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Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 4h

Oh shit! I remember the cartoons!

Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 4h

I hear you, but if I tell you that National Guard Pete Hegseth was moved mid-tour in a conventional IBCT from PL to S9, do you think it was because they thought he was killing it as a PL or because they thought he could improve their situation at battalion? In THIS BCT.

Pete Hegseth’s Army unit in Iraq was rocked by a war-crimes case

Donald Trump’s defense secretary pick was not involved in the murder of detainees, but the formative experience influenced his advocacy for troops accused of war crimes.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 5h

I assume @pptsapper.bsky.social is the guy to ask. Has anyone studiedof determinants as to why USA officers abandoned their oaths to commit treason and join the so-called CSA? Whether they would be more or less likely if they were Mexican War veterans, gentry, slavers, border/core states, etc?

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 5h

ORNG T10
Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10
commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 5h

Hold up. “CA” is inadvertently misleading. By my read, they made him the battalion S9. A non-existent staff position battalions created to help commander and staff manage reconstruction money and interface with actual CA units and civilians. A step above 2LT in the S3 awaiting a platoon.

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Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 6h

I refuse to do this until I’m in a duty status, for liability reasons.

Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 8d

Googling “can you get 100% VA disability for cringe” for no reason

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Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 6h

Missing the stammered “good morning” as he works the bullhorn.

Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 8h

May have spotted the perfect shirt in the wild

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 10h

The very first riot after a George Floyd protest was started by a white supremacist nicknamed "Umbrella Man."

He spraypainted "free shit" on an AutoZone, broke the windows, and encouraged others to come in. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/man-h...

Man who helped ignite George Floyd riots identified as white supremacist: Police

A masked umbrella-wielding man helped incite riots and looting in the immediate aftermath of George Floyd's death, police said.

abcnews.go.com

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Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 11h

Glad to hear it Dolly but I’m built different.

Entertainment Weekly @ew.com · 12h

Country legend Dolly Parton posted a video addressing fans who have been concerned about her health amid recent cancellations: 'I'm not ready to die yet. I don't think God is through with me and I ain't done working.'

Dolly Parton addresses concerns about her health: 'I'm not ready to die yet'

Country legend Dolly Parton posted a video addressing fans who have been concerned about her health amid recent cancellations: 'I'm not ready to die yet. I don't think God is through with me and I ain't done working.'

bit.ly

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 11h

58% of Americans - including half of Republicans - think the president should send armed troops only to face external threats, a sign of unease as President Donald Trump increasingly deploys National Guard troops to police American cities, a @reuters.com poll found.

www.reuters.com/world/us/mos...

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Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 11h

“Stop calling us fascists, it’s violence.”

Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 11h

A fine example of how quickly *anything* can be recuperated as grist for the far right idea mill. Here, a minister pepper-sprayed in the face by masked ICE agents. The take: "When Christianity in America became so compromised that God had to use the state to put the communist clergy in their place."

Tweet from Joel Webbon. Image, Presbyterian Minister pepper sprayed in the face by masked ICE agents. Text: "This photo will indeed go down in history…

As a powerful reminder of one of the darkest times in our country: When Christianity in America became so compromised that God had to use the state to put the communist clergy in their place."

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 11h

The Army Emergency Relief web page is crashing right now as the entire military grapples with the reality that they're probably not getting paid next week.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 15h

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
www.foxnews.com/us/national-...

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

www.foxnews.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14h

FBI agents assigned to Musk concluded he was systematically avoiding conduct standards imposed on those holding high-level clearances. FBI management concluded it could do nothing about this because of Musk's ties to Trump and the GOP.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14h

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 16h

Fucking thugs.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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JM Rieger @riegerreport.bsky.social · 16h

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for jailing Chicago's mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the third-largest U.S. city. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

www.reuters.com

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17h

Once upon a time, the social media accounts of federal agencies weren't a stream of fascist, white nationalist garbage interlaced with whiny culture-war posts. Earlier this year, even!

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 19h

Millennials like this saw Full Metal Jacket as kids and feel like they were cheated out of the full manhood initiation experience so they retcon their own pasts to sound more hooah.

DI’s and DS’s laying hands on recruits was verboten way back in the Reagan years, so miss me with that ”Back…

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Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 18h

We *do* learn how to take a punch (or even better, dodge one). It’s called the clinch drill or combatives level two. It’s training. With an objective. Led by trained instructors. In an appropriate training environment. Sounds like he just wants psychos hitting dudes to fulfill his erotic fantasies.

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Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 18h

Great news is that there’s really good documentation in Foreign Relations of the United States and Kennedy’s papers on the internal conversations they had around creating it.

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Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 19h

[coughisitfoiaablecough]

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Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 19h

Whoopi Goldberg or Bette Middler, I bet.

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Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 1d

The Pope coming back to Chicago to get in a tangle with ICE could only be scripted by Aaron Sorkin or @aiannucci.bsky.social, no in-between.

Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo come back and dare their bitch asses to Matthew 25:40 your shit!

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo come back and dare their bitch asses to Matthew 25:40 your shit!

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

religionnews.com

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Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my gosh you mean we don’t need the National Guard for ANY of this shit?

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