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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 8h

can you imagine just sitting down to plan this and not feeling any shame or hesitation. seeing jane goodall on the tv as you’re doing it and how her thing was gorillas and yours is getting ready to deport a guy who’s been wrongly imprisoned since reagan’s first term

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 9h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 9h

when it blizzards in buffalo, volunteer bills fans go dig snow out the seats FOR FREE and you bleed em

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 9h

everything fuckin sucks

youtu.be/aAC_y6lOQKE?...

How Billionaires Broke The NFL's Most Loyal Fans

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

youtu.be

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 9h

God saying "all my apes gone"

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 19h

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 17h

it would probably be sorta hard for just anyone to do it *this well* because it requires you to actually be normal about trans people, but still it feels important to state for the record that WE ARE NOT HARD TO STAND UP FOR AND ANY OF THEM COULD DO IT.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22h

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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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 10h

asked for spicy at the Indian restaurant

Still from the Simpsons showing a robotic librarian in the future with its head aflame

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 17h

ICE tactics in Chicago are escalating.

Crashing into a woman’s car so they can grab her is unconscionable!

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 16h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 16h

i dont post ai i just want to talk about this stuff

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 16h

Haha You Clowns pilot is on YouTube and oh my god

youtu.be/Iu7gOd6mXOU?...

Haha, You Clowns S1E1 "Movie Night" | FULL EPISODE | adult swim

YouTube video by Adult Swim

youtu.be

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 16h

theres an artist i like named matt hansel who's going through a weird vibrant Hieronymus Bosch thing rn

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 16h

every time you post an AI thing you think sucks you gotta post a thing a human made you think is good I dont make the rules

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 17h

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 19h

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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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 16h

tiktok to become exclusively videos of small animals dying

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 16h

its pretty funny that everyone hates companies so much that we got them to just stop doing April fools jokes

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 16h

do people know what improv is?

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 17h

I am once again directing everybody’s attention to the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns turning their season around by putting in their third string QB named Lunch Winfield

mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 17h

louisiana just hit a 69-yd td pass + catch hit in stride. 🤌🏽🤌🏽

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17h

there's something here

A normal-versus-normal matchup is what politics used to be — persuasion, messaging, negotiation, compromise. Behaving this way will lose against someone donning body armor while calling you an antifa domestic terrorist MS-13 gang member. And the guy in the body armor will always lose to the guy in the inflatable frog suit.

3x3 grid charting how aura farming, shitposting, and acting normal interact

Aura Farming Shitposting Acting Normal
Aura Farming Stronger aura farmer wins Shitposter wins Aura farmer wins
Shitposting Shitposter wins Society loses Acting normal wins
Acting Normal Aura farmer wins Acting normal wins We live in a society

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 18h

simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dadaism

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 18h

that clip of tom cruise in mission impossible saying "toast...toast"

CNN @cnn.com · 23h

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

GOP leaders steadfast in shutdown stance despite rising pressure inside party | CNN Politics

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

www.cnn.com

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QueenCityJamz @queencityjamz.bsky.social · Apr 11

RIP Kurt Vonnegut. Gone 18 yrs. Dang.

"No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful. If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music."

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 18h

the american empire is thriving

CNN @cnn.com · 23h

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

GOP leaders steadfast in shutdown stance despite rising pressure inside party | CNN Politics

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

www.cnn.com

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Dylan Macri, Cadhla182, Commissions Open @dylanmacri.bsky.social · 19h

Oh wow Morbius did that well they should put it in theatres again

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 19h

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 19h

They like what Trump is doing, this really isn't hard. It's not both-sideism, it's running cover for the regime by choice in order to reach a desired outcome. Can we please stop cutting this institution slack it does not deserve?

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 21h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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