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drantonphibes.bsky.social
It's possible that this is one of the better Star Trek story concepts in quite a while.
trekcentral.net Trek Central @trekcentral.net · Apr 24
🚨 BOLDLY GOING….

Now this isn’t a crossover anyone was expecting!

Things get trippy in a bonkers new #StrangeNewWorlds x #SpongeBobSquarepants promo for P+! 🤯

#StarTrek
April 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
Bribe-taker Pamela Jo Bondi's first case of "Anti-Christian Bias" will be against Marjorie Taylor Greene for giddily celebrating the death of the head of the Roman Catholic Church.

I'm kidding. Pamela Jo only cares about people who differ with the political opinions of conservative Protestants.
April 24, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
In case you hadn't noticed:
April 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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jamellebouie.net
there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch
nycsouthpaw.bsky.social southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Apr 23
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
Tricia McLaughlin & @TriciaOhio 0... The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully. He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family. This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo's own actions and statements. In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'. 's account was false. According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency. After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying. He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson. "You" re not from here. Do you have your papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer, "New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested. Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read. According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name. Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade. The officer also signed the document, which said Hermosillo "read" the document or had it read to him. But Hermosillo said no one read him the document. Other documents created by the officer have inaccuracies. For example, the criminal complaint says that Hermosillo was detained "at or near Nogales, Arizona." But Hermosillo was detained in Tuscon, which is more than 70 miles from Nogales. John Mennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol, said that it was an "unintentional" error. Hermosillo said he was detained with about 15 other men in a cell at the Florence Correctional Center. He was served only cold food. He said he contracted the flu because "they have it cold in there and everybody's getting sick." Hermosillo said he requested medicine but was not provided with any.
April 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
This, as the Department of Education, now on life support, will use its remaining power and staff to begin collecting on student loans paused since the pandemic.
A tweet by matthew ( @matthewpheta ...) posted 5 hours ago reads, "the right thinks you’re a parasite if you can’t afford to pay off your student loans during a housing and cost of living crisis, but they’re totally fine with loan forgiveness when it applies to them." The tweet includes an image listing "10 Republicans who took advantage of PPP loan forgiveness but blocked student debt relief." The list includes: Marjorie T. Greene (R-Georgia, $180,000), Roger Williams (R-Texas, $1.43 million), Matt Gaetz (R-Florida, $476,000), Brett Guthrie (R-Kentucky, $4.3 million), Carol Miller (R-West Virginia, $3.1 million), Vern Buchanan (R-Florida, $2.8 million), Kevin Hern (R-Oklahoma, $1.07 million), Vicki Hartzler (R-Missouri, $451,200), Mike Kelly (R-Pennsylvania, $974,100), and Greg Pence (R-Indiana, $79,441). The image is branded with the logo "VL."
April 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
If we are going to be disappearing people, can this annoyingly simple-minded goblin be next?
April 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
Okay Markwayne.
April 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Mind-boggling that DHS's official position on this case is genuinely that a US citizen dad from Albuquerque visiting family in Tucson went up to a Border Patrol agent and said "Hi, I'm a Mexican man who entered here illegally, please deport me."

Do they think we are dumb?
Tricia McLaughlin @TriciaOhio The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully. He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family. This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo’s own actions and statements. Quote Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz · Apr 20 Replying to @FrankLuntz “He did say he was a U.S. citizen, but they didn't believe him.” An American citizen named Jose in Arizona was detained by immigration officials for 10 days. His family later provided officials with his birth certificat
April 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
drantonphibes.bsky.social
The cruelty is the point.
thebulwark.com The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Apr 22
"At the height of the Reign of Terror in France, Robespierre gave a speech in which he derided those who showed excessive pity for enemies of the republic." At one time, that would be sobering for folks on the right.
The Bizarre Right-Wing War on…Empathy?
It’s hypocritical and often misogynistic—and echoes totalitarian rhetoric.
www.thebulwark.com
April 22, 2025 at 8:09 AM
drantonphibes.bsky.social
Yeah, some of us already doing that...
gtconway.bsky.social George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Apr 20
so I guess for the foreseeable future I’m going to have to wake up every couple of hours in the middle of every night to refresh supremecourt.gov to see if anything new has happened in the ongoing case of 𝙐𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙚𝙭 𝙧𝙚𝙡. 𝘽𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙝 𝙤𝙛 𝙇𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙎𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙤𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙨 𝙫. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙪𝙡𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙇𝙖𝙬
Supreme Court of the United States Home
supremecourt.gov
April 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
drantonphibes.bsky.social
Gorka is an intellectual midget (I refer to intelligence, not stature) who could not find his ample backside with both hands. In the dark. Even if somebody handed him a flashlight.
Yes that is an extended metaphor.
kenwhite.bsky.social Leather Panel Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Nov 23
My best Gorka tweet, lost when I nuked my account there:

