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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · Mar 31

Vote like your best mate is indigenous, your daughter is gay, your uncle is on NDIS, your brother is on the poverty line, your neighbour is an immigrant and your kids have to live on this planet for decades after you leave.

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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 21m

So good

PapaTJ 🤗 🌈 @papatj.bsky.social · 14h

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Craig R. Brittain @craigbrittain.com · 1d

Amy Poehler is Pam Bondi: SNL Cold Open)

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LorriefromCanada @lorriefmp.bsky.social · 14h

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 2h

Priest Michael Pfelger calls out Trump: “We got a dictator in the White House. He's a fascist who works on bullying, threatening, and intimidating Pope Leo’s hometown.”

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 17h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 1h

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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 1h

I’ve never really had a good opinion of America but I am still shocked at the current state of affairs there

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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 1h

Find this man. Make him pay.

It’s time to make ICE afraid. All of them. All the time

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d

ICE agents to US citizen: Turn around or you're getting the dog.

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✰˚* Cheryl ˚* ✰ @exhaustedbluegirl.bsky.social · 18h

Déjà vu on steroids 🤔🫣😳

Brian J. Karem @briankarem.bsky.social · 1d

One of the first MAD Magazines I ever bought.
Found it in a used book store in the D.C. area today.
Funny then - Funny and sad now.

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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 1h

What the fuck is wrong with that country. Shameful moral bankruptcy.

hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 2h

They say he had “an interaction “ with the police, which could cover almost anything, including an officer asking him for the time. He has been transferred to Virginia, where he is sleeping on a concrete floor “with an aluminum sheet as a blanket.” His mother has not seen him.

He is THIRTEEN.

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Blue Axeman @blueaxeman.bsky.social · 12h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

Translation: they gave him a plane and filled his family’s pockets

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 3h

Love this so much
📸 Respective Collective

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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 5h

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Mark Somers @marksomers.bsky.social · 6h

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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 5h

Please stop this performative nonsense.

Prepare for the fight you are in.

The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 5h

He’d treat George better if he were a sofa

The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 5h

My biggest problem with JD Vance is his belligerent and unwavering intention to continue breathing

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

STEPHANOPOULOS: Did Tom Homan give the $50,000 back?

VANCE: He did not take a bribe. It's a ridiculous smear

STEPHANOPOULOS: You didn't answer the question

VANCE: Did he accept $50,000? I'm sure that in the course of Homan's life, he's been paid more than $50k for services.

(So, no, he didn't)

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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 5h

is ai a risk to . it is youtu.be/gIxq03dipUw?...

ChatGPT in a robot does exactly what experts warned

YouTube video by InsideAI

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 6h

The ALP might as well merge with the Minerals Council of Australia

Miners to get an early look at Labor’s new green laws

Tom Rabe
WA political correspondent
Oct 12, 2025 – 3.26pm

The Albanese government will give mining companies and other stakeholders draft extracts of its environmental protection laws before they go to parliament, as Environment Minister Murray Watt tries to rebuild trust after earlier negotiations on the reforms collapsed in acrimony.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 5h

Would just like to state for the record that the stock market has never even once been an indicator of how I’m actually doing in any way ever so

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 6h

I feel like today is a good day to remind everyone that just last year Barnaby Joyce called on a crowd of cookers to say “goodbye” to 3 Labor MPs inc the PM by getting ready to “load that magazine” & think of a “bullet” when casting their vote.
And received no penalty or censure.

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