That Guy

That Guy

@emsprater.bsky.social

Trying to find peace as a retired EMS professional watching things fall apart all around. 🚫honey traps. I’m not interested in your ‘goods’. #TwitterQuitter 🚫crypto. Please DO NOT follow me if you’re here to sell, promote crypto, your porn or your ‘give me’

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New pinned post: if you’re here still crap posting about Hillary, Joe or Kamala you can just kick rocks and jump over the moon. There’s a real threat to our future, Trump, maga and the gop. FOCUS. Don’t follow me if you can’t focus. I block trolls.

It’s sad because it’s true.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com

Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts Court. Our September + October cover story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It should be illegal for staffers to step up and tell any elected representative at any level what their vote should be on any issue. Period.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

New in PN: Retire in peace "McConnell would never be allowed to drive a car, babysit young children, or file his own taxes. Why, then, should a cognitively incapacitated 82-year-old retain one of the most important positions of power within the national government?"

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votetexas.govYour Guide to Voting in Texas | VoteTexas.govVoteTexas.gov is your go-to resource for voter registration, election dates, polling locations, and more. Get the info you need to make your vote count.

As many as 1.2 million Texas voters have until October 5th to update their registrations and can check their status on the Texas Sec. of State’s website, at a county election office, or by mail. #ProudBlue #Texas #Talarico #TexasVoter #registertovote newrepublic.com/post/214832/...

This is Jeffries’ last post here, 12 days ago. I rarely excoriate ‘our own’ , but he needs to be here answering for this and explaining his reasons for meeting in secret with Kushner. We deserve answers.

Hakeem Jeffries@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

Pete Hegseth should be fired. Immediately.

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Trump voters who are regretting their vote ARE NOT SORRY.. They're upset that what they voted for is affecting THEM. They're still racists, homophobic, transphobic bigots... And people don't have to forgive nor accept them!! You got what you voted for!!!

How to say a corrupt asshole is now USAG without saying a corrupt asshole is now USAG.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

Donald Trump's former personal attorney is now the United States Attorney General.

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Democrats: You pay taxes. We spend the money on you Republicans: You pay taxes, we spend the money on tax cuts for the wealthy and corporate subsidies This is how wealth is transferred from us to them. The same is true for tariffs. We pay the higher prices, but the corporations get the refunds.

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Today’s Civics Lesson Dr. Fauci honoring a congressional subpoena and then taking the Fifth Amendment: an example of someone respecting both Congress and the Constitution. Jim Jordan ignoring a congressional subpoena: an example of someone showing contempt for Congress. Lesson over.

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If you're a cis person insisting that the prospect of trans children playing youth sports is not only "a problem" but in fact one of the biggest problems we currently face as a nation, I'd be happy to introduce you to literally a million other things that should be worrying you more.

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Watching Dems attack each other, instead of banding together and focusing on the goal isn't giving me much hope.

Liberal Justice Elena Kagan says the Supreme Court isn’t a rubber stamp for Trump www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup... You could say that the six ‘conservatives’ are cult members with rubber stamp trigger hands. They do his bidding ~90% of the time, even overturning precedents.

nbcnews.comLiberal Justice Elena Kagan says the Supreme Court isn’t a rubber stamp for TrumpShe pointed to rulings like the decisions rejecting Trump’s sweeping tariffs and his efforts to strip birthright citizenship from the children of people who are in the U.S. illegally.

Airline-ticket prices may stay high as carriers bank fuel relief from Iran deal - Reuters. Of course. We’ve always known this is how it works: prices rise when costs rise but those prices never come down. How else are the corporations going to fleece the public if they do anything differently?

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The fact is that the most correct observation anyone can make about US politics over the previous decade is that voting for Hillary Clinton would have fixed literally everything you’re currently suffering from, and you only think this isn’t the case because of misogyny

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Bluesky isn't a bubble or an echo chamber, it's a garden. You plant some seeds and pull some weeds, you tend to it with care, and you make it into a space that pleases you when you come to sit in it a while. Other people can plant and tend to their own gardens, if they like. This garden is yours.

Spencer Pratt says he doesn’t care about national politics after Trump backed his bid for L.A. mayor Is Brendan Carr going to use the FCC to threaten NBC over ‘equal time’ like he did CBS when Colbert had Talarico on ?

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Effective tax rate paid by Jeff Bezos from 2014 to 2018: 0.98% Effective 2025 federal tax rate paid by Amazon: 1.4% Typical tax rate paid by the average American: 14.5% Just thought I should point that out.

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If Iran Hackers could hack the head of the FBI, they could get the Epstein files and end this shit quick.. PLEASE DO IT

Is Kasie Hunt’s sole reason for having a show on CNN allowing republican politicians and operatives to spew their crap unchallenged? Is that the only reason she’s on? Sure seems like it.

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The amount of energy the sun provides in 1 hour takes humanity a year to consume. We have the tech to harness it, yet we continue using fossil fuels which damage the planet. Solar energy is a vastly untapped & clean resource. Combined with other renewables, it provides the answer. Oil doesn’t. 🌍

Listening to the oral arguments in SCOTUS this morning about when to count mail in ballots I’m simply depressed that there seems to be so much emphasis on trying to constrain modern voting laws to what took place during the civil war.

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All of the Republicans who attacked Obama for giving Iran $400 million of their own money are silent now that Trump just lifted sanctions and gave Iran $15 billion in oil revenue. That’s because they are… each and every one of them… hypocrites!

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Robert Mueller, a Vietnam veteran with a bronze star for heroism, and a purple heart has passed away. Perhaps his biggest honor was trying to save our democracy. I REFUSE to let him be a punchline for our deranged president. Robert Mueller was a hero and may he rest in peace and watch over us. Amen.

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We’re at war with Iran over an “imminent threat,” yet the US is now lifting sanctions on Iranian oil and eased restrictions on Russian oil. Meanwhile, Russia is helping Iran with intelligence to target US forces. Make it make sense.

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I see all of the posts directing so much anger at all of us in the United States for "allowing" Trump to happen. I get it. I understand it, and rarely offer any pushback. But there are millions of us who oppose him. We don't have time for self-flagellation. We are trying to fix this.