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created November 25, 2024

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Kenny fn Powers

26/8/2025, 3:53:48 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture benbenuto42.bsky.social (@benbenuto42.bsky.social) reply parent

Fukushima literally pours into the ocean daily

20/8/2025, 12:10:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr.fedaa nadi (@drfeda.bsky.social) reposted

My friends , or any one care about the genocide happening in Gaza .. I am Fedaa a pediatrician from Gaza theses days are hard for us and we are struggling to stay alive 💔 Please keep helping me so i can help my family and my patients with love and gratitude my link chuffed.org/project/save...

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17/8/2025, 11:24:46 AM | 51 32 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social) reposted

"It could never happen here!" they exclaimed as it slowly began to happen here

1/8/2025, 10:53:17 PM | 64 18 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) reposted

Sydney Sweeney needs to be canceled, and it's disgusting that the Republican Party supports her. Read my essay on it here: charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/why-sydney...

31/7/2025, 1:32:02 PM | 990 196 | View on Bluesky | view

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a.co/d/gUypLj8

27/7/2025, 11:02:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) reposted

Matt and Trey got their bag and decided to torch the company, Paramount, that had paid them and dared/begged/invited Trump to sue Paramount, knowing that Paramount would probably cave, give millions, cancel South Park, and all of this might potentially jeopardize its merger with Skydance. Amazing.

24/7/2025, 7:40:45 AM | 1595 229 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) reposted

I debated 20 far-far-far-right conservatives (racists? fascists?) on Jubilee's 'Surrounded.' Here are some of the highlights of them unable to answer my basic questions or rebut the simplest of points. Not sure whether to laugh or cry. Here's the full 'debate': www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...

20/7/2025, 3:01:53 PM | 11794 2713 | View on Bluesky | view

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6/7/2025, 11:13:02 PM | 29 17 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@cajunblue.bsky.social) reposted

The concentration camp will not allow people who are in elected positions to enter now that they have the first group of prisoners. This is not immigration reform, this is an enormous human rights violation without oversight.

3/7/2025, 9:16:02 PM | 1294 660 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) reposted

The Supreme Court is a corrupt and compromised institution in services of fascists and oligarchs. Expand and reform the Court. Enough. Supreme Court Lets Trump Deport Eight Migrants to South Sudan www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/u...

3/7/2025, 10:18:12 PM | 884 274 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) reposted

"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes. The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere. The site is a textbook concentration camp.

2/7/2025, 12:31:43 AM | 7661 2517 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) reposted

Thread... I was 19 when 9/11 happened. I lived through post-9/11 hate, the "anti-Shariah" movement, & hype around the Muslim ban. But with Zohran's primary win, I don't think I've ever seen THIS level of Islamophobia & anti-Muslim hate from BOTH GOP and Democrats. And the sad truth is this— 1/4

28/6/2025, 3:34:57 AM | 923 263 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted

They're just televising the construction of concentration camps like it's a good thing. This is unimaginably dark.

27/6/2025, 3:34:19 PM | 6000 1989 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) reposted

The four Muslim members of Congress have put out a statement condemning the Islamophobic attacks on Mamdani. But it shouldn’t just be on the Muslim electeds. Where is Hakeem Jeffries? Where is Chuck Schumer? Where is the caucus? Shame on any Dem elected who is silent on this.

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27/6/2025, 5:43:28 PM | 2234 421 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) reposted

Mahmoud Khalil was kidnapped and detained for 3 months simply for the crime of advocating for Palestinians not to be killed in a genocide. That's it. He was a peaceful protester and activist. He broke zero laws. Still, they kept him from his liberty and infant child.

21/6/2025, 12:05:16 AM | 1420 292 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture benbenuto42.bsky.social (@benbenuto42.bsky.social) reply parent

Dude bought a 25,000 square foot ranch just to avoid defenestration, and just like that…

19/6/2025, 10:45:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) reposted

"The Global War on Terrorism was objectively a failure. The things our government set out to accomplish were never close to being realized, and the world is certainly less stable than it was on September 12th, 2001, let alone Sept. 10th." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/its-deja-v...

