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Wild Bill

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•❤️ 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 & their NATO allies (except 🇭🇺 & 🇹🇷 of course) Support 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇲🇽 •🖕 Putin and his cronies, that includes the wannabe Cheeto King •Vote for democracy, vote Democratic 💙 •Courageous Republicans are extinct •MAGA is 🙀 weird •DM = Block

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Wild Bill @whyld.bsky.social · 23d

1A of US Const. :

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 2h

South Carolina is demanding that public officials swear an allegiance to God. That's illegal. Let's see if the Supreme Court still stands for religious freedom.

www.friendlyatheist.com/p/south-caro...

South Carolina bars atheist from serving as election worker unless he swears oath to God

The state’s insistence on poll workers saying "so help me God" has turned a civic service into a religious loyalty test

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

VARNEY: Some Iowa farmers are frustrated because Trump is putting $20b into Argentina to bail them out. They're worried that the administration is focused on foreign financial aid at the expense of American farmers.

BROOKE ROLLINS: The president's focus remains 100% on America first

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 5h

...the most wholesome & necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate & pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; & when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them."

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 5h

From the Declaration of Independence:
"The history of the present King...is a history of repeated injuries/usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws..

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Wild Bill @whyld.bsky.social · 1h

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Wild Bill @whyld.bsky.social · 20d

“Stop calling us NAZIs”.

Sure, just as soon as you stop walking in their footsteps.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4h

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 4h

"Literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. But there are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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Wild Bill @whyld.bsky.social · 1h

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Wild Bill @whyld.bsky.social · 20d

“Stop calling us NAZIs”.

Sure, just as soon as you stop walking in their footsteps.

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Wild Bill @whyld.bsky.social · 1h

OMG, what’s wet and hitting my back on a cloudless day? It’s not rain like you’re telling me it is.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 3h

Oklahoma’s new public schools superintendent announces he is reversing a mandate from his predecessor that forced schools to place Bibles in classrooms and incorporate it into lesson plans for students.

New Oklahoma schools superintendent rescinds mandate for Bible instruction in schools

The turnaround comes after the last state schools superintendent, Republican Ryan Walters, quit to take a job in the private sector.

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Wild Bill @whyld.bsky.social · 2h

🤦‍♂️

Wild Bill @whyld.bsky.social · 3h

Sounds like typical Republican doublespeak.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

THUNE: Fund the government the old fashioned way -- I don't think you need rescissions

VITALI: Have you said to the WH, maybe don't do another rescissions package? Feels like it's poisoned the well

THUNE: It's in everybody's best interest, including the WH, to do a normal appropriations process

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Wild Bill @whyld.bsky.social · 3h

Cynical and/or dumb?

Wild Bill @whyld.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t need to be convinced anymore…

Republicans are taking America deeper and deeper into authoritarianism…

and they are happy about it.

It feels surreal.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

The lying liars who lie are really losing their shit over #NoKings.

That should be reason enough for us to go.

Saturday. Everywhere. Go, and ask everyone you know to go.

👉 nokings.org/#map

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Wild Bill @whyld.bsky.social · 7h

Can we get a chorus of “Awwws” together
for this snowflake?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1d

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

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Wild Bill @whyld.bsky.social · 7h

Is that last statement by Bessent a threat or what?
I didn’t watch the interview bc you know 🤢🤮.

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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 1d

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 15h

It's going up to $40 billion.

USAID's budget last year was $28 billion.

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 16h

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15h

One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”

(Published August)

Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals

Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...

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Blue Axeman @blueaxeman.bsky.social · 16h

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