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Mike Swanson Vagabonding the USA. Santa Fe, NM. Umbralogical Parallax Tracer. Jar opener. https://www.threads.net/@nomadvroc · https://youtu.be/NTymtAbaG08?si=vLa4UVVaxPK9waB0

created February 7, 2024

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Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social) reply parent

I sure wish the MSM would point out that water went to billionaire pistachio farms hundreds of miles away

3/9/2025, 4:56:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social) reply parent

Florida is not a safe place to raise children. No vaccines, no books, no education.

3/9/2025, 4:54:30 PM | 42 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social) reply parent

I was at lunch and one of the TVs was on Fux. They showed the flyover that's meant to drown out the voices.

3/9/2025, 4:53:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

3/9/2025, 4:52:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social) reply parent

It's murder

3/9/2025, 3:07:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger.bsky.social) reposted

YES.

3/9/2025, 2:52:06 PM | 440 95 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Free DC (@freedcproject.bsky.social) reposted

This is the moment. On September 6, we march from DC’s neighborhoods to the White House. DC is not a warzone — it’s home. #FREEDC www.mobilize.us/dclabor/even...

3/9/2025, 2:52:41 PM | 48 27 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

This is concerning: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

3/9/2025, 2:54:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social) reply parent

Attacking a foreign flagged vessel in international waters has always been considered an act of war.

3/9/2025, 2:19:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social) reply parent

Executing 11 people is murder.

3/9/2025, 2:18:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Gwen Snyder is uncivil (@gwensnyder.bsky.social) reposted

Hearing things about Congress "returning from August recess", but honestly how would we even tell

3/9/2025, 2:11:52 PM | 248 30 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

Attacking a foreign flagged vessel in international waters has always been considered an act of war. However, can we believe that any video is genuine now?

3/9/2025, 2:15:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Lincoln Project (@lincolnproject.us) reposted

The twisted world Epstein created for his victims is something we could never understand. Jess Michaels, a survivor of his abuse, bravely describes how he recruited his victims on the LP Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFqeOt_rNFM

3/9/2025, 1:30:37 PM | 797 315 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

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3/9/2025, 1:38:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sara Spector (@miriam2626.bsky.social) reposted

Yesterday the adulterer, Ken Paxton tweeted out in favor of forced prayer in Texas public schools. Possibly the most flawed politician in America who has admitted to committing a felony is worried about everyone else's moral compass! #Txlege

3/9/2025, 11:08:51 AM | 64 18 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Grogu&TofuNYC🗽🇺🇦 (@groguspeak.bsky.social) reposted

I'm ready

3/9/2025, 11:39:45 AM | 16 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie D’Arrigo (@darrigomelanie.bsky.social) reposted

Trump’s tariffs forced American consumers to spend an extra $30B in August, bringing the total to $183B so far this year. He promised to bring down the price of groceries, but made everything way more expensive instead — and then lies about it, and hopes you don’t notice.

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3/9/2025, 11:58:20 AM | 87 47 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

Transporting drugs (if they really were) is now a capital offense? No due process just execution of multiple people.

3/9/2025, 9:49:27 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social) reply parent

The backstory of this movie is worth learning. Also, I learned about Grandpa Walton!

2/9/2025, 6:04:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social) reply parent

youtu.be/FE1oKQCwwo4?...

2/9/2025, 6:03:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

A movie worth watching for some historical context the day after Labor Day. Wonkette Movie Night: Salt Of The Earth (1954) www.wonkette.com/p/wonkette-m...

2/9/2025, 10:02:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

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14/8/2025, 12:55:48 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ann Telnaes (@anntelnaes.bsky.social) reposted

An absolutely self-absorbed, demented Trump press conference at the Kennedy Center today. Complains about being called a dictator and then admits to choosing all the honorees himself. Sounds like dictator behavior to me.

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13/8/2025, 4:38:33 PM | 581 146 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social) reply parent

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13/8/2025, 4:35:17 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Red Painter (@redpainter1.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

WHAT IS HE EVEN SAYING

13/8/2025, 4:02:17 PM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

KISS?! 😂😂😂😂😂 And he's hosting?!😂😂😂😂 This is some funny shit! apnews.com/article/trum...

13/8/2025, 4:07:01 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

Status Anxiety is a real thing and it's how the cult stays with him no matter what he does. This makes me feel sad and angry as well as, often hopeless.

13/8/2025, 3:32:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social) reply parent

FDT is alive which is proof there's no such thing as a time machine.

13/8/2025, 3:30:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christine Is Fed Up With Republicans (@coralgableswang.bsky.social) reposted

👇🏻👇🏻

13/8/2025, 3:18:29 PM | 10 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

This is good. Very informative. Great story about little Johnson from Louisiana, too.

