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Just a person, living a life. Livin' the dream in the 206. Librarian. Volunteer w @MomsDemand I #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦🌻 Views my own. Pronouns she/hers.

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Your Mom @mountains206.bsky.social · Jul 16

My goal is to work towards this. Nobody is perfect, the Internet incentivizes doubling-down and digging in. We can all improve, and this is where I want to grow.

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. ”
~Stephen R. Covey

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Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 6h

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 2h

When Jack dies you know the msm is gonna slobber all over him and demand the left be nice about his shitty life

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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onion person @junlper.beer · 9h

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Democrats @democrats.org · 7h

Senate Republicans blocked Democrats' bill that would have reopened the government and saved health care for millions of Americans.

This is the SIXTH time they've done this.

Republicans are responsible for this shutdown.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8h

Along with the fascism, the other way you know this is not OK is to imagine the hysterical National Conversation™️ about freedom of religion & the separation of church & state we'd be having if an observant Muslim or Jew in a Democratic president's Cabinet opened a government meeting with prayers.

Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 1d

Apropos of nothing, Sec. Kristi Noem is currently praying over Burgerville with Portland ICE officials.

A screenshot of a video of Noem praying at a conference table with other people wearing suits. Fast food bags and water bottles sit on the table.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 9h

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 9h

A lot going on here, but a religion note: DHS Assistant Sec. Tricia McLaughlin refers to Rev. Black as a "pastor" here — using quotation marks.

It's a notable slight against a faith leader's status, as Black is, in fact, an ordained minister of a church operating within the Presbytery of Chicago.

This footage is from almost a month ago. What this clipped video doesn’t show is that these agitators were blocking an ICE vehicle from leaving the federal facility—impeding operations.

Over and over again, law enforcement ordered these agitators to move off of federal property so the vehicle could move. Law enforcement verbally warned these agitators that they would use force if they did not move and stop impeding operations. They did not comply.

Shortly after, rioters began throwing rocks, bottles and launching fireworks at the law enforcement officers on the roof.

At the time of this incident, this facility held criminal illegal aliens including gang members, drug traffickers, and other violent criminals. Obstructing law enforcement puts officers, detainees and the public at risk. If you are obstructing law enforcement you can expect to be met with force.

And, as an aside, this is the same “pastor” who flipped
@Sec_Noem
and our team the bird when we were there last week.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

WATCH: TN National Guard veteran Rachel Davis is headed to Memphis to protest the Trump-Lee troop deployment.

She is joining a veteran-led movement launched by @jollygoodginger.bsky.social to protest against military operations in American cities.

Via WSMV www.wsmv.com/video/2025/1...

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 12h

Sen. Kelly and Sen. Gallego confront Mike Johnson about the GOP shutdown:

"Why don't you bring back your Republican members so we can have a serious negotiation?"

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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 12h

I'm not seeing any national press on the priest that was shot in the head with a rubber bullet as yet and I don't love that.

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Your Mom @mountains206.bsky.social · 13h

“The system of IP we rich created to enrich ourselves no longer suits us. We found a new way to game the system, now that many of you peasants possess your own copyrights. We’ll jettison IP now so we can steal from you again.”

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 14h

The hell with copyrights and digital rights management, someone has to think of the Silicon Valley billionaires who'd suffer if they had to respect other people's NIL and intellectual property rights.

This shit really illustrates the way these assholes treat AI like the new religion.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

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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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 16h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 16h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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