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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social

“You changed the samples, didn’t you huh?” *ballroom crowd murmurs uneasily* “You SWITCHED THE SAMPLES after Lentz died.”

Emergency radio traffic in the minutes after the shooting suggested a chaotic search for leads. There was talk among officers of various people who might be connected: a man dressed in a suit, a person who seemed to be going to hospitals looking for Mr. Kirk, someone who had removed an anti-Kirk post online, someone with a bionic arm.
sep 12, 2025, 5:39 am • 671 76

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Shannon Zak @shannonzak.bsky.social

🤣👏👏👏👏👏

sep 12, 2025, 9:18 am • 0 0 • view
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andycrain.bsky.social @andycrain.bsky.social

Someone with a bionic arm? Cool

sep 12, 2025, 5:43 am • 1 0 • view
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Alt National Sock Service 🎖️💎🧦 @drosgood.bsky.social

sep 12, 2025, 5:47 am • 1 0 • view
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Andy "Legally Blondeshell" @legalba.bsky.social

Bionic arm...Bucky?

sep 12, 2025, 5:46 am • 8 0 • view
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blakestacey.bsky.social @blakestacey.bsky.social

sep 12, 2025, 5:49 am • 1 0 • view
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JoBoese @jaboese.bsky.social

ok, now I get the sequence reference. missing the original.

sep 12, 2025, 5:55 am • 0 0 • view
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alexandraclimpson.bsky.social @alexandraclimpson.bsky.social

AI did it.

sep 12, 2025, 7:08 am • 0 0 • view
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neallyon.bsky.social @neallyon.bsky.social

He escaped the authorities *even with* the extraordinary competence of TLJ’s US Marshal Gerard.

sep 12, 2025, 6:56 am • 0 0 • view
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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social

"Richard, Richard. I'm in the middle of something. Richard. Ladies and gentlemen, my friend, the good doctor isn't feeling well. Richard, let's discuss this..."

sep 12, 2025, 5:53 am • 6 0 • view
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Jim @jimc5.bsky.social

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sep 12, 2025, 10:27 am • 0 0 • view
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Daily Trix @dailytrix.bsky.social

Bill Haverchuck (Martin Starr) from
sep 12, 2025, 5:44 am • 6 0 • view
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Justin White @jwhite.bsky.social

It was the one-armed man!

sep 12, 2025, 5:56 am • 0 0 • view
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social

Anyways the law enforcement response in the first 24h appears to have been an absolute horde of FBI agents and cops trampling through a residential area that might have held important clues with no focus, harassing blameless people, and duplicating each other’s efforts sometimes six times over.

sep 12, 2025, 5:56 am • 494 82 • view
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Kartik @ksivaraman.bsky.social

Trump has surrounded himself with incompetent people. If this idiot president doesn't croak soon, America is doomed. JD, as plan B, is a bigger disaster.

sep 12, 2025, 6:11 am • 2 0 • view
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velourazure @velourazure.bsky.social

Plans B - Z are a cascading series of bigger disasters.

sep 12, 2025, 6:45 am • 1 0 • view
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Rap Bastardz® @rapbastardz.bsky.social

I still have faith Kash can influence, shitpost and Grok his way through his very first big boy investigation… or maybe not.

sep 12, 2025, 6:03 am • 3 0 • view
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com

i am not a big deterrence theory type but i will say the outlook isn’t good

sep 12, 2025, 6:01 am • 21 0 • view
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Ari Ofsevit @ofsevit.bsky.social

sep 12, 2025, 10:59 am • 0 0 • view
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Captive @graceomalley.bsky.social

🙄 not surprised. Transgender ppl need to be in hiding now bc they will be looking for anyone to scape goat & they're the preferred target.

sep 12, 2025, 6:00 am • 0 0 • view
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brianskinner.bsky.social @brianskinner.bsky.social

Cops are already terrible at investigating crimes and now you throw in podcast host leading it. I would be surprised if they catch the guy at this point.

