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Edward Banatt @armavirumque.bsky.social · 5h

The key word is survival on the new frontier

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Donald Fagen – New Frontier (Official Video) [HD Remastered]

YouTube video by Donald Fagen

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Edward Banatt @armavirumque.bsky.social · 5h

Scott Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag

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Scott Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag

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Gilly @gillyarcht.bsky.social · 6h

Bird architecture FTW

Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · 1d

Back in the land of bowers this week! Investigating how male courtship signals are affected by urbanisation #greatbowerbirds @uniexecec.bsky.social

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 6h

As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 10h

This is what resistance looks like. Courageous Chicagoans follow ICE cars to warn others in the community of their presence.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

More and more Democrats are calling out the Mad King, you love to see it

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 9h

“This is a man who’s suffering dementia,” said @govpritzker.illinois.gov. “This is a man who has something stuck in his head … He doesn’t read. He doesn’t know anything that’s up to date. It’s just something in the recesses of his brain that is effectuating to have him call out these cities.”

Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations

Democratic governor’s comments came as he continues to oppose President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago area for deportation efforts.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 10h

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 10h

Wow, tell me more about Weimar Germany and what came after?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 17h

The Trump regime's war on Christianity continues, as regime troops attacks Americans across the United States and rounds up majority Christian immigrants, they've also targeted religious leaders.

Here the Trump regime ICE forces shot a pastor in the head in the latest attack on civilians.

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 12h

comin in hot ftw

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13h

McGovern: Republicans love to advocate for more work requirements for poor people… Let's have a work requirement for Republicans to show up to congress and do your god damn job.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

Kavanaugh stop

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Edward Banatt @armavirumque.bsky.social · 16h

Another Republican making case for Universal Healthcare. Git 'er done!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Dr Paul M @drpaulm.bsky.social · 1d

To close a Wells Fargo A/C, you must have a zero balance and no pending transactions. You can call customer service at 1-800-869-3557, visit a branch with valid ID, or by mail a completed Account Closure Request form if you are outside the U.S. Wells Fargo does not allow account closures online.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Kay Sage Appreciator @blurry-line.bsky.social · 2d

“Cold one” is an ancient euphemism that arose due to the fear that saying the word “beer” would cause one to appear

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

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Don Dechert @dondechert.bsky.social · 1d

Trump to exercise monarchic whim and illegally re-direct appropriations is how the headline should read.

Just again, spending and appropriations is a core power of Congress, not subject to the Executive's whims.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. there is the question of how the bond market will react to tariff revenue being redirected away from lowering the deficit.”

@barrons.com
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Edward Banatt @armavirumque.bsky.social · 1d

Albóndiga (meatball): From Andalusian Arabic البُنْدُقَة (al-bunduqa, “the hazelnut”), from Arabic بُنْدُق (bunduq, “hazelnut, pebble, bullet”), from Middle Persian pndk' (pondik, “hazelnut”), from Ancient Greek Ποντικόν κάρυον (Pontikón káruon, “Pontic nut”). #etymology

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alb%C3%...

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

Tell me where is fancy bred,
Or in the heart or in the head?

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Edward Banatt @armavirumque.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a top hat and bow tie is asking where is fancy bred in the heart or in the head

ALT: a man in a top hat and bow tie is asking where is fancy bred in the heart or in the head

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: ICE purchased custom-made vans from a company called TechOps Specialty Vehicles (TOSV) that are equipped with fake cellphone towers designed to spy on phones.

TOSV president said the company integrates the cell-site simulators into their vans, but does not manufacture the surveillance tool.

ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones | TechCrunch

The federal contract shows ICE spent $825,000 on vans equipped with “cell-site simulators” which allow the real-world location tracking of nearby phones and their owners.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Members of the GOP openly calling for a "cleansing."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Schmitt: "Let's just call it out. We need a cleansing here. Let's just be truthful about what's happening. This left-wing political violence is not a both sides thing. It's not."

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Edward Banatt @armavirumque.bsky.social · 1d

Who was in Miller's ear ripping him to shreds when he said what he said here?

Justin @justinskolnick.bsky.social · 1d

I am not a lawyer but “the president has plenary authority” is maybe something Stephen should not have said on TV

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 1d

Now: Debt Collective Raises Hand to Purchase Chunk of Federal Government Student Debt Portfolio

The Debt Collective has purchased billions in household debt over the past decade

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, after a new POLITICO report that the Trump administration is “exploring options to sell off parts of the federal government’s $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio to the private market,” the Debt Collective is announcing its willingness to purchase the entire portfolio for its true market value. The Debt Collective will then subsequently cancel the debt.

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Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration is considering selling off parts of the government's $1.6 trillion federal student loan portfolio to private investors, three people familiar with the discussions tell us.

What it could mean for borrowers: ow.ly/Zka650X7Zjb

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