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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 2h

Like Heritage Foundation, Thiel is close to Opus Dei. When Thiel was at Stanford, he was mentored by Arne Panula, an Opus Dei priest. Opus Dei works closely with the Catholic Information Center (CIC).

@dissentinbloom0.bsky.social

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The Real Power in America? People You Can’t Vote Out

This is what happens when billionaires, churches, and politicians team up to overthrow the country.

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 2h

What a spiritual practice actually looks like:

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 2h

Painting created by Mavis Oultram c.1968, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital in Surrey where she was compelled to live.
This is one of six surviving works by her, all of which feature motifs of spirals & eyes.
No biographical information is currently known to us

A watercolour painting of multiple human eyes of various colours surrounded in scrolling spirals in dark grey on a greenish blue background suggesting water

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 2h

I mean ... this fox speaks for all of us ...

Hourly Foxes @foxes.hourly.media · 2h

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 1d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14h

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

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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.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 9h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 5h

Bwahahahahaha

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

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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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 6h

So they weren’t peaceful tourists? I’m losing the plot.

(Also, that means he pardoned Antifa, in case anyone cares)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

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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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 8h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of anti fa"

the founder of anti fascism

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 8h

Every - real - happiness - for - man - can - arise - exclusively - only - from - some - unhappiness - also - real - which - he - has - already - experienced.

- #Gurdjieff, ‘Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson’

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 15h

"Antifa-led hellfire"

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help

For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property —

www.whitehouse.gov

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 13h

Along with other journalists, I was recently shot at multiple times (once successfully!) over the course of 2 days by federal agents with pepper balls. So maybe I was too busy dealing with that to write about.....antifa violence lol.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 15h

"Antifa-led hellfire"

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help

For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property —

www.whitehouse.gov

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@dlp. @umadlp.bsky.social · 20h

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”

Henry David Thoreau.

ph. @Keiichi Ichikawa.

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 13h

The death of a 15-week-old baby in an unlicensed home daycare in Victoria’s north-east is among more than two dozen disturbing childcare incidents recorded in government documents unearthed by the ABC.

Fears baby's death in illegal childcare centre is 'tip of the iceberg'

The death of a 15-week-old baby in an unlicensed home daycare in Victoria’s north-east is among more than two dozen disturbing childcare incidents recorded in government documents unearthed by the ABC.

www.abc.net.au

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 19h

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 14h

The Marvelous Health Benefits of Chocolate: A Curious Medical Essay from 1631

When coffee first came to the western world during the 17th century, it didn't taste particularly good. So the people importing and peddling the new commodity talked up the health benefits of the new ...

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 19h

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip

Turns out the cop was also an abuser

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 14h

Well live long enough and you live to see your liberal heroes become fascists

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 14h

Trump critic James Comey pleads not guilty to charges that he made false statements to Congress.

Ex-FBI chief Comey pleads not guilty in case pushed by Trump

Trump critic James Comey pleads not guilty to charges that he made false statements to Congress.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

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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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 19h

“Supercharging searing civil tensions over jarring high-profile events drives attention, jolts low-propensity voters out of their information ruts, and compels them to really take sides.” Yep, @gregsargent.bsky.social.

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Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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