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Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 5h

The Usual Suspects

The scene from The Usual Suspect where the hospitalized guy in bandages with an oxygen tube yells KEYSER SOZE except in this meme he's saying CARSON SOUCY

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 6h

Here we go again

The Felon and Leticia James clinging to 40 Wall street as the gif rocks back and forth

Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 7h

Hell to the YES

Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 7h

It's going to be spectacular when Lindsey Halligan is disbarred and mark my words, it's gonna happen.

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 8h

As with Comey, the charges against Letitia James have no signature other than Trump’s handpicked personal attorney Lindsey Halligan.

No line prosecutor signed this document.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 9h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 7h

U.S. District Judge April Perry's temporary restraining order is in:

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Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 7h

Trump talking to Obama at President Carter's funeral, Obama is laughing while Trump says "DON'T KNOW IF YOU HEARD BUT I'M GONNA BUY GREENLAND"

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 16h

For what it's worth, the Nobel Peace Prize was decided weeks ago. Trump and his team know that. They know he's not going to get it. But announcing this deal right before the new laureate will be revealed allows him to play a victim and pretend it's rigged.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 16h

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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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 16h

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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Mzbitca @mzbitca.bsky.social · 17h

I think also, for anyone who wants a life after Trump, your choices are either go all in, hope for a pardon if things go south, and assume the right wing infrastructure will hire you after. If you want a career in a legitimate institution or field that doesn't help you much, even w/a pardon

Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 17h

I’ll say it again:
I believe the reason Bondi, Miller, Patel etc etc keep acting so defiant is because they’ve all been been told The Felon will blanket pardon everyone who worked for or carried out orders from his administration.

The DOJ minions haven’t been given such assurances.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18h

Crucial from former prosecutor @kristyparker.bsky.social: Trump might have immunity, but those who commit corrupt or illegal orders for him do not. That's why DOJ insiders are leaking word that cases against Comey and Letitia James are collapsing.

All on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2015...

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Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 15h

Portland City Attorney to US DOJ: “Please Do Not Fail America”
www.portlandmercury.com/news/2025/10...

Portland City Attorney to US DOJ: “Please Do Not Fail America”

Portland’s city attorney says federal police are brutalizing protesters, and the government is weaponizing its longstanding settlement agreement with the city. In response to an investigation launched...

www.portlandmercury.com

Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 17h

I’ll say it again:
I believe the reason Bondi, Miller, Patel etc etc keep acting so defiant is because they’ve all been been told The Felon will blanket pardon everyone who worked for or carried out orders from his administration.

The DOJ minions haven’t been given such assurances.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18h

Crucial from former prosecutor @kristyparker.bsky.social: Trump might have immunity, but those who commit corrupt or illegal orders for him do not. That's why DOJ insiders are leaking word that cases against Comey and Letitia James are collapsing.

All on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2015...

Trump Threats to Jail Foes Take Darker Turn with Damning New DOJ Leaks

As ugly new information emerges about Trump’s efforts to prosecute James Comey and other enemies, a former federal prosecutor explains how his corrupt schemes are running into stiff internal resistanc...

newrepublic.com

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Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 1d

Start spreading the news...

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Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a kitchen is smiling and saying yes , yes i do

Alt: a man in a kitchen is smiling and saying yes , yes i do

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Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 1d

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Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 1d

In 2020 DHS had no proof #Antifa existed at all, yet were still directed to claim Antifa was behind Portland's protests, illegally search phones & create dossiers on journos & protestors.

They did:

DHS leaders pushed unfounded antifa conspiracy at 2020 Portland protests
www.opb.org/article/2021...

Senior Homeland Security leaders pushed unfounded antifa conspiracy at 2020 Portland protests, report states

A damning Department of Homeland Security internal report outlines how senior leadership pushed unfounded conspiracies about antifascists, encouraged staff to violate constitutional rights, and made s...

www.opb.org

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

No one signs up for the National Guard thinking, “One day, I’ll invade Oregon.”

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Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah man, NEVER order the coffee or tea. Our neighbor was a Flight Attendant and she warned us off decades ago. She also taught us to roll our clothes when we pack to save space.

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Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 1d

Welp cross Blumhouse off the list of trusted creators.

Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 1d

In 2020 DHS had no proof #Antifa existed at all, yet were still directed to claim Antifa was behind Portland's protests, illegally search phones & create dossiers on journos & protestors.

They did:

DHS leaders pushed unfounded antifa conspiracy at 2020 Portland protests
www.opb.org/article/2021...

Senior Homeland Security leaders pushed unfounded antifa conspiracy at 2020 Portland protests, report states

A damning Department of Homeland Security internal report outlines how senior leadership pushed unfounded conspiracies about antifascists, encouraged staff to violate constitutional rights, and made s...

www.opb.org

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Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 22d

Antifa in America is a construct.

In Trump's 1st term they invented this bogeyman to direct anger at the Left. Now they want to reap the crops they planted all those years ago.

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Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 24d

AntiFa in America was basically invented by Trump's Homeland Security in his 1st term. They admitted it:
gizmodo.com/donald-trump...

Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump

A new Homeland Security report details orders to connect protesters arrested in Portland to one another in service of the Trump's imaginary antifa plot.

gizmodo.com

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Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 1d

Sad white supremacist & Nazi Elon Musk crying during an interview

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

ngl we can try to rationalize as much backsliding as we want but “game cancelled because black protagonist killing white terrorists during reconstruction deemed too political” is pretty bad as far as I consider things re: mainstream popular culture

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

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

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

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

www.gamefile.news

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