18/6/2025, 7:59:58 PM | 661 147 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted

No Kings

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14/6/2025, 5:36:25 PM | 866 150 | View on Bluesky | view

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14/6/2025, 7:57:52 PM | 654 89 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) reposted

My latest: "Hitler Also Manufactured A Crisis To Destroy Democracy" Trump unleashing the military and national guard in L.A. is reminiscent of authoritarians like Hitler who deliberately created chaos as an excuse to erode democratic norms and gain more power. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

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12/6/2025, 4:29:51 PM | 399 113 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social) reposted

Trump is deploying the National Guard and the Marines because he wants the story to be about lawless immigrants rampaging through the streets of LA and not about the fact his masked, faceless thugs at ICE are ambushing men women and children at school events, job sites and court hearings.

9/6/2025, 6:29:52 PM | 63 20 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social) reposted

A deeply sincere fuck you to all the people who said "my parents came here and became citizens legally so they should too" and then voted for a lawless white supremacist who will break every rule to fulfill his promise to ethnically cleanse the United States. www.cbsnews.com/news/immigra...

7/6/2025, 2:48:17 AM | 198 64 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) reposted

The only thing that matters this year is the revival of King of the Hill. That's it. That's all.

1/6/2025, 5:19:08 AM | 318 10 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vic Hurtowy (@vichurtowy.bsky.social) reposted

It's a great day in Ukraine today.

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1/6/2025, 4:13:18 PM | 45 20 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kye (@gxldsociety.bsky.social) reposted

BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear: The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here. Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead. This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.

26/5/2025, 4:39:21 PM | 12670 4538 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) reposted

Its a white supremacist regime promoting white supremacist conspiracies. Call it for what it is. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

21/5/2025, 9:46:51 PM | 555 112 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AltYellostoneNatPar (@altyellonatpark.org) reposted

The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ? So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky If you could, please help us regain our following Follow Retweet and Repeat ;-) Together we can change the world.

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4/1/2025, 5:56:51 PM | 22544 9299 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) reposted

The Truth About the India-Pakistan Crisis: What you need to know about the crisis, its history, and what resolution might look like www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-truth-...

9/5/2025, 11:49:58 PM | 82 33 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) reposted

Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊

10/5/2025, 8:39:46 AM | 7998 2684 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted

Warnock: I hear people attack poor people and act like it’s a crime to be poor, rather than to recognize it’s criminal for so many people to be poor. They do all of this in the name of Jesus… Jesus is the biggest victim of identity theft in the United States

27/4/2025, 8:20:28 PM | 38306 9118 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted

SPOILER ALERT: In the sci-fi show Andor, it was a massive surprise intended to horrify and shock viewers when they learned that the show's supermax actually lets no one out alive—no matter their offense or sentence. That's what CECOT—the Trump-Bukele joint—_already is_. So... everybody get it now?

18/4/2025, 11:32:14 PM | 1014 241 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

Auchincloss: "This issue about the Maryland man is not about border security or immigration. It's about freedom. Freedom in the US means that if your feet are on American soil, you get to stand in front of a judge on an equal basis to the awesome power of the state and put forward the facts."

18/4/2025, 3:18:30 PM | 20091 4710 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture God (@thegodpodcast.com) reposted

EXACTLY.

johnroycomic says: Right wing Star Wars fans at some level realize that throwing a wrongly accused man into an off shore mega prison where no leaves is literally what the Empire does in Andor, right?
18/4/2025, 10:55:09 PM | 11309 2186 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) reposted

Holocaust Encyclopedia defines a concentration camp as “Functioning outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.” Today, it’s happening again as Trump disappears immigrants to El Salvador. www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-united...

16/4/2025, 11:59:44 PM | 776 378 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Governor Jay Inslee (@govjayinslee.bsky.social) reposted

Trump essentially told the Supreme Court to kiss off today. This is, by definition, an autocracy, explicitly illegal. Stand up now or it will be too late.

15/4/2025, 5:41:24 AM | 1879 498 | View on Bluesky | view

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12/4/2025, 6:29:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Steves (@ricksteves.bsky.social) reposted

Under Fascism, the state makes sweeping changes (sold as an attack on waste, fraud, and abuse) in the name of efficiency…and “the trains will run on time!” Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.

4/4/2025, 2:47:14 AM | 2669 1000 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Obscura (@emchimique.bsky.social) reposted

This is obscene, and an affront to human rights and human dignity.

