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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 1d

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 21d

Birthdays, when you have a physicist in the family.

A cartoon of two stickers sitting under a tree with one saying:

"Of the four dimensions I could have spent my life being pushed inexorably forward through, I guess "time" isn't the worst."

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 16h

Hey, what was happening in Germany in the 1930s? I forget.

James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
For those who actually respect history, the origin story of Antifa is well documented. Antifa is an organization that emerged with the “German Communist Antifaschistische Aktion” movement in the 1930’s.
German Communists smeared anyone to their right as "fascists,” a common ploy used by the ignorant hysterical activists of the Democrat Party today. Like today’s leftist loonies, the German Antifa of the Weimar years even labeled the leftwing SDP as "social fascists." Today’s Antifa are a paramilitary mob used by the usual suspects to foment fake “mass protests” and burn down cities. The same puppet masters of the Democrat activist judges ruining America today also fund these “useful idiots” of Antifa to impede the mandate given to the current President in his landslide last election victory.

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 14h

Trump has turned the media upside down. As part of bending the knee to the Mad King, the billionaire-owned media is stretching "bothsidesism" to the point of parody, so it is left to the professional satirists like the @theonion.com to report the actual truth of what is happening in America.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 15h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 1d

Q: Now that the #GazaGenocide has turned global public opinion against Israeli apartheid and war crimes what is the future of the Israel's long-standing "Hasbara" propaganda campaign?

A: ChatGPT! (Whose CEO Sam Altman is an ardent Zionist.)

Report: Israel to spend over half a billion shekels turning ChatGPT into public diplomacy tool

Foreign Ministry’s $145 million global campaign enlists US firms, influencers, and AI platforms like ChatGPT to shape pro-Israel narratives online and counter growing criticism among young Americans

www.ynetnews.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 18h

FILE UNDER: News, very bad #ClimateSky

"Many of the seeps were found at sites that had been repeatedly studied before, suggesting they were new. This may indicate a “fundamental shift” in the methane released in the region, according to the report."

Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...

www.cnn.com

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 19h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 3d

RESOURCE: Hilarious and helpful culture jam of the Christian pamphlet motif to explain renewable energy is from heaven while fossil fuels are from hell. Downloadable comic pamphlet from movement memesters Andrew Boyd & Gan Golan. #ClimateSky 🔌💡

www.energyfromheaven.com

Energy from Heaven

www.energyfromheaven.com

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump regime is allowing a foreign power - Qatar-- to build an airbase in Idaho!? First they let Israeli bomb them and then they give them a piece of Idaho? Wow... Trumpian geopolitics are getting strange

Trump admin sparks MAGA fury with Qatari Air Force base in US—"betrayed"

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the U.S. has approved a Qatari Air Force base in Idaho.

www.newsweek.com

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 1d

Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to report that the antifascist frogs made famous in the streets of (a very much NOT burning, non hell-scape) Portland are on bluesky. FOLLOW THEM @frogtifa.bsky.social

Soon there will be frogs rising up to fight MAGA fascism across this proud land. #WeAreAllAntifa #NoKings

escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 3d

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

Hot new item. Flying off the shelves.

Silence 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @b-dogood.bsky.social · 1d

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 3d

25 years of analysis confirms what many frontline, indigenous and climate justice groups have been loudly saying for that whole 25 years: climate offsets are a scam meant to mask the obvious reality that we must stop burning fossil fuels. #ClimateSky 🔌💡

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 2d

Useful 🧵 with quotes from yesterday's bizarre Whitehouse spectacle of using fear-mongering and lies to try and justify massive state repression against people who are against FASCISM.

So if they are against people who are against fascism, what does that tell us about what they are for? #NoKings

Sha Merirei @merirei.com · 3d

🧵 Trump’s “Antifa Roundtable” was supposed to be about safety.Instead, it was a live-action paranoia spiral—starring officials, influencers, and a script that sounds more like a dictatorship trailer than a democracy briefing. 🧵

Title slide for “The Antifa Roundtable.” A photo of Trump seated at a long table in the White House surrounded by guests. Overlaid text reads: “Yet another @Merirei-made carousel. The Antifa Roundtable. It was supposed to be about ‘safety,’ it became a live-action paranoia spiral. Critics are hailing it as a masterpiece… of sh*t!”

