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Paul x.bird

@paulgzer.bsky.social

Engineer, Democrat thru & thru. Pro civil rights, animals, banjos, cities, reading, universal health care. Anti murder weapons. Bots, porn, $ requests, crypto bros are an immediate block. I am too old for that crap. Be kind and keep your knees loose.

created November 16, 2024

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Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

He just filled the screen.

2/9/2025, 12:58:40 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rosa (@rosalindanne.bsky.social) reposted

I am 76 & I have had most of these vaccinations at one time or another. Also vaccinations against Covid, Tetanus, plus Cholera & Yellow Fever when travelling in foreign countries. These prevented me catching horrible diseases & dying a gruesome death. They did not harm me, they protected me!

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1/9/2025, 11:03:35 PM | 2289 603 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

If I didn’t already like him, I would after seeing this. I inspect a lot of trees- feel the bark, look at the roots as they spread out to find their way into the ground…

2/9/2025, 12:50:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

Denmark

2/9/2025, 12:32:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

This guy is good. Points stated forcefully and in simple, direct language.

2/9/2025, 12:30:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

With you 100%

1/9/2025, 9:04:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 🦋~Bindi~🦋 (@bindiatthebeach.bsky.social) reposted

🍿🍺

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1/9/2025, 6:35:46 PM | 902 270 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

I love the way she slaps the camera.

1/9/2025, 8:50:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laz (He/Him) (@laz000.bsky.social) reposted

Ok question everything sure, but stop listening to experts? Really?

1/9/2025, 1:24:21 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sultanofsweep.bsky.social (@sultanofsweep.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

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1/9/2025, 8:11:40 PM | 51 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

This is the best use of a golf course that I’ve ever seen.

1/9/2025, 5:31:29 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) reposted

ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!

31/8/2025, 6:36:18 PM | 9901 2097 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

The program is being run by the execrable Stephen Miller. It seems as if it has been modeled on Argentina’s dirty war of the 1980’s. Miller, Trump, and their co-conspirators don’t give a damn if the abductees disappear during deportation or relocation within th US

1/9/2025, 2:37:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

He just can’t tell the truth… about anything And the lies are so transparent, because he’s so lazy

1/9/2025, 2:21:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Viktor Winetrout (@viktorwinetrout.bsky.social) reposted

[Giuliani's final breath] Tell my family I loved...9/11

1/9/2025, 12:28:39 AM | 4761 593 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

That has got to be the thrill of a lifetime.

1/9/2025, 1:31:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Corey O'Neill (@coreyoneill.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

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31/8/2025, 9:35:41 PM | 1174 459 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) reposted

Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.

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31/8/2025, 11:14:04 PM | 5961 1340 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

Sure he was. Was that the Mercedes that he cheated Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss out of?

31/8/2025, 10:24:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Just my thoughts 🇨🇦 (@bc60.bsky.social) reposted

This

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31/8/2025, 3:09:41 PM | 5693 1902 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

We could have the same, if it became a priority.

31/8/2025, 8:38:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted

He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.

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31/8/2025, 3:28:16 PM | 18019 6293 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted

GOP Rep Chuck Edwards is confronted by infuriated constituents at his town hall.

31/8/2025, 10:18:08 AM | 2660 1127 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture agnes bookbinder (@agnesbookbinder.bsky.social) reposted

The irony of the administration going after waste when everything they do is wasteful —people with special skills unable to use them, immigrants who just want to work criminalized, the soft power that makes people want to come here diminished. It’s all waste. They respect nothing. So we lose it.

31/8/2025, 10:57:21 AM | 9 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture darren32359.bsky.social (@darren32359.bsky.social) reposted

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31/8/2025, 11:13:09 AM | 4491 1273 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

Good lord, what a menace.

31/8/2025, 4:26:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

Hendrix was always at his best when accompanying vocals.

31/8/2025, 4:23:40 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

Beautiful.

31/8/2025, 4:17:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s an indication of intellectual laziness.

31/8/2025, 4:12:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie Slivensky (@kslivensky.bsky.social) reposted

I really don't know how to put this politely, but if I hear you say "I asked ChatGPT --" I immediately downgrade my respect for you, your morals, and *definitely* any information you share with me in the future.

31/8/2025, 4:00:58 PM | 59 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

Why does anyone give this nitwit a voice?

