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The Sons of Liberty

@sonsofliberty.bsky.social

All of this. ~AdminMatt

December 18, 2025 at 5:05 AM

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John Scalzi

@scalzi.com

Apropos to a post I'm not going to quote: no, you are not fucking obliged to battle the fucking right on fucking social media, or go to where they are. Why make yourself miserable shouting at bots (who don't care) or trolls (who get off on your misery). Make your fucking social media enjoyable, FFS.

December 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM

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The Tennessee Holler

@thetnholler.bsky.social

Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again.

“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”

We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

December 14, 2025 at 3:35 AM

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Ron Filipkowski

@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

October 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM

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Michael J. Stern

@michaeljstern.bsky.social

This is so on point it is painful.

October 23, 2025 at 3:12 AM

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Michael J. Stern

@michaeljstern.bsky.social

In a nutshell.

October 23, 2025 at 2:32 AM

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Your pissed off grandma

@anomaly100.bsky.social

October 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM

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The Sons of Liberty

@sonsofliberty.bsky.social

But the rest of us can starve and do without Healthcare while this abomination no one asked for is built. ~AdminMatt

October 23, 2025 at 2:18 AM

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Carl Quintanilla

@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

#WarRavagedPortland

October 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM

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WuTangIsForTheChildren

@wutangforchildren.bsky.social

The Dude has spoken:

"ICE? Let's get ICE off our streets and into our beverages. This aggression will not stand. Let's just abide together"

October 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM

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Chris Kluwe

@chriswarcraft.bsky.social

I know who Pete Hegseth is.

He’s the guy constantly doing bench reps in the weight room but thinks agility drills and footwork “is for pussies”

He’s the guy pounding ten different steroid cocktails while ignoring his playbook

He’s a practice squad all-star who wilts every time the lights come on

Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · Oct 1

I did not expect this kind of fire from Eliot Cohen, but he has Hegseth absolutely pegged www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

There is a certain kind of Army officer who, after the excitement of company command, finds his career stalled, and who perhaps leaves the service as a major in the National Guard filled with bitterness and resentment. He may then dream of one day being in a position to make all the superior officers who failed to appreciate his leadership qualities, his insight, his sheer fitness stand to attention and hear him lay down the law about what it is to be an officer, and threaten to fire those who do not meet his standards. In this respect, and this respect only, on that stage Pete Hegseth was living the dream.

In all other respects, however, he was ridiculous...

October 1, 2025 at 8:46 PM

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@crk5.bsky.social

September 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM

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Holiday Hannah Posts ❄️🎄🎁

@hannahposts.bsky.social

The idea that the combined MMR is dangerous but separately the vaccines are fine was created out of whole cloth by Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced former doctor who had a patent on a non-combined version of the MMR. We've known his research was bunk for almost 30 years.

September 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM

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Justin

@sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social

This 1934 NYT article about a group of 75 Nazis in New Jersey getting the crap kicked out of them by 1000 “anti-Nazis” is no laughing matter and the writing is not highly entertaining.

Please do not laugh or smile while reading this as it is a very serious matter and violence is not funny.

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MOB OF 1,000 RAIDS JERSEY NAZI RALLY
Although the main disturbance occurred in the street outside the meeting place at 717 Lyons Avenue, another riot started simultaneously within the auditorium when the anti-Nazi group spread through the audience went into action.
15 Hurt in Wild Fighting at Irvington as 75 Hitlerites
From Here Arrive.
THIRTY-FIVE ARRESTS MADE
, Newark Reserves Called to Aid in Quelling Riot Lasting an Hour and a Half.
Special to THE NST YORx TENES.
IRVINGTON, N. J., May 21.-A vicious attack upon seventy-five members of Friends of 'the New Germany as they arrived dressed in their blue uniforms to attend a Nazi meeting here tonight developed into a riot that lasted an hour and a half. More than fifteen persons were injured, two of them being taken to hospitals. Thirty-five were arrested.
The riot eventually involved more than 1,000 persons and was put under control only after three squads of
Newark police reserves aug-
mented the local forces.
The po-
lice used their nightsticks and the invading anti-Nazis utilized brick-bats, broomsticks, rocks and stench bombs.
Hundreds Greet Arrivals.
The trouble started when two buses containing a New York delegation of Nazis dressed in light blue shirts, blue trousers and puttees drove up in front of the hall to attend the meeting being held by the local group of Friends of the New Germany. As the buses ar-rived, several hundred persons were gathered in the street.
As soon as the first Nazi alighted a group of men in two automobiles pulled up alongside and launched the attack. This was the cue for a general free-for-all fight and the extra detail of Irvington police were unable to cope with it.
As the Nazis piled out of the buses to enter the combat they were pounced upon by the invaders.
Fists swung right and left, missiles flew and men, grappling in individual contests, rolled on the street.
When the Newark reserves arrived the fighting was at its height.
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been converted into an arena for the general indoor mêlée.
Although the police on the outside were forming their forces into flying wedges in an effort to break through the surging mobs, little impression was made on the uncon-
trollable mass of humanity.
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able to reach the supposed sanctuary within the building were easily recognizable
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As the fighting continued in the
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and the Nazis were getting
si scarcer by the minute, the enraged mobs turned upon the newspaper men and photographers.
Cameras
were broken, clothing torn to bits, eyes blackened.
Several policemen got in the way
of swinging fists
were knocked to the ground.
Pa-
trolmen Frank Dwyer and Morris Kerwan from Newark were severely slugged, but remained on duty
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to quell the riot.'
After an hour's battle outside the riot was considered under control and most of the police entered the building to curb the intermittent disturbances there.
Shortly after
the bulk of the police forces were withdrawn from
in front of the
building the anti-Nazi group took up a strategic
position
on the
opposite side of the street and dis-
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an avalanche of bricks
through the second story window.
Police rushed out of the building
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again to cope with the new situation and it was then that most of the arrests took place.
The capacity of the Irvington
patrol wagons was taxed so an or-
der was sent to Newark for additional transportation.
Meanwhile the two bus drivers se-came alarmed, especially after some of the mob saturated their conveyances with stench bombs, and drove away leaving the Nazis stranded.
When the riot was over the police had seventy-five New York
Nazis
on their hands and were wondering how to get them back home.
Shortly before midnight the last of the prisoners were
taken from
the hall to headquarters where they were charged with disorderly co…

September 19, 2025 at 3:22 AM

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If You Add Popehat, That’s Extra

@kenwhite.bsky.social

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

September 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM

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Nathan

@nathanready2go.bsky.social

September 16, 2025 at 1:47 AM

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Ed Hirsch

@edhirsch.bsky.social

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September 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM

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Mrs. Betty Bowers

@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

"Wait, what's that you say??? The shooter was *not* trans or liberal??? He was WHAT??? A Trump supporter??? Well, never mind then. I'll just wait for the next opportunity to pounce with inflammatory, unfounded rhetoric. Or maybe I'll just blame it on the one semester he went to college! BINGO!"