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DB Mittens

@dbmittens.bsky.social

Progressive gay married atheist plant-based person. Sanctimonious with pure intentions. Sausage dog keeper, secret piano player. Stop feeding the morbidly rich!

created July 3, 2024

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Profile picture Ken Bardsley (@kenbar.bsky.social) reposted

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1/9/2025, 10:19:35 AM | 19728 4820 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's really not hard if you're in the right Home Depot.

1/9/2025, 5:02:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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and beyond.

31/8/2025, 2:53:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Denise Wheeler (@denisedwheeler.bsky.social) reposted

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)

29/8/2025, 12:18:30 AM | 13293 4504 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good thing you didn't purchase a hot dog.

29/8/2025, 7:11:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is there a country with a reputable governmental health agency whose medical advice we should heed?

28/8/2025, 2:07:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wouldn't bother me a bit if viewers had to pay separately for Fox.

27/8/2025, 9:50:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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IMO media should focus more on the gun than the shooter. Who made it, who sold it to whom, and how did it get to the shooter.

27/8/2025, 9:44:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's such a common letter. I'm surprised you didn't out it much earlier. Wordle 1,530 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

27/8/2025, 9:28:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture DB Mittens (@dbmittens.bsky.social)

I figured with the TX redistricting, my neighborhood would go back into Chip Roy's district. But no, we're in the Doggett/Cesar district. Roy must remember what a loudmouth bitch I was.

27/8/2025, 1:51:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good jokes? Where? When?

27/8/2025, 1:26:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture DB Mittens (@dbmittens.bsky.social)

Deleted my linkedin account. Once you've retired, it's easier to disappear yourself.

27/8/2025, 1:21:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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duh

27/8/2025, 1:16:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Howdy Politics (@howdypolitics.bsky.social) reposted

Greg Abbott has added a ban on same day voter registration in Texas to the special session agenda. Texas does not have same day voter registration. Abbott uses special sessions as taxpayer funded campaign events to push his baseless talking points

25/8/2025, 11:40:36 PM | 613 233 | View on Bluesky | view

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This could be the year Nobel issues their first Asshole Prize.

26/8/2025, 6:55:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Blue Oleta (@blue-oleta.bsky.social) reposted

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26/8/2025, 6:41:31 PM | 12 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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Looks like it could be an interesting article. Damn paywall.

26/8/2025, 4:54:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Austin should just add DEET to the water supply so I don't have to jump out of the shower and immediately apply Deep Woods Off.

26/8/2025, 4:41:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Teach my dog

26/8/2025, 4:21:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It was appropriate by a pedophile's standard.

23/8/2025, 4:01:18 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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New Cracker Barrel logo: who actually cares? MSNBC -> MS Now: WTF?!

22/8/2025, 11:35:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Senator Mark Warner (@markwarner.bsky.social) reposted

D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state. But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed. D.C. statehood now.

22/8/2025, 7:47:43 PM | 16868 4556 | View on Bluesky | view

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Please don't share this with Donald Trump.

22/8/2025, 11:21:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm only allowed the mushrooms, apple, and banana.

22/8/2025, 3:47:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trap them while they're on the wrong side of the fence.

22/8/2025, 3:29:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Let's be certain, OK?

21/8/2025, 6:04:16 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Democrats, if you are beholden half as much as Republicans to corporate interests, it's too much.

21/8/2025, 5:53:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Watching Gutfeld! How can so many non-lobotomized people do this every night?

21/8/2025, 7:15:58 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Decimating your staff is so three months ago.

21/8/2025, 5:32:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture DB Mittens (@dbmittens.bsky.social)

If I say, "May the bluebird of happiness fly up your nose," will I be suspended? If I say "May the bluebird of happiness fly up J.K. Rowling's nose," will I be suspended?

21/8/2025, 1:09:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Saute vegetable dump pizza. Take all your vegetables out of the frig. Saute them, dump on a sauced pizza crust, bake.

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21/8/2025, 12:47:35 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm over 65 and I vote by mail. Then I get in the car and drive my under-65 husband to the polling place so he can vote.

20/8/2025, 10:16:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If slavery wasn't so bad, let's try it a little differently this time. Let's harness the power of MAGA to work the fields.

