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“At a moment when U.S. forces are building up across the Caribbean and tensions with Venezuela are at a boiling point, the departure of our top military commander in the region sends an alarming signal of instability within the chain of command...”

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Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1h

Ireland is taking its cue from Australia by banning Candace Owens for eternity. “We haven’t had snakes here in thousands of years - why invite one in.”

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3h

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

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David @celebratememory.bsky.social · 48m

origins in thorium and uranium.

David @celebratememory.bsky.social · 49m

We will start at the beginning. Because: I don't trust you.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinium

Actinium - Wikipedia

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David @celebratememory.bsky.social · 56m

CatTurd.
You illiterate piece of slime.
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Objections To The Bohr-Rutherford Model

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11h

Yesterday was the Q3 FEC deadline. That means we found out how much money my opponents raised and who donated to them.

So how did we do? Well…

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David @celebratememory.bsky.social · 5h

Okay then rip their jobs and assets away, for being shitty

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE GOONS were caught lying once again.
Footage Shows Agents Caused Crash

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 1d

If you wanted an argument for abolishing the monarchy, the sentence "Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright" is it.

Green Hombre @greenhombre.bsky.social · 1d

"Virginia Giuffre died by suicide on 25 April 2025."

"I’d show up, perform whatever sex acts Epstein wanted, then hang out beside his vast swimming pool while he got some work done. If Maxwell was there, I was often told to attend to her sexually as well."

- She was 16

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the King’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

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David @celebratememory.bsky.social · 12h

This one is really easy: show them that their racism and xenophobia and bullshit- is a Time Suck. The rest of us have real accomplishments, in the time they took to send all those texts.

Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 1d

Every time something like the GOP chat leak occurs I hear smart people arguing that shame could be a useful tactic. But shame only works if the bad actors think their actions are bad. Hypocrisy, shame, these Victorian-ish norms are just that, norms, guardrails, and they don't work against fascism.

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David @celebratememory.bsky.social · 8h

AI search works good mostly.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Welch: Mike Johnson-If he's a big Christian, he should be fighting for the marginalized, fighting for the poor. But instead he weaponizes his faith to lure voters in and then dicks him over every chance he gets.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Jeffries: "The effort to mischaracterize the rallies that are gonna take place all across the country is part of the continued right-wing disinformation machine that is failing to persuade the American people."

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

Andrew, we're voting you off the island and back to the suburbs.

Our new ad just aired during Survivor.

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 1d

Senators Kelly & Gallego are out of give of fucks for Johnson’s excuses for delaying Adelita’s swearing in.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 13h

“We talk about RIFs[...] But the RIFs are, of course, just firing people [...] because, in the view of the employer, it can. So that’s what the RIFs are, is just mass firings.”

ICYMI: Federal judge cuts through the noise www.allrisenews.com/p/trump-voug...

Tonight in Your Rights: Court blocks Russ Vought's 'mass firings'

A federal judge ditched the euphemisms.

www.allrisenews.com

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