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Fish-person. Not a fan of Italians.
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internethippo.bsky.social
Cartoon of two frogs in a pot of boiling water; one is dead and the other is relaxing and saying "we just need to win the midterms"
January 8, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
Using my tax money to bomb Venezuela then giving my tax money to Exxon so they can sell the oil they stole from Venezuela
fintwitter.bsky.social FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 10d
TRUMP: MAY SUBSIDIZE OIL COMPANIES REBUILDING IN VENEZUELA: NBC
January 5, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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junlper.beer
by not punishing trump for invading and bombing venezuela, it would now be legal to invade whatever country you want and capture it’s leader? i assume that can be done to the united states too?
January 3, 2026 at 4:38 PM
banban-caliban.bsky.social
So does this mean we can kidnap trump too?
January 3, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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jamesrball.com
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
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bubbaprog.xyz
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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chrpngbrd.bsky.social
gulag for everyone responsible
Not long ago, it faced a different kind of emergency: The software system it relied on to track detailed incident information was no longer going to be usable. A company backed by private equity investors, ESO Solutions, had acquired the platform and planned to shut it down. The alternative software it was offering would raise the community's costs from $795 per year to more than $5,000. Urgently looking for an alternative, the department found a cheaper system, but then ESO bought up the other brand. It left the department in a bind. "We don't have a big tax base," said Matthew Ludwig, an assistant fire chief in Norfolk. "We have to watch our pennies."
December 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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chadloder.bsky.social
Because pension funds are broke. So they use accounting loopholes letting them project 8% returns every single year, forever.

Safe strategies yield about 4%. So pension funds are stuck in infinite yield-chasing mode. They need a high risk portfolio to legally justify that fake 8% yield prediction.
mikebr.bsky.social mike_br @mikebr.bsky.social · Dec 12
I never understood why pension funds don't just follow the indexes with a government bond allocation added on
December 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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chadloder.bsky.social
These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking."

It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Dec 11
“.. Skeptics believe the technical risks are being underestimated and say space-based data centers won’t be competitive on cost, especially if power and other constraints ease on the ground.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
December 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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premthakker.bsky.social
Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."

"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
Statement on Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Genocide Denial at the Israel Hayom Summit December 9, 2025 The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial. During her remarks, the Secretary correctly noted that the recent deterioration of Israel’s standing among U.S. voters is not a “Republican versus Democrat kind of divide” but rather a generational one. Nevertheless, she incorrectly diagnosed the reasons for the shift as a matter purely of optics, stating that “Israel [has] the worst PR of any group” and accusing social media, particularly TikTok, of presenting “pure propaganda” that American youth are uncritically ingesting. Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel. Young Americans of all political stripes have not fallen prey to propaganda, though that is always a legitimate concern. Rather, they have consumed two years of videos depicting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians that have been uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves. There has been no convincing refutation of the sheer amount of raw evidence of genocide coming out of Palestine. Young people in the U.S. are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well. Secretary Clinton appears not to be bothered by the reality of genocidal violence – in fact, she did not mention anything about it. Her concern is, rather, in her words, “the narrative” – the fact that these crimes are no longer hidden and are now being live-streamed and documented in real time, making it harder for her and others to control it. TikTok cannot be blamed for the fact that many members of Gen Z understand that Israel is … It is in fact highly ironic to blame TikTok for the dissemination of content laying bare the realities of Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Like many other social media conglomerates, TikTok has been accused of systematic censorship of pro-Palestinian content. In July of this year, TikTok appointed an ex-IDF instructor as its new manager of hate speech. This person can hardly be accused of pro-Palestinian views given her background and stated opinions. It appears that what Secretary Clinton really means to say is that TikTok is not being effective enough at censoring the truth. What truly seems to unsettle Secretary Clinton is not “misinformation,” but rather the fact that younger generations are no longer consuming a single, state-controlled narrative. They are accessing unfiltered images and testimonies that challenge decades of political messaging. This helps explain why TikTok has become a target, not because it is misleading students, but precisely because the content uploaded by its users allow them to see beyond official propaganda. When former Secretary Clinton calls this “a serious problem for democracy,” it sounds less like a defense of democratic values and more like concern for the weakening of a long-standing political and ideological agenda, one that, it must be stated, is highly undemocratic. Secretary Clinton did get one thing right, although quite inadvertently: When you do not have the truth on your side, all you left with is indeed optics and “the narrative.” But she is wrong to think that any amount of PR – even really great and expensive PR – is going to hide this genocide. Israel would be better served by advice to end the genocide, engage in a transformational process that brings the perpetrators to justice, and build a future with Palestinians. That is the only way to change its image. America’s young people are no longer fooled by genocide denial – whether it is being presented by Israel, the United States, Sudan, Myanmar, Russia, or Secre…
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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pinecellar.bsky.social
Everyone involved in this should rot in hell
December 6, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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kenklippenstein.bsky.social
look at my opposition party dawg
kenklippenstein.bsky.social Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · Dec 3
Senator Mark Kelly has seen the Trump admin's classified justification for the boat strikes and said they should be released to the public. Kelly can release the info himself due legislative immunity; but when asked if he would, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Why Hegseth's Alleged War Crime Will Never Be Revealed
Lethal strike on alleged drug boat in Caribbean is shrouded in an above-top secret world
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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erininthemorning.com
Is the Trump admin using ICE to settle family disputes?

