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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 1d

The ‘Peace President’ killed six more people off the coast of Venezuela this morning. We have no evidence other than his word that they were a threat to anyone, anywhere and also release the Epstein files. Thank you for your attention in this matter!

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

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.

If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."

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Christopher Miller, Mr. Generic @millersimul.bsky.social · 1d

For as little as I care about MLB, my cheering interest for the MIL/LA series is the AL.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d

Presenting the plague of frogs on Portland. And yes, I choose to believe God has a sense of humor & is laughing at this too.

There’s no better way to show how absurd a bully is than to ridicule their absurdity. Kudos to Portlanders! Stand United & keep exercising your 1A right to protest tyranny!❤️✊🏽

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Christopher Miller, Mr. Generic @millersimul.bsky.social · 1d

Laura.
You live in MN.
You know better than that.

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Christopher Miller, Mr. Generic @millersimul.bsky.social · 2d

This is a great thread, but I plucked this from the middle, because this is the *exact* logic rural people have used about cities for almost 75 years now. And because we didn't pay attention, it's now weaponized.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

It is impossible to understand the rage and furor that is fueling the Trumpist project without grappling with this first: They really believe the “leftist” revolution has successfully taken over the institutions which are now being used to subvert the “will of the people” and destroy “real America.”

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Christopher Miller, Mr. Generic @millersimul.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, guess what! "Self-deporting" isn't safe either! We may as well fight for our neighbors!

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Trump promised free plane tickets and $1,000 “exit bonuses” to immigrants who opted to self-deport.

ProPublica spoke to a dozen Venezuelan immigrants who said they followed the president’s instructions, yet never received the promised assistance.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3d

Men would rather collapse a government than go to therapy

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 3d

If we really put our heads together and keep the evening of December 24 clear, I am convinced we can Christmas Carol this man.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Christopher Miller, Mr. Generic @millersimul.bsky.social · 3d

a man with a mustache is wearing a striped shirt and looking at the camera .

ALT: a man with a mustache is wearing a striped shirt and looking at the camera .

media.tenor.com

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Christopher Miller, Mr. Generic @millersimul.bsky.social · 3d

Finally might get some Montanans to wake tf up.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

“WHOAH! Be careful not to step in that pile of shit there!” exclaimed the man pulling his pants back up.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 3d

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Ben Shapiro warns that conspiratorial right is taking over social media

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3d

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d

It’s endlessly depressing watching all these tech oligarchs try and convince themselves they’re geniuses instead of people who just happened to benefit from capitalism requiring their products and then the entire political and banking system gassing them up with with free money and tireless support.

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Christopher Miller, Mr. Generic @millersimul.bsky.social · 3d

Three versions of this for me:

Clergy: Pastor, can we talk?

Post office: There's still more packages.

Camp cook: Is this gluten free?

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Christopher Miller, Mr. Generic @millersimul.bsky.social · 3d

AND in a grand irony to this conversation, the bulletin and hymnal had the Alt lyrics, but the screens had the originals. Mass confusion!

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Christopher Miller, Mr. Generic @millersimul.bsky.social · 3d

And the original: hymnary.org/text/praise_...

Establishing a secure connection ...

hymnary.org

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Christopher Miller, Mr. Generic @millersimul.bsky.social · 3d

FOR EXAMPLE, today's opening hymn for worship (in 5 min):

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Christopher Miller, Mr. Generic @millersimul.bsky.social · 3d

I think this actually makes a good point:

Who do you think "the machine" is, ruining your life?

There's different answers!

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Christopher Miller, Mr. Generic @millersimul.bsky.social · 3d

Because not everyone is happy that they won.