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PhoenixWomanMN @phoenixwomanmn.bsky.social · 9h

It's a common trait with authoritarians:

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The Authoritarians

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12h

@warnock.senate.gov: "You know that it's a critical moment any time Raphael Warnock and Marjorie Taylor Greene are essentially saying the same thing. That doesn't happen often... She saw that the premiums of her own adult children will go up so much in 2026 that their healthcare is unaffordable."

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PhoenixWomanMN @phoenixwomanmn.bsky.social · 9h

It's like I've said for years about a certain former Reid staffer: if they're any good, they get onto some other senator's/MoC's staff, or they become a lobbyist. Either way, they stay on the Hill.

If they aren't, they do the podcast grift & hope they can con a rookie legislator into hiring them.

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 11h

The Government Employee Fair Treatment Act clearly requires that furloughed federal employees receive back pay after a shutdown. This wasn’t partisan when it passed, and it shouldn’t be a question now. Trump is spinning further out of control by the day. (1/2)

Shown Here:
Public Law No: 116-1 (01/16/2019)
Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019
This bill requires employees of the federal government or a District of Columbia public employer who are furloughed or required to work during a lapse in appropriations beginning on or after December 22, 2018, to be compensated for the period of the lapse. The employees must be compensated on the earliest date possible after the lapse ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates. Employees required to work during the lapse in appropriations may use leave.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 9h

Report: Bill Belichick discussed buyout options with UNC reut.rs/4pW99d3

Report: Bill Belichick discussed buyout options with UNC

Not even halfway through his first season, Bill Belichick already discussed buyout options with North Carolina, according to a report by the Guardian on Wednesday.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 17h

Gov. Pritzker told Trump what we need to hear: “If you come for my people, you come through me.”

Follow Illinois: protect communities, refuse authoritarian stunts, and stand between Washington’s overreach and our people.

Governors: take note — courage > cowardice.

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Unbeliever @ishmyco.bsky.social · 13h

That is the way, with bullies

Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 17h

Gov. Pritzker told Trump what we need to hear: “If you come for my people, you come through me.”

Follow Illinois: protect communities, refuse authoritarian stunts, and stand between Washington’s overreach and our people.

Governors: take note — courage > cowardice.

@atrupar.com

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 20h

Woof. That guy is an attention seeking wrecker.

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 21h

Wrong Rock! Wrong Rock!

(Also this person is insane and I can't believe so many people follow him, criminal charges WTF are you talking about man)

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Andrew @andrewwmiller.com · 19h

This Senate Gabe dude has been intentionally misleading people about Senate procedure for like 6 months now to build hate for Democratic leadership. Please do not follow him.

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 21h

Wrong Rock! Wrong Rock!

(Also this person is insane and I can't believe so many people follow him, criminal charges WTF are you talking about man)

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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 19h

So, setting aside the argument that's banana pants nuts.

Let's go with the logic of the guy who hates the Senate not changing his SN.

"In other news, Marshawn Lynch just self-identified as 'Buffalo Beast-mode' in his new candy bar"

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 21h

Wrong Rock! Wrong Rock!

(Also this person is insane and I can't believe so many people follow him, criminal charges WTF are you talking about man)

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Drunk On Mystery @drunkonmystery.bsky.social · 21h

I would never do it because I'm not an asshole, but part of me wonders if I were to create an account where I used photos from a tour of the Capitol building in like '05 to claim that I had been a Senate staffer, if I could get people to believe it and credit me with special political knowledge

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 21h

Oh no HE still exists? Yeesh.

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 21h

Would a clean bill get 7 dem votes if Schumer vaporized? Also, what kind of inscrutable politics is the idea that schumer is obstructionist but also obstruction is good.

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Russell Cohn @russellcohn.bsky.social · 21h

Also that dude hasn’t worked in the senate since 2022 and didn’t work on policy. And hasn’t been in politics since.

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 21h

You people wouldn't know good politics if it bit you in the ass

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 21h

The Dems orchestrating the most successful political messaging campaign of this administration and it's all bad from the people who asked them to do this the loudest.

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 21h

Wrong Rock! Wrong Rock!

(Also this person is insane and I can't believe so many people follow him, criminal charges WTF are you talking about man)

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 21h

I love when Andy Ngo does one of his David Attenborough-style posts about Antifa and highlights some kid who took a bong rip and waddled into the protest dressed like a giant muppet.

My favorite flavor of his commentary by far.

Andy Ngo wants to draw your attention to Barney the dinosaur

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 21h

BRB gonna post my YouTube vidya about how next thing to get wet could start with a glass of water.

globalnarratives.bsky.social @globalnarratives.bsky.social · 1d

Is Otto von Bismarck starting a YouTube channel?

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 21h

These are the headlines Dems are getting for once and the polls to match, but there clout to chase and audiences to capture on niche microblogging sites

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

“It’s true, all of it… it’s all true.”

Daily Beast: lol Republicans’ polls suck

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 18h

Coal is more expensive and more dangerous than solar even if you choose to ignore climate change. Money wins this fight.

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 18h

These jobs are not coming back and Clinton got pilloried in 2016 from the left and right for admitting that, but this wider inability to admit it is a lot what drives to populist turn in the West.

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Thanks For Spooking, Jerk @thx4sharingjerk.bsky.social · 18h

Didn’t even make it to Halloween and the hit pieces are coming out

Tyler Maun @tylermaun.com · 18h

It really has gone just exactly how it always seemed it would go.

Divided locker room, disastrous results: Players, parents blame Belichick culture for UNC problems

Multiple sources with knowledge of the inner workings of Bill Belichick's program say that UNC football's losses are a product of a divided locker room, a disorganized coaching staff and a failure to ...

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 20h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 20h

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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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 19h

The Republicans are such idiots that they played right to Schumer's strength.

They gave Mr. "Only Kitchen Table Issues!" the biggest kitchen table issue of them all.

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 19h

I have some crow to eat, absolutely did not think the Dems' strategy would work here

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

“It’s true, all of it… it’s all true.”

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