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Stephanie Belser 🌻 @steph1873.bsky.social · 2h

To be fair, he has the feral cunning of a rabid weasel.

Stephanie Belser 🌻 @steph1873.bsky.social · 2h

A cheap gutter racist is what Trump has been all of his life. He is, to his core, a white supremacist. He's leveraged family wealth and a certain telegenic personality to make up for the fact that he is basically as dumb as a rotted stump.

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

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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Stephanie Belser 🌻 @steph1873.bsky.social · 4h

Judith Miller is waiting in the wings.

This is journalism malpractice, if not malfeasance.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6h

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 7h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Stephanie Belser 🌻 @steph1873.bsky.social · 5h

Look at their pictures; they’re a bunch of incel jagoffs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 1d

"We did a telephone poll here in 1936 Berlin and the number of respondents who identified as Jewish when asked by an official-sounding stranger on the phone has dropped by over 60% in just five years."

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 1d

Frying brains online

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Stephanie Belser 🌻 @steph1873.bsky.social · 5h

Wonder if anyone’s giving odds on her shooting up a former friend’s wedding.

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Stephanie Belser 🌻 @steph1873.bsky.social · 5h

Trump: Billions for Argentina,
Not one cent to help Americans afford health insurance.

Stephanie Belser 🌻 @steph1873.bsky.social · 5h

Vance is a pro-Nazi CouchFucker.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 6h

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Stephanie Belser 🌻 @steph1873.bsky.social · 9h

The Russians want their base back in Tartus. They'll give the Syrians Assad's head in a box for that.

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Stephanie Belser 🌻 @steph1873.bsky.social · 9h

The devil's in the details; Donnie's not a details guy.

And the American troops being sent are just enough to get killed and create a causus belli.

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Stephanie Belser 🌻 @steph1873.bsky.social · 11h

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Stephanie Belser 🌻 @steph1873.bsky.social · 20h

Texas: A place that fought two wars to defend the right of rich motherfuckers to own slaves.

Stephanie Belser 🌻 @steph1873.bsky.social · 21h

Go on and cry me a river.

Stephanie Belser 🌻 @steph1873.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah, and people in the Gestapo were still people.

Their stressful jobs suck?

Cry me a river.

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 21h

People in DHS are still...people—and there really are not that many people in DHS. People get tired and burnt out, especially when they're working extended and stressful shifts in constant conflict with everyone they come into contact with. It's not a sustainable strategy.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 22h

the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 22h

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 23h

I love this so much. Funny, sweet, hopeful, and kind of bad-ass.

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

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Stephanie Belser 🌻 @steph1873.bsky.social · 21h

Trump take library.

c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 21h

But that 120 year legacy changed on October 1st, when US customs announced a phase-out of Canadian access to the library.

Canadians with existing cards could still enter via an emergency exit until October 1st, but now must go through border control to enter their library.

Are we the baddies, etc.

Locals feel a loss as the U.S. limits Canadian access to cross-border library

Canadians will no longer be allowed to freely use the American entrance to the cultural building that sits on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border.

www.npr.org

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Stephanie Belser 🌻 @steph1873.bsky.social · 21h

It is murder. Trump, et al, are serial killers.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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...

Stephanie Belser 🌻 @steph1873.bsky.social · 21h

Still laughing.

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

youtu.be

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Stephanie Belser 🌻 @steph1873.bsky.social · 23h

They’ve been on strike for years. They’re going to a weekly print edition with online-only the rest of the week.

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Stephanie Belser 🌻 @steph1873.bsky.social · 23h

It would be nice if ABC News ran a story that didn’t repeat a Kristi Noem press release as factual.

Be professionals: Don’t run government propaganda as fact. Have you learned nothing from the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghan wars?

They lie without remorse.

abcnews.go.com/US/cartels-i...

Cartels issuing bounties up to $50,000 for hits on ICE, CBP agents: DHS

Drug cartels have "disseminated a structured bounty program to incentivize violence against federal personnel," according to a press release from DHS.

abcnews.go.com

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Stephanie Belser 🌻 @steph1873.bsky.social · 1d

Like his mother.

Stephanie Belser 🌻 @steph1873.bsky.social · 1d

25th Amendment, pls.

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