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Mr. BeVoorheesages

@mrbeverages.bsky.social

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Artist, dog lover, avid reader my hidden blocklist of nazis, transphobes, and insufferable libs that has a bad name so bluesky got stupid about it: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ageaevo6axza2xvzrpqbu674/lists/3jzkdvr22oy2p

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Mr. BeVoorheesages @mrbeverages.bsky.social · 1d

we can have some gestapo as a treat

Mr. BeVoorheesages @mrbeverages.bsky.social · 1d

google ice you dipshit

Mr. BeVoorheesages @mrbeverages.bsky.social · 1d

shut up

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

The potential for shit like this is one reason why groups like LUCE in Massachusetts urge people to report sightings to them so they and their partners can directly warn people. A decentralized network is a lot harder to shut down. No big tech company will be in ally in the fight against ICE.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

trib.al

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Mr. BeVoorheesages @mrbeverages.bsky.social · 1d

say what you want about the democrats but at least they're committed to the bit

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 The DSCC — led by Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Kelly, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Blunt Rochester — has formed a joint fundraising committee with Janet Mills.

Mills, running against Graham Platner in the Maine Democratic Senate primary, would become the oldest freshman (79) ever elected, to a 6-year term.

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weapo @weapo.bsky.social · 1d

Pouring one out for Drew Struzan.
Here are his sexy George Lucas paintings.

Drew Struzan painting of a young George Lucas, with perfectly coiffed hair, holding a camera over his shoulder. He is surrounded by Star Wars characters.

Drew Struzan painting of a distinguished George Lucas, flanked by Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, and Indiana Jones.

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Mr. BeVoorheesages @mrbeverages.bsky.social · 1d

your hair looks like a fam

Mr. BeVoorheesages @mrbeverages.bsky.social · 2d

"this national guard stuff is bad optics, we should bring them home"

"all of them?"

"no no, just the fatties"

Overweight Texas National Guard troops sent home

After an uproar on social media over photos of Texas National Guard deployed to Illinois appearing to be overweight, some of them have been sent back home.A spo

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Mr. BeVoorheesages @mrbeverages.bsky.social · 2d

dogearing a page is fine

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Mr. BeVoorheesages @mrbeverages.bsky.social · 2d

i'm so sorry, what a sweetie

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 3d

long island duck, long island, new york, [between 1972 and 2008]

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 3d

good afternoon

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 4d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Mr. BeVoorheesages @mrbeverages.bsky.social · 4d

bum fart

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 4d

The agents had a map of the building, marked doorways with stickers, and even knew in advance which units had firearms.

Let's talk about that last part.

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid, one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before t...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Mr. BeVoorheesages @mrbeverages.bsky.social · 5d

turn on your monitor

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 5d

boy it would be nice to have an opposition party reacting to this in a way that suggests there’s going to be justice for it someday

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Mr. BeVoorheesages @mrbeverages.bsky.social · 5d

i'm pretty sure this is derogatory but nonetheless this is the least inflammatory, but at the same time extremely inflammatory, list i am on

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Rev. Deral "FreeLink" Fenderson @fendersonia.bsky.social · 5d

@jay.bsky.team

So on Fridays our friend AJ Link would open a mutual aid thread to anyone that was in need. Since he had good reach, it really helped a lot of people, especially so many marginalized folk. He literally saved lives.

Free Link. He was a fucking hero around here.

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Mr. BeVoorheesages @mrbeverages.bsky.social · 5d

maybe it's both

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote about the Elizabeth Holmes of the media lyz.substack.com/p/let-the-al...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5d

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Mr. BeVoorheesages @mrbeverages.bsky.social · 5d

do you think this helps your case

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 5d

Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

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