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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 50m

I met some wonderful people. Most especially my bestie @allycatraz.bsky.social

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 13h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 6h

A useful illustration of the limits of liberal identity politics.

It's astounding to see self-described progressives lose their minds over the successes of a Jewish female entrepreneur and intellect in @bariweiss, and a wildly successful Black man in @VanJones68. I guess equity, diversity, and inclusion don't mean as much as they've told us.

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 17h

I am so tired of being told I have to vote for someone 26 months before anyone has even cast a primary ballot.

a close up of a man 's face with the word request behind him

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the word request behind him

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 17h

We’re going to have a lot of work to do identifying and punishing every single one of these criminal thugs with the full force of the law.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 18h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 17h

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19h

as a kid growing up right-wing i regularly heard people express their desire for "a government so small I can drown it in the bathtub". imagine my surprise growing up to realize i was the only one who actually believed that.

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 17h

Find someone who loves you the way Mike Johnson loves to prevent the release of the Epstein files.

CNN @cnn.com · 17h

Speaker Mike Johnson is not planning to allow Democrats’ newest congresswoman-elect to be sworn-in until her party agrees to end the government shutdown, despite telling CNN that he would swear her in “as soon as she wants.”

Speaker Johnson said he’d swear in new House Democrat ‘as soon as she wants.’ Now Republicans are back tracking | CNN Politics

Speaker Mike Johnson is not planning to allow Democrats’ newest congresswoman-elect to be sworn-in until her party agrees to end the government shutdown, despite telling CNN earlier Tuesday that he wo...

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 17h

Find someone who loves you the way Mike Johnson loves to prevent the release of the Epstein files.

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 17h

I'm sure she's a very spry 78 years old and will not be on the verge of death over the next 6 years.

Axios @axios.com · 20h

Scoop: Maine Gov. Janet Mills is poised to jump into Maine Senate race

Scoop: Mills poised to jump into Maine Senate race

Gov. Janey Mills' entry into the race would set off another complicated Democratic primary.

trib.al

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 18h

It's Tuesday, and I have already worked 24 hours this week. I expect to work 56.

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 18h

For sure!

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 18h

My Lai was in part the result of abandoning personnel standards for military recruitment.

Calley, for example, was unfit to be a private and yet became a 2nd Lieutenant; he was barely able to read at all.

And ICE has if anything set its standards much, much lower than the military did in Vietnam.

Jess @georgiajess.bsky.social · 18h

I just read the My Lai wiki page and wish I hadn't. Fucking brutal.

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 18h

I miss that style of Doritos bag.

Dinosaur Dracula 🦖🧛 @dinosaurdracula.bsky.social · 19h

The greatest thing I own or will ever own is this old retail standee where Dracula casually reveals a coffin full of Doritos and Pepsi.

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 18h

Drop something skeletal.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18h

Democrats are allergic to winning and keep pushing septegenarian establishment candidates.

www.axios.com/2025/10/07/m...

Scoop: Gov. Janet Mills poised to jump into Maine Senate race

Gov. Janey Mills' entry into the race would set off another complicated Democratic primary.

www.axios.com

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 18h

And how is this strategy working out for you?

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 18h

People who don't demand better from the Democrats are how we got Trump

Kenny @warlockkenny.bsky.social · 18h

People like this is how we got Trump

Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 18h

I would rather have a candidate who doesnt support bigoted policies. Learn how basic decency works.

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 18h

It would be one thing if running bland billionaire friendly candidates was a winning strategy, but it keeps losing

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 18h

Apparently, wanting a non bigoted candidate is unrealistic.

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 18h

I would rather have a candidate who doesnt support bigoted policies. Learn how basic decency works.

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 19h

I don't vote for transphobes. Nominate someone else.

kevinbutter.bsky.social @kevinbutter.bsky.social · 20h

As someone who has always voted to support LGBTQ causes, I will remember these types of comments in the future. We are on the verge of losing ALL of our fucking rights, and you guys think its time for democratic purity tests? This is why we lose.

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 20h

I will never vote for Gavin Newsom.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 22h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 1d

Scott does this too.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 2d

I hope that some future movie character like Indiana Jones will go around punching ICE agents, who just become the canon fodder bad guys.

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