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Übermentions @ubermenchies.bsky.social · 11h

This is what "faith alone, not works" Christian theology begets.

Übermentions @ubermenchies.bsky.social · 12h

Next ask them if the government can disarm someone who abuses alcohol and watch them get their knickers in a twist.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 13h

Here’s the other big problem: Treasury Secretary Bessent is sitting on a massive Epstein file containing thousands more bank documents that would help us continue to follow the money through his sex trafficking ring.

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Übermentions @ubermenchies.bsky.social · 12h

They also made a deal with two convicted MS-13 leaders to release them in exchange for testimony against Abrego García.

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Übermentions @ubermenchies.bsky.social · 1d

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 1d

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Übermentions @ubermenchies.bsky.social · 1d

What's the plan for when Trump pardons everyone under his command at the end of his term?

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Übermentions @ubermenchies.bsky.social · 1d

And it sounds like he's planning to do the same to Colombia next.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump calls Colombia president ‘illegal drug dealer’ as US says it hit another ship

Trump vows to cut US funding as Pete Hegseth says US hit Colombian rebel group vessel and ‘three terrorists killed’

www.theguardian.com

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Übermentions @ubermenchies.bsky.social · 1d

After telling everyone the protests would be full of dangerous radical antifa terrorists hell bent on rioting and destruction.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

www.volkskrant.nl

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Übermentions @ubermenchies.bsky.social · 1d

There are several MAGA block lists and account labeling services you can subscribe to that will make the job much easier.
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Übermentions @ubermenchies.bsky.social · 1d

"brown substance"

Always with the sanewashing, these craven media outlets.

Übermentions @ubermenchies.bsky.social · 1d

That sounds a lot like taxation without representation.

Übermentions @ubermenchies.bsky.social · 1d

Weird that they hedge in the blurb but not in the headline itself.

Übermentions @ubermenchies.bsky.social · 2d

Confirmed: the Founding Fathers were communist radicals.

Übermentions @ubermenchies.bsky.social · 2d

That's a lot of Soros-paid communist radicals, no wonder the fascists are so scared.

Übermentions @ubermenchies.bsky.social · 2d

I regret to inform you that the antifa reference is also nearly a hundred years old.

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@UberMenchies

antifa began as Antifaschistische Aktion in Germany in 1932 and hasn't been an actual organization since Hitler took power and used his brownshirts to crush them, garnering public support for that by producing propaganda about antifa street violence. Sound familiar?

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Lee J. Carter
@carterforva
The history of Nazis holding rallies in left-wing areas of Weimar Germany, instigating street fights, and then telling the press that only they could save Germany from the "violent communists" seems like an important thing for people to be studying right now.>

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Übermentions @ubermenchies.bsky.social · 2d

Fairness Doctrine is to the left what the Smith-Mundt Act is to the right. But hey, at least they both still find common (though still incorrect) ground on §230!

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Arin Arcady @rnrkd.bsky.social · 2d

haha oh geez wow what a thing to ask for

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Übermentions @ubermenchies.bsky.social · 2d

So many dangerous radicals!

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Übermentions @ubermenchies.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone is twelve theory holding strong.

Übermentions @ubermenchies.bsky.social · 3d

Though it's getting little attention, her suggestion that Dems should be catering to Trump, the White House, and the Republican Party is just as sick.

Übermentions @ubermenchies.bsky.social · 3d

The 1932/33 playbook.

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Übermentions @ubermenchies.bsky.social · 3d

Trump isn't going to like that. Hope they make it back alive to tell their stories.

Übermentions @ubermenchies.bsky.social · 3d

She also apparently gave two separate statements that contradicted each other.