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🔞 Baragoon 🔞

@baragoon64.bsky.social

Telegram shark bussy 👅💦

October 26, 2024 at 10:25 AM

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🔞 Baragoon 🔞

@baragoon64.bsky.social

We reached 1k followers! 🥳 thank you so much guys! Bowser has a reward for u 😋

November 11, 2024 at 5:20 AM

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🔞 Baragoon 🔞

@baragoon64.bsky.social

Those fishermen from Pokémon 😩🎣

First post of the year! I hope you have a Happy 2025 guys!!! 💖😋

January 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM

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𝔰𝔞𝔩𝔢𝔪 ☾🔞🏳️‍⚧️

@w0lfertinger666.bsky.social

Hitch the mouse
(HE/HIM) 🏳️‍⚧️🐁

April 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM

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✪ Holly Jolly Jonathan H. Gray ✪

@jongraywb.bsky.social

These are concentration camps without the purposeful naming, plain and simple.

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I was not told where we were going, just that we were going to be transferred to another prison before being deported. As I learned much later, during the one and only time I got to talk to a lawyer while detained, I was taken to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and held in a prison known as Camp 6.
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Each of the people in Camp 6 were held in a very small cell without a window. The cells were almost entirely enclosed wall-to-wall, except for a piece of glass on the door to see into the building. My cell contained a thin mattress, a blanket, sink, and toilet. It felt like a basement. Military officers guarded us at all times.

The conditions at Guantánamo were unbearable. Within the first three days, we began a hunger strike, in part because the food was inedible and made many of us sick and in part because we wanted to receive more information from the ICE officers about why were being held in these conditions. After our strike, the meals slightly improved but it was still insufficient, and we were all hungry. We were told that because more detainees were arriving, there was less food for everyone. I ended up losing a significant amount of weight over the two weeks that I was detained at Guantánamo. I am much skinnier now than when I arrived at Guantánamo.

When I was detained in Texas, I was never placed into solitary confinement. I was able to move around freely within the dormitory. I was able to go out to the yard to play sports with other detainees, I was able to use the tablets to speak with my family and I was able to pray freely. At Guantánamo, we were locked in our cells for at least 23 hours a day, with only one hour every couple days "outside" for "recreation." Even during that time, each person was put into a cage within a larger cage inside an enclosed area.

This was the closest to seeing the sun we would get. We were not allowed to interact with one another even during "recreation." In our cells, we had to try shouting through the doors to communicate, and even then the guards would forcefully hit the doors or talk over us very loudly so that we could not hear one another.

Anytime we left our cells, we were always shackled. Three guards would enter the cell, push us against the wall, pat us down, and place chains on our hands before leading us out. They would do a pat-down search on us every time we showered.

0. It was very hot inside the building during the day. There were lots of mosquitos and the light was constantly on. Because we were not fed enough or allowed to do anything, we lost track of time. It felt like hell, being isolated from the world and stuck in those conditions.

1. The medical care available was grossly inadequate, which was frightening because if any of us had a serious medical issue, there would be no real help. I have a leg injury from a motorcycle accident that has not fully healed. I have an abscess in my gluteal muscles that has previously caused me significant pain, swelling and bleeding. I was previously told I needed surgery. When I was detained in El Paso, my injury was not bothering me so much because I was able to move freely, to stretch and walk around. But in Guantánamo, when I was held in a cell for 23 hours a day, my injury began to swell and become very painful. When I asked for treatment, they said they did not have the right tools to help me and that they were waiting for those tools. Later, after I asked again for treatment, they told me there was nothing they could do for me besides offer a topical cream, which was very frustrating because they had previously told me that they were waiting on appropriate tools to provide adequate treatment.

