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Politico @politico.com

The killing of Charlie Kirk yesterday shocked the nation. Dasha Burns interviewed the conservative figure many times. She explains on #playbookpod how — even if their conversations got heated — Kirk was “cordial, he was engaged and he left smiling." 🎧 Listen here: ow.ly/79lo50WV5IW

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sep 11, 2025, 1:34 pm • 46 10

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Peter Gibbons @sanders-2016.bsky.social

All true. He did this important thing as a contribution to the loss of our civil rights and the fascist overthrow of our democracy, though. I am so glad to know that he was smiling and pleasant all the time.

sep 11, 2025, 3:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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JaneLalaine77 @janeinspain77.bsky.social

You should be ashamed to post this trash. Why don’t you post something on the innocent kids who just got shot instead?

sep 11, 2025, 9:08 pm • 2 0 • view
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JaneLalaine77 @janeinspain77.bsky.social

Stop sane washing this hate monger. We can condemn political violence without dishonestly whitewashing the victims.

sep 11, 2025, 8:58 pm • 2 0 • view
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JaneLalaine77 @janeinspain77.bsky.social

Shocked the nation?? That a hate monger who supported the attack on Pelosi’s husband and thought multiple dead children was a perfectly acceptable price to pay to have guns got shot?? No — the right’s sneering indifference to the recent political murder of democrats was shocking. This was not.

sep 11, 2025, 8:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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bootzillah.bsky.social @bootzillah.bsky.social

Shocked the nation , LOL

sep 11, 2025, 1:40 pm • 6 0 • view
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Don't Negotiate With Insurrectionists @wonderdogabides.bsky.social

Charlie Kirk really was a POS.
sep 11, 2025, 2:05 pm • 5 4 • view
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Don't Negotiate With Insurrectionists @wonderdogabides.bsky.social

Fuck off with your "even as he said he would force his 10yo rape victim daughter to have her rapists baby" he was cordial and left smiling. He was a college drop out extremist with a weird "GOP grandpa "not gay honest" money funding him from the start. He faked being religious while fueling hate.

sep 11, 2025, 1:56 pm • 8 0 • view
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twpetrov.bsky.social @twpetrov.bsky.social

Shocked the nation? No it didn’t. If such trash reporters didn’t bring this topic today no-one would remember.

sep 11, 2025, 2:03 pm • 5 0 • view
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JΛKΣ✌️ @mothmanshadow.com

And yet he still said these things

-Gay people should be stoned to death -Most people are scared when they see a black pilot flying a plane -Taylor Swift should reject feminism and submit to her husband -No one should be allowed to retire -Leftists should not be allowed to move to red states -British Colonialism was what
sep 11, 2025, 2:05 pm • 3 1 • view
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Laura Mazzuca Toops @lauramazzt.bsky.social

Hitler liked dogs.

sep 11, 2025, 1:42 pm • 0 0 • view
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VTDem @bluewavevermont.bsky.social

#whoCares about a #maga idiot He was trying to indoctrinate innocent young people with fear, hate and conspiracy theories

sep 11, 2025, 2:41 pm • 1 0 • view
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peanut24.bsky.social @peanut24.bsky.social

And her point is what? He was really a nice guy? He didn’t say hateful things and use violent rhetoric? Ok, he did not deserve to die in a violent act - nobody does - but can we please not make him out to be a saint who did politics “the right way?”

sep 11, 2025, 3:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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okgrown.bsky.social @okgrown.bsky.social

Good fucking riddance to evil trash

sep 11, 2025, 1:42 pm • 1 0 • view
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Angry American Guy @angryamericanguy.bsky.social

When people wonder why the Nazis had such a smooth road to power, this is how. The media whitewashing Kirk's legacy is disgusting. I'm not asking anyone to cheer on political violence, but he was a massive piece of shit, so quit acting like he was a decent human.

sep 11, 2025, 1:41 pm • 31 3 • view
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Colorartsy @toosp.bsky.social

Exactly 💯!

sep 11, 2025, 4:13 pm • 3 0 • view
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Satinpementer @satinpementer.bsky.social

So?

sep 11, 2025, 1:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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Male.Myth.Buster. @lesliecf.bsky.social

Of course he was smiling. He was WINNING for a while. Now he's dead. Let's not forget the hate he fomented against innocent Americans!

sep 11, 2025, 8:10 pm • 0 0 • view
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Male.Myth.Buster. @lesliecf.bsky.social

And your point is?

sep 11, 2025, 8:08 pm • 1 0 • view
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DawnMichelle @dawnmichellek.bsky.social

PHHT! It didn’t shock me; he SPEWED HATRED AND BIGOTRY!!!!!

sep 12, 2025, 12:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mike Lynch @gobirds2024.bsky.social

He was a racist Nazi. Fk him.

