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Brandon Bonfiglio

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If only a group of 23 Nobel Prize-winning economists had warned us before the election that his economic plan was going to crater the economy…

Walmart MAGAs are entering the “FO” phase of “FAFO.”

November 19, 2024 at 6:02 PM

Brandon Bonfiglio

@bbonfiglio.bsky.social

Donald Trump’s pick for Attorney General has been credibly accused of sex trafficking a minor. According to the plaintiff’s lawyer, there are Venmo receipts and multiple witnesses to the sexual encounters with a minor, which allegedly occurred while using illicit drugs.
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'Damaging' sealed testimony about Matt Gaetz accessed by hacker: report

A hacker reportedly gained access to a file containing "damaging" testimony against President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz.The unidentified hacker accessed a secure link am...

www.rawstory.com

November 19, 2024 at 4:24 PM

Brandon Bonfiglio

@bbonfiglio.bsky.social

This would eliminate around 40% of our agricultural workforce, not to mention countless other industries, and would drive costs of living (especially grocery prices) sky-high. 🧵🪡 1/4

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Nov 19

Trump confirms he will utilize US military to conduct mass deportations

President-elect plans to declare a national emergency for undocumented immigrants with help of hardline cabinet Donald Trump said on Monday that his administration would declare a national emergency and use the US military to carry out mass deportations…

dlvr.it

November 19, 2024 at 3:41 PM

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World Record Egg

@worldrecord-egg.bsky.social

Let’s set a world record and get the most liked post on Bluesky & beat twitters (X) highest liked post of 6.7 million. We got this 🙌🏽

November 17, 2024 at 5:32 AM

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Meryem

@hajjahmeryem.bsky.social

Adults betrayed their daughters, threw them to the wolves.

Jim Stewartson, Antifascist @jim-stewartson.bsky.social · Nov 16

Just read it.

The Yew Work Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/opinion/donald-trump-women-
girls.html
GUEST ESSAY
I'm 16. On Nov. 5 the Girls Cried, and the Boys Played Minecraft.
Nov. 16, 2024, 7:00 a.m. ET
Ms. Beinart is a 16 year-old high school junior.
On the morning after the election, I walked up the staircase of my school. A preteen was crying into the shoulders of her braces-clad peer. Her friend was rubbing circles on her back.
I continued up the stairs to the lounge, where upperclassmen linger before classes.
There I saw two tables: One was filled with my girlfriends, many of them with hollows under their eyes. There was a blanket of despair over the young women in the room. I looked over to the other table of teenage boys and saw Minecraft on their computers. While we were gasping for a breath, it seemed they were breathing freely.
We girls woke up to a country that would rather elect a man found liable for sexual abuse than a woman. Where the kind of man my mother instructs me to cross the street to avoid will be addressed as Mr. President. Where the body I haven't fully grown into may no longer be under my control. The boys, it seemed to me, just woke up on a Wednesday.

Why did it seem these boys were so unperturbed? I worried that my guy friends might only care about women until it conflicts with other, more pressing, priorities.
That morning, I spoke with a male classmate. He asked if I was OK. I nearly melted with relief. See, I knew not all guys were ignorant! Then, before I responded, he continued. Why, he wondered, are so many girls crying? I stared. I swallowed that familiar lump. And I had one thought: I pray that my older brother never asks that question. How could my classmate not know why girls in his grade were biting their nails and doing breathing exercises in the bathroom? It seemed like our future was sliding down the sides of our faces, and he asked me why we were crying? I have never felt that disconnected from men. I have never felt more like a girl.
Eight years ago, I was too young to feel the full force of Hillary Clinton's loss. Now at 16, I've had the wind knocked out of me. On Wednesday, I was flush with anger
— but it was diluted by an even stronger feeling: defeat. I saw it in the eyes of women in my subway car that morning. I saw it in the barista at the coffee shop on the corner, the female security guard at my school and in the face of my history teacher.
In a terrible way, I've never felt more part of a sisterhood or more certain that pain is shared within that family. I wish the consequences of this moment for young women punctured the apparent indifference of so many men and boys I saw that day. I wish they could breathe in what the women and girls I know have been inhaling since Nov. 5.
I can't predict how well I'm going to do on an English test tomorrow and I definitely can't predict the future for me and my fellow young women. For now, all I can do is tell you how I feel.
Naomi Beinart is a 16-year-old girl and a junior in high school.

November 16, 2024 at 10:58 PM

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💙❤️💙Mia💙❤️💙

@mommamia.bsky.social

Just in case there’s anyone left who needs to hear it:

VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.

www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-hea...

www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org

November 15, 2024 at 5:15 PM

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Aaron Parnas

@aaronparnas.bsky.social

The American public and the Senate Judiciary Committee deserve to see the Matt Gaetz report.

Repost if you agree.

November 16, 2024 at 2:50 AM

Brandon Bonfiglio

@bbonfiglio.bsky.social

Incredible

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · Nov 16

This just happened

November 16, 2024 at 4:40 AM

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It's The Weekend 😌

@craigweekend.bsky.social

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

November 16, 2024 at 12:00 AM

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jolly mr. cannoli

@boner.ink

i can't even decipher what's happening in twitters timeline anymore it's just like waves of depression with ads

May 7, 2023 at 2:41 AM

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Make It Hackin

@makeithackin.bsky.social

The Twitter -> Bluesky user lookup/follow app is now 'public.' Feel free to try it out.
https://skeeter.streamlit.app

Make It Hackin @makeithackin.bsky.social · Apr 30

I just used SKEETER, my Twitter to Bluesky app to find the people that I follow on Twitter and automatically followed them on Bluesky :)
If you want to Beta test this app, let me know! Hoping to release it soon for everyone.

April 30, 2023 at 3:43 PM

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It's The Weekend 😌

@craigweekend.bsky.social

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend.

April 28, 2023 at 11:00 PM

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