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Alexander Preston

@divertedminds.bsky.social
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Color Scientist. Cavs fan. Vocal

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 27/08/2025
In the wake of yet another mass shooting, president Trump has mobilized the National Guard to go to the suburbs where these shooters usually come from, authorized the FBI to go after white nationalist extremist groups online, and improved background check requirements.🤡 Of course that's a joke.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The fact that children in America have to live in fear of mass shootings is far more important than Cracker Barrel's corporate logo decisions. But the White House only cares about tackling one of these issues.
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
In this political hellscape of 2025, nothing dates the original "Running Man" movie more than, at the end, the hero broadcasts a video of the bad guys doing bad things and the implication is it brings down the government.
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linlukey.bsky.social @linlukey.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Ed “Big Balls” Coristine—who worked tech ops for Elon Musk’s DOGE project—is under FBI investigation for data theft. This is the same 19-year-old who was linked to a cybercrime ring earlier this year.
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DuendeonFuego @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Hey so a lot of these accounts are bots that are actively trying to get people to give up. I've written about this extensively on other platforms, but Doomerism is an emerging tactic that's used by bad actors to get people to give in to despair and do nothing. Pretty common with climate stuff.
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Update: it got funny again
Jeanine Pirro @JudgeJeanine
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Assault a law enforcement officer, and you'll be prosecuted.
This guy thought it was funny—well, he doesn't think it's funny today, because we charged him with a felony.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
All that small government shit was a lie. All of it.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Anyone yelling they won't vote have their own dumbass reasons Anyone trying to convince you not to vote has malicious reasons
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Allyship @allyship.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
If the media wanted to, they could take down this administration. They don't want to because they’re making too much money propping up this administration.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
During his speech, Grant remarked that "if we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason & Dixon . . . but between patriotism & intelligence on the one side & superstition, ambition & ignorance on the other."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/08/2025
one thing i've taken away from surveys asking the public to evaluate trump's most authoritarian moves is that the ordinary americans have a much clearer sense of what's happening than most professional political observers
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Many are calling it the “two friends who don’t know Jeffrey Epstein friendship meeting”
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
it's hysterical that millions of dumbass Americans voted this guy in because they were mad about inflation and then literally all of his economic policy is solely dedicated to doing more inflation
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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
This is not how good science works
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
*conspiratorial music* what if the Swing Voter is a canard they use to avoid doing things they don’t want to do
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I’ve said it before but reading all the medieval history books I’ve been reading lately has been so comforting. Makes you realize that there have always been mad and incompetent kings and they almost always die in ignominy and everyone piles shit on them for centuries after they’re gone.
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Mark Jones @mjonesy2.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
#BlueCrew RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
It’s continues to be despicable how the media has spent a decade normalizing the orange felon so much so that they are reporting on his authoritarian militarization of Washington DC as if it were a routine military exercise. They deliberately failed democracy for clickbait.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I really really don’t think we should have people in public health who believe people get sick because of their choices and should die
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
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“james adomian” @jadomian.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Hi I’m a bothsides guy: I loudly enter a conflict of obvious one-sided oppression, seeking “dialogue” and “mutual accountability” between lopsided aggressors and victims. I inevitably devolve into supporting the more powerful badguys, because they are better at flattering and bribing me!
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stuartpstevens.bsky.social @stuartpstevens.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
These people hate America.
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Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Probably just needs help on his computer
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Mary Grace Scary Face @emgeekay.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I just finished "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury. The book shows that people can be more easily controlled if they are stupefied. He supposedly said, "I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it."
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 27/08/2025
I’ve been reading a lot of military theory & history lately and one of the themes everyone keeps coming back is the idea of initiative - The initiative is being the actor, not the reactor, and the Dems just treat the gop as a force of nature to react to instead of one you can pummel
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
It’s a very common mistake to assume that candidates, elected officials, and party insiders are paying consultants to tell them how to win when they are actually paying to be told what they want to hear: that the things they already believe and want to do are popular and smart.
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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The President’s illegal attempt to fire Gov. Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve is his latest effort to put the economy under his sole personal control. He says it’s about lowering interest rates. Watch. Inevitably it will be about rewarding his donors and punishing his enemies.
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Grumpy Grandpa @beeba1.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Meanwhile in florida. “Everyday people cannot afford basic, essential needs, like housing and food, healthcare, utilities,” she said. “And meanwhile, our governor is spending more time freaking out about rainbows on a road.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/08/2025
ah, very exciting
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Truth Tony 📣 @truthtony.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Leaving Kilmar Abrego Garcia alone wouldn't hurt or cost anyone anything. This level of cruelty is hard to comprehend
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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
America is the Tesla Cybertruck of countries
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Being that petty bitch this morning remembering people on Twitter ten years ago angry about calling this guy mentally ill, and editors at leftist outlets deleting me calling him a fascist and Hitler in waiting. I know it's a "me problem." Still!
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Patrick Fenelon @patrickfenelon.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Gabbard says that James Clapper & John Brennan rigged the 2020 election. It's worth noting that neither held public office in 2020. Both left their respective jobs in 2017. This is just painfully stupid nonsense.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
This absolutely should not be the first time I've heard this threat made against Trump's foot soldiers. They should remember he won't be around to pardon everyone forever
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Despite what some Democratic consultants suggest, the pro-democracy party’s first question shouldn’t be, “Does stopping fascism poll well?”
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canwil @canwil.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I don’t think he’s trying to fire Lisa Cook from the federal reserve because he wants lower rates… he’s entrenched himself in DC with an armed military. He’s never leaving-and he wants access to the treasury. When he’s doing these things, people need to think-EVIL-to get to what he’s doing.
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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Every time I feel discouraged about the value of my work in the midst of all of this, I remember that if education did not matter, they would not be attacking it so hard. If humanities and the sciences did not matter, they would not be attacking it so hard.
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Would the left like to try harder and win at Facebook? OK, just get a left-wing political operative installed as one of the company's top executives, so he can personally override the rules against platform manipulation and derogatory content when left-wing influencers systematically break them.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
If any previous President tried to fire a member of the Fed he would have been impeached and removed from office in 72 hours.
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Patrick Fenelon @patrickfenelon.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
A good piece that I don't have time to write would be one that documents every example of consultants like Shor & Carville telling democrats to basically do nothing in the face of the actions of Trump & the GOP, & to compare that advice with the strategy taken by Democratic Party leadership.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Words cannot adequately describe what a colossal disappointment our mainstream media has been during our slow descent into authoritarianism.
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Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
We have a pretty cool Governor in Indiana too he's gutting the rest of our public services and instituting a corprorate/martial law police/serf state in line with the current fascist gov't's goals and the goals of their masters. Plus he got a helipad
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Ben @coxsportsohio.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
need to get one of the reporters to ask trump about gary glitter or jimmy savile
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 25/08/2025
Dems are apparently "looking for a platform" when the answer is right there: Stop running away from thing that actually help people. Food, housing, healthcare, no genocides, everyone's rights and bodily autonomy protected, a livable world, and all of those things viciously, deftly defended, always.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht
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