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blukryptonian.bsky.social @blukryptonian.bsky.social · 55m

Rare woman yakuza on path to redemption in Japan ｜ AFP

By Tomohiro OSAKI Gifu (Japan) (AFP) - A missing fingertip offers a clue to Mako Nishimura's criminal past as one of Japan's few women yakuza. But after clawing her way out of the underworld, she now ...

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blukryptonian.bsky.social @blukryptonian.bsky.social · 1h

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Virginia Giuffre’s story of abuse exposes impunity of powerful men, UK experts say

Women’s campaigners say book excerpts reveal ‘network of privilege’ that protected Jeffrey Epstein amid wider misogynistic culture

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blukryptonian.bsky.social @blukryptonian.bsky.social · 1h

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B-52s fly off coast of Venezuela in show of force by Trump

Three bombers flew for hours off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday.

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blukryptonian.bsky.social @blukryptonian.bsky.social · 1h

Bolton willingly swallowed a poison pill

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US Political Politics News 💙🌈🦋The Fighting Liberal Democrat @us-political-news.bsky.social · 1h

John Fetterman faces party plot to kick him to the curb https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/10/16/2348889/-John-Fetterman-faces-party-plot-to-kick-him-to-the-curb?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=

John Fetterman faces party plot to kick him to the curb

Top Pennsylvania Democrats are quietly gearing up for a political showdown three years out. According to a new report, party officials are laying the groundwork to challenge Sen. John Fetterman in a 2028 primary, frustrated by his increasingly public...

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Cathy @leadahorse.bsky.social · 5h

kirk was tasked and paid millions to groom our young adults into these young Republican beliefs. (Just as Von Schirach did for hitler. I suppose Hitler gave him a medal for it too).He and others twisted and perverted Christianity to support exactly what you read here.

TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 7h

“I really don’t want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke telling a very offensive stupid joke is cause to ruin their lives,” VP J. D. Vance 🔗 www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...
Do these look like kids to you? The Republican party is a hate organization.

Young Republicans and their text messages:

PO
PO
Peter Giunta
Great. I love Hitler
Peter Giunta
Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber
Joe Maligno
Gas chambers don't fit the
Joe Maligno
Boom - they're dead
YR
YOUNG
REPUBLICAN
NATIONAL PEOTLATTON
fant
n--ga
the watermelon people
Willam Hendrix
"n--ga" and in--guh"
Willam Hendrix
and kool aid with that?
carving watermelons
Missouri doesn't like f--s
YSYA
NYS
Luke Mosimen
"beaner" and "sp-c
Luke Mosiman
Id go to the 200 if I wanted to
Bobby Walker
It they vote for us why would they be gassed?
1488 (shorthand for Hei Hitler)
Alex Dwyer
Trumps too busy burning the Epstein ties
Samuel Douglass
She just didn't bathe often
Samuel Douglass
youre expecond the sew
Anne KayKaty
When do we bring that side out?
Anne KayKaty

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 4h

ICYMI the GOP's main message right now is 'if you're not with us, you're an enemy of the state'

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2h

Newsom: This president appears unhinged… seems listless… he seems, dare I say, in decline—cognitively, and… physically. These are just the rantings of someone who needs an intervention, needs some help, needs to be stabilized.

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blukryptonian.bsky.social @blukryptonian.bsky.social · 1h

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blukryptonian.bsky.social @blukryptonian.bsky.social · 1h

The Democratic Party is afraid to call Heritage what it really is

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blukryptonian.bsky.social @blukryptonian.bsky.social · 1h

It's more in the open than the cold war.

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blukryptonian.bsky.social @blukryptonian.bsky.social · 1h

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Jill @jillehughes.bsky.social · 7h

The entire situation we are in is because leaders of NATO countries got trapped into spying for the Russians, Chinese, Saudis, and Israelis.

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blukryptonian.bsky.social @blukryptonian.bsky.social · 7h

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Nick Fuentes says: ‘There’s groypers in every department’

Fuentes’s comments came after it was revealed that members of the Young Republicans were praising Hitler and threatening to torture opponents

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blukryptonian.bsky.social @blukryptonian.bsky.social · 9h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

The unanswered questions after release of China spy evidence

The disclosure sheds more light than ever before on what the two men were accused of, but raises new questions for the prime minister and prosecutors.

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blukryptonian.bsky.social @blukryptonian.bsky.social · 9h

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Mexico president dismisses US claim of cartel bounties on immigration officials

Sheinbaum says she has ‘no information’ about Trump administration claim as experts also deeply skeptical

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blukryptonian.bsky.social @blukryptonian.bsky.social · 10h

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A former security guard at the US Embassy in Norway is convicted of spying for Russia and Iran

A former security guard at the U.S. Embassy in Norway has been convicted of espionage after a court in Oslo found that he spied for Russia and Iran.

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blukryptonian.bsky.social @blukryptonian.bsky.social · 18h

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

No 10 moves to end China spy row – but threat of further fallout lingers

Questions remain over trial collapse even as publication of key evidence scuppers Tory’s main line of attack

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

Dismantling the VRA is their plan. An all out attack on black/brown representation that would give Republicans a hammer-lock on power.

A potentially 20-plus house seat shift. Pay attention.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...

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blukryptonian.bsky.social @blukryptonian.bsky.social · 18h

It's like a weird addiction

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blukryptonian.bsky.social @blukryptonian.bsky.social · 18h

www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Crowds in St Petersburg sing about overthrowing Putin

Hundreds gather to chant anti-war lyrics labelled ‘extremist’ under Moscow’s censorship laws

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blukryptonian.bsky.social @blukryptonian.bsky.social · 18h

www.thedailybeast.com/furious-maga...

Furious MAGA Customers Say They Got ‘Scammed’ by Trump Watches

The majority of reviewers on Trustpilot gave Trump Watches one star.

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blukryptonian.bsky.social @blukryptonian.bsky.social · 1d

The Samaritan was deemed an infidel to the normal orthodox practitioner and the priests. Yeshua and his brother infrequently used the Samaritan to demonstrate that the infidel has more faith.

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blukryptonian.bsky.social @blukryptonian.bsky.social · 1d

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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.

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dbnewtondoors.bsky.social @dbnewtondoors.bsky.social · 1d

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The 4th Reich began at noon on Jan 20, 2025 in Washington, DC, courtesy of the Heritage Foundation, powered by John Roberts' Catholic SCOTUS, operated by unelected Stephen Miller and now supercharged by trump's budget robbery bill.

Behold! 4 black robed Nazis . . .

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