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Sassafras

@sasuga.bsky.social

The sad thing about this metaphor is that Skeletor is far less evil than any current republican

June 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM

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praying mantis

@gentlem.bsky.social

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
#DJT-NM-infanticide
complainant in Los Lunas, NM

incident in 1984 reported as in Mona Lake, Michigan (which is adjoined to #LakeMichigan)

Pg 3 of FBI (NYS) report, included in Epstein files DoJ release, names Donald J Trump as a perpetrator in the sexual abuse & trafficking of a pregnant 13-yo & a witness to the murder of her newborn & disposal of baby’s body in Mona Lake, MI

January 1, 2026 at 6:40 PM

J Young

@john-y-3.bsky.social

Just so we don't lose the plot.

paulusg.bsky.social @paulusg.bsky.social · 8d

Anonymous
Dec 23, 2025
Epstein record EFTA00025010 is an FBI intake report dated 08/03/2020, an unidentified woman / victim reports Epstein trafficked her at age 13 and that she was raped by Trump, who later witnessed her newborn daughter be murdered and be disposed of from a yacht. #OpDeathEaters

January 12, 2026 at 2:25 AM

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Writerright10

@writeright10.bsky.social

Newly released Epstein file links Trump to murdered newborn baby dumped in Lake Michigan

www.rawstory.com/trump-epstei...

Newly released Epstein file links Trump to murdered newborn baby dumped in Lake Michigan

Donald Trump's name appears on a newly released Epstein file in which a purported victim makes allegations about a newborn baby being murdered and dumped in Lake Michigan.The Justice Department releas...

www.rawstory.com

January 6, 2026 at 1:10 PM

J Young

@john-y-3.bsky.social

Based asf

Matt Siegel @mattsiegel.bsky.social · 8d

"I’ve never burned a U.S. flag because I’ve read the history of the popular and workers’ struggles in the U.S. through Zinn’s books in Spanish. And that’s why I honor the American working people, the Black and Indigenous people, the young soldiers who, alongside the Soviets, defeated Hitler."

January 5, 2026 at 11:23 PM

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb

@nkalamb.bsky.social

Really, a remarkable statement from Colombia’s President.

I don’t know if Maduro is good or bad, not even if he’s a drug trafficker; in the files of the Colombian justice system, after half a century of dealing with the biggest cocaine mafias, the names of Nicolás Maduro or Cilia Flores don’t appear. Those who have come forward to denounce him are Venezuelan opposition generals, nothing more, seeking to topple the popular vote.

The judicial power in Colombia doesn’t belong to me; it’s independent of me, and my opposition largely handles it.

If one wants to know about the mafia and the business of cocaine commercialization, just look at Colombia’s judicial files.

That’s why I deeply reject Trump speaking without knowing; my name doesn’t appear in the judicial files on drug trafficking over 50 years, neither from before nor from the present. Stop slandering me, Mr. Trump. That’s not how you threaten a Latin American president who emerged from the armed struggle and then from the people of Colombia’s fight for Peace.

I was part of the clandestine organization that fought for democracy in Colombia against the civil dictatorship of the "State of Emergency." The organization that in 1974, long before Chávez, carried out the operation to raise Bolívar’s sword once more, who said he would never sheathe it until injustice ended in Gran Colombia. I was with the M19 that made the first peace in contemporary Latin America.

He doesn’t read Colombia’s history, and that’s why he fails when he criticizes us. He should only meet with his officers who are experts in drug investigations in Colombia, whom I’ve helped with my own investigations as a senator of the Republic from Colombia’s Left and its people,

who have suffered the narco genocide and its political allies, who are also allies of the American far right.

Tens of thousands of our comrades from the armed and popular struggle for democracy were assassinated, and we didn’t go begging you for invasions; we endured and won through Peace.

I’ve never burned a U.S. flag because I’ve read the history of the popular and workers’ struggles in the U.S. through Zinn’s books in Spanish. And that’s why I honor the American working people, the Black and Indigenous people, the young soldiers who, alongside the Soviets, defeated Hitler.

And that’s why I dared to speak on a street in New York in front of the United Nations building and under U.S. law that protects the opinions of those attending the United Nations Assembly to speak freely. I spoke against the genocide in Gaza—how I would have loved to accompany you to make peace in Gaza! Where the Palestinians love me, and perhaps if instead of

going to capture a Latin American president with small controls on oil because you blocked the oil and condemned us to hunger and unleashed the exodus that reached your own country, I would have accompanied you to capture Netanyahu, the genocidaire.

For what I said, you took the arrogance to punish my opinion, my words against the Palestinian genocide. Your punishment is to falsely accuse me of being a drug trafficker and having cocaine factories; I don’t have a car, nor estates abroad—my house I’m still paying off to the bank with my salary. It’s unjust, and I fight against injustices.

I’m friends with a lot of people in the U.S. who stop me on the streets, surround me with their arms.

That’s why I respect the history that began with Washington and Bolívar together; they gave each other things, they were liberators more than enslavers.

I learned not to be a slave, and I reject your

January 5, 2026 at 3:39 AM

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TizzyWoman

@tizzywoman.bsky.social

She said what she said. 🫰🏼

🗣️ ginnysaidso (IG)

January 4, 2026 at 9:20 PM

J Young

@john-y-3.bsky.social

Oh, right. Damn. Almost had me, ngl...

TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 9d

She said what she said. 🫰🏼

🗣️ ginnysaidso (IG)

January 5, 2026 at 2:01 AM

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Parker Molloy

@parkermolloy.com

This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner

January 3, 2026 at 2:42 PM

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨

@kellylynnedang.bsky.social

CALL YOUR FREAKING GOVERNORS TOMORROW. he's freely asking for war and bombs to fall here. HIM AND NETTY JUST PLANNED THIS. they JUST HAD NEW YEARS TOGETHER PEOPLE.

jfc, when will you all see the connections... you need to and fast.

January 3, 2026 at 8:23 AM

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Better Things Are Possible

@internethippo.bsky.social

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

January 3, 2026 at 3:57 PM

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨

@kellylynnedang.bsky.social

using the world "tribalism" in a negative way is anti-Indigenous. what you mean is groupthink, cultthink, jingoism, ethnocentrism, or nationalism.

December 31, 2025 at 12:03 AM

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g

@g--0.bsky.social

My theory is that bougie liberals understand that the drug war has always been an attempt at social control, and they think that's good, and applying murderous fascism as drug policy advances that aim in a way that makes them feel powerful

Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · Dec 4

Premier Eby will have announcement tmrw about "strengthening access to involuntary care for young people."

CMHA: "lack of evidence to support effectiveness of involuntary treatment for substance use disorder... evidence suggests it leads to an increased risk of death..."
bc.cmha.ca/news/involun...

Involuntary Care Already Exists in BC, But Is It Working? - CMHA British Columbia

VANCOUVER, BC – (September 18, 2024): On September 15, 2024, Premier Eby announced that his government is expanding involuntary care for people with brain injury, mental illness, and severe addiction....

bc.cmha.ca

December 4, 2025 at 10:39 PM

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𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒂 𝑯𝒊𝒋𝒂𝒛𝒊 🇵🇸🫒𝑰𝒏 𝑮𝒂𝒛𝒂

@monahijazi.bsky.social

I really need your guidance.
“I’m struggling to find the right words… my mind is tired from fear.
If you have any ideas to help me share my fundraiser, please tell me.
Your suggestion could save my children.”

December 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM

J Young

@john-y-3.bsky.social

It's almost as if this system was set up to be a tax-avoidance vehicle that stifles and throttles social progress. If so, it's working as intended. If not, "Big Whoopsie" I guess.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Dec 4

“Elon Musk’s charitable foundation grew larger than ever in 2024. But, for the fourth year in a row, the huge charity failed to give away the minimum amount required by law — and the donations it did make went largely to charities closely tied to Mr. Musk himself.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

Elon Musk’s Foundation Grows to $14 Billion, but Gives Little to Outsiders

www.nytimes.com

December 4, 2025 at 12:57 AM

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Marisa Kabas

@marisakabas.bsky.social

SCOOP: The United States Tennis Association (USTA) quietly updated its player eligibility policy to ban trans women from competing as women in their leagues, tournaments and competitions in order to comply with Trump's anti-trans sports executive order. The policy went into effect on Monday.

USTA bans trans athletes from competing as women to comply with Trump executive order

The national tennis governing body's policy change was made with no announcement.

www.thehandbasket.co

December 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM

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Marco Fuchs

@marcofuchs74.bsky.social

Friedensnobelpreisträgerin María Corina Machado, hat beim „America Business Forum“ eine massive Privatisierung ihres Landes in Höhe von 1,7 Billionen US-Dollar zugunsten von US-Firmen versprochen, sollte sie in Venezuela an die Macht kommen.

November 14, 2025 at 10:24 AM

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈

@danifroom.bsky.social

[trans people fired from all federal jobs]
[trans people fired from all military jobs]
[trans people fired from jobs everywhere]
[cis people fired for being accused of being trans]
[cis professors fired for mentioning trans people exist]
[trans teacher fired for giving a bad grade to Nazi]

liberal:

Bernard, a host from Westworld, physically and mentally unable to recognize evidence right in front of his eyes: "Doesn't look like anything to me."

December 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM

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Holger Meins, the people will avenge you

@endmatter.bsky.social

Please help Mona and Kinzy.

chuffed.org/project/mona...

November 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM

J Young

@john-y-3.bsky.social

This.

Heather Bryant @hbcompass.bsky.social · Nov 23

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

November 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM

J Young

@john-y-3.bsky.social

Signal boost.
youtube.com/shorts/uYC3a...

KENDRICK CONFIRMED FOR CAMP FLOG GNAW #relatable #kendricklamar #campfloggnaw

YouTube video by zaydante

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November 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM

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Kelly

@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social

$2000 won’t buy you healthcare in the US.

$2000 won’t give you “negotiating power” with insurance companies.

A one time payment is not a healthcare plan.

It’s time for Medicare for all.

November 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM

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Caitlin Johnstone

@caitoz.bsky.social

Treasure

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/treasure

Treasure

Listen to a reading by Tim Foley:

www.caitlinjohnst.one

November 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM

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Chantal James

@chantalalive.blacksky.app

I’m heartbroken to hear our warrior Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social has passed. She was so important to me & welcoming of me. This is the great loss of a true fighter. May she rise to power as an ancestor, may we never forget her lessons & continue her work for disability justice.

November 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM