Alex
@purplechrain.bsky.social
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limited wit & the worst lines in Pundom | za’atar & insulin enthusiast | sporadically @singlesjukebox.bsky.social | MTL expat in Toronto with bagel opinions & T1D | crim appellate law | Jew for a Free Palestine | DuJour means seatbelts | 38🏳️‍🌈✡️
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purplechrain.bsky.social
to misquote @kierongillen.bsky.social: I don’t believe in modern love, but do believe in ‘This Modern Love’.
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persian-slipper.bsky.social
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.
dawnxianamoon.bsky.social
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.
maryrobinettekowal.com
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Congress has not authorized the use of military force.
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dawnxianamoon.bsky.social
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.
maryrobinettekowal.com
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Congress has not authorized the use of military force.
adapalmer.bsky.social
Attention I ask from all the sacred people, greater and lesser offspring of Heimdall! Congress has not authorized the use of military force.
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nora.zone
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.
parsnip.bsky.social
why is sentence two in every story not "congress has not authorized the use of military force"
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tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”
Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs". There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."
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cmgiulini.bsky.social
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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tyleraking.com
This is just so very, very illegal. And Republicans in Congress aren’t the least bit interested in controlling the purse. They’re just employees of trump org at taxpayer expense. This is a dictatorship.
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adnroy.bsky.social
I feel like this would be an excellent time to remind everyone about the giant frog who taught Rabbi Hanina Torah.
The dish was set upon the Seder table, and when Rabbi Hanina opened it, he found a second dish within, and inside of this a live frog, jumping and hopping around gleefully. He gave the frog food and drink, and by the end of the festival he was grown so big that Rabbi Hanina made a cabinet for him, in which he ate and lived. In the course of time, the cabinet became too small, and the Rabbi built a chamber, put the frog within, and gave him abundant food and drink. All this he did that he might not violate his father's last wish. But the frog waxed and grew; he consumed all his host owned, until, finally, Rabbi Hanina was stripped bare of all his possessions. Then the frog opened his mouth and began to speak. "My dear Rabbi Hanina," he said, "do not worry! Seeing thou didst raise me and care for me, thou mayest ask of me whatever thy heart desireth, and it shall be granted thee." Rabbi Hanina made reply, "I desire naught but that thou shouldst teach me the whole of the Torah." The frog assented, and he did, indeed, teach him the whole of the Torah, and the seventy languages of men besides. His method was
purplechrain.bsky.social
also wait. costumeS plural? how many outfits did you bring back for him from Japan?
purplechrain.bsky.social
not unhappily! just give him buildings to destroy that are filled with tasty salmon treats or something
purplechrain.bsky.social
is it not streaming anywhere?
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figgityfigs.bsky.social
Pretty worrying that the only solution to a blatant violation of the Appropriations Clause is the political one that will not happen. Everybody goes on about how we can’t have a system based on norms but it’s turning out a critical mass views adherence to the rule of law as a norm.
paleofuture.bsky.social
Trump says he’s ordered Hegseth to pay the troops during the government shutdown.

“We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS.”
Trump: Chuck Schumer recently said, "Every day gets better" during their Radical Left Shutdown. I DISAGREE! If nothing is done, because of
"Leader" Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, our Brave Troops will miss the paychecks they are rightfully due on October 15th. That is why I am using my authority, as Commander in Chief, to direct our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to use all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th. We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS. I will not allow the Democrats to hold our Military, and the entire Security of our Nation, HOSTAGE, with their dangerous Government Shutdown. The Radical Left Democrats should OPEN THE GOVERNMENT, and then we can work together to address Healthcare, and many other things that they want to destroy. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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10/11/25, 10:35 AM
purplechrain.bsky.social
Is your family opposed to you getting massages?
purplechrain.bsky.social
I promise that you can criticize Israel for being a shitty genocidal country without making yourself angry over mediocre photoshop memes and abandoning all of your critical thinking skills.
purplechrain.bsky.social
Critical thinking online is….not anyone’s strong point, apparently.
purplechrain.bsky.social
Sure, but also, it’s a screenshot purporting to be from a Jewish food website promoting shrimp and pork, so maybe the fact that Israel is a shitty genocidal country doesn’t entirely explain people being that gullible.
purplechrain.bsky.social
Yes, I understand the meme, but the Bluesky Gumbo post is being shared by a lot of very angry people who think that Jews are stealing pork and shrimp from Louisiana.
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marisakabas.bsky.social
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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skullmandible.bsky.social
"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades
purplechrain.bsky.social
People are literally just photoshopping random foods.