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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 6h

Mills entering the race against Planter: totally fine

Gillibrand, Schiff and Kelly backing a centrist septugenarian over a chud-coded progressive while strong-arming Kleban into droping out: something I'm actually angry about

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Justin O’Brien, ICE melter @justinobrien.bsky.social · 2h

Because the subreddit is moderated by a superfan of Destiny.

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Justin O’Brien, ICE melter @justinobrien.bsky.social · 2h

lol, lmao, and hardy har har

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 12h

Janet Mills has jumped into the Maine Senate race against Susan Collins.

Recent polling we did with @ZenithPolls shows that Graham Platner is best positioned to beat Susan Collins, out-performing Mills by 6 points.

substack.perfectunion.us/p/poll-platn...

Poll: Platner Best Positioned Maine Dem to Defeat Susan Collins

After respondents were shown short biographies for both candidates, Graham Platner leads Sen. Susan Collins by 14 points, while Gov. Janet Mills leads Collins by 8 points.

substack.perfectunion.us

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Justin O’Brien, ICE melter @justinobrien.bsky.social · 2h

The podcast use to be a safe space for estabiishment Dems, until this year.

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Justin O’Brien, ICE melter @justinobrien.bsky.social · 3h

Jennifer Welch has been standing on business this year.

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Fantasy Football Draft Dodger @liberationnow.bsky.social · 16h

The other problem with the “Netanyahu delayed the deal to help Trump” is that Netanyahu *never wanted a ceasefire.* He didn’t need Trump to tell him not to agree to a ceasefire.

As well, at the time Biden and Blinken blamed *Hamas* for the stalled ceasefire. They gave Israel everything it wanted.

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

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Justin O’Brien, ICE melter @justinobrien.bsky.social · 4h

Old Democrats: we need these Hitler lovers to be strong!

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 4h

Young Democrats: hey maybe don’t kidnap my international friends

Young Republicans:

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Justin O’Brien, ICE melter @justinobrien.bsky.social · 4h

“Feed ICE into the woodchipper” is the moderate position.

gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 4h

This is terrorism. Abolition of ICE and DHS is not enough.

(Photos by Anthony Vasquez, Chicago Sun-Times.)

A trio of cowardly, pathetic ICE agents hold a terrified man at gunpoint. The BORTAC patch, by the way, means Border Patrol Technical Unit.

Worthless lumps (ICE agents) pin down an unarmed, young Black man.

A domestic terrorism (ICE agent) lobs a canister of gas directly at an unarmed man trying to film the chaos on his phone

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onion person @junlper.beer · 4h

the most unsurprising thing in the world is now every rightwinger, all yhe way up to JD vance, have explicitely defended this and the statements made by those in this group. and that’s by design, every single rightwinger is now an extremist nazi

onion person @junlper.beer · 10h

these people know how extreme they are

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 7h

“Israel” killed most of the people who died on October 7th and it killed most of the hostages who died in Gaza. But all we hear in the West is Hamas, Hamas, Hamas, who, under international law, have the right to resist occupation by force. Any real peace will not include “Israel” at all.

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Justin O’Brien, ICE melter @justinobrien.bsky.social · 4h

If you’re a leftist, we’d all benefit from you knowing what “clearly visible” means. Manufacturing details does not help.

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Justin O’Brien, ICE melter @justinobrien.bsky.social · 4h

Then you need to get new eyes.

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Justin O’Brien, ICE melter @justinobrien.bsky.social · 4h

Congratulations you too have been duped by a pedophile revenge pornographer and a man who doesn’t brush his teeth.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

no surprise here, jd vance has a vested interest in being able to be an open nazi in american politics

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 6h

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 10h

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Justin O’Brien, ICE melter @justinobrien.bsky.social · 4h

Super Smash Brothers Deranged

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Justin O’Brien, ICE melter @justinobrien.bsky.social · 5h

I’m a Taurist.

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 5h

the scariest thing about donald trump is the widespread belief that he is The Problem, rather than a symptom of The Problem

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 9h

Here's a recording of the pilot of C-GZPT, a Cirrus SR22, tracing the Jays logo over Nova Scotia

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11h

Regarding the news today, all I have to say for now is... subscribe to The Onion. Thank you for believing in us and thank you for your patience.

Join The Onion

Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.

membership.theonion.com

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Justin O’Brien, ICE melter @justinobrien.bsky.social · 6h

There is no number high enough.

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Justin O’Brien, ICE melter @justinobrien.bsky.social · 6h

“And me!”

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 10h

If you want to know what kind of Senator Janet Mills might be, remember that she's running as Chuck Schumer's preferred candidate and with his full backing.

Should she win, we can expect more strongly worded letters, hoping really hard for Trump to do the right thing, and AIPAC calling the shots.

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Justin O’Brien, ICE melter @justinobrien.bsky.social · 7h

“Entire life” is some next-level foreshadowing.

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