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Dr. John Wagner @drjohnwagner.bsky.social · 11h

I feel your pain. But at least it's just one noisy shit. We had hundreds of noisy shits roosting in the trees. Once a car alarm went off right outside our flat and nobody knew it was going off for a half hour. I considered buying a BB gun in the US and trying to sneak it through customs. Ugh!

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Dr. John Wagner @drjohnwagner.bsky.social · 19h

Iconic. And another strong piece of evidence for Nuremberg 2.0.

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

True story, during the Great Recession, Airbus said that to survive it needed to open some non-EU factories in places with cheap, compliant labor, no environmental restrictions, and no meaningful labor law and after a lengthy internal study the two sites they chose were Bangladesh and Alabama.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Everything they are doing & saying right now is very obviously meant to clear the way for mass repressive violence.

Fact checking is not going to do shit.

Talking about kitchen table issues is not going to do shit.

We need open, unapologetic defiance & conflict.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Dr. John Wagner @drjohnwagner.bsky.social · 1d

That's not what's actually happening. These are just the things he says when he is asked why he is committing extreme violence in blue cities.

Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2d

The entire country is walking on eggshells because a madman is hallucinating about crime sprees and burning cities.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

this is incredible

Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 2d

If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!

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Dr. John Wagner @drjohnwagner.bsky.social · 2d

"Let's sit outside," she said. "It's such a nice day!"

Well it was until I got up to grab a coffee and an ibis swooped in and took my entire freakin' breakfast.

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Dr. John Wagner @drjohnwagner.bsky.social · 2d

When we lived on Elgin Street in Carlton, those noisy fuckers roosted in the trees running down the middle of the street and woke up the entire neighbourhood. Every. Fucking. Morning.

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Dr. John Wagner @drjohnwagner.bsky.social · 3d

The law is a contract between the government and its citizens, a contract that was forced upon me simply because I was born in Norther. California. That contract says I can burn down houses in exchange for 10 to 25 years of my freedom. Small price to pay for standing up to Nazis and Nazi violence.

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Kelly Welles @kellywelles.bsky.social · 3d

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Dr. John Wagner @drjohnwagner.bsky.social · 3d

"In the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, violent crime is composed of four offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Violent crimes are defined in the UCR Program as those offenses which involve force or threat of force."

Violent Crime

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Dr. John Wagner @drjohnwagner.bsky.social · 3d

War is hell.

Meidas Sassy™ 🐬 @filosia.bsky.social · 3d

Portland "burning to the ground".... 🤷🏼‍♀️

#StopTheMadness #StopTrump #Resist 👊🏼

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Dr. John Wagner @drjohnwagner.bsky.social · 3d

I consider abducting US citizens off the streets, tossing them in concentration camps with no due process and then keeping them there for unspecified periods of time to be violence.

Burning someone's house to the ground is basic, garden variety property destruction.

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Dr. John Wagner @drjohnwagner.bsky.social · 3d

I would interpret that as "I am free to go burn all your houses to the ground."

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Dr. John Wagner @drjohnwagner.bsky.social · 3d

I would donate to their legal defence fund should they be arrested for doing so. Jus' sayin'.

And if not, I'd donate to their hero fund.

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💧Bee 🐝🌿❤ @belindajones68.bsky.social · 3d

Today is the 236th anniversary of The March on Versailles, 1789

A women's march which helped spark the The French Revolution

They were pissed off about the cost of bread

Women couldn't feed their families so they started a revolution

Just sayin'
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The October march on Versailles

During the October Days, thousands of Parisians marched on Versailles. Some were demanding action and reform, some had more violent intentions.

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Dr. John Wagner @drjohnwagner.bsky.social · 3d

The United States military will have absolutely no reservations whatsoever about opening fire on Americans.

Dr. John Wagner @drjohnwagner.bsky.social · 3d

That remains the only evidence I've ever seen that he can read.

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Dr. John Wagner @drjohnwagner.bsky.social · 3d

Right out of the Nazi playbook.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

It is no coincidence that Trump, Hegseth, Miller, Noem and other members of the admin continue to make inflammatory partisan political speeches to military and law enforcement. They are conditioning them now to embrace the planned war to come - their war against other Americans.

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Dr. John Wagner @drjohnwagner.bsky.social · 3d

Imma just leave this here...
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Dr. John Wagner @drjohnwagner.bsky.social · 3d

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 3d

In a hypothetical where a subsequent president tries to undo this, I’m not confident that the masked guys with guns going around in moving vans abducting people are going to stop driving around in moving vans abducting people. The law enforcement-to-right wing death squad pipeline isn’t a mystery.

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 3d

It is fair to ask if -- assuming a change in political power happens goes through, etc -- if they'd relinquish their arms and assets if ordered to.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 3d

US immigration enforcement is now the 13th most well-funded military in the world, ahead of Canada and, incredibly, just behind Israel.

inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

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Dr. John Wagner @drjohnwagner.bsky.social · 3d

Kat is playing the video game Stray.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 3d

Producer Asha here to say Kat’s live and you should all stop by and say hi!!!! 😋twitch.tv/katabughazaleh

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Skeptical of these reports of IDF brutalizing and humiliating Greta Thunberg and keeping her in inhuman conditions. I mean she’s not a six-year-old Palestinian girl.

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