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WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 4h

How much

Midterms, free & fair, go in states run by Dems, maybe more. Record turnout elects +/-250 Dems to Congress.

Outgoing Congress refuses to seat their replacements, cries fraud.

Either a Union Congress meets in Chicago & impeaches Vance or not, but either way, thus ends the first Republic.

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a cute f slur (they/them) @sleep.church · 4h

mike johnson has already refused to seat a rep-elect for two weeks, they’ve already started

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 4h

it is true that the average lib is out for blood. that's part of the reason why i think we've seen our last election for a while

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 5h

he's super into the fact that Ukraine hasn't had elections in a while. my tinfoil hat is all this nonsense with a few hundred national guard is to get his insurrection and cancel christmas

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Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 5h

One of the few ideas that remain lodged in his brain is “Zelenskyy cancelled elections”

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 5h

putting down my bet: no 2026 midterms

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6h

The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:

-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech

If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 8h

Here’s video of the incident

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CNN @cnn.com · 8h

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a la...

www.cnn.com

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 6h

sure they will. im saying that the government is actively interested in your social media. no point in having a footprint on one full of active rats

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sleepiest girl in the whole wide world @virginiadickens.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll admit it’s kind of weird to have a pet who is hotter than you

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 7h

"the Twitter accounts @Anarseldain and @realMattForney have been openly and repeatedly doxxing left-wing posters...publishing real names, addresses, phone numbers...Anarseldain is even fundraising off of it... they are completely candid about what they are paying for"

Twitter is a one-way doxxing machine for the right

You probably should not post there if you value your privacy!

www.peoplesline.org

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 8h

its his fursona

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 8h

what is this picture

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 9h

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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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 8h

a "constructive federation" or a "confederacy" if you will

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Alex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social · 9h

gonna be real weird when the two countries with the biggest-by-an-order-of-magnitude nuclear arsenals are just sclerotic has-beens flailing around and crying about whatever they saw on fox news

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 9h

it's kind of like how you gradually noticed hey, new york city just doesn't have winters like it did when we were kids. except its hey, all those jokes about how we wish president xi would share his wondrous world of bridges and trains and progress with us just somehow became true wistful envy

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 9h

the silver lining to all this is we are, worst case scenario, committing a kind of national suicide that will leave us in the dust as the world marches on

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 10h

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

heatmap.news

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 9h

i have a work phone with nothing on it, my personal phone seems to run out of battery the day i have to fly in or out internationally

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 9h

ive seen two dudes im familiar with get wildly doxed over the past couple weeks there. now on the one hand that's already happened to me and whatever, but on the other hand that place is a cesspit and actively wants you dead or starving

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 9h

the federal government is fundamentally not representing them any more and is in fact looking to assault them. they should probably start creating their own bodies and standards for stuff like public health, funding of education, advocacy etc.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 9h

i deactivated twitter today. it's becoming pretty obvious they're feeding personal information to bad actors and when i flew back into LAX from France a week or so ago i saw an agent going through a US person's phone. it's just not safe to use

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 9h

i do think any state governments that have a genuine belief in democracy should probably look into forming some sort of compact now

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 9h

I've only ever lived in apartments. im hearing that 90K square feet is like twice as big as a football field

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 9h

im coming to the realization that 90K square feet is comically large

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