sep 12, 2025, 6:11 am • 1 0 • view
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Bodily autonomy, still a thing @boendercarol.bsky.social

All the world's mafias and cartels and spies are watching and learning that this is a really good time to do that stuff you wanted to do and get away with it

sep 12, 2025, 6:02 am • 5 0 • view
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Wayne Chow 🇨🇦 🍁 @waynechow.bsky.social

But no one thought to close the airport?

sep 12, 2025, 5:59 am • 0 0 • view
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Hannah @hc101.bsky.social

I'm not going to give nyt the click but I do love that chicken coops made an appearance

sep 12, 2025, 10:55 am • 0 0 • view
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The Archbishop of Bologna @metaphorge.bsky.social

An image macro of David Lynch as an incredulous FBI Deputy Director Gordon Cole with the text “WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY DOING DOWN THERE, COOP?”
sep 12, 2025, 6:12 am • 3 0 • view
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Holly Almost Halloween Murray @haminator22.bsky.social

Lunch would be a marked improvement over the FBI under that wild-eyed moron

sep 12, 2025, 7:13 am • 2 0 • view
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Holly Almost Halloween Murray @haminator22.bsky.social

Even dead

sep 12, 2025, 7:13 am • 1 0 • view
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Holly Almost Halloween Murray @haminator22.bsky.social

Mother fucking autocorrect - LYNCH

sep 12, 2025, 7:14 am • 2 0 • view
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The Archbishop of Bologna @metaphorge.bsky.social

Lunch with Lynch would be doubly delightful. =D

sep 12, 2025, 7:15 am • 3 0 • view
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Holly Almost Halloween Murray @haminator22.bsky.social

Oh my god 🤣 You're right and I thank you

sep 12, 2025, 7:32 am • 1 0 • view
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The Archbishop of Bologna @metaphorge.bsky.social

An image of a slice of cherry pie on a plate and a mug with “RR” printed on it in florid font, red, italicized and serifed.
sep 12, 2025, 7:42 am • 2 0 • view
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Holly Almost Halloween Murray @haminator22.bsky.social

Holy shit you had that ready to go WITH the alt text Incredible. I bow down. 😁

sep 12, 2025, 7:44 am • 2 0 • view
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The Archbishop of Bologna @metaphorge.bsky.social

Bluesky has really improved my image-captioning habits on my local copies.

sep 12, 2025, 7:49 am • 1 0 • view
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Crazy Mary antifascist @embeessem.bsky.social

😂 that bastard

sep 12, 2025, 11:50 am • 1 0 • view
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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social

Patel is a certified idiot.

At least two people were detained: A bespectacled man was dragged by police officers into a vehicle just minutes after Mr. Kirk was shot. Hours later, another man was taken into custody by investigators, a development celebrated by Mr. Patel on social media. But in both instances, investigators found, the men had no connection to the shooting. The first one was a local political gadfly who was charged with obstruction of justice. The other was a fan of Mr. Kirk's who had attended the rally with friends. His name had been raised in emergency radio chatter and soon spread through social media. Family members said the man had gone home after the event, shaken and saddened by what had transpired, only to have investigators show up at his door to bring him in for questioning. On the left: cover of Patel’s slobberingly sycophantic “children’s book,” “the plot against the king,” including “king” Trump & “wizard” Patel. On the right, Patel with his signature dimwit look.
sep 12, 2025, 6:21 am • 5 0 • view
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velourazure @velourazure.bsky.social

Top. Men.

sep 12, 2025, 6:44 am • 3 0 • view
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Ellen Enders @ellenenders.bsky.social

The NEW FBI

sep 12, 2025, 10:06 am • 2 0 • view
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Zeroisanumber @zeroisanumber.bsky.social

If I were the shooter I'd be in Borneo by now. Perfect storm of luck and incompetence gave him a buffer of time to make a break for it.

sep 12, 2025, 6:12 am • 0 0 • view
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Blaze @blazeberaht.bsky.social

