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By Deb Weiers
“Self Portrait: The Scream”

Letterscratcher @letterscratcher.bsky.social · 4d

Posted @withregram • @heartlandsignal Chicago Alderperson Maria Hadden describes a recent ICE raid in the South Side.

"At one in the morning, they hovered over a residential neighborhood in an American city, and they repelled soldiers from Black Hawks.…

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Letterscratcher @letterscratcher.bsky.social · Aug 13

It’s hard to imagine that we will soon begin a new school year, acting like nothing is happening….

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Aug 12

Hillary has been right about everything.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · Aug 11

Washington DC has 702,000 people, is 45% Black and has 0 senators

Wyoming has 590,000 people, is 86% white and has 2 senators

DC needs a state with proper representation, not a military takeover

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · Aug 12

STATEHOOD FOR WASHINGTON, DC!!

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God @thegodpodcast.com · Jul 7

Trump couldn’t remember the Prime Minister of Japan’s name so he called him Mr. Japan. 🇯🇵

If Biden had done this it would have set off a thousand hours of nonstop coverage.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 8

it's amusing to me to see Trumpers banging on about Bondi orchestrating an Epstein coverup while refusing to devote an extra thought to who she would be trying to protect

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Larrish 💙 @larrish.bsky.social · Jul 8

🙂

I SURVIVED READING BANNED BOOKS
ALL I GOT WAS SMARTER AND MORE EMPATHETIC

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · Jul 2

SO OFTEN when you wonder why something seems off, you peel back the top layer of a news story and find layer upon layer of racism and bloodthirsty viciousness aimed at African Americans.

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · Jul 2

Christ, I just went down this rabbit hole and there is a LOT

Old cartoons of black people being used as alligator bait

"Seems like a good time to mention that white supremacists have had a long standing fixation with alligators eating Black and Brown people. This isn't new and it's not about 'illegal immigration.'"

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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · Jul 1

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Jeff Ament’s Army @jeffamentsarmy.bsky.social · Jun 30

#repost @officialament on IG
❤️can’t be said enough

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Pearl Jam @pearljam.com · Jun 25

A few of the many amazing skate decks for available for auction!
Proceeds from the auction benefit Jeff's Montana Pool Service, a non-profit building world-class skateparks and connect the youth communities in Montana through skateboarding and the arts.

Place your bid at: pj.lnk.to/tenclub-auctions

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Pearl Jam @pearljam.com · Jun 27

Freshly excavated from the Kevin Shuss Archives: tour passes, itineraries and hand written lyrics from Mirror Ball, released 30 years ago today! @neilyoungarchives.bsky.social

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Jun 29

This.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · Jun 29

I genuinely cannot believe how many Democrats are spending their energy on destroying Mamdani when the GOP is trying to turn ICE into a full on secret police by drastically raising their budget

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Letterscratcher @letterscratcher.bsky.social · Jun 29

(REALLY) Late to this party, but glad I’m here!
Soooo gooood.
What a sound track!
#peakyblinders

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Jeff Ament’s Army @jeffamentsarmy.bsky.social · Jun 13

#repost • @seancliver on IG
Check 1-2… check 1-2. Is this thing on? Been a minute since my last “hard” post, but this weekend has presented a curious moment in time to slip our Don Pendleton “Prophecy or Idiocracy?” series onto the @strangelove.skateboards site.1/2

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God @thegodpodcast.com · Jun 8

Trump clearly want to instigate catastrophic situations so he can declare martial law.

Too many people talking about how he’s all over the Epstein list.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · Jun 8

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security Functions

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

www.whitehouse.gov

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jun 5

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

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Letterscratcher @letterscratcher.bsky.social · Jun 5

Posted @withregram • @reshmago A lot of you asked if I’d put this in main feed, so here’s a snippet of my Mother’s Day conversation with my mom and aunt. I asked them what their favorite part of motherhood is, if they enjoyed being pregnant and if they ever wanted more kids.

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Victoria @burrddoh.bsky.social · Jun 1

#Caturday
h/t: Nathan Kessel

Man looking gloomy, holding his kitten:
When you had to spend $2,000 at the vet cuz he ate a piece of feta cheese off the ground & farted so hard it knocked him unconscious

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · May 31

from "this week in stupid," my wrap-up of the dumbest fucking shit that happened, in which Joni Ernst, Chris Cillizza, Jake Tapper and Donny Dipshit all act like the dicks that they are.
the whole thing is here: bit.ly/44XJDMA
thanks!
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)

Iowa Senator and pig-castration aficionado Joni Ernst held a town hall this week — and like so many Republicans, she encountered a buzzsaw of angry voters demanding to know why social programs were being gutted so that gazillionaires could get another round of tax cuts.

unlike others in the GOP, however, Joni maintained her cool. after she told a bunch of lies about how the real problem is “illegals” receiving Medicaid benefits (fact check: they don’t, because they can’t), the crowd started shouting “PEOPLE WILL DIE.”

no biggie, countered Joni, because —

‘well, we all are going to die.’

wait, what? why am I just hearing about this now?

my my, aren’t we fucking philosophical, Joni.

of course, some of us will die in bed, surrounded by our loved ones, and some of us will die face down in the gutter because we can’t afford medical care — but does any of that really matter? because in the end, we’re all just expired meat, right?

it’s a wise old saying: elect a bunch of psychopath clowns, get a psychopath circus.

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Letterscratcher @letterscratcher.bsky.social · Jun 1

Huarache at Los Ocampo on the East Side.
Next time I’ll ask for extra radish…

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Letterscratcher @letterscratcher.bsky.social · Jun 1

A little less plastic makes me feel a little bit better.