20/8/2025, 7:06:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Better to confine the toxicity to her own state.

20/8/2025, 6:28:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He hasn't relentlessly pursued a golf ball. He has it brought to him so he can avoid pursuing it.

20/8/2025, 3:42:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Do you sue kidnappers? is that the best remedy?

20/8/2025, 3:40:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) reposted

Are the mRNA vaccines incredible? YES! Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No. Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES! Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES! Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES! Fund mRNA research!

19/8/2025, 2:54:04 AM | 18670 4553 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture DB Mittens (@dbmittens.bsky.social)

Husband leaving these coagulated Fritos for me to see as if I'm shopping incompetently. He has hyponatremia, which is like being medically deficient in bacon.

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16/8/2025, 5:11:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Teenager? heh.

16/8/2025, 7:39:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I was a technical writer before AI. I don't honestly know what it's like to be a technical writer after AI. But I have a deeper empathy with my grandparents, who fetched water from a spring and used an outhouse.

16/8/2025, 6:19:35 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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TBH it starts with long pants. Long pants are a cause of death among the elderly.

16/8/2025, 6:04:35 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture DB Mittens (@dbmittens.bsky.social)

I got a new-to-me Yamaha C3 today. Nothing can stop me now.

16/8/2025, 6:01:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I could never be a youtuber. I do not have the ability to take a minor event and stretch it into a 25 minute diatribe.

13/8/2025, 6:52:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture DB Mittens (@dbmittens.bsky.social)

Texas DMV emailed me a PDF license plate registration renewal notice that must be unlocked with a password formed by my zip code and VIN. First, why would you lock a renewal notice? Second, it's a pain in the ass to go find the VIN.

13/8/2025, 3:52:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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largely correct

13/8/2025, 3:34:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

🤣🤣

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13/8/2025, 11:14:43 AM | 5310 1667 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think Financial Times has drifted out of their lane.

13/8/2025, 3:06:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't think it will work to impose white christian nationalist revisionism on American history. Will it?

13/8/2025, 3:05:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt F✈️🌈🇫🇷 (@typevolant.com) reposted

Even though I suspected they’d come after marriage for all… it stings. 😖

Headline about Supreme Court appeal to overturn same-sex-marriage ruling
11/8/2025, 1:04:15 PM | 60 16 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture DB Mittens (@dbmittens.bsky.social)

I hope there is an unwritten and firm rule that one who lobbies for a Nobel Peace prize for oneself shall never have one.

11/8/2025, 10:48:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture DB Mittens (@dbmittens.bsky.social)

I hated fish as a kid and still do. Parents forced me to eat it once. Vomiting all over the dinner table fixed them.

10/8/2025, 12:07:19 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Can't think of an alternative to fish? WTF.

10/8/2025, 12:05:01 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Today is Hondo the dog's 2nd anniversary with us and we're leaving him alone to go out to dinner. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

9/8/2025, 10:30:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture masshole55.bsky.social (@masshole55.bsky.social) reposted

While we live in a Fox-News nation, Finland has started teaching school children how to identify fake news and propaganda as a part of its curriculum. Be like Finland.

9/8/2025, 2:48:48 AM | 382 101 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 💙💙🤔CJ🤨🤣🧐💙💙🇺🇸 (@cnice59.bsky.social) reposted

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9/8/2025, 1:02:12 PM | 27985 7678 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture WIRED (@wired.com) reposted

On August 10, six planets—Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—will line up in an arc in the night sky, and four of them will be visible to the naked eye. Here’s everything you need to know to see the planetary alignment at its best.

9/8/2025, 5:44:00 PM | 331 112 | View on Bluesky | view

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All the gilt in the world won't get the stench out.

9/8/2025, 6:09:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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cod bless South Park

9/8/2025, 8:05:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What's up with all these fucking cussin' politicians all a sudden?

9/8/2025, 7:58:33 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So does the White House have an elevator to the roof? Or a Chairmaster? Or did that fat man drag his arse up the steps on all fours?

7/8/2025, 2:32:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture DB Mittens (@dbmittens.bsky.social)

Trying out Newsguard, but so far it's a bust. Wanted ratings/warnings on YT channels I follow that lean too far into yellow journalism with sensationalist captions that never deliver. Big, popular leftist youtube channels. NG just isn't there. I don't go on X or FB so I don't care about that.

