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Douglas Beach @taliesinnola.bsky.social · 12h

The beauty of it is they're gonna lose their asses anyway. Milei's opponents could not ask for a greater gift than Trump's involvement.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h

U.S. police kill roughly 25 pet dogs a day, the majority of which pose no threat to them.

scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr/vol17...

trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss...

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DJ WEED PIZZA @djweedpizza.gobirds.online · 14h

The amount of people harassed out of their jobs, suspended from this platform, etc for that piece of garbage and dear leader really dropped a “skill issue lol” on him.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 14h

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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Douglas Beach @taliesinnola.bsky.social · 15h

Bottom right is definitely about to murder that dog sitter if s/he doesn't come across with a treat pronto.

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Douglas Beach @taliesinnola.bsky.social · 15h

Gillibrand isn't up again until 2030. Schumer is up in 2028, when he'll be just shy of his 78th birthday. It's possible he won't even run for reelection.

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Douglas Beach @taliesinnola.bsky.social · 15h

I'm sure Trump's attempt to bully Argentinian voters will work out just as well for Milei as it did for Prime Minister Poilievre.

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Douglas Beach @taliesinnola.bsky.social · 20h

The Land of the Free sure does have a lot of people who want to tell others what they can do on their own property.

Douglas Beach @taliesinnola.bsky.social · 1d

You can make your existing home more energy efficient.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

“Living car-free is the most impactful behavior by far in terms of reducing emissions.”

WRI Climate @wriclimate.bsky.social · 2d

🚲🥗🚗 Small choices matter, but big change happens when systems support them.

WRI Climate ranked 19 climate-friendly behaviors to show which ones cut the most emissions and why policies & businesses must make them accessible.

See the list 👉 bit.ly/4q0pWvC

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Douglas Beach @taliesinnola.bsky.social · 1d

I almost enjoy it when someone I hate uses "begs the question" incorrectly.

Douglas Beach @taliesinnola.bsky.social · 2d

When was the last time KU were not in the pre-season top 20?

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Douglas Beach @taliesinnola.bsky.social · 2d

Even EU citizens need a Microsoft account in order to sign up for the ESU.

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

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Douglas Beach @taliesinnola.bsky.social · 2d

a cartoon of a man holding a microphone

Alt: McBain saying "That's the joke."

media.tenor.com

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Douglas Beach @taliesinnola.bsky.social · 2d

What kind of trades were these guys making? BTC lost around 10% yesterday. What kind of idiotic shit were they doing that they lost everything on a 10% move?

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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nick pants @nickpants.bsky.social · 3d

this was a touchdown pass

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Douglas Beach @taliesinnola.bsky.social · 3d

No offense, Joe, but go the fuck away.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 3d

Members of Congress should be on the streets of DC—where many of them live! —putting their bodies between these law-abiding citizens and ICE. Congress should be demanding names, and promising ICE will be prosecuted when US democracy is re-established.

But they are not—b/c they think it polls badly.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Douglas Beach @taliesinnola.bsky.social · 4d

is that good

Douglas Beach @taliesinnola.bsky.social · 4d

But that's what I mean, even if cycling became so prevalent that cyclist-pedestrian crashes increased a hundred-fold, pedestrian fatalities would still fall. (Admittedly, *injuries* might go up.)

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Douglas Beach @taliesinnola.bsky.social · 4d

This is Waffle House erasure.