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L @banalplay.bsky.social · Apr 30

It's 1925. I'm leanin' against this lamppost on the lookout for dames who are lookin for trouble. I start flipping a quarter. I catch her eye. I fumble the quarter and it rolls into a sewer grate. I have lost the equivalent of thirty thousand dollars.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 3h

You gotta fucking tax these people man. You can't let people get this rich.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 3h

The world's richest man, and owner of one of the largest social media platforms, is funding white supremacists seeking to undermine democracy everywhere he can. www.huffpost.com/entry/tommy-...

Far-Right UK Activist ‘Tommy Robinson’ Says Elon Musk Is Funding His Latest Legal Fight

Musk recently appeared by videolink at a massive London rally hosted by the anti-Islam activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.

www.huffpost.com

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1h

*struggling to remember Charlie Kirk's name* I think it was...

Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 1h

Charlie Christian Bully
www.findagrave.com/memorial/267...

Charlie Christian Bully (1910-1998) - Find a Grave...

Obituary found here: https://peninsulagenealogy.wordpress.com/charlie-bully/

www.findagrave.com

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · Aug 25

If you've ever tried to write any sort of fiction you learned early on that villains who do things for the sheer evil of it are considered unrealistic. Or at least they were.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 12h

that's just original hoover

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

Four decades wrongfully incarcerated isn’t punishment enough for these sadistic fucks.

Tricia McLaughlin
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Burglary, carrying a firearm without a license, drug trafficking—break the law, you will face the consequences.

Having a single conviction vacated when you have a laundry list of criminal charges will not stop ICE’s enforcement of the federal immigration laws.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 16h

I'm fine as hell

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 17h

“her critically reviewed single”

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 23h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1d

Weiss is so off putting the people who platformed Megan McMcain for like a decade told her no thanks. Before being made into a martyr Kirk was known for being the weird looking guy who once wore a diaper. They're flexing on us demonstrating how they can make anyone influential with the right support

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss puts a lot of evil out into the world but, like Charlie Kirk, if it wasn't them it would be someone else with the same backing. Neither is/was charismatic nor even photogenic. They just have the backing of the people who decide which views are legitimate and amplified.

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Illiterate Autodidact 🇵🇸🙂👍🇮🇱☹👎 @cigaretteliker.bsky.social · 1d

The virgin AGI existential risk vs the chad global warming

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1d

“i hate cops” now replace cops with women. not so funny, is it?

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 1d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

how do health care premiums just double? where are these alleged efficiencies, or even our share of these vaunted efficiencies

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1d

One of the most annoying social media behaviors is random person who says something condescending or outright insulting to a larger account and then plays the little birthday boy routine when the inevitable happens. ideally you'd be treated that way when you talk like that to profiles of any size

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1d

it's crazy how few dems are using words like consequences or justice still

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

We have an important Gil update

Gil, a big tabby cat, looking up over the back of a porch chair. He is in the middle of meowing and is raising one paw.

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Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 2d

If democrats weren’t also so married to nakedly corrupt insider trading like the stuff done by Pelosi they could run on anti-corruption and win in landslides.

Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 3d

Man what a lucky guess.........

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 2d

Bampton lying on the top level of a bookshelf, looking at the camera and with her tail in trademark friendly upright position

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 2d

can you imagine just sitting down to plan this and not feeling any shame or hesitation. seeing jane goodall on the tv as you’re doing it and how her thing was gorillas and yours is getting ready to deport a guy who’s been wrongly imprisoned since reagan’s first term

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 2d

Headlines from the richest country in the history of countries

A bunch of stories about 80-year-olds still having to work in order to make ends meet. Also, for some reason, one about people over 80 who are "using AI more than you."

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

“This immigration issue is a remnant of Subu’s original case. Since that wrongful conviction has now been officially vacated and all charges against Subu have been dismissed, we have asked the immigration court to reopen the case and consider the fact that Subu has been exonerated.”

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 3d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 4d

Love that they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to the sentient version of this tweet

Jane
@Whooping_Jane
blonde-haired blue-eyed person named something like Sabine
Mengele-Eichmann: my country, Venezuela, yearns for freedom
1:40 PM • 2/3/19 • Twitter Web Client

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