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🇺🇸 Pithy Packy 🇳🇱 @pithypacky.bsky.social · 10h

“Stand tall. We will win. That is all.”

a man holding a briefcase with the words oh yes written below him

ALT: a man holding a briefcase with the words oh yes written below him

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 16h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Trevor WH 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 he/him @elvis15.bsky.social · 19h

This is actually a part of Biden's presidency instituted to allow the Qatari pilots to train on the F-15s they are receiving as a part of a $12B sale. It's certainly possible Trump and Hesgeth have made it worse, but more likely they're just taking credit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

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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Sharky 🦈 @sharky.bsky.social · 15h

Trump can still win the Nobel Peace Prize if Mike Pence has the courage.

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🇺🇸 Pithy Packy 🇳🇱 @pithypacky.bsky.social · 15h

Lol.

🇺🇸 Pithy Packy 🇳🇱 @pithypacky.bsky.social · 20h

Happy Fwiday Waffles dude!

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🇺🇸 Pithy Packy 🇳🇱 @pithypacky.bsky.social · 20h

My sincere condolences. 💔

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🇺🇸 Pithy Packy 🇳🇱 @pithypacky.bsky.social · 3d

“…we are compelled to speak with one voice to say that the actions of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are endangering the health of the nation…the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.”

🎁 article 👇🏼

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

wapo.st

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Aunty-Fa @auntyfa.bsky.social · 2d

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Aunty-Fa @auntyfa.bsky.social · 19d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8AG...

IT AINT GONNA GO AWAY - ODE TO THE EPSTEIN FILES

YouTube video by Cathy Fink Marcy Marxer

www.youtube.com

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🇺🇸 Pithy Packy 🇳🇱 @pithypacky.bsky.social · 2d

Only 2 in 5 Republicans is a disgrace.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 3d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

www.nytimes.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

SEN. HIRONO: “Did you approve shutting down the bribery investigation into Homan?”

BONDI: “Are you Antifa?” 🤡

(That’s a yes)

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🇺🇸 Pithy Packy 🇳🇱 @pithypacky.bsky.social · 3d

“…we are compelled to speak with one voice to say that the actions of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are endangering the health of the nation…the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.”

🎁 article 👇🏼

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

wapo.st

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 3d

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 3d

@patbyrnes.bsky.social

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 3d

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3d

In this Ohio diner, conversion therapy is what the Browns and Bengals need after going 7 for 23 on third downs this weekend. But they do know this: if a Christian minister can't make your kid straight, no one can.

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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 3d

It's always funny how many of these dorks love religion until it says to be a good person.

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🇺🇸 Pithy Packy 🇳🇱 @pithypacky.bsky.social · 3d

Founding Father James Madison: “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”

Prescient.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4d

New on MSNBC: Trump's new acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan has recruited prosecutors from outside her office to take James Comey to trial, after being unable to find any federal prosecutors in her own office willing to pursue the charges, according to two people familiar with the selections.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4d

Rayfield: When Trump learned that this was a judge who was appointed by him, he said he wasn’t served well.

To have any president or any politician in America say a judge is not serving them—words can’t even describe how backwards that is.

Phang: He’s not the king. He’s the court jester.

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🇺🇸 Pithy Packy 🇳🇱 @pithypacky.bsky.social · 4d

…Trump says, as he rubs his hands together with glee.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

71.5% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to government data.

Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”

As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4d

With the Opus Dei court, the sole question is: how much damage can we visit on America and its Constitution this term? How much progress can we make in building our signature authoritarian state with Trump at the helm? Don't underestimate them for a second. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Supreme Court v. Democracy

The Nation’s justice correspondent previews the court’s coming term—and explains why it will never stand up to Trump.

www.thenation.com

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