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kairyssdal.bsky.social
Come the F on…
October 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things. I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father. Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking. She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking. I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person. My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right". None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing, enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got. Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived. Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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alt-ssa.altgov.info
It's wild how politely asking grown ass adults to wear masks and stop coughing on produce was the second coming of Stalin. But military takeovers of cities based on who they elected is totally cool patriot freedom USA.
September 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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schooley.bsky.social
I think some men want to watch the world burn, but some other men just don’t mind if that’s a consequence of their competition to have the most money ever.
September 10, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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propublica.org
NEW: More than two decades after victims and families of the 9/11 attacks began trying to hold the Saudi government responsible for aiding the Qaida terrorists who carried out the plot, a judge has ruled that a lawsuit against the kingdom can go to trial.
Sept. 11 Victims’ Lawsuit Against Saudi Government Can Go to Trial, Judge Rules
Information uncovered by plaintiffs has already undermined the FBI’s conclusion that two U.S.-based Saudi officials “unwittingly” helped al-Qaida hijackers after they arrived in America.
www.propublica.org
August 29, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
NPR: “A whistleblower says a former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names & birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud lacking adequate security...” www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
August 27, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“Would have never happened if I were President.”
August 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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instascience.bsky.social
Stunning! An 8-hour time-lapse to show the Earth is rotating while capturing the Milky Way.
July 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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euronews.com
Brazil’s prosecutor-general has filed charges against former President Jair Bolsonaro for attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat.
Trump threatens Brazil with 50% tariff, demands Bolsonaro trial ends
Brazil’s prosecutor-general has filed charges against former President Jair Bolsonaro for attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat.
l.euronews.com
July 10, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
No lies told here.
July 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
every day Angelenos are mobilizing daily to push back against the Trump administration’s month-long immigration blitz in Los Angeles. we joined some of them early this morning ahead of the latest raids.
July 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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davidcorn.bsky.social
Wars are underway. Humanitarian disasters are transpiring around the globe.Trade conflicts are unresolved. Millions of Americans are on the verge of losing their health coverage. And he’s selling perfume.
July 1, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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davidcorn.bsky.social
Why didn’t George W. Bush say anything when there was a fight to be had over this? Ditto for Obama. Solidarity is better than condolences.
angus.bsky.social Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · Jul 1
I just don't understand this. George W Bush, Barack Obama, and Bono just recorded videos commending the staff of USAID for their work and lamenting the agency's destruction...

And those videos were not released to the public.
Bush, Obama and Bono Commend USAID Staff Members on Their Last Day
www.nytimes.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far:

A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.
June 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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tribelaw.bsky.social
“If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived. The question, now, is whether Americans who hate tyranny can be roused to respond.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
Opinion | This Is What Autocracy Looks Like
www.nytimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
Except one
www.latimes.com/california/s...
June 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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indivisible.org
“Pretty much wherever you are, you’re probably less than 30 minutes away from your closest No Kings event.” - @leahgreenberg.bsky.social with @democracynow.org

We hope to see you at your local #NoKings Day mobilization on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
June 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
Being uninvited from the White House caused Rand Paul to lose a lot of the respect he had for Donald Trump that Trump’s two impeachments, insurrection, four criminal indictments, criminal conviction, and sexual abuse damages verdict did not cause him to lose. Got it.
June 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Well this is awkward
June 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
We’ve leapt over a lot of red lines in the last week. But one I find most worrying is Trump/MAGA/ICE have ceased even pretending to claim some criminal pretext for cracking down on protected speech. It’s just straight up “if you criticize us, you’re getting throttled/arrested/disappeared.”
June 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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joycewhitevance.bsky.social
If you’re watching @maddow.msnbc.com’s A Block you understand that people who stand up for other people can change the course of those people’s lives & our history. We have the power to refuse Trump’s path forward. Protesting actually works. Let’s go.
June 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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joycewhitevance.bsky.social
The No Kings protest map will help you find a place to exercise your First Amendment rights this weekend. (It's also a pretty good argument against the Electoral College.) www.nokings.org
June 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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lulu.sheshed.rocks
So…adjudicated domestic terrorists are going to sue, and using our taxpayer dollars, the MAGA government will settle with them.

Just like they did with Ashli Babbitt. Every Republican voter was simply a pawn.
June 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM