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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

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

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 1h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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Jess @georgiajess.bsky.social · 2h

And they will break upon us

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2h

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

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Jess @georgiajess.bsky.social · 2h

Noem looks like she's literally lost 25 lbs. Turns out trying to do a fascism turns you into skeletor

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Jess @georgiajess.bsky.social · 2h

It's like Abbot poasting yesterday about how he's going to launch "undercover investigations" into leftist groups. If you're posting on Twitter then it's not fucking undercover. You're just generating content for a bunch of MAGA dudes to jerk off to

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3h

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?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Jess @georgiajess.bsky.social · 17h

I just read the My Lai wiki page and wish I hadn't. Fucking brutal.

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Jess @georgiajess.bsky.social · 1d

Live look at the democrats

a cartoon of a monkey holding a chandelier with the words `` be our guest be our guest '' written below it .

ALT: a cartoon of a monkey holding a chandelier with the words `` be our guest be our guest '' written below it .

media.tenor.com

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 1d

Got used to Democrats falling over themselves to clean up after them every time they shit themselves and now cannot function at all

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Jess @georgiajess.bsky.social · 1d

TRUMP TAKE TRUCK

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

President Trump Announces that Starting November 1, 2025, All Imports of Medium and Heavy Duty Trucks Will Be Subject To a 25% Tariff, According to Truth Social 🚚📈

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 2d

I may sound partisan but I’m against the criminal administration doing constant armed crime sprees across the nation, constantly, ruining lives and traumatizing and harassing people for fun, idk seems bad

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Jess @georgiajess.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I never thought they would come for Tylenol before mifepristone. Very weird but I'll take it

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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 2d

federalizing some state supreme court justices so they can assist SCOTUS, which is clearly struggling to muster an adequate response to this situation

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Jess @georgiajess.bsky.social · 2d

I really do think tariffs are going to turn out to be the biggest unforced error a president has ever made in modern times. “The people elected me to make things cheaper, I’m going to make them more expensive and difficult to get.”

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Jess @georgiajess.bsky.social · 2d

“NOBODY LOOK AT THE $22 COFFEE”

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Jess @georgiajess.bsky.social · 2d

Trump, waving his hands around: “nobody look at the $8 ground beef!”

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Jess @georgiajess.bsky.social · 2d

I was born and raised in the Deep South. Still live here (moving is expensive and all the people I love are here). The rot runs deep. It is a deeply sick, backwards place. I do have faith we will be able to redeem ourselves someday, but probably not in my lifetime.

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☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 2d

When you realize that the government you envisioned will never be seen as legitimate and nothing will ever change that

two men are sitting next to each other in a dark room and one of them is saying hello darkness my old friend .

Alt: Ben Affleck “hello darkness my old friend”

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2d

Oh my god did he finally realize that the off switch for the Woke machine isn't real

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Jess @georgiajess.bsky.social · 2d

If he just fucks off to Argentina for the rest of his life, I’ll call it even

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 2d

Seriously, the only way you obtain the only off switch for American liberalism is from the cold, dead hands of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of ordinary American voters who've taken to the streets after you declare the overthrow of the electoral process.

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Jess @georgiajess.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sure stephen miller will be normal about this

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

Immergut: I'm handling this on expedited basis, but defendants haven't provided new info.

SHE RULES FROM THE BENCH: I grant the plaintiffs motion for a second TRO based on reasons stated in previous order...

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 2d

Dude, the mandate has been revoked. People fucking hate you. Your guy is more unpopular than Biden when he got out of the race last year. They’ve rejected every part of your agenda. You’ve been losing elections all across the country this year. You’ve lost your mind. Stand down.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

For Stephen Miller, the Reichstag fire happens anew every six hours. Amazing.

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Jess @georgiajess.bsky.social · 2d

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

the only way out is through. i think we need to welcome this development. the old world is dying and the new one needs active midwifing

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