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Brian Rush @brianrushnyc.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Now I’m like super paranoid that I’ve added someone by mistake to the group chat that I send war plans to.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The victim's brother said that ICE agent approached from the passenger side of the car, stuck his hand in through the window, and opened fire. He says that ICE officers kept shooting even as the car had come to a stop and was put into park.

An officer then jumped out of one of the vehicles, ran toward them from the side and yelled, “Stop!” He started firing from the passenger side of the van, hitting Salgado Araujo in the abdomen. Victor Salgado, the driver’s brother, said he felt the force of the firearm as the agent pointed his gun toward his brother.

“When he shot my brother, the gun was in front of my face,” read Balderas-Ibarra from his interview notes of his conversation with Salgado. The brother was sitting in the passenger seat when the agent pulled the trigger.

Salgado Araujo was able to stop the van and place it in park, the men said, but the officer or officers continued to unload additional rounds from the sides of the vehicle.

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Three independent statements back up the video evidence that this was a murder. Agents fired from the side and killed the driver archive.is/bAXCh

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Abe Lincoln vs. the "heritage American" crowd, 1858: It doesn't matter where your ancestors were in 1776. Americans who read the Declaration and affirm its creed "have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote [it] ...and so they are."

We have besides these men—descended by blood from our ancestors—among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men, they are men who have come from Europe—German, Irish, French and Scandinavian—men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all things. If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration, (loud and long continued applause) and so they are.

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This haunts me all the time. How much more advanced as a species and as a civilization we could have been.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

There are a range of media and people who have lost their mind about Mamdani. At the time of real threats to democracy they treat him evoking the American creed they grew up with as dangerous radicalism.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 04/07/2026

I was introducing a couple of my kids to '1776,' and turned it off to send them to bed just as Adams was fighting with Jefferson over who should draft the Declaration. And as the movie turned off, on came C-SPAN streaming a debate between Adams and Jefferson reenactors. Weird coincidence.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Hey folks! Want to commemorate July Fourth as a "We"? Join us for a watch party of the movie/musical "1776" July 4 5:00 PM ET Beam in through my YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wwZ...

The marketing image for the movie/musical "1776" -- an egg with a British flag on its shell, with a little eagle popping out, an American flag in its beak.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

So . . . how are these Nazis going to know if a woman is pregnant or not?

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/06/2026

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This probably applies to most ideological media regardless of position; most people aren't that into politics (if you follow me, then you, like me, are kind of weird)

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

“America and [insert country] reached an agreement over their war. Details are sketchy, however.” Wash, rinse, repeat.

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FRANK'S FILM REVIEW @franksfilmreview.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Romy and Michele Are Officially Returning The sequel to Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion is officially in production, with Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino returning to the iconic roles that made them a beloved comedic duo. Cameras began... Full article: franksfilmreview.com/2026/06/09/r...

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

“Trump is a straight-shooter” = he tells lies I find appealing

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This is 14% of Lebanon's territory. Functionally indistinguishable from what Russia has done in Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

BREAKING: Mitch McConnell just slammed the Trump slush fund: "So the nation's top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops? Utterly stupid, morally wrong – Take your pick."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

If DOGE is serious about reducing administrative burden, that would be welcome news. But they deserve skepticism, and they work for a government that is systematically adding burdens on most Americans in programs like SNAP and Medicaid.

Gleason told an audience at a government IT industry event Wednesday that the group’s priorities today are improving government services, modernizing government systems, combating fraud and hiring tech talent after the administration pushed 20,000 technology-focused government employees out of their jobs last year.

“I think of efficiency really as reducing that friction, administrative burden, both from our public users as well as our federal workforce, and even state users that we're working with,” she said. “Our citizens have come to expect their government experience to feel like the private sector experience, where it's modern and easy to use.”

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Brian Patrick O’Malley @brianomalley2.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

#scalping was an indigenous custom, widespread in pre-colonial North America. That does not justify cruelty or colonialism.

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Brian Patrick O’Malley @brianomalley2.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Footage by @spiderwolve.bsky.social inspired & provided the opening scene of this clip

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Brian Patrick O’Malley @brianomalley2.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I can definitely see people’s temperament get warped by X/Musk’s Twitter. Even when a person’s principles remained, his combativeness became corrosive. Too much convo with trolls & likely bots. His politics weren’t dragged right but his personality was dragged down. Good point, David @volts.wtf

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 04/05/2026

They're all genitals, that's so weird.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

There are reasons a lot of minority groups overwhelmingly vote against Trump and his ilk, even when he’s not specifically talking about them; many of them can hear people like him talking about **them** even when they’re talking about Somalis, Palestinians, Mexicans, Muslims, trans people, and so on

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

When Jewish people speak out against genocide, why are our voices dismissed? And smirking while I describe someone Nazi-saluting at me isn’t just disrespectful - it feels deeply antisemitic. youtu.be/7VkfYJgLljE?...

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It 'wasn't appropriate' to share post criticising police response to Golders Green, Polanski says

YouTube video by Sky News

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

3 May 1908 | A Romanian Jew, Lionel Almuly, was born in Bucharest. He lived in France. In May 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive. --- 🎧/📖 The development of the mass murder infrastructure at Auschwitz: bit.ly/46ryjrT

An ID-style portrait photo of a young man in a suit.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I wonder if this fact, which was completely known at the time, might have informed media coverage of Trump's/the GOP's lies about the JCPOA, from publications such as the New York Times? Instead, here is how the NYT sanewashed & stenographized all of this in...2018:

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Trump Abandons Iran Nuclear Deal He Long Scorned (Published 2018)

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Please help the Lakota youth defend Pe'Sla (near Mt. Rushmore) from graphite/oil extraction! This is a sacred site to them, like Mt. Rushmore was before the faces were carved into it. Prevent history from being destroyed! News channels won't cover it (May 2026)

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Cargie (Spooky Version) @cargie.baby · 25/04/2026

rebranding "raging eating disorders" into "looksmaxxing" has given it a lot more appeal to men but i can't say its a positive development

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 01/04/2026

that unerring ability to say the wrong thing to the wrong person at the wrong time

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

This is art

Screenshot of 2 NYT headlines: Some Judges See Risks in Fiery Opinions Warning of Threats to Democracy; and Trump Calls for Law Cracking Down on Crime and Rogue Judges

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Brian Patrick O’Malley @brianomalley2.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Just boosting a great guy’s content. Stay positive! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8bqrEVE/

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TikTok video by iamlove_dylan

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Very Lockjaw-coded response here www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

Mr. Bovino’s persona was so theatrical that he drew frequent comparisons to Col. Steven J. Lockjaw, the fictional villain in the Oscar-winning film “One Battle After Another.” Mr. Bovino said that he had not seen the film, but did not think he resembled the actor who played Lockjaw, Sean Penn, whom he dismissed as “fringe, left, liberal.”

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