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Maraki

@maraki.bsky.social

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I am a Twitter refugee, lifelong Dem 🦋. Had so many fabulous followers 🙏, but it's worth starting from scratch on a saner 💙 platform. Love playing drums 🥁, candlepin bowling, books, movies, photography 📷, nature, animals.

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Maraki @maraki.bsky.social · 2m

The unfortunate thing is that ANTIFA, as great an acronym as it is, is soiled for us when you think about the audience that is being progandized with it. Reclaiming efforts will never be 100%. We own the full word, but we need a new acronym or other key word.

Maraki @maraki.bsky.social · 3h

I don’t know that you want all the details anyway. They’re truly horrific. And the actual mother participated in the abuse in very extreme ways.

Maraki @maraki.bsky.social · 4h

I think they’re all talking about this person who was jailed for child sex abuse, and was killed in prison. I visited the poster’s feed.

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U.K. former singer Ian Watkins dies after prison attack

Disgraced British rocker Ian Watkins, who was a singer in the band Lostprophets before being jailed over child sexual abuse, died after being attacked in prison.

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Maraki @maraki.bsky.social · 4h

Would love to know who created this. This deserves a credit.

Maraki @maraki.bsky.social · 4h

Irony is alive and well!

Maraki @maraki.bsky.social · 4h

I’ve been watching him since I was 20 too! (Jersey born, worked in NYC for years.) All MAGAs know and their reality on is The Apprentice.

That show spelled our doom.

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Maraki @maraki.bsky.social · 4h

It also has real and continuing dementia energy.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 7h

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😂😂😂😂😂😂

Maraki @maraki.bsky.social · 4h

Trump’s psychologically disturbing vanity reminds me of “The Little People” episode of The Twilight Zone. Here’s a truncated version. At minute 03:00 you can witness Rod Sterling’s prophetic genius.
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Twilight Zone: The Little People

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Maraki @maraki.bsky.social · 4h

Reminds me of The Little People” episode of The Twilight Zone. Here’s a truncated version. Start at 03:00 to witness Rod Serling’s prophetic genius.

youtu.be/sN1htMBShQ4?...

Twilight Zone: The Little People

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Maraki @maraki.bsky.social · 5h

Sweet, sweet boy!

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Dog leads Florida deputy to missing 86-year-old woman who fell while walking him

A dog named Eeyore turned into a rescuer, leading a Florida sheriff's deputy to where a missing 86-year-old woman had fallen while walking him, bodycam footage shows.

apnews.com

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Maraki @maraki.bsky.social · 14h

Glad they kept them away from an open flame.

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Blood alcohol level

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No words….

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 16h

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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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16h

This Is Fascism

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Maraki @maraki.bsky.social · 14h

This👇👇👇👇👇

Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 19h

So if Russ Vought and Bob Kennedy were deliberately trying on behalf of an enemy to sicken and kill Americans by destroying the public health structure - what would they be doing differently?

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 19h

So if Russ Vought and Bob Kennedy were deliberately trying on behalf of an enemy to sicken and kill Americans by destroying the public health structure - what would they be doing differently?

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Maraki @maraki.bsky.social · 14h

Adorable. I’ve been thinking about getting those raised bowls for my cats. To anyone who has them, do they make a notable difference in eating comfortably?

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

The hush money payoff to Stormy Daniels cost more than house Leticia James bought for her grand niece.

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Maraki @maraki.bsky.social · 18h

Samuel, I get what you're saying, but people aren't averages. I.e., although many more babies and children died back then, that still doesn't change the practical "likelihood" of making it into one's 80s in the 18th c. When the SCOTUS was first formed, a justice's life term was only a decade or so.

Maraki @maraki.bsky.social · 18h

T. Paul, I agree. But I think a lot of us also worry that the files have been scrubbed or destroyed in ways that are unrecoverable. What are your thoughts on that? Or do you think that there are enough copies that altering or destroying them would be futile.