Klaestone

Klaestone

@klaestone.bsky.social

(He/him) Husband, father, Engineer, independent (bull moose) progressive, and follower of Christ. -BLM -Pro Ukraine -Against genocide -Against extremism and “both sides” whataboutisms

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A two-month-old named Juan Nicolás has been held with his mother at the South Texas Family Residential Center, an immigration detention facility near Dilley, Texas, for more than three weeks roughly half of his life. The infant had been exhibiting serious health problems,

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Crockett: "Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate. As we sit here on January 6, I do want to be clear: somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to do the exact same thing. The difference is Maduro was successful."

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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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What we’re being told is that a guy who is an adjudicated rapist, who was credibly accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, who is mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein files, couldn’t possibly be a sexual predator.

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Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that. No phones, no staff, nothing. I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)

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Jeffries: "The notion that the No Kings rallies are anything but a patriotic act consistent w.the 1A right to express yourself & petition the govt for change in policy continues to reveal that Republicans are clueless as it relates to the Constitution, or they continue to lie for political reasons."

If you truly love something, then you can recognize when it has problems and fight for it to get better.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Sanders: Saturday, millions of people are going to come out on a No Kings day. Speaker Johnson said this is a hate America rally because people are coming out expressing their concerns.. It’s not a hate America rally, it's a love America rally.

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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

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Reports and video show flash-bangs thrown into piles of debris just before a car caught fire, strongly suggesting it was law enforcement, not protesters, who sparked it. More details are coming. Don’t let them control the narrative. Thank you to everyone sharing footage, always record everything.

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Mr. Authoritarian President, why weren’t you as interested in upholding “very strong law and order” during the insurrection on the Nation’s Capital as you are now in LA? Was your inaction then a result of your having incited the insurrection? #WeMustImpeachTrump!

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MUST WATCH: ICE kidnapped a disabled American citizen. Her name is Alma Bowman. Born in the Philippines while her dad served in the U.S. Navy. She’s lived here 48 years. They crashed her wheelchair, denied meds, cut her off from her lawyer—and jailed her. She. Is. A. Citizen.

Incompetence.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

TAPPER: You're imposing a 10% on the Heard and MccDonald islands. They have zero human inhabitants. Why are you putting tariffs on islands entirely populated by penguins? ROLLINS: Whatever. Listen, the people leading this are serious, intentional, patriotic, the smartest I've ever worked with.

So glad we have these antiscience idiots running the country and removing people and things in the name of efficiency and profit because they don’t know what they do. You don’t fix a sick patient by cutting out their brain because you aren’t sure how it works abd it consumes the most energy.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

THIS IS TERRIFYING‼️ Dr. Peter Marks, former head of vaccines at the FDA, just had his last day—forced to resign or be fired because he wouldn’t lie about vaccines. He gives a chilling warning: the U.S. is unprepared for biowarfare—because the response team has been gutted.

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It’s weird* that the president can just decide to put a huge tax on American businesses without congress even being a little bit involved. * very unconstitutional

We needed these numbers back in the 2024 election to prevent all this, but as always people never want to do the work to prevent an issue they only want a solution to their immediate problems.

Bhav@bhavik.bsky.social

Is this good???

We call that a Freudian slip, he’s saying what they really mean instead of what he’s meant to say.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Sen. Bill Cassidy: "Is there some way that we cut Medicare so that it's-- excuse me, reform Medicare."

This is why we have due process, this is why deportations take time, this is why you can’t be so overly aggressive and deport people with no evidence. Then you have people defending it and people like the person here saying we can’t bring them back. This is evil, this is MAGA.

union person@junlper.beer

there are those in this world with only evil in their soul

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As someone who values the pursuit of science, education, and children having third spaces to play and grow over pretty much anything else, I don't even have words to describe seeing the leaders of those spaces in Ohio cozy up to anti-science fascists everywhere I turn. NOTHING is safe anymore.

Klaestone@klaestone.bsky.social

So COSI’s leadership decided to endorse Vivek Ramaswamy for governor, I guess it runs in line with them closing for DeWine to have a private visit. We had gone a couple months ago and planned another visit next month, not anymore. #Ohio #OH #Columbus #ColumbusOhio #Cbus #CoSi #Vivek #VivekRamaswamy

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For people who want to know, “Where’s Kamala Harris?” She’s resting with her husband and family. Don’t worry about her. She’s minding her own business. Yall made your choice ! Kamala doesn’t owe anyone, anything. We failed her, not the other way around.

So COSI’s leadership decided to endorse Vivek Ramaswamy for governor, I guess it runs in line with them closing for DeWine to have a private visit. We had gone a couple months ago and planned another visit next month, not anymore. #Ohio #OH #Columbus #ColumbusOhio #Cbus #CoSi #Vivek #VivekRamaswamy

“Tax on imported goods is a tax cut” It is a path for them to give a tax cut to the wealthy while increasing consumer taxes on anyone who isn’t rich.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Peter Navarro goes full Orwell on Fox News Sunday: "The message is that tariffs are tax cuts."

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In case you’ve forgotten how we used to treat this sort of thing… There would be bipartisan calls for investigations Impeachment would be a foregone conclusion Several people would’ve resigned or been fired by end of day Back when responsible adults were in charge, not this insane clown posse

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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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When a Tesla dealership gets shot at they send ICE. When a school gets shot at they send thoughts and prayers.

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CNN put together a collection of clips of various Trump officials who were on the signal chat criticizing Hillary Clinton’s email server