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Otm Shanks

@leap44.bsky.social

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Otm Shanks @leap44.bsky.social · Dec 7

Being a billionaire is the same psychosis as hoarding. If you replaced the billions of dollars with something else like dolls, or old newspapers, or toilet paper, it is easier to see how sick keeping mass quantities of something to yourself, that you can’t even use it all, is.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 2h

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Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has sent a formal demand letter to Speaker Mike Johnson, ordering him to swear in Adelita Grijalva immediately. More ⬇️

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

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1h

every ruling out of chicago is like, "federal judge rules ICE agents cannot desecrate graves; must not deploy nuclear weapons against journalists and faith leaders."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h

> @governor.ca.gov

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

🔥 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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Profolus @profolus.com · 41m

How Ukraine has endured under the weight of a full-scale invasion by Russia has attracted global attention. Specifically, apart from its military defense, the embattled country has showcased how its civilian institutions remained functional in the middle of the conflict.

Blueprint for Crisis Resilience: What the World Can Learn From Ukraine - Profolus

Endurance beyond battlefields during invasion and wartime reveals the not so-hidden strength of Ukraine.

www.profolus.com

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Otm Shanks @leap44.bsky.social · 39m

Trump doesn’t have that authority. The World Cup is a private organization.

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Trump threatens to revoke Boston’s World Cup matches if authorities don’t get tougher on crime

“We could take them away,” the president said of games in the city that he said were already sold out.

www.wgbh.org

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Otm Shanks @leap44.bsky.social · 2h

If anyone should have their Pentagon media privileges revoked, it’s Pete “Signalgate” Kegsbreath.

Otm Shanks @leap44.bsky.social · 2h

You know things are bad when even Fox News rebukes the Pentagon’s press restrictions.

Otm Shanks @leap44.bsky.social · 4h

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 7h

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 9h

Trump is purposely driving up your electric bills to cater to his big crypto, AI, and fossil fuel donors — money from your pockets to theirs. He’s also driving up your homeowners insurance, hurting property values.

Opinion | This Is Why Your Energy Bills Are Going Up

www.nytimes.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6h

NEW: Jim Jordan wants to question Jack Smith about his search of Mar-a-Lago, but Merrick Garland executed that search months before Jack Smith was even appointed. One of several lies in this letter demanding Jack Smith's testimony. judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 9h

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Otm Shanks @leap44.bsky.social · 10h

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 14h

The world's richest man, and owner of one of the largest social media platforms, is funding white supremacists seeking to undermine democracy everywhere he can. www.huffpost.com/entry/tommy-...

Far-Right UK Activist ‘Tommy Robinson’ Says Elon Musk Is Funding His Latest Legal Fight

Musk recently appeared by videolink at a massive London rally hosted by the anti-Islam activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.

www.huffpost.com

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Otm Shanks @leap44.bsky.social · 14h

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 14h

The world's richest man, and owner of one of the largest social media platforms, is funding white supremacists seeking to undermine democracy everywhere he can. www.huffpost.com/entry/tommy-...

Far-Right UK Activist ‘Tommy Robinson’ Says Elon Musk Is Funding His Latest Legal Fight

Musk recently appeared by videolink at a massive London rally hosted by the anti-Islam activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.

www.huffpost.com

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Otm Shanks @leap44.bsky.social · 14h

Well, that didn’t last very long

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LyndaGood @lyndagood.bsky.social · 14h

It’s hard to know whether to laugh or groan. Amid wars, economic crises, climate disasters, Trump has found his hill to die on: a magazine cover. Time, in a rare nod to his so-called “peace deal,” ran a cover featuring a photo that he calls “the worst… of all time.”

President Trump accuses Time magazine of deliberately using the worst photo ‘of all time’ on a cover praising his peace deal

President Trump slammed Time Magazine for using the worst photo “of All Time” of himself on its cover story about the release of Israeli hostages that were being held captive in Gaza.

nypost.com

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Otm Shanks @leap44.bsky.social · 14h

Well, looks like that’s the image we all need to repost relentlessly

Otm Shanks @leap44.bsky.social · 1d

Picture the worst kid from your high school. The kid who had no self control, always trying to fight someone and constantly getting suspended. Now multiply that kid by every class year and every high school in America. That’s who they hire to work for ICE.

Otm Shanks @leap44.bsky.social · 1d

Trump HATES it when people say President Stephen Miller.

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Otm Shanks @leap44.bsky.social · 1d

We haven’t forgotten about the Epstein files.

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Middlerage @middlerage.bsky.social · 1d

Dude. Saying shit like this is the literal opposite of negotiation 🙄 if you’re trying to act like you care.

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