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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 8h

Idc there are dozens of great candidates

tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 11h

I think even Bernie thinks it would be ridiculous for an 87 year old to run for a president term that would end when he was 91 lol

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 11h

The post I quoted was about whether Janet Mills is too old to run for the senate

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 12h

Senators don’t have vice presidents

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 12h

So as long as you can fill a stadium the concerns about dying in office don’t matter?

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 12h

The really tiresome thing about this stupid argument is that manufacturing jobs peaked in the U.S. almost 50 years ago. We don’t have to keep worrying about finding jobs for guys that made washing machines in the U.S. because they are retired or dead now

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 12h

How do you even commit recruiting violations in 2025 lol

tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 13h

I don’t believe that’s the difference

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 15h

Ok you can say mills shouldn’t run

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 16h

Gotta post the picture of the meemaw in Kansas for the millionth time without context

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 16h

“I didn’t think J6 was a big deal but now I’m fairly certain we won’t have midterm elections” oh okay do you have any opinions that are correct?

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 16h

I understand the desire to pretend it didn’t happen because of what it implies about our fellow citizens but it’s time to grow up

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 17h

He was re-elected in 2018 when he was one year younger than Mills and ran again for reelection last year at 83. Saying he shouldn’t run again when he’s 89 is pretty easy to say but not relevant

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 18h

I will believe this is a sincere concern once I see a single person making this argument call for the 84 year old Senator from Vermont to retire

Paul Rabin @rabinpw.bsky.social · 1d

Insanity, at this time.

The energy that the dems need is not a 78 year old person.

Sorry to be ageist, but this is stupid bullshit.

Why Schumer and Gillibrand show us continuously, that they are not up to the times.

Such shitty “leadership”.

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 20h

Sorry but if there is one single US political proposition that we have tested to destruction in recent years, it’s the idea that a critical mass of swing voters see democracy vs authoritarianism as a crucial and salient issue in judging Trump. They simply do not! I don’t like it either

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 19h

The American people would gladly trade the entire bill of rights for slightly cheaper gasoline

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 19h

I understand why we don’t want to accept this but Biden talked about this all the time and the American people just did not care

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 21h

The 6 republicans on the court rediscovering basic constitutional principles on taxing and spending because poor kids might get food

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 1d

I have to push back on Belloti; he’s the one that really built Oregon

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 1d

Very weird reaction by porter but also a really stupid question

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

Someone who used to work with Katie Porter sent me this clip from a train wreck interview with her and said “now imagine what she’s like when there aren’t cameras around.”

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 1d

He was their fourth choice lol

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 1d

The more I think about this the more annoyed I get. The FBI director during Trump 1 was a career prosecutor/white shoe lawyer and now it’s a right wing podcaster. Its not complicated why stuff is worse

tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 1d

I think it’s pretty straightforward: say what you will about Jeff Sessions and Mark Esper and Rex Tillerson but they were all better Americans than Pam Bondi, Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

more and more I am convinced a good share of why Trump 2 is so much worse than before is because of what Elon did to Twitter. it's like those group chats where people gassed themselves up to join ISIS, scaled up a millionfold

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been reassured by the most tedious people on this website that the only people that would steal a bike are people that really need it. So congratulations to British commuters on their future acts of public service by having their bikes stolen

Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 2d

The British Transport Police (BTP) says it will not investigate bike thefts outside stations where the bicycle has been left for more than two hours.

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

The British Transport Police will not investigate many categories of bicycle theft, the BBC learns.

buff.ly

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 1d

9/11 was a complete failure. Islamic terrorism is dead. The gulf states are more western than ever. We spent a lot of money and 7000 Americans died but the caliphate ain’t happening

3:35 or 3:34 @3-35or3-34.bsky.social · 1d

9/11 was the most successful terrorist operation ever. UBL achieved or exceeded almost every realistic goal, as well as a few reaches like dragging the US into extended, draining wars of occupation that eventually sapped its money, self confidence and betrayal of everything we claimed to believe in.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 1d

These guys are so vulnerable to defecting to Chicago

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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