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albireo-50.bsky.social @albireo-50.bsky.social · 11h

Is he getting confused with images of Gaza?

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12h

Grandpa's been watching cable news and gotten confused again

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

albireo-50.bsky.social @albireo-50.bsky.social · 11h

Where do they dig up these morons? There is no antifa.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

The counterterrorism experts have arrived at the White House..

albireo-50.bsky.social @albireo-50.bsky.social · 11h

What crap are they feeding this man? Or are they not giving him anything and m he’s just remembering the debacles they had after George Floyd’s murder.

Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 12h

It’s very cruel to broadcast statements from someone who is so detached from reality

Isn’t anybody going to help this poor man

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

albireo-50.bsky.social @albireo-50.bsky.social · 11h

Because her future is tied to him.

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albireo-50.bsky.social @albireo-50.bsky.social · 11h

He’s not engaged. He’s not serious. He only focuses on shit that his gonna feed him to get him pissed. He only wants to fold and look “Presidential” which he never will.

Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 12h

What a dumb ass! And an insurrectionist 🙄

albireo-50.bsky.social @albireo-50.bsky.social · 12h

These universities are failing their students as well as the Nation.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 23h

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

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albireo-50.bsky.social @albireo-50.bsky.social · 12h

After all it is entirely the Felon’s fault.

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 13h

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs:

1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt?

2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies?

3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

albireo-50.bsky.social @albireo-50.bsky.social · 12h

Good on them!

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 12h

Love this. “NATO for nonprofits.”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

'NATO for nonprofits': Groups organize to band together if targeted by Trump

Nonprofit organizations took lessons away from law firms and universities that largely decided to act in isolation after finding themselves in the administration's crosshairs.

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albireo-50.bsky.social @albireo-50.bsky.social · 12h

That’s generally the idea. The protesters need protection from ICE more that the other way around.

StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 19h

The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE

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albireo-50.bsky.social @albireo-50.bsky.social · 14h

And because of the decimation of and chaos in the FBI, CIA, and military, we’ve probably lost that intelligence.

albireo-50.bsky.social @albireo-50.bsky.social · 14h

How about the $3 one instead?

#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 15h

'Appropriate tribute': Trump shares op-ed calling for his face on $250 bill

www.alternet.org

'Appropriate tribute': Trump shares op-ed calling for his face on $250 bill

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albireo-50.bsky.social @albireo-50.bsky.social · 14h

Pay TSA employees!

#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 15h

Scoop: Senate Republicans eye piecemeal government reopening

www.axios.com

Scoop: Senate Republicans eye piecemeal government reopening

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albireo-50.bsky.social @albireo-50.bsky.social · 14h

ICE officers are themselves protected. They are armed. It’s a farce that they need protection.

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15h

Prosecuting political opponents, abducting immigrants, deploying troops in our streets, silencing voters, defying the courts — this is a dictatorship in action.

Trump thinks his rule is absolute. Join millions of Americans to remind him there are NO KINGS in the USA: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Governor Pritzker on Bluesky: “I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?”

albireo-50.bsky.social @albireo-50.bsky.social · 22h

As far as they are concerned, it’s not America so who cares? Thing is, a ton of people care. I Hope there’s a comeuppance for this whole lot when the regime is gone.

albireo-50.bsky.social @albireo-50.bsky.social · 1d

This shows the disdain that the Felon and Vought have for the government and Federal workers.

AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 1d

The Trump admin is STILL trying to use federal workers as political pawns, threatening now that they may not receive back pay.

This is illegal and cruel. Federal workers are entitled to back pay by law after a shutdown - a law Trump himself signed in 2019.

Trump Plans to Stiff Federal Workers Furloughed During Shutdown

The Trump administration wants to withhold backpay from thousands of federal employees.

newrepublic.com

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 1d

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Today's Nobel Prize in Chemistry is for the discovery and stabilization of metal-organic frameworks, stable networks of metal ions and carbon (organic) molecules

Applications of these porous compounds include catalysis and pollution remediation

Example of metal-organic framework formed by reacting chromium ion clusters with organic compound and hydrofluoric acid

Electron microscope image of a periodic array of super tetrahedra of the previous image

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albireo-50.bsky.social @albireo-50.bsky.social · 1d

Anybody check if the Felon’s buying up gold and placing bets on gold futures?

#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 1d

Gold's rally signals investors' eroding trust in the U.S.

www.axios.com

Gold's rally signals investors' eroding trust in the U.S.

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 1d

Scientists identify brain region behind compulsive alcohol use

thehill.com

Scientists identify brain region behind compulsive alcohol use

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albireo-50.bsky.social @albireo-50.bsky.social · 1d

We cannot trust business to resist. The biggest have already shown us that. The same applies to major media, major law firms, and some large universities. It falls to the people.

#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 1d

'Have to play a different game': Scholar offers one simple way to beat Trump

www.alternet.org

'Have to play a different game': Scholar offers one simple way to beat Trump

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Nash Is Here for It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 1d

Did anyone else see this today and wonder wtf happened?

Oopsie, Stephen.

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albireo-50.bsky.social @albireo-50.bsky.social · 1d

It really was a disgusting display by the USAG. She was there to shill for the Felon. She didn’t care about the purpose of an Oversight Committee. The Republicans on the Committee were also complicit and should be ashamed of their performance.

#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 1d

'She is choosing not to': Fuming reporter hammers Pam Bondi over Tom Homan bribery evasion

www.rawstory.com

'She is choosing not to': Fuming reporter hammers Pam Bondi over Tom Homan bribery evasion

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albireo-50.bsky.social @albireo-50.bsky.social · 1d

Rubio, the Felon, and especially, Vought, and Musk own this.

Antti Gronow @anttigronow.bsky.social · 1d

Pure evil.

"A study published in The Lancet journal in June said the U.S. funding cuts could result in more than 14 million deaths, including more than 4.5 million children under age 5, by 2030."

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Make America Great Again…

GTF Out!

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albireo-50.bsky.social @albireo-50.bsky.social · 1d

You mean actually do some balance for a change?
He’s too busy raking in the foreign money to watch TV.

albireo-50.bsky.social @albireo-50.bsky.social · 1d

Wasn’t it stonewalling only the Democratic Senators? I’m assuming most R’s asked softball questions.