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Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 1h

Hell yeah

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Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 1h

When I see someone use the term virtue signaling, I know they’ve been consuming a lot of RW propaganda.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 16h

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 20h

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 13h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 12h

a man in a plaid shirt and a hoodie says oh i wish

ALT: a man in a plaid shirt and a hoodie says oh i wish

media.tenor.com

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Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 12h

Here are the OPs if they get deleted or I get blocked:

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Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 12h

You know Larry is really committed to Palestinian liberation because he first criticizes Ms. Rachel, then people who stand up for Palestine, then those of us who aren’t sad enough about Israeli civilian victims.

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 20h

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 16h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 13h

I signed @qasimrashid.com's petition and I hope you'll join me.

c.org/NyjMch5spL

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Demand the United States Recognize Palestinian Statehood

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Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 13h

Meanwhile in the real Portland…

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Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 14h

Fucking clowns

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 14h

No one:

Seriously, nobody:

Not a single soul:

The @forward.com:

forward.com/opinion/7749...

Should Trump get a Nobel Peace Prize for Gaza?

Trump saw stars aligning for the US to assert power in the Middle East — now the task is to keep Israel, Hamas and the Palestinians in line.

forward.com

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msh7.bsky.social @msh7.bsky.social · 16h

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H.D. Gregg - Designated Terrorist™️ @hdgregg.bsky.social · 17h

When Maria Corina Machado Wins the Nobel Peace Prize, ‘Peace’ Has Lost Its Meaning

Far from a symbol of peace, the article exposes Machado's history of supporting coups, sanctions, and calls for foreign military intervention in Venezuela.

venezuelanalysis.com/opinion/when...

When Maria Corina Machado Wins the Nobel Peace Prize, 'Peace' Has Lost Its Meaning - Venezuelanalysis

Michelle Ellner exposes Machado's history of supporting coups, sanctions, and calls for foreign military intervention in Venezuela.

venezuelanalysis.com

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Euthyphro @euthyphro.bsky.social · 16h

I don't know anything. Is it good for countries when their soldiers go unpaid?

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 21h

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 1d

Frogtifa

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 17d

seeing a lot of liberal posts showing images of the troops storming the beach at Normandy etc... calling them "antifa."

understand the sentiment, but always grateful for @jamesstout.bsky.social addressing how that's not what we mean when we talk about antifa! www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brie...

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

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Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 1d

If OP is deleted or they block me:

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Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 1d

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Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 1d

I agree. Israel is far far worse. It’s a terror state back by the most powerful country on earth.

Hamas is a resistance organization. I don’t like their religious fanaticism or anything they did on October 7, but they don’t even compare to a terrorist army like the IDF.

mountainrangifer.bsky.social @mountainrangifer.bsky.social · 1d

That’s an extremist view. Most people would say that equating ISIS with Israel is hyperbolic. How do you view Hamas?

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Calvinboo Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 1d

You know how you force a ceasefire? Stop sending the fire so it fucking ceases.

tomgiberson.bsky.social @tomgiberson.bsky.social · 1d

Bibi didn’t want a ceasefire while Biden was in office. I think it’s that’s simple.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

Weird that a campaign of murdering Venezuelan fishermen didn't win him the Nobel.

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Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 1d

We also have a frost down here in Massachusetts and I was having a big happy about it. Anytime there’s seasonal weather, it makes me nostalgic.

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Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 1d

I agree. Israel is far far worse. It’s a terror state back by the most powerful country on earth.

Hamas is a resistance organization. I don’t like their religious fanaticism or anything they did on October 7, but they don’t even compare to a terrorist army like the IDF.

mountainrangifer.bsky.social @mountainrangifer.bsky.social · 1d

That’s an extremist view. Most people would say that equating ISIS with Israel is hyperbolic. How do you view Hamas?

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