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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 10h

every ICE agent is an irredeemable thug

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 13h

“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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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 11h

[the marshal of poland sending an urgent telegram] "i need you to find 11,780 well-fed conscripts"

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 11h

lucky break to avoid putting all that wear and tear on your throwing arm, might have wound up with an injury that hindered your ability to grind your favorite MMOs

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 12h

why do you keep giving the GOP majority unanimous consent thereby making it easy for them to help trump advance his fascist agenda?

peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 14h

can't help but think of how oliver stone tried to mock depraved finance bros with the cartoonishly evil character of gordon gekko—a villain named after a cold-blooded lizard! not subtle!—but somehow a generation of media illiterate MBAs decided being a predatory bastard was an aspirational goal

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 21h

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

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Rust Momster @cambrianera.radical.town · 15h

I think the fact that we allowed cops to lie openly with no real consequences is part of How We Got Here. If the people with the ability to shoot others in the street are allowed to lie about it, you can't expect other officials to abide by a higher standard.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 16h

Members of Congress should be on the streets of DC—where many of them live! —putting their bodies between these law-abiding citizens and ICE. Congress should be demanding names, and promising ICE will be prosecuted when US democracy is re-established.

But they are not—b/c they think it polls badly.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 18h

nice to see that Munehisa Iwai's airsoft shop has become so successful that's he partnered with variety stores who want to sell his merchandise

peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 18h

every tech exec trying to force AI to happen has the same energy of the degenerate gambler who's dumped their mortgage payment into a slot machine and is loudly telling anyone who will listen that *this time* they're gonna hit the jackpot

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 19h

when did kid rock turn into dollar store brand dale earnhardt?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 19h

This alone should get him impeached and subsequently prosecuted and it’s barely even a story

Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 19h

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 1d

we have an emoji on gary's discord that's just one of the member's cats doing this exact pose

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 1d

having recently completed Persona 5 i can say this is absolutely true. the final journey that you make through the town to say farewell to everyone had me a little choked up

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is pretty much true and why it’s important not just to defund police but also diminish their political power. Everything cops do is politics.

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

i think this fundamentally misstates the constraint: if he uses the police to directly obstruct ICE operations, he gets hit with the Insurrection Act. if he puts the cops in a position where they have to choose which orders to follow, they will currently not pick the governor.

starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 1d

this kind of wishcasting around pritzker ignores that he hasn't once wielded the power of the state in a creative way since DHS and ICE invaded us

the rhetoric's good and he plays a governor on TV very well, but there's no evidence of a capacity for clever use of power, unfortunately