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Johan Xabier

@johan22.bsky.social
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Father, Army Veteran, South Florida expat. Pay the Teachers. #FinsUp

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
GENEVA (AP) — UN-backed human rights experts find 'reasonable grounds' to believe US committed war crimes in 2 deadly strikes on Iran.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wish we still lived in a world where, “He can’t just knock down the Kennedy Center” was a true fact.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Federal employees were paid $9.5 billion not to work in 2025 under DOGE. As part of the Trump-Musk DOGE program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435%.
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Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort
As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.
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charles (west coaster) mcdonald @fourverts.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
pablo torre vindicated
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Meidas Dutch @meidasdutch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The biggest ass sucker in Congress. No legislative accomplishments, many press interviews, an enabler of sexual harassment. A loser. A giant loser.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Natalie Harp is a year older than Martin Luther King Jr. was when he gave his I Have a Dream speech. She has agency and is running the propaganda operation that serves to put people in concentration camps. She does not get a pass because she looks like a dipshit teenager.
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
One of French puppeteer Raphaël Gromy’s most recognizable performances features a puppet painting real artworks on canvas, blending puppetry, live performance, and visual art into a unique theatrical experience. 😊 IG: @artistsuniversum @raphael_gromy
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
no, you cannot fix Nancy Mace
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Unable to articulate the depth of my rage that he vandalized the moon. cbs12.com/news/local/a...
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Abandoned SpaceX rocket slams into moon at 5,400 mph, carving new crater
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster that launched from Florida struck the surface of the moon early Wednesday, creating a new crater.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
What's great about VAR is that it makes the matchday experience worse while we still have clear and obvious errors.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
If this games goes to pens I’m walking into the ocean instead of watching
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Johan Xabier @johan22.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I fucking loathe this Argentina team.
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Politico @politico.com · 19/07/2026
How soccer eclipsed separatist politics in Spain
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How soccer eclipsed separatist politics in Spain
Their regions were once known for terror and division. Now Basques and Catalans have come to dominate the Spanish squad, while influencing the game all around the world.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"Don't take my word for it, listen to this Fox News segment" I am begging the establishment centrists to please, please, please shut the fuck up. You're worried about your sinecures and pretending the party itself is in danger. It's not. Shut. The fuck. Up.
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is the actual unclassified version of the intelligence community’s review of the 2020 election. It is accurate. Trump will try to convince you it is not. www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/d...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/07/2026
Really meaty, intelligent analysis of these dry govt docs from the good people at Salt Box here, plus my little chip of analysis re: State College, PA. Grateful for their work 🙏
Gillian Brockell, an independent journalist who tracks ICE flight operations, noted that it is highly unusual for a federal detention charter to lay over in a non-base city, reinforcing indications that the airport is functioning as a base for the agency.
Brockell added that ICE also appears to have shifted some regional enforcement roundups from Baltimore-Washington International Airport to Harrisburg — a relatively new pattern that may reflect a broader consolidation of aviation logistics toward central Pennsylvania.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/07/2026
what they learned from minneapolis was not “don’t do this again” but “keep it quiet next time”
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 06/07/2026
shocked at the suggestion that Donald Trump would try to unethically influence FIFA. does the FIFA Peace Prize say nothing of the man's character to you people
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 06/07/2026
The military is shooting people in the American cities they’re occupying.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
FIFA just effectively cancelled a US player's Red Card because Donald Trump asked them to. It's time for an end to the corrupt FIFA they are now fixing the games and disgracing the sport.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
You Holiness Pope Leo XIV, I have a proposition for you: if you excommunicate JD Vance I will come out of spiritual retirement and re-Catholicize. That way your numbers stay they are. I don’t want to put a clock on it, but I’d prefer sooner rather than later
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Thank you @maddow.bsky.social for reminding folks that InfoWars launches 8 p.m. ET on Thursday wherever you watch video! Again, I can't stress this enough: It's going to be, uh, explosive.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Friends across the aisle!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/06/2026
NYT headline when the economy added 266,000 jobs under Biden vs. NYT headline when BLS says the economy added 172,000 jobs under Trump.
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Pumpkin Spice Time @flow.blacksky.app · 18/05/2026
Shake it, baby! 🐢
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 14/05/2026
RFK Jr. did HWAT kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...
So there Kennedy was in early May, crisscrossing a strip of northern Ohio that includes one of the few congressional districts that Republicans are confident they can flip in November, rotating through a wardrobe of blue suits and blue jeans.

