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cheftsonton.bsky.social

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What facism looks like...

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 4h

Can you find the difference between these two pictures?

November 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

This is true. It is the best email I got this year.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation.

Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror...

I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes.

A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her.

Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard.

...

Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM

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Truth Social(ist)

@twitterrefugeeog.bsky.social

Our convicted felon president, who pardoned Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy, wants to charge Mark Kelly, a decorated war veteran and astronaut, with seditious conspiracy.

That’s some next-level banana republic shit right there.

November 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM

cheftsonton.bsky.social

@cheftsonton.bsky.social

Fuck. Israel.

November 26, 2025 at 7:45 AM

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Mrs. Betty Bowers

@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

There was a time when the United States looked down its nose at the countries in South America for being lawless banana republics. Who's the banana republic now, bitches?

November 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM

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Steven

@espirituchicano25.bsky.social

Do you know who you won't find in the Epstein Files?

Undocumented immigrants.

November 25, 2025 at 5:39 AM

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U.S. Soccer Men's National Team

@usmnt.ussoccer.com

Ready to feast this week. 👀

November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM

cheftsonton.bsky.social

@cheftsonton.bsky.social

Fuck. Israel.

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 2d

Funerals are being held in Gaza today after Israeli airstrikes killed at least 24 people on Saturday, despite the U.S.-brokered ceasefire that began on October 10. Gaza’s Government Media Office says Israel has violated the truce nearly 500 times in 44 days.

November 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM

cheftsonton.bsky.social

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November 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM

cheftsonton.bsky.social

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November 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM

cheftsonton.bsky.social

@cheftsonton.bsky.social

Fuck ICE...

November 25, 2025 at 7:48 AM

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Ivana Newgrave

@ivananewgrave.bsky.social

Californians are buying ice scrapers at Home Depot, then immediately returning them....bogging down the entire store, until Home Depot refuses to allow ICE to loiter at their location to detain innocent people.

Winter is coming. Scrape ICE.

November 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM

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Veteran Fighting Fascist

@vetsfighfascist.bsky.social

Real power is being able to cut them off from their revenue stream.

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

What is the latest Black Friday boycott – and will it work?

While others scramble for deals on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, activists hope to leverage shopping behavior for societal change

www.theguardian.com

November 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM

cheftsonton.bsky.social

@cheftsonton.bsky.social

I have at least ten...

Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 2d

Okay friends, important question: who has a stuffing recipe they really love?

November 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM

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Barry Tucker

@btucker.bsky.social

There is no ceasefire in Gaza Strip.

Israel's IDF has crossed the 'yellow line' in pursuit of Hamas fighters.

The killing continues there, in illegally occupied West Bank & in southern Lebanon.

Trumpty Dumpty, TACO Trump, Donald Duck, whatever, has failed again.

November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM