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piquedpensioner.bsky.social @piquedpensioner.bsky.social · 1h

Take time to read Giuffre's posthumous excerpt.

Understand how apex predators leveraged poverty, trauma history, dissociation, threats & drug use to control, rape & pimp underage girls.

No pardon for Maxwell.
Release all Epstein-related files.
Vile people.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 1h

The "don't call us Nazis" crowd sure has a lot of swastikas

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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piquedpensioner.bsky.social @piquedpensioner.bsky.social · 2h

BMW, Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen, Porsche, Siemens, Bayer, Deutsche Bank, Lufthansa, IG Farben, Krupp, Merck & many others also decided that it was their "moral imperative" to be nice & "good for business."
www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

Mark Cuban Would Still Have Dinner With Donald Trump

The billionaire investor campaigned for Kamala Harris, but thinks tech execs have a “moral imperative” to play nice with the president. Why? It’s good business.

www.wired.com

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piquedpensioner.bsky.social @piquedpensioner.bsky.social · 2h

CBP/ICE/DHS's rationalizations will get darker.
Lacking any dissonance, their conscience, diminishing.
Lacking substantive conscience, their behavior, more brutal.

Whether by their relatives and/or victims coming forward or AI-driven recognition, there must be eventual accountability for thugs.
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piquedpensioner.bsky.social @piquedpensioner.bsky.social · 2h

Like ordinary Nazis who did horrific things, not because they were psychopaths lacking conscience like some, but w/ conscience so warped they could convince themselves they were doing something righteous, patriotic, even Christian.
(Jim Jordan: Lord's work)
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image

Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

www.theguardian.com

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piquedpensioner.bsky.social @piquedpensioner.bsky.social · 4h

Just say "Columbus." They really, really like that vile guy.

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piquedpensioner.bsky.social @piquedpensioner.bsky.social · 4h

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piquedpensioner.bsky.social @piquedpensioner.bsky.social · 5h

They are so confident that they will rewrite J6 history.
So it's not oblivious hypocrisy.
It's in-your-face lying & hypocrisy as fascist power move.
It's a corollary to: Rules/laws/decency are for others, not for us.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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piquedpensioner.bsky.social @piquedpensioner.bsky.social · 6h

One great-grandfather fought insurrectionists at Vicksburg.
One great-grandfather fought insurrectionists at Gettysburg.
Five uncles & f-i-l fought fascists in WW2.

But, further back, was a Hessian who stayed.
Hey, he was WHITE & fought for a KING!
So my immigrant past might STILL be ok by MAGA.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 13h

The nativist right keeps talking about “heritage Americans.” It's a buzzword engineered to move the goalposts on immigration even further, argues @alibreland.bsky.social.

Are You a ‘Heritage American’?

Why the far right wants to know if your ancestors were here during the Civil War.

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 8h

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 7h

The Torch is passed:

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 9h

I was a Young Republican for a brief time in the 1980s (for real). I promise you they talked like this back then. They didn’t know I was Jewish, so the Holocaust jokes flowed freely. It all helped radicalize me against the right.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

“Epithets like “f----t,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined”

If you ever had any doubt that the youth wing of the GOP is fully radicalized and proudly racist these days:

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10h

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

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Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · Jul 27

Mood

Cartoon: 'Hook, Line, and Sinker'

A large tuna wearing a red cap hangs in mid-ocean. All of its flesh has been eaten except for its head; it's mostly fins and skeleton. Despite this, the fish says "This is fine".

Meanwhile a shark, some distance in the background, with meat in its teeth, is saying "Look what those people did to you!" and belches.
The tuna is labeled 'average American' and the shark 'Trump administration'.
This is a ham-fisted way of highlighting how immigrants, trans people, and various other groups are still being scapegoated while Trump's people strip the nation down to its bones.

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Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · Jun 12

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 1d

Medal of Freedom to be awarded to Kirk

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 20h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 20h

Republicans: Shooting Christian pastors is OK, Due process is overrated, & bombing Venezuelan boats is good!

Young Republicans: We love H*tler, we should gas everyone who doesn't support us

Democrats: No Kings, No H*tler

Republicans: See that?? Democrats keep escalating the political rhetoric.

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Paulley Ticks @tomadelsbach.bsky.social · 22h

Fixed it.

#DonaldTrump #Time

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

If we write off all news media, we’re playing into Trump’s hands. Some outlets are doing well while others stink.
In this installment of my free Stop the Presses newsletter, I give letter grades to major media outlets. See if you agree.

I’m handing out pro-democracy grades to the media

The Guardian gets an A, the NY Times gets a C, CBS gets an F

www.stopthepresses.news

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piquedpensioner.bsky.social @piquedpensioner.bsky.social · 1d

Despite Trump's dementia, he has the inhibitory reflex to keep talking only about her "lips" in public. Still very creepy. Like his Meloni comments. Still less uninhibited than his profoundly creepy comments about Ivanka's "tits" & "ass" in private in the Oval.
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

Trump, 79, Can’t Stop Talking About Karoline Leavitt’s Lips

The president has a history of discussing his 28-year-old press secretary’s looks.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 1d

“WHERE’S MY MEDAL?!!!!”

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d

“‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat *** Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.”

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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