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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 17h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 12h

The Portland #NoKings protest is going to be whimsy AF

Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 12h

SpongeBob, Patrick, Pikachu, Cookie Monster and more all on scene at the Portland ICE facility.

Probably around 100 give or take total right now.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 12h

Statistical modeling would be just about the last thing I would ever expect LLMs to be good at.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 13h

Some personal news: my keyboard suggests "regime" as the middle option when I type "Trump"

Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 13h

Other than fascism, the defining characteristic of the Trump regime is would-be-comical-in-any-other-context incompetence.

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 14h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 13h

Don't get me wrong. I am totally fine with combining fascism with this level of incompetence.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 13h

Other than fascism, the defining characteristic of the Trump regime is would-be-comical-in-any-other-context incompetence.

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 14h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 20h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 19h

No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.

Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 14h

"You are making us become Nazis because you are mean to us" I think is the argument

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 16h

Hey, what was happening in Germany in the 1930s? I forget.

James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
For those who actually respect history, the origin story of Antifa is well documented. Antifa is an organization that emerged with the “German Communist Antifaschistische Aktion” movement in the 1930’s.
German Communists smeared anyone to their right as "fascists,” a common ploy used by the ignorant hysterical activists of the Democrat Party today. Like today’s leftist loonies, the German Antifa of the Weimar years even labeled the leftwing SDP as "social fascists." Today’s Antifa are a paramilitary mob used by the usual suspects to foment fake “mass protests” and burn down cities. The same puppet masters of the Democrat activist judges ruining America today also fund these “useful idiots” of Antifa to impede the mandate given to the current President in his landslide last election victory.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 14h

a man in a suit says let them fight in front of a group of soldiers

Alt: a man in a suit says let them fight in front of a group of soldiers

media.tenor.com

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 14h

Ok I have been informed that this woman did not suddenly grow a conscience.

She just hates Speaker Mike Johnson perhaps more than any of us hate Trump and delights in ratf—ng him.

Bless.

Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 20h

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I've been in the Capitol, and there's two things I couldn't find this week: I couldn't find anywhere the Epstein files and also couldn't find the Republican plan to fix the absolutely destroyed health insurance industry."

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 19h

"If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well—OK, fine" — Candace Owens, 2019.

She is clearly just antisemitic.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19h

Actually circulating videos of Candace Owens that make her seem reasonable because she’s correct on *one* issue is not good work

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19h

There are so many Black women who have been standing with Palestine the whole time, including Black trans women, and there’s no reason to help Candace Owens build her profile as if she genuinely gives a fuck about justice for Palestine

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 19h

Indeed, the failure to fully account for, let alone try to attone for, the horrible things the USA has done to its own people is a major reason we are where we are today.

We're in desperate need of a truth and reconciliation committee.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 19h

Black and Native Americans have been treated especially horrifically by this country. This isn't "old" history; people alive today were subject to medical experimentation, forced sterilizations and other horrific acts by our government.

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 22h

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

www.nbcnews.com

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 19h

I mean, there are substantial portions of Americans whose families have lived here for generations who will respond with a "it always has been" when you say the USA has become a fascist country.

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 21h

At least we no longer have to hear about freedom being in Americans' DNA or whatever. Turns out we love to eat shit and bow to some bloated halfwit like any other people throughout history

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 19h

To be fair, Americans never really have a shit when our government overthrew democratically elected governments overseas for vague political/economic reasons, so it's not surprise we wouldn't care when it happened to us.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 21h

At least we no longer have to hear about freedom being in Americans' DNA or whatever. Turns out we love to eat shit and bow to some bloated halfwit like any other people throughout history

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 20h

The only thing I've found is that you have to be more precise with your searches than Google, especially if the place you're looking for has common word

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 20h

I've been against dehumanizing people my entire adult life.

I'm making an exception for ICE agents. They will never be completely human to me as they're clearly missing essential parts of their brains.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 20h

Hell is not hot enough for these monsters

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 23h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 20h

My test for a map app's comprehensiveness is finding a small business on the outskirts of Puerto Vallarta. Most apps other than Google and Apple fail, including MapQuest. Here WeGo has it.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 20h

Anyways, Google Maps uses the wrong name for the Gulf of Mexico, which is (another) reason to stop using Google.

I use HERE WeGo, a European app which uses only European servers. I've found it as accurate and comprehensive as Google Maps, so far.

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