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thomas @tgracchus1781.bsky.social · Mar 12

if you’d like a vision of tomorrow look to puerto rico today. PR has no real democracy, looted by wall street, constant privatizations & union busting, declining public services, its own version of tariffs in the form of the Jones Act, and even has silicon valley wizard pedophiles running amok.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 16m

Wow! Interesting

Nothing to see here for sure

However, following the
announcement, many have started to point out that the 58-year-old is a strong ally of Israel and openly backs the country's decision to bomb the largely unarmed civilians of the Gaza Strip. While there is no known evidence to argue that she supported the one-sided attack on the Palestinian civilians, Machado is undoubtedly an ally of Benjamin Netanyahu. In the past, the centrist-right leader had even declared that if she gains power, she will restore diplomatic relations with Israel.

In 2020, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner's party, Vente Venezuela, signed a cooperation agreement with Likud to cooperate on "political, ideological and social issues ... strategy, geopolitics and security." For the unversed, Likud - National Liberal Movement is the right-wing Israeli political party whose chairperson is Benjamin Netanyahu. "The struggle of Venezuela is the struggle of Israel," she had said on X in 2019.
There is a claim that in 2018 Machado sent a letter to Netanyahu asking for the use of "power" (possibly including military intervention) against the Venezuelan government. She had

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 28m

She literally supports trump bombing the boats

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 48m

And all that destruction for a lawsuit invented by Jones Day to give employers an excuse to deny healthcare to employees and then spun in public as if it were a pro bono case of just a benevolent law firm helping out to Defend Religious Freedom

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 11h

Obama deported historic numbers. There is a way to do it.

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jdm2 🇵🇷 @jdm2.bsky.social · 12h

Dominoes still falling to this day. Only a matter of time.

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 13h

The Great Schism has outlived its explanatory power in its current configuration.

The communion of churches should be reconfigured thus:

1. Novus Ordo Rome + Constantinople + any true and willing Eastern, Oriental or Assyrian churches

vs.

2. TLM Trads + Moscow + assorted conventicles of Satan

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 19h

new snakehandling just dropped

Juliette Rihl @julietterihl.bsky.social · 20h

I don’t usually cover breaking news, but this story is truly wild.

A pastor in central PA brought an AR-15 to church and pointed it at people during his sermon. Gun safety experts and internet commentators are, predictably, not happy!

(Paywall free link below)

www.pennlive.com/news/2025/10...

Dauphin County pastor under fire for pointing assault-style rifle during sermon

In a move experts called a serious safety violation, he pointed the unloaded weapon at churchgoers, while asking for a 'violent action of faith.'

www.pennlive.com

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thomas @tgracchus1781.bsky.social · 22h

“and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.”

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 22h

There are now one or two of Elon Musk's Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every single day.

According to Smithsonian astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, that figure is only going to keep climbing.

futurism.com/space/elon-m...

Elon Musk's Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky

Multiple Starlink satellites from Elon Musk's SpaceX are falling to Earth every single day, an astronomer warns — and counting.

futurism.com

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thomas @tgracchus1781.bsky.social · 1d

if i was jb pritzker and his billionaire family id be setting up secretive funding mechanisms to triple the salaries of any cop or national guardsmen willing to defect from the regime and to shoot back.

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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 1d

thine apostle Thomas with firm

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thomas @tgracchus1781.bsky.social · 1d

my biggest source of hope is going to a grocery store and seeing that every single family is multi racial. the enemy already lost.

Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 2d

These posts brought to you by “being on the train and looking around”

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Trey Ferguson @pastortrey05.com · 5d

Might be time to send missionaries to share the gospel with the white evangelical church in America.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 2d

If you could snap your fingers and replace everyone in executive branch tomorrow, it wouldn’t restore things to where they were.

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thomas @tgracchus1781.bsky.social · 2d

distinctly recall a rolling stone article early on where these anonymous GOP sources were saying shit like “we expected this” and crying at the thought of a dealing with another FDR situation.

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thomas @tgracchus1781.bsky.social · 2d

america bad, nuke tel aviv, and may every ICE agent give up the ghost

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 5d

don’t call yourself working class unless you look like this

Tom of Finland drawing of two dudes holding a sledgehammer and a shovel. As you can imagine they are very buff and very hung.

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thomas @tgracchus1781.bsky.social · 2d

two whole years of murder and destruction by the evilest government on earth

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dillo (yakubian mamba) @dillo.media · 4d

pulling up to the function

guy wearing a body suit but the top is a polo style shirt

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thomas @tgracchus1781.bsky.social · 5d

lol same. figured he was this era’s dick cheney and he still is but he’s dumber than shit.

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thomas @tgracchus1781.bsky.social · 5d

dr cottam made the excellent point that he himself doesn’t belong in their circles and that these demands for gratitude are as much an attack as they are a demonstration to *his* betters that he is also “grateful”

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thomas @tgracchus1781.bsky.social · 5d

if you want your party to Be Good you are morally obligated to invite boricuas and gays.

thomas @tgracchus1781.bsky.social · 5d

after so many times i understand that my purpose in life is to get a party started by dancing without care immediately.

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Bishop William von Rolappe, OSB @bishopwilliamosb.bsky.social · 6d

A blessed feast day to Franciscans everywhere, and all who celebrate on this feast of Saint Francis!

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 6d

it’s never a good sign when a software developer starts talking about human nature

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rad uncle Ieftist @raduncle.bsky.social · 6d

It's important to remember amidst every corporate knee-bending that the first organization Trump bent to his will was the entire Republican party, and it was his easiest conquest ever because they are spineless weirdos who will never muster the juice. They're done without him and they know it.

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