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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 36m

4 months apart

Official ICE government account
June 6, 2025:
"To call us 'Nazis' - to compare us to one of the worst groups in history - is disgusting and just outright wrong.
"What the men and women of ICE are doing in Massachusetts and all over this country is making communities safer."
—ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 29m

"In unison."

Amen.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules

After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Lauren-Ashley Arts @laurenashley087.bsky.social · 1h

White people need to talk to other white people. It is entirely up to the whites to move the needle on their end.

Let me be clear: racism and antisemitism are rampant on *both* sides of the aisle.

Your twentysomething niece has fallen for the okie doke just as easily as your Boomer uncle.

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🦋Nisey🦋 @nisey69.bsky.social · 1h

This is why THIS WAS NOT THE ELECTION TO FUCK AROUND. Nothing was more important than voting to keep this racist criminal regime out of power. NOTHING.

As Blacks.. we better understand right fcking now.. EVERY FUCKING ELECTION MATTERS.

Translation: NO ngga WE CANNOT sit out the vote.

Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 2h

Let’s stop pretending. The issue before the Supreme Court right now is easy to understand: There are still many people on the far right who don’t see Black Americans as equals...they see them through the same filthy slur they whisper when the cameras are off. That's right...that word.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1h

Morrison has really become the Timbaland of comics. Hate to see it. *pours one out*

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1h

Oh, for goodness' sake! tribune.com.pk/story/257258...

Timbaland unveils AI star TaTa Taktumi in soulless new music video | The Express Tribune

Timbaland’s AI artist TaTa Taktumi releases debut song ‘Glitch x Pulse’ stirring fierce online debate

tribune.com.pk

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 3h

Hakeem Jeffries posted pictures of two Rep. Members posing with “Young Republicans” who were part of a racist text thread (as reported by Politico).

In response, Mike Davis (well-connected in Trump World & on the Hill) called Jeffries a “house slave” for George Soros - proving Jeffries’ point.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 6h

Look at all those “college aged kids” texting each other “I love Hitler.”

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 3h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Sethro @armlessphelan.bsky.social · 2h

Jordan Catalano is not worth all this.

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 3h

Key art for and first look pics for VERY MERRY MYSTERY, premiering December 13 on OWN, and streaming next day on HBO Max.

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Sethro @armlessphelan.bsky.social · 3h

I don't get the Jared Leto appeal. He literally has a cult and most of his movies are bad.

Clive Daddy Rosfield @asymetricalhomo.bsky.social · 3h

Jim Carrey is a more talented Jared Leto

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Sethro @armlessphelan.bsky.social · 3h

Lots of drama yesterday. Like, so much I had to threaten eviction. Today has been so much better. Finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

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Miss D. 📚 🎬 📺 @bonobochick.bsky.social · 3h

🧵 #USA #history

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 7h

I don’t know how to approach “Republicans weren’t racist in the early aughts” as someone who went to Texas during the early aughts and had to debate whether or not Black students were “stealing” people’s spots in class.

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Sethro @armlessphelan.bsky.social · 3h

The government is shut down. We literally cannot do this.

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 4h

What the fuck are we doing?

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 3h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 3h

Under the Constitution and under the ADA, it is illegal to spend money without funding for that purpose. The president may not spend money to do something unless there's actually money to carry it out and that action is expressly allowed.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S9-C7-1/ALDE_00001095/

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Scariest LiBOOrian @audiolibrarian.bsky.social · 3h

the passive cop voice is being applied to a swastika

Politico @politico.com · 3h

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Sethro @armlessphelan.bsky.social · 3h

Do any of the modern girlies qualify as a "diva"? Actresses, musicians, whatever. There's a lack of larger-than-life womanhood right now.

Sethro @armlessphelan.bsky.social · 3h

I love that for her.

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Sethro @armlessphelan.bsky.social · 3h

I checked out of all soaps a couple months ago. Randomly decided to catch the back half today. It was okay. Michele Val Jean is less Douglas Marland and more Ron Carlivati, if that makes sense.

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Sethro @armlessphelan.bsky.social · 3h

I love the Hayley actress. Always have. She's not the best, but she fits the role. #BTG

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Sethro @armlessphelan.bsky.social · 3h

That I get, I just mean what drove her to it?

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 4h

Ah, yes, the double standard.

Kids do edgy things like saying "I love Hitler." Just ignore it.

Oh, also, my admin is getting people fired and pulling their visas for saying mean things about Charlie Kirk.

Someone should ask Vance why its only the shitheads who support him who get to be "edgy"

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