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@agentofkarma.bsky.social

U.S. Progressive here mainly for the political commentary. Egalitarian. Friend to animals, nature, and the sciences. Ensconced in the PNW. -Now with more eyelid and less pupil-

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Yeah I read that in his Wiki entry. First class, that one

06.12.2025 01:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I assume by โ€œourโ€ he is not talking about the company he owns that is the subject of the fine. I think by โ€œourโ€ he means that the government of the US must fight his battle for him.

05.12.2025 23:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 922    ๐Ÿ” 217    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 172    ๐Ÿ“Œ 23

The law says they have 30 days from when Dumpty signed the bill. Did you really expect them not to wait (at least) that long?

06.12.2025 00:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Soโ€ฆโ€ฆ are Democratic states going to sit back while GOP states are gerrymandering their states for the second time in a decade? Have they LIVED the year 2025? Itโ€™s way past time to fight fire with fire before there is NOTHING left of our country.

05.12.2025 23:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1084    ๐Ÿ” 307    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 71    ๐Ÿ“Œ 34

When the video comes out, whoever runs for office against Cotton should create a split screen commercial. One side should show the two men clinging to the burning boat, the other should show Cotton making this stupid, hateful, misleading statement. Arkansans, can you believe anything Cotton says?

05.12.2025 23:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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WATCH: โ€œWhat kind of boat was it, a canoe? ๐Ÿ›ถ The whole thing is so ridiculous. Theyโ€™re just killing people. Itโ€™s extrajudicial murder off the coast of Venezuela, full stop.โ€

@timmiller.bsky.social & Tommy shred๐Ÿ”ฅ @SenTomCottonโ€™s explanation

Full @thebulwark.com ep: youtu.be/wC8f8Vjx8SU?...

05.12.2025 23:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 917    ๐Ÿ” 312    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 59    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship' The order is focused on applicants for H-1B visas, which are frequently used by tech companies and is part of a campaign by the Trump administration against online content moderation.

"If you uncover evidence an applicant was responsible for, or complicit in, censorship or attempted censorship of protected expression in the United States, you should pursue a finding that the applicant is ineligible" for a visa..."

Caring for the truth is not censorship
Only liars feel otherwise

05.12.2025 13:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 71    ๐Ÿ” 59    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

The 2028 Dem nominee for POTUS really needs an old school fire-and-brimstone anti-corruption platform

05.12.2025 21:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 883    ๐Ÿ” 153    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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A war criminal without a war It's just murder.

"When thereโ€™s no war, you arenโ€™t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. Youโ€™re just a straight-up murderer."

05.12.2025 21:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12184    ๐Ÿ” 3345    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 393    ๐Ÿ“Œ 137

I mean, when Trump said that he would cut drug prices by 1000%, at least one major media outlet relied on "experts say" to point out it was mathematically impossible to do so.

When we've hit "experts say 1 + 1 = 2," not just "1 + 1 = 2," then we def aren't going to say what the laws say they are.

05.12.2025 23:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 119    ๐Ÿ” 24    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I wasn't sure who he was until I searched his name, though he definitely looked familiar to me. What a remarkable man!

05.12.2025 23:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I want to hear Bill Cassidy say he regrets voting for RFK Jr. If not, Iโ€™ll assume he just regrets the political discomfort this is causing him.

05.12.2025 19:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 683    ๐Ÿ” 177    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

Yep, the Supreme Court really is just a House of Lordsโ€”a purely political branch with bizarre veto power, wielded capriciously and without accountability. Time for massive reform.

04.12.2025 23:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2347    ๐Ÿ” 546    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 51    ๐Ÿ“Œ 36
Bongino tweet: "I was toay years old when I discovered that media figures were unaware that I was a political opinion commentator before my tenure here."

Bongino tweet: "I was toay years old when I discovered that media figures were unaware that I was a political opinion commentator before my tenure here."

