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Eric Stratton

@michaelronzano.bsky.social

Damn glad to meet you. Designer, fifth-generation Californian, lapsed Episcopalian, USC Trojan ✌🏼, Chelsea Blue (KTBFFH). If you don’t have something nice to say, come sit next to me. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

created November 11, 2024

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Profile picture Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent

If you can throw the (very) occasional spiral, your football skills are WAY ahead of her writing skills.

4/9/2025, 12:29:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes, he is, in fact just that stupid.

3/9/2025, 10:33:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh, FFS, I'm now meant to like both Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene? On the same day?

3/9/2025, 10:28:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Honestly, am I meant to like both Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie in the same week?

3/9/2025, 10:23:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It wouldn't be possible to lose her. If I'm more than six feet away, she has a panic attack.

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1/9/2025, 10:36:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A meth lab, maybe.

1/9/2025, 9:49:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dommage

31/8/2025, 7:40:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Am I a bad person for wishing that every ICE agent gets the worst possible cancer?

31/8/2025, 7:34:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Josh Hawley has some beer he would like you to hold

30/8/2025, 12:47:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Then, God thought, come to think of it, I can do better. And, lo, He begat Stephen Miller.

30/8/2025, 12:42:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Soft-secession

30/8/2025, 12:19:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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...who in all of his drunkenness was a superior tactician.

29/8/2025, 9:23:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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These ICE agents are otherwise-unemployable punks. They love doing this. And when this reign of terror is over, they should all face justice.

29/8/2025, 9:03:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The best part is the hat means absolutely nothing to the guy and everything to the kid. He's despicable. A kid only gets to be a kid once. FFS, let him have his memories.

29/8/2025, 8:41:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No one will remember him. He's a non-entity, which he's been all his life. A nothing. History, as it should, will forget him.

29/8/2025, 7:38:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In California, in the '60s, it was a big John Birch deal. There were billboards. Somehow, fluoride was a communist plot. In fairness, to the Birchers, to them, pretty much everything was a communist plot.

29/8/2025, 1:01:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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✋🏼

28/8/2025, 9:19:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not to mention the backlash from graphic designers.

27/8/2025, 1:01:20 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Compared to mine, you could hire yourself out as a calligrapher.

27/8/2025, 12:16:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I want everyone from Tom Nichols to Bill Kristol to Joe Walsh to Bernie Sanders to be Democrats. It's a fight for the soul of the country and I'll take all the allies I can get. We can argue about marginal tax rates later.

26/8/2025, 11:48:03 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A victory for ham sandwiches everywhere.

25/8/2025, 10:44:45 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Coming in Wednesdays's Food section: Slimming With The President: The Trump Diet, Learn How The President Stays In Shape

25/8/2025, 4:10:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Then, there was the whole 'Hitler blew his brains out' thingy.

24/8/2025, 6:25:32 PM | 25 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have a book of letters sent among the sisters. They are as literate and bitchy as you might imagine.

23/8/2025, 11:53:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's because JJ Abrams is the most overrated director in history.

23/8/2025, 11:42:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I go there because my university's ✌🏼 athletic department doesn't post here, but I never engage politically.

23/8/2025, 6:01:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When I was a kid, growing up in Southern California, Disneyland used to feature jazz bands and Basie was there every summer. They played in the Carnation Plaza. I heard Satch on the paddle wheel river boat. We'd go to meet girls and never muster up the courage to talk to any

22/8/2025, 12:46:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Old Testament band was better, but that's a pretty great lineup.

22/8/2025, 12:40:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or, my anniversary, which is why I insisted that the band at our reception play Corner Pocket and why our Scottie dog was called Lester. Say what you will about Ellington or anyone else, the Basie band was the absolute best.

22/8/2025, 12:37:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Judging by how most of these guys look, in the lockers of middle schools.

22/8/2025, 12:33:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or—and hear me out—he's the Ben Franklin of our age. Personally, I'm leaning toward really, really stupid.

21/8/2025, 11:40:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One could argue that it's the great American musical. Maybe Gypsy. But it's close.

21/8/2025, 11:03:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What these idiots don't understand is that new CEOs ALWAYS want to fuck around with the logo. When the loathsome Steve Ross bought Time-Warner, he scrapped Chermayeff and Geismar's great logo for a crap word mark. And it just kept getting worse. 1000logos.net/wp-content/u...

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21/8/2025, 10:56:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dommage

21/8/2025, 6:44:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah, it's much simpler to turn on a Trump press conference if you want to listen to a crazy person yelling.

21/8/2025, 6:43:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You're in luck, in the Chicago suburb of Oakbrook, there is a Crate and Barrel with a restaurant. Alas, not a Cracker Barrel.

21/8/2025, 5:28:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kevin drove to the studio in his new Studebaker.

21/8/2025, 5:22:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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For me, a Green's cinnamon babka—no envelope required—would do it.

21/8/2025, 3:47:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, there goes my opinion of you as our greatest, living journalist.

21/8/2025, 3:29:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If one finds oneself in the charming little town of Chagrin Falls, visit Cuffs Clothiers, one of the last of the dying breed of gentlemen's clothiers.

21/8/2025, 1:50:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm on the left, but I'm a designer and I'm outraged. The new logo is horrible. Great pancakes, lousy logo.

21/8/2025, 12:23:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's effectively 1 1/3 fewer murders. A statistical anomaly.

21/8/2025, 11:09:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's basically 1.35 fewer murders over the nine days.

21/8/2025, 11:07:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They couldn't take it during the civil war, so giving it another go. Where is Cump Sherman when we need him?

