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chip goines

@chip.bsky.social

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Turned out the vote for Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley's historic 2018 campaign. Progressive movement builder. Cat lady. Bylines: Washington Post, Newsweek, Reuters, gbhnews.

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chip goines @chip.bsky.social · 13h

this is the way.

Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 15h

The administration is aware of black bloc tactics, was vaguely aware of clown bloc tactics, but was completely unprepared for the advent of Animal Crossing bloc tactics.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

chip goines @chip.bsky.social · 23h

but they almost ate their way out of the costume, smh

chip goines @chip.bsky.social · 23h

Task Force Brisket of the Texas National Guard has been deployed to Illinois. Bad news for Chicago's hot dog stands & Mr.Beef!!!

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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chip goines @chip.bsky.social · 3d

If you're as disgusted by ICE & US Border Patrol's brutality as I am, please remember that is why Sen. Elizabeth Warren & Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley pushed to abolish Qualified Immunity for police officers 5 years ago. It's time.

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chip goines @chip.bsky.social · 4d

i KNOW you would!!!!

chip goines @chip.bsky.social · 4d

Walk 5 miles they said
you'll get your steps in, they said
you'll feel better, they said

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chip goines @chip.bsky.social · 5d

make apartheid great again

NYT Breaking News
The Trump administration is said to have plans to slash refugee admissions to a record low, with many slots reserved for white South Africans.

chip goines @chip.bsky.social · 5d

Trump posted this unhinged video last night to Truth Social celebrating his OMB Director, Russell Vought, gleefully executing his Project 2025 plan to dismantle the federal gov't as the Grim Reaper. This serves no one except Grover Norquist, but then again, this is what 77M Americans voted for. SMH.

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chip goines @chip.bsky.social · 6d

art of the con

chip goines @chip.bsky.social · 6d

Happy cosy szn! instant pot pot roast w/ red wine

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 7d

If you’re at all interested in defending democracy or defeating Trump, this is a literal MUST WATCH

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 6d

The ludicrous rhetoric of cops being "handcuffed" is identical to the rhetoric of 18th & 19th century American enslavers, who ludicrously claimed that any attempt to limit their enslaving (or anything else) was slavery for THEM.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7d

Stephen Miller tells law enforcement in MEMPHIS: “You are unleashed”

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chip goines @chip.bsky.social · 8d

a close up of a man pointing at something .

ALT: a close up of a man pointing at something .

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chip goines @chip.bsky.social · 8d

😂

chip goines @chip.bsky.social · 8d

Pete Hegseth really said this to his generals & admirals today

"Your people are fat and uneducated.
You will never make it internationally
with all this McDonalds."
- Jurgen Klinsmann

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chip goines @chip.bsky.social · 9d

Dude went too hard on Mandalorian Mondays at the cantina, smh.

chip goines @chip.bsky.social · 9d

Even Emperor Palpatine didn't make Darth Vader & all the generals & admirals in the Empire meet at the Death Star on a random Tuesday at 0900 for a pep rally.

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chip goines @chip.bsky.social · 11d

Support media who support *you*.

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 12d

President Trump's aid cuts are disproportionately hitting women and girls: forcing them to drop out of school or leading them to die in childbirth or perish from cervical cancer, or to marry as young teens. That's what I found in the field: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...

Opinion | The Tax on Being a Girl

www.nytimes.com

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chip goines @chip.bsky.social · 11d

oh mai

chip goines @chip.bsky.social · 13d

This will be taught in business schools as an example of a meeting that *really* could've been an email.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals

The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13d

As soon as the governor signs this illegal bill, Missouri will be sued. I don't bluff and I usually win.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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chip goines @chip.bsky.social · 14d

You know, they never caught the psycho who poisoned Tylenol bottles in Chicago in 1982.

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