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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 14h

If I were the opposition party I would be screaming from the rooftops about corruption and promising a truly brutal anti corruption crackdown but what do I know

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 14h

Argentina takes a chainsaw to their own government and we have to bail them out. Brazil protects their democracy by prosecuting coup plotters and we hit them with extortionate “corruption” tariffs👍

David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 16h

Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. has “directly purchased Argentine pesos,” and the Treasury Department has “finalized a $20 billion currency swap framework with Argentina’s central bank.”

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 18h

Also he’s dead so it doesn’t count I guess

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 18h

Probably not The Greatest but John Prine is up there for me. “Well I sat there at the table and I acted real naïve, for I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve”, the man had a way with words

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 4d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 2d

This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 20h

You don’t have my name in your contacts?

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 1d

I hate him so much

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 1d

There is a Russian man named Anton on the new season of Love is Blind and he has a forearm tattoo that just says “Russian”

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 1d

NJ born and bred baby

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 1d

That’s real love. Cutlet love

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the whole damn food pyramid. Cutlet pyramid

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 1d

Weekly cutlet haul #MikesTreats

2 trays of baked chicken cutlets, one is parm

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 1d

One time Venmo tried to use a tweet of mine and I sought compensation

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1d

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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Give it up Deelishis you look like a man..🧍🏾‍♂️ @blackranga.blacksky.app · 1d

Racism stifles creativity.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Ubisoft canceled an 'Assassin's Creed' game set after the Civil War

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Would fight the emerging Ku Klux Klan

• Leadership canceled it — concerned with US political climate & Yasuke backlash

(via Game File)

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Azure Emerald Empire @azureemeraldempire.bsky.social · 2d

I Make It This One Way: An Introduction to Bachelor Cuisine

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 2d

it’s later than you think it is

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 2d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 3d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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