Wife: What is a Sebastian Gorka
Me: Imagine if Mr. Potato head got a doctorate in racism from a spätzle factory
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Nov 23
BREAKING

President-elect Trump says that Sebastian Gorka will be returning to the White House in the role he held in the first Trump administration: Senior Director for Counterterrorism.
April 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
Not the same indeed.
April 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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thebulwark.com
"Do you believe that anyone from America who goes into CECOT will ever come out? I do not. This is not incarceration; it is liquidation." This is the cause right now.

Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/bring-him-...
Bring. Him. Home.
Our cause is here; our time is now.
www.thebulwark.com
April 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
drantonphibes.bsky.social
This is EXACTLY what fascism looks like.
visionvideoband.bsky.social Vision Video - Dusty Gannon @visionvideoband.bsky.social · Apr 16
Fascism is here. Due process is dead. The Supreme Court is a hollow husk.
April 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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mluckovich.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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krassenstein.bsky.social
Imagine if these two people were president and vice president.
April 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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thewordbird.bsky.social
April 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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karaswisher.bsky.social
Absolutely
harrylitman.bsky.social Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · Apr 14
Tomorrow’s going to be a good stress test of the press. El Salvadoran President Bukele will visit the White House. At the press availability, every Q ought to be about Abrego Garcia: where is he now? Did US ask you to return him? etc. WH will hate, maybe try to prevent, so all should band together.
April 14, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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olbermann.bsky.social
Once again: Mr. Katz, and yesterday's stooge Mr. Kozak, and Mr. Homan, and Secretary Kristi Garden Noem, are IN CONTEMPT OF COURT - and in contempt of the laws of the United States. These scumbags disappeared an innocent man. At least one.

Judge Xinis must rule them in contempt AND JAIL THEM.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Apr 13
NEW: DOJ doubles down on refusing to follow Judge Xinis's orders. Today's status report contains nothing new. It again fails to provide information about steps they're taking to bring Mr. Abrego back), and arguably violates her command that a declaration be made by someone with personal knowledge.
April 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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olbermann.bsky.social
AMERICA DEMANDS THE ARREST OF KRISTI NOEM AND TOM HOMAN. For contempt of court

Now.

They were ordered to return the innocent American they DISAPPEARED a month ago

The Ted Bundy Trump rogue government must obey the law

GET THE ALL-NEW COUNTDOWN PODCAST: tinyurl.com/mvs7sxys
April 14, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
Tomorrow, El Salvadoran President Bukele will visit the White House.

The press needs to drive a wedge between him & Trump's lies in court that he has no power to get Kilmar Abrego García released.

"Why are you refusing to cooperative with President Trump to release innocent Kilmar Abrego García?"
April 14, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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aoc.bsky.social
20,000 in ruby red Utah on their feet, in community, and ready to organize for a better world.

A better world is possible.
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Apr 14
Strong moment from AOC’s speech in Utah
April 14, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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harrylitman.bsky.social
Tomorrow’s going to be a good stress test of the press. El Salvadoran President Bukele will visit the White House. At the press availability, every Q ought to be about Abrego Garcia: where is he now? Did US ask you to return him? etc. WH will hate, maybe try to prevent, so all should band together.
April 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM