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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 12h

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16h

Hegseth sucks. The Qataris suck. But we aren’t giving Qatar an airbase in Idaho. It’s building dorms etc. at an existing base to train them on F-15s we sold them, just like Singapore already has there. Common arrangement we have with lots of countries. This one was already being planned under Biden.

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 14h

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16h

Hegseth sucks. The Qataris suck. But we aren’t giving Qatar an airbase in Idaho. It’s building dorms etc. at an existing base to train them on F-15s we sold them, just like Singapore already has there. Common arrangement we have with lots of countries. This one was already being planned under Biden.

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you!!

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 14h

is this … a thing ??

realKyleKeegan @realkylekeegan.bsky.social · 17h

Why is Trump so pro-Hamas? We should look at deporting him.

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 14h

wait what

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 18h

this is fucking deranged, man.

Some very strange things are happening in China! They are becoming very hostile, and sending letters to Countries throughout the World, that they want to impose Export Controls on each and every element of production having to do with Rare Earths, and virtually anything else they can think of, even if it’s not manufactured in China. Nobody has ever seen anything like this but, essentially, it would “clog” the Markets, and make life difficult for virtually every Country in the World, especially for China. We have been contacted by other Countries who are extremely angry at this great Trade hostility, which came out of nowhere. Our relationship with China over the past six months has been a very good one, thereby making this move on Trade an even more surprising one. I have always felt that they’ve been lying in wait, and now, as usual, I have been proven right! There is no way that China should be allowed to hold the World “captive,” but that seems to have been their plan for quite some time, starting with the “Magnets” and, other Elements that they have quietly amassed into somewhat of a Monopoly position, a rather sinister and hostile move, to say the least. But the U.S. has Monopoly positions also, much stronger and more far reaching than China’s. I have just not chosen to use them, there was never a reason for me to do so — UNTIL NOW! The letter they sent is many pages long, and details, with great specificity, each and every Element that they want to withhold from other Nations. Things that were routine are no longer routine at all. I have not spoken to President Xi because there was no reason to do so. This was a real surprise, not only to me, but to all the Leaders of the Free World. I was to meet President Xi in two weeks, at APEC, in South Korea, but now there seems to be no reason to do so. The Chinese letters were especially inappropriate in that this was the Day that, after three thousand years of bedlam and fighting, there is PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. I …

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 14h

imagine if 😝

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 14h

what 😭

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2d

As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

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Ravishing Rick Ruud van Nistelroy @astroscounty.bsky.social · 1d

Drake:

Hi, grandma? can u come pick me up from my rap battle? it’s over. no, i lost. he saw u drop me off & did a pretty devastating rhyme about it

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 1d

it me 💀

Text: "You're so chill"
Thanks, I'm completely disconnected from reality at all times.
Portrait of a seated, demurely reclining skeleton posing gracefully in a serene forest scene.

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the president accidentally DMs crimes on main and it's effectively the 1,435th worst thing he's done in the past two weeks

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 1d

every day
me: i need to write my stories, i am late
[opens computer]
the news:

a screenshot of the fox from adventure time saying, "Really looking forward to things being terrible forever."

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the judge rules lololol

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 1d

has anyone lost a rap battle as thoroughly as drake www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

Drake lost the rap battle with Kendrick Lamar, judge rules

Judge Jeannette A. Vargas dismissed Drake’s defamation claim against Kendrick Lamar for “Not Like Us,” a song that “contains lyrics explicitly accusing Drake of being a pedophile, set to a catchy beat...

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 1d

"You imagine that?" is so brutal.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 1d

I believe this is actually central to our political predicament. For example, for nearly everyone, the appropriate answer to the question, "Should trans girls be allowed to play on girls sports teams?" is "What business is it of mine?"

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OverUnderClover. America i cant w/you right now. @overunderclover.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine as president saying out loud it was risky to take a basic cognitive test and meaning it

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 1d

typical is long behind us 🫠

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 1d

😭😭😭😭😭

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 1d

ah ofc

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 1d

circumcised ... early?

RFK Jr: Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol.

Trump: There's a tremendous amount of of proof or evidence. I would say as a non-doctor, but I've studied this a long time.

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Cynthia Khoo @cyn-k.bsky.social · 2d

"Ignorance isn’t always innocent. A lot of the time, it’s strategic. ... White ignorance doesn’t persist bc there’s a lack of information—it persists bc there’s a refusal to engage... once you admit you knew & did nothing... you’d have to admit you were fine with it. You have to admit complicity."

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 3d

TL; DR
In the next 5 business days you should be able to go to Link's page on blacksky.community and see his posts and he'll be able to post but people using the bsky mobile apps won't see it.
After that we'll get Blacksky-only posts up.
After that we can talk about purging bsky mod tools
fin/11

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Careful, Jenn Bites 🧛🏻‍♀️🩷🧛🏻‍♀️ @alldolledup44.bsky.social · 3d

Y’all a bunch of fucking nerds and I am into it.

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