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OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 3m

And if she did commit perjury, who would have done what now? (That's a rhetorical question because the answer's obvious.)
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Crafty Bondi (Probably) Avoids Perjury by Simply Refusing to Answer Questions - WhoWhatWhy

Pam Bondi did the equivalent of

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OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 4m

"The tricycle ridden by Shinichi Tetsutani [pictured] when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima..."
Via www.vintag.es/2025/10/shin...

OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 21m

Obviously, this would cut both ways.
So query: Would the Democrats care and bother with it?
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Election Denier Tries To Make It Easier For Candidates To Challenge Voting Rules

Rep. Mike Bost (R-IL), who voted in 2020 to overturn the presidential...

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OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 23m

Obviously related: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/top-tru...

Top Trump Education Officials Are Dismantling Public Schools: ‘We’re Going to Have a Lot of Empty School Buildings’

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big...

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OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 23m

Knowledge is power, ignorance is easier compliance and submission.
Exceptional. As in: Exceptionally backwards.
HEIL DRUMPF!!!
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A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed

The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been...

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OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 27m

Pretty profound...
Via mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-mi...

OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 44m

That's the girl.

OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 1h

It then gets funny but not actually funny in that this nation's controlling interests still can't let go of their racism.
Then again, by definition conservative means unable or unwilling to let go of what they should...

OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 1h

A third book related to this is Gerald Horne's re 1776 as a *counter*-revolution in response to England's efforts to reduce or eliminate the slave trade. That "revolution" is the liberalism in neoliberalism: monied interests free from state interference in acquiring wealth.

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OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 1h

The heritage of which RWNJs still can't let go of. Unjustifiable, insane. Every one of them sick.
And these are the people running the nation.
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A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry in the United States

The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry (Amazon) by Ned & Constance Sublette is a book which offers a

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OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 1h

So a thought experiment: How much of this was just due to gender--all of it or just almost all of it?
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The Strange Case of Henrietta Wiley: A Habitual Drunkard’s Journey Through Guardianship and the Asylum

In the 1880s, a court declared that Henrietta Wiley – a wealthy New York heiress and socialite – was a habitual drunkard and put her under guardianship. Her court-appointed guardian subsequently co…

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OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 13h

I wonder how so many unfit pieces of shit—thugs—are attracted to becoming ICEmen…
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OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 14h

How exceptional.
www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

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OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 14h

Via gregolear.substack.com/p/fuck-them-...
You do know he’ll be running in 2028.

OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 14h

An old story, the hypocrisy of conservatives.
But sick shit like this—the app, the crappiness of it—is next—level shit.
Disgusting, to say the least.
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Son of Covenant Eyes Co-Founder Arrested after Planning Sexual Encounter with 14-Year-Old

Thomas Wideman, stepson of Covenant Eyes co-founder Ron DeHaas, has been arrested in Michigan on multiple child exploitation charges.

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OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 14h

This is like a daily reminder: Every one of them (too few exceptions to matter) is sick and unfit for any responsibility.

Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 2d

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

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OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 14h

Never prouder of this nation, that ICE can get away with this, the nation never felt greater or safer thanks to our brave ICEmen.
/dripping_sarcasm

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

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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Spocko @spocko.bsky.social · 3d

How we fight in #Portland.
Ridicule is working! #ICE & #CBP backed up!

The frog finally jumped out of the slow heating pot!
Thank you #AntiFascistFrog on TikTok
www.tiktok.com/@theantifasc... @thefarce.org @emptywheel.bsky.social @gottalaff.bsky.social @jim-stewartson.bsky.social

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OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 15h

Sad to say, that Riyadh thing made me laugh.

Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 20h

🔴 Brand new comic now up on @boingboing.net
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Super-Fun-Pak Comix, feat. Lester the Jester's gig in Olde Riyadh, and MORE!
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Tom the Dancing Bug: Super-Fun-Pak Comix, feat. Lester the Jester's gig in Riyadh

Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this world: JOIN THE INNER HIVE! Coming soon! Volumes 1 and…

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OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 23h

"There are three reasons why job growth is slow: 1) Lower immigration, 2) AI implementation and 3) fewer government jobs."
www.apolloacademy.com/why-is-job-g...
Two of these won't be getting better, immigration's a question mark but probably won't improve.

Why Is Job Growth So Slow When GDP Is So Strong? - Apollo Academy

There are three reasons why job growth is slow: 1) Lower immigration, 2) AI implementation and 3) fewer government jobs....

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OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 23h

FWIW.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds

Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries

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OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 1d

Consider this an illustration of how reporting can fail. Reporting based on prior reporting instead of independent reporting can be a problem.
Meanwhile, omitted is justification for the arrest.
www.techdirt.com/2025/10/07/i...