$2. The guards were needlessly cruel. When we asked for necessities, they would mock us or say that it was not possible. It took multiple requests before they returned the Bible I had brought with me. I also repeatedly asked to speak with an ICE officer, but the military guards told me that ICE was not available and would come later. 3. I even witnessed physical violence against other detainees. One man, who we called "El Enano," was beaten by an officer for refusing to return a toothbrush. The officer hit him hard on his hand with a radio. I believe his hand was fractured, but I do not know if he received medical treatment. For two days after the incident with the radio, the guards would not give "El Enano" water to drink. Several times he asked for water, and I even asked the guards to give him water as well, but the guards would just laugh and refuse the request. 4. I was denied any communication with the outside world. I asked multiple times to speak with my attorney and my family. After my one call on February 17 with the ACLU, I knew I had attorneys working on my case and trying to help me, but I was told it was not possible to make a call. I also begged the officers to speak to my family. My wife lives in the United States with our 9 year old son. I told the officers, "You must have a family, you must have a child," and I asked them to have some compassion. All they say is that it is not possible to make calls.$

The night of February 19, officials slipped a piece of paper under our doors informing us of our right to an attorney and providing a phone number. However, they told us it did not matter because we would be deported soon and there was nothing we could do.
6. Just hours later, at 3:00 a.m. on February 20, we were taken from our cells, shackled, and loaded onto a deportation flight to Venezuela via Honduras. One man asked for his passport back, but while they returned his other possessions, they refused to give him his passport, saying they would send it later.
7. Compared to where I was previously detained in the United States, the conditions at Guantánamo were much worse. In El Paso, I was held in a larger area with around 80 other detainees of different nationalities. We were not isolated, and we had access to things like chess, soap, daily showers, and electronic tablets we could use to communicate with the outside world. At Guantanamo, we were treated like animals and terrorists.
8. My detention at Guantánamo changed me. The isolation, the deprivation, the denial of* legal help and medical care, it broke us down We are asylum seekers, not criminals, yet we were treated as if we were dangerous. We Are fathers, we have families, and we are humans. Yet, the U.S. government took us to a military base, cut us off from the world, and deported us without allowing us to fight for our rights.
9. What happened at Guantánamo was inhumane. No one should be subjected to this kind of treatment.
0. Because I am currently in transit through Venezuela and without stable internet connection, I could not sign this declaration myself but gave consent to Talia Roma to sign on my behalf.

April 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM

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BubbleWolf ➡️ NFC

@bubblewolf.bsky.social

'Griever'

April 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM

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TrashToonZ

@trashtoonz.bsky.social

April 2025 P@treon release👍

(1/2)

April 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM

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TrashToonZ

@trashtoonz.bsky.social

April 2025 P@treon release👍

(2/2)

April 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM

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Q?𓂺 😩🍆💦💦

@dupreyduke.bsky.social

I make them with ❤️😫🍆💦

March 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM

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Q?𓂺 😩🍆💦💦

@dupreyduke.bsky.social

Good boy

March 27, 2025 at 7:29 AM

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Q?𓂺 😩🍆💦💦

@dupreyduke.bsky.social

On the zoom call

March 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM

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Q?𓂺 😩🍆💦💦

@dupreyduke.bsky.social

Save a horse bro

March 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM

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philb

@phillipbankss.bsky.social

bowser Jr on his iPad saying DAYUD CAN WE GET THE SWITCH 2

bowser saying "junior the games for that thing are gonna be 70$. im a single parent."

April 4, 2025 at 6:13 AM

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BEES🐝

@professorbees.bsky.social

Please commission me!
I can draw funny little opossums (or any other little critter) 💲1️⃣0️⃣ or character art! NSFW Art is welcome too 😈
Share/repost this too while you're at it!!

March 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM

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☕matí

@matwvv.bsky.social

April 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM

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✦𝖕𝖊𝖏𝖓𝖙✦| Mistletoe Flash 🎄🎁

@pejntboks.bsky.social

The Knight and the King II/II 🫀🌻[ #pejntart ]

April 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM

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TrashToonZ

@trashtoonz.bsky.social

New arbiters content up on my p@treon! go check it out if yah want. y'all really liked the last parts, hands down my best month on P@treon. wove y'all🤎👍

link in pin and bio👈