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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 4h

You've finally made it when that unhinged lunatic starts coming after you publicly

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 5h

"Every circumcised male employee is fired!" "Open your desks! who is hiding Tylenol in their desks!"

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 9h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 9h

If you put -ai at the end of your search, it will also exclude AI results

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 10h

Here's the reality: On any given day the President might impose an effective embargo on trade with China. This is the second time he's done it *this year*. They may patch it up again, but the pattern has been set, and it will shape expectations for the rest of his term.

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 11h

If only the Democratic party was this aggressive when they are in control, a man can dream.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 11h

Suspect Guilty GIF

ALT: Suspect Guilty GIF

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 14h

As expected after NPSM7, this is how it is going to be going forward: Everyone against them is secretly an Antifa agent and therefore whatever violence is inflicted upon them is justified.

Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 14h

A Newsmax host defended ICE agents shooting a minister in the head with a pepper ball by falsely claiming he was “actually an antifa member masquerading as a pastor.”

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah we're seeing Thune and Johnson on the backfoot talking about healthcare already. Vought's 'we have to do more mass firings and refuse back pay because of the shutdown' idea is probably going to backfire pretty badly too.

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 14h

The worst people in America don't like you, sounds like you are doing good work then.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15h

Hegseth sucks. The Qataris suck. But we aren’t giving Qatar an airbase in Idaho. It’s building dorms etc. at an existing base to train them on F-15s we sold them, just like Singapore already has there. Common arrangement we have with lots of countries. This one was already being planned under Biden.

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 17h

The former governor, son of another former governor, who lives in a mansion outside of the city, thinks Zohran is there to serve the rich by *checks notes* makes public transit more affordable and reliable? Did he write this himself?

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18h

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 17h

Guys, they've been saying this about every protest for a decade. Don't let it get into your heads.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 17h

This is Hegseth trying to make it sound like a bigger deal than it is. We have friendly foreign air forces in the US for training exercises and the like all the time, especially ones that use US equipment. That's what this is. It's not like an operational deployment or giving them a whole airbase.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 17h

What a load of chest pounding cope. China controls most of the rare earth mineral refineries in the world, this is not some new development. This sounds like their trade negotiations have stalled out and he is trying to give himself an out.

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 18h

So he's definitely rapidly deteriorating then? This all seems like 'bucket list' type stuff for one vainglorious special boy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 1d

The Koch brothers founded/funded Cato institute is on their shit list now?

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 1d

Cancelling a 6200MW project when electricity costs are spiking across the nation from data centers is ........ a choice.

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 1d

a nun says here we go in front of a flag

ALT: a nun says here we go in front of a flag

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 1d

So he's just like mainlining mercury or something? because this shit sounds insane to come out of a person's mouth with that much money and power.

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 1d

YIKES

🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 1d

Truly a warzone, the city may never recover. They are performing triage at OMSI.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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