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Windthin ~ Rebel Scum & Snark Jedi 🏳️‍🌈🌊🌻🐀💙🦜⚔️ @windthin.net · Oct 17

I make GIFs, infographics, memes, videos, & maintain large threads (mostly still on Twitter) fighting the horrors of the Trump regime & the GQP's insurrection.
Feel free to take anything I've made:
deviantart.com/windthin/gal... -My memesmithing
giphy.com/channel/wind... -Giphy Channel

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17h

The great actress Diane Keaton has left us at the age of 79. Too soon to say good-bye to the woman who made us smile at the quirky Annie Hall, and who broke our hearts in Reds. Your charm and talent will be sorely missed.

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Jim Stewartson, Antifascist @jim-stewartson.bsky.social · 15h

One look at Steve Witkoff’s portfolio and itinerary makes it clear: a shadow trilateral is forming between Trump, Putin, and the Emir of Qatar.

The goal is to isolate Europe, rehabilitate Putin, and use Qatari wealth to fill Trump’s pockets.
www.mind-war.com/p/shadow-tri...

Shadow Trilateral: Trump, Putin & Qatar

Steve Witkoff has been brokering a deal to isolate Europe and make Trump billions.

www.mind-war.com

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Windthin ~ Rebel Scum & Snark Jedi 🏳️‍🌈🌊🌻🐀💙🦜⚔️ @windthin.net · 14h

We just saw Good Boy, indie horror movie that took 3 years to make because it stars the director's untrained duck tolling retriever. It was great, and Indy the dog is my new favorite horror movie icon.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Rhinovian @rhinovian.bsky.social · 21h

This is not ominous at all. Just wait for legal settlements against Fox, Newsmax, Giuliani and others quietly go unenforced and 2026 elections suddenly swing GOP without any rational reason. Dominion Voting Systems sold to former Republican election official | CBC News www.cbc.ca/news/world/u....

Dominion Voting Systems, at centre of false 2020 election claims, sold to former Republican election official | CBC News

Voting technology company Dominion Voting Systems (DVS), founded in Toronto and a target of conspiracy theories in the 2020 U.S. presidential election spread by Republican Donald Trump and his allies,...

www.cbc.ca

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Windthin ~ Rebel Scum & Snark Jedi 🏳️‍🌈🌊🌻🐀💙🦜⚔️ @windthin.net · 1d

I was expecting this as soon as they started grabbing people, that some may have to hide others to protect them. I've been dreading it even as I hoped people would do so, would help their neighbors, and know I would if it came to that, in a heartbeat.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Windthin ~ Rebel Scum & Snark Jedi 🏳️‍🌈🌊🌻🐀💙🦜⚔️ @windthin.net · 1d

I see that we're scant inches away from the Anne Frank stage of this awfulness. Thank you to this man for finding his heart and humanity.

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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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

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RedBirb (The Internet Cardinal) @redbirb1508.bsky.social · 2d

Why are conservatives so damn obsessed with trans people? That’s not natural. It is not natural to be obsessed with a group of people in such a way, ESPECIALLY about their genitals. You’re not a warrior for common sense or anything like that, you’re just a pervy asshole who gets offended easily.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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Windthin ~ Rebel Scum & Snark Jedi 🏳️‍🌈🌊🌻🐀💙🦜⚔️ @windthin.net · 3d

So here is the part where we find out

A) Trump meant to tell Pam Bondi in private to prosecute James Comey and was surprised to learn he'd done so publically because he's that dumb.
B) Trump is sending official directives through Truth fucking Social.

Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 3d

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 3d

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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Windthin ~ Rebel Scum & Snark Jedi 🏳️‍🌈🌊🌻🐀💙🦜⚔️ @windthin.net · 5d

Fair, given how often we've seen him and his cohorts slip away through money and power. We need to stop having a world with two sets of rules.

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Windthin ~ Rebel Scum & Snark Jedi 🏳️‍🌈🌊🌻🐀💙🦜⚔️ @windthin.net · 5d

a man in a red jacket is eating popcorn while watching a wrestling show

ALT: a man in a red jacket is eating popcorn while watching a wrestling show

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Windthin ~ Rebel Scum & Snark Jedi 🏳️‍🌈🌊🌻🐀💙🦜⚔️ @windthin.net · 5d

If the state convicts him, Trump can't do a thing; federal pardons only apply to federal offenses, which is why Trump himself feared the case against him in Georgia so much, before it was quashed.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5d

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 5d

Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

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Windthin ~ Rebel Scum & Snark Jedi 🏳️‍🌈🌊🌻🐀💙🦜⚔️ @windthin.net · 5d

2/2 Authorities in at least 3 states have arrested individuals impersonating ICE officers at a time when real ICE agents have ramped up immigration enforcement efforts under the Trump regime, adding to existing fears of law enforcement among migrant communities. www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/u...

ICE impersonators on the rise: Arrests made as authorities issue national warning | CNN

Authorities in three states have made arrests in connection with individuals impersonating Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, as tensions rise amid a nationwide immigration crackdown.

www.cnn.com

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Windthin ~ Rebel Scum & Snark Jedi 🏳️‍🌈🌊🌻🐀💙🦜⚔️ @windthin.net · 5d

1/2 How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women

Kylie Cheung argues in this op-ed that a rash of cases of men dressing as plainclothes ICE agents and assaulting immigrant women is possible because ICE agents operate with impunity. www.teenvogue.com/story/men-dr...

How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women

"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.

www.teenvogue.com

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Windthin ~ Rebel Scum & Snark Jedi 🏳️‍🌈🌊🌻🐀💙🦜⚔️ @windthin.net · 6d

"Boring" comes to mind. Words like "curmudgeon" and "poseur" also.