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Lawyer ⚖️, Floridian🐊, Exhausted Citizen

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17h
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 21h
I cared about their lives, families, and businesses, and voted accordingly. They cared about keeping me in my place, and voted accordingly. *Gift article* www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Hispanic Voters on the Texas Border Have Soured on Trump (Gift Article)
In 2024, these voters were an essential part of the winning Republican coalition. Now, many feel abandoned and furious, complicating the party’s chances in November.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Enough with the niggers, enough with the jewrats" This important message on X the Everything App has been brought to you by Home Depot, McDonalds and Disney.
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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People spent decades feeling good about voting their bigotry, trusting they were safely ensconced in a system in which Democrats, the courts, or both would always save them from the GOP's worst instincts. It worked until it didn't. I voted for them to prosper. They voted for me to fail. Oh, well.
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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It looks like "Musk" is only scheduled to play at the most expensive possible theater near me. Oh well, I'll be there.
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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's taken way too long but I'm finally reading "Parable of the Sower." #reading #books #booksky
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Communist China’s state-controlled media traipsing around the White House while American media is suing for access
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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Time to sit back with dinner and a glass of wine and listen to the @propublica.org story on Susan Collins's corruption.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The entire presidential television press pool — Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN — has agreed to suspend coverage in the wake of Trump’s decision to ban CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House
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Major TV Networks Band Together in Boycott After Trump’s Ban on CNN
The five major TV networks are joining forces after Trump’s press ban.
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Welp. That finally did it. Walmart has seen me for the last time. For tears, I shopped at Target multiple times a week but haven't been back since January 2025. This will be much easier.
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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Every single time a voter cites immigration concerns in places like the U.S. and Germany, all I can do is shake my head. But for immigration, the U.S. wouldn't exist at all or have its celebrated regional differences. And Germany, may have been the 20th century's largest driver of immigration. Wtf?
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Higher Education is not just about training workers, but also about training citizen leaders and good citizenship in part means thinking that the details matter, that getting them right matters, because it impacts some of your fellow citizens. "It only matters if job" is poison to citizenship.
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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Lawsuits soon come.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The White House Press Corps should've walked out as soon as the Trump regime banned the Associated Press for calling the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of Mexico." That was Feb 15, 2025. The first month of Trump Term II. Not surprising that abandoning principles for weak acquiescence led to more abuse.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It just never ends.
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Spoiler alert and whatnot. You don't have to completely understand how someone lives their life in order to LET someone live their life.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I almost spat out my soda laughing at this. Like rats deserting the sinking MAGA ship.
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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Whatever horrible thing you can think of, there are currently two votes for it on the Supreme Court.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
For these guys, it was never about illegal immigration, it was never about cultural assimilation. You can be born in America, drinking beer as you cheer on the Longhorns, but its not enough if you are not white.
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The entire presentation of conservative masculinity is elaborate fantasies about how you would do Taken if an immigrant/hip-hop thug/antifa sicko touched your daughter and when it actually happens they're like "it's very sad, he should go to the doctor :("
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."
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Jeff Domingues @jeffdomingues.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you liked your DOGE refund and your tariff rebate, you’ll love your Trump dividend.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Lots of coverage of Trump on renaming New Mexico, New America. But people are too polite to point out Trump has no interest in renaming New England or New Hampshire or New Jersey or New York. It's Mexico and Mexicans and Latinos he wants to taunt. It's childish idiocy, but it's also a dog whistle.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Unprecedented corruption www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/09/2026
the president is now blacklisting companies by fiat. tell me more about how left-wing communism is the biggest threat to the country.
NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES! Their products aren’t good enough! Over 50% of their revenue comes from the United States — They live off American Buyers, American Companies, American Airports, and American Service — All while Canada blocks our GREAT American Banks, and Companies, throughout the U.S.A. They even blocked Gulfstream Aerospace from doing business in Canada — Completely unjust and unfair! That Era is OVER! If they want our Market, they must build here, and stop treating America like a “piggybank.” BUY AMERICAN. FLY ON AMERICAN AIRLINERS. ENJOY AMERICAN LIQUOR AND BEVERAGES. SAIL ON LAKE AMERICA. AMERICA FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Tonight's viewing - Gloria Steinem's Last Words on @netflix.com .
