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Icewind Dale Gribble @phyrexianmetamour.bsky.social · 2h

you’re using it differently than i do. you seem to use it to describe a standard of behavior you hold somebody else to before granting them material support. but those are good, so you must be talking about something else

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 6h

Palestinian orphans in Gaza marching with photos of their dead parents

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 6h

It hurts how your geography can decide how much pain you’re forced to carry

samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 2d

The level of destruction and erasure in the Gaza Strip is simply incredible. North Gaza, before and after:

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10h

i’ve been trying to think of the real actual applications of generative ai in it’s current state and the two things i have so far is it makes everyone more dumb and also every more paranoid

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bob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social · 5h

The drums of war begin

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5h

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“When it comes to Venezuela, silence is violence,” our columnist Bret Stephens writes. “Choosing to ignore the catastrophe there only serves to perpetuate it.”

Opinion | A Worthy Nobel Peace Laureate

And a reminder of the need to depose the regime of Nicolás Maduro.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 19h

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

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H.D. Gregg - Designated Terrorist™️ @hdgregg.bsky.social · 19h

Seem similar to the kind of things that got us upset enough at George III to to launch a revolution

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Amaranth M @jazzelves.bsky.social · 21h

Transit Guy from simcity 2000 announcing “YOU CANT GAMIFY SAMSARA! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!”

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 1d

Like this isn't ambiguous.

Tensions between Venezuela and America soared following the attack, but Machado insisted to The Sunday Times that Trump was right to bomb the boat.
"I totally support his strategy," Machado said. "And I've said on behalf of the Venezuelan people that we are very grateful. I think it is the right thing to do. It's courageous. It's visionary."

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Lady Aranea @ladyaranea.bsky.social · 1d

No. She doesn't. Asking Hitler to send his army into your country is stupid as fuck and not a pathway to democracy.

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you 🌚 @c0mm13ba5tard.bsky.social · 1d

what it really proves though is that these liberals don't have a problem with trump's policies as much as trump's aesthetics, so they have no problem defending someone who is *just* to the left of trump in the end

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meat-shaped stone (🇵🇸👍🏽 • 🇺🇸👎🏽) @jikukeiseki.bsky.social · 1d

her cause! her cause!

she's trying to get people killed dude

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Rozaliya @rozaliyaa.bsky.social · 1d

She’s a fascist. She supports Trump and Netanyahu. Her cause is making Venezuela a capitalist nation that serves US interests.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

Wow! Interesting

Nothing to see here for sure

However, following the
announcement, many have started to point out that the 58-year-old is a strong ally of Israel and openly backs the country's decision to bomb the largely unarmed civilians of the Gaza Strip. While there is no known evidence to argue that she supported the one-sided attack on the Palestinian civilians, Machado is undoubtedly an ally of Benjamin Netanyahu. In the past, the centrist-right leader had even declared that if she gains power, she will restore diplomatic relations with Israel.

In 2020, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner's party, Vente Venezuela, signed a cooperation agreement with Likud to cooperate on "political, ideological and social issues ... strategy, geopolitics and security." For the unversed, Likud - National Liberal Movement is the right-wing Israeli political party whose chairperson is Benjamin Netanyahu. "The struggle of Venezuela is the struggle of Israel," she had said on X in 2019.
There is a claim that in 2018 Machado sent a letter to Netanyahu asking for the use of "power" (possibly including military intervention) against the Venezuelan government. She had

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

Weird how the US supports her. Ah well let’s not think about this further

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DSM-6 Spoilers @flawedhowl.bsky.social · 22h

Really couldn't make it any clearer that liberals aren't opposed to fascism, they just don't like Trump, and they get really upset if you point this out to them

Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

Bro blocked me for pointing out that she supports Trump, the strikes, and Israel’s genocide

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social • 1h
I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

Bro blocked me for pointing out that she supports Trump, the strikes, and Israel’s genocide

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Ash G. (the G is for Ghost) @kilomonster.art · 1d

I will gladly draw all of the frogs as a symbol for the movement, explicitly to take them back from the fuckers who co opted Pepe for their nazi shit.

A cheery, cute frog looking up and flipping off the camera while saying “fuck off, fascists.”

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 1d

it's like 6 guys in a bunker in tel aviv with a bunch of virtual machines

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.bsky.social · 1d

100% it is. I've seen one Israeli-based news site make the false claim as well. Trying to smear Hasan.

Other people claim to have found evidence that people are being paid to perpetuate this lie. I haven't looked into that, but if true it wouldn't surprise me.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 1d

This shit feels very astroturfed because if you sort the top posts of all time in the subreddit they're either from the last month or 6 years ago and almost nothing in between.

a bunch of screenshots of the top submissions from r/lifestreamfails sorted by top views of all time, with them either showing they're from at most 1 month ago or 6 years ago. subsequent screenshots show similar things.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

the one admirable trait trump has is he wants to bleed his entire fanbase dry of all of their money

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 1d

>its 2017
>there are meme frogs at a protest
>its 2025
>there are meme frogs at a protest

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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