He inspected the kitchen of a Toledo daycare center, where hundreds of the city’s tiniest residents learn and play through the federally funded Head Start program. Under the careful watch of a surgeon, and with the machine disconnected, Kennedy briefly tested the teaching console of the renowned Cleveland Clinic’s robotic hands with a live patient splayed open for heart surgery in the room. And he munched on pesticide-free squash blossoms from a 400-acre farm.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/05/2026
Since April 10, Trump has zapped out nine Truth Social posts deploying the “low IQ” tag. Six times his missive referred to a Black person.
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Is Trump a racist? Let’s look at the stats.
Whom does he call "low IQ" the most?
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 08/05/2026
ABC News: Elon Musk’s DOGE “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. abcnews.com/Politics/jud...
ABC News: Elon Musk’s DOGE “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/05/2026
My entire lifetime has seen Republicans benefit from every structural bias in the system: two republican presidents elected while losing the popular vote,the senate being biased towards small rural conservative states,house and state legislatures being heavily gerrymandered, and a captured SCOTUS.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I think a lot of people are underestimating just how politically radicalizing this stuff is, when you see what the right is getting away with, including with the blessing of the Supreme Court majority
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 08/05/2026
The rules of redistricting are simple: Republicans are free to do whatever they want, and Democrats are also free to do whatever Republicans want.
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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
On Saturday, Leo Garcia Venegas was wrongfully detained by ICE for a 3rd time in a year. Officers followed him home; he said he’s a citizen and had his REAL ID in hand. But they didn’t care. They tackled and shackled him, no questions asked. We’ve got a hearing tomorrow on our prelim injunction.
Photo of Leo being led by five ICE agents into the back of an unmarked ICE vehicle. His hands are cuffed behind his back and he’s in leg shackles. 
5. I left the store around 7:20 a.m. and began driving home. I was approaching my house when I noticed an unmarked vehicle following me closely that appeared to be law enforcement.
6. I parked my car in front of my house and turned off the engine.
7. The officers pulled in front of my vehicle to block it in. They exited their vehicle and quickly approached my truck.
8. Without a word, the officers tried to open my driver's side door, but it was locked. Because I already experienced two immigration raids, I knew it was important to tell them I was a citizen and use my REAL. ID to prove my lawful status. So, I took out my Alabama Star ID, unlocked the door, and immediately told the officers that I am a United States citizen.
9. Still without asking me a single question or issuing any lawful commands, the officers pulled me out of my car, tackled me to the ground, and shackled me around both my arms and legs.
10. The officers did not listen when I said I was a citizen. And they showed no interest in looking at my Alabama STAR ID, even though it is a REAL. ID issued only to people who can prove their lawful status.
11. Within two minutes of when I stopped in front of my house, a few other cars arrived, including a K-9 unit with the local police.
12. There were about seven or eight officers in total surrounding me. All but two of those officers were dressed in plain clothes with tactical vests and appeared to be ICE
agents. The other two wore uniforms of the local police. At least one of the local police officers arrived with a K-9.
13. The initial stop was initiated by the ICE agents, and it was those ICE agents who took responsibility for my arrest.
14. The ICE agents led me, shackled, to one of their cars and placed me in the back seat. At this point, the officers still had not asked me a single question or bothered to look at my Alabama Star ID that would have shown they had no basis for my detention.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 04/05/2026
I'm utterly fascinated by the modern art of journalistic simulacrum at no point do this piece's four authors consider wandering anywhere close to the idea of corruption, or that Trump says a lot of things that are utterly meaningless, or that our regulators no longer function in the public interest
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White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Jesus Christ, the emoluments clause was a good idea. Too bad it was apparently repealed at some point.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This one is for Dana Bash (and for the great Jamie Raskin in a different way), because in the middle of a berserker rampage by the right, those of us on the liberal-to-left spectrum are supposed to stop it through seraphic politeness, according to the lost souls in the middle of the road.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/04/2026
When fascists call for unity, it means "you quit fighting back." Always. Every time.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 27/04/2026
Ah shit, Gerry Conway died. He created the punisher & was very outspoken in saying "if you're a cop who wears a punisher logo, frank castle fucking HATES you." He said the punisher only existed because of a fatally flawed system, & so those most harmed by that system have more claim to the symbol:
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How do you stop the far-right using the Punisher skull? Make it a Black Lives Matter symbol
Gerry Conway, co-creator of the popular Marvel outlaw, has been appalled to see his iconography appropriated by white supremacists - and aims to turn the tables
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primevil @primordial.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
They shot Alex Pretti ten times while he was face down in the street.
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josh houtz @takeittothehoutz.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
ethan bonner & michael taaffe are
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The political freakout among some corners about a small number of government run grocery stores aimed at addressing the hunger of the poor is wild to me, in part because all over the country there are ways you could get groceries for free, and even delivered to u for free. Food pantries, etc…
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars. There's just gotta be a line somewhere. Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.
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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Salute to an all-time tweet
tweet from raandy: trump [waving bible in front of them]: you morons love this shit huh 
[audience going berserk]
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
It's crucial to remember that RFK Jr isn't just doing all he can to roll back vaccination & drive up childhood infectious diseases in the US but also WORLWIDE & he's especially targeting children in the lowest income countries He has suspended US funding to Gavi, which supports global vaccination 🧵
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/04/2026
Ari Melber's show put together a supercut of an 8-minute Trump rant about snakes that raised concerns about his mental wellbeing
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This is a favorite strawman of the Religious Right, asserting that the exact phrase "separation of church and state" isn't in the Constitution. They ignore that there are only three references to religion in the entire Constitution, all three of which work to separate church and state.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
While sitting next to his grandson, Trump called out to a woman from his golf cart and then gave her a hug: “She’s in great shape! Great shape! Look at her! You want a picture? Is she in good shape or what? …Is that your husband?”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/04/2026
One year ago, Peter Navarro touted 90 trade deals in 90 days
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute
In Bruges scene where Colin Farrell is pointing a gun at his head and Brendon Gleeson is also pointing a gun at Colin Farrell's head
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Jayne4Freedom @jayne4freedom.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Not since the State Department quietly gave the Board of Peace 1.25 Billion from Foreign Aid. 🤨
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