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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1h

They created a fairy tale land for one grandpa and he's having the time of his life. His entire reality is like that thing where the brain releases a bunch of euphoric chemicals when it's dying

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: There's compelling proof that antifa did infiltrate on January 6 dressed up like Trump supporters and incited violence. Is that something you'd like the new J6 committee to look at?

TRUMP: Well I've heard that. Yeah. We will be acting on some of that.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 11h

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1h

donald trump is a fascistic leader who has surrounded himself with people who are explicitely pro-fascistic that want to end democracy as we know it and punish anyone who dissents. pretending otherwise leads me to believe you agree with them doing this

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 1h

This is really blatant pro-Nazi rhetoric, but also the House Un-American Activities Committee following WWII considered it suspicious for people to have been anti-fascist before Pearl Harbor. So like…not new

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

"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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onion person @junlper.beer · 59m

it always blows my mind when these people act like “the left just calls everyone nazis” these days and it’s like no. we’re calling nazis nazis! there just happens to be a lot of them in and around the government these days!

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1h

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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Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 1h

It's my job to take these transgressive apps and throw them into the big furnace for bad things. I love it.

404 Media @404media.co · 3h

BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE

🔗 www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 1h

Give it a name instead of a number. There's no rule against that. Of course, delivery drivers may have trouble finding "Fun with Dick and Jane"

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 2d

if you announce that you're breaking up with Nicole Kidman because she wanted too much sex you need to do it at a press conference where you're in a full body cast. just a little slit in the head area where a pair of wild, haunted eyes are staring out

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 5h

Whilst the FG candidate for president is seeking to exclude trans ppl, Catherine Connolly is seeking to include more Irish people. We need to move on from the politics of the past, towards a new Ireland, where everyone matters #SpéirGhorm

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nosé @lightblanket.bsky.social · 6d

We’re getting rid of leaf blowers by eating 50 leaves a day each. Get out there

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Eric Szyszka @szyszka.bsky.social · 2h

TRUMP: The Yuuzhan Vong stir in the Unknown Regions, folks. They’re bringing Chazrachs and they’re dropping Moons on Chewbacca. We love Chewbacca, don’t we? We do, we do. Good guy. Chewie. Dead. The Vong. Voong. Gotta be tough on the Vong.

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Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 2h

Anyone familiar with Dawson St will know how much space The Ivy has taken up with its outdoor tables it doesn’t use and the planters around it. Now it wants more but at the Luas stop. If you’d like to be able to walk down the street and not be in over by trams please think about objecting

An application for a table and chair licence for noted tip robbers The Ivy

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 5h

I think if we have reached the stage where people are pretending not to understand what a "lawyer" is in order to attack Catherine Connolly, that they really do have very little on her

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Gerry McBride @gerrymcbride.bsky.social · 6h

Niall Donald talking about how Jim Gavin ripped him off included the truest, most Irish statement I’ve ever heard in my life, like this absolutely would be what your friends would say to you in these circumstances

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2h

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Steph @stephanenny.bsky.social · 4h

Seems like an apt moment to recall the time Mícheál Martin accused me of propaganda against him in a 1:1 constituent meeting about the 8th amendment in 2013. Literally no-one else in the room like.

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 4h

Taoiseach Micheál Martin told Sinn Féin's Pearse Doherty today to stop shouting at him, telling him he doesn't have to be "Mr Angry" all the time. jrnl.ie/6838845t

Taoiseach tells Pearse Doherty to stop being 'Mr Angry all the time' during exchange on Budget

The Taoiseach defended the budget, stating that he was clear before the election what the priorities would be.

jrnl.ie

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 8h

Well that sucks for you. I guess your party is going to keep losing then

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 8h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 4h

Wish the Brits hadn't left so we could watch their skulls pop in two supporting this and then finding out those bastards in Brussels won't let us call them mincemeat pies any more

Elaine McGoff @elainemcgoff.bsky.social · 6h

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Veggie burgers’ could be off EU menu as MEPs back renaming plant-based foods

Proponents say move would strengthen position of farmers in supply chain but critics dismiss it as ‘hotdog populism’

www.theguardian.com

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 6h

WHAT ABOUT CATERPILLAR CAKES? PERCY PIGS? CREAM FLOUR? this is so stupid and embarrassing for any MEP who voted for this

Elaine McGoff @elainemcgoff.bsky.social · 6h

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Veggie burgers’ could be off EU menu as MEPs back renaming plant-based foods

Proponents say move would strengthen position of farmers in supply chain but critics dismiss it as ‘hotdog populism’

www.theguardian.com

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FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · 6h

Be the reason they start searching bags for googly eyes at the entrance to your local zoo.

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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 6h

So hang on the government line is now that the gardaí were aware that someone they deemed a potential security threat being let into Leinster House every day, but did nothing about it and told nobody?

This story has never made any sense, even less so now

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Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 6h

Is there a barrel bottom that hasn’t been scraped yet in the determined drive to attack the character and professionalism of the Left candidate who’s doing well in polls? Of course Catherine Connolly BL acted for clients on a normal disinterested basis!

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Catherine Connolly did ‘all types of work’ as barrister and represented banks during crash

Presidential election candidate says she was ‘obliged as a lawyer to act on behalf of variety of clients’

www.irishtimes.com

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 5h

This is actually 100% what they intend to do

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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haunted mentions @makeitsnow.bsky.social · 6h

antiwoke guy who wants to change the recycle bin on his computer back to the trash can

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