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Save America Movement @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social · 14h

The patriots of every generation are watching. They fought for freedom, now it's our turn to defend it.

April Hawthorne @feathersonthewind.bsky.social · 9h

kudos to Howard Stern.
if he hadn't been so crafty, we'd not have gotten so clear about who Trump was, in his own words, long before we had the tech to fake it.

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April Hawthorne @feathersonthewind.bsky.social · 11h

greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

What’s Driving Political Violence in America?

New research explores why political violence is rising—and what we can do to stop it.

greatergood.berkeley.edu

April Hawthorne @feathersonthewind.bsky.social · 11h

it's confusing because conservatives whine you can't say anything anymore, and everyone's a pussy, and they can be as aggressive as they want, but when it comes back around for them, they act like it's a total mystery how that happened, and they're huge babies about it.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12h

Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House had more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and it appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records.

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

www.beltway.news

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 22h

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April Hawthorne @feathersonthewind.bsky.social · 12h

Why are conservative influencers so dumb? They cry that they're abused and beat up on and demonized, and unfairly criticized and shut out, but not one of them isn't an idiot. Why are none of them clever and smart?

April Hawthorne @feathersonthewind.bsky.social · 14h

this is not who we are,
this is who the worst of those
who pursued power over us are.

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 22h

Joy Reid asks “Why are conservatives so angry?” 🤔

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April Hawthorne @feathersonthewind.bsky.social · 18h

We need a win. TIA

April Hawthorne @feathersonthewind.bsky.social · 19h

doesn't work- because many people see control, exclusion, and homogeneousness as decency

April Hawthorne @feathersonthewind.bsky.social · 19h

Democracy is an effort to expand our collective health, wealth, opportunity, and understanding by testing ideas, values, policy, plans, and strategies.
Fascism is ignoring everything we have ever learned about living well together in favor of one stupid rich asshole's associates dark vision of us.

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Motorhead @bradmunchen.bsky.social · 1d

"Putin couldn't do a better job" of attacking America.

How do we know this isn't Putin's doing?

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April Hawthorne @feathersonthewind.bsky.social · 20h

I'm all for exposing the dark underbelly of our history, but it's so annoying that it gets treated like it's uniquely American evil, and not just human history evil.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 1d

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@aoc.bsky.social

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April Hawthorne @feathersonthewind.bsky.social · 21h

We just sound crazy when we say Maga is all about hate and chaos. Autocracy is upheld by dutiful, polite, cleanliness, likeness, conformity, and community. Home repairs, grooming, lawn grooming, public displays of connection, as they pretend together that all is well and just. It's Pleasantville.

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April Hawthorne @feathersonthewind.bsky.social · 22h

What makes you think they aren't?

April Hawthorne @feathersonthewind.bsky.social · 1d

ohhhh, we're going to blame God instead of Trump

April Hawthorne @feathersonthewind.bsky.social · 1d

why don't we force him to resign with the promise to keep the epstein files away from the public, and then just leak them after; he might respect that level of spirit

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 2d

The truth isn’t as scary as denial. Denial makes you fight two battles...suppressing what scares you...and....fueling endless fears in your head at the same time.. Face reality...and you stop wasting energy on illusions. You start planning. And that’s when fear turns into strength.

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April Hawthorne @feathersonthewind.bsky.social · 1d

notice that men of a certain age, engaged in high level war crimes have a narrowing of mind, that drives them deeper into ruts of bad judgement, to justify the errors of their arrogance and hubris

April Hawthorne @feathersonthewind.bsky.social · 1d

when the alleged state agent (holding a gun on a private citizen) looks scared shitless,
and there's no way to know if they're authentic state agents
or just the run of the mill gop incited racial profiling domestic terrorists, you're definitely doing democracy wrong

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April Hawthorne @feathersonthewind.bsky.social · 1d

wtf is with the breaking car windows bullshit, anyway?
blatantly disproportionate force and reactionary; i hope people are well compensated when they sue

April Hawthorne @feathersonthewind.bsky.social · 1d

anyone else see tech giving us infinite tasks for reducing the prevalence of things we didn't ask for, forcing us to adaptively manage our alleged privacy, (while infinite data containment exhausts public utilities), sorting people, keeping things under the right eyes, away from others, ad nauseam?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Murray: "If House Republicans were here, I'd make sure they understood over 3/4 of the families on the exchanges actually live in R states. And I'd make sure they understand the 10 states where families will face biggest average premium increase hikes when the ACA credits expire are all R states."

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