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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 2h

I can't believe we've given up decades of stability by handing our country over to a GOP run by conspiracy theorists, cowards, and downright anti-American authoritarians.

Why? Because you hate trans people and minorities so much that you'd rather burn it all down?

Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 2h

As a Tigers fan, I wasn't happy about the score, but this was frickin unbelievable.

Even the Tigers fans by him are amazed.

Home runs are hard to come by, even by a guy who hit 60 in the regular season. And to hit it to a guy wearing that shirt!

One of the oddest and coolest things I've seen.

Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 22h

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 2h

That lion kept getting away with everything when I was a kid.

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Mark Brandriss @markbrandriss.bsky.social · 3h

It's toddler-level dishonesty ("The lamp broke because a lion came in the house and kicked it."). Media should be leading each story by explaining that everything Trump says about [whatever] is a fantastical lie. Especially after they spent years micro-parsing every anodyne thing Biden said.

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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 2h

He also heard they're eating the cats and dogs in Portland.

And that they burn American flags instead of saying the Pledge at school.

And that school kids are forced to use litter boxes.

And that they sacrifice one child per week to a trans clown that the city pays to live in the sewer.

Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 2h

He's a pathetic tyrant

VoteVets @votevets.org · 2h

Our forebearers fought and died on battlefields to protect our right to free speech from tyrants. This right is so central to the Constitution we vowed to protect that it is enshrined in the very first amendment. You will NEVER take our freedom of speech away on our watch.

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 2h

Our forebearers fought and died on battlefields to protect our right to free speech from tyrants. This right is so central to the Constitution we vowed to protect that it is enshrined in the very first amendment. You will NEVER take our freedom of speech away on our watch.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 3h

They created a fairy tale land for one grandpa and he's having the time of his life. His entire reality is like that thing where the brain releases a bunch of euphoric chemicals when it's dying

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Q: There's compelling proof that antifa did infiltrate on January 6 dressed up like Trump supporters and incited violence. Is that something you'd like the new J6 committee to look at?

TRUMP: Well I've heard that. Yeah. We will be acting on some of that.

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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 2h

Way to go, Tigers!

Nice to see those bats finally come alive.

Know what else would be nice to see?

The Epstein Files.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 7h

What will it take for regular people to understand that if they refuse to stand up against fascism they will not be spared? Fascism is a serial killer with no restrictions on who it targets.

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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 8h

Probably pardoned January 6th "tourists."

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11h

When a law enforcement officer aims a weapon at someone wielding a camera, it is procedurally unsound and unprofessional in two fundamental ways:
1) It is disproportional to any actual threat and is instead an unprovoked threat against a citizen.
2) The officer is a crazed, untrained asshole.

Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 1d

Call me a libtard but this doesn't seem like something that should be happening in the United States of America.

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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 8h

If you're a pregnant woman showing up to the ER in many states, you're probably going to die because the doctors will be afraid of doing anything to save you that could end the pregnancy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 22h

8 October 1937 | Dutch Jewish girl, Sara van Hasselt, was born in Rotterdam.

In August 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz with her mother Heintje. They were probably both murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection. Her father, Levie, also perished in Auschwitz.

Black and white historical photo featuring a young girl with her parents.

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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 23h

"Hate your nextdoor neighbor, but don't forget to say grace."

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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 23h

Trump used tear gas on Episcopalian priests so he could take a photo with a Bible, and MAGA "Christians" didn't care. MAGA will just say this pastor is a woke Christian and not a "real" Christian who believes in tearing families apart and terrorizing citizens for being brown.

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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 1d

Someone got an advance copy of Kavanaugh's opinion.

Travis Mason-Bushman @snarkranger.bsky.social · 1d

Clearly these fifteen protestors make Portland a war zone; the dude in a chicken outfit is sufficient casus belli for deployment of the National Guard.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 1d

It's so boring hearing the same fear mongering shit over and over.

They don't give a shit about things that actually harm children, like people in the Epstein files, separating children from their families, and the proliferation of guns.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Transgender windmills on every corner

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 1d

Now they want to not pay workers backpay that they are entitled to. Even the ones who are working currently without getting paid. This tracks, donald always is stiffing workers by not paying them. Orange loser.

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S.J. Moomaw @aboutamoo.bsky.social · 1d

This is the softest of all possible softball questions ...IF the answer is "no".

It becomes a little harder if the answer is "yes".

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 1d

Hey friends-

It’s really hard being alive right now for those of us who care about things like humanity, decency, the environment, democracy, etc,

If you are here still fighting for what is right I love u.

None of this is easy. Please take care of yourselves. Logging off sometimes is A-OK.

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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 1d

They're too busy denying science, the results of legitimate elections, and the Constitution.

Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 1d

Do Republicans in Congress deny that 15 million people will lose health insurance? No.

Do Republicans deny that health premiums will more than double? Nope.

Do Republicans deny that rural hospitals will close? No.

We must fix this health care crisis.

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