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This is important

submitted 83 days ago • 267 comments

Exactly

submitted 83 days ago • 289 comments

Good point. The FBI selection process right now is highly bureaucratized, to ensure vetting and fairness. But that is internal policy. I can’t see anything that would stop scrapping that and hiring any rando, including 1/6 convicts and giving them special arrest powers. What could go wrong

submitted 83 days ago • 11 comments

Most people don’t realize that the FBI does not have a legislative charter. It is a creation of the Justice Dept and operates under rules promulgated by the Attorney General (the AG Guidelines). Those guidelines — which seek to protect civil liberties and baseless investigations— can be rescinded.

submitted 83 days ago • 79 comments

I am not going to stop calling for an FBI background check of Tulsi Gabbard and neither should you.

submitted 83 days ago • 597 comments

This kind of thing works, this kind of thing is what can prevent us from sliding into an autocracy

submitted 83 days ago • 503 comments

Those saying Joe Biden’s pardon of his son gives “permission” to Trump to issue wild pardons forget that Trump never asks or needs permission to do anything wild.

submitted 83 days ago • 1962 comments

This! A big part of what is going on right now is an effort to get you to give up. The most meaningful step you can take right now—the first one towards preserving our freedom—is to refuse to do it. Don't give up.

submitted 89 days ago • 262 comments

funny how all the “Bluesky is an echo chamber” opeds sound exactly the same

submitted 93 days ago • 257 comments

What radicalized you? Comrade, I was told "Sharing is caring" as a child.

submitted 93 days ago • 290 comments

Many of us are echoing @timothysnyder.bsky.social's lesson in On Tyranny, "Do not obey in advance.” A no less vital admonition that deserves attn: STAND OUT “...without that unease, there is no freedom. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow."

submitted 97 days ago • 389 comments

submitted 98 days ago • 387 comments

What made my skin burn most wasn’t that over 75 million people voted for Donald Trump. It was that this election didn’t seem to measurably change anything for the boys around me, whether their parents supported Mr. Trump or not. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/o...

submitted 99 days ago • 103 comments

Interesting from @mashagessen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...

submitted 99 days ago • 123 comments

So, like, is this a good time to bring up those other rules? Like the rule of law rules?

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

I was cleaning out my phone and came across this. Seems like a good reminder 🖤

submitted 101 days ago • 142 comments

Billionaire grifters are about to dismantle your government. So instead of your tax dollars going to your Medicare or your Medicaid or your affordable care act or to veterans benefits or your social security - it will go to THEM in the form of tax cuts for the wealthy.

submitted 100 days ago • 1024 comments

What’s next? Don Jr being tapped to run the DEA?

submitted 100 days ago • 616 comments

submitted 101 days ago • 68 comments

I don't know who needs to hear this, everyone I think, but if you send a PDF to your kindle and put 'convert' as the subject it will change it to epub format for you, you're welcome (I posted this on the other place and was surprised by how many people it helped so thought I'd do it here too.)

submitted 101 days ago • 270 comments

Update: His health guy doesn't believe in medical science. His law guy is a sex trafficker. His intelligence gal is a Russian asset. You're all caught up.

submitted 100 days ago • 1734 comments

We know this because we lived this with Trump for the last eight years. Keeping focus is difficult. We're going to need to get better at this.

submitted 100 days ago • 191 comments

Looking forward to learning how appointing an accused child-sex-trafficker as AG and a suspected Russian asset as DNI will lower the price of eggs

submitted 102 days ago • 165 comments

serious question: what exactly given the last 8yrs makes a contingent of political wonks believe checks & balances will save us? I can’t think of a single instance showing the branches have any ability, let alone any desire, to wield their power & not abdicate it w/simpering GRATITUDE for the opp

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Whether it's Tim Walz expanding his state's school lunch program or Matt Gaetz giving cocaine and Ecstasy to underage sex workers, both sides have taken controversial approaches to feeding children.

submitted 101 days ago • 111 comments

⬇️ This is how Russian active measures operate (build up a trusting base, then slowly feed them your preferred info)…no reason not to reverse-engineer it right back with the truth

submitted 101 days ago • 41 comments

www.cnn.com/2024/08/30/b...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

I missed the hi post… so HI! I’m a child full dog lady. I love information (even when it makes me ragey), reading, tackling “how hard could it be?” things I see on the interwebs, and standing by the people I care for and up for what I believe. Also, I will rate any dog 14/10.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments