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@paulspolitics.bsky.social
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NGL, mostly political hot takes. Politics: I believe that people (as in the general public), their quality of life, and their enrichment should always be the priority of a healthy society. Also a meh nature photographer, inactive attorney, science buff.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot. It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
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Fire Marshal Bill @firemarshalbill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
That is a VERY thick photo album. I'm sure there's nothing of interest in that...
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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 19/10/2025
"Person impeached for insurrection sends billions to Argentina during US gov't shutdown" and "Felon convicted of fraud pardons felon convicted of fraud" and "Long-time Epstein associate posts video depicting himself as a king dumping diarrhea on Americans from a fighter jet" are factual statements
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
"Let's put [Liz Cheney] with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let's see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face." — Donald Trump, October 31, 2024
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Sue @suebeeblue.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Here's an English language SK news account www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffai...
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Shackled and chained: Mass detention of Koreans fuels criticism of US - The Korea Times
Public anger toward the U.S. is intensifying in Seoul after Koreans who returned from mass arrest in Georgia on Friday described squalid detention...
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
This is Kevin effing Williamson thedispatch.com/article/char...
Beyond that, he was-and this is uncomfortable to write at this moment, though obviously relevant- himself an apologist for political violence, specifically in the matter of the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol and the attempted coup
d'état of which it was one theatrical component. Donald Trump, into whose service Kirk allowed himself to be entirely impressed, body and soul, is an admirer of violence and a celebrant of it. Kirk began his career in public affairs criticizing overweening central government and ended it waving away due-process concerns as black- masked agents of the state dragging people away into unmarked vans. Without quite meaning to, he spent his adult life documenting his own
intellectual corruption. All of that will matter to how Charlie Kirk is
remembered.
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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
It should be way bigger news that Trump effectively killed any attempt by foreign countries to build new factories in the United States with this idiotic ICE move. Just incalculable long term damage. Trump just killed his "build America" push www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...
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Confusion, Anger, Relief: Korean Engineer Tells of Week in U.S. ICE Detention
More than 300 employees at a Hyundai battery plant returned home after being detained in a Georgia immigration raid.
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Kimpossible 🦖🦎🦋 🇦🇺 @kimmik72.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
The motive is to rile people up and get attention. Here we all are commenting on his take. I’m starting to think that “journalism” isn’t as much about informing anymore, as it is about getting a reaction.
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Steve McPherson @steventurous.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 12/09/2025
like this is the most irresponsible level of hysteria i’ve ever seen. most of these people are either paid by the republican party, or are high level advisors and allies. this is insane
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Decrying violence against political opponents rings a bit hollow when you pull Secret Service protection from your political opponents.
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Franklin MacDougal 🐾 🫘🐸🤘 @frankieface15.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Just maybe remember Melissa Hortman🙏, her husband Mark🙏, & their dog Gilbert🙏, along with John Hoffman who survived. They didn't get nearly the press I'm sure this will, no matter the outcome.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.
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NullHedge BongFella @nullhedge.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
“I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up new age term, and it does a lot of damage.” - Charlie Kirk
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
This afternoon, in addition to Charlie Kirk, there was a school shooting. Bullets don't know and don't care if you are a Republican or Democrat. It is time for Republicans and Democrats to find a way to work together to reduce gun violence. www.wcpo.com/us-news/crim...
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At least 2 students shot at high school in Colorado, authorities say
At least two students have been shot at Evergreen High School in Colorado, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Acts of political violence aren’t acceptable. Non-political school shootings aren’t acceptable. Sacking the legislature isn’t acceptable. Military occupation of peaceful American cities isn’t acceptable. Abductions conducted in courthouse hallways by masked agents of the state aren’t acceptable.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
what is wild about the epstein birthday book is how the entries reveal not only that everyone knew about him, but that it was *all* they knew about him. no "thanks for all the laughs" or "remember the Cher concert?" just joke after joke about preying on kids. wealthy creeps devoid of dimension.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
SCOTUS is a political arm of the MAGA GOP.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
A “we were wrong” correction would be nice.
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R Michael Howard @ixcel.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I'm sorry, what. The times witnessed the Adams campaign bribing reporters multiple times in July and is just now reporting it...
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bonerstaboner.bsky.social @bonerstaboner.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Obviously that number is false, but pretending it's true, it basically would mean, if the murder rate was roughly the same as 2024, that there were 2 murders in 9 days instead of 3. Even pretending 9 days is a sample size of any value, touting that number is absurd to the point of parody.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 12/08/2025
Convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has reportedly been cleared to leave prison on work release.
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Ghislaine Maxwell cleared to leave prison on work release: report
Convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has reportedly been cleared to leave prison on work release.Podcast host Allison Gill obtained information about Maxwell's security score, sex offender waiver, and other details after the former partner of Jeffrey Epstein was moved to a minimum-securi...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Yeah JD, we remember. We will never forget your boss was best friends with the guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring. And then that guy was "silenced" forever. And now we will just not talk about anything else until they... #ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
we can sneak around town / hunting working folks down / I hear they got a great benefit plan join ICE boy ain’t it nice / join ICE take my advice www.tiktok.com/@jessewelles...
