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Melissa
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Meddlesome, Quarrelsome, Woke
I keep forgetting I even have this account.
September 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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May 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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May 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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"Trump, the self-styled alpha male, is in reality the weakest kind of leader – a man for whom every slight is a mortal wound, every criticism an unforgivable sin.” He's a snowflake.

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-worlds...
The World’s Oldest Toddler
Why the “Strongman” President is Actually America’s Biggest Snowflake
adamkinzinger.substack.com
May 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Elon Musk’s DOGE has canceled 26 leases for Department of Transportation (DOT) subagencies across 20 states and Puerto Rico.
May 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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It’s still hard for me to believe that after so many years of deranged posts like this, we’ve still never had a serious national conversation about this man’s mental health.
May 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Walmart announced it would raise prices due to tariffs. A Trumpian meltdown ensued.
Trump is furious that his tariffs are doing exactly what economists said they'd do
Walmart announced it would raise prices due to tariffs. A Trumpian meltdown ensued.
www.motherjones.com
May 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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I have long believed that not enough has been written about how GOP members have felt physically intimidated by Trump supporters. It doesn’t excuse their cowardice, but it still deserves more attention.
“They’re Scared Shitless”: The Threat of Political Violence Informing Trump’s Grip on Congress
With the president smashing norm after norm, even lawmakers within his party have feared for their personal safety, and at least one has told confidants that it has swayed his decision-making.
www.vanityfair.com
February 20, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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There are five key areas that authoritarians want to control… expert and author Timothy Snyder writes: health, law, administration, defense and intelligence….Authoritarians with power over these areas, Snyder says, “can make America impossible to sustain.”

www.nj.com/politics/202...
Is Trump trying to kill us? Authoritarian expert says yes. Here’s how
It sounds hyperbolic, but it's not
www.nj.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Two years ago I warned everyone not to embrace Brad Raffensperger as some sort of hero. Now he is sucking up to MAGA.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/brad...
Brad Raffensperger Is Just Another Republican Vote Suppressor
From Marc | Now safely re-elected to another term, Raffensperger is taking his voter suppression campaign national.
www.democracydocket.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Trump said last week we might get to the point very soon where we pay no income taxes because of all the money coming in from his new tariffs but he keeps pausing the tariffs in exchange for things people agreed to do months ago.

How are we going to pay no taxes at this rate?
February 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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This is what happens when 49% of the voters in this country are stupid enough to make a demented psychopath president. bsky.app/profile/atru...
REPORTER: You are talking tonight about the US taking over a sovereign territory. What authority would allow you to do that? Are you talking about a permanent occupation?

TRUMP: I do see a long term ownership position
February 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Elon Musk is the richest man in the world.

No one elected him.

And yet this unelected billionaire is running around accessing our personal information and illegally shutting down critical government departments.

Congress must act to stop him.
Elon Musk can now access your personal information: What you need to know
The Department of Government Efficiency is reportedly seeking access to sensitive payment systems in the Treasury Department.
www.newsweek.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Kennedy at times appeared to confuse Medicare and Medicaid in the hearing, Schwartz says; the nominee claimed that most people are dissatisfied with the latter program, despite clear evidence to the contrary.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/reca...
RFK, Jr., Confirmation Hearing Showed 5 Ways He Threatens Public Health
From Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s views on vaccines to Medicaid, here are some ways his nomination for head of the Department of Health and Human Services could have sweeping effects on health care
www.scientificamerican.com
February 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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CNN: Democrats warned that Project 2025 was a roadmap for a Trump administration and so far it is a very accurate roadmap indeed.
February 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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February 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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February 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Trump’s newest State Dept appointee.
February 3, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Ivanka promoting USAID initiatives to help women around the world. Trump has now cut the agency.

The @USAID Twitter account has been disabled.
February 3, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Trump’s new State Department appointee.
February 3, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Very few Americans realize just how crazy these men are.

We do not have a government. We have an asylum where the inmates have guns.

Darren Beattie is hardly fit for civilized society, let alone one of the top positions at the State Department.

Men like this will blunder America into a world war.
Trump administration taps controversial conservative journalist for top job
The Trump administration is filling one of the State Department’s top positions with a conservative journalist who has promoted conspiracy theories related to Jan. 6.
abcnews.go.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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This guy is now responsible for the safety of our planes
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy dancing naked in front of a window and getting his hairy nipple licked on reality TV.

This is who Trump put in charge of the country’s flight safety.
February 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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What @fpwellman.bsky.social said.

This will be the Republican Recession.
February 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Completely psycho
January 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM