A century ago, a strange little German man with an unusual mustache did much the same as an American man with strange hair and little hands is doing today And the dude that throws Sieg Heils is in our most sensitive data linking control of info with control of funds to use against the whole of US 👇🏼 - ThreadSky

bluedotmawma.bsky.social•20 days ago

#lügenpresse 😒

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tonetone1949.bsky.social•20 days ago

It’s time to start an impeachment petition!!!!

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

Who will impeach ?

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tonetone1949.bsky.social•19 days ago

Impeach Trump and get Elon out of the White House

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talentedripley.bsky.social•20 days ago

If only media would resist.

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bombswarmearth.bsky.social•20 days ago

try Berkeley radio
https://Kpfa.org

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

!!!!

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thejojoyouknow.bsky.social•20 days ago

Never thought I’d see America do this to ourselves.

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themeanlantern.bsky.social•20 days ago

Then you failed to factor in the effect of 28 years of Faux News propaganda and disinformation and 18 years of Fecebook siloing.

But here we are.

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thejojoyouknow.bsky.social•20 days ago

I guess. I never have turned that shit on my TV.

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themeanlantern.bsky.social•20 days ago

You don't have to have watched it to be aware of its pernicious effect.

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themeanlantern.bsky.social•20 days ago

Literal psyops, honestly, on the part of Faux News.

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lorenabobbitttime.bsky.social•20 days ago

I did. Every fucking proudly ignorant christian warned me.

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thejojoyouknow.bsky.social•20 days ago

I meant before the trump era

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lorenabobbitttime.bsky.social•20 days ago

Ya, me too.
Fucking stupid kkkristiankkkunts have had a 45 year long game to dumb down the American public.
Viola'
tRump!

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thejojoyouknow.bsky.social•20 days ago

And he’s not even a “Christian”. Fucking infuriating!

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lorenabobbitttime.bsky.social•20 days ago

He says he is

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prizscisurf.bsky.social•20 days ago

I've seen a lot in 66 years, wars, scandals, corruption, tragedies, bit never anything like this. The guy only won by a tiny margin. More than twice as many didn't vote for him, than did. Now, his minions are dismantling our democratic republic at warp speed.

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

He won by a sliver and so many stayed home and didn’t vote. I’ll always resent the fuck out of them more than those that voted for him

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mrs-smeltzer.bsky.social•20 days ago

He didn't win at all! Please see the pinned post on my page. Help me get the word out. I have been repeatedly sharing it, and it isn't reaching enough people! The election was STOLEN. Over 3.5 million votes for Kamala were thrown out!

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prizscisurf.bsky.social•20 days ago

I think (not sure) I met Balast when
I was covering the election rigmarole in Tallahassee in 2000.

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jerryc.bsky.social•20 days ago

There's a lot of blame to go around. Personally I think I'm angriest at the fourth estate. If they weren't both sidesing it for the last decade I really don't think we'd be here, and even if we did end up here, truthful reporting in just the last 12 months would have brought more people out to vote.

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

That’s the saddest part : “do this to ourselves”

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katanon.bsky.social•20 days ago

The old "cut your nose off to spite your face" move. Insanity.

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kavadore3.bsky.social•20 days ago

I want to go back to the way they used to be, when times were simpler and everything was clearer. Why I can even remember a time when no pol in DC would touch someone like this with a 10-foot pole.

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jockyfox.bsky.social•19 days ago

“With people like that you can do whatever you want”

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tammers1989.bsky.social•20 days ago

Definition of insanity, repeating same mistakes over and over, then expecting a different outcome! 💙💙💙💙

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

We’re insane. Great.

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tammers1989.bsky.social•20 days ago

We all are at this point!! 🤪🤪

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mja66.bsky.social•20 days ago

And you've got to ask who enabled him to do that and what was their motivation in doing so?

Dark times for our American brothers and sisters. And for us all.

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

“They printed misleading headlines, they normalized him, and they helped him win. Now the free press they once thought was worth protecting is being stomped into submission, and the American experiment itself faces a clear and present danger.”

Bingo !

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schlotrvlr.bsky.social•20 days ago

When bigotry, xenophobia and racism are literally being mainstreamed, a nation is already in clear and present danger. No one wanted to take it seriously when it began in earnest during Obama’s term, now here we are. They are the tools of the authoritarian time and again.

