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Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎

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Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎 @rvengefulobster.bsky.social · Apr 1

I got plenty of feedback on my last video and I want to be clear: I hear you, I am listening.

Many of you felt that the audio didn't match the tone of the Expanse.

After much consideration, I've updated the audio.

I think we can all agree it's much more in keeping with the themes of the show.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

Quick update on what we just saw here—*before curfew*, ISP troopers, Broadview PD and CCSO deputies began menacing demonstrators outside the ICE facility. Several arrests.

Pepper ball guns at the ready, a bit of a standoff going with remaining protesters. All people are doing is playing music.

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 6h

One thing you will never ever see is cops actually protecting protesters, regardless of circumstance. It's against their very nature. Even with their city under assault by the federal government, cops go after protesters like dogs after a cat.

Unless those protesters have swastika flags.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 6h

Listen sometimes the situation simply requires a Catholic

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i love that 17th century jewish poltergeist story where the family living in the haunted house calls a catholic priest for help before they contact a rabbi, because yeah, i think that would be my call too; id be like, oh? a demon in my house speaking latin and drawing inverted crosses on my wall in sulfuric bile? then without even questioning my faith i'd call up the catholic church and be like yo father, one of your boys loose come get him

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 7h

pictured: Pritzker "resisting" Donald Trump

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

A small number of demonstrators attempted to protest/march in the street.

Massive number of ISP troopers in riot gear responded by blocking 25th, threatening arrest, shouting into megaphone about an unlawful assembly.

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 5h

star trek has *completely* fucked sci-fi writers and pop culture's understanding of how hard it is to kill a planet and that still strikes me as super funny. In Enterprise, the Xindi weapon is a failure when it CUTS AN ENTIRE MOON IN HALF, guys, that would kill everyone on earth!!! 100%!!!

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 3h

RAMIREZ SECURE THE BASS PRO SHOP PYRAMID

ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 4h

We're sending squad-sized elements to secure the Bass Pro Shop

Screencap of an AP article

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — National Guard troops patrolled in Tennessee’s second-largest city for the first time Friday while soldiers in Illinois were engaged only in planning and training after a judge handed a loss to the Trump administration and blocked their deployment to the Chicago area.

At least nine armed Guard members began their patrol at the Bass Pro Shops located at the Pyramid, an iconic Memphis landmark, about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from historic Beale Street and FedEx Forum, where the NBA’s Grizzlies play

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 4h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 9h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 12h

> 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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Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎 @rvengefulobster.bsky.social · 2h

The clip they released does not break the trend in the slightest lol

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 6h

It's really funny to me that, in their attempt to write what they clearly think is "the good captain", they managed to write...just...the worst CO i've ever seen on screen and that's including Colonel Kurtz

Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎 @rvengefulobster.bsky.social · 7h

Fitting that the thumbnail for the new first look for this SNW season is just Pike shitting himself on the bridge.

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Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎 @rvengefulobster.bsky.social · 7h

Fitting that the thumbnail for the new first look for this SNW season is just Pike shitting himself on the bridge.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 8h

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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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12h

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 15h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 9h

But we joined the war in December, 1941 - months before, the Nazi were *in* Moscow, we'd still see fighting in Stalingrad the next year, Kursk wasn't for two?

Like...we didn't invade the mainland in 1944, but we did do stuff until then! Lots of stuff! What are you talking about!?

Teles Santos @telesjr.bsky.social · 10h

The US never fought to end fascism anywhere. They joined the war because Japan forced their hand, and they saw a great way to make money. After the USSR pretty much had pushed Germany out of eastern Europe and they knew the nazis were going to lose, they jumped in.

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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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Leaf~ @leaftilde.bsky.social · 11h

"Stop Casting The Guy Who Looks Like If Grigori Rasputin Had A Podcast."

They hated LEAF because SHE told them the truth

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Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs @opensketchbook.bsky.social · 3d

torchship.txt

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 3d

hey admiral, we stopped on planet X-14938-J7 in response to a federation emergency beacon broadcast and -- yeah, yeah, it was our ship we found crashed. yep. yeah. no the bodies of the crew were us. yeah Twilight Zone bullshit, that's what we figured. we'll take off and nuke it.

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · Aug 14

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 14h

look i'm just gonna say: everyone involved in this shit needs to go to jail

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 14h

You sometimes have to take a step back and really...like...look at just how HARD transphobes have to work to make transphobia not seem like unhinged hateful bigotry that disgusts everyone around it - and how bad they are at doing it.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 14h

You can only have so many tech billionaire supervillains before someone dresses up as their favourite animal to conceal their identity as they try to help people.

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

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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X-Wings & History @xwnhist.bsky.social · 13h

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Corodon @thecorodon.bsky.social · 1d

Exodus 8:2
"If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country."

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Roxyite Fox Spirit @ikomatanomori.bsky.social · 15h

At this point we are no longer playing, this is just the actual Gestapo.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

I think we need to be crystal clear about how Trump's creation of a nationwide police force—loyal only to him—threatens to create a feedback loop of lawlessness in which our constitutional right to dissent may vanish. slate.com/news-and-pol...

It is now beyond debate that one of Donald Trump’s key goals is the creation of a national police force that is loyal to him alone. To that end, the president has repeatedly federalized the National Guard—often over governors’ objections—and deployed troops to invade blue cities whose residents oppose his administration. He has also transformed Immigration and Customs Enforcement into a kind of secret police that targets, with especially sadistic brutality, journalists, protesters, and others exercising their First Amendment rights. Trump’s multifaceted attack on the Constitution creates a feedback loop of lawlessness: He first erodes the structural limits on his authority, then exploits his newly unchecked power to trample the people’s freedom to dissent.

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