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ricky cilantro
@rickycilantro.bsky.social
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est. 1983. photography, TTRPGs, sci-fi, baseball, recovering conflict scholar

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rickycilantro.bsky.social
how fucking dare the people approaching middle age feed their children
February 12, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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jlazarus.bsky.social
Politics is like comedy: if you're explaining, you're losing.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h
Homan: "ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency. We're not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process."
February 12, 2026 at 3:15 PM
rickycilantro.bsky.social
so you agree, they’re martyrs
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 42m
Ron Johnson to Keith Ellison: "Two people are dead because you encouraged them to put themselves into harm's way! And now you are exploiting those two martyrs. You ought to feel damn guilty about it. Yeah, sit there and smirk. Smirk. It's sick! It's despicable. You disgust me."
February 12, 2026 at 3:17 PM
rickycilantro.bsky.social
she’s spent her adult life helping put us in this situation and for that she has a lot of red ink to work off her ledger before I can forgive her

but I didn’t know about this event and it makes me angry. no one, let alone a teenage girl, should have to deal with abuse and hate of any kind.
gonebabygone.bsky.social Cape Cod Demon Hunter @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 35m
Weirdest thing I've learned about Owens is that the gang of racist teens whose abuse got her a settlement from the Stamford Board of Education in high school included the son of Dannel Malloy, Connecticut's second-most-recent governor
February 12, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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thespaceshipper.com
Farscape (1999-2003): Pilot console, maquette / study model
A detailed maquette of a dark, textured alien with a wide, flat head and large expressive eyes is positioned within the complex cockpit of a spacecraft, surrounded by intricate control panels and mechanical claw-like appendages. Pilot in the show
February 12, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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amybrown.xyz
between this and jill zarin im calling it. woke 2 is here
February 12, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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bcfinucane.bsky.social
My "we're not disappearing people and denying people their civil rights" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h
Homan: "ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency. We're not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process."
February 12, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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maxnesterak.bsky.social
A 76-year-old veteran and nurse was tackled and detained at the site of Alex Pretti's killing. Agents told him his phone was evidence in an investigation into him assaulting an officer.

“I didn’t assault an officer. I got assaulted by three officers." minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/12/w...
Why is ICE seizing people’s phones and documents? • Minnesota Reformer
After the federal agents took the shackles off Gust Johnson’s ankles to release him from detainment, he asked for his phone back. That would be staying at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, th...
minnesotareformer.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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benhammerhead.bsky.social
I have done this eyeroll-deep inhale exhale a lot in my life
cwebbonline.com Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h
You gotta admit, the staffers in the background keeping it real are the best part.
February 12, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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undefeatedmatt.wifeguy.online
I’ll allow a victory lap for the juggalos only
R/juggalo post celebrating shaggy 2 dope and violent J not appearing in the Epstein files. They are both dressed in insane suits
February 12, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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uncleduke1969.bsky.social
me: they’re just-
wife: don’t say it
me: ...
wife: I mean it
me: ...
wife: ...
me: lion there
A group of lions lounging on a dirt road, a safari vehicle is approaching in the background.
February 11, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
If Republicans want to let all adults over the age of 21, citizen or not, be able to vote simply by providing age verification, let's hear him out.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
Rep. Brian Steil: "I flew home to my home state of Wisconsin, went to buy a 6 pack a beer, the clerk asked for my ID, confirmed it, and then I was allowed to buy the beer. I just think it's nuts that we protect our beer more than our ballots."
February 12, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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mattmcneilshow.bsky.social
WE SAID THAT THE DOJ WAS LYING ABOUT THE PROTESTORS!

THEY WERE LYING ABOUT THE PROTESTORS! www.startribune.com/after-assaul...
After assault allegations, DOJ walks back charges against ICE protesters
Defense attorneys and former federal prosecutors say the U.S. Department of Justice’s public rhetoric about “Minnesota rioters” isn’t matching the evidence.
www.startribune.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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bluejay.tv
don’t I look good in pink 😌
Woman with silver, blue and purple hair hugs a large teddy bear with pink hearts on it. She is wearing a pink mesh corset and thigh high pink stockings
February 11, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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coreybrickley.bsky.social
Dermott, the obnoxious neighbor kid on venture brothers wearing a thrift store military jacket, with a word bubble drawn under him
February 12, 2026 at 4:12 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Hold on murderous robber let me go to my wall and grab my antique knife. It's shaped like brass knuckles so give me a minute.
February 12, 2026 at 4:16 AM
rickycilantro.bsky.social
what the fuck kind of marketing is this!l?
I don’t even know how to describe this. ai generated image of a guy who looks like he exclusively buys black rifle company coffee staring angrily at the camera, a fire tablet in the foreground with the alexa assistant asking a woman, presumably the tablet’s owner, if everything is okay. the inescapable conclusion is this is depicting a ln abusive hetero relationship. this is an add for alexa+, an ai assistant you get free for having a prime subscription bc if you force adoption that’s the same aa the market deciding on its own
February 12, 2026 at 4:17 AM
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direcunt.bsky.social
actual journalism
thebarbedwire.com The Barbed Wire @thebarbedwire.com · 1d
EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells @thebarbedwire.com he spent years burying radioactive fracking waste, which melted the bones in his neck and jaw. Then a residential community — and an elementary school — was built on top. 🧵

thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/11/a...
Whistleblower Says Radioactive Fracking Waste Site Melted His Jaw. Now There’s an Elementary School There.
Then an elementary school was built on top of it.
thebarbedwire.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:47 AM
rickycilantro.bsky.social
we all knew this but it’s good to enter it into the record
benmullin.bsky.social Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 12h
NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:

Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
February 12, 2026 at 4:12 AM
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woketopus.bsky.social
someone you know is gay. [horizontal stripe gay pride flag colors] someone you know is bi. [horizontal stripe bi pride flag colors] someone you know is transgender. [horizontal stripe trans pride flag colors] someone you know is an Astros fan. [horizontal stripe Astros team colors] maybe even someone you love. think before you speak hate.
February 11, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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kriswolfhe.art
I think I underestimated how often we'd be needing this image
February 12, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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jcsalterego.bsky.social
two tweets: - APStylebook: We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing "the" labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college-educated. Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses. And use these descriptions only when clearly relevant. - AP The Associated Press (Replying to @APStylebook): The use of "the French" in this tweet by @AP was inappropriate and has caused unintended offense. An updated tweet is upcoming.
February 11, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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jtp.bsky.social
screenshot of post by @katie.bzky.team: "Rich Dipshit Says Something is like 80% of news articles these days"
February 11, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
joro.bsky.social Joe Robertson @joro.bsky.social · 14h
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM