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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 2d

MAGA speak tutorial:
When you call out the disgusting things they do, they call it a disgusting smear. So it's a smear to simply name what they're doing. Hold onto your brains, people.

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 2d

I would agree.

Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 2d

In other words, get offa my goddamned cloud.

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 2d

Abuse is not protected free speech.

The "Christians" are working round the clock to change this.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

The Supreme Court will weigh whether a ban on conversion therapy for minors violates Christian therapists' free speech or protects LGBTQ+ youth from a practice most studies have deemed unsafe and ineffective.

The case could affect laws in nearly 30 states.

Christian therapist seeks right to counsel gay teens to change feelings

The Supreme Court will consider whether therapists’ free speech rights outweigh a law that bans therapy that seeks to change sexual identity. Almost 30 states have such bans.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 2d

Calling out the fallacy of "debate" is essential right now. Thank you for this insight.

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 2d

Once again, for the head-smackingeth time, this administration and all the R governors who are happily going along with the war against the American people are NOT inept or stupid. They know exactly what they are doing, and they're doing it enthusiastically. Calling them dumb is part of the problem.

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 2d

They are not inept. They know exactly what they are doing.

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 2d

One thing to understand about what's happening now is that on Oct 1, the deportation machine's budget increased dramatically: $170 billion in NEW funding, averaging to $42.5 billion per year. That's just below the Israeli military's annual budget. It's the equivalent of 13th biggest army on earth.

The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago

As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

inthesetimes.com

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning.
Texas is invading Illinois.

At the behest of the President of the United States, our country is eating itself alive.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 3d

Looking forward to it.

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 3d

Trouble is, Ted, apparently we do.

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 3d

Jane Goodall was the world’s most elegant badass. Bless her forever..

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flashgordon.bsky.social @flashgordon.bsky.social · 3d

if ever there was a time to demonstrate to the public what the GOP, in total power and left to its own devices, can (or can't) come up with... it's now.

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 3d

Or will (or won't).

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 3d

Tax dollars from hungry people are paying for this abomination.

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 3d

Assuming same.

Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 3d

Meanwhile, construction of the $200M ballroom at the White House continues apace.

Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 3d

The Trump administration has cancelled 4,304 deliveries to food banks so far this year, refusing to deliver 94 million pounds of contracted-for food. Food banks simply can’t feed people enough anymore. Millions of Americans are going hungry as a result.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

projects.propublica.org

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 4d

A shocking video here, a shocking video there.
How much are we not seeing?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

The administration has determined that if you describe this accurately for what it is, you are also an enemy of the state

CNN @cnn.com · 5d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

www.cnn.com

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 4d

Corrected attribution:
@newrepublic.com

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 4d

It's just one big jock fraternity at this point.

The War Secretary revealed he will cut down already-reduced training, like the law of war, but empower drill sergeants 'to instill healthy fear in new recruits, ensuring future war fighters are forged.' AKA hazing.

via @thenewrepublic.bsky.social

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 4d

be nice if we had some fucking adults in charge of anything, anywhere

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4d

It’s essential that you find common ground with Trump supporters. For instance, you know that you have many flaws, and they believe you are less than human. Work with that.

—Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4d

The Argentina bailout probably won't get Argentina's economy on sound footing, but it will help one well-connected American billionaire avoid losing big on Argentinian debt.
In that way, it's like the Silicon Valley Bank bailout. Rich guys make a big bet, it goes bad, US taxpayers' cover the losses.

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