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LaPoodella

@lapoodella.bsky.social

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Retired CA aty, Broward-FL resident, Cape Cod raised lifelong liberal, poodle lover, sailor, opera fan, amateur historian, classical music and films, jazz, ballroom dancing. No DMs I block crypto, porn,sexism, racism, ageism, religious proseletyzing.

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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 15h

Swearing and insulting them is not helpful though. Be creative and ask them questions that shock them into thinking about what they are doing. “Whose taxes pay your salary?” “Where do these ICE guys come from?” “Are they from IL?” “Why can they wear masks but not u?” “Did they give you gas masks?”

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We Are Saners @wearesaners.bsky.social · 1d

The most important news source today is Status Coup News.

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ICE🤝COPS — Name a more iconic duo.

YouTube video by Status Coup News

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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 15h

Then it becomes fascism.

LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 15h

Unfettered capitalism. Starting a business selling goods or services isn’t inherently evil. But when it grows astronomically and the owner decides to run the world and crush other new businesses and competition and innovation, with government help in the form of zero regulation, it’s bad.

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We Are Saners @wearesaners.bsky.social · 15h

Oh, yes! Thank you Portland.

MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 17h

Dear Portland,
You’ve set an excellent example for the other cities. Your peaceful resistance is making my heart sing! You have already made ICE & this Regime look RIDICULOUS & it’s extremely satisfying. You are helping to GROW THE OPPOSITION to tyranny! We’re all so grateful.
Love, Me

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We Are Saners @wearesaners.bsky.social · 15h

#Epstein

pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 15h

They're corrupt as hell

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Lollioness @lollioness.bsky.social · 16h

Antifa Dance Practice

a group of furry costumes are dancing in a room with chairs .

ALT: a group of furry costumes are dancing in a room with chairs .

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 15h

What a horrible interrupter. Can’t answer questions if the guy keeps interrupting the answer.

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Kristin Wilkinson 🍁 @silentkw.bsky.social · 15h

Daaaaaaaaaa Yankees lose!

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d

Ortiz was absolutely loving this sitting between AROD and Jeter

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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 18h

My bad. I meant the refined products of oil.

LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 18h

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Kimmel’s NSFW Punch Line About Stephen Miller’s Interview Glitch Brings The House Down

The late-night host mocked the top Trump official with his theory.

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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 18h

www.cracked.com/article_3713...

Terror of the Short King: The Napoleon Complex As Defined by Science

They might be small in stature, but those little bodies are overflowing with psychopathy, narcissism and Machiavellianism

www.cracked.com

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Rosegarden54 @rosegarden54.bsky.social · 19h

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Serendipity @serendipityinfl.bsky.social · 19h

Well it looks like not all the American Lawyers went over to the dark side.
There's still a glimpse of the rule of law and integrity left in America.

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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 18h

This Chicagoan is speaking out and encouraging priests to support immigrants in the USA.

a bald man wearing a white hat and glasses is standing in front of a painting and says my honest reaction .

Alt: Pope Leo is standing in front of a painting and says my honest reaction .

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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 18h

I watched tog S3, e4 today. Spock: “Evil seeks to protect itself by suppressing the truth.”

LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 18h

And, “are you pro fascism or are you anti fascism?”

LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 18h

And they’ll reappear over and over just like Nixons, Reagan’s and Bush’s. Don’t forget how Cheney got his start.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · May 3

It wasn't until *2013* that the artist was revealed to be:
the white-spotted pufferfish (Torquigener albomaculosus), a tiny fish no longer than 10 cm.

The males create these elaborate, ornamented nests to attract females, then maintain them against dispersal by currents.

A small light colored fish with tiny fins and big dark eyes hovers in the blue water above a sandy sculpture that has concentric circles of varying patterns: big hills around the edge, then smaller, smooth ridges in the middle.

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The Liberator 🦋 @drnancysp.bsky.social · 19h

Sounds like a clear announcement to me! They’ve just openly admitted THEY ARE FASCISTS!!

Miss Chanandler Bong @debbeec.bsky.social · 1d

Its true.

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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 19h

Pope Leo is from Chicago.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

“I was struck at the beginning (of the video), it talks about the feeling of powerlessness, which I think is so much. I think it’s so important that we as a church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what’s going on in so many cities in the United States right now. At least the church cannot be silent,” the pope told the El Pasoans, according to a video of the meeting provided to El Paso Matters by Hope Border Institute.

Seitz responded: “You’ve spoken very strongly. We’re trying to do the same in our country and yet not get into the political fray the best that we can.”

Pope Leo told Seitz that he’d like to see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops become more vocal on immigration issues.

“I mean, even within the conference, there are challenges. That’s one place they should be … I wish they were stronger in their own voice,” Leo said, adding that Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the conference, should speak out more on immigration.

“There’s been some good movement in that sense, but I certainly intend to continue to encourage” U.S. bishops to address immigration, Leo said.

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Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · 19h

this should be on the cover of Time Magazine, specifically Man of the Year.

not that it has the clout it once did, but it's still out there & "normies" still read it

(also it'd give Trump the shits)

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 19h

They help me in my yard, in my house, at the store, restaurant, hotel, market, farm, fishing boat, marina…

LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 19h

Oh they hate Medicare too. It was designed by Truman et al to include everyone. They forced it to only cover the old and sick that insurance companies didn’t want anyway with the theory that it would break since it was designed to fail without also including young healthy in the pool.