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RobE

@robertelliott.bsky.social

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Middle-aged cat dad. Ally to all those who are decent and compassionate. #veg*n #FTA people are my people #liberal

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RobE @robertelliott.bsky.social · Nov 30

Kinder words here we could pick. A kind approach might do the trick.
Hurt you hurt me. Well, that needs to stop.

Ska-core musical group, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, on stage

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RobE @robertelliott.bsky.social · 2h

Everyone has seen this already, right?

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.

apnews.com

RobE @robertelliott.bsky.social · 3h

We just need to keep up the pressure, increase the size of the protests, support anyone and everyone in independent media and content creators who are pushing the truth out there.

Instead of streaming svcs, my $ is now going to Democracy Docket, Rolling Stone, TNR, etc, and lots of peeps on Patreon

RobE @robertelliott.bsky.social · 3h

This is what I was going to say. The Reich Wing may cheer on "woke professors" leaving the U.S., but the consequences of this are going to be real, and the decline of the U.S.A. can't be blamed on Democrats. They're destroying the country to own the libs and/or grift off the taxpayers.

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RobE @robertelliott.bsky.social · 3h

"She already slid into my DMs" 😆

RobE @robertelliott.bsky.social · 3h

#ReleaseTheFootage

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RobE @robertelliott.bsky.social · 4h

Kent State is here.

When the facts come out fully, it will also be more evidence of lies and attempted coverups from this regime.

“Do Something B*tch”: Damning Video Shows CBP Agent Shooting Protester newrepublic.com/post/201444/... via @newrepublic.com

“Do Something B*tch”: Damning Video Shows CBP Agent Shooting Protester

The Department of Homeland Security initially said the agent had shot the woman five times in self-defense.

newrepublic.com

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RobE @robertelliott.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you.

RobE @robertelliott.bsky.social · 4h

Correct.

RobE @robertelliott.bsky.social · 4h

It's not hard to lose faith in mankind, but I like to remember all the vegans, all the activists, and all the pre-vegans that exist and just have not been exposed to the right information yet. Good people are out there.

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RobE @robertelliott.bsky.social · 1d

If they're producing food for pigs in China, wouldn't they be considered *China's* farmers?

RobE @robertelliott.bsky.social · 1d

Already had him in my List of Shitty Things Republicans Do from March when he was indicted.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Woman shot by ICE has been released from custody, body cam footage revealed an agent saying
"do something bitch" while holding his rifle at her

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims agent said, 'Do something b----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney alleged...

www.wbez.org

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RobE @robertelliott.bsky.social · 1d

There's an update at the very top of that post that said it may not have been ICE in that vehicle. I guess the implication being that they stood up to un-badged thugs, but *may* not have done so if it was one of Trump's Gazpacho.

RobE @robertelliott.bsky.social · 1d

Is that David Crosby or Gallagher? I always get them confused.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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RobE @robertelliott.bsky.social · 1d

🤯

RobE @robertelliott.bsky.social · 1d

Can't see that they're picking them up and treating them worse than a pear, dropping them into the bin with their jaws smacking against the lips, probably right on top of each other? Is your response, well, "they're just animals" and it's fine to toss them around like that? Stop and picture puppies.

RobE @robertelliott.bsky.social · 1d

The pictures are definitely disturbing and difficult to see. I applaud you for moving toward a plant based diet.🫡The horrific images people like @grahamm.bsky.social and others post helped solidify my commitment to being vegan. It breaks my heart to see it. It's painful. But for some of us, it works

RobE @robertelliott.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit. Tolstoy was vegetarian?! Learn somethin' new every day.

humanedecisions.com/leo-tolstoy-...

Leo Tolstoy Believed Killing and Eating Animals is Against the Human Heart - Humane Decisions

Leo Tolstoy was one of Russia’s greatest novelists, but he was also a revered moral philosopher, humanitarian and mystic. He became a vegetarian for the last 23 years of his life. He was passionate ab...

humanedecisions.com

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RobE @robertelliott.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting. I scrolled to reveal all comments, searched, and didn't find that comment, but obvs it exists.

YouTube has a "feature" where often you can only see all comments by sorting by newest, and scrolling for a Scaramucci until you find the comment you replied to, but clearly this isn't that.

RobE @robertelliott.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know why you're making a joke. The last one seems to have summoned hell and invited it right into the U.S.A.

RobE @robertelliott.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, @democrats.org , if you don't have any better ideas of your own...

RobE @robertelliott.bsky.social · 2d

Love all the Reich Wing nutjobs talking about how dangerous it is in Indy because of the mobs of Black youth who take over the city every night, and *that's* why poor Mark Sanchez was stabbed...

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

Former NFL star Mark Sanchez could face six years in jail after being stabbed by 69-year-old

Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez could face jail time after he was charged with felony battery on Monday

www.theguardian.com

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RobE @robertelliott.bsky.social · 2d

Yep.

RobE @robertelliott.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know. Looks like there was a whole stack of stuff on top of it that you would have had to move out of the way.