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My thoughts are my own.

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This. If you haven’t voted: vote. Have a plan to make sure you are heard.

Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social

Everyone keeps asking me how I’m feeling about early voting so far. I’m feeling like nobody *actually* knows anything, and this is the most important midterm of our lives. I’d rather be us than them, but we can’t get comfortable. We can’t get complacent. Go vote like we’re down 3%.

It must be amazing to live in a world where you when you don’t win it’s always fake.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on Bolsonaro's loss: "It looked like another rigged election" 😆

JD has been flunking character tests for most of his life. Nothing new to see here.

Steve Benen@stevebenen.com

JD Vance had an opportunity to take the high road on the year’s most disgusting attack ad. Predictably, the VP instead flunked an important test of his character: Vance is “disgusted,” not by Ramaswamy’s vile commercial, but by Republicans “whining” about it. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

People are struggling to make ends meet. They're dealing with high gas prices, spiking food costs, expensive sub-standard health care, & economy that only works for the top .25% Let's talk about communists, socialism, transgender to try to scare people to vote RED. Its not working this time.

They accuse everyone one else of being Fake News and cheating.. but its always the Republicans. The Trans issue comes up every election. And every election its a made up issue that makes it sound like they are "cutting Billy at school and sending home Susie." Not a single example of this ever.

Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social

Team Paxton appears to have sent out fake mailers to Texas voters impersonating a trans student group and claiming to want to help kids secretly transition. The actual group said they had nothing to do with it, despite the mailers copying their aesthetic, and the address traces to a random UPS box.

This is treason.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump puts new Russia sanctions passed by Congress on hold, saying a waiver is in the US national interest.

This is so true. Get to the polls. Make sure your voice is heard. The future of our country is literally at stake here

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The Jimmy Kimmel interview w/Talarico should be a bigger deal. Can you imagine if Obama or Biden did something like this? They would be losing their minds. This demonstrates that GOP isn't principled at all. They only crave power and keeping it. The rules and principled be damned.

This is not the country I grew up in. Everything is leverage without regard for ethics, morals, or the greater good for humanity. We should hang our heads in shame that we elected people who think this is ok. Shaking down a country just to get access to AIDS medications is far across the line.

Dutchy Patrick@dutchiepatrick.bsky.social

It’s called extortion….

I'm old enough to remember when political parties would talk to their voters to try to understand what is important to them.. then craft policies and platforms aimed to meet the needs of the people. Not today.. today, its all about who buys their attention. And only the ultra-wealth can do that.

The strait is open! Water is freely flowing through the strait. Wait.. you mean't for oil tankers.. oh, no. Its not open for that.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The strait is open. But the straits have been open for a number of months already and you just didn't know about it."

Why? Where is the justification or logic for preventing scientists and doctors from collaborating to solve issues that affect humanity? I don't understand what we are doing in this world right now. We've lost the plot of what it means to be leaders of the free world and its truly sad.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

The Trump administration has barred key infectious disease officials from communicating with the World Health Organization.

Its sad and ironic that we routinely accuse countries of being corrupt.. when we have one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Look at what is happening in the EU. Major investments in green energy, generating so much power they are BEGGING people to use it this summer for cheap rates.

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We are being corrupted by fossil fuel companies and countries that sell oil at the expense of our world and our pocketbooks. That's corruption plain and simple. China and the EU are going to eat our lunch over the next 100 years. People like Trump and the GOP will be directly responsible.

China has way better electric cars that charge faster and are cheaper. Why aren't they here? Because people like Elon have the muscle to keep them out. The minute they show up in US, Elon's net worth tanks. Why do you think he is all in on robots and AI? Because Tesla the car company is doomed.

Its sad and ironic that we routinely accuse countries of being corrupt.. when we have one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Look at what is happening in the EU. Major investments in green energy, generating so much power they are BEGGING people to use it this summer for cheap rates.

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Meantime, we sit here paying more and more for energy while energy companies make buckets of cash. Are they investing in infra and renewables to make us more energy efficient and help with climate change? Hell no.

Its sad and ironic that we routinely accuse countries of being corrupt.. when we have one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Look at what is happening in the EU. Major investments in green energy, generating so much power they are BEGGING people to use it this summer for cheap rates.

Here’s an idea: he is the Pope. you’re a Catholic. Maybe you should take your direction on how to act in this world from him instead of the other way around

Muggsy Pogues@circusmaximus.bsky.social

“sTiCk tO MaTtErS oF MoRaLiTy” Bitch, he’s doing just that by calling y’all immoral.

And yet people will still believe he is a genius and everyone else must be wrong. Just about everyone who has ever worked for him and left has said that he’s the low IQ idiot who has no idea how to run a country. Will the GOP wake up & stop him from flying the party into the side of a mountain?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump posts a bonkers rant: “I know why Tucker, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, & Alex Jones have all been fighting me for years, especially by the fact that they think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon — bc they have one thing in common, Low IQs”

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The President of the United States is threatening war crimes. That alone is illegal. He is unfit for office. I am urging the entire military command to remember your oath to the Constitution. Do not follow illegal orders. Do not commit war crimes. The stain and repercussions will be endless.

This country needs to start prioritizing the needs of its people over the needs of big business. The Iran War (and yes, its a War.. not an operation) is only helping bad actor countries and big business.. meanwhile we are telling people we can't pay for medicare, medicaid, etc. This is wrong.

I did a drinking game every time he said “like no one has ever seen before” and “nothing like it” I died of alcohol poisoning in 19 minutes

I hope to God that Trump doesn't try to abandon NATO. You can't imagine the national security nightmare it would be for us losing all of our bases around the world. Trump doesn't get that NATO is a defense treaty. It doesn't say that will attack anyone you attack. Its about defense.

I'm not a big Charles Barkley fan (I'm a Warrior fan.. and he is pretty clear that he doesn't like the Warriors).. but I appreciate and respect him using his platform to speak up for people who need to be heard. Much respect, Charles.

Mike Nellis@mikenellis.bsky.social

🔥 NEW VIDEO: NBA Legend Charles Barkley used his platform to defend immigrants—and now powerful voices are demanding he be punished. I break down how this fits into a much bigger crackdown on dissent. Link below 👇

Imagine this.. the only thing that Trump has to do is agree that ICE should be held accountable to the law and the Constitution to get this funding through. And somehow this is the Democrats fault. Are people really stupid enough to believe that?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: “If the Democrats do not allow for Just and Proper Security at our Airports, ICE will do the job far better than ever done before! The Fascist Democrats will never protect America, but Republicans will … I look forward to moving ICE in on Monday, and have already told them to, ‘GET READY.’”

We put a reality show fake leader in what was what the most powerful seat in the world. A guy who completely screwed up COVID and is more corrupt that all other Presidents combined. We have the dumbest conservative voters on the planet.

The President of the United States… openly and blatantly saying he will seize another foreign country without any cause whatsoever.

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com

Trump: I do believe I'll be having the honor of taking Cuba. That's a big honor. Taking Cuba in some form. I think I can do anything I want with it, if you want to know the truth. They’re a very weakened nation.

This is very interesting. The connections in this piece are alarming. Makes you really this was more than just a bunch of pedophile billionaires.. it was a global spy network.. that might still be going today.

I bet if someone runs for office (especially President) and their entire platform was: I will immediately: 1. End the Iran War. 2. Release all Epstein files .. they would win by double digits

This might be the coolest thing I have seen on social media today. We need more of this

WeRateDogs@weratedogs.com

This is Summit. He is a friend to pretty much everyone he meets. But has a special soft spot for the little critters who stop long enough for him to say hello. 13/10 (IG: bakerbarnes)