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Russ Copeland

@rcopelander.bsky.social

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Father, NAV Vet, proudly open-minded Secular, Pluralist, Humanist. Please excuse any spelling or grammar errors. I'm old and probably lazy. "Then out spake brave Horatius, captain of the gate, to every man upon this earth death cometh soon or late..."

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Russ Copeland @rcopelander.bsky.social · 11h

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Russ Copeland @rcopelander.bsky.social · 11h

These fucking people are divorced from objective reality

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump to Hannity: "The tariffs have brought peace to the world. I'm telling you they brought peace to the world."

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Russ Copeland @rcopelander.bsky.social · 11h

These fucking people are divorced from objective reality

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump to Hannity: "The tariffs have brought peace to the world. I'm telling you they brought peace to the world."

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Russ Copeland @rcopelander.bsky.social · 12h

They're Nazis, got it 🤙

Russ Copeland @rcopelander.bsky.social · 12h

It's beautiful 😂

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 13h

Since we’re clearing the air, I might as well put out something I’ve been concealing for a very long time.

I’m the Vice President of Antifa (Western Continental Division)

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14h

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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Russ Copeland @rcopelander.bsky.social · 13h

I've got the Antifa Merit Badge 🙋

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14h

This is who they are.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

Good lord.

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Russ Copeland @rcopelander.bsky.social · 14h

This 👇

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Russ Copeland @rcopelander.bsky.social · 14h

This 👇

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Russ Copeland @rcopelander.bsky.social · 14h

It. Was. Always. Performative. Bullshit....🤷

Russ Copeland @rcopelander.bsky.social · 20h

Same principle and ethos just a newer generation 🤷

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20h

One of the (many) legal gaps that needs to be filled after this nightmare is over is to prohibit federal law enforcement agencies from using federal funds to create propaganda videos with anyone in custody. This is all about spectacle and content creation, remove the incentive and the means

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 22h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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Russ Copeland @rcopelander.bsky.social · 20h

What ? Is he a character from O' Brother 🤦

Russ Copeland @rcopelander.bsky.social · 20h

I feel ya ✌️

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 20h

I see a lot of people saying that a person charged with a crime deserves the chance to prove their innocence.

Please stop doing this because you have it backwards and this is really important.

It is ALWAYS the government's burden to prove a person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been worried a lot that this is right. Gold is skyrocketing in value because the world is losing faith in the role of US as guarantor/backstop of global economy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Ingots We Trust

Are soaring gold prices telling us something important?

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Russ Copeland @rcopelander.bsky.social · 21h

Free State for Stupidity

Russ Copeland @rcopelander.bsky.social · 21h

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Russ Copeland @rcopelander.bsky.social · 21h

Verdad

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 21h

We are the richest shithole of a nation to demonstrate our inhumanity in the long, miserable history of this failing planet.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Russ Copeland @rcopelander.bsky.social · 21h

Kudos, brilliant imagery 😂

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 21h

It’s the silence of the Republican House you need to hear. They aren’t doing anything. No oversight. No work. Trying to blame Democrats for their incompetence. We have voices. Use them peacefully and patriotically to protest your government. They want violence. Don’t give it to them.

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Russ Copeland @rcopelander.bsky.social · 22h

He's compiling Mitch McConnell numbers...

Russ Copeland @rcopelander.bsky.social · 22h

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