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Facts Not Fakes

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Child of 🇭🇺 immigrants escaping death by dictators. Now in a plutokakistocracy. 🇺🇸 Stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦 #NAFO #NAFOCatsDivision #Resist A dick of a cat was my BFF. In a normal world: ❤️ animals, science, nature, politics, art, humor (mostly snarky), empathy.

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Facts Not Fakes @cuetheclowns.bsky.social · Dec 4

Hi!
If I haven’t followed you yet, I’m not ignoring you.
I vet ALL followers; it’s slow going with my aged eyes.
And- I’m not used to this!
After 1 week I had as many followers as my 2+ yrs with current TwiXter account; after 2 weeks, more than my suspended 13 yr old account.
I see you.
Thanks!
❤️🦋

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Facts Not Fakes @cuetheclowns.bsky.social · 14h

Probably not the first, but likely the first with the big media and megachurch uproar.

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digitalscorpyun🦂 @digitalscorpyun.bsky.social · 21h

I’m in. A Teletubby brigade would be adorable—and it would reboot the old Falwell/Tinky Winky panic in glorious PBS HD.

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Facts Not Fakes @cuetheclowns.bsky.social · 14h

Yes indeed.
My snarky heart is filled with gratitude for all the people who remember that.
The “Tinky Wink is gay” uproar seems almost quaint in comparison to what’s going on these days.

Facts Not Fakes @cuetheclowns.bsky.social · 14h

Yes indeed.
Jerry Falwell went berserk over Tinky Wink’s color and the purple triangle.
Just the icing atop the cake of a Teletubby army.

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Facts Not Fakes @cuetheclowns.bsky.social · 14h

Oh, yes. I remember.
I figured too many wouldn’t, or weren’t born yet, so I didn’t include that extra bit of 🖕🏽.
So happy people picked up on it!

a purple teletubbies carrying a red bag in a field

ALT: a purple teletubbies carrying a red bag in a field

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Facts Not Fakes @cuetheclowns.bsky.social · 14h

Yup. Thank you for that explanation!
That was another reason, although I figured too many people might not remember, or may not have been born yet.
Tinky Wink stole the spotlight from the other three, but it was glorious.

a purple teletubbies doll is wearing a purple tutu and flying through the air .

ALT: a purple teletubbies doll is wearing a purple tutu and flying through the air .

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Facts Not Fakes @cuetheclowns.bsky.social · 14h

🤣😂
We all let some slip by.

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kristinepdx.bsky.social @kristinepdx.bsky.social · 16h

Unicorn bride marries Kenny from South Park at Portland ICE protest - oregonlive.com share.google/sPXZAuzG4bwv...

Oregon Local News, Breaking News, Sports & Weather

Get the latest Oregon local news, sports, weather, entertainment and breaking updates on oregonlive.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 23h

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

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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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 1d

It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 14h

One of JD Vance’s admitted gurus, Curtis Yarvin, says he’s thinking about fleeing the country because Trump hasn’t dismantled enough of America’s democratic institutions and he fears “vengeance.” Let that sink in when you think about who’s running the country.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 19h

9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"

In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation

Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
📹bokareva.solovey.m

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Slava Bonkus #ElonSucksSoHard @bonkski.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit…😮
Trump is the Antichrist after all!!!🤣🤣🤣

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

I recently sat down with three leaders who are part of the @obamafoundation.bsky.social's alumni network to hear more about their work to strengthen democracy in Hungary and Poland. They’re an example for us all. Take a look:

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants: You Deserved Better

A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants

We appreciate what you did for America

robertreich.substack.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Writing something about ICE and sweet Jesus it is so incredibly dark what they are doing to these cities. We have all seen the videos, but when you wade into the details of their actions, it is extraordinarily bleak.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s not forget that every single Republican who stands by and enables Donald Trump could stop this recklessness today, tomorrow or any damn day of the week. Their failure—their refusal—to do so makes them complicit in his crimes and the crimes of his corrupt, lawless regime.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

One evil man who murders civilians from his own and other countries consoles another evil man who murders civilians from his own and other countries for not getting an award for which neither evil man is even remotely deserving.

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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 1d

"So we will erase all of Ukraine off the face of the earth. What difference does it make to the West?"

Fascist Russia is waging a genocidal war of aggression to annihilate the Ukrainian nation.

via @juliadavisnews.bsky.social

youtu.be/Ghan_f7wU_I

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Facts Not Fakes @cuetheclowns.bsky.social · 1d

An army of frogs making their amphibian landing at the Battle of Portland.
Godspeed.

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bennythesnitch.bsky.social @bennythesnitch.bsky.social · 1d

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

Fat Satan got his COVID booster shot yesterday. If he doesn’t listen to his Trumpshit-crazy HHS Secretary, why should we?

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 1d

It’s remarkable to realize Diane Keaton created a signature look and sensibility back in the 1970s and for about half a century continued to be a creative inspiration for how to be yourself in a world that tries so hard to put you in a box. Well done, Diane Keaton. RIP.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

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MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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