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Reality used to be a friend of mine @ajw93.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
In the spirit of Celebrating Things We Love In These Times, MAKI ROLLS ARE DELICIOUS
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Reality used to be a friend of mine @ajw93.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif
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a group of baseball players are standing in a circle with one wearing a jersey with the number 20 on it
Alt: a group of baseball players are standing in a circle with one wearing a jersey with the number 20 on it
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
🇺🇦 Zelensky: Honored the memory of the liquidators of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant accident together with the President of Moldova, Sandu. Eternal respect to all who, at the cost of their lives, saved Ukraine and all of Europe.
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Reality used to be a friend of mine @ajw93.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
@stevebreit.bsky.social VEGETABLES FOR SALE
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.
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Reality used to be a friend of mine @ajw93.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
If you need a palate cleanser of journalism after last night, I recommend just going to YouTube and watching something, anything, by Bill Moyers.
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Reality used to be a friend of mine @ajw93.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Water is necessary for life. Data centers are not. *gavel*
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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Taken by Salwan Georges, photojournalist recently fired from the Washington Post.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I can't be the only one getting deja vu watching a House Republican literally running at top speed from an intruding violent reality he personally helped create
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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
It's weird being older. The obvious solution to the TSA lines is to abolish it. We did without that security theater for ages. It's been demonstrated OVER AND OVER to do nothing. It just funnels more money to bullshit. ICE and TSA were created wholecloth in 2003 and 2001 respectively.
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Reality used to be a friend of mine @ajw93.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Am I wide awake, pie-eyed at 1:30 am? Yes. Yes, I am. So I decided to use my insomnia and make the coffee cake recipe that I found in my grandma's recipe box yesterday. Will sleepless cake be a good breakfast? We'll find out tomorrow 🍀🤞
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Reality used to be a friend of mine @ajw93.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Fort Ticonderoga FDR home (Springwood) Van Buren home
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Reality used to be a friend of mine @ajw93.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Meanwhile I have been searching for a job for TWO. YEARS.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Liam himself is five goddamned years old and should be at home with an adult he trusts right now no matter who his parents are. It would not matter if they were literal criminal masterminds, Liam Ramos is a baby and babies do not belong in prison.
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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Celebrate by pushing harder 👇
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 27/01/2026
THEY BREAK UPON MINNEAPOLIS
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Unite For Veterans Coalition @unite4vets.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
We salute these VA workers for honoring #AlexPretti. As they say, "We are healthcare workers for veterans. We know what heroes look like." youtube.com/shorts/bgCcE...
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Honoring Alex Pretti
YouTube video by Unite 4 Veterans
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Reality used to be a friend of mine @ajw93.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I was very sad that it got dark and I couldn't watch the snow But then I remembered I could turn ON the porch light and CLOSE the LR light ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️ Electricity, man
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
YE hypocrites! are these your pranks? To murder men and give God thanks! Desist, for shame!—proceed no further; God won’t accept your thanks for MURTHER —Robert Burns Happy Burns Night y’all
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Reality used to be a friend of mine @ajw93.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
In the spirit of Celebrating Things We Love in These Horrible Times, meet Rudolph He's only got one antler, so I call him Rudolph because he's a misfit
A buck whitetail deer with only one antler, standing in the snow
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Lordbeef @lordbeef.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
this one hits
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Reality used to be a friend of mine @ajw93.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
"They murdered someone, and you know it. I can see it in your eyes"
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Nice Dude (sincere) @sortabad.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
do you know how fucked everything has to be for DAVID HOGG to be like “it’s okay for people to have guns”
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
There are about 100 protesters outside Schumer’s building in the middle of the blizzard urging him to whip Dem votes against any more ICE/CBP funding.
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Reality used to be a friend of mine @ajw93.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Instant tears but in the best way
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Reality used to be a friend of mine @ajw93.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
IMAGINE IF ALL THAT MONEY HAD GONE TO TEACHERS INSTEAD (okay well some of it could have gone to actual school infrastructure. just imagine)
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A. Of course you can B. It wasn't a protest
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Reality used to be a friend of mine @ajw93.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A calico cat curled up with her back to the camera looking over her shoulder with judgy eyes
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Reality used to be a friend of mine @ajw93.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Mozz sticks
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Reality used to be a friend of mine @ajw93.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It's -1 out I'm currently very warm so I'm wearing shorts in the house I need to cover my car before the snow arrives But I don't want to change back into warm clothes Do you think my cat will do it for me? If I bribe her with cheese? We won't talk about how I should have done this hours ago
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This is a white supremacist paramilitary operation. Their goal—their stated goal!—is to force America to submit to the President's racist domineering vision for the country. The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Is anything more defining of America’s corrupted masculinity than the way our leaders praise and overwhelmingly fund child abducting gestapo cosplaying as special forces, instead of nurses who worked through Covid and cared for dying veterans in the ICU?
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
who can forget the famous Boston Tea Party, in which a bunch of Boston's Finest gathered to sip on some tea after cracking the skulls of some dirty hippies who dared protest the King
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Reality used to be a friend of mine @ajw93.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
👇👇👇👇👇
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.
An office building lit up in the dark with a crowd of people holding signs in front of it.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I'm not sure Democrats in D.C. are aware that their base's rage against ICE has reached a level of blinding white-hot intensity. They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
you don't become a martyr because you were a saint, you become a saint because you were martyred
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Reality used to be a friend of mine @ajw93.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
It's -4 out here in the woods where no one will see me, but I'll be outside tonight. Please come out. We need hope and solidarity to be strong and continue to fight. Together.
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Reality used to be a friend of mine @ajw93.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I've been having a hard time articulating this all day. In my time at the VA I was struck by the absolute sincerity of *everyone* - contractor or federal employee - about their mission. Then when my stepfather was dying, the care he received at the VAMC was so honest, professional, and loving.
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Reality used to be a friend of mine @ajw93.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The women were RIGHT THERE BOTH TIMES
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
can't fuckin believe I'm going "yeah brother" to bill kristol but welcome to 2026 i guess
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line. If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.
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Reality used to be a friend of mine @ajw93.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We'll watch them fall We will still be here Sing it while we watch them fall A great Minnesotan whose music brought me to hopeful tears today in the midst of anger youtu.be/9V-vcXOpG9g?...
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Prince & The New Power Generation - 7 (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Prince
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
If only we as a country, as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our independence, had some historical events from our founding era that might help us understand why agents of a distant government shouldn’t murder protesters on the streets of the city where they live.
A depiction of Crisps Attucks being killed by agents of the state on the streets of Boston for the crime of protesting.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 24/01/2026
Abolish DHS. Prosecute ICE.
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hyperion13.bsky.social @hyperion13.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This is the first time I personally have seen a classic film trending at number 1 on a social media platform. I think #Casablanca may be hitting hard in 2026 America #TCMParty
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