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Crazy Italian Lady @tamaraitalian.bsky.social · 1h

Special visitors in the chapel, meal service, and “…any threats made against Maxwell, efforts to harm her, or attempts to speak to media outlets about her could result in immediate transfer to a higher-security institution…”

Jackie Gehring 💙 @jackielg.bsky.social · 1h

Tension rises at Texas prison after Epstein associate's 'mysterious' meeting: report

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Tension rises at Texas prison after Epstein associate's 'mysterious' meeting: report

The transfer of convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell to the Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas has drawn criticism from fellow inmates, who say her presence is altering daily life in a facility kn...

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energy9086.bsky.social @energy9086.bsky.social · 1h

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 12h

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Gabriel M Escobedo @gabriel-m-escobedo.bsky.social · 6h

We need to have a nationwide shutdown until demands are met.

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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 7h

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energy9086.bsky.social @energy9086.bsky.social · 5h

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Sharp Dressed Man 🇺🇸💙 @sharpdressedman.bsky.social · 1d

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 7h

Trump’s fraud stunt with the tariffs on China, cost the US economy $1.65 trillion, which was wiped out in seconds.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

oh this guy is delusional delusional

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 11h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7h

Back in the 90s when neo-nazi skinheads were everywhere, people wore colored laces in their Doc Martens to signify which side they were on. Red meant nazi, one black one white meant anti-racist, blue meant neutral, and green meant you like frogs and were anti-fascist. Been thinking about that a lot.

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energy9086.bsky.social @energy9086.bsky.social · 7h

Almost everyone in Trump’s cabinet has either been accused of or convicted of SEXUAL ASSAULT! This is why Trump won’t release the Epstein files!
GOP, guardian of pedophiles! They have all got to go!

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TheBlackDahlea @theblackdahlea.com · 7h

GOOD LET THEM PAY!!!!

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Crazy Italian Lady @tamaraitalian.bsky.social · 7h

It’s not him; it’s the people who support him. They are too stupid to know, and are not able to put “one-and-one” together when they go shopping. He knows it, though, and their stupidity amuses him, and boosts his ego because it confirms that he’s not the stupidest person in the room.

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The Calitaliano Kid 😎🇺🇦🗽 @moved2italy.bsky.social · 1d

Oh and there’s more!

Now #ICE is gassing Cops in #Chicago! 🤦🏼‍♂️

Yeah! This is how much they care about “law and order”! 😡

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ICE tear gassed 27 Chicago police officers, Superintendent Snelling says

YouTube video by FOX 32 Chicago

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 7h

need Sunday reading? explore what's on the ballot next month!

I put together the 180+ key races you should know about, across 32 states.

so explore, & find the ones that interest you the most, here: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

and let me highlight three under-radar races, in 🧵 below. ⬇️

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Catherine the Grateful ❌👑 @freeandclear1.bsky.social · 1d

I voted Yes on California Proposition 50!

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 8h

Until recently, it was rare for any DOJ lawyer to have a catchphrase — especially one used on social media to “own” opponents. But Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon does, and her online persona may be hurting her cases. https://bit.ly/4okeA47

Trump's Terminally Online DOJ Could Be Killing Its Cases Just to Own the Libs

Read more here.

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 8h

Stop calling for resignations and start calling for arrests.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 8h

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

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Bryan Godbe @bryangodbe.bsky.social · 8h

"In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence... Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education."
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MIT rejects federal funding deal with Trump administration

The deal would see universities cap foreign admissions, restrict protests and adopt a binary definition of gender.

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Crazy Italian Lady @tamaraitalian.bsky.social · 7h

“…football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.”

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Crazy Italian Lady @tamaraitalian.bsky.social · 7h

We have resisted for eight years. Aside from a few small wins, the regime continues to make significant progress. A logical person may conclude the time for resisting is over; it is time to give in or time to revolt. Historically, revolts are the only way regimes have been removed.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Chris Murphy: "Republicans are boycotting negotiations to reopen the govt bc they're desperate to raise premiums on people by 75% in order to finance their tax cut for the wealthy. The other reason House isn't in town? They're about to have enough votes to mandate the release of the Epstein files."

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Dean Blobaum @dblobaum.bsky.social · 8h

In our current politics "elite" does not refer to an economic class. It refers to a cultural class. The great achievement of rightwing propaganda has been to reframe resentment of capitalism into resentment of symbolic capitalism. "The professors are the enemy," as JD Vance puts it.

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Crazy Italian Lady @tamaraitalian.bsky.social · 8h

You know, it’s hard to deny so many things that point to them playing the “good cop” role in the biggest con on humanity ever. It was easy to think they were just being classy, strategic, and methodical over the last 8 years, but here we are - and this, alone, should alarm reasonable people.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 1d

I was born and raised in CAs Central Valley and I'm voting #YesOnProp50. Farm workers and people of color are suffering under this administration's racial profiling. Prop 50 gives us the opportunity to fight back on the power grab that TX Republicans and Trump are attempting.

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