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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 4h

He does not know what that word means

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 23h

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 23h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 15h

Did anybody search the fucking boat?

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 15h

What would stop an endless progression of invalid USAs filling placeholder charges ad infinitum?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h

Why would the cartels want to stop ICE and CBP activities that have been diverting resources away from drug interdiction?

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 23h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 15h

On track for a new landspeed record from Nobel Peace Prize to coup d'etat

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 15h

Getting Sick is for Pussies.

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 16h

Nonideological pragmatic technopopulism, otherwise known as governing.

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 16h

mfer derp-circuited

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 17h

I laughed way too hard at this 🤣🤣🤣

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 18h

a swiss army knife with a red handle and a white cross on it

ALT: a swiss army knife with a red handle and a white cross on it

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 19h

kinda surprised he isn't forcing them to work out while they watch it

anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 19h

and Tren de Aragua is just like MS13, so, they we can drone strike Antifa (protesters)

domestic terrorists, narco-terrorists, what's the difference?

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 19h

a man with a laurel wreath on his head is standing next to another man in a helmet

ALT: a man with a laurel wreath on his head is standing next to another man in a helmet

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 21h

Netanyahu announces Israel will not abide by the terms of facilitating humanitarian aid, despite it being a key ceasefire agreement clause.

Didn't take long, did it?

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 19h

"incite imminent violence"= protest

if you specify that the violence is 'imminent' you can then, by definition, prevent that potential violence by just predicting it?

in other words, arrest for future crime.

see yall Saturday

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 20h

a man with a laurel wreath on his head is standing next to another man in a helmet

ALT: a man with a laurel wreath on his head is standing next to another man in a helmet

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 1d

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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 1d

The first amendment clearly states that they are free to act like assholes and we are not permitted to call them assholes.

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 2d

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 2d

“A lot of crime these days is driven by poverty and those issues can't be solved by throwing more money at cops, unless the goal is criminalizing poor people.”

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

For my newsletter today, I wrote about the American police state and how Democrats are going to have to kill it if they have any hope of rebuilding from the authoritarian Trump regime. www.burnsnotice.com/democrats-mu...

Democrats Must Kill Their Inner Cops

Who needs the National Guard when your state troopers are perfectly willing to crack protester skulls all on their own? Listen, Illinois governor JB Pritzker is not perfect, but he's my guy. Or at le...

www.burnsnotice.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 2d

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 2d

i feel like i need to share this oldie but a goodie today

A tumblr post that reads "WHo would have believed that the perfect wikipedia photo caption could have been improved upon?" Two identical images are then side by side. The first caption is "Piper Kerr, a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904". The Caption for the image on the left reads, "Piper Kerr (right), a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904"

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