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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 15h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Christopher D. Brown Ph.D. @cdbrow1.bsky.social · 20h

Nobody could have predicted dog killing...

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Trump VP contender Kristi Noem writes of killing dog – and goat – in new book

South Dakota governor includes bloody tale in campaign volume – and admits ‘a better politician … wouldn’t tell the story here’

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 11h

IT'S FASCISM!!

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11h

This really captures the nexus of cruelty and corruption at the core of MAGA:

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Christopher Lewis Kaneff @humanbeinghuman.bsky.social · 6d

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 11h

Wall Street drops to its worst day since April

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Wall Street drops to its worst day since April

twp.ai

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Rabid Badger @rabidbadger.bsky.social · 10h

With a lot of us it’s because they do the *extra* evil to ALSO hurt or kill the pet while destroying the family in their other ways.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20h

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

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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Babsben @babsben.bsky.social · 19h

It's a cop AND a wannabe cop thing.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11h

Are American citizens being disappeared? Yes.

Are American citizens who are veterans of the US Armed Forces being disappeared? Yes.

Without warrant or probable cause—solely based on skin color—Trump goons captured and caged a citizen veteran for days.

This is a fascist regime.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Rabid Badger @rabidbadger.bsky.social · 10h

Douthat is gross.

We need to defund (unsubscribe, avoid their website/links, unfollow on social media) the #NYTimes just so he doesn’t have a place to work.
And before GOP shred me for wishing unemployment on someone: TRUMP IS FIRING 100,000s today just to be a bastard.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 17h

Argentina --> $20 billion
Qatar --> US based Air Force
Americans --> No healthcare, Groceries @ 3x the price, and an ongoing coup

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 15h

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

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mindyann5.bsky.social @mindyann5.bsky.social · 14h

They need to take that Nobel peace prize back. Disgusting!!

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 12h

It's really sad how people struggling to free or defend their countries, like Zelensky and this woman, have to repeatedly debase themselves in front of this man because there is no longer any responsible leader of the Free World.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 12h

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5d

Oregon has several mainstream outlets that have been doing a good job of covering the protests at the ICE facility--OPB, The Oregonian, Willamette Week, etc. bsky.app/profile/oreg...

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 7d

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

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Rabid Badger @rabidbadger.bsky.social · 11h

if any other president said this I would assume an emergency and would immediately turn to 24/7 news channels & tv networks for live coverage & check all news websites & go to my trusted journalists on social media and expect live video and breathless reporters.

But it’s him so we know it is a LIE.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13h

Pete Hegseth announced an agreement today to build a Qatari Emiri Air Force facility at a U.S. Air Force Base in Idaho.

Reminder: Earlier this year, the Trump admin accepted a Boeing 747 jet as a gift from the Qatari royal family.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13h

If GOP wants to abolish the filibuster over this, awesome. It helps Rs way more than Ds. It’s also a central reason for loss of faith in government over the last 25 yrs. Rs can reopen the govt tonight if they want. If they want to do it to make sure 15 million lose their health care that’s on them.

ringwiss @ringwiss.bsky.social · 16h

“And that’s why we nuked it twice in the past month.”

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Rabid Badger @rabidbadger.bsky.social · 11h

All republicans lie

#AllRepublicansLie

ringwiss @ringwiss.bsky.social · 16h

“And that’s why we nuked it twice in the past month.”

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Rabid Badger @rabidbadger.bsky.social · 11h

Money talks.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

😳 800 citations in two years for ignoring the laws in Nevada and @GovBillLee invited this wrecking crew to dig through the capital city www.newschannel5.com/news/elon-mu...

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Rabid Badger @rabidbadger.bsky.social · 11h

THIS. MAN. IS. INSANE.

And the news media is CRIMINALLY negligent for ignoring this plain as day shit and instead doing hero worship because he reincarnated Biden’s a Middle East plan.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 12h

No, what’s stupid is thinking “bowitdabowdabangdabangbittybittychowackdabingdabowdowdabitty” is a song lyric, and also you’re a rich kid cosplaying as a hillbilly go back to your gated community, Robert

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12h

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

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Dragon "Gay'ed Too Close to the Sun" Fish @dragonfish.bsky.social · 15h

Who could've POSSIBLY seen this coming except literally anyone who knows anything about the history of "protect the kids!" Weirdos

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