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My 84 year old mamma & her posse of 80-ish year old ladies are protesting, leafleting, doing their daily phone calls. My mom and her husband bring their life-size cardboard Barack to every protest. He's a big hit.

Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 4d

just watched two very elderly ladies staple no kings flyers to a telephone poll, just to reinforce point

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Deborah L Williams @mannahattamamma.bsky.social · 4d

"untethered from facts" pretty much sums up the entire second term of that yam-faced loon and his loonies

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Deborah L Williams @mannahattamamma.bsky.social · 4d

There was a parents' day & we got to visit an english class when they were reading aloud & I wanted to run screaming into the hallway. It was death by papercuts

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Deborah L Williams @mannahattamamma.bsky.social · 4d

my kids (offspring of 2 literature profs, poor things) went to a UK style high school & while the UK mode of doing math & science was great, the teaching of "english" was awful: reading books aloud in class? spending an entire term on one slender novel? they loved to read & then they despised it.

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Deborah L Williams @mannahattamamma.bsky.social · 4d

It’s the stupidity! No it’s the incompetence! No it’s the racism! No it’s the greed! No it’s the misogyny! No it’s the stupidity! No it’s the incompetence …. Have so many venal, criminally idiotic people ever been gathered in one place?

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5d

They remind me of parents who hit their children: they expect respect on the basis of their institutional authority, but they treat any challenge to that authority as personal affront.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 5d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Deborah L Williams @mannahattamamma.bsky.social · 5d

pieces of shit is too complimentary.

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5d

Just irredeemable pieces of shit. We're going to need a modern-day equivalent to the Wiesenthal Center to hunt down and arrest MAGA immigration criminals once this is over.

alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 5d

Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby.

"I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother.

“I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

Deborah L Williams @mannahattamamma.bsky.social · 5d

works 24/7 except, you know, when he's playing golf.

Deborah L Williams @mannahattamamma.bsky.social · 7d

the two dudes standing next to him plus his putative boss all are jockeying for title of "biggest damn dipshit"

Deborah L Williams @mannahattamamma.bsky.social · 7d

The fetishization of a certain brand of masculinity with these TrumBros is really. . . something.

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Deborah L Williams @mannahattamamma.bsky.social · 7d

hahahahahahahha

Deborah L Williams @mannahattamamma.bsky.social · 7d

She's among the best of us right now

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

“It’s hard to describe how angry this makes me.”

$META

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 8d

Mark Zuckerberg has a vision for how A.I. could be used in Meta's universe.

But the actor and filmmaker Joseph Gordon-Levitt is here to point out a flaw in the technology: an apparent lack of guardrails around how the company's chatbot interacts with underage users. nyti.ms/3ILwCNo

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Deborah L Williams @mannahattamamma.bsky.social · 7d

and what is that AI-generated photo? the fetishization of a certain physical masculine form is...not subtle. Jeepers. Also, can any human have traps like that?

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 7d

So at the same time the Trump regime claims it's fighting antisemitism (which was always a lie) it's now saying it will deny citizenship (or visas?) to "globalists" which is mostly used in their crowd as a barely coded euphemism for "Jews"

Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 7d

DHS appears to suggest that it will deny citizenship to "globalists"

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Deborah L Williams @mannahattamamma.bsky.social · 7d

@catsonacouch.bsky.social I believe this statement qualifies as a call to arms...claws out

Jason Avant @jasonavant.bsky.social · 7d

Couchfucker says what

Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 7d

Vance: I'll tell Hakeem Jeffries righ now, if you help us reopen the government, the sombrero memes will stop.

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Deborah L Williams @mannahattamamma.bsky.social · 7d

Um, Christian values? Um good samaritan? Um... helping the helpless and sick is supposed to be what doctors *do*? That whole "first do no harm" thing? Letting folks die in the parking lot is harm-by-ommission, you soulless cretin. Also, Pete Kegstand hates your beard.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"