@jackiethrasher.bsky.social
Recovering politician, news junkie, retired music educator, former Arizona State Representative (D), Phoenix expat living in Hawaii, and have way too many cats. ☮️💟
Prince Andrew Surrenders Duke of York Title www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/w...
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I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS HILO” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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In 1935 German leadership called a surprise meeting and informed their previous oath to uphold the Weimar constitution was now void and they instead must swear a personal oath to the Führer. Many claimed they didn’t like the order, but they did it anyway.
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If corporate America can’t see the irony of their suppression of free speech in connection with the murder of a figure who stood for free speech, we’ve lost our freedom: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
17.09.2025 23:36 — 👍 871 🔁 252 💬 67 📌 13But Fox sits tight after its host Brian Kilmeade says homeless people should be euthanized (followed later by a weak 30-second apology).
17.09.2025 23:42 — 👍 756 🔁 218 💬 41 📌 8This is Hollywood's McCarthy Moment.
This is the litmus test.
Learn from history.
Who will step up and fight?
Who will bend the knee and be complicit?
History will remember.
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.”
My latest in @thebulwark.com
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254 mass shootings in the United States so far this year, and it’s only July.
This is not normal. This is a crisis.
#EndGunViolence
Brazilian president: "I'd like to say something to the American people; If Trump was Brazilian and did what he did at the Capitol, he'd be on trial in Brazil for violating the Constitution. He would be arrested if he had done that."
(ht: @ronxyz.bsky.social)
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Kristi Noem didn’t approve FEMA rescue teams for over 72 hours after the Texas floods, following a rule she imposed that required her personal sign-off on any operation over $100K.
This is inexcusable. She should resign.
Happy #Caturday and #PrideWeekend from Obi One ❤️
29.06.2025 02:42 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That this SCOTUS stay comes on the day this story dropped….Is it comforting to know that you’ll get due process in South Sudan?
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This seems like a very good time to issue my periodic reminder that I am not kin to JD Vance.
22.06.2025 17:58 — 👍 2482 🔁 215 💬 294 📌 24Remember this moment. Trump is reveling in the narcisisstic and sadistic thrill of threatening others with violent death. He will start to crave that feeling.
17.06.2025 18:09 — 👍 2562 🔁 640 💬 212 📌 30We won’t amplify it, but the president posting that Dems are “sick of mind” and “hate our country” immediately after 2 Dem lawmakers and their spouses were shot in their homes is the opposite of leadership. Gas on the fire.
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President TACO gonna TACO
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