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Kevin Werner @kevinwerner.bsky.social · 16h

Please don’t QT this. The bit about missiles is incorrect

Kevin Werner @kevinwerner.bsky.social · 17h

“Some version of” is doing a TON of work here. I fully believe lots of Marines have skull and crossbones tattoos. Skull and crossbones are cool! The “death’s head” tattoo that Platner has is extremely specifically Nazi and is not just a generic skull and crossbones

Lyle Jeremy Rubin @lylerubin.bsky.social · 21h

Every other marine I knew had some version of the same tat. Please.

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Lyle Jeremy Rubin @lylerubin.bsky.social · 22h

This is a great example of what happens when the Democratic Party is defined by goody two-shoe losers who have lived their entire lives among fellow goody two-shoe losers.

Wait, Marines get drunk in foreign countries and get skull and bones tattoos!!!

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Kevin Werner @kevinwerner.bsky.social · 18h

ICE is evil but they are not buying guided missiles lmao. Linking to this Reddit comment (shoot me) that explains it www.reddit.com/r/Military/s...

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Kevin Werner @kevinwerner.bsky.social · 1d

If you spend any amount of time on a local/city subreddit (please don’t) you’ll see posts asking “what’s this weird illness going around???” and the answer is almost always just Covid

Kevin Werner @kevinwerner.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a sign of light in this beleaguered world that people are still stealing from the Louvre

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Thieves made off with “priceless” jewelry in a brazen daylight robbery on Sunday at the Louvre Museum in Paris, according to France’s interior minister.

Louvre Closed After Brazen Daylight Robbery

French officials said the thieves broke into a first-floor wing of the Paris museum and fled with “priceless” jewelry.

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Kevin Werner @kevinwerner.bsky.social · 4d

But what about Republican on Republican crime?

ARLnow @arlnow.bsky.social · 4d

Fracas at GOP debate watch party prompts ACPD response in Clarendon

Fracas at GOP debate watch party prompts ACPD response in Clarendon | ARLnow.com

While a debate among the candidates for Virginia Attorney General focused on violent rhetoric, a debate watch party in Arlington descended into physical violence. Police were called to Mister Days on...

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Kevin Werner @kevinwerner.bsky.social · 7d

Republicans man

Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 7d

One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Kevin Werner @kevinwerner.bsky.social · 11d

Philadelphia has lost the Mandate of Heaven

Kevin Werner @kevinwerner.bsky.social · 12d

Really feels like Sora et al will be the final nail in the coffin of any concept of an objective, shared reality

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Kevin Werner @kevinwerner.bsky.social · 13d

You can kill the Klan in RDR2. You also get to fight a Lost Cause militia group

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 13d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

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Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

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Kevin Werner @kevinwerner.bsky.social · 13d

On further listens, it’s a lot weaker. This is really good defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 13d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Kevin Werner @kevinwerner.bsky.social · 15d

Disgusting hit piece in the failing New York Times today against the brave Polar Explorer Ernest Shackleton. A “great” guy!

Kevin Werner @kevinwerner.bsky.social · 16d

In NJ right now and just witnessed incredible cognitive dissonance in a Republican ad that both criticizes the Democrat for supporting offshore wind AND complains about rising energy prices

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Kevin Werner @kevinwerner.bsky.social · 16d

My son has now seen his first Palace loss

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Kevin Werner @kevinwerner.bsky.social · 17d

This is so stupid

Kevin Werner @kevinwerner.bsky.social · 18d

I like the album

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Kevin Werner @kevinwerner.bsky.social · 20d

Screenshotted this from Twitter about 5 years ago, where Matt Bruening had people molon labeing their gas stoves

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Kevin Werner @kevinwerner.bsky.social · 21d

Don’t you hate when someone is a good follow and then they suddenly start posting about the NFL? Heartbreaking

Kevin Werner @kevinwerner.bsky.social · 23d

He would absolutely have won again in 2020 and won the primary

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Kevin Werner @kevinwerner.bsky.social · 23d

I know we like to talk about broccoli hair, but the crowd shots of Premier League matches show just an astounding number of young men with this haircut, as exemplified by Phil Foden. I think it should be included in any discussion of the crisis of masculinity