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Skwisgaar Skwigelf @darthbane0.bsky.social · 19h

Can’t forget this demographic

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The Allen shooter was Hispanic. He was also a white supremacist. What's the allure?

Why would Garcia, who identified as Hispanic, follow a philosophy that calls his own identity inferior? Experts say neo-Nazism holds a visceral allure.

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Skwisgaar Skwigelf @darthbane0.bsky.social · 19h

Call it what it is. Homophobia

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19h

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.

As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.

(Published July with @texastribune.org)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers

Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Skwisgaar Skwigelf @darthbane0.bsky.social · 23h

Yup. I truly didn’t realize how stupid people were. I knew they were stupor but not this stupid

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 1d

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Skwisgaar Skwigelf @darthbane0.bsky.social · 1d

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversaw a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, TN, with a staggering history of throwing children in jail.

In one case, 11 Black children, as young as 8, were arrested for a crime that doesn't exist.

Revisit our 2021 story w/ @wpln.bsky.social:

Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge.

Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem t...

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Skwisgaar Skwigelf @darthbane0.bsky.social · 1d

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Skwisgaar Skwigelf @darthbane0.bsky.social · 1d

The plastic to fuel is just reverse engineering. Plastics are made out of petroleum. so creating more microplastics is very problematic.

Living Single 🧡🎷🖤 @blkaseboni.bsky.social · 2d

So her and the blk guy down to TikTok who is turning plastic into fuel… may the powers that try to stop them be continually thwarted

Our Man Tho 🇻🇮 🇵🇷 @hitdogsholler.bsky.social · 2d

IDC that it's not Black History month. We need some uplift rn
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Skwisgaar Skwigelf @darthbane0.bsky.social · 1d

This is the future people are having children for. The fucking selfishness is insane

Skwisgaar Skwigelf @darthbane0.bsky.social · 1d

Perfect fucking timing.

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Skwisgaar Skwigelf @darthbane0.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll be out of here just before or during the great famine and water wars start lol just in time.

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Skwisgaar Skwigelf @darthbane0.bsky.social · 1d

a man with curly hair and glasses is making a funny face and saying huh .

ALT: a man with curly hair and glasses is making a funny face and saying huh .

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Skwisgaar Skwigelf @darthbane0.bsky.social · 1d

2010 ish 😭

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Written by Uju ✍🏽 @writtenbyuju.bsky.social · 2d

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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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