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Lingua Franca @triplozero.bsky.social · Feb 13

You can’t trust someone who doesn’t love Sesame Street.

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Lingua Franca @triplozero.bsky.social · 18m

More than one Ice agent is called Ices.

Lingua Franca @triplozero.bsky.social · 51m

The most devious part: Antifa HQ is located in the Fox Offices in Manhattan. By existing in a parallel universe of the mind, they can live rent-free.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 12h

i’ll never get over this

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 7h

😈😈

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10h

“The Founders would never believe that it would ever come to pass that one state militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution”

THAT PART!

Thank you, Judge Perry.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12h

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

All to cover up the Epstein files.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 11h

"...including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole."

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Lingua Franca @triplozero.bsky.social · 11h

There is no penalty for the government lying to a grand jury, is something Trump definitely believes.

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Lingua Franca @triplozero.bsky.social · 11h

Blackmail and hostage taking are the child fuckers’ whole bag of tricks.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17h

Chicagoans won a temporary restraining order today that prevents federal agents from using tear gas, pepper spray and other weapons against journalists and peaceful protesters.
We’re fighting back peacefully in Chicago because — unlike Trump — we believe in the rule of law.

Judge Rules Feds Can't Pepper-Spray, Tear-Gas Journalists After Block Club Chicago And Others Sue

Block Club and news organizations sued the federal government for its actions against journalists outside the Broadview ICE detention facility. Four of our journalists have been shot with pepper-spray...

blockclubchicago.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

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Lingua Franca @triplozero.bsky.social · 13h

The things people have to contemplate when an insane violent child fucker is president.

Lingua Franca @triplozero.bsky.social · 13h

To be fair, they were happy not to have another war criminal president in the US.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15h

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

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