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アンディ @andymarkle.com · 1d

As someone who was subjected to conversion therapy, it doesn’t work. It won’t work. It’s torture. I was hooked up to an IV and made to vomit watching gay porn for two hours per week. I was prayed over. Bibles and the Book of Mormon were shoved in my face.

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CJ @butterflytea.bsky.social · 5h

Oh no! I get one of my prescriptions through BlinkRx.

I had no idea. I'll have to change that.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11h

it’s all just a grift

CJ @butterflytea.bsky.social · 5h

Yup. She didn't want to apologize for it, either. Very Trumpian.

CJ @butterflytea.bsky.social · 6h

This reminds me of how she claimed the election was rigged when she lost the Democratic Senate primary to Adam Schiff.

It's a temperament problem.

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CJ @butterflytea.bsky.social · 10h

Why doesn't the President of the United States fly out to Portland to see the carnage for himself?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

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."

CJ @butterflytea.bsky.social · 12h

Oh my goodness! Why isn't the press reporting live from the bombed out ruins of Portland?!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

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."

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CJ @butterflytea.bsky.social · 13h

These states consistently vote for people who want them (and the rest of us) to suffer.

The War Monitor @warmonitor.net · 1d

States with highest premium hikes if GOP lets ACA expire:

West Virginia +387%
Wyoming +382%
Alaska +346%
Tennessee +320%
Mississippi +314%
Texas +289%
South Carolina +285%
Alabama +284%
South Dakota +235%
North Dakota +234%
(Center for American Progress)

CJ @butterflytea.bsky.social · 13h

Get that blood money, Steve!

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CJ @butterflytea.bsky.social · 14h

Oh no! I can't think of anything to ask you, even though my husband and I watch the show faithfully every night.

I will say that we are both FAR, FAR better at Wheel of Fortune than Jeopardy. Thank God we only embarrass ourselves from the safety of our living room. 😂

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CJ @butterflytea.bsky.social · 15h

Little rays of sunshine in the darkness...

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 17h

Children around the world have died because Trump and Musk needlessly destroyed USAID. These are some of their stories.

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AP: Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 1d

When @washingtonpost.com is gone, there will be all kinds of hand wringing about its legacy and loss of a lion of journalism and of course Watergate, but it’s already gone, so gone. The time to lament the loss is now, not years from now when they pull the plug on the pale shadow that’s left.

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

This little twerp, who’s been there a few months, axed two of the lions of WaPo??

Fisher is an investigative champion and had been at The Post for 39 years. Hoffman had been there for 42, and he won a Pulitzer LAST YEAR.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

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CJ @butterflytea.bsky.social · 1d

I, a liberal, do not ever, ever listen to Ross Douthat.

a cat is laying down on a table with the words `` no '' written on its face .

ALT: a cat is laying down on a table with the words `` no '' written on its face .

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CJ @butterflytea.bsky.social · 1d

My buddy. ❤️

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

Shot a priest in the head with a pepper ball, just for fun.
There was absolutely no threat here.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 2d

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1d

Desperately need society to stop rewarding cruelty. To stop unleashing gratuitous, sociopathic cruelty. I think this is a phenomenon driven by the right but it’s infected all of us to one degree or another, and we need to remain cognizant of wanting not to be this way.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

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Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. He is alarmed, but it ends with a directive:”the rest of us, whether we’re elected officials or ordinary citizens, should do everything we can to let our fellow Americans in uniform know that if they risk their careers and even their freedom to protect the Constitution, we will stand with them”

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 1d

If you think I'm not alarmed, read this.

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

www.theatlantic.com

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m just trying to find any clues, ideas, see where they took him, why they took him. And what’s the whole purpose for this?”

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CJ @butterflytea.bsky.social · 1d

She should resign by the end of the day.

She should never work in law again.

She should be an outcast in polite society.

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CJ @butterflytea.bsky.social · 1d

We are supposed to be selecting wise, intelligent, thoughtful people to represent us at the highest levels in Washington.

How do you work with lying, conspiratorial clowns like Jim Banks from Indiana?

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 1d

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CJ @butterflytea.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe I'd also add that they've created an Orweillian atmosphere where lies are truth, wrongspeak is punished, and any notion of good character is viewed as weakness.

AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 1d

The 3 (uniquely) worst things Trump term 2 has done (so far):

(1) Destroy foreign aid (eg, USAID) - this is the most damaging in terms of human life
(2) Ruin the lives of *millions* of immigrants
(3) Destroy any semblance of independence of DOJ and really all of our bureaucratic agencies

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

PADILLA: Do you believe govt officials are obligated to follow court orders whether they agree with them or not, yes or no?

BONDI: I wish you loved your state of California as much as you hate President Trump

PADILLA: I asked a simple yes or no question

CJ @butterflytea.bsky.social · 1d

This woman is not a Democrat, so who cares what she thinks?

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2d

“A federal team in El Paso that once pursued child traffickers has been disbanded.

“A task force in Kansas focused on stemming fentanyl has been redirected.

“Highway checkpoints near the border—on roads identified as major drug-trafficking routes—have gone unstaffed”

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Trump’s Immigration Push Diverts U.S. Agents From Drug, Money and Sex-Crime Cases

Federal investigators are resigning, and morale is low, as they juggle complex cases and detain migrants.

www.wsj.com

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