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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The world's stupidest pedophile is the president of the USA. The world's dorkiest sociopath is the planet's first trillionaire. There is something seriously wrong with humanity.
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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 06/06/2026
Conversations I have to have with my ED brain: Rest days are good. Rest days are necessary. You are not only ALLOWED rest days but you are REQUIRED to take them.
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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Exactly one year ago today:
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
NEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East. This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family. Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships. Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
A photo of a tray with three sections empty. One has chopped carrot in it. The other has what can only be described as a posit of brown dog vomit and an insole liner of a sneaker (or a used panty liner from the mid 1700s). The kind of meal that would have you happily tossing yourself overboard.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Architectural experts are now warning that Trump's rushed White House ballroom is riddled with serious design flaws. That might not even matter to the billionaires financing the project — as long as Trump gives them their kickbacks and political favors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbf6BJzpk1E
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Trump’s Ballroom Corruption Exposed
Is this the most corrupt thing a president has ever done?
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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2026
Left: Minimal line art drawing of a cat that is enclosed in a pink rectangle. Label: Kitten is completely full of crimes

Right: the same cat art but twice the size. The same size rectangle covers only the bottom of the cat. Label: Adult cat contains the same amount of crimes but it does not dominate all of their behaviors
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Skyrocketing gas prices while he builds a golden ballroom and mows down schoolgirls. Truly America’s golden age.
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William A Owen @williamaowen.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
1. This is despicably evil. 2. This needs to be fought at every level. There is no world in which this cannot be considered cruel and unusual punishment. 3. Those behind this effort need to be exposed and never know a moments peace.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
2026 basically
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".
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nos dicen kirchneristas para bajarnos el precio d ser peronistas @otrolt69avaladna.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
La basura bien lejos
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.”  It sounds fierce.  It feels righteous.  But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless.

The Gestapo was a secret police force.  No warrants.  No courts.  No lawyers.  And no appeals.  People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything.  The knock on the door was the sentence.

ICE isn’t that.  Not even close.

ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials.  Its agents file reports.  They seek warrants.  They lose cases.  Judges stop them.  Lawyers challenge them.  Some detainees go home.  That’s not tyranny.  That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse.

You can hate immigration policy.  You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad.  You can work to have the law changed if you wish.  That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do.  

But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil.  You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor.  And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize.

In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight.  This one hasn't yet.  It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses.

That difference matters.

Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history.  We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with.

And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”
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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I guarantee the whole rest of the day I'll be thinking of this man saying, "Fix that fuckin' helmet; you look like a soup sandwich!"
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
🤣🤣
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
100%. If you want an alternative slogan you can go with "Abolish ICE before they kill again."
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Chevron @lachevron.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/01/2026
Here are videos sent to me of the incident Frey details (1/2)
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 08/01/2026
The video shows that the driver of the vehicle turned her wheels to avoid the ICE agents who surrounded her, screamed profanity at her, and gave her conflicting orders. They escalated the situation, put the public in danger, killed her without justification, and kept firing at her.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
So, this happened today. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 05/01/2026
Pentagon initiates proceedings to demote U.S. Senator Mark Kelly
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth v ®
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Six weeks ago, Senator Mark Kelly - and five other members of Congress - released a reckless and seditious video that was clearly intended to undermine good order and military discipline. As a retired Navy Captain who is still receiving a military pension, Captain Kelly knows he is still accountable to military justice. And the Department of War - and the American people - expect justice.
Therefore, in response to Senator Mark Kelly's seditious statements — and his pattern of reckless misconduct — the Department of War is taking administrative action against Captain Mark E. Kelly, USN (Ret).
The department has initiated retirement grade determination proceedings under 10 U.S.C. § 1370(f), with reduction in his retired grade resulting in a corresponding reduction in retired pay.
To ensure this action, the Secretary of War has also issued a formal Letter of Censure, which outlines the totality of Captain (for now) Kelly's reckless misconduct. This Censure is a necessary process step, and will be placed in Captain Kelly's official and permanent military personnel file.
Captain Kelly has been provided notice of the basis for this action and has thirty days to submit a response. The retirement grade determination process directed by Secretary Hegseth will be completed within forty five days.
Captain Kelly's status as a sitting United States Senator does not exempt him from accountability, and further violations could result in further action.
These actions are based on Captain Kelly's public statements from June through December 2025 in which he characterized lawful military operations as illegal and counseled members of the Armed Forces to refuse lawful orders. This conduct was seditious in nature and violated Articles 133 and 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, to which Captain Kelly remains subject as a retired officer receiving pay.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why."

Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!"

First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization."

Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces.

Proud to be an American today!

USA 🇺🇸"Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster."

Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars

If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position"

Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
“What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today. Not in the sense of being charming rogues or alluring antiheroes. We are the bad guys.”
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We Are the Bad Guys
The swaggering threat to global stability is us.
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Laurel Raven @laurelraven.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
This feels like the build up to a third World War
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Stu @rickybaker51.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/12/2025
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Pamela Jo Bondi, doing her part to help an administration that calls itself, with a seemingly straight face, "The Most Transparent in American History."
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
CBS News/Free Press program "Has feminism failed women" brought to you by bank of america and hosted by Liz Plank and Allie Beth Stuckey
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/12/2025
“call your congresspeople and beg them not to sentence trans people to death” is a regular feature of our politics now and it fucking sucks
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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 09/10/2025
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
The American Federation of Government Employees filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for inserting partisan political statements into furloughed employees’ automatic out-of-office replies during the government shutdown without their consent.
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Terri from Colorado @tebaile.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
This! From 2018.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2025
Gallego: "The president is an idiot. He doesn't actually understand how the military works."
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Remember when happy, scientifically sound announcements like this happened in the United States? Before ignorant, irresponsible kooks like RFK, Jr. and Donald Trump were running/funding things. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
A protest sculpture depicting Trump with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein appeared briefly on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., bearing the caption “Best Friends Forever.” (This photo was shared with us the piece was installed by an anonymous artist collective.)
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22/09/2025
1. The Trump administration has filed an emergency motion with the Supreme Court to reinstate its transgender passport restrictions. The filing in the much-criticized shadow docket could cast trans travelers into chaos, with a decision likely soon. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Trump Files Emergency SCOTUS Motion Over Trans Passport Gender Markers; Decision Could Come Quickly
The motion comes after multiple courts have found Trump's passport gender marker ban for transgender people to likely violate their constitutional rights and US law.
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Bastard Toadflax @plumicorns.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Dudes rock
Shortly after that standoff, Curtis Evans stood directly in front of the gate with an American flag. The 65-year-old Evanston resident heard about the first protest on social media and came to represent “the ideals that our country stands for.” He said tear gas and pepper balls hurt, but “five minutes later, you’re fine.”
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
A Fanfiction
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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
aaaaaand this also is why i’ve spent days creating a [so far] nearly 25 minute video tracing charlie to the council for national policy. plenty of people are doing the essential work of repeating his quotes, so the layer left is the why and or how. i truly hope the algorithms are kind 😮‍💨
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mothcub @mothcub.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
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Laurel Raven @laurelraven.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Doesn't he look tired to you?
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
conservatives/republicans going full on fascist with occupying cities with the military is yet another reminder to NEVER TAKE CONSERVATISM SERIOUSLY. THEIR CRITICISMS AREN'T REAL. YOU CAN'T MEET THEM HALF WAY. THEY AREN'T A SERIOUS IDEOLOGY. THEY CAN ONLY BE CRUSHED, NOT DEBATED. thank you.
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Rod Killin' (can't believe I never thought of that before) @rodhillen.com · 01/08/2025
To quote an old radio program, "The rich and powerful only ever want one thing: everything." They want everything their way and it will never be enough.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
This was really wild because writing this article (which explained how female lions are in charge of the pride) really revealed to me how common it is for men to make male lions their entire personality and definition of manhood. I was dogpiled, brigaded, and attacked for WEEKS.
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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Another reason to understand libraries as a site of struggle, especially now. Public libraries give children freedom to explore and children’s librarians treat them as real people. And surprise! Lots of people really hate that
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this
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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 30/06/2025
Some thoughts this morning on my walk about writing characters and how to make sure they have depth and dimension. #WritingCommunity #WritingAdvice Hi, I'm KB, author of the Hail Bristol trilogies and the #NeoG Adventures. I write character focused space operas. 💚💙
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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country. "This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law." – Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
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