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ForeverExpat @guiri99.bsky.social · 18h

Blue states should also begin looking for ways to avoid paying into federal coffers. No idea how that works but it’s clear that the fed taxes are never coming back their way. Plus it will starve the perpetually bailed out red states of their critical funding.

ForeverExpat @guiri99.bsky.social · 20h

Whenever he does the hand-accordian gesture, he knows he's struggling with coherence. The rest of the time he does not have enough self-awareness to know how incoherent he sounds.

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ForeverExpat @guiri99.bsky.social · 20h

+4hrs of mindless drivel dosed in continuous minutes-long chunks wreaks of addiction. Even the most banal TV sitcoms have narrative arcs. Chats have a social component. Gaming can be both. Can you learn the activitiess they replaced with this new “entertainment” and how they feel after +4 hrs.

ForeverExpat @guiri99.bsky.social · 21h

Your right. CREC, NAR leaders and “disciples”, Hogseth’s church, Flynn, ties to White Nationalism, etc This should all be clear to citizens but you have to go to outlets like the Lancaster Examiner to find any decent coverage. bsky.app/profile/lanc...

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ForeverExpat @guiri99.bsky.social · 21h

Weasel lawyer words.

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ForeverExpat @guiri99.bsky.social · 1d

He has Putin’s dead, joyless eyes.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Trump says he will “have to take a look at” a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell after the Supreme Court rejected her appeal today. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.

Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking

Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.

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ForeverExpat @guiri99.bsky.social · 2d

Ellison’s son has a sneer rather than a smile. Like so many children of the ultra rich, likely emotionally scarred and with a perverted vision of the world

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

“There’s a baby!”

Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

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Sherry @sherry2.bsky.social · 3d

The US $20 Billion bailout of Argentina helped billionaire Robert Citrone, asked his friend, Scott Bessent, to bail out Argentina after his fund invested heavily in Argentina bonds
2 weeks before bailout announced, Citrone bought more bonds for next to nothing

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UPDATE: Hedge fund billionaire pressed Treasury Secretary for Argentina bailout, Argentine media reports

Rob Citrone, whose hedge fund bet big on Argentina, reportedly asked his friend for a rescue package. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent delivered.

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ForeverExpat @guiri99.bsky.social · 3d

Note that just prior to the 2nd ICE agent coming to pepper spray her, the ICE agent she was needling was pulled away by a 3rd agent to avoid him getting accidentally sprayed. So the spraying wasn't a spontaneous reaction, it was discussed off camera with other ICE agents. Planned and premeditated.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 3d

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

CNN @cnn.com · 4d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

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ForeverExpat @guiri99.bsky.social · 3d

Meanwhile, unprosecuted white collar crime is skyrocketing in DC both in frequency and size of graft.

ForeverExpat @guiri99.bsky.social · 3d

Kleptokakistocracy.

ForeverExpat @guiri99.bsky.social · 3d

What’s new in the last 8 months is the fall of the elite leadership class. More than a political movement, fascism needs to capture institutions as part of its “return to a glorious past”. Watching CEOs, university boards, law firms kiss Trump’s ass has made the fall to fascism seem more sudden.

ForeverExpat @guiri99.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe we can say fascism slide began with Trump 2016. I would argue that from a political view the slide towards fascism came with Fox News and McConnell’s lock step efforts to obstruct Obama. GOP had a state media that would make Pravda blush.

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ForeverExpat @guiri99.bsky.social · 3d

Not quite. “You liked a video about a swan so we will increasingly show you outrageous swan videos including hilarious swan “fails”, a flock of swans that tragically flew through a shooting range, backroom competitive swan fighting…”

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Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 3d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 4d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies

U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 3d

The NYT story left out the Charlie Kirk angle, but they did a good job proving that this 17-year-old creep was passing around nudes of his underage classmates. NYT saw the screenshots and the threats to produce more, implying that he was making deepfakes.

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 3d

The headlines do not even scratch the surface. A 17-year-old misogynist fan of Charlie Kirk and Andrew Tate stalked one of the victims for months then ran her down seeking revenge for a “child porn” related accusation she made to police against him. Textbook creep.

Vincent P. Battiloro harassed teen girl, ranted about ‘vengeance’ in livestreams before deadly crash

Vincent Battiloro, 17, intentionally hit Maria Niotis and Isabella Salas with a vehicle in Cranford while doing 70 mph, authorities said.

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ForeverExpat @guiri99.bsky.social · 3d

The YouTube algorithm has infested my feed with "I travelled to Russia. Western propaganda has been lying to us!" videos. The most recent had 100s of comments of people saying "Yes, me too! I travelled to Russia and I loved it." Seems Putin needs more conscripts for his "special miliary operations".

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ForeverExpat @guiri99.bsky.social · 3d

Look how they're friggin' dressed! Camouflage and full gear. Ready for war. Why don't they even understand that this is insane! We must never get used to this.

ForeverExpat @guiri99.bsky.social · 3d

When DHS has on numerous occasions accused bystanders and victims of "assault" only to have the accusations be tossed out of court, it's really hard to believe anything they say about how these paramilitary goons are threatened by citizens.

ForeverExpat @guiri99.bsky.social · 3d

Recall when he admitted that Haitians weren't eating cats. "If I have to create stories [i.e. lies about immigrants] so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people [i.e. make strawman arguments], then that’s what I’m going to do." He's pathological.

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ForeverExpat @guiri99.bsky.social · 3d

I wish more media would pick up stories about NAR and the other whacko evangelical offshoots that run through the Trump admin. Journalists can't use typical political lenses to explain their bizarre and iconoclastic policy choices. They're using govt to destroy govt and to establish a theocracy.

Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 3d

🎯"Our previous Awakenings not only strengthened Christianity in America but also led to greater national unity and a host of beneficial social reforms.... The NAR movement seems less of a new Great Awakening and more of a long-delayed backlash to the previous Awakenings."

Barbara O'Brien @mahabarbara.bsky.social · 3d

This is a history post that points to the rise of the New Apostolic Restoration (NAR), a truly dangerous new movement that makes standard right-wing evangelicals look like cupcakes. NAR has a lot of clout in the Republican Party and Trump Administration. www.patheos.com/blogs/therel...

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ForeverExpat @guiri99.bsky.social · 3d

Quiz: Which did Charlie Kirk say?
A) “Birth control really screws up female brains...creates very angry and bitter young ladies.”
B) “If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified.’”
C) “Having children is more important than having a good career"
✅ All of the above

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