Oscar Kidd
@oscarkidd.bsky.social
🇺🇸 🇩🇴 🏴 It’s pretty simple: Ronald Reagan was the Antichrist. Donald Trump is his disciple. Capitalism is a demonic force.
AOC: I believe in guaranteeing health care to every American. I believe in raising the minimum wage. I believe in strong unions. And so, yeah, if a Republican wants to call a stronger union communist, they’re more than welcome to do that. I’m not going to be deterred.
The Republican Party is a big tent, consisting of people who are pedophiles and people who protect them.
Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · last mo.Move over, Ken Paxton.🙄 “Montana Republican Senate nominee Kurt Alme, who previously served as his state’s US attorney, cut a plea deal in 2020 that allowed a tribal police officer who sexually abused a 6-year-old girl to serve less than a year in prison & avoid being registered as a sex offender.“
#OtD 5 Jul 1852 abolitionist Frederick Douglass gave a speech about July 4th: "The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me… this Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1052...
Sad to watch this regime purge anyone who puts the country before this president. (And make Us all Less Safe in the Process)
"I cringe when I hear MAGA types beating their chests and declaring that this is 'the greatest country in the history of the world'....it’s offensive coming from the lips of those whose mission is to destroy the things that made us special." Nonetheless:
Despite It All, I’m Still Patriotic
This country has greatness in its soul. Let’s recover it.
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It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.
PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”
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Hands Off Our Vote in 2026! · Indivisible
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"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." -- George Orwell, 1984
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.BASH: But it peeled off. Why did that happen? BURGUM: It didn't peel off. There was vandalism. There was box cutters. There have been 7 arrests. BASH: There are photographs of people cutting a 350 foot gash in the reflecting pool? BURGUM: Dana, I'm not sure why you keep questioning it
There are two founding fathers who seemed to understand that abortion was essential to the exercise of our unalienable rights. https://bit.ly/4eDih2U
Abortion Has Always Been an American Tradition
More than one founding father knew that to be truly free, women needed control over their reproduction.
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The Founding Fathers debated whether the United States should try to spread liberty by force. What they couldn’t have imagined was America becoming an armed backer of absolute monarchy.
On America's 250th birthday, the United States arms the world's tyrannies
On a Fourth of July, John Quincy Adams warned against the foreign policy that his successors would later adopt.
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Who loves America more than those who have sacrificed to make it free? Happy Fourth of July.
We See America
YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office
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Trump turning America's 250th anniversary into his own vanity project? If this playbook feels familiar, it should. Authoritarian leaders have long understood that controlling the landscape, literally what people see when they look up at a building, is itself a form of power.
Trump is branding America. History has a word for that.
There’s going to be a new “golden fleet” Trump class of Navy warships and a fighter jet named after the 47th president. If this playbook feels familiar, it should.
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The most powerful, poignant, eloquent, and truthful address I have ever heard in my lifetime on the Nation’s anniversary.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Mamdani: "Those who led through exclusion & isolation have tried to win power & enrich themselves by turning us against one another ... today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum"
CNN montage of Trump attacking others claiming they have profited from being in office.
Weird how this never applies to the Second Amendment.
Kate Riga@kateriga.bsky.social · last mo.Kavanaugh says that Constitution is an "enduring document" and that new exceptions to birthright citizenship can be added for "modern situations that were unknown or unanticipated by the Constitution’s Framers"
We should ban unusually tall people from the NBA. The average height is around 6 ft 7 in. Anyone taller than 7 ft has an unfair advantage and should be immediately expelled from the league.
Common Dreams@commondreams.org · last mo.Supreme Court Upholds Transgender Athlete Bans, Giving States Green Light For Discrimination "We have entered a period when the legal recognition and legal protections for trans and intersex people are at an all-time low."
Pocan: "I know you're a Christian nationalist by declaration." Vought: "This is the second year in a row that you've used that slander." Pocan: "You wrote an article called 'Is There Anything Actually Wrong With Christian Nationalism?' And now you're saying it's a slander?"
Tapper: "I just looked at the State Department's website. They have a Level 4 'Do Not Travel' advisory for Haiti…That doesn't sound safe to me." Mullin: "That advisory is to American citizens traveling to Haiti, not Haitians going back home." Tapper: "It doesn't sound safe."
Either that or they'll just say it's fake news. Just like their fuckwit president does.
Ossoff: I don’t know if you saw the mess in Washington last week. The president was so humiliated in Hormuz, he threw his toys out of the stroller and refused to sign the affordable housing bill.
The Tea Party was (1) small protests which were (2) hyped by media & (3) led to the election of radical nut jobs who (4) badly broke US politics. What we have now are (1) huge protests that were (2) dismissed by media but (3) still got a few candidates in deep blue NYC who (4) will work to fix it.
AOC on the Reflecting Pool: They talked a bunch of smack. They said they had to repaint the pool, and now they’ve turned it into an actual swamp.
News execs remain under the illusion that you can meet an audience that demands to be lied to halfway without alienating the actual news viewership. You can’t. There is no market for “mildly Trump biased.”
@kevinwglass.bsky.social · last mo.The people now in charge at CBS legitimately believe that liberal bias is something that is negatively impacting their ratings. They didn't buy CBS to curry favor with Trump, or to burn the media to the ground, or anything like that. They legitimately believe they can fix the mainstream media.
