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Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside

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Writer. 20+ years in politics, advocacy, and labor. Masters candidate in counseling and clinical intern therapist. He/him. DC.

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Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · Nov 6

I know it's cringe as fuck, but small acts of kindness are going to be so important for the foreseeable future.

Being kind and doing kind things can be your lifeline. It can keep you sane.

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Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 8m

some might say antifa was especially big after the weimar republic

Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 1h

ok but personally I would absolutely be intimidated by a group of adult-sized babies

Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 1h

jfc y'all will literally print anything

Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 1h

I will see to it that you regret it.

Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 1h

STOPPPPPPPPPPP NOW

Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 2h

also for that jacket.

and that goatee.

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Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 2h

damn this was a good joke

Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 2h

Trump is openly saying "we took the freedom of speech away." He can declare any criticism an incitement to violence and use it to justify anything.

Again, we're less than a year in.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 2h

It continues to be impossible to talk about current events without sounding like a conspiracy theorist.

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Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 2h

Less than a year into Trump's term, he is making up a fake insurrection to seize control over American cities with the military.

Think about where we'll be a year from now.

Alex Koppelman @alexkoppelman.bsky.social · 3h

Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

www.nbcnews.com

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Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 3h

The irony of this is that it's supposed to be a defiant statement! "Kick us out of the Pentagon, we'll still report on the military." But using "Department of War" completely takes the bite out of it.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 4h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 3h

omg it literally includes a BOG

Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 4h

hi I'm a small government conservative and I think armed and masked thugs pulling over and chasing random people on the street is good

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 5h

I'm really looking forward to the OANN America's Real Halftime Show with Lee Greenwood, Kid Rock, and Carrie Underwood, hosted by JD Vance

Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 6h

Republicans do a good job of being unified these days, but the downside is that they all feel compelled to comment about the stupidest shit just because everyone else is. You can literally not say anything about who is performing at the Superbowl and no one will care.

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Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 7h

I had a minor obsession with the California Raisins, and one year dressed up as one with a trash bag and purple face, which in retrospect was definitely racist.

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Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 7h

pretty sure they were 50% polyurethane, 50% asbestos

Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 7h

YOU KIDS DON'T KNOW HOW GOOD YOU HAVE IT

two kids dressed in plastic halloween costumes from the 80s. one is gumby, with a gumby mask and pictures of gumby on their plastic jumpsuit, the other is scrappy doo, with a scrappy doo mask and a picture of scrappy doo on their plastic jumpsuit.

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Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 7h

real ones remember the days when costumes were just a mask and a plastic smock that said what the costume was.

like you'd have a ponch mask and your smock would say CHIPS with a picture of ponch and jon on their motorcycles.

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Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 8h

I wonder what it's like telling yourself "well, I guess I would have been a good nazi soldier after all"

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8h

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...