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Preston Butler

@oldredghost.bsky.social
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I’m just a boy(42 M) looking at a social media platform asking it to be entertaining.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Corrupt judges let a criminal get away with treason and run for president. Propagandists masquerading as journalists lied to enough people that the criminal won. Then the criminal sold a half share in the presidency to the world's richest man, whom no one voted for. That's what happened, folks.
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Preston Butler @oldredghost.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Absolute Martian Manhunter was so stinkin good. I’m just blown away. What a beautiful piece of art. Thank you @denizcamp.bsky.social and @javierrodriguez.bsky.social. I’m awe struck
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Ellen Roche @ellroche.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
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Preston Butler @oldredghost.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Who is your DC comfort character? The Captain
Shazam! Captain Marvel stands proud; ready to combat the forces of evil.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 25/03/2025
billionaires pay functionally no taxes. Kamala Harris halfheartedly promised to impose some. in response they spent $2.42 billion to elect a criminal madman president prospect.org/power/2025-0...
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The Existential Threat of Ultra-Billionaires
A handful of rich guys will burn human society to the ground rather than pay a dime in tax.
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Elanora Dreamer @elanoradreamer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
It's a genocide.
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
my god
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Israel just committed *the largest child massacre in its history*, according to Haaretz. Two hundred Palestinian children murdered in a single day, with direct support from the US and UK, and zero outrage from Western media. What stage of barbarism is this...
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Lee Saunders @leesaunders72.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
My x feed reports of field executions carried out by Israeli forces on people in tents Palestinians being forced to evacuate on foot Not allowed to use cars reports people were forced off a bus Images of elderly sick children all forced to walk Still a blockade on food Gaza is still being bombed
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Alex Segura @alexsegura.com · 19/03/2025
www.democracynow.org/2025/3/19/je...
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ICE Detains Jeanette Vizguerra, Prominent Immigrant Rights Leader in Colorado
Immigrant rights activist Jeanette Vizguerra, who has lived in the U.S. for more than 30 years, was arrested by ICE agents in Colorado on Monday. She was ambushed during her work break by ICE official...
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 14/03/2025
A second Columbia student has been detained by ICE. Leqaa Kordia is a Palestinian from the West Bank.
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Exclusive | Second anti-Israel Columbia protester, Leqaa Kordia, arrested by Homeland Security for immigration violations
Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian who hails from the West Bank, was first arrested in April 2024 for taking part in one of the protests on Columbia’s campus while overstaying her twice-cancelled st…
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 12/03/2025
Confirmed by EVERY SINGLE Democratic senator
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Marco Rubio Personally Signed Off to Detain Mahmoud Khalil on 'Foreign Policy Grounds,' Sources Confirm
The government is staking its entire case to deport Khalil on whether Rubio “personally” thinks the Columbia student protest negotiator would “compromise” US foreign policy.
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Rob Israel @robisraelart.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Did you even say thank you?
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more. The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law. No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
Indeed, a White House official told The Free Press that the basis for targeting Khalil is being used as a blueprint for investigations against other students.

Khalil is a "threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States," said the official, noting that this calculation was the driving force behind the arrest. "The allegation here is not that he was breaking the law," said the official.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 10/03/2025
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex condemned ICE’s detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, calling it a “tyrannical” move. “If the federal government can disappear a legal US permanent resident without reason or warrant, then they can disappear US citizens too."
newrepublic.com
AOC Rips “Tyrannical and Un-American” Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a serious warning about the ICE arrest of Palestinian activist (and U.S. green card holder) Mahmoud Khalil.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Mahmoud Khalil has become a political prisoner for protesting a US-backed genocide. His detention heralds new vistas of repression made possible by institutions and technological developments begun by the War on Terror.
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Mahmoud Khalil's Detention Is A War on Terror Milestone
ICE turned a campus activist for Palestine into a political prisoner. Witness a coalescence of several post-9/11 currents that threaten your most basic freedoms
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Columbia University is colluding with Nazi terrorists and other fascists to disappear its own students: www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
On Thursday, Columbia issued a revised protocol for how students and school staff should handle agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement seeking to enter private school property.

The school said ICE agents without a judicial arrest warrant may be allowed to enter its private property in "exigent circumstances," which it did not specify.
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 09/03/2025
Young men fall into the Tate brothers grift because the Tates offer them a means to excel without doing any of the hard work and introspection. They teach men that being a lonely weirdo is necessary to get ahead, and that you have to be an aggressive misogynist and racist in order to do so.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
A letter to demand Mahmoud’s release — be careful if you’re a non citizen signing onto documents like this actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...
actionnetwork.org
Demand the Immediate Release of Palestinian Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil from DHS detention
On the evening of March 8, 2025, Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil was detained by the Department of Homeland Security. The arrest comes on the heels of the Department of State’s ann...
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Noelle @finallynoelle.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Might save a life.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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The first transgender suicide hotline is now up and running in the U.S. You can reach Trans Lifeline at 877-565-8860
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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 06/03/2025
No one is better at capturing this moment (and how the Dems are failing to meet it) than @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social. inthesetimes.com/article/stat...
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devonsawa.bsky.social @devonsawa.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Gay rights doesn’t affect your shitty lives at all you fucking ghouls.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Undocumented immigrants paid about $26 billion per year into Social Security, even though they will get nothing out of it. They subsidize citizens to an extraordinary degree. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/b...
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How Unauthorized Immigrants Help Finance Social Security Benefits
Undocumented workers often pay taxes that help fund programs like Social Security — even if they can’t collect from them in the future.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Five alarm fire. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
the "purity" argument is such bullshit and it pisses me all the way off because it suggests they offered us 99% of what we want and we walked cause we demanded 100%. The reality is we asked for 1% of what we wanted and they told us to eat shit and fall in line
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Halaylah Mekoides Trecorum Satis Dee @halaylah.com · 24/02/2025
I've been screaming this for years.
"Listen, if a Bad President can come in and take away our rights and we're dependent on a Good President replacing them in four years to give us back our rights, then we do not have any rights.

"If politicians can take or distribute them, then they're not 'inalienable' and they're not 'rights.'

"We don't have inalienable rights we have conditional privileges, divvied out according to the whims of whoever currently holds the reins.

"And if we want to have actual rights, then we must build a system in which no one has the power to take them away to begin with."
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23/02/2025
A lot of people who’ve posted that “I don’t know how to explain that you should care about other people” quote need to know that they should care about other people. I want my tax dollars to go to paying for insulin for the most vile MAGA asshole you ever heard of; that’s part of “everyone”.
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Hell Frasier: Bloodline @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
the way to stop people doing nazi shit is to create an environment where doing nazi shit immediately gets you jumped by six guys, do not pass go, ass kicking first and ask questions later. every goth & punk bar on god's gay earth already figured this out in the 90s
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
We set up a concentration camp for asylum seekers in the Panama jungle. We set up a concentration camp for asylum seekers in the Panama jungle. We set up a concentration camp for asylum seekers in the Panama jungle.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc
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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
forgot i made this
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
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ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Superman IS the subversion of the trope, and those who subvert Superman usually whiff it because they don’t understand that. “What if power was evil?” is not a question any human needs answered for them. We encounter it every day. “What if power was benevolent?” is the thought experiment.
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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
To spell it out, the reason I hate democrats so much and criticize them more than I do republicans is because they take up all the space for opposition to republicans and use that space to give republicans whatever the fuck they want.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I keep seeing this. Guys, their literal job is to figure out what to do. They are not helpless even if they are not the majority. I really hope we can stop treating some of the most powerful people in the world as helpless and without sentience.
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Raysident Evil @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 15/02/2025
You don't get to be a billionaire and also be loved, or even liked, or even remotely in touch with being human. Every billionaire has made their decision, and makes it every day they keep hoarding wealth. Lonely, miserable fucks whose passing would be universally celebrated.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 13/02/2025
Yes, we let a rich idiot nobody elected destroy the entire government, but it was that or make rich people pay taxes so that poor people could go to the doctor
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 13/02/2025
glad someone is finally saying it lol
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Bill Burr Says Billionaires Should Be Put Down Like Rabid Dogs
Bill Burr doesn't want to eat the rich ... but he does want to kill them.
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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
unpaid forced labor is legal if you're incarcerated-->homelessness is made illegal-->economy is crashed on purpose --> shitload of people out of work --> "anti dei" laws effectively forbid hiring minorities --> private prisons own "assets" (labor performed by prisoners) --> chattel slavery is back
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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/02/2025
FTC.Gov Redirects Users To Latvian Sports Gambling Site
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
First, the activist ‘overreach’ mostly consisted of low-stakes, cherry-picked anecdotes. The police were not defunded. Words were not banned. White men were not barred from college. The backlash is responding to the *possibility* of social change, not actual change.
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Preston Butler @oldredghost.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Seems bad
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