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Rfran

@arreff.bsky.social
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Used to work, basically retired now. Used to travel a lot, now less so. Used to think politics mattered. Mostly reading, writing, cleaning the house, & doing crosswords these days. Not a fascist.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This guy is a hero 👏 That ending was peak unnecessary police overreach.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/08/2026
Trump Downplays Significance Of Trump Tower Found On Epstein Island theonion.com/trump-downplays-signif…
Trump Downplays Significance Of Trump Tower Found On Epstein Island
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I recall hearing the chunderhead saying winning wars was easy.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Seems about the right time to repost this.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
If the liberals really controlled the weather I think we’d see a lot more tactically deployed lightning strikes, tornadoes, & hurricanes.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Onion going hard on a Wednesday
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Nothing more clearly showed a Schumer pick than the haplessness of her "campaign" for Senate. This is not the outcome I hope for in this primary, but it makes total sense. Letting Schumer choose candidates leads to political malpractice & GOP wins.
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constantjoy.bsky.social @constantjoy.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Martin Heinrich D-N.M. “I can tell you, as somebody who has been a natural resources trustee, who has had to negotiate with copper companies in my own state, that this type of copper mining has never been done without polluting the water. Never, not once,” he said in a floor speech before the vote.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 21/04/2026
Merz on Trump: I try to maintain a reasonable personal relationship. Right now, we cannot defend ourselves on our own. ..only few of us can still speak with him. I have access to him—things improve when the doors are closed. But it’s still not good. I didn’t choose him—but he is US president
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Were I part of the Iranian government, I'd start issuing press releases about how well our conversations with JD Vance go & how much he wants a deal.
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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Not defending Trump here AT ALL, but if you want to talk about what would justify a permanent rupture with other nations, I'm not sure Germany should be leading that charge.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I'm reminded of when Kinzinger said something to the effect that he didn't feel courageous so much as he felt surrounded by cowards. I cannot understand what dynamic rewards journalists for non-reporting that the regime's head cannot mentality function.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Concentration camps. Use the term. Do not stop using the term until this current American regime falls and the camps are liberated. Then use the term in The Hague. This is Trumpism. This is white nationalism. This is he moral gutter into which America has fallen.
theguardian.com
Record deaths in US immigration custody expose systemic failures
Families, advocates and lawmakers say poor care, opaque investigations and bureaucracy leave deaths unexplained
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
This man: a national treasure
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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/03/2026
According to White House sources, the confrontation began shortly after the 84-year-old former Senate Republican leader entered the Oval Office, looked around the room, and commented, “Looks like we’re early for the Easter service.”
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Trump, Mitch McConnell Clash In Oval Office Over Where They Are
WASHINGTON—In a heated exchange that laid bare a growing schism at the highest levels of Republican leadership, President Donald Trump and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reportedly clashed in the Oval Of...
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Yikes, @deutschewelle.dw.com: can your guy @terrymartin.bsky.social manage an interview? Yesterday's blatherfest with the Iranian mouthpiece went only marginally better than with the Israeli flack (Ms Glick) today. Just letting a guest rush on without any follow-up or discipline is not an interview.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
If the Democrats have to save the economy from Republican incompetence for the second time in 20 years, they damn will better extract meaningful reforms the 2nd time around that address systemic inequality, opacity, accountability, & cronyism.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Only MAGA allowed
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BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests
One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/03/2026
Flight Attendant Quietly Informs First Class Passengers Where Real Emergency Exits Are theonion.com/flight-attendant-quiet…
Flight Attendant Quietly Informs First Class Passengers Where Real Emergency Exits Are
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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/03/2026
Kristi Noem Reassigned To Scarecrow Role At USDA theonion.com/kristi-noem-reassigned…
Kristi Noem Reassigned To Scarecrow Role At USDA
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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/03/2026
Trump’s War On Iran: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/trumps-war-on-iran-myt…
MYTH: These strikes could lead to a long war.
FACT: It depends how many decades you consider “long.”
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Fred Kaplan nails it again. The U.S. president sows chaos even when he clearly doesn’t mean the things he says. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Trump’s Real Plan for Iran Might Be Coming Into View
The U.S. president sows chaos even when he clearly doesn’t mean the things he says.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/03/2026
Experts Point To Long, Glorious History Of Successful U.S. Bombing Campaigns theonion.com/experts-point-to-long-…
Experts Point To Long, Glorious History Of Successful U.S. Bombing Campaigns
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Which finishes first? The war in Iran or construction of Caligula Hall?
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Wars of choice lead to unexpected outcomes. I feel certain the US & Israeli regimes have no plan for what happens next. They behave as the stupidest day traders imaginable, only they squander real lives instead of cash. No Iranian leader will respond to these actions with the expected gratitude.
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Tee Koobaan 🇨🇦 - Kevin Sorbo's failed acting coach 🙄 @teekoobaan.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
As a proud Iranian born, Canadian, I do not want any help from the US and Israel for a regime change! The government will be toppled when people are ready. The same should happen in the US, and this criminal regime needs to go to prison. #FuckYourWar
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The people who run these AI projects are so deeply unimpressive as thinkers.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
STEWART: “So just to be clear - Trump is on the brink of war with Iran to either obliterate the nuclear program he previously ‘obliterated’, or to force them into signing a deal like the one HE PULLED OUT OF — it’s all in Chapter 9 of Art of the Deal: Eating Your Own Asshole.”
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WomenRiseUp2026 @womenriseup2026.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
NO redacted #TrumpEpsteinFiles #Epstein #EpsteinFiles
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Excellent article about blundering to war with Iran. It's not going to distract from the Epstein swamp.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
You should see the F-eulogy I have ready for the occasion.
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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 19/02/2026
A news headline reading