Dan Bongino didnโ€™t say it was just his โ€œopinionโ€ that the J6 pipebomb plot was an FBI inside job.
He said he had a confidential source and was certain: โ€œIโ€™m telling you this was an inside job. Cash the freakinโ€™ check and take it to the bank.โ€

05.12.2025 21:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 633    ๐Ÿ” 192    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

It'd be nice to have a citation for the study

05.12.2025 22:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

JUST NOW: "This is like Alice in Wonderland", Judge Breyer says when trying to get the DOJ to explain to him why what happened in CA is a "rebellion" justifying the deployment of the National Guard. "Words just mean what you want them to mean?"

05.12.2025 18:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7588    ๐Ÿ” 1964    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 137    ๐Ÿ“Œ 48
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Kressly: So letโ€™s talk about the contagiousness of hepatitis B. It can live on surfaces, and it can be spread through touchโ€”from someone who is shedding the virus to someone else.

So when weโ€™re in situations where we canโ€™t know 100% who is at risk, the right answer is to protect everyone.

05.12.2025 20:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1813    ๐Ÿ” 589    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 39    ๐Ÿ“Œ 29
05.12.2025 21:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And if you want to pin it on a particular case, an instance when they were not merely wrong but did immense violence to the Constitution itself, it's the immunity ruling. There's your properly impeachable offense. They concocted and imposed on us an overtly royalist and anti-constitutional doctrine.

05.12.2025 21:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 240    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.

05.12.2025 21:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1714    ๐Ÿ” 383    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 61    ๐Ÿ“Œ 25
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The ugly ass-bag is meant to carry
โ€œa quiet message of hope and shared visionโ€ to โ€œcome togetherโ€”in unity for our childrenโ€”to protect and uplift them toward a brighter future."

Only 20 percent of the proceeds will go to the first ladyโ€™s charity.
www.thedailybeast.com/tone-deaf-me...

05.12.2025 20:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 114    ๐Ÿ” 60    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

I will never stop blaming the Senators who caved. Shame on all of you.

05.12.2025 21:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 321    ๐Ÿ” 70    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

I remain committed to reject the construct of a war crime because there is no war. However, even under the Administrationโ€™s position this is plainly a war crime.

05.12.2025 21:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 104    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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President for the Rich and Powerful Trump proves that stopping the drug trade means nothing when there's a chance to pardon a dirty politician who made millions by helping to bring 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.

โ€œ[Letโ€™s] stuff the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.โ€ Thatโ€™s from the guy who helped bring 400 tons of cocaine to the US who Trump pardoned. Trump
pretends he wants to stop the drug trade, but frees from jail a former Honduran president & drug kingpin.
www.americaamerica.news/p/president-...

05.12.2025 13:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 257    ๐Ÿ” 106    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 22    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

I think, yes.

05.12.2025 21:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is why Trump's National Security Strategy is a fantasy.

05.12.2025 20:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 628    ๐Ÿ” 207    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 22    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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By rights and practice, the Supreme Court never should have taken this case. They shouldn't step in on a national question unless there's a "split" in Circuit Court decisions. And right now, there isn't. This is "Activism" to a degree previously unseen.

archive.ph/Of091 โ† Archived article link

05.12.2025 20:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes, the Supreme Court has failed to protect us from Trump. But itโ€™s worse than that: The Supreme Court is imposing its own fascism. It invented presidential immunity. It has gutted the Voting Rights Act, passed by a bipartisan Congress. Itโ€™s as bad as Trump, and moving in the same direction.

05.12.2025 20:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 721    ๐Ÿ” 265    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 47    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15
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Video of Boat Strike Shows Survivors Waving Before Fatal Follow-Up Attack

Murder.

05.12.2025 20:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 579    ๐Ÿ” 148    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15

good reminder that ezra notwithstanding, charlie kirk was and turning point usa is a vicious proto-fascist organization devoted to harassing and silencing political enemies and glorifying violence.

05.12.2025 03:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1203    ๐Ÿ” 292    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

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