Fear is the point.
10.08.2025 21:17 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@davetheaveragedad.bsky.social
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Fear is the point.
10.08.2025 21:17 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Forgot to add:π€¬π€¬π€¬
10.08.2025 21:15 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Reupping: How John Durham Buried Evidence He Had Been Doing the Work of Russian Spies ... and then Tulsi Gabbard Buried More
www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/09/h...
This is bad for our future.
10.08.2025 01:39 β π 24 π 1 π¬ 5 π 0Heβs been the governor since 2015. Surely if thereβs a problem, heβs to blame for not fixing it yet.
10.08.2025 16:33 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Caroline Kennedy went on national television to warn America about her cousin...she called him a "predator." Always a private person, her speaking out was a significant step into the public eye for her. RFK, Jr.'s siblings did the same.
#ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #Pinks
βUse your other sensesβ: pioneering show for the blind hits Edinburgh
10.08.2025 16:18 β π 51 π 20 π¬ 0 π 2*massages temples*
We did this. Cities discovered it creates more problems. So in the 90s the push for college education kicked off.
JFC. What a pathetic excuse for a human.
10.08.2025 16:23 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Please read this brief piece.
10.08.2025 16:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βAnyone who denies our claim on this country simply because we dare to honor our diverse heritage and immigrant roots only exposes how fragile and small-minded their own idea of America really is."
trib.al/VFx3Kol
The Left: Release the Epstein files!
The Right: Sydney Sweeney released an ad and the Left is mad!
L: No weβre not. Trump is covering up his pedophile ring.
R: SOOOOO TRIGGERED!!!
L: Heβs accused of raping kids.
R: TRIGGERED!!! Hereβs videos of sorority girls. Suck it libs!
I was very moved by my conversation with @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social...
10.08.2025 13:52 β π 10934 π 1866 π¬ 228 π 177Same thing happened at my favorite taco shop recently.
10.08.2025 14:53 β π 8 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Nine years ago today:
βDonald Trump announced Tuesday evening that his wife will hold a news conference βover the next couple of weeksβ to address reports that she violated immigration laws when she first came to the U.S.β
Still waiting.
Itβs like theyβre familiar with the productivity paradox.
10.08.2025 14:48 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0So release the documents already.
10.08.2025 14:46 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This guy is really funny. The premise is about the treatment of homeless people. Sort of.
09.08.2025 22:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Front-end rate differentials of the US vis-Γ -vis the G10 have reversed half their drop after 4-sigma downward revisions in payrolls a week ago. Yet the Dollar remains flat on its back. There's no 1:1 mapping from rate differentials to the Dollar, but at the margin I see this as Dollar bullish...
09.08.2025 16:57 β π 15 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Our kids are watching.
www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...
Civil rights lawyers say many migrant detainees in Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" are being barred from meeting regularly with attorneys and are being held in dangerous conditions.
09.08.2025 15:02 β π 1006 π 477 π¬ 54 π 30U.S. Defense Secretary promotes interview in which Christian nationalist Doug Wilson says women shouldn't have the right to vote. Hegseth goes to a Wilson-affiliated church and sends his kids to one of Wilsonβs schools. 1/2
08.08.2025 12:48 β π 1232 π 573 π¬ 83 π 87china has made the better bet
09.08.2025 12:18 β π 496 π 83 π¬ 15 π 6βTrump calls our trade deficits a β50 year emergencyβ β thatβs an oxymoronβ¦ I have a chronic, incurable trade deficit with my barber. I buy a haircut from her, she buys nothing from me.β
Conservative George Will clowns Trumpβs trade war, says Congress has abandoned their duties
True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing.
Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYCβs program helping people move out of shelter.
Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. π§΅
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Cook openly bribed the president with a large hunk of gold in a televised performance of obeisance and walked away with a valuable tariff exemption.
09.08.2025 14:41 β π 1497 π 417 π¬ 71 π 25For a good Christian and law abiding Conservative, MAGA Mikey seems to have lost his way...
09.08.2025 14:56 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 1 π 1Over the past two centuries, vaccines have been critical for preventing infectious diseases. The WHO estimates vaccination prevent up to 5 million deaths annually from diseases like diphtheria, tetanus, influenza, measles and, more recently, COVID-19.
theconversation.com/vaccines-hol...
Daguerreotype image of the hand of fishing boat captain and slavery abolitionist Jonathan Walker showing the βSSβ (for βSlave Stealerβ) that the US Govt branded on his palm after he tried in 1844 to help runaway slaves in Florida find freedom in the West Indies (Massachusetts Historical Society) π
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