7/4/2025, 8:40:41 AM | 225 51 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) reposted

“In 2012, in Arizona v United States, the highest court in the land ruled that “as a general rule, it is not a crime for a removable alien to remain in the United States”. Got that? Not. A. Crime.” From my new Guardian op-ed:

4/4/2025, 2:18:43 AM | 8499 2419 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/4/2025, 2:49:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Keith Boykin (@keithboykin.bsky.social) reposted

The US Naval Academy plans to remove books from its library, including “The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr." and a biography on Jackie Robinson to comply with anti-DEI orders. No university library should be forced to remove books because a politician doesn't like them.

29/3/2025, 9:08:46 PM | 215 82 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) reposted

I'll be going live to talk about the daily sh*tshow in the US on YouTube at 12pm ET, or less than 20 minutes www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmAp...

28/3/2025, 3:41:52 PM | 338 65 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) reposted

Yep. Just imagine the next 8 weeks. Or the next four years. God help us all.

27/3/2025, 6:13:02 PM | 2109 436 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek.bsky.social) reposted

As someone who extensively studied WWII since, IDK, 12? This makes my blood scream. Navajo "Wind Talkers" were volunteers in a segregated military. Their handlers had orders to kill them if they might be captured. They are FUCKING AMERICAN HEROES. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

18/3/2025, 1:26:27 AM | 253 76 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick (@rickylongthread.bsky.social) reposted

Oh my, this is a sign in small town Ontario. 😆 I have to admit, it made me chuckle! Tick season IS upon us.....

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16/3/2025, 8:57:35 PM | 6672 1983 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

The three most dangerous men in the world are Trump, Musk and Putin. And not only are these monsters in regular communication with one another, they are on exactly the same page with respect to what they think should happen on Earth over the next 50 years. They threaten us all.

9/3/2025, 5:49:35 PM | 835 200 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) reposted

The White House, not even DHS, the White House itself apparently, is directly deciding which permanent residents should be detained and deported based on their political speech. If this doesn’t scare you about the state of our democracy and liberties, I don’t know what will.

9/3/2025, 9:04:33 PM | 3344 996 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) reposted

"What is Ramadan – and other questions answered: A brief guide to the Islamic season of Ramadan for the curious, the bored, the uninformed and the ignorant." For my non-Muslim friends, and haters!, I wrote this guide to Ramadan and fasting almost 15 years (!) ago.

1/3/2025, 8:28:25 PM | 1437 247 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture benbenuto42.bsky.social (@benbenuto42.bsky.social) reply parent

Employee of the month for Vlad.

1/3/2025, 12:21:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted

This is one of the most shameful days in U.S. history. A weak, corrupt, deceitful, compromised Kremlinist U.S. president recruited his Yarvinist VP to gang up on a heroic ally on live TV. It devolved into a shouting match. Why? This report explains _exactly_ why:

28/2/2025, 6:37:01 PM | 7397 2201 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) reposted

It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

28/2/2025, 10:46:43 PM | 8904 2476 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Aronberg (@davearonberg.bsky.social) reposted

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28/2/2025, 8:56:51 PM | 4706 769 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) reposted

Jeff Bezos will be censoring progressive opinions at the Washington Post. He says so himself today. So ditch the Post and support independent journalism: Zeteo.com/subscribe

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26/2/2025, 4:25:35 PM | 5512 1214 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sen. Adam Schiff (@schiff.senate.gov) reposted

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

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20/2/2025, 8:04:19 PM | 117751 21195 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) reposted

We earned 1700 subscribers in the first week of my human rights newsletter, Let's Address This. At now 10 months we've surpassed 117K subs. My content is: —Never behind a pay wall —Always 100% fact checked with receipts —Funded by people, not billionaires Join up: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

20/2/2025, 5:12:37 AM | 244 47 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek.bsky.social) reposted

There are around 15k trans soldiers, sailors, and airmen in the US Military. Through executive order, Donald Trump has begun removing all of them. Our enemies have taken out more troops than were lost in Afghanistan and both Gulf Wars, combined, without firing a shot.

17/2/2025, 3:04:54 PM | 275 80 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) reposted

Today the WSJ came out with an article flat out calling for the genocide of Palestinians "because forced displacement was common in the 20th century." Corporate media is enabling Trump's fascism. Recognize it, reject it, & act to counter it: www.qasimrashid.com/p/trump-prom...

13/2/2025, 8:45:26 PM | 234 80 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) reposted

Simultaneously Trump is forcing migrants into a concentration camp in Cuba and forcing Palestinians out of their homes in Gaza. Both of these acts violate Constitutional and International Law.

