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Cryptkeeper Sophie Luther

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NAFO Memeslinger, Fictional Cryptkeeper, Christian Satirist. Chief Sinner. Friend of all Faiths. Defender of Atheists. #NAFO #Resistance 🇺🇲🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦🇬🇪

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Cryptkeeper Sophie Luther @sophieluther.bsky.social · Mar 13

Welcome to the upside-down.

Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · Mar 13

#USA criminalization of environmentalism marks a new era of corporate authoritarianism. Habitat for Humanity, accused of ‘fraud’ for accepting EPA grants. Science is treason, activism is a crime, capital reigns unchecked👺🇺🇸👺

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Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups

The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2h

Montana Sen. Tim Sheehy was asked about the $1B grant DOE pulled from the Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub, a clean energy project that includes his state. trib.al/Yf1b0Uo

The interview fell silent, as Sheehy’s excuses evaporated. “Well, it’s unfortunate we’re still shut down. We shouldn’t be.”

MAGA Senator Rendered Speechless Over Trump Cuts to His State

Senator Tim Sheehy was left floundering when he realized he couldn’t blame the cuts on the shutdown.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2h

This is a generational race.

It’s about old ideas vs new ideas. About whether Democrats win by fighting for serious structural change — or lose to Susan Collins yet again by doing more of the same.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2h

$40 billion for Argentina now. America First!

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3h

A former acting director of ICE says that, today, immigration control is the highest priority of federal police agencies and the Department of Defense. If that is true, then the administration is inviting both domestic crime and foreign aggression.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Why Is ICE So Aggressive Now? A Former ICE Chief Explains.

ICE used to arrest the “worst first.” Under the new Trump administration, “those rules are gone,” says a former ICE chief.

www.politico.com

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 3h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 4h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Rev. R L Brandner @newecclesiastes.bsky.social · 2h

Today's friendly shoutout to ICE. Making Tacos as rare in Chicago as bagels are in Berlin.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 5h

As I was saying about Vance aping the rhetoric (and engaging with the posts) of online Nazis:

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

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WIRED @wired.com · 21h

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January. www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...

A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 7h

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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 3h

To the contrary.

I love this country than Mike Johnson could ever understand.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 5h

Guy Richards Smit, The New Yorker

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Cryptkeeper Sophie Luther @sophieluther.bsky.social · 3h

What do you expect from a bunch of Proud Boys and pardoned J6ers?

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 6h

Agent lobs a gas canister into a residential neighborhood in Illinois for no discernible reason, gassing dozens of neighbors including a baby. The comfort with which they deploy weapons of war is unreal.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

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Slava Bonkus #ElonSucksSoHard @bonkski.bsky.social · 5h

Great thread, awesome research you did there❣️💙💛

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

EISEN: You've taken stakes in 5 companies now. Are there going to be more?

BESSENT: I wouldn't be surprised. When we get an announcement like this week with China on rare earths, you realize we have to be self-sufficient or we have to be sufficient with our allies

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Feathered Stone @stonefeathers.bsky.social · 5h

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No More Kings - Schoolhouse Rock Boston Tea Party

YouTube video by Schoolhouse Rock

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Cryptkeeper Sophie Luther @sophieluther.bsky.social · 3h

Nice timing.

Cryptkeeper Sophie Luther @sophieluther.bsky.social · 3h

I love Ojeda.

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The Sons of Liberty @sonsofliberty.bsky.social · 3h

Friend of the Page Update: Democrat Richard Ojeda raises $1.2M to oust NRCC chair https://www.axios.com/2025/10/15/richard-hudson-ojeda-fundraising-north-carolina

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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 2d

A "fire rainbow," or circumhorizontal arc, is a rare optical phenomenon caused by sunlight refracting through hexagonal ice crystals in high-altitude cirrus clouds

This one was captured in Hawaii by Dr. Lenore A. Artis

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 4h

they continue using language that seems expressly designed to justify using violent force against their political opposition

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Emmer: "Clearly, the Democrat Party of today is not your grandfather's Democrat Party. They care about one thing and one thing only -- appeasing the radical pro-terrorist wing of their party."

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Rubicon1313 💕Safe 4 LGTBQ💕Vets @rubicon1313.bsky.social · 6h

The newest national security threat. Translation: Pete goes “ No, you will NOT expose my incompetence and crimes”

Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · 1d

This new Pentagon press policy is not good for our press or our military.

And I’m saying that as a former soldier who knows the importance of a free press.
www.thebulwark.com/p/locking-do...

Locking Down the Pentagon Press Is Dangerous

Pete Hegseth’s proposed restrictions would harm the people whom both the military and the press are meant to serve.

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 1d

“Those who returned home having come close to death would find it difficult, if not impossible, to leave the war behind them and readjust to civilian life.” David Nasaw delves into the physical and mental trauma of the Second World War.

On the Terrible Toll of the Last Bloody Year of WWII

The cost of the invasion in matériel and lives lost was enormous, but Allied troops were now planted on French soil. To guard against undue optimism that the war in Europe would soon be over, the w…

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The Sons of Liberty @sonsofliberty.bsky.social · 3h

Robby Roadsteamer, who I got to hang out with 02 September during the DC protest and Congressional visit, has been detained by ICE in Portland. Support Robby's lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com and chek out his Instagram for the full video. Pic for attention.

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