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Meg @givemeyourdoggo.bsky.social · 10h

It’s giving Peter Freuchen

Peter Freuchen and his wife. Peter looks enormous and is wearing an impossibly furry fur coat. His wife is dressed in a black dress and hat.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 6d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 6d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Meg @givemeyourdoggo.bsky.social · 6d

No accountability for the door being left open?

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 9d

We're not at war with Venezuela, these boats are many hundreds of lines from our waters, much less our shores, there is no threat, this is just murder.

I really do think everyone from the SecDef to the guy who pushed the button should be tried for murder on this.

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 9d

Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 13d

I may have found my defining quote.

Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!

From a poster called “just shower thoughts“ reading: when people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about radically, changing the present by doing something small, barely anyone in the present to really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 17d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · Sep 3

It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

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CNN @cnn.com · 21d

A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died. https://cnn.it/4ndDYbl

A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died | CNN

Weeds cover the grave of Yagana Usman’s baby – a painful reminder of the months that have passed since she lost her infant twin to malnutrition. Her surviving twin’s fate now hinges in part on decisio...

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Meg @givemeyourdoggo.bsky.social · 22d

“If you would look away from the words of Charlie Kirk, from what else would you look away?”

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Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause — Vanity Fair

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23d

David Rose, the police officer and Afghanistan veteran with a wife and 2 small children, was murdered by a white, right wing extremist man a month ago over antivaccine conspiracies pushed by RFK Jr. and this administration. He did not get recognition from political leaders or even much news coverage

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 23d

"My thoughts turned to David Rose, who volunteered to try to prevent another such attack on our country, and then, when back home, ran toward danger once again to help his fellow Americans."
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A Hero We Didn’t Deserve

Remembering David Rose who ran towards danger.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Sep 10

At least two students were shot at a suburban high school about 30 miles southwest of Denver on Wednesday afternoon, the authorities said. nyti.ms/4piwCEY

At Least 2 Students Are Shot at Colorado High School, Authorities Say

The attack took place on the campus of Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colo. which is west of Denver, the police said.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · Sep 10

Utah was the first state to allow open carry on campus. A would-be assailant could walk right onto campus armed as they please and nobody could’ve done a thing about it.

Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · Sep 10

In 2014, Anita Sarkeesian canceled an event at Utah State after a credible assassination threat because the school’s response was that Utah allows guns on college campuses.

People have warned about this kind of violence for years. But they weren’t the people the powers at be wanted to protect.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · Sep 9

In Ontario, criminal vigilantism works and will influence gov't policy.

Keep that in mind.

‘Get rid of the speed cameras,’ Doug Ford warns municipalities after several cut down in Toronto overnight

Premier Doug Ford says he plans to take matters into his own hands if Ontario municipalities don’t “get rid of the speed cameras” in short order.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · Sep 7

Senator Rand Paul directly and forthrightly takes on JD Vance:

"What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial."

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 7

Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Sep 6

If Biden had said even one-tenth of this, he’d have been impeached and removed as a dictator. What is wrong with our elites? They’re paralyzed by their fear of looking unsavvy or biased against MAGA. They’re going to keep pretending everything is normal until the bullet passes through their face

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Sep 6

How is this not a screaming massive headline across every news site? This is insane, a virtual declaration of civil war. We fought a revolution to not be subjected to this kind of tyranny

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · Sep 6

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law.

May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 4

Support for vaccinating kids against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year

We are getting dumber as a society

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 3

Rand Paul: "The reason we have trials & we don't automatically assume guilt is what if we make a mistake and they happen to be people fleeing the Venezuelan dictator? ... off our coast it isn't our policy just to blow people up ... even the worst people in our country, they still get a trial."

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Ed Tubb @edtubb.bsky.social · Sep 4

Nor is there reason to think he can’t. The chain of command that leads to blowing up a boat in the Caribbean without clear legal authority is a chain of command that can be counted upon to do almost anything.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · Sep 2

Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed.

There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea.

Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · Aug 27

this picture of a mom shoes off sprinting to the Mpls school: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

By Richard Tsong-Taatarii for @startribune.com, which should be a go-to source for anyone following

A parent runs toward the school after the shooting Wednesday at Annunciation Church in south Minneapolis. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

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Meg @givemeyourdoggo.bsky.social · Aug 26

Banana for scale

Meg @givemeyourdoggo.bsky.social · Aug 25

Well that did blow my mind actually. Honest to God I had no idea that was the name of the song haha. It just never came up I guess! Two surprises today.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · Aug 23

"I'm no Trump fan, but actual, out-loud fascism scares me less than a wealth tax that would've still left me rich beyond the average human being's wildest dreams" is something you couldn't waterboard out of me if I believed it, myself, but hey, go off

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