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Bean, the Malkavian -- Anti-FishMalk

@malkavianbean.bsky.social

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Cis-Het He/Him. Married. Don't bother. Disabled. No money either. I report & block. Neurodivergent. Socialist. Techie. Tinkerer. Life-long Anachronist. History. TTRPG/PC RPG - Pf2e, Cyberpunk, Shadowrun, Vampire: tM, Werewolf: tA; Pro-Safety. Anti-"Bleed".

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Bean, the Malkavian -- Anti-FishMalk @malkavianbean.bsky.social · Jan 21

Okay. Intro time, I guess.

Hi! If I haven't followed you back, it's because I don't know the context of why someone would follow me.

I will 100% call-out Democrats for their bullshit, just as I'll call-out the GOP for theirs.

I grew-up in the era of lingering Dixiecrats, so Biden is top of the -

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva on Mike Johnson refusing to swear her in: "The excuses depending on the day keep changing ... the timing is the fact that I am the 218th signer to the discharge petition for the Epstein files"

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Bean, the Malkavian -- Anti-FishMalk @malkavianbean.bsky.social · 3h

Art . . . uh . . . finds a way.

Bean, the Malkavian -- Anti-FishMalk @malkavianbean.bsky.social · 3h

www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
He claims he's been getting death threats if he does.

MSN

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Bean, the Malkavian -- Anti-FishMalk @malkavianbean.bsky.social · 4h

They have elevators.
Biden boasted about Thurmond threatening a voter in one.

Who pushed the turtle down the stairs?

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 8h

California just announced it will start selling its own insulin, priced at $11. It is the first state to sell cheap insulin through a state-backed program.

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orynthia blue. @javeauriel.blacksky.app · 13h

People talk about the 300k+ Black women who have lost their jobs as if they are statistics for their research projects and I’m here to remind yall, we are real ass people feeling the effects of it. In our homes, quality of life and well-being.

To those of you in this boat with me, I see you. 💙

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Bean, the Malkavian -- Anti-FishMalk @malkavianbean.bsky.social · 4h

They said "No", that they will not allow US Oil Corporations to take full control of their Oil Production, and carve their country into Corporate fiefdoms. They only allow limited licenses to US Oil Companies.

energy-oil-gas.com/news/6-count...

1. Venezuela – The World’s Oil Reserve Titan
Venezuela holds the largest proven crude oil reserves globally, estimated at approximately 303 billion barrels as of 2024. These reserves are predominantly located in the Orinoco Belt, containing extra-heavy crude oil that requires advanced extraction techniques.

Despite its vast reserves, Venezuela’s oil production has faced significant challenges due to economic instability, infrastructure issues, and international sanctions. In 2024, the country’s oil output averaged around 921,000 barrels per day, a modest increase attributed to strategic partnerships and political maneuvers.

The state-owned company, Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA), manages the nation’s oil resources. However, its operations have been hampered by limited foreign investment and technical expertise. International collaborations, such as those with Chevron, have provided some relief, but the sector’s full potential remains untapped.

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Tam-Rah @blue-fire1.bsky.social · 5h

Red States Top List of Those With Biggest Tax Giveaways to Millionaires and Billionaires www.commondreams.org/news/republi...

Red States Top List of Those With Biggest Tax Giveaways to Millionaires and Billionaires | Common Dreams

Progressive think tank exposes how Republican-run states are giving massive tax cuts to millionaires.

www.commondreams.org

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Bean, the Malkavian -- Anti-FishMalk @malkavianbean.bsky.social · 4h

And, as a related reminder:
There's no such thing as a "Good", "Moral", or "Ethical" Billionaire, and probably few, if any "Good", "Moral", or "Ethical" Millionaires. At least you can *earn* a million dollars in a lifetime.

They're as real as the Tooth Fairy.

Mrs. Betty Bowers
@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

"I have BILLIONS of dollars. How can you give me more money to incentivize me to be decent?"

Mark Cuban
@mcuban.bsky.social

Want to use rich people like me to your advantage? Incent us to help those who need it the most. Lower corp taxes for comps that pay a min of $25 per hour. Lower corp taxes if employees get stock at the same pct as the CEO.

Bottom up incentives work. Dems never innovate. They bitch

August 10, 2025 at 12•07 PM

August 11, 2025 at 8:17 AM O Everybody can reply

Jen Perelman
@JenChangeFL

If you make $100k a year, it would take 10 years to become a millionaire.

If you make $100k a year, it would take 10,000 years to become a billionaire.

The only way to become a billionaire is through worker & consumer exploitation.

Stand with labor, now & always. #LaborDay
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OPB @opb.org · 5h

Protesters at the ICE facility in Portland may have had their identifiable information from their cellphones surveilled, new reporting from Straight Arrow News found.

Reporter Mikael Thalen used a research tool known as Marlin and he spoke with OPB's “Think Out Loud" about the findings.