13/8/2025, 3:10:45 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christine Is Fed Up With Republicans (@coralgableswang.bsky.social) reposted

Keep sharing this video! There is no emergency in DC! #FreeDC wasted $ on political theater! #Epstein

13/8/2025, 3:05:15 PM | 4 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

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13/8/2025, 3:06:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

This quote from Ben Smith, former VP at Hulu. “Sometimes the good guys don’t win,” he added. “RIP.” Yeah, the good guys are getting their ass kicked these days. Money wins.

13/8/2025, 11:46:53 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social) reply parent

This is for contracts over $100,000.00.

13/8/2025, 11:42:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

Every contract at DHS and agency under DHS has to be reviewed by Eva Noem. The delays are staggering. DHS contract reviews creating uncertainty, causing layoffs share.google/bGfeQJ4xavHy...

13/8/2025, 11:42:07 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

This checks Trump Admin DHS Account Accused of Referencing Avowed White Supremacist - Newsweek share.google/4Qt3L5jJCQ7C...

13/8/2025, 11:38:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture FrancesSierra (@francessierra.bsky.social) reposted

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨NO LONGER SINGLES OUT 'SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN' ... between the propensity for Rs abusing children, 47s' self proven perversion and now this the proof of who's guilty of the most heinous of crimes cannot be hidden 😬

13/8/2025, 9:26:49 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

The Tennessee burger chain is just not that great. As In-N-Out falters, its biggest competitor ramps up the ridicule www.sfgate.com/food/article...

13/8/2025, 11:28:32 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

The Nazis used children and old men, too. www.huffpost.com/entry/dean-c...

13/8/2025, 11:17:44 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Trump wanted his DC parade and it didn't look like he wanted so he's doing this.

13/8/2025, 9:52:41 AM | 770 202 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social) reply parent

I was thinking about this yesterday. There was a time going to DC was very cool watching all the young people playing flag football, softball, soccer and volleyball. Young people from both parties competing for fun during the day on the grass. I would be envious of all the activity in the city.

13/8/2025, 10:16:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

“He’s doing everything EXCEPT releasing the Epstein files.” Yes, they are all distractions but everything is part of the plan for his dictatorship; it has been accelerated. August 12, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

13/8/2025, 10:12:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

Morally corrupt

13/8/2025, 9:35:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social) reply parent

Holy shit! 😂

13/8/2025, 2:07:29 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ACLU (@aclu.org) reposted

We won't allow President Trump to use a manufactured emergency to trample the rights of people in DC.

12/8/2025, 7:24:47 PM | 495 105 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

Hey, Is It BAD When Trump Says He's Going To Invade All Our Cities (And Has Already Started)? open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...

12/8/2025, 9:10:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social) reply parent

😂

12/8/2025, 7:13:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social) reply parent

Yep

12/8/2025, 7:11:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social) reply parent

Not unexpected.

12/8/2025, 7:00:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social) reply parent

Heroically getting his ass kicked by a 15 year old girl.

12/8/2025, 6:59:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

The author of Strongmen reminding us of how they get their start. Worth remembering they all end the same way. Trump's D.C. Takeover Uses Classic Strongman Tactics open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

12/8/2025, 6:55:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Guardian (@theguardian.com) reposted

‘It felt like a scene from The Handmaid’s Tale’: US comics on the dangers of political satire

12/8/2025, 6:33:50 PM | 62 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

My favorite line today, "Perhaps Cheryl should worry. He could be taking pics for Tinder." Congratulations To RFK Jr. On Fishing Trip, Ability To Inspire People To Shoot Up CDC open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...

12/8/2025, 6:36:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

What a bunch of ridiculous racist pussies! Pete Hegseth Reassures Conservative White Men It’s OK To Be Scared Of Washington DC open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...

12/8/2025, 6:21:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

I'm glad I went there in the spring. I wish I had taken more pictures.

12/8/2025, 5:56:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Senator Martin Heinrich (@heinrich.senate.gov) reposted

More from the authoritarian playbook.

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12/8/2025, 5:43:43 PM | 210 70 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

Duh, time to rile up his racist base. apnews.com/article/trum...

12/8/2025, 4:46:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture mdlawver (@marilaw.bsky.social) reposted

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12/8/2025, 2:26:21 PM | 340 89 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

12/8/2025, 2:27:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

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12/8/2025, 1:56:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mozelle Victory (@godswrath699.bsky.social) reposted

youtube.com/shorts/7ECzZ... She's ugly!Her heart is dirty, and her soul is dead. Besides, I personally think she's ugly. Too much makeup shows the deep holes in her face, and her lips make me think she's poaching them out,I don't like fake eyelashes.People wear them all the time. Just ugly🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢

12/8/2025, 10:49:23 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sara Spector (@miriam2626.bsky.social) reposted

#Texas Passes ANTI red flag law! Now law enforcement officers will be arrested if they try to take a gun away from a person who a judge found mentally ill and dangerous. 👇

12/8/2025, 11:13:09 AM | 33 15 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

www.politico.com/newsletters/...

12/8/2025, 11:14:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social) reply parent

Why would anybody want to be in federal law enforcement?