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sep 11, 2025, 1:35 pm • 7 2 • view
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Nick @nicalee.bsky.social

Sorry I am not sure what the point of this observation is?

sep 11, 2025, 1:37 pm • 15 0 • view
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Abrasive Tea @abrasivetea.bsky.social

They are trying to rehabilitate trash

sep 11, 2025, 1:41 pm • 21 0 • view
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Colorartsy @toosp.bsky.social

I mean, where were these statements when children were killed a week ago, or the ones killed yesterday, or the democratically elected reps gunned down, or other ones. Where's the remarks?

sep 11, 2025, 4:12 pm • 0 0 • view
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Colorartsy @toosp.bsky.social

Great debator? No, he quotes exaggerated stats, paints false negative narratives, uses false correlation without intellectual pushback from those debating him but just word baits. He spewed hate, racism, bias, violence, advocated for gun deaths, poisoned people's mind. So let's stop eulogizing him.

sep 11, 2025, 4:11 pm • 2 0 • view
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Gene Ahern @geneahern.bsky.social

“Cordial” because Dasha Burns was serving his purpose: helping him to monetize his trademark hate speech and conventions.

sep 11, 2025, 7:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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misschief9.bsky.social @misschief9.bsky.social

Groomerwaffen

sep 11, 2025, 1:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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TJK74 @tjk74.bsky.social

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sep 11, 2025, 1:47 pm • 9 0 • view
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American Heathen® RESIST @americanheathen.bsky.social

youtu.be/E-rH_GCqbh4

sep 11, 2025, 2:38 pm • 0 0 • view
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João Terenzi @jcterenzi.bsky.social

Based on how she described him, there is nothing to worry about because he’ll be back in 3 days.

sep 11, 2025, 1:39 pm • 9 0 • view
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stuckinus.bsky.social @stuckinus.bsky.social

There are actually far bigger things happening in the world than Charlie Kirk. The President of the United States is a pedophile. We are on the precipice of WW3. How about a little less division from the media? A little bit of speaking truth to power instead of click bait? That would be nice.

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sep 11, 2025, 5:02 pm • 2 0 • view
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gcactaur.bsky.social @gcactaur.bsky.social

The specific individuals (Dasha) speaking in this video are all in on moving forward towards a fascist state. In case it’s not obvious already.

sep 11, 2025, 1:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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Antifa PLC LTD. @stephenseagal.bsky.social

He won't be doing that again..... or anything else. Maybe "Free speech" shouldn't extend to hate speech, but what do I know?

sep 11, 2025, 1:41 pm • 6 0 • view
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Ingrid 2.0 @siamesemom.bsky.social

He was a hurtful SOB that incited hate but still didn’t deserve to be shot. Remind the orange shitstain that no one deserves that! He will sanction multiple killings now. He’s just that kind of idiot. A mob boss with no brains or morality.

sep 11, 2025, 1:44 pm • 2 0 • view
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christina55.bsky.social @christina55.bsky.social

So, he was a racist & a bigot with a smile?

sep 11, 2025, 1:53 pm • 6 0 • view
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Michael Black @agentbigfoot.bsky.social

Ted Bundy smiled as well.

sep 11, 2025, 2:23 pm • 1 0 • view
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necie1.bsky.social @necie1.bsky.social

You reap what you sow

sep 11, 2025, 1:46 pm • 1 0 • view
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Euphrosyne @tresgrazies.bsky.social

I'm not shocked. Provocateurs, and that was his *only* role, cannot be surprised when they succeed. I'm also not sad.

sep 11, 2025, 2:48 pm • 0 0 • view
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Viva le Revolution @friedbrains.bsky.social

sep 11, 2025, 2:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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the-oc.bsky.social @the-oc.bsky.social

Because he was a troll. Trolls get their jollies from riling people up.

sep 12, 2025, 3:41 am • 0 0 • view
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scorpioreeds.bsky.social @scorpioreeds.bsky.social

Marginalized/vulnerable people are facing increasing, DAILY threat to their own lives from people who agree with Kirk. Fascist views are being amplified and moderate/progressive voices dismissed. This is not a shocking act, it is the logical conclusion, and secretly what they want: justification

sep 11, 2025, 1:48 pm • 2 2 • view
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Cassidy She/Her @pdxreigns.bsky.social

Evil people can smile.