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office

King expresses his 'deepest concern' and says
'law must take its course' as former prince arrested at Sandringham estateA crude drawing of a man with a stick. He is poking the U.S.A flag saying “C’mon, do something”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
1. DHS surges 3,000 officers to Minneapolis without doing anywhere near enough prep first. 2. Hundreds of habeas cases overwhelm local courts. 3. Dozens of DOJ lawyers quit in disgust/anger. 4. The DOJ brings in JAGs to cover. 5. A JAG was just held in contempt and fined $500/day for ICE's failures.
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BREAKING NEWS: U.S. District Court Judge Laura Provinzino has just found a government atty in CIVIL CONTEMPT of COURT for violations of her orders in a habeas case. Attorney cited is Matthew Isihara, a JAG atty from Dept. of War assisting in local US Attorney office 
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Judge Provinzino had ordered a detained immigrant held by ICE in El Paso, TX  be released in Minnesota with all of his identification papers. ICE released the man in TX with none of his papers, forcing his attorney to find him a shelter for the night & flight back to MN (2/)Paul Blume
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Judge said she is imposing CIVIL CONTEMPT "to force the government to comply with her court order" to immediately return immigrant's papers. Gov't attorney Matthew Isihara is responsible for $500 daily fine, every day the man does not have his papers starting tomorrow. (3/3)
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CONTEMPT FINDING: Matthew Isihara apologized for allowing the order in this habeas case to "fall through the cracks." Blamed situation on case overload & significant understaffing in US Attorney's office. Says he has picked up nearly 130 habeas cases in just last month. 
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
After all the rain at 2k feet, we have snow on the lower ridges of the Sierras. Hope even more landed on the even higher up places to the east.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I'm gonna lose my stack when someone tries to tell me they never knew about this at the time. Sgt Schultz was for comedy. This is real life.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Mia Valentina Paz Faria
A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas 
Detained for 70 days

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by 
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 et al for ProPublica:
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Maybe time to re-up this…
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Guffo, Le Monde
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Havoc @havoc147.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Firearms belong to liberals now.
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Acting Field Director David Easterwood.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
New video shows ICE agents detaining a US citizen legal observer in Minneapolis. The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck.
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
4 male ICE agents tackle a woman U.S. citizen—lift her off ground with no concern over groping her breast or exposing her midriff. "Help me! Help me!" she cries out. "Check my ID!" Agents shove her into back of SUV hitting her head—literally run away from scene of crime. St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
He knew it was BS when he wrote it
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Lynn Miclea @lynnmiclea.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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Maca Iglesias @rotterdamvvg.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Whoever did this wins the internet today.🏆
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Tater @goldenretrieverear.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
It is almost like the FIFA prize had no real meaning.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin This lethargic agnostic's thoughts immediately turned to the Book of Daniel, chapter 5: "You have been weighed in the scales & found wanting."
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/12/2025
Nation Can’t Believe It On Harvard’s Side
Nation Can’t Believe It On Harvard’s Side
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 19/12/2025
“That’s Holocaust shit. Come on.” 👑
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