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

They took our buzz words and spin them on us. Does “defund the police” sound like it was a good idea?

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schlotrvlr.bsky.social•20 days ago

Indeed they did. Definitely mistakes were made at critical moments, that's for sure. 😔

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schlotrvlr.bsky.social•20 days ago

It was only a matter of time before a Trump figure came along, someone so corrupt they'd sell the nation and all of us to the highest bidder when the opportunity arose. The perfect marriage for Christian Nationalists and oligarchs to get their hands on the levers of power.

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nancylevinestearns.bsky.social•20 days ago

Chilling. Scary. Thanks for writing this. Stay strong!

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

You as well !

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nancylevinestearns.bsky.social•20 days ago

💙✊

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djcri.bsky.social•20 days ago

YEAP

we have been talking about this for five years, he was allowed to run for office, shame on us

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

Yes! I said so in this article!! Fuck!

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djcri.bsky.social•20 days ago

why are people acting surprised 😳

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schlotrvlr.bsky.social•20 days ago

I was just saying earlier that THE moment they entertained allowing him to run was the moment Dems should've been calling local meetings and gathering on the ground resources, doing anything and everything to reach at least some of the 90 million non-voters to try and help tip the scales.

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djcri.bsky.social•20 days ago

exactly, correct!

he has said he would become a dictator, he has said we would never vote again, he has said, he will put us in a recession, he has shown us he is a white supremacist.

we could go on 😳👀😳👀😳👀😳

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

And the dude that bought trump’s presidency is rummaging around in our social security info 🤬

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

Indeed! And the media should not have normalized him !

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djcri.bsky.social•20 days ago

media along with the Democrats, have caved

They are so threatened, Oompa Loompa uses blackmail for control

Total narcissist

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schlotrvlr.bsky.social•20 days ago

100%. They only cared that he was a cash cow for them, until the 2nd term and he could threaten their other business interests.

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nickyschwenzer.bsky.social•20 days ago

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth/fact. Their propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity!

Their ✋🏻 "gestures" are the beginning!!
#Musskolini #Felon #Fascism #Dictatorship

Thank you 🗞️💎👏🏻 @out5p0ken.bsky.social

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

Hey Nicky, I’ve been screaming about Trump and Nazism since 2015 — and now we’re here. He shouldn’t have been allowed to run for president a second time

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jrmed9870.bsky.social•20 days ago

He shouldn’t. He’s a domestic terrorist and a traitor. They should never have allowed him to run

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jremmc.bsky.social•20 days ago

Same here. (History major) My husband thought I was crazy. By 2018, he was agreeing with me.

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minminma.bsky.social•20 days ago

Me too, ASU grad. I have been flipping out trying to understand how stupid people have to be to not see what is right in front of them.

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nickyschwenzer.bsky.social•20 days ago

We can see protests in Germany, Georgia, Slovakia, etc...

America? Absolutely nothing! 🐑🐑🐑

To put it mildly, this is fucked up!!

I read your article over & over again 🗞️
@out5p0ken.bsky.social 🔝

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whackamama.bsky.social•20 days ago

They’ve been happening every day in my city but the news is covering nothing. Why that is is beyond me

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nickyschwenzer.bsky.social•19 days ago

Good morning from Munich 🇩🇪 @whackamama.bsky.social
Please share photos / tweets #protests

I'll be happy to ♻️♻️♻️ any non-violent protest.

Einen schönen Tag noch! Have a nice day!
🍀🍀🍀

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whackamama.bsky.social•19 days ago

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whackamama.bsky.social•19 days ago

Kansas City Missouri

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albino-poet.bsky.social•20 days ago

What are you talking about? There have been nationwide protests.

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nickyschwenzer.bsky.social•19 days ago

Good morning from 🇩🇪

Please share photos and tweets about these protests!!

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stow555.bsky.social•20 days ago

The media isn’t showing it we had freeways shut down in La yesterday more to come

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arriadna.bsky.social•20 days ago

We had People’s March before Trump’s inauguration.
This how media reported it:
https://apnews.com/article/womens-march-peoples-march-trump-inauguration-protests-baccd0e9d1491ec6df2cb03dce4d05d1

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nickyschwenzer.bsky.social•19 days ago

Good morning from Munich 🇩🇪🫂🇺🇸 Arriadna
@arriadna.bsky.social
Please share photos and tweets about these protests.