Charles Manson smiling.
sep 11, 2025, 1:40 pm • 11 0 • view
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Past Prime @americanrebels.bsky.social

It didn’t shock me at all.

sep 11, 2025, 4:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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dnrdiamond.bsky.social @dnrdiamond.bsky.social

No it didn't. He's just another school shooting victim. Stop using his name. Repeal the second amendment.

sep 11, 2025, 1:35 pm • 2 0 • view
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Linda @kintsugi2.bsky.social

He was a hate agent…

sep 12, 2025, 6:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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LNNL Band Official Account @lnnlband.bsky.social

Trying to whitewash the image of a dead nazi propagandist. Anyone who has any praise for Kirk is a worthless piece of shit nazi scumfuck. Every dead nazi is a cause for celebration 🍾

sep 11, 2025, 1:41 pm • 2 0 • view
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Sharon Louise Redhead @shrn-rdhd.bsky.social

I suppose the fact that he was cordial to a conventionally attractive, young, white woman and left smiling isn’t all that surprising is it? I wonder if he would’ve extended the same courtesy to a black, transsexual, non Christian? I guess we’ll never know.

sep 12, 2025, 12:53 pm • 1 0 • view
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radiobill @radiobill.bsky.social

He may have smiled, but he was a wretched man

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sep 11, 2025, 1:42 pm • 13 4 • view
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The Facts in the Case of Dr Dedman @stephendedman.bsky.social

"O villain, villain, smiling, damnèd villain! "My tables—meet it is I set it down "That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain." Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 5

sep 11, 2025, 4:07 pm • 2 0 • view
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sndgrrl.bsky.social @sndgrrl.bsky.social

Thats a pretty shitty take.

sep 11, 2025, 1:40 pm • 11 0 • view
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Steven @stevens59.bsky.social

This is the USA Trump has created. Can't promote hatred and violence for Donald Trump and not put your life in danger. www.bing.com/videos/searc...

sep 12, 2025, 1:34 am • 1 0 • view
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Steven @stevens59.bsky.social

Not a shock!

sep 12, 2025, 1:34 am • 0 0 • view
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gtjr.bsky.social @gtjr.bsky.social

Anybody who was “shocked” by this hasn’t been paying attention to the level of gun violence in America. I mean, were you also “shocked” that there was a school shooting in Denver yesterday?

sep 11, 2025, 1:48 pm • 7 0 • view
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J. @gizzblue.bsky.social

The school shooting got pushed to the back burner by thed GOP glazing news outlets.

sep 11, 2025, 4:06 pm • 1 0 • view
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trimbod @trimbod.bsky.social

Charlie Kirk's death was the result of another MAGA sniper's hit job, designed to distract from releasing the Epstein files. How many people need to die for Trump?

sep 11, 2025, 2:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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elmcook.bsky.social @elmcook.bsky.social

@politico.com I guess yall are getting the reaction you want here? Not such a great look to glamorize such a hateful man. Lots of good white men with good manners are turning out to be not so good dudes so maybe that’s not a viable measurement anymore? Even if a cute blond says.

sep 11, 2025, 2:26 pm • 2 0 • view
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shaneconvey.bsky.social @shaneconvey.bsky.social

He was a POS

sep 11, 2025, 7:57 pm • 1 0 • view
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WithoutATrace @strongponymedicine.bsky.social

Wtf?

sep 11, 2025, 1:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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Antifascistusa @inaneone.bsky.social

Charlie Kirk was a Christofascist. I don't give a shit how nice he appeared.

sep 11, 2025, 4:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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kelly @colokelly.bsky.social

Cordial when he said a 10 year old rape victim should give birth anyway? Cordial when he said if he sees a black pilot, he will wonder if they’re qualified?

sep 11, 2025, 1:39 pm • 47 3 • view
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Andrew Wood @idyllicwoodyaura.bsky.social

