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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · Jun 14

Take off your masks

Lay down your weapons

Remove your armor

Repent & return home

Conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · Jun 13

From All Saints Episcopal Church in San Francisco 🕯

A church sign that says:
Marines, ICE agents, Nat'l Guard, Riot Police
My brothers & sisters in Christ or in conscience-
Their orders are immoral.
It is not too late to save your souls.
- Take off your masks
- Lay down your weapons
- Remove your armor
- Repent & return home

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 16m

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 15m

this has been broadly true of American conservatism forever

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 40m

Maga patriotism is just narcissism, America to them is what they see in the mirror not what it actually is—they’re incapable of loving that country bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 40m

Maga patriotism is just narcissism, America to them is what they see in the mirror not what it actually is—they’re incapable of loving that country bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 14h

My daughter has a school assignment to write a scary story in just a few lines, and I showed her this from Clickhole, which is some of the most efficient horror scripting I've ever read.

Clickhole headline: "Incredible! We Asked These Astronauts What It's Like to Be In Space"

Astronaut Barry Wilmore, pictured in an orange spacesuit, says "“You never know true beauty until you see Earth from space, or true terror until you hear someone knocking on the space station door from outside. You look through the porthole and see an astronaut, but all your crew is inside and accounted for. You use the comm to ask who it is and he says he’s Ramirez returning from a repair mission, but Ramirez is sitting right next to you in the command module and he’s just as confused as you are. When you tell the guy this over the radio he starts banging on the door louder and harder, begging you to let him in, saying he’s the real Ramirez. Meanwhile, the Ramirez inside with you is pleading to keep the airlock shut. It really puts life on Earth into perspective.”

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 10h

Music Time

Grateful Dead - Liberty - 3/25/93 Chapel Hill

YouTube video by Mark Scalise

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 10h

also there should be exploding helicopters

Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 10h

Give me entertainment that focuses on humanity over spectacle any day, while also embracing that they are not mutually exclusive but rather a delightful alchemy when both are paired and executed with sincerity of intent.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

FROGS TOGETHER STRONG is fucking incredible

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 11h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 10h

#peacemaker

We're Not Gonna Take It (2016 Acoustic Recording)

YouTube video by Dee Snider - Topic

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 10h

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 12h

Castle Films reminds you to position your archers behind stonework

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 11h

This is enough carbon-free energy to power maybe two thirds of Vegas btw

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 11h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 11h

Trump hiding under the Resolute Desk

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 11h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 11h

😂

Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 11h

"Guinness poured slow please"

Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 11h

"In conclusion, a diamond is a gem of many uses. Thank you"

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 11h

Johnny Cash didn't switch costumes with Elton John on SNL just to have some asshat call him "deeply uncool." I hate to even share this but the ratio is nice.

Left: Johnny Cash wearing a pink feather boa, a sparkly gold ascot, and gold glasses with pink feathers at the temples.

Right: Elton John in a black cowboy hat and leather jacket over a plaid shirt.

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 11h

Music Time

Sing Sing Sing - Louis Prima

YouTube video by Thelonious_159

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Comic Book Club @comicbookclub.bsky.social · 11h

James Gunn broke down in tears on the official Peacemaker podcast describing a Season 2 finale scene inspired by his father.

James Gunn Breaks Down In Tears Describing ‘Peacemaker’ Scene Inspired By His Dad

"And that's probably Peacemaker."

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 11h

"Conservatism is the desire to be a child"

NoxyMeArt @noxyme.bsky.social · Feb 17

Couldn’t say it better myself.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 16h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 11h

I think there's a lot of efficacy in repeating that Donald Trump seems to be exhibiting profound dementia, and we should be told who is actually running the Executive Branch.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 12h

JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE SNYDER CUT is also a perfectly fine prestige TV experience

Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 12h

this ruled SO HARD y'all

Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 12h

Castle Films reminds you to position your archers behind stonework

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 12h

the bicentennial in NYC was LIT and the 4th of July fireworks display we watched from Battery Park blew my child mind

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