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Jacob 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇭🐧🌻 @seagulljaap.bsky.social · 21m

a man is sitting on a couch with his eyes closed and says that 's a shame .

ALT: a man is sitting on a couch with his eyes closed and says that 's a shame .

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Jacob 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇭🐧🌻 @seagulljaap.bsky.social · 1h

I'm a day late, but coming out is the best thing I ever did. Of course, it was very difficult and not an easy decision, but every day since then I am grateful for the resilience, grit, and compassion from my identity. No one can ever take that from me.

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GLAAD @glaad.bsky.social · 1d

HAPPY NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 1d

I hear Sen Mike Lee is butthurt about this depiction of his slavish devotion to a dictator because he so wants a seat on SCOTUS that he’s willing to sell us all out to a wannabe dictator and he hates people pointing that out

Geez. Should be illegal

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Jacob 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇭🐧🌻 @seagulljaap.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine my panic when I thought it was Montes. Such a total nut.

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Jacob 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇭🐧🌻 @seagulljaap.bsky.social · 1d

I initially thought you were talking about Montes. It looks like this candidate may claim that she's no longer a Republican?

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Jacob 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇭🐧🌻 @seagulljaap.bsky.social · 1d

The real War on Christianity.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

A group of hundreds of faith in coalition who started at a Maywood church just arrived at the detention center for a eucharistic procession.

They want to offer communion to detainees inside, but won't be able to get past the barricades and fence on Beach Street.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

It’s this multiple times a day

They don't even bother to lie badly anymore.
I suppose that's the final humiliation.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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Ben McAdams Memorial Act. but on BlueSky @purrtah.bsky.social · 1d

Ok so china tariffs again, UPS packages in shambles, airports in chaos, mass firings, and no government funding. What a day!

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Jacob 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇭🐧🌻 @seagulljaap.bsky.social · 2d

I've been with Taylor through literally all the eras. And people saying this have barely paid attention to her. She endorsed Biden. She endorsed Harris. Trump hates her so much. Travis took a knee. Let her live her life.

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Jacob 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇭🐧🌻 @seagulljaap.bsky.social · 2d

Why are we doing this lol.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 3d

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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Jacob 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇭🐧🌻 @seagulljaap.bsky.social · 2d

When you're dealing with trolls, the best thing you can do sometimes is troll them right back.

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 3d

The frog suit completely neuters the lie the admin wants to tell of violent resistance. Want to see so much more of it.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 2d

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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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

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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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 3d

@warnock.senate.gov: "As a man of faith, here's something that I have noticed about evil... Evil always gets a little bit too impressed with itself. It's filled up with hubris. Evil always goes too far, and because it goes too far, it contains within itself the seed of its own destruction."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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Jacob 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇭🐧🌻 @seagulljaap.bsky.social · 3d

Almost the one year anniversary since this. How's it going now Derek?

Opinion piece by Derek Hunter for The Hill called "Kamala’s newest lie: Trump will send the army after you."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

Or swear in a new member of Congress who was elected two weeks ago

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 4d

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 4d

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

have said this before but i am very skeptical about weiss’s vaunted charisma

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 4d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 3d

Brett Kavanaugh knew exactly what he was signing off on and he thinks it’s funny

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