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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 1d

Confirmed, the "Gaza peace deal" was the same deal offered to Netanyahu and the US repeatdly, but it was turned down by Israel because they wanted to gift Trump (Israeli asset) a perceived victory at the expense of the Israeli hostages and Gaza population.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo says that American bishops need to be more vocal and support migrant communities from being abducted by ICE in US cities

"Important that we as church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what's going on in some cities in the US"

"The church cannot be silent"

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jrlgdnr.bsky.social @jrlgdnr.bsky.social · 2d

I'm attending weekly Baltimore Sign Waves's event, “Sign Wave at Kenilworth and Charles” - #BaltimoreSignWaves www.mobilize.us/baltimoresig...

Sign Wave at Kenilworth and Charles · Baltimore Sign Waves

Come join us waving pro-democracy signs! Bring your sign or just show up--we will have extra signs! Parking is easy on Kenilworth near Charles. PLEASE SIGN UP to receive important details and poten...

www.mobilize.us

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jrlgdnr.bsky.social @jrlgdnr.bsky.social · 2d

Respect and protect our historians as tyrannical sycophants try to rewrite our historic past.
On Indigenous Peoples' Day we acknowledge the full range of our nation’s history: brave and cruel, aspirational and exploitative.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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jrlgdnr.bsky.social @jrlgdnr.bsky.social · 3d

I keep remembering trump’s reaction to Nadia Murad. No acknowledgment or empathy for her loss and suffering, no admiration for her brave activism. Just incredulity that she’d won a Nobel Prize.

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jrlgdnr.bsky.social @jrlgdnr.bsky.social · 4d

👉🏼Local police👈🏼serve, protect, and are part of the communities these self important, ammosexual, legally ignorant ICE vigilantes are attacking.

Note to inflatable heroes: cheap ICE shirts available on EBay. ICE’ll
really be confused.

Angstipated™ @angstipated.bsky.social · 4d

#Portland law enforcement truly protect and serve...

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jrlgdnr.bsky.social @jrlgdnr.bsky.social · 4d

The Quaker Community’s maxim
“holding you in the light” is finding a new expression and I’m holding these goofy courageous heros in my heart as well.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 5d

It's really sad how the violence is so pervasive in Portland that they don't even try to bury the war dead.

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 5d

Around Portland today... someone takes their Halloween extra serious. (sorry for overposting today).

blackened skeleton in a cage with backdrop of figurehead of pirate regalia over front door in backdrop.

dead pirate sitting peacefully next to a skull with a candle for some reason with coins scattered at his booted feet.

skeleton roasting on a pitchfork spit because nothing is more succulent than cooked pirate

ossuary hill of rocks and skulls with gravestones in backdrop and bones in foreground

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jrlgdnr.bsky.social @jrlgdnr.bsky.social · 4d

No McArthur Park remix here.
Poor puppy shooter Noem just isn’t getting the footage she wants (the 2020 stuff
has rebounded)
Let’s hear it for the time honored tradition of Absurdist Protest.

It’s the weaponed up ammosexual who looks silly when threatened by dancing inflatables.

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 5d

This is awesome.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 5d

Qatar gave Trump the luxury 747 that he wanted and now we are LETTING THEM BUILD A MILITARY BASE ON US SOIL

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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jrlgdnr.bsky.social @jrlgdnr.bsky.social · 5d

Bravo Nobel committee!Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is a brilliant choice and may (oh no) prove provocative to a frail malignant narcissist. Hispanic! A woman! a defender of Democracy!

Please, Bad Bunny, write a song in her honor❤️

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 5d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

jrlgdnr.bsky.social @jrlgdnr.bsky.social · 5d

Daily woods walk.
More than a timeline cleanser, a bit less than a week at a spa.

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

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles.

You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

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Richard Carl Askins @richca.bsky.social · 6d

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jrlgdnr.bsky.social @jrlgdnr.bsky.social · 6d

He keeps updating his material and I wish he didn’t have so
much to work with youtube.com/shorts/sAmcu...