5/2/2025, 12:55:36 AM | 1013 318 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) reposted

At least 122,000 people daily across the U.S. suffer in solitary confinement—for up to 24 hours a day. Recognized as a form of torture, solitary confinement remains pervasive in U.S. prisons, jails, & immigration centers. Here's how we end this form of torture. www.qasimrashid.com/p/ending-leg...

3/2/2025, 11:32:30 PM | 290 57 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Governor Tim Walz (@governorwalz.mn.gov) reposted

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

3/2/2025, 10:34:48 PM | 53218 15301 | View on Bluesky | view

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Profile picture Rick (@rickylongthread.bsky.social) reposted

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!

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Profile picture Erik Larson (@exlarson.bsky.social) reposted

I made exactly this analogy just the other day. Give a petty man immense power, and that’s exactly the result.

31/1/2025, 8:11:16 PM | 26 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg.bsky.social) reposted

It’s worth noting that the president of the United States today made more racist comments than we’ve seen any president make publicly in, what, a century? More publicly racist comments than many presidents who were, with history’s eye, virulently racist humans, but ones who at least knew their role.

30/1/2025, 9:16:54 PM | 8596 1987 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren-Ashley Arts (@laurenashley087.bsky.social) reposted

This is true.

30/1/2025, 11:21:53 PM | 45 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) reposted

Trump issues Executive Order to cancel student visas of pro-Palestinian protesters. This absurd order is: 1. Fascist 2. Unconstitutional & clear 1A violation 3. Contrary to Trump's promise of protecting free speech Where are the right wing free speech culture warriors? Cowardly silent? Thought so.

30/1/2025, 3:32:07 PM | 607 156 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) reposted

NYT reporting mass immigrant ICE raids have begun in Chicago. I'm an immigrant & Chicago based human rights lawyer. I wrote this on how to handle ICE, actions to protect our immigrant neighbors, & debunking anti-immigrant hate. No paywall. Please share widely. www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...

26/1/2025, 7:41:31 PM | 2033 1613 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted

Not just some people, but all people—on Earth—must watch this video and share it as widely as possible. Every word of it is true, and it confirms that Elon Musk is a white supremacist leader stoking violence around the world. His two televised Nazi salutes were exactly what you thought they were.

23/1/2025, 5:53:47 PM | 2726 1499 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Daily Beans Podcast (@dailybeanspod.com) reposted

This is how you do it...

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22/1/2025, 3:23:33 PM | 61011 14120 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Shallow State (@ourshallowstate.bsky.social) reposted

Here's how they report on him in the UK, where their free press has a spine.

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21/1/2025, 9:12:00 PM | 28136 8343 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) reposted

Don't know who said it first but it bears repeating—if you really don't think what Musk repeatedly did was a Nazi salute, please record yourself doing that exact thing and post it across all social media, and make sure your employer sees it. Oh...is that awkward gesture too much now? Interesting.

21/1/2025, 3:40:50 PM | 1352 332 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) reposted

Trump’s fascist mass raids and deportations are set to begin Tuesday. Be an ally. We are not helpless. Here are 7 action items you can start now to help protect our immigrant neighbors. Read & share: www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...

21/1/2025, 3:40:22 AM | 532 264 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted

Never forget.

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6/1/2025, 7:41:56 PM | 23746 6979 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) reposted

Mark my words: right now, it's an editorial cartoon being killed by the brass of The Washington Post. Pretty soon, it's a major story about Trump's corruption being killed by the brass. This will happen. Get ready for it.

4/1/2025, 5:03:39 AM | 4129 982 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted

"Merry Christmas, President Musk!" 😜

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24/12/2024, 9:30:04 AM | 1463 336 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted

Oh, I want much more than this. I want everything any intelligence agency has on Donald Trump declassified as well as anything the Department of Justice has. Our intelligence community sat on its ass and did nothing to help us with a walking national security threat for 10 years. Let that end now.

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7/12/2024, 3:03:59 AM | 13913 4000 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted

I want to wish a particularly Happy Thanksgiving to those whose memories extend all the way back to pre-Election Day You can learn a lot about our new POTUS just by looking at, I dunno, everything he's ever done and remembering that he's a career criminal, rapist, con man, sexual predator and stuff

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28/11/2024, 9:47:30 PM | 23771 4446 | View on Bluesky | view