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@Babouc ❌👑 - Jerry Wechsler

@babouc.bsky.social

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❤️ my wife Suzy Kim, daughter HyeYoung Choi; ❤️ my small coterie of amiable subversives in Europe, Asia, America. ❤️ Yeats, Austen, Brahms; Loreena McKennitt, Ella & Billie. ❤️ Les Enfants du Paradis, Seven Samurai, O Lucky Man, Cloud Atlas, Casablanca

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@Babouc ❌👑 - Jerry Wechsler @babouc.bsky.social · 12h

Memory of a goldfish, this guy … But of course, he is just a liar.

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Ali Velshi mentioned it I think and maybe Weekend in MS BC.

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@Babouc ❌👑 - Jerry Wechsler @babouc.bsky.social · 16h

Newspeak

@Babouc ❌👑 - Jerry Wechsler @babouc.bsky.social · 16h

While I enjoyed the joyful throngs in sunny New York City, over 300,000 strong, and loved saying ‘thank you’ to the friendly NYPD cops, we will need MANY MORE of our neighbors with us; in the supermarket this morning, my cashier had never even known there was a protest.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

#A_NewHope ✊

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@Babouc ❌👑 - Jerry Wechsler @babouc.bsky.social · 1d

My protest sign.

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@Babouc ❌👑 - Jerry Wechsler @babouc.bsky.social · 1d

Ready to join my fellow hippies and show a little love for the good old USA

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@Babouc ❌👑 - Jerry Wechsler @babouc.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow, I will petition my government for a redress of grievances.

@Babouc ❌👑 - Jerry Wechsler @babouc.bsky.social · 2d

I once told EJ Gold that I thought work-on-self was how to change the world, but my sister was more political and thought you had to change the system. “ Same thing,” he said.

@Babouc ❌👑 - Jerry Wechsler @babouc.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder if they are sending agents provocateurs to perform the acts they predict.

@Babouc ❌👑 - Jerry Wechsler @babouc.bsky.social · 2d

A textbook lesson in Gaslighting

@Babouc ❌👑 - Jerry Wechsler @babouc.bsky.social · 2d

Purity tests kill BOTH parties. But the Dems are the the party I actually care about.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 2d

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.

Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

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@Babouc ❌👑 - Jerry Wechsler @babouc.bsky.social · 2d

I used to do that when I used an airplane bathroom!

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

We’re back at the Broadview Processing Center protesting ICE this morning.

The good news? They tore down the unlawful fence we demanded come down.

The bad news? We’re still lacking accountability, transparency, and our First Amendment rights.

Join us today at 1930 Beach Street. See you soon.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

In the richest city in America, we cannot simply accept that 500,000 kids go to bed hungry every night.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

Cops led us into the street as the new “protest zone” and then beat us repeatedly.

Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested.

Stay safe out there.

This picture is from about 5 minutes after being hit. A visible bruise is forming on my right cheekbone and by my right eye.

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@Babouc ❌👑 - Jerry Wechsler @babouc.bsky.social · 3d

Good thought.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 3d

Someone doesn’t want to end up in the post-Trump Nuremberg trials as anything other than a cooperating witness.

That’s my guess.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: “The military commander overseeing operations in Latin America… which included several lethal strikes on alleged drug boats… is stepping down. Hegseth did not immediately respond to a request for comment about why Adm. Alvin Holsey was leaving…” abcnews.go.com/Politics/adm...

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@Babouc ❌👑 - Jerry Wechsler @babouc.bsky.social · 3d

He does not come off well. Sliwa came off stronger and more consistent, but also as a semi-crazy person, and too typically Republican for New York City (more cops! Lower taxes!).

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

Andrew Cuomo: taxpayers should pay for $60 million in legal bills for my sexual harassment allegations

Also Andrew Cuomo: $60 million is too much money to spend on a pilot program to deliver cheaper groceries

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 3d

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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@Babouc ❌👑 - Jerry Wechsler @babouc.bsky.social · 3d

New Yorkers: Mayoral Debate tonight 7pm on Channel 4

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Department of Shoe+ @shoe.bsky.social · 3d

Beautiful

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Hochul: "They promised to extract revenge on their political enemies & apparently any state that has a D gov. Tell me how Florida & Texas could receive these same funds w/o having to go to court? They're playing politics, but more than that, they're playing with people's lives. And that's abhorrent"

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