The trampling of evidence makes me worried they’ll try to manufacture their own… I hope they are too uncoordinated to make that work.

sep 12, 2025, 6:11 am • 7 0 • view
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Lauren Krzyzaniak @laurenrjones.bsky.social

I wouldn't be surprised if they created AI generated videos and presented them as real in this case.

sep 12, 2025, 7:25 am • 2 0 • view
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richardd72.bsky.social @richardd72.bsky.social

I feel like the "bionic arm" is not getting enough attention.

sep 12, 2025, 7:02 am • 11 0 • view
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SeaWitch1031 🎃👻🧙 @seawitch1031.bsky.social

I would like more information on this bionic arm.

sep 12, 2025, 7:40 am • 6 0 • view
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Bully, Little Stuffed Bull 🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social

Bucky gets blamed again.

sep 12, 2025, 10:03 am • 4 0 • view
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ListenToTheEpsteinVictims @jos1463.bsky.social

When the clown show has fully infected the FBI, the domestic terrorists start plotting

sep 12, 2025, 6:30 am • 2 0 • view
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platinumretriever @platinumretriever.bsky.social

It's not great if any semi-competent terror group is looking at all of this and getting ideas

sep 12, 2025, 6:00 am • 9 0 • view
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Sara Straw @oneoneder.bsky.social

What does NYT know that we don't? The killer is at large. Whether he is "on the run" is unknown.

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mistersniffer.bsky.social @mistersniffer.bsky.social

don't be pulling "we" into this, this is a -you- thing. the NYT knows what idioms mean.

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sep 12, 2025, 6:12 am • 4 0 • view
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Brian @someonenamedbrian.bsky.social

She's right

sep 12, 2025, 6:51 am • 1 0 • view
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PBR Streetgang @hahnyock.bsky.social

I’m old. I prefer “on the lam”.

sep 12, 2025, 6:16 am • 3 0 • view
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Sara Straw @oneoneder.bsky.social

So the idiom "on the run" could encompass "hanging out at home a mile away from campus", in your view. Naw.

sep 12, 2025, 6:17 am • 4 0 • view
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mistersniffer.bsky.social @mistersniffer.bsky.social

you don't understand that phrases can have multiple meanings? jesus christ

sep 12, 2025, 7:22 am • 0 0 • view
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Matt Britt @knows.cloud

Idioms take on independent meaning from their literal content over time. So originally, you’re right - it involved fleeing from active pursuit. Over time, it expanded to mean „avoiding law enforcement action“ which can be done literally fleeing or sitting around, hiding in plain sight.

sep 12, 2025, 7:45 am • 0 0 • view
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Holly Almost Halloween Murray @haminator22.bsky.social

I do not necessarily agree or disagree with what you are saying, but punctuation always belongs within parentheses. 💙

sep 12, 2025, 7:10 am • 0 0 • view
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Stefan Sig @stefansigurjons.bsky.social

Now that you've been told about the metaphorical nature of idioms, are you going to draw a conclusion, or do you not have a pencil handy?

sep 12, 2025, 8:59 am • 0 0 • view
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Sara Straw @oneoneder.bsky.social

New York Times is presenting as fact that the killer is in fact "on the run", and has not resumed life after a completed successful escape.

sep 12, 2025, 6:18 am • 7 0 • view
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A Faceless ○ŊƐ @justa9.bsky.social

Yeah. If he hasn't been IDed he really can't be said to be "on the run" as that implies pursuit. And umm they don't even know what direction to be pursuing in evidently.

sep 12, 2025, 7:08 am • 1 0 • view
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acallan1 is also ready to be POTUS @acallan1.bsky.social

he? and how do you know the real killer was a he Sara? exactly the kind of feint a disciplined, exacting assassin would want us to fall for!

sep 12, 2025, 7:06 am • 0 0 • view
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Crazy Mary antifascist @embeessem.bsky.social

😭😭🤬🤬🤬

sep 12, 2025, 11:49 am • 0 0 • view
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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social

Thinking how the manhunt for the Minnesota assassin was...not this.

sep 12, 2025, 5:59 am • 11 2 • view
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Bodily autonomy, still a thing @boendercarol.bsky.social

Maybe it was good the feds didn't care

sep 12, 2025, 6:03 am • 1 0 • view
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Crazy Mary antifascist @embeessem.bsky.social

Oh absolutely

sep 12, 2025, 11:51 am • 0 0 • view
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Wishing You Well 🇺🇦 🌻 @klaaskid8.bsky.social

Makes me bitter, sadly.

sep 12, 2025, 6:04 am • 0 0 • view
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Mike @kantwistaye.bsky.social

Was not but also included the immediate response being a total disaster.

sep 12, 2025, 6:10 am • 12 0 • view
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jingle bell doc 🎶(actual photo) @drdepth.bsky.social

one armed bandits ->casinos->???

sep 12, 2025, 5:52 am • 0 0 • view
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Tiffany @pedroiar.bsky.social

“Someone who had removed an Anti-Kirk post online” It was Loomer!

sep 12, 2025, 10:59 am • 1 0 • view
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corruption47.bsky.social @corruption47.bsky.social

Ah. The one-armed man. Professor Plum in the library with a candlestick.

sep 12, 2025, 5:42 am • 15 0 • view
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Goon Docks @goondocks.online

Were they looking for the Winter Soldier?

sep 12, 2025, 5:50 am • 0 0 • view
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94501 @94501.bsky.social

mid-humerus

sep 12, 2025, 5:41 am • 2 0 • view
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Barzin @barzin.sanctus.ca

Wait I think I spotted this guy at a local diner?

sep 12, 2025, 6:50 am • 4 0 • view
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juststeller.bsky.social @juststeller.bsky.social

no update on the chickens in the coop though, huh

sep 12, 2025, 6:09 am • 2 0 • view
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michael coyote @michaelcoyote.bsky.social

They just kept fucking them.

sep 12, 2025, 6:10 am • 3 1 • view
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATT! (79-68) @kraniumkracka.bsky.social

sep 12, 2025, 12:29 pm • 0 0 • view
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Felicia A. Henderson @feliciahenderson.bsky.social

It's the one armed man!!

sep 12, 2025, 9:30 am • 0 0 • view
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Felicia A. Henderson @feliciahenderson.bsky.social

Fascinating (generational?) split in the responses. My only knowledge of this Bucky person is his cameo in Black Panther.

sep 12, 2025, 9:35 am • 1 0 • view
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Joebius (A Good Joe) @joebius.bsky.social

Nice ☝️

sep 12, 2025, 6:07 am • 0 0 • view
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capnhapster.bsky.social @capnhapster.bsky.social

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J. Gray Dingler @jgraydingler.bsky.social

Bionic arm you say... meme.am/binary/JfqZP...

A man cosplaying as Venom Snake from Metal Gear Solid V.
sep 12, 2025, 6:31 am • 0 0 • view
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Petrarca @petrarca.bsky.social

Inspector Kemp, Young Frankenstein
sep 12, 2025, 11:52 am • 0 0 • view
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trimbod @trimbod.bsky.social

How many more people need to die for Trump? RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

sep 12, 2025, 10:34 am • 1 0 • view
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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social

rotflmfao

sep 12, 2025, 6:54 am • 0 0 • view
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John Limouze @johnlimouze.bsky.social

They searched the henhouses

Law enforcement scoured chicken coops looking for the killer
sep 12, 2025, 9:47 am • 4 0 • view
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Sean H @tlanta-sean.bsky.social

youtu.be/b__lY0vMetw?...

sep 12, 2025, 10:58 am • 1 0 • view
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irishoutsider @irishoutsider.bsky.social

Dackter Reechard Keembull

sep 12, 2025, 11:03 am • 2 0 • view
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Sean H @tlanta-sean.bsky.social

“What accent did that guy have?!!”

