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Michael Paulauski♨️

@mike10010100.com

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I lose brain cells so you don't have to. Devops Galore. DemSoc liking anarchism. Antifascist. BLM/Abolish the Police. Views are mine, not employer’s. He/him

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · Feb 4

I'm seeing a bunch of people saying "watch this" but nobody detailing what AOC said: Dems Are Fighting Back!

House Democrats will introduce legislation to block or slow down actions at the U.S. Treasury and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to prevent further firings and financial overreach.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Feb 4

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 17m

“Who” is, objectively, the funniest possible response here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 33m

Trump said today with glee that CNN is dying like a dog and even though I hate him to the bone I chuckled because it -is- indeed funny that CNN is dying like a dog, and it is

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 4h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 27m

a) good thread

b) i'll *gladly* pay any amount of money that's going towards either children themselves, or free education, healthcare, or childcare for children that need it, even if i'm never going to take advantage of the services personally. if it's going *to support the kids* or to teachers &c

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 5h

Something I've found is that people respond to this idea very differently depending on if you put any effort into hiding you're doing this. Broadly speaking, childless people are fine paying taxes for public schools and not fine paying a childlessness tax even though they're basically the same thing

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 7h

My most controversial take on this is probably that while I think reproductive freedom should be sacrosanct, I don’t really have any problem with additional taxes on (high income) childless people. Someone gotta pay into the pensions!

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 22m

One thing I’ve noticed that I feel like I haven’t seen remarked on (doesn’t mean others haven’t) is a kind of flattening of roles. DoJ talking about running foreign ops, DoD deploying at home, DHS meeting with Kuwait, State doing a kind of all of the above thing.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 3m

Wait what? Why?

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 9m

not sure she's America's last horcrux but she's one of 'em

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 34m

Terry Moran timidly tried to point out to donald trump that Kilmar Abrego Garcia didn’t literally have “MS-13” tattooed on his knuckles and ABC fired him

Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 37m

I challenge the media to show pictures of Portland. Go to a store with glass. That's all you have to do

They can't do it because it would offend Deal Leader

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 38m

*looks over their glasses, eyebrows raised*

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 53m

i can't tell which is funnier, this or the degree to which this will genuinely offend both DSA nerds and [all of: black bloc types, street medics, Normies With Antifa Tendencies], who will all go "I don't know THAT bitch" in perfect unison

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Marble Liberal @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely wild that in order to be a leftist you must believe in the existence of souls, that good art "reveals" this "soul," that certain ethnicities have access to the "truth" revealed by this "soul" and not others so they can't make art, and that art can't be made by machine.

A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 2d

It's shit like this that makes me think The Youths have a real fuckin' problem.

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 1h

man, i've been this eepy in a 8 AM calculus class when i was up too late the night beforehand and i thought *that* was so mortifying i occasionally flash back to it in horror

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 1h

which itself is abusive fuckin behaviour, even if they were not using it to keep their kids silent about significantly bad things, which i do not think was the case for any of my friends in question but also, wow, i probably wouldn't know, would i

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 1h

legitimately this is one of the reasons i go this hard on why there need to be good, well-funded, completely free colleges, because i had *multiple* friends whose parents held that above their heads like a sword of damocles about even the pettiest fucking shit

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 1h

A fun legal fact is that the amount of time the statute of limitations gives you to file any claims against your parents from your childhood after you become a legal adult is about the same number of years as you likely needed your parents to pay for college

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 1h

imagine being a White House journalist and reading your cute little question off your cute little notecard after everyone you’re talking to just laughed in your face about how they think you’re human filth

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: How will you decide which workers get backpay and which do not?

TRUMP: Most of them are gonna get backpay. Some of them are being hurt very badly by the Democrats and they therefore won't qualify

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 1h

Lots of good advice in this thread

I'm a bit hypocritical, i don't really like follow-policing, but i'll look at somebody a *little* funny if they're mutuals with hundreds of generic blue crew resist accounts that each follows thousands upon thousands of bots

I don't think Santa Claus is real

xanadian @xanadian.bsky.social · 2h

I don't pay a ton of attention to who follows me, but it pays to have a way higher bar for who you follow back.

The reason is that there are a bunch of accounts that are either bots or people making up bullshit for clicks, and they often look legit enough on first glance. But if you follow them,

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 1h

weird how our media betters demand we respect them when they have no respect for themselves

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump smiles along as Sortor refers to the White House press as "the garbage standing over here"

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2h

Zero people believe this is true. Zero people. And nobody in Trump’s party will stand up and say so. This is pure mental derangement.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Dead Monkey @zfiendy.bsky.social · 2h

People are addicted to the dopamine fix of having online engagement.

And hating on Dems is the Bluesky equivalent of saying die hard’s your fav Xmas movie on twitter in December 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump on Pritzker and Brandon Johnson: "I believe they're scared. They are actually frightened for their lives."

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2h

The guys I’ve been threatening are actually scared for their lives.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump on Pritzker and Brandon Johnson: "I believe they're scared. They are actually frightened for their lives."

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