Kicking Darkness

Kicking Darkness

@leontes.bsky.social

Dem in a red state 💥 former pastor, current Christian (bible made me a liberal)💥 Proud dad 💥 Delightfully cynical 💥Perpetually confused DM's, body shots, looking for a husband, asking for money or selling something= no follow back. Also, no mimes.

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Sen Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) does not mince words here with his take on the strikes in Venezuela and the capturing of Maduro. ‘This is a dumb administration following a dumb man into a dumb war that will have dumb outcomes.’ Go Sen Gallego, more of this please Democrats!! Bravo💥🔥💥

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On Tuesday, Americans sent Democrats a resounding message. “Fight for us” “Fight for working class Americans” “Fight against Trump’s corruption, criminality and cruelty” 5 days later, Democrat Senators sent Americans a resounding message. “Nah”

The bill includes funding for protection for lawmakers who are scared of violence. In essence, the GOP is saying: - We'll do nothing on gun control - We won't dial down the rhetoric - But we will charge you for protecting us from the violent world we've created

politico.comHouse Republicans roll out 7-week funding patch as shutdown loomsDemocrats aren’t guaranteed to back the measure as President Donald Trump roots for GOP leaders to ignore their counterparts across the aisle.

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Whether it's Donald Trump declaring martial law in our cities or Barack Obama wearing tan suits at our press conferences, both presidents have done great damage to the rule of law in the United States.

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) doesn't create policy. It reports data. It has strict statistical methods, peer-reviewed models and decades of insulation from political pressure. Firing the commissioner because the numbers are politically inconvenient is a direct attack on objective reality.

nbcnews.comTrump fires labor statistics boss hours after the release of weak jobs reportThe president implied that the BLS commissioner, longtime federal employee Erika McEntarfer, manipulated the data "for political purposes."

I deliver pizzas a few nights a week for some extra cash. Just told the crew that Trump (alone, no congressional approval) just bombed Iran. They all cheered. And I put in my notice. I do just fine with my day job, and they can fuck themselves.

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Probably one of my favorite stories from the Bible is when Jesus told his disciples they were all going to die because he was giving tax cuts to the rich instead of caring for the sick & the poor and when they got upset, he went to a graveyard and filmed a weirdly condescending video mocking them.

So, #SCOTUS is reluctant to allow federal judges issue nationwide injunctions. I get that. So, split the baby. If it's a beach of the Constitution (for example, birthright citizenship, abrogation of due process, etc), they can. Anything else is for their own jurisdiction, only. Not hard.

Er... hate to state the obvious, but... once you stopped sharing security briefings and had people in our highest level of government meeting with Putin, we're pretty sure you've already moved on. Great reporting as always, #CNN. 🙄

cnn.comRubio warns if it’s not possible to end the war in Ukraine, US needs to ‘move on’ | CNNUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that if it is not possible to end the war in Ukraine, the United States needs to abandon its efforts and move on.

Federal employees who accept a buyout are taking 2 huge risks: - Vought/Musk control the purse strings, and Musk did not pay the Twitter severance pkg - The gov't is only funded through March. Your continued paycheck will NOT be a priority, much less a thought Trust me on this.

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There is a simple solution to the CBS/Trump lawsuit. The Harris campaign should sue Fox and insist Fox release the unedited versions of all their many edited interviews with Trump.

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Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"