Sparrow Mint

Sparrow Mint

@sparrowmint.bsky.social

Animal lover, expat Canadian trying to escape America, fleeing Twitter's toxicity

59 followers113 following376 posts

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Trump is now totally fine with Iran as long as they cut him in on the tolls they charge. The guy has the moral fiber of a sociopathic mob boss. He is a walking atrocity.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump went from making genocidal threats against Iran to becoming business partners with Iran in 24 hours. The guy is loonier than a shithouse rat.

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If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

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If you're voting in Texas today, I urge you to vote for @jamestalarico.bsky.social in the Senate primary. He would make an incredible Senator. Jasmine Crockett is a great spokesperson, but she's in the pocket of the crypto industry. We don't need more Senators who are bought by crypto bros.

texasmonthly.comJasmine Crockett’s Cryptocurrency History Is Under Scrutiny. Here’s What Her Record Tells Us.The congresswoman's 2022 victory was bolstered by the financial support of crypto super PACs.

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I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.

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I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.

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🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

kenklippenstein.comTrump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”New order targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions

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This is much, much more significant than the Comey indictment but has gotten like 0.1% of the media coverage

Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social

🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

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I don’t think I’ve ever loved anything as much as ICE loves violently attacking women.

Brad Lander@bradlander.bsky.social

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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nothing says ‘its fall yall’ like bees buzzin around on your goldenrod while the strawberry bushes you planted nearby just absolutely fuck off right back into the waterlogged clay into which you placed them

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Replying to @ryanlcooper.com

"Right now, Beijing is offering cheap, clean power, employment, trade and a route to prosperity. Washington is offering tariffs, policy chaos, White nationalist memes and South Korean workers in shackles after a raid on an EV battery factory." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

bloomberg.comChina’s Marshall Plan Is Running on BatteriesBeijing’s green energy projects are bringing jobs, growth and cheap electricity to the developing world.

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How is this not a screaming massive headline across every news site? This is insane, a virtual declaration of civil war. We fought a revolution to not be subjected to this kind of tyranny

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The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

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We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.

Atul Gawande@agawande.bsky.social

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

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About half of Americans say they've put off healthcare services due to cost barriers, with Millennials most affected by far, per new study by Madaket Health. Percent of age groups who've put off getting care: Millennials: 78% Gen X: 56% Baby Boomers: 30% www.morningstar.com/news/busines...

morningstar.comNew Study from Madaket Health Reveals Nearly Half of Americans Delay Healthcare Due to Cost and In-Network Barriers

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This is not something special to ICE, they're just highlighting it for recruitment. All federal employees are eligible for the same 10-year public interest student loan forgiveness as everyone else. This is the PSLF program, which I myself was able to utilize by working at nonprofits for a decade.

Celeste Pewter@celestepewter.bsky.social

😐 So ICE can get student loan forgiveness...

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Shame! Shame on the Trump administration for stripping legal status from thousands of our ALLIES, including many we evacuated from Kabul ourselves! This makes our country utterly untrustworthy. No future ally will ever believe our promises; all can be taken away. We lose our honor.

Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social

BREAKING: 4th Circuit lifts admin stay, lets Trump proceed with cancellation of temporary protected status for Afghans & Cameroonians. But appeals panel says advocates appear to have plausible case decision was preordained. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... #TPS

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This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

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When your neighbor on the left is being dragged away by masked men and your neighbor on the right can't get an X-ray for their child, be sure to quickly explain that "both parties are the same" and whatnot.

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I really struck a nerve here. I stand by what I said.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

FROST: "They say they're pro-life because they want the baby to be born, go to school and get shot in the school. Die in the school, die on the streets." FOXX: "You are not going to come into this room and impugn our integrity!"

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Catching up on Dynamite and between Hanger and Brody, unconditional support for our LGBTQIA+ wrestlers, staff, crew, and fans during Pride Month and every month, and celebrating Juneteenth, I've never been more confident I picked the right team to play for and I'm glad that they will have me.

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The presidential memorandum never mentions Los Angeles or California. It’s a blank check for mobilizing National Guard and active duty troops to deploy anywhere to protect federal personnel or functions wherever protests “are occurring or are likely to occur.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

whitehouse.govDepartment of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security FunctionsMEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE                THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

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David Huerta, President of California's largest union, was assaulted and detained Friday by ICE. Now the @aflcio.org, the biggest confederation of unions in America made up of nearly 15 million active and retired workers, is calling on members to protest on his behalf.