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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8h

JD Vance when people makes jokes about Charlie Kirk: "call their employer."

JD Vance when Republican staffers say "I love Hitler" and fantasize about throwing political opponents in gas chambers: "that's what kids do...we're not canceling kids because they did something stupid."

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 1h

End of the rump parliament

anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 10h

He does not know what that word means

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 21h

Did anybody search the fucking boat?

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 21h

What would stop an endless progression of invalid USAs filling placeholder charges ad infinitum?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Why would the cartels want to stop ICE and CBP activities that have been diverting resources away from drug interdiction?

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the things that didn’t happen

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 21h

On track for a new landspeed record from Nobel Peace Prize to coup d'etat

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 21h

Getting Sick is for Pussies.

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 22h

Nonideological pragmatic technopopulism, otherwise known as governing.

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 22h

mfer derp-circuited

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 23h

I laughed way too hard at this 🤣🤣🤣

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 1d

a swiss army knife with a red handle and a white cross on it

ALT: a swiss army knife with a red handle and a white cross on it

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 1d

kinda surprised he isn't forcing them to work out while they watch it

anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 1d

and Tren de Aragua is just like MS13, so, they we can drone strike Antifa (protesters)

domestic terrorists, narco-terrorists, what's the difference?

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 1d

a man with a laurel wreath on his head is standing next to another man in a helmet

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 1d

Netanyahu announces Israel will not abide by the terms of facilitating humanitarian aid, despite it being a key ceasefire agreement clause.

Didn't take long, did it?

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 1d

"incite imminent violence"= protest

if you specify that the violence is 'imminent' you can then, by definition, prevent that potential violence by just predicting it?

in other words, arrest for future crime.

see yall Saturday

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 1d

a man with a laurel wreath on his head is standing next to another man in a helmet

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 1d

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 1d

The first amendment clearly states that they are free to act like assholes and we are not permitted to call them assholes.

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 2d

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 2d

“A lot of crime these days is driven by poverty and those issues can't be solved by throwing more money at cops, unless the goal is criminalizing poor people.”

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

For my newsletter today, I wrote about the American police state and how Democrats are going to have to kill it if they have any hope of rebuilding from the authoritarian Trump regime. www.burnsnotice.com/democrats-mu...

Democrats Must Kill Their Inner Cops

Who needs the National Guard when your state troopers are perfectly willing to crack protester skulls all on their own? Listen, Illinois governor JB Pritzker is not perfect, but he's my guy. Or at le...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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