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Over 500 Lake County Illinois residents showed up this morning at the Tesla dealership in Libertyville. And not to buy a car. To express their disgust with Musk and Trump @lakecountydem.bsky.social

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1. I did the work of an employee you fired. 2. I did the work of a 2nd employee you fired. 3. I did the work of a 3rd employee you fired. 4. I did the work of a 4th employee you fired. 5. I did the work of a 5th employee you fired.

submitted 16 hours ago • 21 comments

Kash Patel’s reign as FBI director is off to a great start.

submitted 17 hours ago • 90 comments

We are in deeper shite than we thought from Musk’s hacker kiddies. www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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My exact IQ is not important, let’s just say that it is high enough to know that Elon’s is not 160. Not even 140. He is not even smart enough to figure out how not to impregnate random YouTubers.

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This was published last October www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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It's strikingly similar to the white supremacy campaigns in Reconstruction North Carolina, as described by Gregory Downs in Declarations of Independence (p.192), where Black employment in government jobs was framed as prima facie evidence of anti-white discrimination.

submitted 23 hours ago • 5 comments

Republican events for a month now (including Inauguration Day!) have featured a prominent Nazi salute & legacy media outlets ignore it. Seems like a trend worth covering, no? Maybe access to the Nazi party shouldn't be prioritized??

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NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

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Tony Stark has an estimated IQ around 270. Batman is in the 250+ range. Elon Musk has an IQ around 130, making him top 2%. If you don’t believe me, just look at what a shitshow DOGE has been. FYI: I think Bannon is probably the smartest one in the bunch.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Impeachable.

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The problem is that if you “disable” your car alarm, it does not work any more. The prefix “dis-“ means “opposite of.” Most people with a disability can work, however. It is not a good word to describe people who have a limitation, diminished ability, or need an accomodation. Framing matters.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Take that orange man.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

No one is talking about how a potential @giannoulias.bsky.social run for Mayor undermines support for Vallas in the Greek community, which has a history of funding Vallas, and I think it is worth digging into.

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“Should Illinois expand its National Guard?” is not really something I had considered.

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My fellow Americans: I am not asking you to join any organized resistance. I am just asking you to give in to your natural, cultural inclination to passively, stubbornly resist any change the way you have resisted the metric system since 1878. cc: @governorwalz.mn.gov

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Let me tell you something about America: We hate change, and we are stubborn. For example, regardless of whether the idea of having the Commerce Department run the Postal Service is a good idea or a bad idea, we are against it.

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Refugees in the US give money to US taxpayers. From 2005–2019, refugees paid $123.8 billion more in taxes than they received in expenditures: aspe.hhs.gov/reports/fisc... That's federal, state, and local combined. Everything. Now we have obliterated that low-cost, high-return investment—>

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““Some of the advertisers we work with have expressed that they feel there is an implied threat from X that they could be added to the lawsuit if they don’t return to X,” said… chief executive officer of Ebiquity, a consulting firm that works with advertisers.” www.wsj.com/business/med...

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I was electrocuted, beaten, stabbed in the leg and starved after being captured while defending my home and family in Mariupol. We held back Putin’s invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children.

submitted 4 days ago • 742 comments

I wish I could say that this is unbelievable, but it’s totally believable.

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

if you're a subreddit mod, i'd love to chat with you about how we can onboard your community to bluesky my DMs are open

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“Popular Dictatorship” According to Professor Alexandar Matovski, author of “Popular Dictatorships: Crises, Mass Opinion, and the Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism”, 1/3 of countries around the globe are ‘Democracies in Name Only,’ like Russia, which holds elections, but the dictator always wins.

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Dear @govpritzker.illinois.gov , just to be clear, we do not have to look all the way back to Nazi Germany. According to a professor of National Security Affairs for The Navy School, 1/3 of nations today have elected autocracies, like Russia. They are DINOs.

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Bad thing.

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@capitolfax.bsky.social my brief brush with Proft on the campaign trail. His followers would be shocked to learn he worked for “RINO” Beth Coulson. 🦏

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Tell me I am wrong, Tim Walz. 👇🏽

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It might be time to reread “Collapse” by Jared Diamond, because I am starting to get a serious Easter Island vibe. Looking back, cutting down all of the trees to build giant head statutes was dumb. It is fair to ask why everyone went along with it, where were the naysayers, and why did they fail.

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