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No Empire for Old Men

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People ≠ tools - Kant Climate change = Flood 2.0 Be safe 🇺🇸- Don’t buy a gun, buy a plane ticket. Any inner city drug lord, terrorist, or thug that is NOT a member of the NRA is a fool. People are wonderful … in moderation.

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No Empire for Old Men @bitspersecond.bsky.social · Jul 12

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: The U.S. has drafted countermeasures if negotiations fail with China. Measures under consideration include requiring export licenses for software sent to China, per Reuters.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

Saturday is going to be huge, boisterous and joyful: “It doesn’t matter if you’ve never protested before. This is a place for you if you believe we don’t do kings in this country.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social to @maddow.msnbc.com

Please join us on No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 2d

Our economy is running on the spending of the top 10%. It does not care about the bottom 60%. I think this is also why they aren't pushing for universal basic income right when you'd think they would to maintain consumer buying power. Our consumer economy has become reoriented around elite spending.

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No Empire for Old Men @bitspersecond.bsky.social · 2d

💯 The mid-terms next year are the point. They want to skew the election.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

No Empire for Old Men @bitspersecond.bsky.social · 2d

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No Empire for Old Men @bitspersecond.bsky.social · 2d

Limit the power of the pardon so it cannot be used in favor of indicted co-conspirators or on yourself or after the day of the election
Prohibit stock trading by congress
Make cabinet secretaries come back for a second confirmation after 2 years
Req senators to hold town halls 2/year
SCOTUS ethics

No Empire for Old Men @bitspersecond.bsky.social · 2d

Any reasons given for the opposition? Anything from exit polls?

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 3d

A guaranteed basic income pilot of $1,500 a month is coming to Mercer County, West Virginia. And also Beaufort County, North Carolina and Warren County, Mississippi. Apply using the link in this article if you live in those areas or know someone who does.

Guaranteed monthly incoming program coming to Mercer County

PRINCETON — A nonprofit agency that helps the world’s poorest households is launching a guaranteed minimum income program in Mercer County. GiveDirectly is partnering with area human service agencies ...

www.yahoo.com

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No Empire for Old Men @bitspersecond.bsky.social · 3d

This Halloween, I’ll dress as an ICE agent and request to be let into people’s homes.
Order now!

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https://www.amazon.com/KUIEDIS-Adjustable-Breathable-Lightweight-Paintball

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 3d

This needs to happen in EVERY CITY IN AMERICA!! Don’t give these bastards refuge or respite. We can’t give up!!!

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No Empire for Old Men @bitspersecond.bsky.social · 3d

Now everyone knows. It was always lies. They just wanted their toys!

GrouchyMarkx @grouchymarkx.bsky.social · 4d

2nd Amendment and NRA folks:

Where ya at?

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Monster Slayer Quinn @gypsy--1639.bsky.social · 3d

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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 3d

President Eisenhower warned us about the Military Industrial Complex just before they took over. The US middle class in the 50's & 60's were the richest in the world. Now the middle class is poor & the top 1% own the same amount of wealth as the national debt.

The billionaires stole our money.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 3d

Adelita Grijalva won her election 19 days ago and she still hasn’t been sworn in.

The government has been shut down for 12 days with no end in sight.

They can stall as long as they want but the Epstein files ain’t going away.

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No Empire for Old Men @bitspersecond.bsky.social · 3d

This is the most insane ICE harassment video I’ve seen yet. I mean are kidding me!?!

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From the illinois community on Reddit: Chicago: Ice harassing 2 15 year olds without a parent.

Explore this post and more from the illinois community

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No Empire for Old Men @bitspersecond.bsky.social · 3d

The new Robber Barons of America. #GildedAge2.0

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Lizzy For Democracy @lizzy2016.bsky.social · 4d

Flood the Zone with Truth and Facts...

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No Empire for Old Men @bitspersecond.bsky.social · 3d

Or, better yet, make use of The Prisoner’s Dilemma and offer pardons to those that come forward first.

No Empire for Old Men @bitspersecond.bsky.social · 3d

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No Empire for Old Men @bitspersecond.bsky.social · 4d

When Democrats are back in power they should offer monetary awards for evidence of wrongdoing. Because we already know ICE will sell their souls for $$

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No Empire for Old Men @bitspersecond.bsky.social · 4d

When Democrats are back in power they should offer monetary awards for evidence of wrongdoing. Because we already know ICE will sell their souls for $$

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No Empire for Old Men @bitspersecond.bsky.social · 4d

ICE - out your fellow officers. You must know what they are doing is wrong but you’re justifying being there with a ‘few bad apples’ argument. So, out those bad apples.

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Critical Thinker @deehaydesigns.bsky.social · 4d

Epstein dna
Epstein files
Epstein videos
Epstein pictures
Epstein documents
Epstein bank records
Epstein list of names
We know it’s coming
They know It’s coming

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tujungadude, but pissed and sad @tujungadude.bsky.social · 5d

American society in general, and journalism in particular, are not capable of dealing with three branches of government that have no compunction about just lying, for political gain.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5d

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

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No Empire for Old Men @bitspersecond.bsky.social · 4d

Baffoon = buffoon + baboon.
I like it! 👍