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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 10m

What gets me are the liquor bottles and shooters. I would be walking along a rural highway in the middle of nowhere and find cases of beer or an empty fireball bottle.

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 1h

a cartoon of a man in a suit and tie with the words pathetic written on the bottom .

ALT: a cartoon of a man in a suit and tie with the words pathetic written on the bottom .

media.tenor.com

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 1h

Lmao, ok bud, if you think the AI summary is enough to form a solid opinion on Grant, I don't think you have the attention span for a book anyways.

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 1h

You should read a history of him that wasn't written by bitter Southerners or politically connected Union generals he embarrassed.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine, if you will, fifty protesters in inflatable animal costumes converging on ICE agents while blowing Aztec Death Whistles.

(You can 3D print death whistles and there’s tons of free designs - we have already printed off a few and are printing more for No Kings).

Aztec Death Whistle: The Sound That Terrifies

YouTube video by Aztec Death Whistle

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 10h

persecuting minority groups who they imagine are poisoning society is an inherent part of the ideology, they need it, even if they were handed an ethnically 'cleansed' fascist state it would collapse in a witch-hunt for secret jews and suspected homosexuals and insufficiently committed fascists

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 20h

Hopefully it's the Alabama white sauce.

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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 1d

Nebraska's winning one-score games. Huskers fans are trying to set expectations...

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 22h

There's purges where you aren't welcome at the parties, and there's purges where you're killed in the street and your wealth seized by the state to fund the government of the guy who ordered it.

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 1d

Many such cases. But he was very anti-Nazi and anti-xenophobe. Just don't look at the anti Japanese cartoons 🫠

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 1d

From hazy memory, I think 4Es crime was everyone's turn taking forever instead of just the casters because we all had our daily/encounter/"basic" attacks, plus abilities.

Cool ideas, didn't love playing it.

Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 1d

I was a protester, more in 2020 than now, and we knew the risks the whole time and the ordinance used to arrest us was overturned by a judge saying it was unconstitutional in the wake of a bunch of us getting arrested.

It's not pretty or fun, but an effective protest is one met with State violence.

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 1d

Politically, it's better for the harsher agency to overreact than for a friendlier agency to quiet things down and be softer. ICE getting aggressive against people in inflatable costumes and clergy is extremely bad for ICE long term.

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 1d

They are actively working to consolidate power at the Federal level by replacing employees and appointing more judges. The longer this goes, the more consolidated it gets. They won't be this weak again until/unless Dems have a wave in 2026 and they try and block them.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 1d

Letting that court remain and listening to them would he a great way to ensure we end up back here in 10-20 years. We need to root out The fascist power root and stem.

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 1d

All the above. There's plenty of blame and responsibility and hate to go around, no need to limit ourselves to just one.

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 1d

I was curious what they cost and checked Amazon. No idea how accurate it is, but every version of the frog costume was like "+100 sold this month" and one said +2000.

I think October 18 will see frogs in every city.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 1d

He also owns thousands of acres of farm land as he pushes a bailout for "small farmers."

Ending Congressional stock trading is great, but let's not stop there.

youtu.be/3kEr0jb6zhU?...

Farm Investors Want Their Bailouts!

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 2d

Disgusted but unsurprised to learn AG Hilgers supports authoritarianism.

Nebraska Examiner @nebraskaexaminer.com · 2d

FORMER OFFICIALS WEIGH IN: Former governors and attorneys general weigh in on President Donald Trump's use of the National Guard for law enforcement purposes across state lines.

From States Newsroom:

Former governors, state AGs weigh in on Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops • Nebraska Examiner

President Donald Trump’s use of National Guard troops for law enforcement has reopened debate over states’ authority to control police powers.

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 2d

Seriously, do people have any idea how much the UK, France, and Israel had to fuck up to get *Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev* to be on the same side against them?

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 2d

Just a friendly reminder that farm bailouts mostly help the rich. This video also taught me that our Treasurer Secretary also owns thousands and possibly tens of thousands of acres and stands to personally gain from the bailouts the GOP wants to fix the problems the GOP caused.

Farm Investors Want Their Bailouts!

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 2d

It's worse, *they were cooperating*.

ICE asked to search, the son said yes, told them to wait while he put the dog in the bathroom. They asked for the sons ID, he went outside to get it and ICE started snooping and opened the bathroom door and then shot the dog.

Never cooperate without a warrant.

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 2d

I have a dog, he trips going upstairs all the time because he's a doofus who won't slow down, never yelps. The only time he yelps like that are when he's underfoot and gets his paw stepped on or I'm touching his paw after he breaks a claw.

But you do you.

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