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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 5h

Skattebo and Jaxson Dart both feel like characters from The Program

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 14h

If this stuff would end up on the news it would absolutely motivate voters. Plenty of people who don't give a shit about politics would absolutely give af about this.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Xander Berkeley @xanderberkeley.bsky.social · 1d

I love you Senator Whitehouse, but perhaps we can ramp up the invective beyond ’skedaddle’ at this point? I feel we need to move collectively to actual locker room vernacular. No?

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Nate Tice @natetice.bsky.social · 1d

Tyquan Thornton's routes this year

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

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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Velvet McJones @velvet-mcjones.bsky.social · 1d

"Sir, a second dipsh*t whisperer meme has hit the interwebs."

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Velvet McJones @velvet-mcjones.bsky.social · 2d

*Putzing

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Nate Tice @natetice.bsky.social · 3d

STUMBLEROOSKI

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 3d

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHMYGOD
Trevor Lawrence is something else

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WIRED @wired.com · 6d

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation. www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

some people told dave chappelle his jokes weren’t funny and this ego maniac has been having a meltdown over it for ten years

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 7d

Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival

Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10d

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

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Velvet McJones @velvet-mcjones.bsky.social · 10d

"JUMP TO RECIPE"

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Velvet McJones @velvet-mcjones.bsky.social · 11d

To be fair, Jordan Addison pulled it for him.

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Velvet McJones @velvet-mcjones.bsky.social · 11d

Lol.

Been a long time since I've encountered this kind of involuntarily drooled pretzel logic. You'd have more fun on the bird app, hoss.

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Velvet McJones @velvet-mcjones.bsky.social · 11d

My grandfather was on the front lines. I hadn't been born yet, which would have made it difficult to serve.

Enjoy your truck nuts and Punisher logos.

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Velvet McJones @velvet-mcjones.bsky.social · 11d

And yet they still risked their lives to fight Nazis and fascism.

Congrats on missing your mark by light years.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 12d

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 12d

We are a government ruled by viral video fiat now.

You aren't even allowed to research which viral video has whipped the regime into a mania and how they came to believe it, because the research of the systems themselves is viewed as "censorship."

This how you end up randomly invading Portland.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 13d

Des Moines is the semi-liberal bastion in Des Moines, and the Des Moines Public Schools are one of the particular bugbears for the Iowa GOP. This is absolutely a specific political attack on the DMPS, on the African community in Des Moines, and on the most diverse city in the state.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 13d

What the fuck?

Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts detained by ICE agents

The superintendent of the largest school district in Iowa has been detained by federal immigration officials. Superintendent Ian Roberts of Des Moines Public Schools was detained Friday morning, accor...

www.iowapublicradio.org

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Velvet McJones @velvet-mcjones.bsky.social · 13d

"Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis" might be the greatest holiday song ever written.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 14d

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

Alyssa @alyssad.bsky.social · 14d

Hmmm....

US Border Patrol docks along Chicago Harbor Lock as part of immigration blitz

U.S. Border Patrol is making its presence known on Lake Michigan, the only Great Lake without a foreign border.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Velvet McJones @velvet-mcjones.bsky.social · 14d

I thought he would be against any kind of reconstruction.

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Velvet McJones @velvet-mcjones.bsky.social · 16d

That shit is going to look so seasonal.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16d

Seems bad for our society when you can’t make racist terrorists the villains

Vulture @vulture.com · 16d

Apple has pulled The Savant, its series starring Jessica Chastain’s about hunting down white supremacist cells across America, from its immediate release schedule.

Apple Pulls The Savant From Its Release Schedule

Apple has pulled The Savant, its series starring Jessica Chastain’s about hunting down white supremacist cells across America, from its immediate release schedule.

www.vulture.com

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petey @peteypayless.bsky.social · 16d

the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

A map titled United States High Speed Rail System showing a theoretical high speed rail system in the United States. Some lines also connect north to Vancouver or the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor, or south to Tijuana or Monterrey. The map is credited to First Cultural Industries AKA Alfred Twu, dated from February 2013, and is downloadable at www.californiarailmap.com

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