31/8/2025, 4:07:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted

He won’t let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.

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31/8/2025, 3:32:36 PM | 23119 5919 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

We can only hope…

31/8/2025, 4:01:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

The answer is that relying on the Guard is not a sustainable solution to crime.

31/8/2025, 3:57:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

Is he the guy who got stuck on a gate?

31/8/2025, 3:55:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karen “the good kind” Percy (@karenpercy.bsky.social) reposted

Nailed it ✅😭

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31/8/2025, 3:12:46 PM | 180 44 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JeWitch68 (@witchywoman68.bsky.social) reposted

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31/8/2025, 12:25:40 PM | 12786 3904 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture leftylady.bsky.social (@leftylady.bsky.social) reposted

DO IT!!!

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30/8/2025, 9:47:40 PM | 8 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

Bravo, sir! And in that light:

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31/8/2025, 3:40:37 PM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you. I am shocked that this dangerous kook has been taken seriously. I know, I shouldn’t be.

31/8/2025, 3:26:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted

In honor of the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina: "Heck of a job you're doing, Donny."

30/8/2025, 2:43:13 PM | 4446 634 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

Pretty much says it all.

31/8/2025, 12:17:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

They’ve likely never experienced a three year-old in captivity, especially their dietary strictures. My son finally tried a bit of red pepper when we called it “red cucumber”

31/8/2025, 11:58:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 🦋~Bindi~🦋 (@bindiatthebeach.bsky.social) reposted

I've always called her the First Lady of Porn 😁

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30/8/2025, 6:30:50 PM | 665 190 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted

Trump says museums focus too much on the “negative aspects” of American history, like “how bad slavery was.” And plans to purge cultural institutions. But be clear: he’s not talking about alternately uplifting Black inventors, builders, and leaders we were never taught about…

31/8/2025, 1:19:20 AM | 2552 952 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

You are right to be proud of this kid.

31/8/2025, 1:13:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

Beautiful!

31/8/2025, 1:12:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

Damn good person. Protect the children

31/8/2025, 1:10:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Deb Brown 🚨🇺🇲 (@debpixcom.bsky.social) reposted

🙃 #GavinNewsom #EpsteinFiles

Gavin Newsom passed the Montreal Cognitive Assessment today by reciting
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Profile picture Bill Madden (@maddenifico.bsky.social) reposted

Y'all are going to find this story of Trump's Nazi ICE Gestapo hard to believe. Sadly, it really did happen. 😳👇

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Profile picture George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted

Gotta hand it to the artist.

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30/8/2025, 7:55:46 PM | 6880 1016 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Susan Quinn (@qsusie.bsky.social) reposted

#bookban #UCP

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30/8/2025, 8:49:19 PM | 6876 1177 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

Let’s test his dismissal of experts: see if he’d get in a helicopter piloted by Eric Trump.

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Profile picture Ruth Zakarin (@ruthz.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

We know what we need to make Boston even safer than it already is. And we could absolutely do that if we had a fraction of the federal resources Trump is currently wasting on the occupation of DC. His troops and threats don’t get us there. They don’t make us safe. We make us safe. 5/5

30/8/2025, 2:59:37 AM | 38 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s so cool.

31/8/2025, 12:39:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

Prayer doesn’t work. I’m rooting for karma…

30/8/2025, 10:58:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

Secret AGENT dog, secret AGENT dog. The’ve given you a collar, and taken ‘way your name.

30/8/2025, 10:56:41 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, we wouldn’t want to spend taxes on waste, fraud, and abuse… like school lunches for hungry children, would we?

30/8/2025, 9:35:43 PM | 11 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe Trump is paying for this OTT response… just like he’s paying for his Russian ballroom (lined with amber, no doubt)

30/8/2025, 9:31:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Welch: Am American president talks to other American citizens like that, and propagandists come on TV and normalize this behavior. And nothing about this is normal. Nothing

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

Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.

30/8/2025, 2:47:27 AM | 7629 2442 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 (@kdnerak33.bsky.social) reposted

I truly don’t understand the people who think teachers telling children how to run, hide, and fight during school shootings is normal but think a teacher acknowledging that someone has two moms or two dads is indoctrination.

29/8/2025, 8:15:45 PM | 2100 524 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

Raking the forest?

30/8/2025, 1:02:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

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29/8/2025, 6:13:25 PM | 18566 4851 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

29/8/2025, 9:45:09 PM | 32324 10357 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s a start.

29/8/2025, 5:24:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

Not as much as he loves being a bully.

29/8/2025, 7:20:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social) reposted

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

27/8/2025, 6:42:38 PM | 20674 6750 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Captain Mark Kelly (@captmarkkelly.bsky.social) reposted

The FBI under Kash Patel is lowering recruiting standards and reducing training for new agents. Instead of 18 weeks of training, they’re only receiving 8. In a world with more complexity and more threats, this Administration is again wrecking the institutions that keep us safe.

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Profile picture Captain Mark Kelly (@captmarkkelly.bsky.social) reposted

The National Park Service was created 109 years ago to protect and preserve our most treasured public lands. Some in Washington want to sell off our parks to big corporations, but I’ll always fight to make sure these lands stay with their rightful owner: the American people.

25/8/2025, 7:49:03 PM | 1213 240 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted

"Literally no one thinks prayer is a substitute for action." Then why is prayer, literally, *always* the substitute for action, you willfully obtuse asshole?

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Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

Just in case you forgot…

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28/8/2025, 5:29:48 PM | 10131 5041 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted

Little kids are having to use their bodies to shield friends from gunfire while armed soldiers are busy picking up trash.

28/8/2025, 7:05:42 PM | 10655 3629 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peter Morley ♿️ (@petermorley.bsky.social) reposted

I absolutely love the FEARLESS Dr. Peter Hotez!!!!!

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28/8/2025, 6:37:13 PM | 8325 2199 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

I really enjoy these improvised dances.

28/8/2025, 12:27:15 AM | 13 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alt National Endowment for the Humanities (@altnehgov.altgov.info) reposted

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury Keep reading, friends. 📚

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Profile picture cyborg87.bsky.social (@cyborg87.bsky.social) reposted

The Toronto Blue Jays held a moment of silence prior to the start of tonight’s baseball game vs the Minnesota Twins. Canada is a good friend. 🇨🇦

27/8/2025, 11:09:50 PM | 7383 833 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted

AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”

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Profile picture J.T Sparks (@jsparks25.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

How amazing is Trump! We forgot all about the Epstein files!

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Profile picture Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted

Utterly depraved.

Homeland Security v @DHSgov Uganda Man. 9:30 PM • 8/25/25 • 207K Views
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Profile picture Jack Hopkins-The Original (@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social) reposted

THIS…is the mindset. THIS…is the attitude. THIS…is the fire in the gut….that we are going to ALL have to adopt. I have. Have you? We can’t have people sit this one out…and still prevail.

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Profile picture PapaJ (@michiganpapa.bsky.social) reposted

"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading." Isaac Asimov

25/8/2025, 8:40:04 PM | 12125 2361 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

This guy. This should be the theme song of the 2026 midterm election

26/8/2025, 9:01:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion

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Profile picture Denise Wheeler (@denisedwheeler.bsky.social) reposted

Edward Luce and General Michael Hayden both say they have never seen a political force more dangerous than today's Republicans.
25/8/2025, 1:59:23 AM | 1235 431 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

Beautiful. And it must be an exceptional lense if you could tell that the moth is a virgin

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Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

Plus she’s a complete liar.

25/8/2025, 12:06:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted

Dems should swap out Hakeem Jeffries with Jasmine Crockett. They need that kind of fire.

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Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

This guy is a know-nothing ass.

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Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

I’d say that standing behind a podium to address two people is a sign that the speaker is a real asshole.

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Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

You’re doing a good job raising those children. Time Bandits on the list?

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Profile picture Jennifer Shin (@jennifershin.bsky.social) reposted

Just another criminal he wants to release, evidence be damned.

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Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

👇👇

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Profile picture Paul x.bird (@paulgzer.bsky.social) reply parent

Like it!

24/8/2025, 3:41:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 🦋~Bindi~🦋 (@bindiatthebeach.bsky.social) reposted

Some people try to make themselves seem smarter than they are and then get destroyed. Love it.

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Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

White House official Lindsey Halligan: "While slavery is obviously a horrible aspect of our nation's history, you can't really talk about slavery honestly unless you also talk about hope and progress ... we need to stop focusing so much on the lack of progress."

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