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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 13h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 7h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 7h

As Kevin correctly notes, this is a template straight from the playbook of the Caesars. It's how the republic became the principate, and how the principate later became the dominate. A military dependent on no other institution except the patronage of the emperor.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 9h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 9h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I think he’ll 100% pre-record his own death announcement. No way he trusts any of these goons to fluff his ego after death the way he can fluff it himself

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · Jan 9

Who up wandering around like Théoden King muttering hauntedly "how did it come to this"?

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 1d

Who is it? It definitely looks like Vance in the eyes

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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 2d

here's what appears to be the full video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4L7...

Alex Jones and The Kirkinator visit Agartha

YouTube video by THE DΛRK LORD

www.youtube.com

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 2d

Perfect first book

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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 2d

macros baby

Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 2d

maybe entrusting our nation's health policy to intactivist Tollund Man was bad guys

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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 2d

autism is stored in the female cloaca

Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 2d

deranged space people wrote this, there can be no other explanation. reptilian mole person take

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 2d

I was working on the story and he just came out and said it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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TheStoneColdNuts @thestonecoldnuts.bsky.social · 2d

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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 2d

I do not have strong feelings on Hasan, but the shock collar denial among his fans is crazy. Shock collars are popular products that millions of people use thoughtlessly! It’s very obviously a shock collar in the video! But no, my fav streamer bro couldn’t have done anything mundanely problematic.

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 2d

At some point in the last 2.5 years I went to bed thinking of Israel as a flawed but recoverable democracy that could work out its issues eventually post-Netanyahu and woke up holding it in the same disdain as Milošević’s Yugoslavia and the Confederate States

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3d

Apropos absolutely nothing else there is still a rather rude awakening which is yet to come for those in the Democratic Party and in the camp of liberalism writ large if they think Israel's public image is at all recoverable among young and nonwhite voters and apparatchiks.

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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 2d

just look at it man use your eyes it's right there

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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 2d

it's unambiguously a shock collar and you can just watch the video, not very personally invested in whether you're ride or die for Hasan or not have a good one

Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 2d

He tried to show the collar later, but it's a model that only comes as an electrical shock collar, and he had clearly cut the prongs off and covered it with electrical tape.

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