12/8/2025, 10:03:04 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

This is the only video worth watching from yesterday about DC.

12/8/2025, 9:55:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture karenski1.bsky.social (@karenski1.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

He has been touching teenagers for decades

11/8/2025, 10:39:41 PM | 98 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

Yes, all of this sucks!

11/8/2025, 10:35:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

@nicollewallace.bsky.social And @esglaude.bsky.social talking about the Smithsonian and the history that is being removed including the very important NMAAHC! @dorothyjberry.bsky.social I'm so broken tonight.

11/8/2025, 9:52:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jess Piper (@piperformissouri.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

How do I know it’s not a distraction? I read Project 2025. He’s following it to the letter.

11/8/2025, 9:38:13 PM | 477 72 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social) reply parent

DC was NOT dangerous until today! I have walked the city many times.

11/8/2025, 9:13:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

A 15 year old girl beat up one of his boys. Ask why was the little fucker out at 3:00am? A friend suggested this was a set up so that the regime could find an excuse to take over the District. Führer Trump Invading DC Now, New Dictatorship Level Unlocked! www.wonkette.com/p/fuhrer-tru...

11/8/2025, 9:09:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social) reply parent

It makes me so damn angry! Like seeing a gestapo armored car.

11/8/2025, 7:50:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

So, where are the Epstein Files?

11/8/2025, 4:08:25 PM | 1560 487 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social) reply parent

I know Lakemoor and I can only imagine they are heading somewhere else.

11/8/2025, 7:48:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

Pete Hegseth's Spiritual Leader Not Real Big On Women Having Rights, Imagine That open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...

11/8/2025, 7:41:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christine Is Fed Up With Republicans (@coralgableswang.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

This pic is so surreal. Looks like a third world country not our capital!

11/8/2025, 2:43:14 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 (@50501movement.bsky.social) reposted

The rally in D.C. to protest the Trump regime’s attempted takeover of the city has begun. Follow @freedcproject.bsky.social and learn more at bit.ly/free-dc-our-home.

11/8/2025, 2:28:03 PM | 3292 1217 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

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11/8/2025, 2:30:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ann Telnaes (@anntelnaes.bsky.social) reposted

Macho Man immediately started playing in my head.

11/8/2025, 2:03:59 PM | 199 29 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Senator Martin Heinrich (@heinrich.senate.gov) reposted

ALAMOGORDO: My staff will be at the Alamo Senior Center this Thursday, from 11 AM - 1 PM. They're available if you need assistance or have questions regarding Social Security benefits, Medicare, Medicaid, immigration, Veterans' benefits, student loans, or other federal programs.

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Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe that will keep the Texans out

11/8/2025, 2:09:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted

The Epstein file has Trump more rattled than anything actually happening in D.C. This is a smokescreen!

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Profile picture Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) reposted

A deranged convicted felon who wants to distract from his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein is lying about Washington, DC, which tallied a 30-year low in violent crime last year. It’s important to keep speaking the truth and not permit this pathological liar to control the narrative.

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

👇👇

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Profile picture 😈 Laney The Monster 🧛‍♀️ (@apopularmonster.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

I dunno, Biden was kinda old... (See how fucking dumb that sounds, Jake Tapper???)

11/8/2025, 1:33:59 PM | 41 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

I'm glad I did my last visit there in April. When I was there, there were already fences and horses and helicopters in places that used to be accessible. Small parks were fenced off and the white house was built up like a fort. It's not the city it was when I was younger that was fully accessible.

11/8/2025, 2:03:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump is in the Epstein files

11/8/2025, 1:56:48 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helena👋🏻🧺 (@helenahandbasket5.bsky.social) reposted

*snicker*

11/8/2025, 1:44:41 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

Trump is in the Epstein files.

11/8/2025, 1:56:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Guardian (@theguardian.com) reposted

Trump is losing his foolish trade war. This will cost ordinary Americans greatly | Steven Greenhouse

11/8/2025, 10:52:37 AM | 303 112 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

He won't oust Mills even though Mills is a real criminal.

11/8/2025, 9:22:18 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

Texas Democrats Face The Final Week Of The Special Session open.substack.com/pub/lonestar...

11/8/2025, 9:17:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

This clip from tomorrow morning made me emotional. We went from this to the toilet that is USA. youtu.be/7kib74US5oc?...

11/8/2025, 8:53:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@hcrichardson.bsky.social) reposted

August 10, 2025

11/8/2025, 4:55:43 AM | 1228 392 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hamill (@markhamillofficial.bsky.social) reposted

Yeah JD, we remember. We will never forget your boss was best friends with the guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring. And then that guy was "silenced" forever. And now we will just not talk about anything else until they... #ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files

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Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

This!

10/8/2025, 7:30:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vagabonding (@vagabonding.bsky.social)

The ending of South Park that Paramount cut out continued attacking Eva Noem. Hey Eva, it is not about your face melting, it is about you being a sociopath. www.cracked.com/article_4779...

10/8/2025, 7:29:50 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view