sep 12, 2025, 11:43 am • 2 0 • view
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anordine.bsky.social @anordine.bsky.social

sep 12, 2025, 5:41 am • 13 0 • view
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TangoAlphaLima @tangoalphalima.bsky.social

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Justin B @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social

Proving that the internet still has some juice, this exists:

sep 12, 2025, 5:52 am • 22 2 • view
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Megan Baxter @megkbax.bsky.social

Incredible! 😂

sep 12, 2025, 6:19 am • 3 0 • view
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solient @solient.bsky.social

Dang, someone is *dedicated* to the bit.

sep 12, 2025, 6:40 am • 0 0 • view
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RockWils1 @rockwils1.bsky.social

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cynthandstuff.bsky.social @cynthandstuff.bsky.social

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Just Tom @tpa1960.bsky.social

I saw what you did there...The Fugitive

sep 12, 2025, 12:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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VierLeger @vierleger.bsky.social

smh how could the guy from bionic commando do this

sep 12, 2025, 5:41 am • 7 0 • view
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Ben Stone @kbenjaminstone.bsky.social

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Smocking Yeti Pubes 🇺🇦🌻 @defendfreespeak.bsky.social

I’m starting to think the bionic arm did it.

sep 12, 2025, 5:51 am • 0 0 • view
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everythingism @everythingism.bsky.social

It's looking terrible for law enforcement now but you have to wonder...what does the shooter do after this? Just return to his normal life like nothing happened? If he tries to flee they gave him a good head start but that would probably also give away his involvement.

sep 12, 2025, 6:02 am • 0 0 • view
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A Faceless ○ŊƐ @justa9.bsky.social

If he's smart and wishes to resume normal life he's getting some pretty severe facial plastic surgery at a no questions asked clinic in Mexico at the moment.

sep 12, 2025, 7:10 am • 1 0 • view
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everythingism @everythingism.bsky.social

But then they probably still identified you as the guy from work or the guy down the street who disappeared the day Charlie Kirk got shot. He needs a whole new identity...maybe it's easier than I'm thinking but seems like the odds are still against him.

sep 12, 2025, 7:37 am • 1 0 • view
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Crazy Cool Caitlin @imcaitlintho.bsky.social

If he is as smart as everyone thinks he is, he planned for all of that. Fake alibi, no one knows he did this. The only thing to give him away he can't control is maybe an ankle injury from jumping off the roof but that video hasn't been shared widely or mentioned much.

sep 12, 2025, 10:47 am • 2 0 • view
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everythingism @everythingism.bsky.social

He would have to count on no one he knows recognizing the pictures and video of him. AFAIK there's really no precedent for someone committing an act like this (killing someone and having your image all over TV) and getting away at least in modern times.

sep 12, 2025, 10:58 am • 0 0 • view
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mjstopshelf.bsky.social @mjstopshelf.bsky.social

So they think the Winter Soldier did it?

sep 12, 2025, 5:59 am • 1 0 • view
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[The Great War & Modern Memory] @ps9714.bsky.social

The one-armed man did it.

sep 12, 2025, 5:43 am • 6 0 • view
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Rox @roxieroxit.bsky.social

With his arm tied behind his back!

sep 12, 2025, 6:05 am • 1 0 • view
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[The Great War & Modern Memory] @ps9714.bsky.social

Yupper

sep 12, 2025, 6:11 am • 0 0 • view
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McGee Stovie @bogarthumperdin.bsky.social

This is what happens when they're forced to use AI, isn't it?

sep 12, 2025, 12:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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dreisser.bsky.social @dreisser.bsky.social

We have the technology.

sep 12, 2025, 5:54 am • 0 0 • view
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EquallyConfused @b9n10nt.bsky.social

“someone with a bionic arm” have they cased any rare pet stores yet

sep 12, 2025, 6:05 am • 2 0 • view
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Married...with Content! @mwcpodcast.bsky.social

I forsee a 6 Million Dollar Bounty.

sep 12, 2025, 10:17 am • 2 0 • view