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Madcap lost in books on the river. @madcaprivers.bsky.social · Feb 6

Here's Elon Musk saying he got rid of USAID because it's full of radical left marxist.

Next to hitlers anti-communist rhetoric.

If you hate communism you are no different than the Trump administration.

Elon Musk on X

USAID was a vipers nest of radical-left marxist who hate America.

Screenshot from Wikipedia.

In Hitlers mind, communism was a major enemy of Germany.

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The Spectre of Potatoism 👻 @kootenaymarxist.bsky.social · 14h

Racism

Unofficial CTV News Mirror @ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social · 14h

‘Why was she turned away?’ Manitoba woman dies, hours after being sent home from hospital

One family is now desperately searching for answers, after they say their loved one was turned away from a Manitoba hospital.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Amazon Piss Jugs @amazonpissjugs.bsky.social · 2h

Holy shit

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 3h

So these are the wars Plattner would have volunteered to be in and like I do not for the life of me understand what we are doing here??

What American wars would you have volunteered to fight in?
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The Indian Wars, the Phillipines, Haiti and Nicaragua in the 1920's, Vietnam, Nicaragua and El Salvador again in the 80's. As for would have, I "did" for Iraq and would love to get to the Ghan. Small wars are pretty enjoyable. It's the big ones, with days of artillery fire and inhuman brutality that take the fun out of fighting.
But small wars (and Iraq
and Afghanistan are indeed small wars) provide the rush of small combat actions along with the intellectual challenge of building personal relationships and infrastructure within the local community. Small wars are thinking wars, which I much prefer over the bloody slugfests of great power conventional warfare. Oh, and the revolution, because I'm Amuuurican. permalink context

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Cozca @cozca.bsky.social · 20h

A couple protesters have accused ICE of sexual assault inside PDX ICE. I have complained about a violent manual strip search inside ICE and the use of stress positions on prisoners.
No one looks in to it.
No one reports on it.
No one investigates and no one hears us.

Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 1d

📍 𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐍, 𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐀𝐒:

Douglas Menjivar — a whistle-blower who exposed sexual assault in an ICE detention center — was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, packed off from his family, and forced into exile. His only offense: daring to speak out. #AbuseofPowerWatch

Trump's ICE Arrested a Whistleblower Who Exposed Sexual Assault in Detention. Now, He’s Left the Country.

Douglas Menjivar is a survivor and activist. He’s also married to a U.S. citizen, but he was caught up in the president’s mass deportation agenda anyway.

www.texasobserver.org

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Willybongka Ⓐ☭ @willybongka2.bsky.social · 22h

Liberals are completely fine with genocide and the like as long as you are polite about it.

Liberalism enables fascism.

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Madcap lost in books on the river. @madcaprivers.bsky.social · 14h

All part of Operation Glaudio.

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Fantasy Football Draft Dodger @liberationnow.bsky.social · 21h

Anyway

A US sniper team in Afghanistan posing in front of a US flag and an SS flag.

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Madcap lost in books on the river. @madcaprivers.bsky.social · 14h

My tattoo is just a rose. And it can be read so many ways none of them right wing.

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Extinction Rebellion Global @xrglobal.bsky.social · 19h

‘The European Union intends to increase the glyphosate allowed in water.

The current limit is 0.1 micrograms of #glyphosate per litre of water. The new revision aims to increase this maximum to 398.6 micrograms per litre of water, which would mean multiplying by 4,000 the current allowed limit.’

Rebelión Científica España @esrebelcientif.bsky.social · 7d

No podemos permitir que se sigan contaminando nuestros ríos, lagos y aguas subterráneas ni nuestras tierras, mucho menos tolerar que incrementen los límites permitidos de contaminación.

¡¡El beneficio de unos pocos nos pone en riesgo a la mayoría!!

www.elsaltodiario.com/agrotoxicos/...

