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HudsonRiverCroc @hudsonrivercroc.bsky.social · 6h

Bessent looking at your democracy

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 14h

Our country is governed based on what b-roll grandpa Donnie sees on Fox at the moment. bsky.app/profile/clay...

Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 17d

Trump: talks about Antifa

Fox: breaks out 2020 b-roll

Trump: “Antifa is taking over Portland!”

Just the dumbest shit ever, until they do something even dumber.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 14h

Portland has been a focus of the far right for a while based on the politics of the surrounding area and a long history of right-wing extremism in Oregon that @sethcotlar.bsky.social documents.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 14h

QT this post with someone you wish was still alive

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 15h

Yup. He’s getting rolled. bsky.app/profile/carl...

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

In the long, trade-war debate of “Who Holds the Cards?”, US officials are admitting they tried to reach out to China and essentially got the Heisman.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/china/...

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 15h

Wealthy people with no understanding of normal life have opinions on how the rest of us shouldn’t have any rights and should be policed by the military.

Our billionaire class is a cancer on our society.

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 1d

The remarks from the tech leaders come as city officials tout falling crime rates even as overdose deaths continue to climb.

‘The only solution’: Elon Musk backs call to deploy federal troops to San Francisco

The remarks from the tech leaders come as city officials tout falling crime rates even as overdose deaths continue to climb.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 16h

“We’ve got opinions from a variety of viewpoints: Bari Weiss, Bari Weiss, Jr., and Bari Worse.”

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Glencora @glencora.bsky.social · 19h

People decided to elect a fascist because food delivery was a little more expensive and wages at the bottom were rising more than those at the top… no way they will ever pay enough for goods made here bsky.app/profile/diew...

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22h

But after not getting enough orders, the company closed. Managing partner Kenneth Ragland said: “Lots of people talk about Made in the USA as being so necessary, but when the rubber meets the road, most Americans want cheap goods, which do not make it easy for US firms to survive.”

Excerpt reads: Garland Apparel Group is working to find the next occupant for the town’s long-standing Garland Shirt Company after a lack of orders to meet basic costs necessitate furloughs — and ultimately the closure — of the factory.

“The factory was placed on furlough in November. It was our intention to return to work, however, orders needed to keep the factory open and functional, did not materialize,” Kenneth Ragland, managing partner for Garland Apparel Group, told The Independent. “The factory required a minimum number of orders to meet basic costs and wages. The aggregate total of orders we had were simply far too low to support day-to day operations.”

During the period of November through today, company leaders have been working with several parties “who have a desire to acquire the factory,” Ragland noted.

“One transaction is now close to completion. I cannot opine on the buyer nor their plans, but I know they are North Carolina based and they have need for factory capacity, which Garland can provide,” Ragland stated.

Excerpt reads: Despite bringing back a majority of the workforce, and enjoying success for a couple years, the factory was fighting an uphill battle in the long run.

“The factory suffered from Brooks Brothers owning it too long, from Brooks not investing in basic upkeep or in better systems, and ultimately, the lack of interest in Made in the USA,” Ragland stated bluntly. “Lots of people talk about Made in the USA as being so necessary, but when the rubber meets the road, most Americans want cheap goods which does not make it easy for U.S. firms to survive.”

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 17h

“We have Nuremberg at home.” 😂

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 17h

I could tell you stories about what it was like during my time on Threads…

(which was what made me think of the meme)

twitter people after 14 years in hell
instagram people joining threads

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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 18h

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 17h

You know what it’s like on this ride…don’t be shocked to see horrors when you get back on it.

People on a roller coaster recoiling as they pass another roller coaster car full of scary skeletons

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 18h

“Better yet, brand the man’s fish as ‘Trump Fish’ and take 20% for doing nothing at all.”

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 18h

I chalk it up to shamelessness. They know they’re lying and they don’t care.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 18h

Yup. bsky.app/profile/clay...

Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 21h

Here’s another example of that “tremendous” writing. bsky.app/profile/toms...

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

Please nobody tell professional writer praising professional journalists Caitlin Flanagan what "out of whole cloth" means

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 21h

Donnie’s gotta check in with the boss before he gives Tomahawks to Ukraine.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump on Ukraine: "They'd like to have Tomahawks. We talked about that. We'll see. I might have to speak to Russia, to be honest with you, about Tomahawks. Do they want to have Tomahawks going in their direction? I don't think so."

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 18h

Yes.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 18h

National Guard troops are not trained in investigating and taking down criminal gangs or violent criminals. The idea that “send in the National Guard” is some magical solution for society’s problems is deeply ignorant and disturbing to see from a guy with a law enforcement background like Miller.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"I would say, OK, so I'm getting the National Guard. This is what I need. I need you to take more of my violent crime cases. I need you to target my major gangs."

John Miller talks how he would use the National Guard with @johnavlon.bsky.social in the latest episode of How To Fix It:

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 18h

Apparently she wanted to run for Senate and was told not to. georgiarecorder.com/2025/05/15/b...

Bookman: Some likely suspects who knifed MTG's U.S. Senate run • Georgia Recorder

Through most of last week, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene sounded pretty much committed to a run for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Jon Ossoff. She made it clear how eager she was to run, how much...

georgiarecorder.com

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 19h

“If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” -Brett Kavanaugh bsky.app/profile/cait...

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 21h

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.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

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.

Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 19h

Erin went through a lot of comments about porn to bring you this work of art, so read the thread and throw some likes her way.

RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 1d

characters leaving pornhub comments: thread

Cookie Monster eating cookies and talking about cum.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 21h

“Wait, you’re saying he could make as many loaves and fish as he wanted and he gave them away for free? For free? He didn’t even charge a little bit?”

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 21h

He was really hoping the Nobel Committee would come through and give him a golden ticket.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 21h

The woman who made up a story about meeting Kim Jong Un and put it in her book claims that other people are lying.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 22h

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 21h

😂

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