When you strip away humanity

YouTube video by Josh Johnson

youtube.com

jrlgdnr.bsky.social @jrlgdnr.bsky.social · 7d

Took my SATs with a slide rule.
Pet dinosaur was proud of me.

Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksay2.substack.com · 7d

Lately I can’t tell which makes me prouder—having a PhD, or having earned it back when ChatGPT didn’t exist. The more I read grad student papers and colleagues’ reports, the more I lean toward the latter.

I wrote those 400 pages on my own. Bob oh Bob, those were some precious days.

jrlgdnr.bsky.social @jrlgdnr.bsky.social · 8d

It appears that sadism, xenophobia, misogyny,narcissistic personality disorder,
and explosive aggression are job requirements for ICE.
Literacy is a negative.
Conscience is a disqualification.

Can anybody help develop a testosterone deactivator?

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 8d

There’s just not enough attention being paid to how unqualified, psychologically unfit, and dangerous so many of these new ICE hires potentially are.

If we had a Congress, there’d be investigations & oversight into this.

jrlgdnr.bsky.social @jrlgdnr.bsky.social · 9d

This gent really put in the time…a reality check on realistic estimates on premiums, deductibles, vs actual incomes.

Can’t help but conclude that GOP regards the majority of non wealthy/powerful fellow citizens as expendable.

We produce enforcer troops.

Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 10d

The good news is that all of these families can shop around for lower-priced policies.

The bad news is that if the enhanced tax credits expire, even shopping around probably won't help much...or at best will trade "lower" premiums (usually still higher than now) for much higher deductibles/etc.

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jrlgdnr.bsky.social @jrlgdnr.bsky.social · 9d

Note to troops: “Just following orders” is not a legitimate defense during trial for illegal acts.
Oaths are sworn to the constitution, not an individual. You are in public service- not a Praetorian Guard or mob enforcers. (Like the J6 ilk thugs in ICE.)

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 11d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

jrlgdnr.bsky.social @jrlgdnr.bsky.social · 13d

A chilling thread on brainwashing, gaslighting, threats, misinformation- all those exhausting GOP methodologies.
FOX the straight, here’s the chaser.👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 13d

NEW: THREAD: Just a small collection of propaganda emails sent by the regime to federal employees who have sent them to me on the condition of anonymity. First, we all saw the HUD banner from Tuesday morning. 1/

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 13d

I never thought I’d say this, but I agree with MTG 100%.

And for the record, I’m not paid for any of my opinions. Never have been, never will be.

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jrlgdnr.bsky.social @jrlgdnr.bsky.social · 14d

👀 Looking at the Key Bridge here in ‘war ravaged’ Baltimore (at 50 year low in crime)…
But hey, it was named after a slaveholder, we good‽

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 14d

OMB Director Russell Voight says that US DOT will announce that the federal government is "pausing" funding for both Gateway and the Second Avenue Subway because of "unconstitutional DEI principles" -- x.com/russvought/s...

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jrlgdnr.bsky.social @jrlgdnr.bsky.social · 14d

If nothing else
the constitutionally loyal successful career professionals get an up close at exhibit A and B.

Hopefully there is Nuremberg awareness for the fate of ambitious collaborators.

This is a deeply sad spectacle.

geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 15d

if EYE were attempting to trample the constitution and institute ethnonationalist authoritarian rule i simply would not gather all of the military generals in the same place as me on the day the government is going to shut down. personally

jrlgdnr.bsky.social @jrlgdnr.bsky.social · 16d

Love the Bunny but concerned that those 50K signing bonuses mean ICE thugs can attend and, you know, do their racist sexist xenophobic transphobic violent thing.

Consider who made this choice- wasn’t the NFL, it was Roc Nation. Gracias Jay-Z!

Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 16d

Latin artist Bad Bunny to headline Super Bowl half-time show

'This is for my people, my culture, and our history,' said the Puerto Rican rapper after it was announced he will take center stage at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, for the Super Bowl on February 8.

www.lemonde.fr

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