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Just a Cog @eclecticlynn.bsky.social · 21h

Where should I sign up for our checks?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

And the motherfucker wants a Nobel Peace Prize

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

Screenshot of a post on X from Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s verified account. The post reads: “US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters. Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing. The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure. We await explanations from the US government.”

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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 1d

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Just a Cog @eclecticlynn.bsky.social · 1d

The crime has been. vacated..which means he has no criminal outstanding convictions

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Just a Cog @eclecticlynn.bsky.social · 2d

Lake Worth Beach..near Mar a Lago.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 3d

Is it just me, or does every day feel like the season finale of America?

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Stephen Maclemore @stephenmaclemore.bsky.social · 3d

That's ok. Your money is safe in Crypto. Oh wait...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 74 out of the last 86 days.

They have worked 12 days in 3 months.

Epstein Shutdown.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 5d

wrapping class discussion on Persepolis the comic/film with the window washer, and asked the class to imagine if in our country, the secretary of health & human services had no medical background or secretary of defense was a tv personality? Surely that would be ridiculous and never happen, right?

Slide with an image from Persepolis the book and two stills from Persepolis the film - in both a former window washer now in charge of who can leave Iran for medical reasons tells a woman her husband can only leave for surgery if god wills it… "If god wills it, he'll get better."

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Adam P. Knave @adampknave.com · 3d

Stop saying this shit in private and start fucking SHOUTING IT. Yer leaving anyway. Christ.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 3d

CBS News' standards chief, who resigned on Thursday, privately expressed unease with Bari Weiss' appointment as editor in chief and the overall direction of the network.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-c...

CBS’ Standards Deduction

In her farewell note, CBS News’ standards chief alluded to the reason for her departure—but in private, she was more blunt about the motive behind her exit, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Michele @funnymichele.bsky.social · 4d

Ya think? 😡

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6d

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 6d

Hate to be a 'ruin the kicker' guy but here's the amazing kicker:

“If we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked fr fr.”

Politico @politico.com · 6d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Just a Cog @eclecticlynn.bsky.social · 7d

Don't forget Spain was in the midst of the Inquisition.

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Just a Cog @eclecticlynn.bsky.social · 8d

Irony is when a prof teaching the history of fascism goes to Spain, a country that lived under the tyranny of Franco until the mid 70s. A country who lived fascism is safer.

Rutgers professor flees U.S. for Spain, claims he received death threats - CBS New York share.google/zaXBnMPOXMpQ...

Rutgers professor flees U.S. for Spain, claims he received death threats

Mark Bray said his views have been under attack since he wrote "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Playbook"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 9d

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Just a Cog @eclecticlynn.bsky.social · 9d

I absolutely 💯 agree with you.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10d

Mr. Secretary, the president is on the phone. He sounds very angry and he keeps calling you Lil Marco.

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Just a Cog @eclecticlynn.bsky.social · 9d

The poison is already so ingrained it may never go away. They need to have a victim. 1930s it was Jews. Still going strong ..ask Victor Orban. Immigrants are a better target these days. America First never went away..got quiet but the Henry Fords, Charles Lindbergs and Rev. Coughlin are still here.

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Just a Cog @eclecticlynn.bsky.social · 10d

The Nazi's at Nuremberg were executed and showed no remorse. In fact elderly Nazis were interviewed in a documentary and they also felt bad about what happened but basically had no remorse.

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Just a Cog @eclecticlynn.bsky.social · 10d

There will be Nuremberg 2.0
But, just like last time, the perpetrators will have no remorse.

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Melissa Sanchez @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social · 10d

“I don’t want to be here anymore… What am I supposed to do?”

Trump wants them to self deport. They want to self deport. But many Venezuelans cannot leave … like this woman who told me she now plans to try to turn herself into ICE to get out of USA.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

www.propublica.org

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 10d

I wrote about the Elizabeth Holmes of the media lyz.substack.com/p/let-the-al...

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