Protesters near Portland’s ICE facility could have been surveilled by fake cell tower, new reporting finds

New reporting from Straight Arrow News found that a cell-site simulator was being used in the area near the ICE facility, making protestor's identifiable information surveilled by the user of the device.

www.opb.org

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Bean, the Malkavian -- Anti-FishMalk @malkavianbean.bsky.social · 4h

Everything Snowden leaked in 2014, you can assume is still operating as warrantless domestic spying, possibly under new names.

Government gave themselves these tools. They're not going to just stop using them. They'll only be upset when the *other* team is the one in charge of using them.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11h

NEW: in a hearing where a judge is asking the government why it’s defying her court order about deploying tear gas without warning in Chicago, the government argues ICE isn’t using body cams, and they can’t start using them because the government is shut down.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 12h

Skedzielewski also cites the shutdown and says "I don't believe that it will be possible, on a short timeline, to roll out a body cam program in the Chicago [area of responsibility] for ICE.

For CBP it "may be more workable."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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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René Rusch @renerusch.bsky.social · 8h

Genocidal intent?

Thread of quotes from senior Israeli politicians and military officials. [chronologically, including sources]

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Bean, the Malkavian -- Anti-FishMalk @malkavianbean.bsky.social · 5h

"Israel, remember your biblical duty to the Amalek! Remember what they did to you as we came up from Egypt." -- Netanyahu

The only "biblical duty" towards the Amalek is complete and total Genocide to the last infant, every possession, including the livestock.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408524

Israel National NewsOpedsNetanyahu remembers Amalek
Netanyahu remembers Amalek
Trump…and the rest of the world…will never fully understand what Oct.7 did to the pride of the nation. Opinion.
Jack Engelhard
Jack Engelhard
2 minutes
May 18, 2025, 8:10 AM (GMT+3)
Amalek Jack Engelhard Netanyahu Trial

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408524

For Netanyahu, the Biblical imperative (Deuteronomy 25-17-19) to “wipe out” Amalek…today’s Hamas…is a fundamental mitzvah.

“Remember…do not forget what they did to you,” says the Torah.

Netanyahu does not forget. Oct.7 is a wound that will never heal, and this is where the clash exists between Trump and Netanyahu.

Trump has three more years to work on his legacy, a resume which for all eternity features him as foremost a peacemaker.

This is Trump’s Doctrine.

By way of saying that Trump wants Netanyahu to call it quits…to pick up your marbles, go home, and make the peace.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2025:17-19&version=NIV

Deuteronomy 25:17-19
New International Version
17 Remember what the Amalekites did to you along the way when you came out of Egypt. 18 When you were weary and worn out, they met you on your journey and attacked all who were lagging behind; they had no fear of God. 19 When the Lord your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel%2015&version=NIV

1 Samuel 15
New International Version
The Lord Rejects Saul as King
15 Samuel said to Saul, “I am the one the Lord sent to anoint you king over his people Israel; so listen now to the message from the Lord. 2 This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. 3 Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy[a] all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

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Andrew Flanagan @af68.bsky.social · 2d

donnie, how's your 'peace' "for first time in 3000 years" plan in Middle East going?

bibi being 'honourable' & 'trying hard' to be genuine peace partner?😈

Seems it lasted about 15 hours🤬

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

BREAKING: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza, accusing Hamas of violating ceasefire with slow release of dead hostages, AP sources say.

Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

The tenuous ceasefire in the two-year Israel-Hamas war is being tested as complex issues remain a day after widespread jubilation over the return to Israel of the last 20 living hostages held in Gaza and the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 14h

And now the power company wants to destroy without mitigation then somehow reestablish another acre of protected wetlands because there's just no other possible way to get Google the power lines they need to operate cuz Google lied in its initially approved permit applications that it didn't need em

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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Bean, the Malkavian -- Anti-FishMalk @malkavianbean.bsky.social · 14h

Amazing how countless plastic surgeries can get you from here to endless TV spots, and control of the Gestapo & Stasi's American love-child.

Bean, the Malkavian -- Anti-FishMalk @malkavianbean.bsky.social · 22h

That boy loves to copy Xi, and other right-wing 'Authoritarians'. Never had an original thought in that balding head.

Bean, the Malkavian -- Anti-FishMalk @malkavianbean.bsky.social · 22h

If only there were a term, maybe French in origin, that describes when one Party consolidates political 'Power' under their President, denies the loss of an election, works to rig elections, demands loyalty oaths, threatens political opponents, and deploys secret police to target "undesirables" ...🤔

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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My Snowblower can beat up your snowblower @seriouslydemented.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, without aid, Argentinians might lose access to healthcare...oh wait...What the fuck?

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Bean, the Malkavian -- Anti-FishMalk @malkavianbean.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like too many of our politicians would be out-smarted by a Tarsier. Its brain weighs less than either of its eyes.

For a redeeming quality, no Tarsier has never funded a Genocide, and would never support "ICE".

the tarsier is like a small teddy bear... #truefacts #tarsier

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