La Unión Europea pretende multiplicar por 4.000 el glifosato permitido en aguas

Según Ecologistas en Acción, supondría permitir legalmente una grave contaminación de las aguas que pondría en mayor riesgo la biodiversidad y la salud.

www.elsaltodiario.com

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Madcap lost in books on the river. @madcaprivers.bsky.social · 14h

I'll have to give that one a listen.

Madcap lost in books on the river. @madcaprivers.bsky.social · 14h

Phil Ochs has a great song I love to play whenever liberals get on my nerves. Love me I'm a liberal.

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Madcap lost in books on the river. @madcaprivers.bsky.social · 14h

We have a cat who agrees as well.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 14h

As long as I can breathe, think, write, and speak ...I intend to remain a mortal enemy of all that's capitalist and comes from the capitalist ruling classes. The end of capitalism is the goal, and the total liberation of all oppressed peoples, under its boots. PERIOD.

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Madcap lost in books on the river. @madcaprivers.bsky.social · 14h

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Notre Dame de Paris - Belle Subtitled English HD

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Madcap lost in books on the river. @madcaprivers.bsky.social · 14h

You should try the French Musical. It's sooooooo good.

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 19h

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

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Madcap lost in books on the river. @madcaprivers.bsky.social · 14h

Almost done with The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Hugo. So naturally I am watching the French musical.

Madcap lost in books on the river. @madcaprivers.bsky.social · 21h

Every marine I met loved rapeing children. It's a branch of pedophiles.

Lyle Jeremy Rubin @lylerubin.bsky.social · 1d

Every other marine I knew had some version of the same tat. Please.

bsky.app/profile/lyle...

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The Spectre of Potatoism 👻 @kootenaymarxist.bsky.social · 1d

On this day in 2011, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was killed after a NATO bombing campaign helped destroy his government. The country remains a divided failed state 14 years later.

Here's a list of reasons why the West had to murder him:

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi with his fist raised walking in a crowd.

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Ryan Wilson @hailseitan.bsky.social · 3d

The Government is shutdown.

Yalda @thatopinionatedgal.bsky.social · 3d

Can’t afford healthcare? Tough luck. But don’t worry, Kristi Noem’s getting two brand-new Gulfstream jets for $172 million on your dime. Because apparently “fiscal responsibility” only applies to the rest of us.

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Cozca @cozca.bsky.social · 3d

If you get a chance to speak to media today please make sure to bring up Indigenous activists of Portland Oregon abused by Geo Group inside ICE cells in PDX. We need an investigation. We need the torture covered and acknowledged.

No one deserves torture. I mean the legal definition of torture.

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Ontario Man (autumnal) @barrhavenist.bsky.social · 4d

#NoKings

An impressionistic painting of a soldier in a drab winter coat, standing at ease, holding a bayoneted rifle pointed toward the floor, in front of red steps leading to an empty red and gold throne with a gold coat of royal arms on the red wall above it. The soldier’s gaze is skyward. The painting is called “It Has Come To Pass” (artist: Sergei Lukin, Soviet, 1958) and depicts the Bolshevik occupation of the Winter Palace in November 1917.

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Madcap lost in books on the river. @madcaprivers.bsky.social · 3d

Remember they call native Americans merciless Indian savages multiple times in the document.

Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 3d

Take a few minutes to actually read the Declaration of Independence today. It's unsettling how much of it resonates with what's going on today.

www.archives.gov/founding-doc...

Declaration of Independence: A Transcription

Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling a...

www.archives.gov

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Philip Bite Marks @philipmarks87.bsky.social · 3d

Clever signs don't threaten fascism

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Madcap lost in books on the river. @madcaprivers.bsky.social · 5d

When I was in Germany it was handy to know a little German. But everyone spoke English so I didn't push it.

Madcap lost in books on the river. @madcaprivers.bsky.social · 5d

I'm in WA. I started learning French over the years. I was thinking about learning the language of my ancestors. But those are eastern European languages.

I can't do other romance languages because I can't do r sound because of a speech impediment.