19/8/2025, 1:29:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Stolen Girl, on Hulu. With the great (and delectable) Holliday Grainger.

19/8/2025, 12:36:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have one golden. Don't have a good-enough vacuum for two.

19/8/2025, 12:34:18 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fat, stupid thugs.

18/8/2025, 1:06:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Eric Stratton (@michaelronzano.bsky.social) reply parent

Now, change "Russia" to "Germany" and apply it to WWII. How does it make sense?

17/8/2025, 3:49:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sadly, it is now.

17/8/2025, 12:16:22 PM | 14 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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These assholes all need to go to prison. This is shameful.

16/8/2025, 4:19:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gotta have that funk

15/8/2025, 1:03:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Putin is bringing his own idiot-to-Russian translator to use for Trump.

15/8/2025, 3:35:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'd rather hear from someone I believe.

15/8/2025, 3:33:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They're not mutually-exclusive.

15/8/2025, 3:31:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'll have an Opera (don't see one there, they must be in the back). And a Paris-Brest to go.

14/8/2025, 5:42:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What's this Constitution thing of which you speak?

14/8/2025, 5:35:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How many great Michelin-starred restaurants in London? Great Indian food. St John's, on its own, would make it a great restaurant city. The reputation of lousy food in England is long gone.

14/8/2025, 2:36:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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London has the best collection of museums anywhere. A food scene, which may be the best on earth. Brilliant parks. Rent a chair in Green Park and watch the people go by. A great transport system, and the Eurostar, which allows you to have breakfast in London and lunch in Paris, dinner in London.

14/8/2025, 1:03:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pretty much everything. London is a city of neighborhoods. Each of which has a separate personality and a high street. On the north side of the Thames, you have traditional architecture and no building taller than St Paul's. On the Southbank, skyscrapers and young renters. 1/2

14/8/2025, 12:57:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Chicago, once you get past Lincoln Park, may have the ugliest neighborhoods in any major city.

14/8/2025, 12:33:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dommage

14/8/2025, 9:51:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Here's what people need to understand about Chicago. The area around the Mag Mile and Gold Coast is lovely. Lincoln Park, too, largely. But effectively every other neighborhood is hideous. It's a great tourist city, but not great to live in. The restaurants are overrated, too.

14/8/2025, 2:19:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I live in Chicago. It is vastly overrated. London Copenhagen Paris Tokyo Berlin

14/8/2025, 1:51:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He reminds me of someone. m.media-amazon.com/images/I/510...

14/8/2025, 1:49:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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sorry, but there is no fucking way this idiot took on anyone older than a fourth grader.

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12/8/2025, 9:46:36 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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That will certainly calm the markets.

12/8/2025, 9:39:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just don't expect it to tell you how many "Bs" in blueberry

12/8/2025, 9:35:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Can it run a little faster? Please.

12/8/2025, 5:49:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not exactly Usain Bolt.

12/8/2025, 1:27:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's our new national motto

11/8/2025, 11:17:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Better than that, they think he has lowered prices

11/8/2025, 9:48:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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...for now.

11/8/2025, 7:34:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why do these guys always look like they'd prefer to patrol a Dunkin' Donuts?

11/8/2025, 7:33:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jesus, don't make me like a Bruin.

10/8/2025, 1:37:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Time of day? Was it early in the morning?

10/8/2025, 1:22:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yep. I hate like heck to do it, but here we are. Fight on, you gutty, little bruins. ✌🏼

9/8/2025, 7:42:36 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As a person naturally disposed to hate anything ucla (Fight On!), I hate to admit that's a great idea. I'd go farther and say that the state should backstop any university that he attacks, public or private.

9/8/2025, 12:13:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How'd it work out after the Civil War? Jim Crow. Whites-only restrooms. Now, we have the secretary of defense reinstating the names of the traitors all across the military. I'm fine without them, thanks.

8/8/2025, 7:57:18 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm fine with the dissolution of the union. As a blue-stater, I'd be happy to disassociate with the red states. Either form our own country or join Canada.

8/8/2025, 6:57:35 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She. Fucked. Stephen. Miller.

7/8/2025, 1:19:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He thought it was ICE CREAM

7/8/2025, 12:11:00 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every blue state where it's possible.

6/8/2025, 7:25:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They already have disproportionate representation.

6/8/2025, 7:22:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Uriah Heep, without any of the charm.

6/8/2025, 1:52:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tired of being the party that plays by the rules when there are no rules.

6/8/2025, 12:18:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You're halfway to your goal!

5/8/2025, 5:29:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jump!!!

5/8/2025, 4:58:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Anyone know the load-bearing rating of that roof?

5/8/2025, 4:35:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah, he could be a dog.

4/8/2025, 11:57:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Of all the soulless assholes in this administration, he's near the top of the list.

3/8/2025, 4:21:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dershowitz needs to explain where in the Constitution it says that "asshole" is a protected class.

3/8/2025, 12:31:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You mean "golf spray painted" monuments.

2/8/2025, 11:38:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Melania, is that you?

2/8/2025, 12:46:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There is no Pravda in Izvestia and no Iz vestia in pravda

1/8/2025, 7:42:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No, not possible. But he knows their supporters are.

1/8/2025, 2:11:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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CA. NY. IL. MN. NJ. CO. OR. ETC. Gerrymander the gop out of existence.

1/8/2025, 1:05:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And more shame on the institutions that are caving to him.

1/8/2025, 11:56:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not sure that "asshole" is a protected class.

31/7/2025, 10:47:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dommage

31/7/2025, 7:13:34 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is the revenge of a group of people who were friendless in school and pantsed every day from kindergarten through twelfth grade.

31/7/2025, 7:12:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view