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Flemming Erik Carlson

@flemmingcarlson.bsky.social

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Bohemian. Sometimes writer, croupier, bartender, bouncer. SAG/AFTRA. Never be cruel, always be kind! 🇩🇰🇸🇪🇺🇸☸️🕉️☮️☯️✌️❤️ The Beatles 4Ever! NO DM’s #KindnessMatters #ProudBlue #Resist #Resistance #UnionStrong #BlueCrew #EndGunViolenceNow #LGBTQ+Ally 💙🌊

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Flemming Erik Carlson @flemmingcarlson.bsky.social · Nov 6

“You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don’t alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.”-Doctor Who (Tom Baker #4)

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14h

Portland continues to amaze me 👏

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

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.

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Arlington @rweornot.bsky.social · 1d

Reagan bribed Iran not to release, to prolong the imprisonment, of the hostages to benefit his presidential campaign..

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gjabberbox.bsky.social @gjabberbox.bsky.social · 23h

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 11h

The inflatable costume industry is the only one booming right now.

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blackberrycreek11.bsky.social @blackberrycreek11.bsky.social · 11h

So according to 60 minutes, tonight.
China has been hacking or trying to hack our infrastructure. Electric, water, phones ect..
In order to someday, put us in crisis.
So I'm sure that Trump is watching that ballroom be built.
Patel is watching who knows what.
Who is watching out for us?

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 12h

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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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 18h

Murders per 100k residents:
* Houston 19.0
* Dallas 16.6
* San Antonio 15.9
* Ft. Worth 10.8
* NYC 4.6

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

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

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13h

Trump promised free plane tickets and $1,000 “exit bonuses” to immigrants who opted to self-deport.

ProPublica spoke to a dozen Venezuelan immigrants who said they followed the president’s instructions, yet never received the promised assistance.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h

ICE GOONS, laughing and pepper spraying Pastor after shooting him in the face with pepper balls, proceeded to gas the crowd who were trying to protect him.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 2d

The president has made no secret of his enemies list.

But we will not be intimidated.

We will not be deterred.

We will do our jobs and continue fighting back against these attempts at retribution.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12h

Do you know what you are doing on Saturday, October 18?

If the answer is no, you are deserving of nonlethal, but firm slap. #NoKings

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Flemming Erik Carlson @flemmingcarlson.bsky.social · 10h

The Beach Boys-Student Demonstration Time

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The Beach Boys - Student Demonstration Time (Memorial Montage Project)

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 17h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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DAPPER DON DHARSHI @dapperdondharshi.bsky.social · 13h

The GOP is anti-raising the wage, anti-child tax credit, anti-unemployment benefits, anti-taxing the rich, and anti-union. And we’re supposed to believe this is the party of the working class?

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 14h

🚨🚨🚨 Nick Sortos of MAG@ was arrested for attempting to incite a riot in Portland, Oregon. 1/2

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Flemming Erik Carlson @flemmingcarlson.bsky.social · 12h

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The last speech of Ronald Reagan as president was on immigration

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 18h

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14h

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14h

ICE GOONS attempts to arrest an individual at their residence in the suburbs of Chicago.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

Sick

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 16h

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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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20h

Saturday, October 18. Everywhere. Find your local event at nokings.org.

#NoKings

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h

Kamala is all out of f*cks and I’m here for it 🔥

We see you, @codepink.bsky.social

Your paid performative agitators pop up on her book tour like they think we don’t know the VP’s job.

The VP doesn’t set Middle East policy, the President does. The VP’s role is to support the President, period.

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