Sporkman
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Refugee from Xitter. Democrat 🇺🇸. Software engineer. Not as funny as I think I am. Suspected autist. #veteran
Avi is me chipping at the Berlin Wall circa 1989.
Avi is me chipping at the Berlin Wall circa 1989.
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Surprise! Because the shit sandwich wasn’t shitty enough, they also snuck a federal ban on hemp products into the funding bill.
Not only are we not legalizing weed, we’re going back on progress made for safe cannabis consumption.
Not only are we not legalizing weed, we’re going back on progress made for safe cannabis consumption.
November 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Surprise! Because the shit sandwich wasn’t shitty enough, they also snuck a federal ban on hemp products into the funding bill.
Not only are we not legalizing weed, we’re going back on progress made for safe cannabis consumption.
Not only are we not legalizing weed, we’re going back on progress made for safe cannabis consumption.
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If this gets reskeeted 483,000 times I’ll buy a miniature donkey.
October 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
If this gets reskeeted 483,000 times I’ll buy a miniature donkey.
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Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.
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These corrupt cowards can’t even let us be happy for ONE week.
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 AM
These corrupt cowards can’t even let us be happy for ONE week.
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The new Republican plan same as the old Republican plan: Fucking die already.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 AM
The new Republican plan same as the old Republican plan: Fucking die already.
Well that's a relief.
China Foreign Minister: Bilateral Concerns Can Be Effectively Handled by Relevant Departments
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Well that's a relief.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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a nightclub for millennials where we can dance. doors open at 7pm. lights out by 11pm.
November 11, 2025 at 4:13 AM
a nightclub for millennials where we can dance. doors open at 7pm. lights out by 11pm.
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So apparently senators must now be notified in advance if their phone records are requested during the investigation of a crime. No one else, just senators. So they're free to crime and can't be investigated without notice. This is so wrong, but it's great for senators who want to commit crimes.
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
So apparently senators must now be notified in advance if their phone records are requested during the investigation of a crime. No one else, just senators. So they're free to crime and can't be investigated without notice. This is so wrong, but it's great for senators who want to commit crimes.
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The fight tonight was over about $25 billion. Thats about 2.5% of the Defense budget. Would cover a year of the enhanced ACA credits. Republicans said that’s unaffordable.
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
The fight tonight was over about $25 billion. Thats about 2.5% of the Defense budget. Would cover a year of the enhanced ACA credits. Republicans said that’s unaffordable.
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I know, everybody should leave X, but I think an exception should be made solely for Joyce Carol Oates so she can keep wounding Musk's withered soul on his own site and he can't do a thing about it.
![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I know, everybody should leave X, but I think an exception should be made solely for Joyce Carol Oates so she can keep wounding Musk's withered soul on his own site and he can't do a thing about it.
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Musk is a mass murderer on a scale with some of the worst monsters of history, so it's not really like the scales are evened by having a moderately well known author eviscerate him on his own platform.
still, you take what you can get.
still, you take what you can get.
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Musk is a mass murderer on a scale with some of the worst monsters of history, so it's not really like the scales are evened by having a moderately well known author eviscerate him on his own platform.
still, you take what you can get.
still, you take what you can get.
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"truly it was out of curiosity"
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
"truly it was out of curiosity"
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I hear you but they have proven, to a lot of ppl, that the doubts they had about the Democratic Party were well founded. That is enough to damper a movement and to ruin future elections, especially for candidates that aren’t very inspiring. I’m very sad for what this has done to the momentum we buit
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I hear you but they have proven, to a lot of ppl, that the doubts they had about the Democratic Party were well founded. That is enough to damper a movement and to ruin future elections, especially for candidates that aren’t very inspiring. I’m very sad for what this has done to the momentum we buit
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“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
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Holy fuck Joyce Carol Oates is 87 years old??
She should run for Senate
She should run for Senate
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Holy fuck Joyce Carol Oates is 87 years old??
She should run for Senate
She should run for Senate
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This is wild: Trump’s ICE detained a UK journalist hours after he urged US leaders to be “America First” & not “Israel First.”
DHS tweeted he supported terrorism, but his only charge was a visa overstay.
As in: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
DHS tweeted he supported terrorism, but his only charge was a visa overstay.
As in: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
BREAKING: British Muslim Journalist to Be Freed From ICE Detention
Sami Hamdi was detained after Islamophobic influencers called for him to be deported. Turns out the Trump admin revoked his visa, and then arrested him for overstaying his visa.
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
This is wild: Trump’s ICE detained a UK journalist hours after he urged US leaders to be “America First” & not “Israel First.”
DHS tweeted he supported terrorism, but his only charge was a visa overstay.
As in: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
DHS tweeted he supported terrorism, but his only charge was a visa overstay.
As in: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
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In case it's not obvious, none of this is true. He's either innumerate, or lying.
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 AM
In case it's not obvious, none of this is true. He's either innumerate, or lying.
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JFC
The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, Monday
Today President Trump pardoned 77 people related to trying to overturn the 2020 election including all the fake electors from the 7 states and attorneys Rudy Guiliani, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell, and Kenneth Chesebro.
Despicable, disgusting, and disgraceful.
Today President Trump pardoned 77 people related to trying to overturn the 2020 election including all the fake electors from the 7 states and attorneys Rudy Guiliani, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell, and Kenneth Chesebro.
Despicable, disgusting, and disgraceful.
November 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
JFC
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when you're on LSD trying to act normal in line for the bathroom but you remember that infused preroll in your pocket
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 AM
when you're on LSD trying to act normal in line for the bathroom but you remember that infused preroll in your pocket
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The lesson Trump learned is that he can literally starve people to get the Democrats to cave. And he will do it again.
The harm caused by the shutdown was real, affecting millions, and no one should downplay that. But America is not in a situation of harm or no harm. Rapidly backsliding into authoritarianism, America is in a terrible situation where appeasement trades short-term relief for more long-term harm.
Democrats Have to Get Out of a Normal Democracy Mindset
By folding in the government shutdown in exchange for virtually nothing, eight Democratic senators aid Trump's authoritarian takeover rather than oppose it
www.arcdigital.media
November 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
The lesson Trump learned is that he can literally starve people to get the Democrats to cave. And he will do it again.
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Republicans will not do anything about ACA subsidies they’ve been trying since its passage to get rid of it. I don’t give a shit if they are your colleagues across the aisle you CAN’t TRUST A REPUBLICAN!
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Republicans will not do anything about ACA subsidies they’ve been trying since its passage to get rid of it. I don’t give a shit if they are your colleagues across the aisle you CAN’t TRUST A REPUBLICAN!
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NEW: President Trump's pardon of his alleged 2020 co-conspirators was less about shielding them from past crimes, his adversaries say, than about signaling to others that he has their back if he needs them again in 2026 or 2028.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM
NEW: President Trump's pardon of his alleged 2020 co-conspirators was less about shielding them from past crimes, his adversaries say, than about signaling to others that he has their back if he needs them again in 2026 or 2028.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...