Or how about when he said "More gun deaths in the U.S. would be a good thing" in 2023. Irony.

sep 11, 2025, 2:15 pm • 1 0 • view
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kelly @colokelly.bsky.social

No, no wait, it must’ve been when he said women over age 30 are past their prime. Or when he said dead school kids are just a normal part of having the 2nd Amendment. Or when he said black women don’t have the brain power of white women. He was just so damn cordial.

sep 11, 2025, 1:44 pm • 33 4 • view
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RValenzuela @roseplus3girls.bsky.social

That sounds like cordial. Geeze get it right journalists. 🤦‍♀️

sep 12, 2025, 12:11 am • 2 0 • view
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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social

Well, he said it with a smile!

sep 11, 2025, 1:44 pm • 1 0 • view
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franceswaldren.bsky.social @franceswaldren.bsky.social

So smile cancels evil? Trump sure smiles!

sep 11, 2025, 2:16 pm • 1 0 • view
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pkhoury.bsky.social @pkhoury.bsky.social

Good take. Killing is wrong but don’t normalize a man who stood for the worst of humanity.

sep 11, 2025, 1:53 pm • 3 0 • view
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pserge54.bsky.social @pserge54.bsky.social

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PJ Harvey Dent @bsakat.bsky.social

Good ol' Tiger Beat on the Potomac

sep 11, 2025, 1:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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Punkass Jonez-Brewster, III @punkass.xyz

S.T.O.P. A.P.O.L.O.G.I.Z.I.N.G. F.O.R. H.I.T.L.E.R.

sep 11, 2025, 8:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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doeree72.bsky.social @doeree72.bsky.social

He was also racist, mysoginistic and a xenophobe.

sep 11, 2025, 5:00 pm • 0 0 • view
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🐕 loving Mexican Canadian @mexicanadian.bsky.social

GTFO... If you think he was so great just show his work to the public... Amplify it cowards

sep 11, 2025, 1:37 pm • 10 0 • view
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SirNYC @sirnyc.bsky.social

Oh Puhleez! Kirk thought Dasha and every other woman was inferior to every man on the planet. 🤮

sep 11, 2025, 10:35 pm • 0 0 • view
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Craig Carlisle @creggster.bsky.social

Don’t normalize his dangerous, hateful rhetoric, said cordially.

sep 11, 2025, 2:39 pm • 2 0 • view
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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social

One thing this is not, is journalism.

sep 11, 2025, 1:43 pm • 8 0 • view
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🌮 Dave Rice @klikklak.bsky.social

No. He was not a great debater.

sep 12, 2025, 12:45 am • 0 0 • view
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Trevor Grismore @trevorgrismore.bsky.social

Can we please stop making him out to be a some good guy? Death didn't change who he was.

sep 11, 2025, 1:46 pm • 15 0 • view
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DeSantistan resident @goat1336.bsky.social

Stop desecrating the dead by not honoring his values.

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@rocam54.bsky.social

I wasnt shocked.

sep 11, 2025, 1:41 pm • 1 0 • view
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Taoist Warmonger @filasov.bsky.social

Ahahaha

sep 11, 2025, 2:10 pm • 0 0 • view
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chiarelott.bsky.social @chiarelott.bsky.social

Still time to delete this stupid shit.

sep 11, 2025, 1:37 pm • 13 0 • view
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Abrasive Tea @abrasivetea.bsky.social

I mean he was a bad person. He would be happy to be an acceptable price for the second amendment

sep 11, 2025, 1:41 pm • 1 0 • view
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Arthur Simon @simonearth.bsky.social

the only thing shocking about it is that it didn't happen sooner.

sep 12, 2025, 12:00 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mary @keli100.bsky.social

Wrap your bigotry in a smile and it’s all good, apparently.

sep 11, 2025, 1:39 pm • 8 0 • view
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Emmy @ehedie3939.bsky.social

Hard pass.

sep 11, 2025, 1:38 pm • 1 0 • view
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siamoallafrutt.bsky.social @siamoallafrutt.bsky.social

Shocked the nation? What nation!!!!

sep 11, 2025, 4:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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roymscott.bsky.social @roymscott.bsky.social

Fuck him. Burn in his own hell.

sep 12, 2025, 12:39 am • 0 0 • view