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BenState @baney84.bsky.social · 12h

Like the more the business of education becomes the business of entertainment and advertising, the more it feels fraudulent and unworthy of my attention.

BenState @baney84.bsky.social · 12h

If @pablo.show wants to find something else out, he should sniff around Penn State, their donors, Adidas and the like. I think some real shit just went down.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13h

this deserves a slow motion replay, incredible cinema

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 13h

NBA refs gonna give them a double tech

Steve Jones @stevejones20.bsky.social · 13h

the greatest moment in tic tac toe history

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15h

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

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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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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1d

the boys who landed at Normandy or fought in Stalingrad couldn't have imagined the horrors of 21st century war

A picture and headline from an article: Unicorn bride marries Kenny from south park at Portland ICE protest

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BenState @baney84.bsky.social · 1d

AI Paterno has to be a pitch by someone right?

BenState @baney84.bsky.social · 1d

This is a fair criticism.

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 1d

The most dangerous form of government is theocracy.

Because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they're on a mission from God.

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Pot Shop Boo @potshopboy.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that I have to capitalize Alfredo and Parmesan but not cheddar or mozzarella is why I have trust issues.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

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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BenState @baney84.bsky.social · 1d

This is objectively slop from the NFL. You saw better and more compelling ball out of almost every college production.

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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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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 2d

We obviously need to deal with the moral decay that allowed this to happen, but we also need to figure out how we continue to live next to people that largely don’t care that things like this happen because of the skin color of the victims.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 2d

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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BenState @baney84.bsky.social · 2d

Fat Man

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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BenState @baney84.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a rough day. Can they fight off the matt like they did against Minnesota?

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 2d

The priest on the right is holding a monstrance. It’s used to display a piece of communion bread — which Catholics believe becomes the literal body of Christ when it’s consecrated — for worship.

A monstrance is normally only used in *very* solemn ceremonies.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 2d

I suspect one reason they hide their identities is to conceal past restraining orders and DV arrests.

Redsky @redsky.pirhoo.com · 2d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

Link | Subreddit

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

www.reddit.com

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 2d

Self-proclaimed leftists determined to pooh-pooh the United Sates fighting the Nazis and Imperial Japan in WWII as not actually a good thing are engaging in absolute loser bitch shit, don't @ me.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2d

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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BenState @baney84.bsky.social · 2d

Simpson looks good.

BenState @baney84.bsky.social · 2d

Salty Talty