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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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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 2h

Man I hope I’m wrong and hell is real

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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GameTimeArt @gametimeart.bsky.social · 8h

Yankees literally did the same thing to the Griffeys as well which is why Griffey JR famously said he'd never sign with the Yankees.

RAKETTA DU HOCKEY🇨🇦 @hockeyvids.bsky.social · 8h

Vladdy admits why he dislikes the Yankees in a 2023 interview: "When a team humiliates you, the Lord grants you the ability to humiliate them

“It was me who was removed from the stadium, I was 7 or 8 years old, so I was like okay... Now when I arrive you're going to feel my presence in the Bronx."

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 9h

Mary Worth:

July 31, 2022 tweet from Ron Iver @ronnui_ Hot air balloons kick ass. Are they safe? Not really. Can you stop if you don't like it? Think again. BUT can you steer? Listen don't bring that negative energy into this wicker basket ok I'm gonna light this flamethrower.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 10h

(forgetting the word for antibiotics) do i need cancel culture

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 10h

Diane Keaton directed this banger music video on top of all her other achievements, RIP to a legend

youtu.be/NOGEyBeoBGM

Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by BelindaCarlisleVEVO

youtu.be

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 1d

Trump to China: obey my command or I will destroy the United States

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 4d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 11h

Shocking new footage proves that they resumed the football game that Bane blew up after he made his big speech. This is from the second quarter.

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 11h

Love the "excuse our mess, we're still open!" backdrop for the FG

Mizzou lining up a FG, the backdrop is an under construction section of the entire end of the stadium including orange hurricane fencing and a bare concrete wall

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 20h

Ben Loman by the Sea
Maud Lewis
c. 1962

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Damon Agnos @damonagnos.bsky.social · 1d

The cure for the male loneliness epidemic is to win a game 5 in 15 innings

J.P. Crawford, Cal Raleigh, and Josh Naylor hug to celebrate the victory

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 1d

ballplayers, they're just like us (exhausted from 15 innings of baseball)

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 1d

"autotake" before a game-winning single is going to go into the pantheon of the worst in-game analysis

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simon @trillymopena.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile, in Toronto…

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simon @trillymopena.bsky.social · 1d

Man these chuckleheads make me truly appreciate Dan and Buck

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Roger Cormier @yayroger.bsky.social · 1d

ADAM AMIN: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
ADAM AMIN: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
ADAM AMIN: oh god yes
AJ PIERZYNSKI: shoulda bunted

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 1d

tweet by sketchesbyboze: thinking again about how "plague of frogs" in hebrew is actually "plague of frog," and how the rabbis took this to mean that pharaoh was terrorized by a single enormous frog

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performative male @milesklee.bsky.social · Feb 11

Silicon Valley guy who feels intellectually maxed out by the cubicle version of Lost is such a funny concept. “this speculative fiction is dealing me sustained HP damage!!”

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

"asking me if i want fries or a salad to go with my meal is an insult to god if u ask me just give me the fries my friend"
~the pope, probably

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 2d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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simon @trillymopena.bsky.social · 1d

I’m old enough* to remember when J. Trudeau spent $4.7 billion to take the Trans Mountain Pipeline off Kinder Morgan’s hands after KM more-or-less decided to stop building it.

*no longer in kindergarten

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