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

Re-upping this piece I wrote a month ago, which becomes ever more relevant as Trump's tyranny worsens, as masked thugs keep terrorizing immigrants, and as the "Justice" Department keeps inventing charges against political opponents.
I ask: WHY WON'T THE MEDIA SAY TRUMP IS BECOMING A DICTATOR?

Why won’t the media say Trump is becoming a dictator?

Journalism is the wrong profession for people who won’t face the facts

www.stopthepresses.news

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 1d

Q: Now that the #GazaGenocide has turned global public opinion against Israeli apartheid and war crimes what is the future of the Israel's long-standing "Hasbara" propaganda campaign?

A: ChatGPT! (Whose CEO Sam Altman is an ardent Zionist.)

Report: Israel to spend over half a billion shekels turning ChatGPT into public diplomacy tool

Foreign Ministry’s $145 million global campaign enlists US firms, influencers, and AI platforms like ChatGPT to shape pro-Israel narratives online and counter growing criticism among young Americans

www.ynetnews.com

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump regime is allowing a foreign power - Qatar-- to build an airbase in Idaho!? First they let Israeli bomb them and then they give them a piece of Idaho? Wow... Trumpian geopolitics are getting strange

Trump admin sparks MAGA fury with Qatari Air Force base in US—"betrayed"

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the U.S. has approved a Qatari Air Force base in Idaho.

www.newsweek.com

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David Pomerantz @davidpomerantz.bsky.social · 1d

This is the last bill sitting on Gov. Newsom's desk that can lower utility bills from this session. Utilities are lobbying furiously against it.

If you’re from California and want to register your opinion about AB 1167, call the Gov. at (916) 445-2841.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

There's a bill on Gavin Newsom's desk right now that would stop monopoly utility companies from adding the costs of their lobbying and PR campaigns into customers' bills.

It's unclear if Newsome will sign the bill, despite 93% of voters agreeing with its premise.

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 3d

The fact that U.S. media outlets are NOT making Trump's increasingly ridiculous lies into a major story is an alarming sign of how far our country has slid into authoritarianism.

Which is why Dems and all of us should be organizing attention-grabbing actions to expose Trump's blatant power grab.

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure if your question was meant for me or more rhetorical but personally I've been fighting fascism, fossil fuels and lots of other bad staff for almost 30 years including not only in Trump I but in all the "petroliberal" Democratic administrations too. Not sure why you would assume otherwise?

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 2d

REMINDER: The Trump regime aren't just fascists, they are PETROfascists. #ClimateSky 🔌💡

New Report Examines Fossil Fuel Ties of Dozens of Trump Administration Hires - Inside Climate News

Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project found 43 former fossil fuel industry employees among nominees and appointees to agencies charged with enforcing energy and environmental policy.

insideclimatenews.org

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 5d

REMINDER: Arson is a crime, particularly when you are burning a whole planet and threatening our collective future.

The new Climate Criminals Directory names all the arsonists driving the Trump regime's petrofascism. #ClimateSky 🔌💡
www.climatecriminals.org/climatecrimi...

RUNNING OUT THE CLOCK
IT'S TIME TO NAME NAMES
The individuals delaying climate action and financing the climate crisis must be held accountable.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 2d

Approximately 8% of US cocaine comes through the eastern Caribbean (and virtually none of it involves fentanyl). Conversely, about 74% of US cocaine comes up the Pacific coast from Ecuador and Colombia. Trump’s objectives in Venezuela aren’t about drugs.

Why Blowing Up Venezuelan Boats Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs (Gift Article)

President Trump says striking drug traffickers from Venezuela will prevent deadly drugs from reaching the United States. But the major smuggling routes are elsewhere.

www.nytimes.com

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