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L @banalplay.bsky.social · Apr 30

It's 1925. I'm leanin' against this lamppost on the lookout for dames who are lookin for trouble. I start flipping a quarter. I catch her eye. I fumble the quarter and it rolls into a sewer grate. I have lost the equivalent of thirty thousand dollars.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1m

One of the most annoying social media behaviors is random person who says something condescending or outright insulting to a larger account and then plays the little birthday boy routine when the inevitable happens. ideally you'd be treated that way when you talk like that to profiles of any size

L @banalplay.bsky.social · 12m

it's crazy how few dems are using words like consequences or justice still

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2h

We have an important Gil update

Gil, a big tabby cat, looking up over the back of a porch chair. He is in the middle of meowing and is raising one paw.

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Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 6h

If democrats weren’t also so married to nakedly corrupt insider trading like the stuff done by Pelosi they could run on anti-corruption and win in landslides.

Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 1d

Man what a lucky guess.........

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 6h

Bampton lying on the top level of a bookshelf, looking at the camera and with her tail in trademark friendly upright position

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 15h

can you imagine just sitting down to plan this and not feeling any shame or hesitation. seeing jane goodall on the tv as you’re doing it and how her thing was gorillas and yours is getting ready to deport a guy who’s been wrongly imprisoned since reagan’s first term

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 16h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 15h

Headlines from the richest country in the history of countries

A bunch of stories about 80-year-olds still having to work in order to make ends meet. Also, for some reason, one about people over 80 who are "using AI more than you."

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h

“This immigration issue is a remnant of Subu’s original case. Since that wrongful conviction has now been officially vacated and all charges against Subu have been dismissed, we have asked the immigration court to reopen the case and consider the fact that Subu has been exonerated.”

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 2d

Love that they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to the sentient version of this tweet

Jane
@Whooping_Jane
blonde-haired blue-eyed person named something like Sabine
Mengele-Eichmann: my country, Venezuela, yearns for freedom
1:40 PM • 2/3/19 • Twitter Web Client

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1d

Bampy crouched flat playing with a small strip of cardboard and looking up at the camera

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1d

young Bamps playfully crouched beneath a table

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 2d

Do you really have any rights if they are openly saying they will just make up reasons to detain you?

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 4d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1d

When Pishi was a kitten the uneven coloration around her mouth made it look like she had a little droopy lip and it was so ridiculously cute

a gray and white british shorthair kitten who developed sympathy bell's palsy to make her mom feel better

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1d

non euclidean ass cat

Bampy contorting herself and looking at the camera while Pishi minds her business behind her

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans always make the strongest case for Democrats. too bad this version of the party doesn't exist

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

This is now the blueprint for men to control trans women. Have sex with them and then threaten to go to police unless they do what he wants. It's ripe for abuse from men who will weaponize their shame. It also builds their narrative of trans women being sexual predators even when the victim.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1d

I live for the occasional radicalized lib in yahoo comments

I’m in my 60’s and watched the recent SNL with Bad Bunny as the host and musical guest. He was funny and charming, far more so than Charlie Kirk was.

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kerry ✨ @kschwenky.bsky.social · 2d

Get his ass ms Rachel

msrachelforlittles #
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Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 2d

yes

L @banalplay.bsky.social · 2d

You all have the outrage and incredulity covered. I'll be writing my fish-out-of-water romance/slice-of-life Oscar winner.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 2d

buddy if you can find any attention on me I'll split it with you

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