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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 1d

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Venezuelan Ambassador Warns U.S. Is Preparing an Invasion

The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting Friday at the request of Venezuela to discuss escalating U.S. military activity in the Caribbean. In recent weeks, the U.S. blew up four boats, clai...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Adrian XX @aedrian.bsky.social · 4d

DANGER 😱

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 5d

Roberts Is Just As Responsible For Chump As Chump Is ! Both Have
Failed This Country.......

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Adrian XX @aedrian.bsky.social · 4d

Inhalers down 654%! We're going to be filthy rich being paid to carry home drugs soon! The orange really is more amazing than anyone has ever seen before!
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Christ wept. Openly, even.
Wept.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d

Maga patriotism is just narcissism, America to them is what they see in the mirror not what it actually is—they’re incapable of loving that country bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Adrian XX @aedrian.bsky.social · 5d

Great legal scholar and political commentator @theromanoreport.bsky.social almost has misunderstanding with bears! Stick around for the usual good stuff (he's OK).
youtu.be/db9KY2KQl_A?...

Holy CRAP!! - I can't believe that just happened!

YouTube video by The Romano Report

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Raven Le Maven JeSuisDeepstate @redrumofcrows.bsky.social · 7d

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KASH PATEL's Customized Embroidered Jacket must be confiscated when he is arrested.
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you so much to the 685 people who have joined my Substack! If you haven’t subscribed yet, you really should. I’m 99.2% sure you won’t regret it.
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John Collins | Substack

Dad ☆ Husband ☆ Low-Key Nerd ☆ EdD / JD

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Adrian XX @aedrian.bsky.social · 9d

tbh i'll treat the former a little better than the latter

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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 10d

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Adrian XX @aedrian.bsky.social · 10d

How curious that Democracy actually dies in broad daylight.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14d

The Interior Department has told its staff to bring their government laptops and phones home so they can monitor updates about potential mass firings.

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Philosopher Jersey Flight @jerseyflight.bsky.social · 11d

A lawless paradigm shift for which the SCOTUS is to blame: we are swiftly moving away from the legitimacy of the mediation that rightly says, “this isn’t legal,” to the tyranny of a special pleading that *functions* as though the word of Trump is itself the law, higher than the Constitution.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11d

This is fascism.

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Adrian XX @aedrian.bsky.social · 11d

A decisive military offensive against a little boat (as in, needs an outboard motor to go) that's far from our shores sounds more like murder than an exec decision in the face of extreme emergency. It's a shame those in power don't bother with Truth and Justice.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 14d

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Portland: ICE thugs assaulted disability rights activist Amanda Siebe as she filmed in a bike lane. Siebe, who uses a wheelchair, was body-checked to the ground.

Protesters begged agents to be gentle, shouting “She’s disabled!”

Instead, one agent sneered back: “She’ll be disabled now.”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14d

being a cat person is so crazy bc you live with someone who is undeniably annoying and you're always thinking "maybe i should get another cat"

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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 18d

Be the best you can be bothered to be. Says Skeletor wishing he was that cool vampire from Salem’s Lot.

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💙Keith B Martin DC 💙 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 🌎 @keith.is.democrat · 18d

100% against the law. But what else is new?

It appears he WANTS to incite violence so he CAN legally call up the military per the Insurrection Act.

In other words, he's ITCHING for a war . . . any war will do.

Rico Pulsa8 @pulsa8.bsky.social · 18d

To treat an American city & its citizens as hostile territory—invading with fed forces as though it were foreign soil—crosses a constitutional threshold. Under clear letter of the Posse Comitatus Act, fed military intervention in civilian law enforcement is forbidden www.rawstory.com/portland-267...

Trump 'authorizing Full Force, if necessary' as military deploys to another US city

President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he would be directing Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth to “provide all necessary troops” to protect “war-ravaged Portland,” Oregon, and in a...

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Adrian XX @aedrian.bsky.social · 20d

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21d

People seem to be forgetting that DOJ doesn’t just “get” an indictment. They have to convince a grand jury to vote to return one, something this administration has struggled with recently.

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Adrian XX @aedrian.bsky.social · 22d

That is absolutely amazing. And in such a beautiful place; it's my favorite cathedral.

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Adrian XX @aedrian.bsky.social · 23d

This admin is fucking atrocious and so are those who support it. Deplorable, foul, insane.

Pam Nash @pamnashes.bsky.social · 23d

He’s nucking futs.
And all the cult members nod like bobbleheads.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23d

Trump: "I think it has -- I think it's very bad. They're pumping, it looks like they're pumping into a horse. You have a little child, a little fragile child, and you get a vat of 80 different vaccines, I guess. 80 different blends. And they pump it in. So ideally, a woman won't take Tylenol."

Adrian XX @aedrian.bsky.social · 26d

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David Letterman on the Future of Free Speech | The Atlantic Festival 2025

YouTube video by The Atlantic

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Adrian XX @aedrian.bsky.social · 27d

The willingness I've seen from the general public to wink at moral decay is so alarming that I have left many people behind, lest the corrosion dressed as godly patriotism sap away what joys in life I still have.