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🍁 Dan McNeil @danmcneilwrites.bsky.social · 10d

THE JUDAS APOCALYPSE

During WWII, a bookish archaeologist embarks on a perilous quest behind enemy lines to hunt for a long lost treasure that the church has zealously kept hidden for centuries

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Semifinalist, Austin Film Festival 2024
Finalist, Barnstorm Fest 2024

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The Judas Apocalypse; stylized graphics of skull, a Knight Templar, soldiers; THE JUDAS APOCALYPSE
During WWII, a bookish archaeologist embarks on a perilous quest behind enemy lines to hunt for a long lost treasure that the church has zealously kept hidden for centuries.
Top 1% Coverfly; Semifinalist, Austin Film Festival 2024; Finalist, Barnstorm Fest 2024
Written by Dan McNeil and Jasmine Aziz; Based on the novel by Dan McNeil

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

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

🔥 COUNTRY SINGER @bryanandrewsmusic.bsky.social : "You don't get to call yourself a Christian and laugh when families are torn apart — and think it's okay that the highest court in the land just gave a green light to ICE agents to target people because they’re brown or speaking Spanish.”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

My good fiscal philosophy is that I care more about America than Argentina. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: How is this rescue package America first?

TRUMP: It's really meant to help a good financial philosophy where Argentina can be successful again

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2h

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Lulu @lulu.sheshed.rocks · 4h

Remigration was Germany’s non-word in 2023.

While it means to migrate back, it has become a far-right euphemism of forced repatriation. When the far right uses the term, it’s an overtly racist call for forceful mass deportation of non-white immigrants.

In case anyone was wondering about the U.S…

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

I’m pretty sure they don’t even let you *run* for Congress as a Republican unless you’ve got at least one (1) restraining order from a former girlfriend half your age.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4h

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 3h

Trump bailed out Argentina, who then undercut US farmers by selling their soybeans to China, who used be our biggest customer for soybeans before Trump drove them away with his tariffs.

This is Trump 3D chess in action.

Arrogance, Ignorance and Idiocy.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 3h

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

Walking away with $20 billion of US taxpayer money so Scott Bessent’s Wall Street cronies don’t lose their investments in Argentina.

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🍁 Dan McNeil @danmcneilwrites.bsky.social · 3h

Attaboy, Earache...

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 4h

The whole linear progress of time thing remains a challenge for MAGA.

A tweet by WeThePeople reads, “Jack Smith was hired months after the raid.” The post quotes a tweet by Aaron Rupar showing Eric Trump in a TV interview, saying, “Sure enough, we find out that Jack Smith is planting manilla folders on the office of my father...” The screenshot shows Eric Trump speaking on a Fox News-style broadcast with a city skyline backdrop.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4h

Himes: You know, it's the Pete Hegseth insecurity that requires a constant marination in testosterone and fraternity-boy macho bullshit that, at the end of the day, would be funny if it weren't both lethal and counterproductive to actually dealing with the nation's drug problem.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5h

Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.”

But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background.

Don’t believe his lies for a second.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

www.msnbc.com

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Truth Social(ist) @twitterrefugeeog.bsky.social · 5h

Tom Homan deserves the same due process as those fishermen in Venezuela.

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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 5h

It's unacceptable that firefighters who die or are permanently disabled from work-related cancers don't receive the same benefits as others in the line of duty.

I'm working across the aisle to pass my bill to honor our commitment to these first responders and their families.

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 5h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

Groceries are up

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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🍁 Dan McNeil @danmcneilwrites.bsky.social · 4h

Such garbage arseholes...

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

It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Abbi Lichtenstein @abbij1961.bsky.social · 5h

This administration keeps torching the Hatch Act—propaganda videos in airports, partisan emails on federal servers, even mass firings. It’s corruption with a flag pin. See something? Say something. Expose it through the whistleblower tip line.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 5h

NEW: A federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit challenging Indiana’s student ID voting ban — a major procedural win for young voters and pro-voting advocates who say the GOP-backed law was designed to suppress student voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Federal Court Deals Major Blow to Indiana GOP’s Student ID Ban

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 6h

Confirmed, the "Gaza peace deal" was the same deal offered to Netanyahu and the US repeatdly, but it was turned down by Israel because they wanted to gift Trump (Israeli asset) a perceived victory at the expense of the Israeli hostages and Gaza population.

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

It's a no-brainer that her appointment is invalid. So the question becomes, is the indictment (on she was the only lawyer signatory) invalid as a result—and, if so, is it too late for the Trump DOJ to remedy that problem, given that the statute of limitations ran on Sept. 30.

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 11h

James Comey formally notifies the court of his intent to try to disqualify Trump’s lawyer Lindsey Halligan as unlawfully appointed.

The motion cites rulings DQ-ing two other Trump top prosecutors: Sigal Chattah and Alina Habba.

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🍁 Dan McNeil @danmcneilwrites.bsky.social · 5h

Homan is also an incomprehensible tool. The guy always sounds three sheets to the wind when he speaks and has all the charisma of a pig covered in mud and shit...

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 5h

Tom Homan is as crooked as they come. He must resign.

A tweet by George Conway says, “There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.” It quotes Armand Domalewski, who wrote, “There is absolutely zero chance JD would describe a Biden administration official accepting a $50,000 cash bribe in a paper bag as ‘fake scandal.’”

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ᑕᕼᗴᖇYᒪ @cheryl2877.bsky.social · 5h

#Pinks
#ProudBlue

Love this intelligent, competent woman!!

#JasmineCrockett

“The problem is that Americans thought it was ok to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of The United States and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things.

Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of The United States and if we don’t wake up we may not have a United States.”

Congresswoman
Jasmine Crockett

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🍁 Dan McNeil @danmcneilwrites.bsky.social · 5h

Jesus Christ! Where's my Gibberish to English app?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump on LA: "They already lost 25k houses to fire because they wouldn't let the water come in from the Pacific Northwest. They didn't do it and we had 25k homes where they had no water in the sprinklers, they had no water in the fire hydrants. We broke in and had the water come down."