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Bruce Halperin

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Bruce Halperin @brucehalperin.bsky.social · Dec 28

This is Nutmeg. Nutmeg has never eaten anything in her entire life. [cue sad Sarah McLachlan music] #DogsOfBluesky

A white and black beagle mix sits in front of an empty food bowl, looking pleadingly back over her left shoulder at the camera.

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Bruce Halperin @brucehalperin.bsky.social · 1h

Remember when Hillary called half of Trump supporters a “basket of deplorables” and Republicans still won’t shut up about it? Anyway, this will be forgotten by Saturday

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

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

Bruce Halperin @brucehalperin.bsky.social · 2h

By Sebastian Thrun

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 2h

“Your obsession with and constant annual threats to move Dreamforce to Las Vegas is ironic, since it is a fact that Las Vegas has a higher rate of violent crime than San Francisco. San Francisco does not need a federal invasion because you don’t like paying for extra security for Dreamforce”

Venture Capitalist Resigns From Salesforce Foundation Over Benioff Comments

www.nytimes.com

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Bruce Halperin @brucehalperin.bsky.social · 22h

Ain’t no rule says a dog can’t play basketball

a group of basketball players are playing a game of basketball with a referee .

Alt: Air Bud shooting a free throw

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Bruce Halperin @brucehalperin.bsky.social · 22h

If they were passed overwhelmingly, why doesn’t the Legislature override the vetoes?

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Bruce Halperin @brucehalperin.bsky.social · 22h

LET THE DOG DRIVE

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Bruce Halperin @brucehalperin.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a tuxedo is sitting in front of a window .

Alt: Vito Corleone scratches his face

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

When college kids publicly say "Israel's war on Gaza is bad" that is full-blown anti-Semitism that requires the federal government to crack down on all colleges.

When Young Republicans in their 20s and 30s privately praise Hitler and "joke" about the Holocaust, well, that's just freedom baby.

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Bruce Halperin @brucehalperin.bsky.social · 1d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecRy...

Always Sunny Wild Card Scene

YouTube video by Felino Kurian

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

They're the ones making our neighborhoods unsafe. They're the danger to our children. They're the threat to law and order.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

Agent lobs a gas canister into a residential neighborhood in Illinois for no discernible reason, gassing dozens of neighbors including a baby. The comfort with which they deploy weapons of war is unreal.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

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Bruce Halperin @brucehalperin.bsky.social · 1d

Would naked bike riders count?

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Bruce Halperin @brucehalperin.bsky.social · 1d

GODDAMMIT LET US HAVE THIS ONE THING

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Bruce Halperin @brucehalperin.bsky.social · 1d

Isn’t he the one whose son makes sure he doesn’t watch porn?

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 2d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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

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Bruce Halperin @brucehalperin.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a ring toss game!

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3d

Elon Musk is doing Enron the right way.

by Ezra Klein

electrek.co/2025/10/13/e...

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks

Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk’s private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having...

electrek.co

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Bruce Halperin @brucehalperin.bsky.social · 3d

It’s almost too easy using Sherri Tenpenny

Bruce Halperin @brucehalperin.bsky.social · 3d

Dear God. Marc Benioff was right

Bruce Halperin @brucehalperin.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe an incline railway somewhere?

Bruce Halperin @brucehalperin.bsky.social · 4d

I disagree with the premise. All of them are bloodthirsty psychopaths.

Bruce Halperin @brucehalperin.bsky.social · 4d

They misspelled “Forgiato”

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Bruce Halperin @brucehalperin.bsky.social · 5d

Boycott Dreamforce

Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social · 5d

For years, San Franciscans considered him the rare big-hearted billionaire. But days before his Dreamforce conference begins, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he would support President Trump sending the National Guard to SF and that Trump is doing “a great job.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d

This really captures the nexus of cruelty and corruption at the core of MAGA:

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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