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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4h

He runs a roving gang that stages hate crimes, and you do not have to hand it to him, but I agree with Curtis Sliwa on one thing: The way to get rid of rats is well cared-for cat colonies. I lived in a LES building behind a restaurant with one and there were no rats. Never mayor, but maybe Cat Czar.

Curtis Sliwa's Feral Cat Vigilantes Will Clean Up This Dirty Town

To solve the city's rat problem, we need roving feline justice squads.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6h

Everyone sing along!

🎶Don’t cry for us, Argentina.
We’re like Canada, only much meaner.
And we gave up healthcare,
For your peso to be finer,
So you could steal our soybean exports.
That went to China.🎶

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Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 4h

Are they her words or Miller’s?

regardless those are Miller approved words

Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 6h

Karoline Leavitt is a complete disgrace.

Her violent and unhinged rhetoric is going to get someone killed.

These extremists are sick people.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Mamdani: "We will make buses free by replacing the revenue that the MTA currently gets from buses. This is revenue that's around $700 million or so. That's less money than Andrew Cuomo gave to Elon Musk in $959 million in tax credits when he was the governor."

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Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 4h

Scrolling past your post

But I’m holding my device at an angle like it’s an intro to Star Wars

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Mamdani: "If you think that the problem in this city is that my rent is too low, rent for Andrew Cuomo. If you know that the problem in this city is that your rent is too high, vote for me."

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Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 5h

Unitary Executive but w a Heritage aftertaste

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17h

All of this, in violation of the Constitution.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 5h

No hubris like a centrist lawyer’s hubris

It is not some academic gamesmanship to be discussed as if were a ball game. The injury as it were will continue despite all the suits filed. Yes lawyers, aren’t you all really clever just clueless to the concept of time or urgency.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 5h

But the loudest centrist lawyers and legal pendents on social media said this could never be used to prosecute people and was effectively just a diversion…..

The loudest lawyers on social media sure don’t seem to understand how law or authoritarianism actually work or they are lying.

Attorney General Pamela Bondi &
@AGPamBondi
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As @POTUS has made clear, Antifa is a left-wing terrorist organization.
They will be prosecuted as such.
Fox News
ICE attack
@FoxNews • 1h
FIRST ON FOX: DOJ brings first Antifa-related terrorism charges in Texas
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THIE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
FORT WORTH DIVISION
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
FILED
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CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT
V.
CAMERON ARNOLD (01)
สม่ล "Autumn Hill"
ZACHARY EVETTS (02)
No.
Seconds later, Coconspirator-1 opened fire on the officers, striking the Alvarado police officer in the neck arca as the unarmed correctional officers ducked and ran for cover.
The wounded officer fell to the ground but was able to retum a few shots. Coconspirator-I continued to fire additional rounds until his rifle jammed. The attackers then lef the
4-25 CR- 259 - P
INDICTMENT
The Grand Jury Charges:
2. Police arrested most of the Antifa Cell shortly after the attack, many near the scene of the attack, including Zachary Evetts. Police arrested Cameron Arnold the
following day.
The Attack
1. Late at night on the Fourth of July, 2025, a North Texas Antifa Cell (Antifa Cell) of at least eleven opcratives, clad in black and donning masks, some of whom were wearing body armor and carrying firearms, attacked the Prairicland Detention Center
(Prairicland) in Alvarado, Texas. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security was using
Prairieland to house illegal aliens awaiting deportation. Members of the Antifa Cell
began shooting fireworks towards the facility and vandalizing vehicles and a guard shed.
Alarmed at the presence of poople near the facility late at night, DHS correctional officers inside the facility went outside to investigate. Other DIIS personnel called local police for assistance. Within minutes, un officer from the Alvarado Police Department arrived on scene, stepped out of his cruiser, and began issuing commands to a black-clad
The Antifa Cell
3. Antifa is a militant enterprise made u…

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Hochul: "They promised to extract revenge on their political enemies & apparently any state that has a D gov. Tell me how Florida & Texas could receive these same funds w/o having to go to court? They're playing politics, but more than that, they're playing with people's lives. And that's abhorrent"

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Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 5h

In Anderson Township, Ohio, the Democratic slate scored the billboard above the local GOP HQ.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 11h

The American Gestapo is getting more and more comfortable with their brutality and flouting of the law and constitution because they know they will never be held accountable for it.

America’s fascism is going to require an effort on par with war to correct and decades to accomplish.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 13h

A US citizen in Chicago was kidnapped by Border Patrol and dumped on the streets half a mile away. EVEN THOUGH HE WAS FILMING IT. They do not care about getting caught. They have no fear of accountability.

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Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 9h

In other words, all the owners of said media, and all the editors & producers of said media who we’re keeping their noses down, pleasing their bosses w little thought to the banality of the evil they committed, aside from to say, “was just doing my job, man”.

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Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 9h

In other words, all the owners of said media, and all the editors & producers of said media who we’re keeping their noses down, pleasing their bosses w little thought to the banality of the evil they committed, aside from to say, “was just doing my job, man”.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1d

I do not want to hear anything more about the plight of young, disaffected white men.

I do not want to read one more analysis of what’s gone wrong for them that doesn’t include an indictment of the older white men who give grace and cover for their racism and misogyny. 1/2

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 1d

JD Vance has come to the defense of young Republican leaders who are under scrutiny after Politico published “hundreds of racist and hateful messages” from what it reported was their private group chat.

Vance says young Republicans accused of racism shouldn't have their lives 'ruined'

The vice president contrasted offensive remarks in a private group chat with texts from a Democratic candidate in Virginia who had suggested a top Republican be killed.

nbcnews.to

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The Hermit of Everything @hermiteveryday.bsky.social · 11h

This time of year when you come back from a walk…🍁✨

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Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 10h

Those lips are plump from overuse and not any filler

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10h

Remember how we just went through a multi-week newscycle where Democrats and liberals were lambasted for their "violent" political rhetoric, which included Fox hosts claiming that only one political party was demonizing their political opponents as evil? And how libs needs to lower the temperature?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 10h

These are the words and ideations of one man

Stephen Miller, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, Shadow President

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Jeffries: "House Republican leadership hasn't been given permission to talk to Democrats by their boss, Donald Trump. We know that throughout the entire presidency, Republicans in the Congress have chosen to functions like lapdogs of the Trump administration. A wholly owned subsidiary of Trump"

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Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 10h

Or they’re doing everything possible to annihilate any opposition, figuratively and then some

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Jeffries: "The notion that the No Kings rallies are anything but a patriotic act consistent w.the 1A right to express yourself & petition the govt for change in policy continues to reveal that Republicans are clueless as it relates to the Constitution, or they continue to lie for political reasons."

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11h

The "ceasefire" does not seem to be going great

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Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 13h

Sad

I actually remember this ad running

Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 13h

I’m going but I refused to sign up online
Just the subsequent marketing after giving my email is enough to deter me, let alone in today’s world there’s no guarantee that the signup list doesn’t fall into the wrong federal hands.
I’m going to build/expand actual community & support of my locals

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Ben the Hammerhead @benhammerhead.bsky.social · 13h

They’re masked

How are you going to differentiate between one bloated tactical testosterone unit from the other, if one happens to ~not~ be wearing a body cam?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

“Federal immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras, a judge said Thursday after seeing tear gas and other aggressive steps used against protesters.”

Federal immigration officers in Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras, judge says

A judge says federal immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other aggressive steps against protesters.

apnews.com

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