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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

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Ok, Baltimore, time to find an indoor home for Mr. Rogers! He's been living in our guest room and wandering around the house for two weeks now, and he's had all his shots and has been treated for parasites. He has immaculate manners, no spraying, and just wants lots of scritches and playtime.

a tabby cat smiling while getting his head scritched

a tabby cat looking boldly into a bright new future with you

a tabby cat lying on his side looking at you, hoping you will throw the yellow ball he has been playing with

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I forgot that almost all the signs are 2-sided because we had more ideas than posterboard, here's the backs

$- come for one of us & you get all of us! - save the dogs, kill the DOGE - president =\= king - (On the reverse of "courage is contagious) "so is measles, we ❤️ vaccines" - Save our science - Leave trans people alone you absolute freaks - free societies read feeely - we won't let Elon destroy the government - hands off democracy - Your silence will not protect you - anti-DEI = pro white supremacy - book banners, I plead the 1st - vaccines save lives - Trumpster fire$

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The Teen had some friends over and we made a lot of signs

Signs:
- Hands off trans people, libraries, education, democracy
- Save the dogs kill the DOGE
- We live in a democracy not a tyranny
- Courage is contagious
- Leaders not car dealers
- leave trans people alone you absolute freaks
- Free societies read freely
- we won't let Elon destroy the government
- hands off our bodies
- make good trouble
- anti DEI equals pro white supremacy
- FElons (inside a "no" symbol)
- measles kill
- Trumpster diving

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Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Kilmar Abrego-Garcia. If they can do it to him, they can do it to you.

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Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

With the first surpluses of money, humans bought their offspring education so they wouldn’t have to follow them to the mills and the mines and the plants. Now we have a wealthy but failed-at-everything President who sincerely believes every American wants a factory job.

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Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Good summary if there was still a question in your mind about where we are and how we got here. We never actually cleaned the stables after 2008, so these piles of shit are still lying around.

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Seriously, I really want the pro-polling people to start digging up 2024 Dem election avoiders and find out what they’re thinking right now. Are they guilty? Blaming someone else? Feel like they made a mistake?

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Thinking today about those stay-at-home Dem voters in 2024 and wondering what’s in their heads right now.

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Note to younger retirement savers: huge market swings are really depressing when you’ve been saving for 2 or 5 or 10 years and now are watching what seems like a huge waste of effort. Take a breath. Don’t over-react. You have a lot of time left for mistakes to fix themselves.

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We need civics education in the US, and this is the beginning, middle and end of the curriculum. Maybe spend a week on checks and balances.

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Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This is the first time I’ve seen a dem say out loud that they lost because people stayed home. It’s obviously true, but not yet very well understood

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It’s possible that just being a Yale Law School graduate, he just doesn’t understand the difference.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits. Maybe it's not the judges?

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 29/03/2025

This means I now have negative 4 security clearances

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My god it’s a cat walking backwards Muppet

This is the truth in simplest terms.

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Fweedom seeds. Send them downwange.

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A reminder that in 2013, Bondi ended an investigation of the fraudulent Trump University in Florida after receiving a $25k campaign donation from Trump. These people aren’t even expensive criminals.

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TOPPs new douchebag series trading cards.

Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Policy folks used to know that every new thing should be imagined as used if the next President is your worst imaginable choice. Imagine former prosecutor K Harris getting this data on every person involved in Project 2025.

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Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

How many businesses exist in the USA named White House Assisted Living?

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Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Dinner time in my 5-brother household, circa 1980

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Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Easy to forget that the president's main goal in the 2024 campaign was avoiding prison.

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Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

59 year old here. Graduating high school in 1983, every adult around me was focused on college to support myself in life. STEM? Finance? Pre-med? All ok. History? Music? Liberal Arts? Son, you need to get real. At least where I was, the shift was fully complete 42 years ago.

These are agitation trying to get a violent reaction so larger force can be “justified”. They will need an excuse. It could happen. Either way, Trump will have his military parade for July 4 2026. There will be tanks and missiles on the streets of DC. He will not be dissuaded this time.

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USAID is important, but definitionally marginal. My point stands. And I’m referring to state violence here. YOU can live in the zip code and never be exposed to it.

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You’re crossing into delusion here. Musk’s actions are marginal and the responses to them within the system are piling up. Large media is failing badly, but smaller outlets and social media accounts are filling some gaps. Violence has always been near if you live in the wrong zip code.

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You did not answer my question. Those predicting the end is nigh have the responsibility to at least at try to articulate how it happens.

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Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

What do you think that means? What happens between now and then?

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My memory of old-school small “c” conservatism begins with the understanding that because government is really prone to error, we must be careful to keep said government on a short leash. There are so many failures described here.

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Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Exactly which differing opinions are of concern here?

Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This kind of excusatory BS ignores the reality that if the S&P 500 was up right now, the administration would be shouting from the rooftops. (Is excusatory a word?)