lift a finger to pay military men/women.

Won't change plans to eliminate or price out of reach healthcare for 35M Americans.

And they'll weaponize the shutdown to harm working-class taxpayers.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

John Thune’s shutdown strategy: Wait for the Democrats to fold

Thune hopes Democrats will soon, under pressure, vote to reopen the government: “It’s up to them.”

www.washingtonpost.com

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 22h

The set smells like BO and Axe.

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 22h

Some 3,300 years ago, Moses and the Israelites were spared.

Today, let us hope that Israel remembers that mercy.

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 1d

He’s the grown-up version of every spoiled, rich-kid villain in teen fiction.

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Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 1d

Trump doesn’t like Norah, so pretty easy to tell where this is headed.

The question now is which right-wing malcontent will Weiss use to replace her. Needs to be someone like her with an axe to grind and a list of grievances. Sharyl Atkinson? Megyn Kelly? Lara Logan?

CBS News now in free fall.

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Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 1d

This is having civil war without declaring civil war.

When states are actively taking up arms against one another, calling it anything other than that is just a euphemism.

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 1d

In a world that lets me down every hour on the hour, you know who comes through?

THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS, THAT’S WHO

On to the #NLCS for the Boys of Summer 🔥🔥🔥
#Dodgers

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 1d

I heard newscasters repeatedly report tonight, “Letitia James has been indicted,” before even one said what she’d been charged with.

No explanation. Just “bank fraud.” I still don’t know what is alleged.

MSM once again does Trump’s work, serving as mouthpiece for the impression he wants to leave.

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 1d

America has had ENOUGH.

The lawlessness, the naked self enrichment.

The destruction of norms, organizations and people he calls enemies.

The use of militarized violence against Americans.

All wrought by a criminal pedophile rapist megalomaniac.

Donald Trump must GTFO. NOW

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Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans 2005: "We're going to file a health care bill."
Republicans 2010: "We're going to file a health care bill."
Republicans 2015: "We're going to file a health care bill."
Republicans 2020: "We're going to file a health care bill."
Republicans 2025: "We're going to file a health care bill."

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 1d

Comey indicted.
Letitia James indicted.
Gov. Pritzker threatened with arrest.
Gov. Newsom threatened with arrest.
Chicago Alderwoman Fuentes arrested.
Etc.

The stakes keep growing higher, as Trump frantically tries to stop release of the Epstein Files.

We're not fcuking budging. Dems = UNIFIED AF

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 1d

Watch Grindr Mike's soul leave his body at the 1:00 mark.

"As a Republican, I'm very disappointed in my party. And I'm very disappointed in you because you do have the power to call the house back. ...I'm begging you to pass this legislation. My kids could die!"
www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

Voter confronts Mike Johnson on live TV about shutdown | CNN Politics

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) faced tough questions from a voter on C-SPAN about military families not getting paid during the government shutdown. Johnson responded to the caller by blaming Democ...

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Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 1d

House Speaker/Trump footstool #MikeJohnson got lit up like a Christmas tree on CNN today, when a caller - a Republican military wife from Virginia - excoriated him for threatening the lives of her two medically fragile children and her husband, who has PTSD.

Watch:
www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

Voter confronts Mike Johnson on live TV about shutdown | CNN Politics

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) faced tough questions from a voter on C-SPAN about military families not getting paid during the government shutdown. Johnson responded to the caller by blaming Democ...

www.cnn.com

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 1d

This has never happened here: A member of the minority wins elex, but the Speaker of the House - of the ENTIRE HOUSE - refuses to swear her in.

One more symptom of U.S. democracy's death.

Lol, Paul Kane: "It’s unclear why Grijalva has not been sworn in..." 🙄
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Column | Congresswoman-in-limbo Adelita Grijalva on the dilemma she faces

Democratic Rep. Grijalva won her special election more than two weeks ago, but House Republicans refuse to swear her into office.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 1d

Your choice:

1. MakeAmericaGapeAgain
2. SisterSpeaker
3. MAGASub
4. HairFreak
5. MJBJ

Stoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 2d

Marco Rubio, 2016:

"Trump is the most vulgar person to ever aspire to the presidency."
"He's a con artist."
"Trump has offended … every minority group imaginable, on a daily basis.”
“The party of Lincoln and Reagan will never be held hostage by a con artist.”

Rubio, 2025:

"Drop by later, Daddy."