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Hachi @hachi19.bsky.social · 3d

It's unfortunate your years of study in law inadvertently became an education in history.

Hachi @hachi19.bsky.social · 3d

unrelated question...what's the word for people who are forced to do unpaid labor? 5 letters long, 3rd letter is an "a".
It's just...RIGHT THERE...but I just can't quite get it.

skippyoz @skippyoz.bsky.social · 4d

If you don't work for nothing you will be fired.
Whoopie do....

apnews.com/article/duff...
Air traffic controllers who duck unpaid work during the gov't shutdown could be fired, Duffy warns

Air traffic controllers who duck unpaid work during the gov't shutdown could be fired, Duffy warns

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he understands the frustrations and worries of air traffic controllers who have to work without a paycheck during the government shutdown, but he and the union...

apnews.com

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RC deWinter @rcdewinter.bsky.social · 3d

#poetry

decoding

no matter the hour
the heart illuminates what lives
between light and shadow

save your hapless words
there is no hiding there

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3d

👇👇

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Hachi @hachi19.bsky.social · 3d

I'm seriously starting to think of Chicago as my next vacation spot.

Hachi @hachi19.bsky.social · 3d

Lemme guess...he's one of the "criminals" ICE always talks about deporting.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 3d

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 3d

Fat Satan got his COVID booster shot yesterday. If he doesn’t listen to his Trumpshit-crazy HHS Secretary, why should we?

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

Nice recap

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Hachi @hachi19.bsky.social · 3d

Ok...the man is honestly funny.

He has good ideas and is charismatic and enthusiastic in explaining them and all that jazz, but he's sincere in his humor.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

It’s the Feds making Portland look like a war zone— not the protesters.

And honestly, these protesters are brilliant. They’re flipping the whole authoritarian cosplay on its ass!

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Hachi @hachi19.bsky.social · 3d

nailed it in one.

The same game plan is being used by the political party backing ICE as well. They don't want criticism or even people keeping records of what they're saying and doing.

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Hachi @hachi19.bsky.social · 3d

the last follow-up question is just magical.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 3d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Matthew the Spoopiest of Ducks @backwardsknight.com · 5d

Every year, for the last few years, @fallenlights.net and I get pumpkins to put out with our wildlife cameras.

The process has yet to disappoint.

Night vision wildlife camera image of a raccoon with a pumpkin, staring up into the sky.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress over two weeks ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in.

Why the delay?

Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

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Kristen Wixx @kristenwixx.bsky.social · 5d

Dolly is a national treasure. How do we make this happen, guys?

A sign. The text reads, "If 5-4 is Star Wars Day, can 9-25 be Dolly Parton Day?"

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Hachi @hachi19.bsky.social · 4d

Oh cool...

Last time he did something like this, we had a world-wide pandemic become endemic after killing more Americans than the civil war.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 4d

Cultrivorous [kul-TRIV-uh-rus]
(adj.)
- Pertaining to one who devours knives.
- Related to, or descriptive of the act of swallowing, or pretending to swallow knives.

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Hachi @hachi19.bsky.social · 4d

meanwhile I just can't stop looking at that human train wreck and remembering he got famous for being a "rapper" fronting in a metal band.

The dude was outclassed by Fred Durst...which is possibly the saddest thing I've ever said about a person.

Hachi @hachi19.bsky.social · 7d

"...welfare of the world at heart..."

Lol, yeahsureman. One of the richest men in the world actively takes steps to cut off funding for food for Children...but not evil at all, right?
I swear...that guy...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7d

The most important political thread of our time.

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7d

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

#WarRavagedPortland

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