I'll be happy to ♻️♻️♻️ any non-violent protest.

Einen schönen Tag noch! Have a nice day 🌷

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

Pathetic. The media helped to give US Trump

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arriadna.bsky.social•20 days ago

True. Corporate media has failed us in every way possible.

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ladyrebellion2025.bsky.social•20 days ago

They are happening coverage just being surpressed

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

Exactly what’s in my article. How apropos

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eden-bee.bsky.social•20 days ago

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nickyschwenzer.bsky.social•19 days ago

Good morning from Munich 🇩🇪🫂🇪🇺🫂🇺🇸
#BlueSkyFriends #BlueCrew
Please share photos / tweets #protests

I'll be happy to ♻️♻️♻️ any non-violent protest.

Einen schönen Tag noch! Have a nice day!
🍀🍀🍀

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hecatestorch.bsky.social•20 days ago

What are you doing? Have you organized a protest in your city??!

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nickyschwenzer.bsky.social•20 days ago

Am not a protest organizer.
I travel a lot (coz my work 🇪🇺🇺🇸)... so I try to support independent journalists & creators + every month I send money to support Ukraine (UNITED24) / Democratic Party in Florida (ActBlue)

& what are u doing? @hecatestorch.bsky.social

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hecatestorch.bsky.social•20 days ago

So you think it's "fucked up" that "everyone" isn't protesting, but you're not protesting or trying to organize anything? Everyone should put their bodies on the line but you?

By the way, there have been a bunch of protests. Google is free.

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misstrilby.bsky.social•20 days ago

There HAVE been protests here!.Main stream media chose not to report it! We had a small protest in Tucson, A huge one that blocked traffic in CA and there were more elsewhere. So excuse me, they're doing something.

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nickyschwenzer.bsky.social•19 days ago

Good morning from Munich 🇩🇪 @misstrilby.bsky.social
Please share photos / tweets #protests

I'll be happy to ♻️♻️♻️ any non-violent protest.

Einen schönen Tag noch! Have a nice day!
🍀🍀🍀

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

See how that plays into what we wrote about in Banters? Control of information

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barbarah2025.bsky.social•20 days ago

Apparently you don't have a Tic Toc account. There have been protests live streaming all weekend.

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nickyschwenzer.bsky.social•19 days ago

Good morning from Munich 🇩🇪 @barbarah2025.bsky.social
Please share photos / tweets #protests

I'll be happy to ♻️♻️♻️ any non-violent protest.
#BlueSky

Einen schönen Tag noch! Have a nice day!
🍀🍀🍀

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barbarah2025.bsky.social•18 days ago

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barbarah2025.bsky.social•18 days ago

Thanks Love!

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nickyschwenzer.bsky.social•20 days ago

Just compare the "size" of America, Germany, Georgia, etc.

& the size of the protests...

That's what I'm talking about #DemocracyUnderAttack

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sweetwater26.bsky.social•20 days ago

Well unfortunately many of us know this will cause the jerk to shut down all our rights under the guise of civil unrest.

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paccali68.bsky.social•20 days ago

Imho , It’s much more difficult for a protest to have as much of an impact here as one would have in a European capital

Most 🇪🇺 capitals have a huge % of their populations within a 100 miles or so

We don’t. Living 3,000 miles away from the leaders you’re mad at dilutes the impact of a protest

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nickyschwenzer.bsky.social•19 days ago

Good morning from Munich 🇩🇪 @paccali68.bsky.social
Please share photos / tweets #protests

I'll be happy to ♻️♻️♻️ any non-violent protest.

Einen schönen Tag noch! Have a nice day!
🍀🍀🍀

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worthnoting.bsky.social•20 days ago

There ARE protests. Huge ones.

Legacy Media is simply not covering them.

You can easily find videos of them online though.

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blondiesue.bsky.social•20 days ago

February 5th we will march on our state capitals

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nickyschwenzer.bsky.social•19 days ago

Good morning from Munich 🇩🇪 @blondiesue.bsky.social
Please share photos / tweets #protests

I'll be happy to ♻️♻️♻️ any non-violent protest.

Einen schönen Tag noch! Have a nice day!
🍀🍀🍀

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herman7.bsky.social•20 days ago

There were protes in Texas over the weekend and in Los Angeles also. MSM isnt showing it tho bc …you know

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nickyschwenzer.bsky.social•19 days ago

Good morning from Munich 🇩🇪 @herman7.bsky.social
Please share photos / tweets #protests

I'll be happy to ♻️♻️♻️ any non-violent protest.

Einen schönen Tag noch! Have a nice day!
🍀🍀🍀

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barbarah2025.bsky.social•20 days ago

I have too girl!! Despised him since the 80's.

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kimmie9042.bsky.social•20 days ago

Exactly!

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trueblue111.bsky.social•20 days ago

I've been screaming about it too, since at least 2016. Everyone told me I was overreacting and to calm down. I told you so is an entirely inadequate response to those who accused all of us of overreacting.

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johnfw.bsky.social•20 days ago

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kurtis-linn6.bsky.social•20 days ago

He was an Austrian Jew by his mother.

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

No. His mother’s doctor, Eduard Bloch, was a Jew —

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henrie4nature.bsky.social•20 days ago

No. He was an Austrian but His mother was a devout Catholic.

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kurtis-linn6.bsky.social•20 days ago

That’s disputed.

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henrie4nature.bsky.social•20 days ago

No. The ancestry of Klara Pölzl is known.

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andreadevon.bsky.social•20 days ago

🎯🎯🎯

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

Thank you!

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trisresists.bsky.social•20 days ago

I’m still absolutely shocked that this is happening in America. Heartbreaking and infuriating!!

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

I cannot tell you how many tears I shed writing this. The comparisons are chilling - in black and white. — and while writing, Musk is all up in our social security!

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dazdc.bsky.social•20 days ago

He has control of the payment systems:

Contractors
Federal Employees
Social Security Recipients

Am I being paranoid when I imagine he's transferring (what's that called?) MONEY into some "overseas account?????
Is it possible for his hackers to do that?

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itsmevicki.bsky.social•20 days ago

Or the "sovereign wealth fund"

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pitti42.bsky.social•20 days ago

Thank you, Outspoken! This is required reading for everybody.

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trueblue111.bsky.social•20 days ago

I knew Trump would try to destroy us. I just didn't think he would be able to do so much damage so quickly. Where the hell are the Dems? Schumer, Pelosi, and Jeffries are positively somnambulant.

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boldbluebunny.bsky.social•20 days ago

Tris, I *had* to step back today, because like you, I’m still absolutely shocked. Oscillating between blind rage and deep sadness is a new “norm”.

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aiternative.bsky.social•19 days ago

The only difference is, back in the day, we didn't know better. But today, NO ONE can come with this excuse!

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•19 days ago

Nah, many knew then.

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fdictators.bsky.social•20 days ago

THOSE WHO CHARGE
FOR SUB-STACK NEWS.
R Choosing a Bad Time
2 Do So. For the sake of 🇺🇸Freedoms. Pause charges, like a student loan.

💰U make won’t save U. Spreading of Truthful Information just might.
We R all in the
Same Sinking🤖Boat.
#Humanity

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darkth1rty.bsky.social•20 days ago

Why march in blue states? We did it right. Anyone who voted third party is to blame for this mess

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whirledbizarre.bsky.social•20 days ago

Identifying only as “blue” feeds into the narrative that it’s all just partisan politics. Something as big as a wrestling match to take back control of a corrupt government is an everyone issue. The restless populist spirit is not bound to a party.

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

There is zero identifying info on here -/ who is organizing

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lilrescuehen.bsky.social•20 days ago

I just watched the Secrets of the Dead show on Auschwitz & a plan that never succeeded in bombing it. The history of the Jewish peoples genocide has frightening similarities to what project 2025 is set to do for musk/trump presidency 😠

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

I’m not familiar with that show. I grew up listening to horror stories we had family murdered in concentration camps and some survive -

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lilrescuehen.bsky.social•19 days ago

It's a PBS show. 😞 I've seen several documentaries/dramas.
There's a movie called 'Will' on Netflix it was so raw, so gut wrenching 💔 human horror stories. 2 police officers in Antwerp forced to help the Nazis
Btw they're trying to shut down PBS & NPR & any gold star public broadcasting.

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janeylou.bsky.social•20 days ago

I want to thank the Main Stream Media for normalizing and promoting this Fascist MF'er. Sure, Repugnikkkan's and MAGATs take some responsibility, but it is #MSM that is controlled by billionaire oligarchs that made sure we got here.

