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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 17m

We're about to see a video of an emaciated family of 5 approaching the "yellow line" begging for help and being murdered.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 54m

(ABC) - The Israel Defense Forces said its troops opened fire on Palestinians, killing five, after they allegedly violated the terms of the ceasefire agreement.

abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Israel-Gaza live updates: 5 Palestinians killed in Gaza City for alleged ceasefire violation, IDF says

Israel on Tuesday identified two of the people whose remains were returned.

abcnews.go.com

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 10h

I'm trying not to doom but there's just so much bad.

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 10h

No dem states are even in a position to really retaliate, either. It's maddening.

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 10h

Dems need a +9 year badly to make these states pay for this shit, and I just don't think they have the juice.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 16h

North Carolina Republicans announced today they’re going to pass a new congressional map to draw a Dem out of Congress; they already did last cycle, going from 7-7 to 10-4. Thus would be 11-3. t.co/XLJIhe8vZn

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 12h

I doubt anyone can keep track of it all. Trump racks up more scandals in any given month than most administrations manage in eight years.

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 12h

I’m part of the problem because I completely forgot about this

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 18h

oh. right.

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 1d

This is my family’s cemetery. Generations of us are here. DHS thugs attacked the workers who laid my father to rest and tend to his gravesite. i dont know whether to cry or yell. I hope these DHS thugs find no peace in this life and the next.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

ICE attacks cemetery workers trying to help a man in the Des Plaines river www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUmUjPs/

Caught on camera… ICE agents clash with suburban cemetery workers trying to help man in Des Plaines River… #wgn9 #ice #operationmidwayblitz #immigration

TikTok video by WGN9Chicago

www.tiktok.com

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 12h

Serious answer, Gino Bartali. He hid passport documents for Jews and messages to the Italian resistance inside the tubes of his bicycle when he was training for the Tour and Giro.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 23h

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 12h

In addition to being ontologically shit-persons, they are also really dumb.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 13h

Was waiting to see how Olivia Reingold (who Oliver's piece destroyed almost as much as Bari Weiss) would respond, and you can see the tweet below which also shows she either did not watch his piece, or just didn't understand it, since he actually addresses this point directly.

Olivia Reingold quote tweeting Variety.

The Variety tweet is about John Oliver's piece on Bari Weiss leading CBS News, saying:

John Oliver slams Bari Weiss' takeover of CBS News:

"I wouldn’t want anyone who led a pure opinion outlet, not even one that I happened to agree with, to suddenly be running CBS News. But it is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading."

Reingold then quotes it saying:

Why does this sound like John Oliver commenting on……John Oliver

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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 1d

This headline is obviously ultra-simplified but at some level it's correct, my retirement account is at the mercy of the stupidest, most gullible prats (acting collectively on the belief that everybody else is stupid) in the world

CNBC Headline: Dow futures jump 400 points after Trump says China situation ‘will all be fine’

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 16h

They'll play ball with other members of fascism internationale.

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 16h

The most notable aspect of the second half of bidens term was how frail he was *politically.* just constantly getting steamrolled by the press, Trump, and Netanyahu and laying down to die in the lame duck. Didn't even force the release of both Smith volumes, which he had the power to do.

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 16h

He's the first to call people sheep.

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 17h

I've seen some guy share this same story 3 times. 3 different alleged NFL players. All of them saying the exact same thing verbatim. 0 thinking skills.

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 17h

And that Trump only cared because he was being bribed by Qatar lol.

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah Netanyahu was going to do what he wants and Biden didn't have to be steamrolled by him. That wouldn't have led to a lasting ceasefire, but at least we'd have our dignity.

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 18h

Oh, I don't support putting them in prison.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 18h

tour guide: what does the future hold for Apple TV? Let's just say we've got a few ideas up our sleeve.

homer: like what?
tour guide: I'd rather not get into it right now?

homer: why not?
tour guide: all right. we don't have any ideas for the future. we got nothing. happy?

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 19h

4) never get involved with a Sicilian when death is on the line.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 20h

one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.

time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1d

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 23h

Biden's cease-fires got 135 living hostages released. Trump's got 20 (which is less than it would have been had he enforced the continuation of the January cease fire).

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1d

No, you don't gotta hand it to him for possibly getting the third Biden cease fire eight months late after tolerating a mass starvation campaign and demanding a little ethnic cleansing and enormous bribes as a treat, and only because Netanyahu surprise bombed the chief bribe facilitator.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1d

"Biden never properly motivated himself with several billion dollars of Saudi-Qatari bribes or else he could have gotten this done."

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1d

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 19h

It's cool because Weiss will not follow up with this officer after the election to see if he was true to his word or just another cop who lies.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 19h

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 20h

It's kind of the only strategy.

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