5/8/2025, 7:54:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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tinyhead

3/8/2025, 5:42:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's me, 25 years ago. There is only so much wall space.

3/8/2025, 5:32:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Went to Casa de Luz East community table dinner tonight. Amazingly delicious and healthiest fare in Austin. Met some really nice people.

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1/8/2025, 3:22:24 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This government would be pleased if you'd bake your potatoes without foil so they can enjoy the potatoes' extreme pain.

18/7/2025, 4:44:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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At my funeral the mourners will dance the Virginia Reel. Yes, both mourners. And I will know if they refuse.

18/7/2025, 3:36:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's more difficult than ever to find justice in the USA.

17/7/2025, 5:08:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nothing worse than buffalo wing feces

17/7/2025, 5:04:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Another day, the bleaching of America continues unabated.

17/7/2025, 3:32:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wordle 1,489 3/6* ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

17/7/2025, 5:59:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sounds like a scientologist

17/7/2025, 2:41:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I want Renewal By Andersen to fail and forever leave us the fuck alone.

11/7/2025, 5:49:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm atheist and Bezos-free. I don't celebrate Amazon holidays.

11/7/2025, 4:08:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is anyone actually offended by old or elderly? I'm not.

11/7/2025, 3:49:11 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Angela is free. If I had prayers in me, I'd pray for the rest of us.

11/7/2025, 3:40:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good luck with that

9/7/2025, 4:57:37 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why aren't states making laws against unidentifiable police and federal agents?

9/7/2025, 2:55:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I finally got my passport. Are there any countries open to US citizens?

8/7/2025, 4:17:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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All of his cover-ups are transparent fiascos.

8/7/2025, 4:14:17 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

You wouldn’t vacation in Dachau in 1935. Don’t vacation in Florida in 2025.

5/7/2025, 2:39:16 PM | 31339 9704 | View on Bluesky | view

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5/7/2025, 11:26:57 AM | 15171 2469 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am grateful for all the dogs and cats Donald Trump never had.

5/7/2025, 2:53:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He didn't learn that from Nancy Pelosi.

3/7/2025, 4:32:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wordle 1,469 3/6* 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

27/6/2025, 6:47:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted

People need to understand, they are governing as if they're never going to give up power again.

27/6/2025, 4:47:43 PM | 1920 452 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think they're deporting all the ones who are hotter than they are.

27/6/2025, 7:20:17 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katherine (@wordwatcher.bsky.social) reposted

We all need a place where we feel safe… Goodnight everybody. Sweet dreams.

27/6/2025, 2:49:04 AM | 19497 2794 | View on Bluesky | view

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I hope stating the awful truth isn't a new way to communicate!

27/6/2025, 6:06:05 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Who doesn't want a confection microwave?

27/6/2025, 5:03:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We need a fourth branch of government, comprised of qualified experts in the sciences, that forever removes the powers of the other branches to regulate application of scientific knowledge.

26/6/2025, 3:59:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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All but one of my arteries are blocked. Trump had nothing to do with it, but his attacks on science won't help save others from it.

26/6/2025, 3:32:42 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wall Street is a tumor that thinks it is an essential organ.

26/6/2025, 6:22:14 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm hoping Eliaz Therapeutics XGal-3 device comes to market asap to make a big dent in sepsis deaths.

26/6/2025, 6:00:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Madelyn Kahn in Blazing Saddles
25/6/2025, 8:28:33 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Can someone please counsel POTUS on the value of brevity and concision?

25/6/2025, 2:25:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jess Piper (@piperformissouri.bsky.social) reposted

Can you imagine living in a “Democracy” where armed masked men are kidnapping people off the streets every single day?

23/6/2025, 12:28:01 PM | 11199 2941 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wouldn't it be nice to have as much influence over our president as Netanyahu does?

23/6/2025, 7:44:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We still have allies?

22/6/2025, 4:53:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) reposted

By the way, the US striking Iran’s nuclear facilities and infrastructure gives Russia the green light to strike Ukraine’s nuclear facilities & infrastructure. This is another reason it’s forbidden under international law. Trump is escalating danger everywhere.

22/6/2025, 3:50:02 AM | 8731 2928 | View on Bluesky | view