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Amnesiac, educated, Black AF, Sponsored by four LOKO, Florida Man, delightfully out of pocket, father, etc

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betterhumannewname.bsky.social @betterhumannewname.bsky.social · Apr 1

Mothafuckas like @markhamillofficial.bsky.social are telling people to vote and be a part of the resistance, but won't make the sacrifices necessary to combat what they're up against. And for what? Civil society?
Sometimes you gotta cut a mothafucka's head off.

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 1d

Happy No Kings Day y'all

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Greenberg: I have got something to say to Mike Johnson who spent all week smearing regular Americans. There are nearly a dozen No Kings protests happening across your district today.

Since you have not been doing your job for over a month now, I bet you have got time to stop by.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 1d

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 1d

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

White words on a black background read:

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Childhood Best Friend Would Never Make The Cut Now

WATERBURY, VT—Admitting that the bar used to be much, much lower, local 38-year-old Jeremy Griffiths confirmed Tuesday that his childhood best friend Ben Martin would never make the cut now. “If we di...

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 1d

Ukrainian ambush drone hit Russian vehicle after enemy failed attempt to shoot it down.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Drive Through Rich Neighborhood Exposes Dad’s Shortcomings As Provider

ST. LOUIS—According to sources inside the 2006 Honda Civic, area father Michael Lothan’s drive home Wednesday, which took a shortcut through a nearby wealthy neighborhood, exposed his children to his ...

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betterhumannewname.bsky.social @betterhumannewname.bsky.social · 1d

Finally able to give a friend a quick tour of town (campus) as I know it regarding what she would like.
In a single hour, we mapped out 20 or so hours of things to do.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 2d

I found it pretty charming to learn that after Roger Taney died, sitting lawmakers called his death a "victory for liberty and the Constitution," suggested that he was probably burning in hell, and joked (?) that they'd rather hang him in effigy than do literally anything to honor his memory

Roger Taney’s Contemporaries Hated Him As Much As You Probably Do

Ordinarily, members of Congress do not publicly suggest that recently deceased Supreme Court justices are burning in hell. But Roger Taney was no ordinary Supreme Court justice.

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Architecture @architecture.bsky.social · 2d

The Gothic Cloisters at the University of Glasgow

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betterhumannewname.bsky.social @betterhumannewname.bsky.social · 2d

Goes for some lesser games as well. Games, I fear, are becoming too much of an investment of time to enjoy and dictating constant and/or consistent time as well.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 2d

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.

Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 2d

Nuclear apocalypse can’t come soon enough

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Reporter: There are survivors from the latest boat strike. What happens to them?

Rubio: We are not prepared to announce details.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"Technologies purchased by ICE in recent weeks include spyware that can hack into smartphones remotely and cellphone location software that can enable the tracking of a phone’s movements without a court warrant..."

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

Cops led us into the street as the new “protest zone” and then beat us repeatedly.

Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested.

Stay safe out there.

This picture is from about 5 minutes after being hit. A visible bruise is forming on my right cheekbone and by my right eye.

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The Saint of Sinners! @thesaintofsinn1.bsky.social · 2d

Bad tee

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2d

The Santos commutation is a prelude to a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon.

Mark my words.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Padilla: It’s not just undocumented folks who are being detained and arrested. It’s legal immigrants—even US citizens. We know of at least 170 US citizens who have been caught up in these raids and put in detention centers.

It’s the intended effect of this administration to stoke fear and terror

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

During the speech last month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lectured senior military officials on the "warrior ethos," focusing on fitness and grooming standards, and calling out "fat generals."

Hegseth orders troops to watch his speech decrying a 'woke' military

During the speech last month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lectured senior military officials on the "warrior ethos," focusing on fitness and grooming standards, and calling out "fat generals."

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking on MSNBC: Two top criminal lawyers in the Eastern District of Virginia have been fired: Elizabeth Yusi, the criminal chief, and her deputy Kristin Bird. Both had been involved with Letitia James case and were skeptical of it.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

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betterhumannewname.bsky.social @betterhumannewname.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes you gotta let a mothafucka know

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.bsky.social · 4d

If I hear one more sports journalist describe the WNBA media deal as an achievement, I may scream.

This was a deal designed to protect the NBA, and those owners of WNBA teams who are also owners of NBA teams. It grossly undervalues the W.

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