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Mary Balkon
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Sorry to ruin good fun with political snideness, but I totally feel like this should be the theme song playing in the background whenever one of those MAGA barbie women takes the stage . . . .
Here's another good'un.
(Performed here: youtu.be/MGSdYFR50Y8)
September 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Here's another good'un.
(Performed here: youtu.be/MGSdYFR50Y8)
September 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies.

Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE.

Funny how that works, huh?
March 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Adam Schiff is right on point.
March 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.
February 24, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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February 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Pretty damning evidence tipping the scales on the question of whether Musk is pro-apartheid.
Musk is calling USAID “evil” and saying it must die.

Trump is suddenly interested in cutting off funding to South Africa.

For those wondering why the sudden focus on this, might we suggest digging into the role USAID played in ending apartheid? —> adst.org/2021/06/amer...
February 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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A message to the US Senate: America is watching. Patel, Gabbard, and RFK are more than just unfit. They are a danger to our country, and to our people's safety. Use your vote to protect the people you represent. History will remember your choice.
A Message to the US Senate
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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January 30, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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I recently reposted a former congressional staffer who said that when an issue got 20-30 calls it would get representatives freaked out and ready to do something. It takes less than you’d think, because so few people actually take that kind of action
January 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I've just called my representative and both my senators this morning. Thank you so much to everyone who gave me advice about how to do this!😅
January 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
January 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Truth: I've never called a politician in my life. Ever. Even when terrible things were happening. Could someone who has maybe tell me what it was like and give me some kind of "script" for what I should say and how I should say it to have the most impact? I'd be grateful . . . .
January 30, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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May I suggest something radical? Have mercy on people. Even on here.

What’s happening is unprecedented, so politicians, journalists, public servants etc are doing their best to adjust. Not doing exactly what you think they should doesn’t mean they’re giving up or giving in.
January 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Let's be clear that “Christian” Nationalists aren't Christians.

People who promote hatred, cruelty, oppression and violence, “in the name of Christ,” are literally taking that name in vain.

"By their effing deeds, you will know them . . . ." Matthew 7:16 (expletive mine).
January 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Wow. The irony of David Sacks claiming (without evidence, of course, but it's MAGA, so duh) that DeepSeek stole from OpenAI by using it to train their models. Being all self righteous and outraged by it? After OpenAI blatantly stole from artists and writers in exactly that way? Karma's a bitch, huh?
January 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Seems like the Trump-er-y administration made it pretty clear this week that they are firmly in the goat camp . . . .
( Matthew 25: 31-46 The Sheep and the Goats)
January 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Remember the good old days when someone saying that they're "Christian" meant that, even if they were hypocrites, they were at least nominally in favor of mercy and kindness? Those were good times . . . .
January 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I have to say that this administration's trump-er-y and all the hypocrites jumping on board are weeding themselves out quite nicely. It's becoming increasingly east to know how to vote with dollars . . . . Go Ben and Jerry's! Go Costco!
January 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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This is the Ben & Jerry’s video that has folks talking and MAGA losing their shit!

We need to support @benandjerrys y’all, because we don’t ever want them to “stick to just the ice cream”. 👀
January 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Just read a post from one of my trumpery FB friends who called the inauguration "a great day for America." I kind of feel like we're in the Buffy episode "Superstar." You know, an alternate reality where people are adoring and admiring a weenie loser?
January 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
So you know how they enslave child soldiers by forcing them to do something so morally reprehensible that they have nowhere else to go? That's what Trump has done to every Republican senator who complied in confirming Hegseth. He owns them forever now, because no one will ever trust them again.
January 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Tip from @snowjob.bsky.social

If you have a whitehouse.gov link you want to access and it is down, try replacing "www.whitehouse.gov" with "bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov"

The national archives is still doing its job for now.
January 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Ope! The bill would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.” www.wlbt.com/2025/01/22/m...
Mississippi politician files ‘Contraception Begins at Erection Act’
"People can get up in arms and call it absurd but I can’t say that bothers me.”
www.wlbt.com
January 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM