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This may be against my better judgement.

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It's not that long since January 6th.

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Library cards are like superpowers that you don't need to expose yourself to radiation or mutagens to gain! I don't mean to make them sound less than fun.

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In the last eight years I've said "I used to be nicer" a lot. I just realized. That isn't actually true. I just used to be provoked a whole lot less.

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One species united in peer review. Makes my heart swell.

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How and why religion was weaponized in the US in one screenshot.

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I love how The Internet makes learning global. There's only the one Human Race. And ooooh, we're gossipers.

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You're beautiful! Yes you are.

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Tempest is doing a Kickstarter! BUY MY BOOK 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar Tempest is doing a Kickstarter! BUY MY BOOK 🏳️‍⚧️ @probablyacryptid.elikwake.com
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reskeet with a tweet you still think about *coughs at my fellow Americans*

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The media clearly think they can decide this election for us. I hope they're wrong.

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Keep talking about how Donald Trump is credibly accused of sexually assaulting twelve year old children, with assistance from Epstein.

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Moira Donegan's avatar Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social
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Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸

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Mark Hennessy-Barrett's avatar Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social
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Thank you for letting me know my anger and frustration aren't a solitary case.

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I'm at the point where it would take new evidence for me to think the billionaires who own the news aren't trying to secure themselves another trillion dollar tax break to spend on stock buybacks.

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I'm at the point where it would take new evidence for me to think the billionaires who own the news aren't trying to secure themselves another trillion dollar tax break to spend on stock buybacks.

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The NYT isn't making any secret about wanting King Trump instead of doddery old democracy full of people who don't think what the very rich tell them.

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Happy No-King Day! lol

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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Notice how everyone is somehow talking about Biden Too Old right now, and NOT about how the Supreme Court just legalized Trump being a dictator for life and gutted the administrative state, and how the Heritage Foundation is now issuing terrorist threats? Think that might not be an accident?

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As someone once said: I can do this all day.

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Russia: "We would prefer to take Ukraine peacefully." China: "We would prefer to take Taiwan peacefully." Heritage Foundation: "We would prefer to take America peacefully."

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Russia: "We would prefer to take Ukraine peacefully." China: "We would prefer to take Taiwan peacefully." Heritage Foundation: "We would prefer to take America peacefully."

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Russia: "We would prefer to take Ukraine peacefully." China: "We would prefer to take Taiwan peacefully." Heritage Foundation: "We would prefer to take America peacefully."

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I'm pretty sure the "12-year-old" part of that covers the unnatural nature of these acts adequately for most reasonable people.

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Well, one of us is using our brain from stopping their eyes running down their throat.

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I was somewhat surprised by how awful it was.

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I guess you haven't noticed Ukraine standing off a vastly superior force of trained riflemen through the use of technology. If this kicks off, Bubba's M4 is going to be facing flocks of first person drones built by very, very angry nerds.

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"

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I'd have thought the unsealed Epstein filing somewhat more important than the press calling for Biden's resignation, but what do I know?

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Dr. Holly Walters's avatar Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social
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Don't forget the Sharpie.

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Reminder: Presidents didn’t need absolute immunity until a criminal was elected.

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Are they ever going to learn a new trick?

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Warning: the above post contains levels of sarcasm known to the State of California to be dangerous to children and animals under 12 (twelve) lbs in weight.

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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter 's avatar The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter @swolecialism.bsky.social
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frankly, the first defeat that we can hand them, in November, is the easiest possible one we are going to be offered, and we'd be fools not to make it happen.

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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter 's avatar The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter @swolecialism.bsky.social
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a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won

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Mark Hennessy-Barrett's avatar Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social
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So the Divine Right of Kings, huh? Joe swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. We assuredly do have a domestic terrorism problem. What a powder keg for a court which just found that bribes don't exist to have lit.

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Do they even have a different trick?

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Not making any threats here, just thinking out loud as a historian — do they people brazenly pushing for impunity for the wealthy elites not know what traditionally comes next?

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Mark Hennessy-Barrett's avatar Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social
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Can we at least try something new this time?

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