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🇵🇸 Justpepper ❌️👑🇺🇸

@justpepper.bsky.social

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(They/them) Scientist and facilitator. Arkansan. CPTSD/neurospicy. 🏳️‍🌈/NB. CoC/Zionism survivor. Bloom where you are planted. ✊️ I read a lot of news.

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🇵🇸 Justpepper ❌️👑🇺🇸 @justpepper.bsky.social · Jun 24

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Jun 24

One of our earliest civil rights statutes was designed to protect us against masked gangs who violate our constitutional rights. This particular history makes the masked ICE gangs uniquely repugnant. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Masked Terror

At this point, we have all seen the videos.

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 3h

Columbus Day means you can walk into a different store and then claim whatever you want from the store you didn't even go into.

Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 3h

@JulianKiani

I assume that a Columbus Day sale means I can just walk into into a store and take whatever I want.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 4h

60 seconds on María Corina Machado and why her Nobel Peace Prize win really matters 👏👇

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 3h

Excuse me, what?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "This whole thing about the Nobel Peace Prize I think is silly. Do the right thing. Try to create peace. Lobbying for an award -- to me it looks unseemly."

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3h

COMING UP: Hearing on Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s request for release from immigration detention.

My Lawfare colleague @rparloff.bsky.social is in Greenbelt this morning and will live-post the hearing.

Follow along ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 4h

At 11am I will try to live-blog, for @lawfaremedia.org , the hearing in Abrego Garcia’s civil (habeas corpus) case in federal court in Greenbelt MD. Abrego is seeking release from detention under a SCOTUS precedent called Zadvydas v Davis (2001). ...
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🇵🇸 Justpepper ❌️👑🇺🇸 @justpepper.bsky.social · 5h

Can you hear the slurping? I can.

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Quinn murphy @gamefiend.bsky.social · 6h

I woke up in the middle of the night with the first two lines of this poem repeating in my head. I couldn't sleep until I wrote it on my phone.

I fell asleep almost immediately after I finished.

During a Quiet Moment

How brightly shines the pale light of hope
Underneath the canopy of loss?
This bone, this mind, this gristle
Mingles and lingers in a sea of fallen pine leaves
(A chorus of once evergreen angels now at rest)

Tossing and turning in the night, these words
Trace the dreaming winds, whispering
Curl your hand behind your ear
Listen as they say:

The impossible is merely another name
for yesterday
A chasm we daily cross

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 5h

This.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7h

The widespread media decision to frame international affairs as "will Donnie get the prize he wants?" is pathetic.

He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15h

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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Substantion_THEE_Igra @substantion-igra.bsky.social · 7h

Ha ha!!! Congratulations to Ms. Machado!

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 8h

BREAKING: For her work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

María Corina Machado of Venezuela wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Opposition activist María Corina Machado of Venezuela has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised her as a key figure in unifying Venezuela's political opposition.

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andykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social · 17h

Many might not know this, but we just voted in Senate to finally repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force in Iraq. It feels long ago, but Iraq War did so much damage in breaking our politics and global leadership that contributed to the complete mess we are in now.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19h

Lmaoooo. Major move. Were not even 5 minutes into this thing and she trots out the corpse of Hillary, Tony and Mike Pompeo to talk about something all 3 of them have already fucked up on their own.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 19h

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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🇵🇸 Justpepper ❌️👑🇺🇸 @justpepper.bsky.social · 17h

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GOP better get Congress back in session, because Dems are doing overtime making silly videos to piss them off.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

Rep. @aoc.bsky.social RT’ed this 👀

🇵🇸 Justpepper ❌️👑🇺🇸 @justpepper.bsky.social · 18h

Maybe I should become an AI therapist. Like a therapist for the computers. You know, just in case.

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Arkansas Advocate @arkansasadvocate.com · 19h

Via @ainsleyplatt.bsky.social: The only way lawmakers can restore funds that have been withheld from 43 municipalities is to expunge a vote they took in July to prevent the state treasurer from releasing the money, the attorney general’s office opined this week. #arpx #arleg

Vote to return withheld funds to Arkansas municipalities a no-go, attorney general says | Arkansas Advocate

The only way lawmakers can restore funds that have been withheld from 43 municipalities is to expunge a vote they took in July to prevent the state treasurer from releasing the money, the attorney…

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 19h

I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 20h

Dear Speaker Mike Johnson:

SINCE YOU LOVE WORK REQUIREMENTS, I PROPOSE WORK REQUIREMENTS FOR CONGRESS. DO YOUR JOB OR NOT GET PAID! BRING THE HOUSE IN SESSION. THIS IS DESPICABLE!

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The End of Sport @endofsportpod.bsky.social · 19h

We love to see it.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 19h

Indonesia is denying Israeli athletes entrance visas, which will prevent them from keeping in the world gymnastics championships.

This is what real solidarity against genocide looks like.

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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia will block Israeli athletes from competing at the upcoming gymnastics world championships in Jakarta, a government official said Thursday.

The decision to deny visas to the Israeli athletes comes after their planned participation had sparked intense opposition in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, which has long been a staunch supporter of Palestinians.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

“None of these statements are true.”

MEMPHIS DA Steve Mulroy FACT-CHECKS @AGPamBondi’s sworn testimony before Congress.

His post (with Spandau Ballet soundtrack 🎵): www.instagram.com/p/DPmv-WKEil...

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 19h

RFK Jr checking people for autism

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♡🐸 𝒶𝓈𝒽 🐸♡ @tiredporkchop.bsky.social · 20h

celebrating early, it's Indigenous People's Weekend now idc

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 23h

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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Tiffany Cabán @tiffanycaban.bsky.social · 18h

Donald Trump is using and abusing the Justice Department as his personal minions to prosecute his political opponents. Welcome to Authoritarianism 101. We won’t fall for it. We will fight.

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 20h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Arkansas Times @arktimes.bsky.social · 18h

Arkansas's apex predators are showing out lately. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Mountain lion killed by vehicle in Hot Spring County - Arkansas Times

The death of a mountain lion is another bizarre incident to top off the last six weeks, which have seen two fatal bear attacks in the Arkansas Ozarks.

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