Every Democratic state that can do this, should do this.
Then, when we control the levels of power in DC, we ban gerrymandering for the entire country. Once and for all. Everyone playing by the same rules.
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Every Democratic state that can do this, should do this.
Then, when we control the levels of power in DC, we ban gerrymandering for the entire country. Once and for all. Everyone playing by the same rules.
Ms. Mailman seems to be the human incarnation of the authoritarian exploitation of liberal appeals to free speech I wrote about in this article for the @bostonreview.bsky.social
11.08.2025 19:34 โ ๐ 23 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Elon Musk, who regularly practices securities fraud, says you can arrest your way out of crime.
I wonder if that applies to white collars?
In his presser this morning, Trump twice referred to Alaska as โRussia,โ and itโs no coincidence that Putin calls it that, too.
11.08.2025 18:24 โ ๐ 83 ๐ 25 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 0So the same guy who insists he couldnโt activate the National Guard in D.C. on January 6, 2021 suddenly has the power to activate it today?
11.08.2025 16:59 โ ๐ 3969 ๐ 1410 ๐ฌ 171 ๐ 63This Trump supporter is trying to justify a do-over census. But which administration was in power in 2020 again?!
11.08.2025 18:37 โ ๐ 1437 ๐ 219 ๐ฌ 107 ๐ 12DID HE RESIGN...!? ๐
11.08.2025 18:41 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0FBI agents are not trained to patrol streets. And every agent that is assigned to do that is NOT investigating:
*foreign spies stealing govโt and trade secrets
*foreign and domestic terrorist threats
*crimes like fraud, corruption, trafficking, and violent crimes (among others)
Do you feel safer?
it's pretty frustrating how republicans can just spew endless lies about city life with zero repercussions but the moment a dem disparages a pickup truck it's open season
11.08.2025 17:59 โ ๐ 5832 ๐ 1040 ๐ฌ 115 ๐ 70Wasn't Reid also a Boxer (or something similar) earlier in life?
11.08.2025 17:35 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The president teasing martial for multiple American cities is a dangerous, authoritarian, and unlawful power grab. The Anglo-American constitutional tradition has rejected this kind of arbitrary rule as far back as the Petition of Right in 1628. Yet, here we are with our wannabe tinpot Charles I.
11.08.2025 17:15 โ ๐ 255 ๐ 76 ๐ฌ 12 ๐ 4somebody in my replies said Larry Ellison's nepobaby son looks like the villain in an 80s ski comedy and now I can't unsee it
11.08.2025 16:46 โ ๐ 303 ๐ 78 ๐ฌ 26 ๐ 5You'll have to excuse me if I refuse to reject the evidence of my very own senses on the word of...
::checks notes::
...Kash Patel and his cronies.
You have WAY too much emotional attachment to the official story. I'm off. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Trump is invoking Section 740 of the D.C. Home Rule Act, which authorizes him to seize control of the entire DC police department for a maximum of 30 days.
This is insane stuff. D.C. is not in the grip of a crime wave. Crime has been falling for three years now. Violent crime is at a 30-year low.
I had a cancerous mole removed from my left arm. 30 years ago. And it Still has a scar more noticeable than T-Bag's alleged "bullet wound".
Shit, my SMALLPOX INJECTION SITE from 1972 or so is more noticeable than T-Bag's alleged "bullet wound".
I am not a conspiracy theorist. I have said nothing you have just repeated at me. And I don't even have any real operating/affirmative theory, here.
I just look at an ear and go "yeah. that ear wasn't shot by an AR15".
That's it. That's all I did.
You're the one smearing 'moral content' on this
That beard of his does look like something that spends the night hung on the bedpost...๐
11.08.2025 16:02 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Texas prepares for war as invasion of flesh eating flies appears imminent. Massachusetts collected $2 billion more in tax revenue than expected because of millionaireโs tax.
Red state, blue state.
10.08.2025 15:10 โ ๐ 270 ๐ 65 ๐ฌ 10 ๐ 2Possibly... most of these people seem to just kind of "show up" from out of nowhere.
I have yet to find any evidence that Matt Walsh existed before his first radio show, for instance. ๐๐คทโโ๏ธ
IMO? Hit by a bone fragment from the poor devil behind him, who DID get shot. Or low-velocity shrapnel.
Pity they shot the kid. Now we'll never know.
BTW: If you're a good enough shot to take the headshot... why not take out the right shoulder to immobilize & question, instead..? ๐ค๐คทโโ๏ธ
No. That ear should be half gone. Eardrum ruptured. With an old guy like him, why no detached retina? No brain injury? etc.
Do I think it was "staged"? No.
(for one thing, DJT lacks the personal courage it would take to do the William Tell Act).
Do I think he was hit with a BULLET? Also... no.
PS: Candace fucking Owens judging any other woman for 'not looking traditionally feminine enough' is just... RICH.
You could break rocks on those cheekbones.
Yes, I'm going there. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
"What do you mean 'global coordination of the right wing? what are ya, some kind of kooky conspiracy theorist?"
www.ft.com/content/986e...
Explain the ear, then?
You must explain that miraculously healing ear.
NEW ANGLE
Watch and decide, but I was never fully convinced he was shot in the first place. Never mind that his ear shouldโve been blown offโnow completely healed. Or that the Secret Service took their time getting him offstage.
But from this angle: you see the photographers guided into placeโฆ
A Pterosaur head like piece of broken timber with a knot-hole for an eye, protruding from a stack of logs
Unbeknownst to the harvesting team a foraging Pterosaur became trapped in their log pile
10.08.2025 16:42 โ ๐ 309 ๐ 31 ๐ฌ 12 ๐ 5She is 100 proof against crime
11.08.2025 15:17 โ ๐ 1285 ๐ 90 ๐ฌ 78 ๐ 7package of noodles that says Best before:YYYY.MM
discovered the Immortal Noodles
10.08.2025 22:05 โ ๐ 3389 ๐ 206 ๐ฌ 99 ๐ 11