Joette
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Joette
@jrockow.bsky.social
Teaching professor, writer, cat lover, progressive.
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Tom Tiffany, Scott Fitzgerald, Glenn Grothman.

Today, you voted for the right of the federal government to ship Wisconsin citizens to other countries without due process.

This isn’t politics. This is terror. This is against humanity.
May 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Other countries should institute reciprocal detentions on U.S. tourists traveling to their countries. You know. Like reciprocal tariffs, only reciprocal kidnapping. Seems fair.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...
www.theguardian.com
April 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Yeah. Cuz RFucK, JR is the epitome of "health."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...
10,000 Federal Health Dept. Workers to Be Laid Off
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a major restructuring of the department, which now employs about 82,000 people.
www.nytimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Sharing some positive thoughts. 🫖
February 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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John Fetterman’s staff are leaving him in droves and there are awful rumors about how he treats them. Are we sure he’s not just three Kyrsten Sinemas sitting on each other’s shoulders in a hoodie? Our latest:
There’s something happening here
Happy Friday. There are 620 days until the midterm elections. The FBI goes KGB, goodbye to the post office and townhall temps are rising.
www.thealtmedia.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
More and more, I'm hearing leaders (yes, some real leaders do still exist in government) speak that TRUTH. Here is one of them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3qa...
Pritzker invokes specter of Nazi Germany in rebuke of Trump administration
YouTube video by Eyewitness News WTVO WQRF (MyStateline)
www.youtube.com
February 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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I think what he’s saying is he’s about to grab the country by the p*ssy and when you’re a star, Republicans in Congress let you do it.
February 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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The usual dance of “moderate” Republicans complaining about everything they just voted for when it affects them. Rinse, repeat.
February 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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here's today's post: "we’re being governed by a bunch of dicks" — don’t be afraid to say it.
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we’re being governed by a bunch of dicks
don’t be afraid to say it
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February 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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I promise you. PROMISE YOU, that in four years nobody among us will ever admit to supporting Trump in mixed company.

“Big Balls” good Lord America
February 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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The Trump Economy:

Going up ⬆️
Inflation
Gas & Grocery prices
Housing costs
Taxation via tariffs

Going down ⬇️
The stock markets
Your savings

www.cnbc.com/2025/02/11/s...
Dow drops more than 400 points after hotter-than-expected inflation report: Live updates
Traders were taking off risk after the hot January consumer prices report.
www.cnbc.com
February 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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It's day 22 and he still doesn't have a plan to lower your prices.
February 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Sums it all up.
February 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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I'm so old, I remember when Republicans used to pretend to give a shit about the Constitution
February 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
These two make me happy.
February 12, 2025 at 2:04 AM
End racism.
Why is that so hard to say.
Fuck the Super Bowl and the NFL.
February 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I want to see democratic elected officials as fired up and angry as I am. I keep asking myself, "Where are they and how are they working to stop this?"

I'll quote a line from the movie, Cool Hand Luke, that I often often about the Democrats: What we've got here is failure to communicate.
a man in a suit and hat is holding a gun in front of the words what we 've got
ALT: a man in a suit and hat is holding a gun in front of the words what we 've got
media.tenor.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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February 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Republicans dumbbells are proposing taxing people who have a free gym / workout facility at the office or workplace that they can use.
January 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM