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· Jul 4
As depressing as all this oppression is, it's imperative that we keep calling it all an attempt, because if there's one thing we know beyond all doubt, it's that these guys are not good at anything they do.
Which led to the corruption.
Which then led to the fascism to protect it.
Which led to the corruption.
Which then led to the fascism to protect it.
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You gotta walk the walk and not just talk the talk, while empowering and investing in fascist oligarchs threatening our national security to protect their corruption.
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 AM
You gotta walk the walk and not just talk the talk, while empowering and investing in fascist oligarchs threatening our national security to protect their corruption.
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House Rules Ranking Member Jim McGovern to Republicans on the Committee:
"I hardly recognize you guys. We've been looking everywhere for you guys. I mean, seriously, we were worried. We actually started handing out missing person posters. Nobody has seen you for eight weeks."
"I hardly recognize you guys. We've been looking everywhere for you guys. I mean, seriously, we were worried. We actually started handing out missing person posters. Nobody has seen you for eight weeks."
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
House Rules Ranking Member Jim McGovern to Republicans on the Committee:
"I hardly recognize you guys. We've been looking everywhere for you guys. I mean, seriously, we were worried. We actually started handing out missing person posters. Nobody has seen you for eight weeks."
"I hardly recognize you guys. We've been looking everywhere for you guys. I mean, seriously, we were worried. We actually started handing out missing person posters. Nobody has seen you for eight weeks."
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Clark: So what are we doing here today? You have already voted to dismantle medicaid, the largest health care program in America. A program that covers 40% of all births in this country. 40% of children in this country. 40% of disabled people in this country.
November 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Clark: So what are we doing here today? You have already voted to dismantle medicaid, the largest health care program in America. A program that covers 40% of all births in this country. 40% of children in this country. 40% of disabled people in this country.
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Duffy: "By the time we leave, President Trump says we're gonna have all the controllers America needs to control our airspace." (I look forward to next flying in 2029 then!)
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Duffy: "By the time we leave, President Trump says we're gonna have all the controllers America needs to control our airspace." (I look forward to next flying in 2029 then!)
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He seriously hates Americans.
TRUMP: You have to bring in talent
INGRAHAM: Well, we have plenty of talented people in America
TRUMP: No you don't. No.
INGRAHAM: We don't have talented people here?
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 AM
He seriously hates Americans.
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New WSJ: After flying an FBI jet to see his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match, FBI director Kash Patel took the jet to a private Texas hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Kash Patel’s ‘Effin Wild’ Ride as FBI Director
In just one week in October, he ticked off his bosses with premature comments about a terror investigation squeezed in a trip to the ‘Boondoggle Ranch’ on the bureau jet.
www.wsj.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
New WSJ: After flying an FBI jet to see his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match, FBI director Kash Patel took the jet to a private Texas hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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JUST IN: Katie Wilson significantly extends her lead in the Seattle mayoral race.
She now leads Mayor Bruce Harrell by 1,346 votes, or 0.5%.
That's up from the squeaker-lead of 91 votes in yesterday's update). She won today's batch of nearly 6K ballots by 20% (!).
Not much left at this point.
She now leads Mayor Bruce Harrell by 1,346 votes, or 0.5%.
That's up from the squeaker-lead of 91 votes in yesterday's update). She won today's batch of nearly 6K ballots by 20% (!).
Not much left at this point.
November 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
JUST IN: Katie Wilson significantly extends her lead in the Seattle mayoral race.
She now leads Mayor Bruce Harrell by 1,346 votes, or 0.5%.
That's up from the squeaker-lead of 91 votes in yesterday's update). She won today's batch of nearly 6K ballots by 20% (!).
Not much left at this point.
She now leads Mayor Bruce Harrell by 1,346 votes, or 0.5%.
That's up from the squeaker-lead of 91 votes in yesterday's update). She won today's batch of nearly 6K ballots by 20% (!).
Not much left at this point.
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Fascism relies on cognitive authoritarianism wrapped in whatever normalizing marketing is necessary. But the essential message is always to dehumanize and destroy compassion before the upcoming killing.
bsky.app/profile/jona...
bsky.app/profile/jona...
Tech brains broken part 1000000000 (this lady is a partner at Andreessen apparently)
November 12, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Fascism relies on cognitive authoritarianism wrapped in whatever normalizing marketing is necessary. But the essential message is always to dehumanize and destroy compassion before the upcoming killing.
bsky.app/profile/jona...
bsky.app/profile/jona...
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Drove to my local ag school experimental plot.
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Drove to my local ag school experimental plot.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Funny how tools built for oligarch manipulative control ignoring every ill effect are always used for it.
bsky.app/profile/jake...
bsky.app/profile/jake...
November 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Funny how tools built for oligarch manipulative control ignoring every ill effect are always used for it.
bsky.app/profile/jake...
bsky.app/profile/jake...
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Groceries are cheaper if you do it the right way. First go to the oval office and give the president a fake award and tell him he's very strong and handsome. He will then call the grocery store and threaten them until they give you a discount. It's called the free market
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Groceries are cheaper if you do it the right way. First go to the oval office and give the president a fake award and tell him he's very strong and handsome. He will then call the grocery store and threaten them until they give you a discount. It's called the free market
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WSJ: Fannie Mae watchdogs who were removed from their jobs had been probing if Trump appointee Bill Pulte had improperly obtained mortgage records of key Democratic officials, including New York Attorney General Letitia James.
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
WSJ: Fannie Mae watchdogs who were removed from their jobs had been probing if Trump appointee Bill Pulte had improperly obtained mortgage records of key Democratic officials, including New York Attorney General Letitia James.
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
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Sean Duffy: "You all saw with the DCA air crash -- the last administration didn't see the 85 near misses" (Trump was in office when that happened)
November 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Sean Duffy: "You all saw with the DCA air crash -- the last administration didn't see the 85 near misses" (Trump was in office when that happened)
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SCOTUS6: POTUS can fire anyone.
IGs: Even IGs?
SCOTUS6: Everyone but Fed Chairs.
IGs: Even IGs who discovered someone framed a Fed Chair?
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
IGs: Even IGs?
SCOTUS6: Everyone but Fed Chairs.
IGs: Even IGs who discovered someone framed a Fed Chair?
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
SCOTUS6: POTUS can fire anyone.
IGs: Even IGs?
SCOTUS6: Everyone but Fed Chairs.
IGs: Even IGs who discovered someone framed a Fed Chair?
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
IGs: Even IGs?
SCOTUS6: Everyone but Fed Chairs.
IGs: Even IGs who discovered someone framed a Fed Chair?
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
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Fetterman is a fascist, purchased by AIPAC, and what they mean is they demand Democrats promote fascists too in order to normalize them on behalf of the capital interests they serve.
bsky.app/profile/ronf...
bsky.app/profile/ronf...
November 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Fetterman is a fascist, purchased by AIPAC, and what they mean is they demand Democrats promote fascists too in order to normalize them on behalf of the capital interests they serve.
bsky.app/profile/ronf...
bsky.app/profile/ronf...
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Then you pretty much have to resign. Guaranteeing safety is the job.
November 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Then you pretty much have to resign. Guaranteeing safety is the job.
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Going to be interesting see how much control Trump and Johnson are going to have over those Republican House Members whose political careers they have ended.
November 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Going to be interesting see how much control Trump and Johnson are going to have over those Republican House Members whose political careers they have ended.
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spending the first year in power appeasing the racists in an attempt to win over reform voters who will never vote for him then going "somehow, racism has returned" the second he finally sees people are abandoning him for the greens
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted
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UK politics live – latest updates
Decades-old racism is returning to British politics, and “it makes people feel very scared” Keir Starmer has said, warning that divisive hard-right politics was “tearing our country apart”.
Speaking to GP and TV personality Amir Khan, the prime minister accused Nigel Farage’s Reform UK of overseeing a return of the racist and divisive politics “that frankly I thought we had dealt with decades ago”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
spending the first year in power appeasing the racists in an attempt to win over reform voters who will never vote for him then going "somehow, racism has returned" the second he finally sees people are abandoning him for the greens
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THE MEDIAN AGE OF A U.S. HOME BUYER NOW SITS AT A RECORD HIGH OF 61 YEARS, PER NAR.
November 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
THE MEDIAN AGE OF A U.S. HOME BUYER NOW SITS AT A RECORD HIGH OF 61 YEARS, PER NAR.
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Now I'm a dummy but it really feels to me like there has to be an entire relatively broad-based winning politics based around being in opposition to *just this one sliver* of what the Trump administration is doing right here www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 11, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Now I'm a dummy but it really feels to me like there has to be an entire relatively broad-based winning politics based around being in opposition to *just this one sliver* of what the Trump administration is doing right here www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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BREAKING: A Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million and apologize over a 2023 police raid on a small-town newspaper, editor says.
Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million over police raid on a small-town newspaper, editor says
The editor of a small-town Kansas newspaper says the local county has agreed to pay a little more than $3 million and apologize over police raid on the paper in August 2023.
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
BREAKING: A Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million and apologize over a 2023 police raid on a small-town newspaper, editor says.
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Fascists always have to normalize the intimidation of us as all their plans require it to protect their ongoing corruption.
With court orders if they can.
bsky.app/profile/iwri...
With court orders if they can.
bsky.app/profile/iwri...
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
November 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Fascists always have to normalize the intimidation of us as all their plans require it to protect their ongoing corruption.
With court orders if they can.
bsky.app/profile/iwri...
With court orders if they can.
bsky.app/profile/iwri...
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Force multiplier?
Rep. Pat Harrigan: "I have asked Josh Stein, our governor, to consider working with President Trump to allow the National Guard to come into Charlotte ... use the National Guard as a force multiplier and they can a lot of load off the Charlotte PD."
November 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Force multiplier?