This is fucked up.
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Nov 26
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."

www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
REVERE, Mass. — A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts. The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother. Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana. Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."
November 26, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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djbyrnes1.bsky.social
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.

They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.

More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
hell yeah brother
radiofreetom.bsky.social Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · Nov 22
The issue isn't who gets representation, it's that once you start unwinding federalism, why stop at presidential elections? Why bother having "states" at all other than as national administrative boundaries?
And why keep the Senate at all? Why not just a giant House, proportionally elected?
genejockey57.bsky.social Doug Smith @genejockey57.bsky.social · Nov 22
Sorry, but this is nonsensical. Federalism isn't a binary. Elect the President by national popular vote and both the little and the big empty states STILL get overrepresented in the Senate, which, need I remind you, confirms judicial and other nominations.
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
New: Progressive congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh has been indicted over protests outside Chicago-area ICE facility after videos of confrontations with federal agents have fueled right-wing calls for her arrest. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...
Kat Abughazaleh indicted over protests outside Chicago-area ICE facility
The progressive Democratic congressional candidate's videos of confrontations with federal agents have fueled right-wing calls for her arrest.
www.msnbc.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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conarck.bsky.social
New: Correctional staff at a Western Maryland prison shut off the water to a mentally ill man’s cell, then allowed him to suffer for eight days before he finally died of dehydration, according to a recent court filing.
www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
How a Maryland prisoner died an ‘excruciating’ death from dehydration
Lamont Mealy died of dehydration in an isolation cell at Western Correctional Institution in 2023. A lawsuit claims state officials covered it up.
www.thebanner.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
Colombia officially accuses the Trump regime of murder after it exposed that Trump and Hegseth ordered the murder of unarmed civilians in order to score political points for themselves. This was civilian murder and a war crime. We demand a criminal investigation and Trump’s arrest.
youranoncentral.bsky.social Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · Oct 19
Colombia: “US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters”

“Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing.”

“The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure.”
US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing. The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure. We await explanations from the US government. x.com/RTVCnoticias/s…..
October 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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strings.bsky.social
Lmao the holes line up
insortediaboli.bsky.social bob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social · Oct 16
This is incredibly homoerotic
October 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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chrpngbrd.bsky.social
ELIMINATED!
October 9, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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kthorjensen.bsky.social
extremely excited to be extrajudically airholed by a divorced dad in his own tactical gear because he misread my t-shirt
premthakker.bsky.social Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Oct 8
My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."
October 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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esqueer.net
This really seems like ICE tried to orchestrate the assassination of someone who had been opposing them.
October 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM