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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 10h

tfw ur squad all had the same ffs surgeon

Gary Erskine @garyerskine.bsky.social · 17h

PSA: A reminder that Margot Robbie, Emma Stone, Samara Weaving, Jaime Pressly, Jaime Mackey and Jaime King are actually six different people

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🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · 11h

it’s true i’m one of them

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 11h

Heading way downstate to defend an eviction tomorrow. Stopped for gas in a red county and the gas station attendant was saying "there are no more hot guys because the Democrats made them all transgender."

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🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · 11h

“what’s even the point of having the biggest toy in the playground? seems it would be better to have more, smaller toys, staggered so you always have the newest ones first”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 15h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 14h

Grand juries being the piece of the judicial system that holds up is lol

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 14h

Federal charges against a Chicago couple who were arrested for protesting against ICE were dropped after a grand jury refused to indict them.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 12h

The problem is that none of it was true. There's no evidence that Gein would crossdress or use the skin or body parts of his victims as a costume. It was included because it's the version that quack 50s psychoanalysts and yellow journalism invented and which inspired Psycho and Silence of the Lambs

🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · 14h

it’s awesome that Netflix’s new tv show about Ed Gein where he’s depicted as a psychotic maniac dancing around in a 50s housewife outfit and wig while wearing the face of one of his murder victims has been #1 on the platform for the last week. this is awesome for my rights specifically

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🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · 14h

it’s awesome that Netflix’s new tv show about Ed Gein where he’s depicted as a psychotic maniac dancing around in a 50s housewife outfit and wig while wearing the face of one of his murder victims has been #1 on the platform for the last week. this is awesome for my rights specifically

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 16h

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 14h

For those who were part of the "only protest in Black Bloc gear" crowd, sorry, but being as absurd (laudatory)/formal/hilarious as possible actually does a much better job of opposing the fascists, who are themselves absurd (derogatory).

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 15h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · 14h

it’s awesome that Netflix’s new tv show about Ed Gein where he’s depicted as a psychotic maniac dancing around in a 50s housewife outfit and wig while wearing the face of one of his murder victims has been #1 on the platform for the last week. this is awesome for my rights specifically

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 15h

This is a strange, unique, non-Western way of seeing gender that is totally different from anything else.
*describes the sexual mores of the average citizen of Ancient Rome*

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 16h

Brett Kavanaugh assures me this is the sort of minor inconvenience that shouldn't disturb anyone.

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 17h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 16h

On second thought, RFK Jr is almost definitely saying Jews are responsible for higher rates of autism.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18h

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 9d

The US has Dutch Disease where the causes are not natural resources but rather overdependence on the tech sector

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🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · 19h

also in 2009 they made an episode where Homer loses his house because he can’t pay his mortgage and is only saved because Flanders uses the profits from his left handed goods emporium to buy the house at the foreclosure sale and become their new landlord

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🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · 19h

how would a pop rock band be able to end capitalism

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Coffee III: Saison of the Witch @unlox.bsky.social · 19h

why don’t the Simpsons use their “union nuclear technician who owns a house outright” wealth to address the root causes of crime instead of dressing up as the Bartman

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 19h

“Homer Simpson earns enough to feed a family of five on a single income because (a) of unions (b) working class people earned so much more in the heyday of the 90s” etc

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Wannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 1d

we do at least have this tweet out of it

Twitter post. Image is Lee Kuan Yew.
“We did it. We resurrected LKY. Father, tell us: what should we do to fix America?”
“Ten billion H1B Indians.”
“What? B–but—“
“Forced race mixing of neighborhoods.”
“Father, no—“
“Arrest anyone who disagrees.”

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21h

A good example of Dems not adapting to MAGA war mindset is that they keep telling reporters they can't engage on Trump's military occupations because it's a "trap" to entice them into a losing debate about crime. That concedes too much up front and plays by old rules.
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · 20h

im hungry now

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🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · 20h

thing bad actually

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 21h

Yesterday: Trump bragged, "We took the freedom of speech away."

Today: New reporting on Trump's plans to go after opposition groups.

In 9 days: We mount the largest peaceful protest in modern history to say, loud and clear, that America has no king.

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USA Today: 'We took the freedom of speech away:' Trump on flag burning protection, First Amendment

Reuters: Trump's war on the left: inside the plan to investigate liberal groups

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 21h

so, to be clear, reopening the government for a deal on this will primarily have the effect of making sure that people who may or may not pay attention to politics in red states can continue not paying attention to politics

they won't remember if we bail them out now. this is a bad deal.

KFF @kff.org · 3d

⚡ A new analysis by KFF’s Jared Ortaliza finds that more than half of ACA Marketplace enrollees live in Republican congressional districts, concentrated in the South. #QuickTake https://on.kff.org/48bH774

KFF map titled “At Least 10% of the Population in All Congressional Districts in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina Are Enrolled in the ACA Marketplaces.” The map shows the share of population that is enrolled in the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces in 2025 by congressional district, 119th Congress.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 21h

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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