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Derrick ♎ 🟧 🟦#BLM 🏳️‍🌈 @spawn03.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The GOPedophiles really should listen to the VICTIMS!!!
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duffmid.bsky.social @duffmid.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
She took so many tranquillizers it turned Donald into a pedophile
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Imagine living a life of such depravity that the only way you can avoid prison is to become President and corrupt the entire legal system.
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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I implore you, US politicians, to understand that what the majority of people want, is simply for you to DO THE JOB OF GOVERNMENT. That is, ensure the bottom two rungs of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, so that we can pursue the other three. That's it. That's all. No more. Just that.
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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I think the idea that “The President is simultaneously an institution beyond the reach of criminal law and also a private person who can file $10 billion defamation suits when he dislikes a news article” is not very sensible.
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Paul's Politics (n' stuff) @paulspolitics.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
How can anybody argue that the world is flat with such compelling evidence that it is a ball?
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Paul's Politics (n' stuff) @paulspolitics.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
"Enigmas never age." In other words...
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Clem H. Fandango @sferroni.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I can watch this all day
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Mötley Süe @realmotleysue.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
With silence, complicity, bending to its will and enthusiastic support; they endorse the fact that: •He raped her •He slapped her •She was 13 #FDT #EpsteinFiles #complicit
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/07/2025
Wu: "It's a 500 year storm that keep hitting every year. We're saying there's something wrong with that. You're not supposed to have 500 year events every year. And every time Dems offer up legislation to say 'let's do something about this, let's save lives,' it's uniformly rejected on party lines"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/07/2025
North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein on Trump wanting the states and not FEMA to handle disaster response: "We don't get a huge storm every year. The country does. It doesn't make sense for each state to have a fully staffed emergency response team."
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
this guy has been with the Border Patrol for almost 30y, with most of his assignments apparently in Southern California (www.cbp.gov/newsroom/loc...), but put him under this admin and he talks to his neighbors like he's the general of a foreign army of occupation. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
Mr. Newsom and local leaders had expected the troops to return to their regular duties once the protests had died down. But the president has released only 150 Guard troops for firefighting efforts, and Gregory Bovino, a Customs and Border Protection chief in Southern California, indicated Monday that the Trump
administration intended to make itself seen across the city. "Better get used to us now, cause this is going to be normal very soon," Mr. Bovino told a Fox News reporter. "We will go anywhere,
anytime we want in Los Angeles."
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 07/07/2025
'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

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While retirement typically occurs, after
completing a career and saving and investing for it, a new trend is emerging among Gen Z career professionals
called "micro-retirement." Micro-
retirements involve taking a one to two- week break from work every 12 to 18 months.
Gen Z is using micro-retirement to avoid burnout, find greater fulfillment in their work, and enhance their overall well-being. However, it's not just Gen-Z:
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
The President—who uses antisemitic slurs—is building concentration camps and an enormous secret police force. Ya know, maybe this is just because I’m Jewish, but I wish the political opposition and the media made a bigger deal about it!
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The press absolutely do not think its their job to inform the public
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
This is America.
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
LAPD shoves an unhoused woman to the ground so hard her skull cracks open and she’s knocked unconscious. They then carry her to the curb, prop her up and abandon her. Witnesses took her to the ER.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
A crew of masked federal agents arrested NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander at the courthouse downtown after he asked them to produce a warrant. www.amny.com/news/brad-la...
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BREAKING | Comptroller Brad Lander arrested at ICE court hearing | amNewYork
City Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested and accosted by masked federal agents at immigration court in Lower Manhattan.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
When will they stop? Uh, I guess when you stop pretending everything is normal, voting for their bills and confirming their nominees?
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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 09/06/2025
Watch this ICE officer casually raise their rubber-bullet gun to shoot an unassuming Australian journalist in the back from behind as she does a standup at the LA protests. Now consider again who the “lawbreaking terrorists” are in this situation. bsky.app/profile/dell...
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Leah from South Dakota @leahfromsd.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I never, ever want to hear again that women are too emotional to be leaders.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/06/2025
very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867
A bad President, for
instance, has the power to do what? What can he not do? If he wanted to
revolutionize this government, he could easily do it with this ponderous
power; it would be an auxiliary power. He could cry “havoc, and let slip the
dogs of war,”29 and say to the conspirators: “I am with you. If you
succeed, all is well. If you fail, I will interpose the shield of my pardon, and
you are safe. If your property is taken away from you by Congress, I will
pardon and restore your property. Go on and revolutionize the government;
I will stand by you.” The bad man will say or might say this. I am not sure
but we have got a man now who comes very near saying it. Let us have done
with this pardoning power. We have had enough of this. Pardoning! How
inexpressibly base have been the uses made by this power—this beneficent
power. It has been that with which a treacherous President has trafficked.
He has made it the means of securing adherents to himself instead of
securing allegiance to the government.
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