TAGST8
tagst8.bsky.social
TAGST8
@tagst8.bsky.social
Fellow traveler, driven by curiosity. On the quiet side until I have something to say.
Just a random musing: What miracle brought quiet serenity, sleep, and fully staffed shifts to our Air Traffic Controllers? Oh wait…..
November 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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"If your country opens a Department of War and closes the Department of Education then you live in a shithole."
-𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟿𝟾%
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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THIS!!!!!!

(Former FM of Lithuania)
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Mother Jones has been on fire on the John Roberts beat and, man, I'd love to see our national press pick up this ball.

"It’s impossible to imagine today’s crisis without the Roberts court having first undermined the foundations of our democracy."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
November 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Ask your friends & family if they still think that this is the land of the free after watching this video.

If they think everyone should be vulnerable to raging lunatics asking the Nazi question, "Show me your papers."

#ICELawlessness is tyranny. Spell it out for them if they don't get it.
November 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Two months ago we were paying all federal workers, SNAP benefits were fully funded, and people could afford their health insurance premiums but a small group of Democratic senators have Stockholm Syndrome and are telling us we have to Sophie’s choice one or two of these things.
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Army closes only dining facility on Kansas base due to government shutdown trib.al/5WGvUOq
Army closes only dining facility on Kansas base due to government shutdown
The only dining facility for junior troops at the Army’s Fort Leavenworth in Kansas has been closed due to funding issues.
trib.al
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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This is nuts!
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
November 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Mike Johnson describes Trump’s mental decline and unhinged behavior.
October 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Oh it’s not appropriate for your program to air the president wearing a crown and shitting on American citizens?

You’ll talk about it in euphemisms? Maybe call it the “crown video” and ignore the shitting part? Because that’s appropriate?

Tell me, was it appropriate for the president to do it?
October 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
How sad to think the song I learned as a child should be sung at every protest: “My country, tis of thee, sweet land of liberty……”
October 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Hello Idaho, we’re here to keep your potatoes safe from Antifa.
October 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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👇👇
October 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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October 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...
ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.
www.wired.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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She called it. The media blew it by letting a serial liar off the hook
October 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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I cannot emphasize enough that this administration shouldn’t get 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 from the Dems until they start obeying the law.

Not. One.

Optics matter: if you want people to turn out next election despite troops in the streets, then show them it matters.

Do your goddamn jobs and hold the line.
October 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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EMERGENCY MEDICAID REIMBURSES HOSPITALS FOR CARE TO UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS BECAUSE BY LAW HOSPITALS CANNOT TURN AWAY ANYONE IN AN EMERGENCY.
RONALD REGAN SIGNED THIS INTO LAW.
October 2, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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It’s been 24 hours since Brian Kilmeade suggested the wholesale murder of homeless people and yet somehow he still has a job.
September 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The hypocrisy of this administration’s crocodile tears for the murder of a Ukrainian refugee just pisses me off. So many levels of hypocrisy.
September 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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I’ve spent months talking to folks about this, and people keep talking about young men turning to the right because of feminism.

Maybe we should take a second to consider that young women very well might be turning to feminism because of far right men.
September 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM