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OMC Panda

@omcpanda.bsky.social

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Politics, Civil Rights, University of Michigan, Liberal, History, Literature, and Feminism. LGBTQIA-friendly cisgender straight man. He/Him.

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OMC Panda @omcpanda.bsky.social · Mar 21

1. Starting in 2016, Bernie corrupted the political discourse. He made it fashionable to interpret every difference of opinion from the maximalist liberal position as proof of corrupting corporate influence.

Which killed every Dem who ran on achievable and workable policy goals.

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OMC Panda @omcpanda.bsky.social · 20m

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a door .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a door .

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OMC Panda @omcpanda.bsky.social · 52m

This is bizarro world cope from a bullshit artist.

The record of Hillary Clinton’s warnings were early and often.

OMC Panda @omcpanda.bsky.social · 54m

What total nonsense. HRC explicitly described during the debates, on the stump, and at the convention what Trump’s agenda really was.

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OMC Panda @omcpanda.bsky.social · 56m

That’s pure unadulterated horseshit.

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 1h

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Maudi63 @maudi63.bsky.social · 10h

I hope you are following as many Dem congresspersons as possible because everyone is going all out messaging about the shutdown. I don’t want to hear ‘only ___and ___ are doing anything’. Pay attention and join in. WE need to do OUR part to help. Messaging is not just up to politicians.

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OMC Panda @omcpanda.bsky.social · 59m

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a door .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a door .

media.tenor.com

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23h

Note that DHS was already tracking Martinez in advance of the shooting for IDing a guy who was involved in a really violent assault within blocks of the shooting (I think also on Saturday).

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/07/t...

The Brutal CBP Assault Tied to the Marimar Martinez Shooting - emptywheel

The criminal charges against Marimar Martinez -- the woman shot by a Customs and Border Patrol agent on Saturday -- fail to mention that CBP was already looking for her for doxing an officer who would...

www.emptywheel.net

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 23h

It's not looking good for DHS's account of yet another shooting theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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OMC Panda @omcpanda.bsky.social · 2h

a man in a denim jacket is saying `` it 'll be anarchy '' .

ALT: a man in a denim jacket is saying `` it 'll be anarchy '' .

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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.com · 2h

After 30 years of publication, the U.S. Department of Agriculture abruptly canceled its annual report on the prevalence of hunger in America. The USDA’s press release condemned the report as “politicized,” “subjective, liberal fodder” that did “nothing more than fear monger.”

An American Hunger Crisis Is Coming

Trump’s cruel and disastrous policies—slashing food stamps and hiking inflationary tariffs—are creating an American hunger crisis.

washingtonmonthly.com

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OMC Panda @omcpanda.bsky.social · 2h

If a candidate tells you what would happen if the other nominee is elected - and it happens just like she said - by definition you cannot say she ran a bad campaign.

She ran on the truth.

And folks should ask themselves why the truth was not enough for them.

- From the years 2016 and 2024

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OMC Panda @omcpanda.bsky.social · 3h

A social grouping based on ethnic identity markings can be racial but is not inherently racist. Your own citation supports this. A BlueSky support group geared towards supporting a marginalized group is not prejudicial towards white people.

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WakeMeWhenItsOver🗳 @zelbel.bsky.social · 8h

cosigned, Hegseth is an embarrassment

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wvbluesman.bsky.social @wvbluesman.bsky.social · 4h

I am a veteran and can confirm this is garbage.

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OMC Panda @omcpanda.bsky.social · 10h

This is garbage.

Signed,

A Veteran

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OMC Panda @omcpanda.bsky.social · 12h

Because it’s not aggression. I’m trying to get something across to you. Anyway, you aren’t worth any more of my time.

OMC Panda @omcpanda.bsky.social · 12h

You’re not the victim here. And you’re not entitled to anyone’s time.

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OMC Panda @omcpanda.bsky.social · 12h

I didn’t tell you to shut up. I told you the price of admission to a conversation like that.

OMC Panda @omcpanda.bsky.social · 12h

If you don’t see her point, you don’t need to be in the conversation except to listen.

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OMC Panda @omcpanda.bsky.social · 16h

Pretends to get angry.

OMC Panda @omcpanda.bsky.social · 18h

Interview with the victim’s mom. www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

‘Beyond my understanding’: Mother of Airdrie hit-and-run victim speaks out

www.ctvnews.ca

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 1d

I am so disgusted.

"... as it showed a Border Patrol agent saying to Martinez, “Do something, b----h” before pulling over and shooting her at least five times."

www.rawstory.com/body-cam-foo...

Body cam footage suggests DHS 'lied to cover' for ICE agent who shot woman: podcaster

An account given in court by the attorney of a woman who was shot several times by a Border Patrol agent “really makes it sounds like” the agent “tried to murder an anti-ICE protester in Chicago and D...

www.rawstory.com

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d

I'm also reminded of the "whistleblower" report about abuses at a Missouri gender clinic, the author of which is now just a full-time anti-transgender lobbyist, that fell apart the moment any reporter tried to verify it

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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OMC Panda @omcpanda.bsky.social · 1d

And Steve Crowder invented it? Weird. He was born in 1987 and that line was in a Simpsons episode in 1989.

You’re trying too hard to be clever.

OMC Panda @omcpanda.bsky.social · 2d

Ok but how do you really feel?

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