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💙 I’m a lifelong Dem who spent his 1st 21 years in SW Ohio before seeking asylum in LA, the greatest city on Earth! I CAN’T STAND Fakes, Thugs, or Fascists. Trump and his shameless, bootlicking Oligarchs and enablers are Evil Incarnate. 💙

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wesmontgomery.bsky.social @wesmontgomery.bsky.social · 25m

Applebaum: Putin saw it wasn’t enough to poison the political debate inside Russia with lies and alternative reality; he needed to destroy the appeal of democracy everywhere. The purpose of the invasion of Ukraine was to show there’s no sense to having a democratic revolution-democracies are doomed.

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wesmontgomery.bsky.social @wesmontgomery.bsky.social · 39m

Applebaum: It is funny, actually: I reread the Declaration of Independence, recently, and there’s even something about tariffs. There’s something about sending people abroad to be imprisoned.

Kasparov: Absolutely. It’s so many elements of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

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wesmontgomery.bsky.social @wesmontgomery.bsky.social · 43m

Kasparov: Quite ironic—next year, will be the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and if you read through the Declaration of Independence, almost every claim there—all the grievances of the colonies against King George and British monarchy—have been resurrected in Trump’s behavior.

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wesmontgomery.bsky.social @wesmontgomery.bsky.social · 54m

Kasparov: A constant lie becomes a important test for loyalty; you want to make sure that your sycophants—your administration, your appointees—follow you without asking questions. You want to test them, so they have to repeat and defend these lies. They know Trump’s lying, but they have no choice.

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wesmontgomery.bsky.social @wesmontgomery.bsky.social · 59m

Applebaum: The idea is to lie constantly—whether it’s the price of eggs, gas, or what he said yesterday. How are you supposed to know what’s true if the president lies all the time? That is the same tactic that Putin used in Russia. If you lie nonstop, the reaction is to say I better just stay home.

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daring-dragoon.bsky.social @daring-dragoon.bsky.social · Jul 4

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MAGA lawmaker pleaded with his state’s governor to protect hospitals from Trump’s budget

Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin wrote a letter urging his state’s Democratic governor to take steps to protect rural hospitals from the fallout of the GOP’s widely reviled megabill — wh...

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Sassy Denise @sassydenise.bsky.social · Aug 9

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · Aug 22

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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wesmontgomery.bsky.social @wesmontgomery.bsky.social · 5h

Tomorrow Combover Caligula
goes for his cognitive assessment on the same day that they’re announcing the Nobel Peace Prize. Is he now so far gone that he thinks they’ll award him the prize if he can correctly identify “Man-Woman-Person-Camera-TV”? That won’t impress Oslo like the MAGAs…

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5h

ICE racially profiles an elderly man and takes him into custody. They realize their mistake and release him. They also intimidate witnesses. This incident occurred in Long Beach, California.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

This guy left his job as a TV host to be a full-time TV guest and part-time social media shitposter.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 7h

"...including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole."

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