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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 12h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 11h

As @brooklynmarie.bsky.social often says.

Borders aren't just for keeping people out.

They can also be used to trap people within.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 12h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 9h

THEY LOST ON A BULLPEN GAME IN THE FUCKIN BRONX! MAXIMUM AGONY FOR THE HATED YANKEES AND THEIR UNUSUALLY OBNOXIOUS FANBASE!

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 10h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 19h

This picture is from Two Thousand and fucking Eleven

A picture of John Pike (the cop) spraying a group of seated protestors with pepper spray during the UC Davis incident back in 2011

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 13h

He said this deliberately because he is a Nazi and he wants you to know he's a Nazi who you can't touch. He also wants other Nazis to know they can be open about the fact they are Nazis too.

This isn't an oversight, a fumble or an opportunity for a "heh, well actually, dummy" zinger.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 8h

Welcome to Scarrif, 47.

Your target is one ISB commander by the name of Orson Krennic. As director for Advanced Weapons Research for the imperial military, he's been working on something astronomical in scope.
Take out the target and bring us those plans, 47.

The clock is ticking.

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 8h

Welcome to Sesame Street, 47

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Evil Chromie @lilchromie.bsky.social · 7h

There's nothing funny about this. This is a very serious situation.

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Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · 8h

“She plays to an audience of 200 people,” one Hollywood executive with ties to Weiss told Variety. “It just happens to be that audience is made up of people like Jeff Bezos and Bill Ackman. The superrich f------ love her.”

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 9h

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 9h

I joked about it but it may actually be worthwhile for every Dem who gets on tv to start saying Stephen Miller is the real president

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10h

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

U.S. Northern Command &
@USNorthernCmd
X.com
Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area.
These soldiers are employed to protect U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other
U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.
For the latest information on our Federal Protection Mission, please see the link below:

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mothra stewart @gorl.gay · 10h

pineapple jarritos, my beloved

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 8h

Lenny from the simpsons putting up a sign that says 0 days without an impeachable offense

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mat olson @mathewolson.com · 9h

damning thread on how the IDF's propaganda arm is scraping 3D assets intended for things like games, films, or architectural purposes and kitbashing together supposed hamas bunkers and iranian nuclear sites. a genocide campaign propped up in part by someone's nephew who got too into blender.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 19h

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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dillo (yakubian mamba) @dillo.media · 7h

i will vote for anybody who fixes the headlight brightness situation

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 7h

I’m 1% a baseball person and I know you do not respect the Yankees, Theyre the camp for rich kids across the lake

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 9h

There was an old Doug Stanhope bit about how being a Yankees fan is like going to a casino and rooting for the house and being a huge asshole about it

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 7h

It's pretty wild a large portion of the internet tried to fabricate a scandal surrounding Hasan using a shock collar in the same day that Asmongold was saying that ICE agents should shoot protesters with live ammunition

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 9h

Still think Antifa isn't violent? Here's bodycam footage of Antifa founder B.J. Blazkowicz shooting a heroic member of ICE who was just trying to protect this great nation. Thank God we have Blazkowicz's girlfriend in custody.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 11h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 13h

One of the reasons they're having trouble concocting a Left Wing Terrorism epidemic is basically nobody in this country has ever met a left wing person. You might as well say we're being invaded by the smurfs

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Smeefus Smonkus @shydemk.bsky.social · 10h

He also separated goblins into multiple subtypes that steal different things compulsively. Goblins steal food whereas groblins steal trinkets etc. Light is also apparently a liquid in this setting and I have not gotten further details on the implications

Smeefus Smonkus @shydemk.bsky.social · 10h

Oh trust me that was one of my first replies to his madness. He has continued to try the limits of my sanity but I love him so dearly

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