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starting a fistfight at the family 4th of july bbq by reminding the divorced uncles that trump is a convicted felon

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · Jun 29

the great khan pritzker rallying his vassals as he prepares to wage war against the tyrants in washington

emily north @north0fnorth.tgirl.gay · Jun 29

google maps broke and created some kind of unholy chicago singularity

a bunch of labels in a circle around chicago

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 5h

we have an emoji on gary's discord that's just one of the member's cats doing this exact pose

peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 5h

having recently completed Persona 5 i can say this is absolutely true. the final journey that you make through the town to say farewell to everyone had me a little choked up

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 7h

I think this is pretty much true and why it’s important not just to defund police but also diminish their political power. Everything cops do is politics.

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 9h

i think this fundamentally misstates the constraint: if he uses the police to directly obstruct ICE operations, he gets hit with the Insurrection Act. if he puts the cops in a position where they have to choose which orders to follow, they will currently not pick the governor.

starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 10h

this kind of wishcasting around pritzker ignores that he hasn't once wielded the power of the state in a creative way since DHS and ICE invaded us

the rhetoric's good and he plays a governor on TV very well, but there's no evidence of a capacity for clever use of power, unfortunately

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 6h

getting your house bulldozed because a cop thought you were annoying, very cool and normal stuff

Patrick @looptrnnr.bsky.social · 11h

Don’t you, like, need a warrant or something?

Sheriff Wayne Ivey announced the launch of the Sheriff’s High Intensity Target Unit and highlighted its first action at a home on Seneca Drive. The property was demolished by the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office after officials said it had generated repeated law enforcement calls and was allegedly linked to ongoing criminal activity and neighborhood disturbances. Ivey said the new unit was created to address problem properties like this one and warned that another nearby house is next to be targeted under the operation.

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 7h

lmao, that's some amazing stuff [derogatory]

peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 7h

his dad was so dirty that GWB backed out of appointing him to his cabinet

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 7h

and we rode to school on horseback

peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 7h

wilson is the guy who got shitcanned for embezzling from the company, yeah?

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 7h

yes but we don't like to be reminded of it

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 7h

that's right

peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 8h

i have never heard of jay jones

peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 9h

what are the odds that donald trump has any idea who alfred nobel is or what he's famous for

peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 10h

well,

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 13h

D leadership would rather have a dead Congress member than one they do not control.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13h

the idea that the only way we can have a primary is to run a 77 year old career politician against a newcomer is a sign of a tragically unimaginative politics

We need retirement from being an elected official to be a thing for politicians

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is a rabid animal and must be put down. Its rogue agents must be unmasked, stripped of their badges, and prosecuted. Its leaders must be imprisoned.

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 1d

the democratic party's leadership is completely rotten and they all need to be shown the door

peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 1d

notably, none of the senate dem's party leaders voted to expand medical care for veterans

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

Only 10 senators voted for Bernie Sanders's amendment to reduce the Pentagon budget by 10% and instead expand veteran dental care:

Baldwin (D-WI)
Markey (D-MA)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murphy (D-CT)
Sanders (I-VT)
Smith (D-MN)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warren (D-MA)
Welch (D-VT)
Wyden (D-OR)

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 1d

in 2021 biden made one phone call to netanyahu and put an end to the israeli bombing of gaza

peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 1d

[country music in 1975] my wife left me, i got drunk & fought a cop, then i went to hell and challenged the devil to a duel

[country music in 2025] i was sitting in my $100k pickup and got scared by the sight of a person with blue hair

peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 1d

johnny cash literally proclaimed that he wore black as a means of representing the poor, the sick, the old & the imprisoned

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 1d

i will never get over greg abbott pardoning a murderer expressly because the republican base loved the guy who gunned down a left wing protester

peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 1d

i don't know if this makes for good politics but this is honestly the appropriate level of hatred to display towards the vast majority of elected republicans

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

yeah lol it's one thing if you're like "man these republicans just need to die ha ha" to some dem or whatever but he texted this TO A REPUBLICAN and then when the republican was like "bro, not cool" he responds basically with "YES THEY DESERVE TO DIE AND I HOPE THEY BURN IN HELL"

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 1d

spelunky lets you dig with a mattock, if you're lucky enough to find one. but mostly you'll be digging with bombs

peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 1d

oklahoma has a long history of defeating texas when it comes to red river rivalries

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