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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 13h

Sounds weak.

milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 14h

Big tech has invested too heavily-they have to be all-in.

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 16h

Alt World Cup

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18h

Trump is no longer even pretending to have any kind of argument that his murdering of people in the Caribbean Sea has any kind of statutory validity. Just straight up declaring that he has quasi-unlimited power to execute people based on (nominal) suspicion.

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 18h

Kinda hard to do that when the Repub Speaker won’t call the House back to work.

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 18h

Cowardly fool. Get ready for more violations.

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 18h

The really sad part are the Young Republican women who tolerate this shit. It’s funny when their token gets spent and they get sent to the kitchen.

milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 18h

Sorry to “those offended”, amazing. He’s not sorry at all, he loves this. He gets off to it, they all do, because they’ve never faced consequences.

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 19h

They’ve never faced any consequences in their lives.

That’s part of the reason they’re like this.

And they never will. They’re rich and white. They can commit crimes, including rape, with impunity.

This is our society - Trump is the manifestation, not the cause.

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 19h

Katherine Dee’s body, his choice.

milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 19h

They’ll get promoted.

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 19h

This has a live feed. Stuff going down.

bsky.app/profile/chic...

Chicago News Bot @chicagonewsbot.bertshouse.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h

Massive law enforcement presence on Chicago's East Side | LIVE
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-crash-massive-law-enforcement-presence-south-avenue-east-side-live/18005825/

Massive law enforcement presence on Chicago's East Side | LIVE

There is a massive law enforcement presence on Chicago's East Side early Tuesday afternoon.

abc7chicago.com

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 5d

LMAOOOOO

A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.

www.vulture.com

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 5d

@warnock.senate.gov: "As a man of faith, here's something that I have noticed about evil... Evil always gets a little bit too impressed with itself. It's filled up with hubris. Evil always goes too far, and because it goes too far, it contains within itself the seed of its own destruction."

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 21h

My fave recent “discovery” is that Roman women’s hairstyles depicted in art were actually totally possible to do in antiquity, proven by modern stylists. Ask the ladies, gents.

My burning question is where is the temple of Isis in London.

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 21h

I don’t think it will make much of a difference. A huge part of MAGA (30%) is anti-intellectual and isolationist. Realizing China is racing past the US in science will just give them an adrenaline rush of more hate. Another 30% don’t look up from their phone enough to even notice or care.

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 21h

This will backfire because now the media will cover it at least a little.

However, it will not backfire against him - Most of those non-MAGA friends and family cut him off a while ago.

I feel sorry for his kids.

milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 21h

“Table of points and authorities”

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 22h

A huge mistake. Infuriating.

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 22h

Tennessee governor and legislature are completely out of control - lawless and drunk with power. Sadly they keep getting elected.

milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 22h

Never heard of it, don’t believe it.

If someone repents, they should be welcomed. That includes acknowledging their racism and doing actual work to repair.

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 22h

They don’t want kids reading. Might cause thinking.

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TX FReadom Fighters @freadomfighters.bsky.social · 23h

New Braunfels Texas school board has just suspended ALL access to their secondary libraries and their 50,000 collection of books claiming that SB13 requires it (it does not) after an attack on social media! @penamerica.bsky.social nbisd.org/news/sb13-up...

Library Services Temporarily Suspended for Secondary Schools - NBISD

nbisd.org

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 22h

Texas now tied with Florida fascist hellhole

I hope the parents rise up against total censorship at their children’s schools