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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is what the GOP thinks of us. And honestly, I don't feel bad about. Byron Donalds knew exactly who he got in bed with and has always been willing to throw Black people overboard for his own personal advancement.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If the President of Harvard had posted what Elon did, an armed DOJ anti-Semitism strike force would already be on the way to seize the campus If just a random Harvard undergrad had posted it, DOJ would cut off its grants and launch an investigation
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I don’t think there’s really even a colorable argument that this isn’t mass murder. theintercept.com/2026/09/02/m...
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The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”
“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.”
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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I remember Tupac's shooting and death like it was yesterday. I can't believe it's been 30 years. I never thought I would see this day. Former gang leader Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis found guilty of murder in Tupac Shakur’s death www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Ex-gang leader found guilty in Tupac Shakur’s 1996 killing
Jurors heard nearly two weeks of testimony from dozens of former investigators and law enforcement officers involved in solving the 30-year mystery.
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Jay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Kurt Schlicter once told a disabled veteran to off himself. I know because I was that veteran.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“We are losing too many qualified candidates to the rigors of the requirements from yesteryear,” said kash patel in a quote that sounds made-up but i swear is not
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FBI Reportedly Loosens Hiring Rules So ‘Prostitution and Bestiality’ Are No Longer ‘Automatic Disqualifiers’
The FBI has reportedly relaxed hiring standards that previously automatically disqualified applicants who admitted to hiring prostitutes, engaging in bestiality, or stealing from an employer.
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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
My God.
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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Unimaginable, gratuitous cruelty. Felon & sexual abuser, Trump, can be president. Multi-time felon, Byron Donalds, can run for governor. Abbott protects murderers and shooters in Texas. While immigrants are imprisoned indefinitely without even a hearing. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/m...
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He Was Deported to a Country He’d Never Heard Of. He May Never Go Free.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What a circus. 🤡
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It’s Lake Ontario.
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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Live your life in such a way that if you pass at 80 people will say, "too soon."
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Someone announced Dolly Parton's passing at an office meeting today. The entire group let out a loud, "Noooo!" To get that kind of reaction at 80 means you lived a good life. #RIP
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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This may sound harsh, but I don't care. For all the dummies who said, "what don't you understand about the word 'illegal'"or "why can't they do it the right way?" You're either a bigot who knew they were lying or an idiot who can't be trusted to govern your own affairs.
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Serious Talk @serioustalk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
When I was in 4th grade I had a very well defined career ambition. By 11th grade, it had completely changed. I went to undergrad unsure what I was going to do. My parents then insisted on law school. My side gig is fitness related. McMahon would have had me in a trade. I loathe these people.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE
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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Remarkable how little political noise it's made here in the US that a major American naval base in Bahrain was basically destroyed, and that this was kept quiet for five months www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
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Navy Carrier’s Problems Are Tied to Attacks on U.S. Base Early in War
Diego Garcia, a tiny island 2,200 miles from the Gulf of Oman, took over as the Navy’s logistics hub after Iran damaged a base in Bahrain.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Here's the Trump two-step: 1) transfer money from working/middle class consumers to the wealthy by using tariff revenues to fund tax cuts for rich 2) when the tariffs hurt GOP constituencies, transfer our tax dollars to them in form of bailouts, effectively paying them off to keep voting GOP
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Republican Senator from Montana. Trump constantly hurts farmers and ranchers. Then Republicans make us pay them billions in welfare to bail them out.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is a TERRIBLE argument. To understand why, think of the word “fire,” which has a secondary definition of “to set on fire.” DOJ’s argument is akin to saying that “an objective viewer” of an Instagram post saying “fire Trump” could read it to mean “set Trump on fire.”
fire 20f3
verb
fired; firing transitive verb
1 a : to set on fire: KINDLE
also: IGNITE
fire a rocket engine
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