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Derek Wood @derekdwood.bsky.social · 1d

I just left to go do something, drove 5 miles up the highway, and realized I was still wearing my single-distance glasses. #Middle-agedProblems #I’mBecomingMyDad #AndIDon’tLikeIt

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 2d

The thing about the Nazi chat is these people turned the country upside down and got a lot of people fired to be able to say those things in comfort.

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Derek Wood @derekdwood.bsky.social · 2d

Mmm hmm, telling people they have to watch something and they’re not allowed to make fun of it *always* works, ask any public school teacher

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Derek Wood @derekdwood.bsky.social · 2d

Haji Wright out there breaking ankles and ripping nets, yo #USMNT

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Derek Wood @derekdwood.bsky.social · 2d

That’s a decent joke, so fair play to ya. As a professional genealogist, though it is still my duty to remind anybody reading this that *nobody’s name was changed by officials at Ellis Island*. It’s the most common myth in American genealogy.

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Derek Wood @derekdwood.bsky.social · 2d

I hope Chop the dog haunts the living shit out of those ICEholes’ nightmares

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 2d

I want to believe I'm one reason why @weratedogs.com is going fang-first on this story. bsky.app/profile/anam...

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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Derek Wood @derekdwood.bsky.social · 2d

I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked 😐

Derek Wood @derekdwood.bsky.social · 2d

On the one hand, I don’t know why I ever bother to answer my phone apart from tbe once in a blue moon that someone I know calls me. OTOH, I did just get to tell someone “fuck off scammer, get a real job,” and it was kinda satisfying

Derek Wood @derekdwood.bsky.social · 2d

Stay tuned for my new McSweeney’s article, “It’s Why’d-You-Take-Blake-Snell-Outta-the-Game Season, Motherfuckers”

Derek Wood @derekdwood.bsky.social · 2d

Couldn’tve happened to a… something something

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 2d

Dr. Phil went full MAGA and tried to reinvent himself as a MAGA media mogul and culture warrior. Now his world is unraveling, his media company is laying off thousands and had to file for bankruptcy, and he's being sued for fraud. The whole plan is collapsing.

www.rawstory.com/dr-phil-trump/

Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report

Dr. Phil McGraw's attempt to transition from daytime television personality to a politically aligned media mogul during Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by spectacular failure a...

www.rawstory.com

Derek Wood @derekdwood.bsky.social · 2d

Well knock me over with a feather. I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you 😐

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 2d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

Derek Wood @derekdwood.bsky.social · 2d

💯. This has never been about law enforcement. It’s always just been about rounding up brown people. And, now, people who give a shit about brown people

Derek Wood @derekdwood.bsky.social · 3d

Wouldn’t matter. They’d just say they were fake and detain us anyway.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 3d

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.

Looking forward to No Kings Day.

Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering

Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.

www.politico.com

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Derek Wood @derekdwood.bsky.social · 3d

Or you could just, you know, let people’s healthcare premiums not triple

Derek Wood @derekdwood.bsky.social · 3d

My dad taught high school, and he was a good teacher who genuinely liked high school kids

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly, it needs to go further than this.

We need to confront the fact that democracy and wealth hoarding cannot coexist. Allowing people to amass the resources of a small state/country allows them to act as such, which is inimical to a shared society of “one person, one vote.”

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 3d

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 3d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

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Derek Wood @derekdwood.bsky.social · 3d

Admittedly not that unhinged: reading Shakespeare is a poor substitute for seeing it produced by people who know what they’re doing. That is, after all, what it was written for.

Derek Wood @derekdwood.bsky.social · 3d

Important to remember that Italianness was not a thing until 350 years after Columbus died. What we think of as Italy was a collection of city-states, dukedoms, small kingdoms, etc. Columbus was Genoese, and sailed under the flag of Catholic Spain.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

But we cant have healthcare. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Sean Duffy: "If we go to the south pole of the moon, we can set up a base. We want to put up fission power. We think we can have longterm stays on the south pole of the moon."

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Derek Wood @derekdwood.bsky.social · 3d

The hilarious thing is how far these dumbasses are willing to stretch logic to accommodate their belief that nowhere near this many people actually detest them enough to show up in the streets of our own accord

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d

Police union leaders defending jan 6 after watching what those cops went through should have been the clarifying moment if nothing else (and there had been plenty before) bsky.app/profile/nota...

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 4d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 5d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 4d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 5d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 4d

my 87yo Republican mother in law is taking it to the streets, for the first time in her life, with her friends at the retirement home on Saturday and that's why we will win

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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