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superwoman135.bsky.social•20 days ago

He was actually a strange little Austrian man with an unusual mustache, but semantics. Let nobody be fooled by the strange little man from South Africa and his real objective.

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

Same difference for Americans and Musk has his part in the piece, too. Thank you

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bookhisattva.bsky.social•17 days ago

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madmaudlin.bsky.social•20 days ago

They want to tank the economy

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denkoryushin.bsky.social•20 days ago

Small problem is he's locked the workers out of their computers and seized control of the governments purse.
He's got the entire Senate and Congress in an uproar along with a good portion of the entire USA. I hope it's all fake news, but I doubt it.

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barbarah2025.bsky.social•20 days ago

Why is this happening?? It's Illegal!!!

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thomasjheaney.bsky.social•20 days ago

Terms like
Fake news
TDS
Virtue Signaling
Woke religion
and the rest
are all fabricated by religious zealots who cannot accept the science that tells them their god is wrong.

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

I wrote about some of this in my last Banters edition on DEI

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fusciacat.bsky.social•20 days ago

The coup is now underway. Is anyone gonna stop Trump and Elon Musk?

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patti3333.bsky.social•20 days ago

Every day

What have we become
And
Everyday
You voted fir for this

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

People elected this. I will never understand. I will never forgive the media that normalized him. I will never forgive the DOJ and garland and the states that failed to prosecute him. I am so angry. Writing this had me crying. The parallels are tragically unsettling

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kimmie9042.bsky.social•20 days ago

Could someone please explain to me why we handed the keys to the country over to that madman when there was obvious manipulation of votes? Really, I don’t want to play the blame game but WHY? What happened to 14th 3rd? What did the Dems think was going to happen? Why did no one investigate?

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

Wish I could.

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zombiefeet.bsky.social•20 days ago

And the people took the bait like a dumb bass….

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clj5.bsky.social•20 days ago

I love your fake news graphic. I think you should use it as the masthead of an online news service that literally publishes the fake news that #Trump and/or his admin. spouts each day.

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johnfw.bsky.social•20 days ago

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

Perfect quote for this edition. Wish I had added it. Thanks, 12 spoons

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susanmcp.bsky.social•20 days ago

Thank you for this, Randi!

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wantdem.bsky.social•20 days ago

We need NATO

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canada25.bsky.social•19 days ago

If you cannot march tomorrow, call your senators at noon -
Demand Donald Trump's impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors including illegal release of data to DOGE, violating NAFTA, and abuse of pres powers to intimidate, oust and fire his perceived enemies in multiple federal departments.

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getyourfoxyback.bsky.social•20 days ago

Excellent article everything I’ve been saying for sometime people need to start waking up

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

Shake them up!! Thank you, Foxy

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getyourfoxyback.bsky.social•20 days ago

Definitely 👊

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formerlysnarknado.bsky.social•20 days ago

If Musk is doing this to Treasury and USAID data, imagine what he’s doing to everyone’s data at X and Tesla. And is he tapping Starlink??

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pbwisco.smokefleet.net•20 days ago

Any chance NPR, the NYT and NBC will start printing articles that reveal EXACTLY what's happening now? What have got to lose?

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

I don’t see it happening — they gave it away

During Nazi germany NYT had a Nazi loving bureau chief and so the news reported here was distilled and relegated a lot of its Holocaust coverage to its back pages.

Recently (2022?) NYT hired Hejji 👇🏼

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pbwisco.smokefleet.net•20 days ago

I forgot that happened at NYT. I agree it's unlikely.

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rodin20583.bsky.social•20 days ago

So many people assumed, quite reasonably, that the "Hitler" chapter in history was so obviously bad that it could never be repeated.

I guess the focus was on what it looked like in its finality, not how it got there.

The evil remains in disguise (as patriotism) until it reveals its full self.

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•20 days ago

There is so much of the ‘how did we get here’ and I’ve traced it back to evangelical Reagan. He trickled this shit down and slowly chipped away at democracy —

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revansvt.bsky.social•20 days ago

💯 He started the drumbeat that government is the enemy, along with trying to undermine gains of the civil rights movement and sowing the seeds of division. Trickledown economics bullshit. Fuck him too!

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a4niemann.bsky.social•20 days ago

📌

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