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Wes Thomas Skeleton

@westhomasanderson.bsky.social

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Used to be @JD_Meadows at the "other" place. Politics, movies, baseball (Go Padres!) Now with fewer nazi incels in the replies! Avi pic idea by @brianchaley.bsky.social

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Wes Thomas Skeleton @westhomasanderson.bsky.social · Feb 8

Every day now.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

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

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

Some of those people are currently on the staff of elected Republicans, in fact. They’re part of the present of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 21h

in light of peoples’ bad bunny bowl reactions, I think we need to start confronting people with questions like “why do you believe that you are entitled to enjoy everything that happens?”

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22h

one thing we can never allow to happen again is making someone president who is rich enough to fund endless frivolous lawsuits

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onion person @junlper.beer · 19h

these people know how extreme they are

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 18h

Of all the pieces Mike Johnson hasn't seen, the Politico Young Republican Nazis piece he will have not seen the hardest.

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Wes Thomas Skeleton @westhomasanderson.bsky.social · 17h

On the contrary, it clearly has a quite comfortable place in your party, my friend...

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 18h

My God, what has the party of Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, and George W Bush become?

The party of Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, and George W Bush.

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

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 18h

JUST GONNA ASSUME IM NOT ACTUALLY GOING TO BE SHOCKED

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/t...

CNBC
There's a shocking disparity between how high income and low income earners feel about the economy

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Wes Thomas Skeleton @westhomasanderson.bsky.social · 23h

She didn’t say anything negative about Trump or the administration at all, but he still responds with a personal insult just to be a jerk. But remember: it’s the *Democrats* who are dividing the country!

Wes Thomas Skeleton @westhomasanderson.bsky.social · 1d

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Wes Thomas Skeleton @westhomasanderson.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe it was a plan to try and incinerate him into ash with their dual-vocal fry.

Wes Thomas Skeleton @westhomasanderson.bsky.social · 1d

I irrationally hate them so much. It can’t be healthy.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Wes Thomas Skeleton @westhomasanderson.bsky.social · 1d

Out here telling my mega-rich Mar-a-Lago members that their taxes are coming down and posting video of it to the plebes.

NetworkforDemocracy @simple-truth.bsky.social · 2d

47Felon shouting out to his buds about tax cuts while billing the rest of the taxpayers $3M a day. All this during a shutdown with hundreds of thousands of people going without pay.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 2d

How much money do you think DHS has expended so far on punishing this one man

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 2d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Wes Thomas Skeleton @westhomasanderson.bsky.social · 2d

Kind of odd…sounds like it wasn’t exactly a blockbuster but did ok.

Wes Thomas Skeleton @westhomasanderson.bsky.social · 2d

I 100% saw that and chickened out of the ride as a 4 or 5 yo. (When I eventually got on it a couple years later I felt like a dope for once being scared of such a relatively lame ride!)

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Jason Schultz @jason.parkendium.com · 4d

There are some great photos of Sleeping Beauty Castle with the Matterhorn from Frontierland, but what about before the Matterhorn's construction? Or during it?

Here you go!

1958 photograph from Tom and Huck's Treehouse on Tom Sawyer Island showing the Mark Twain in the foreground, with Sleeping Beauty Castle and the TWA Moonliner in the distance, sans Matterhorn.

1959 construction photograph from Tom and Huck's Treehouse, showing Sleeping Beauty Castle and the Matterhorn.

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Wes Thomas Skeleton @westhomasanderson.bsky.social · 2d

Not a nice fella!

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Will Harris @sandwichpick.bsky.social · 2d

The clip where you get the context at the end has me dying

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 2d

Antifa protesters work hard and they play hard.

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Dan Pasternack @danpasternack.bsky.social · 3d

October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.

Dr. Demento

drdemento.com

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 3d

When people wonder how Epstein continued to have powerful friends even after everybody knew, consider that a Nazi salute followed by blithely starving children and cutting off their life sustaining medicines wasn’t a deal breaker for anyone in power positions.

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