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Thinking a lot about social psychology these days. For instance, the Milgram experiment. Where the subjects were given commands to punish - specifically shock - another person for getting questions wrong. Each shock got harder. The tester would cry out in pain. What would you do?

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THIS

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Leave it to the Trump administration to fuck up everything, even air travel. 🫣 ✈️ #ETTD

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Trump's post is a federal crime. 26 USC § 7217.

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he will ask Defense Department officials why an Army Black Hawk helicopter violated flight restrictions at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

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#ProudBlue #MomSky What NOT to do when you are a leader! This is childish behavior & NOT becoming the White House. Please get him out NOW!

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The Trump administration just gutted Hatch Act enforcement, again, now allowing federal employees to wear campaign gear like MAGA hats on the job. Translation: the feds are free to advertise for Trump while cashing your taxpayer-funded paycheck.

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You know, you don't have to take anyone's word for it. You can google, "Price of gas today," and see for yourself that it is $3.18 a gallon. Donald Trump is a worthless liar.

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American corporations went from being competitive by trying to make the best product, to making more money by selling products that would become obsolete by design and require replacement, to selling subscriptions to access our products, and now just criminalizing anything you only have to buy once.

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Seems bad.

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Corruption in plain sight

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> @iansams.bsky.social

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Tommy Tuberville says his wife's homestead exemption established his residency in Alabama, but election records show both of them voted in Florida after that. And that's only the beginning.

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To be fair, it may not be that he has any cognitive issues Rather, it seems likely his worldview has always been so ignorant and distorted that he's NEVER had a grasp on reality

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But advocates question how much this move will help military families and medical providers.

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Sen. Fetterman has missed over 18 percent of votes this year, the most of any US Senator. When asked by a reporter about the missed votes, he responded, “I’m devastated by your inquiries,” without an explanation.

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Slotkin is something else man.

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🧵Heidy Sánchez was in the process of getting her green card, married to a U.S. citizen, raising a baby girl. ICE snatched her at a check-in and deported her to Cuba—alone. Her 17-month-old U.S.-citizen daughter, who suffers seizures, was left behind sobbing for her mother. tinyurl.com/Latina-mom

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Leonard Leo right now.. Tired: owning SCOTUS Wired: owning the Pope

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It's like someone reached deep into my soul, ripped out the most essential part, and made a sign out of it.

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Former VP Kamala Harris says Trump has created the "greatest man-made economic crisis in modern presidential history." "Instead of an administration working to advance America's highest ideals, we are witnessing the wholesale abandonment of those ideals." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

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Want to protest effectively? Start with airlines making money off of illegal deportations. GlobalX is profiting from Trump’s illegal deportations. Everyone in the USA has a right to due process. We need to show up and boycott GlobalX and other charters helping fascism jacobin.com/2025/03/depo...

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social scholar of authoritarianism and author of ‘Strongmen: from Mussolini to the present’, analyses the rapid shift towards authoritarianism, personality cult, strongmen machismo and the potential for a female strongman. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUMA...

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What the U.S. government is doing in relation to public health is so irrational and harmful that it’s almost impossible to process it. They are lying about how vaccines are tested. They are lying about vaccines containing “aborted fetus debris”. This is public health malpractice.

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Trump has blatantly lied or made outrageously misleading claims about grocery prices, the cost of gas, and much more. The numbers don’t lie, but Trump sure as hell does. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tru...

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Great. Here come the hoarders.

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Missed this incredibly fucked up bit of nonsense yesterday. The gov't is run by an entire group of crazy uncles who believe the dumbest shit passed around the internet.

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NPR did a 30-minute interview with Steve Bannon in his podcast studio that aired just yesterday. PBS had on Chris Rufo tonight. Cozying up to these fucks won’t save you.

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Gotta hand it to Marvel: the 2012 Avengers mood vs. the 2025 Thunderbolts mood perfectly nails the times they exist in.

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On every single level, Trump shows his allegiance is to Russia.

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Republicans are threatening to slash $880 billion from Medicaid. I'm collecting your stories to show them how these cuts would hurt real people. Share your story here — let’s make them listen. schrier.house.gov/share-your-m...

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In 2024 Russell Vought, OMB director and architect of Project 2025, gave a speech in which he said “The stark reality in America is that we are in the late stages of a complete Marxist takeover of the country." This sort of apocalyptic rhetoric has long been common on the US far right. This is 1980.

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