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@vsbrink.bsky.social

created November 29, 2024

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Profile picture StopLossMaxWin (@stoplossmaxwin.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

tRUMPs Deep State Crime Syndicate policy of violating US Constitution, and International Rules Based Order has proven that they all failed their oaths of office on purpose with the intent of hurting America 🇺🇸 it self.

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Profile picture Kendall Dix (@kendalldix.bsky.social) reposted

This is the secretary of energy and also why climate advocates almost universally feel like jumping into a volcano.

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2/9/2025, 8:55:34 PM | 1341 350 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TiggsCupcake (@tiggsisacupcake.bsky.social) reposted

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1/9/2025, 7:14:34 PM | 262 146 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kyiv Post (@kyivpost.com) reposted

Ukrainian intelligence says Russia’s top tank maker depends on more than 260 Western-made machines that require foreign parts and updates — exposing a major gap in sanctions. www.kyivpost.com/post/59254

1/9/2025, 11:25:20 AM | 1161 457 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture FrodoLove (@frodolove.bsky.social) reposted

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1/9/2025, 12:11:27 AM | 523 179 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Several someones

1/9/2025, 5:35:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:

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1/9/2025, 1:28:40 AM | 14304 4279 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Thank you for the reminder Anne.

1/9/2025, 7:39:25 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture EWoolfolk (@wonderful1.bsky.social) reposted

I believe the victims!

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31/8/2025, 3:25:26 PM | 250 114 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

We agree, @robhuebel — seems Dems should be talking about this: “State Dept denied Trump intervened on Alexandrovich’s behalf, but that appears implausible. Trump, Israel, pedophilia, corruption… a gift unicorn grazing in Dems’ backyard — And yet?” zeteo.com/p/why-arent-...

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31/8/2025, 6:15:10 PM | 860 372 | View on Bluesky | view

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

I doubt if he even knows what a mitochondria is or does

31/8/2025, 5:49:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

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30/8/2025, 5:52:56 PM | 1912 730 | View on Bluesky | view

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

LIVE NOW

31/8/2025, 5:04:49 PM | 115 33 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Talking to journalist Pete Rothpletz about his piece on one of the biggest scandals and news stories of the Trump Administration. Why aren't Dems and corporate media focusing on this? Live 1 pm et. Thelefthook.substack.com. No paywalls. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

31/8/2025, 4:55:40 PM | 207 66 | View on Bluesky | view

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

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31/8/2025, 2:39:38 PM | 1521 398 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

Yikes, JD Vance better hope JD Vance doesn’t hear about this!

30/8/2025, 6:41:43 PM | 2087 746 | View on Bluesky | view

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

I think Stephen Miller belongs in this group

29/8/2025, 8:58:14 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 🇨🇦 NanaGale (@nanagale.bsky.social) reposted

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28/8/2025, 7:52:37 PM | 1195 580 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Quigley: Trump acts like a tough guy when it comes to going after some undocumented kid, but when he comes up against someone tougher than him, this president is a wimp.

29/8/2025, 12:47:59 AM | 2446 552 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Politico (@politico.com) reposted

A judge reluctantly authorizes a refund of restitution paid by a Jan. 6 rioter. It is the first time a Jan. 6 rioter who was convicted and then pardoned will get a refund.

28/8/2025, 10:07:31 PM | 312 172 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Republicans R Evil 👿 (@republicansrevil.bsky.social) reposted

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29/8/2025, 12:33:06 AM | 3177 1181 | View on Bluesky | view

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

To refute them you idiot!

29/8/2025, 3:14:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jenn Budd (@jennbudd.bsky.social) reposted

ICE, Border Patrol and CBP putting American families in last by interrupting fire crews during a raging fire season to demand papers.

28/8/2025, 8:25:22 PM | 463 214 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Ignorance in action

28/8/2025, 11:59:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Misogynistic too

28/8/2025, 7:48:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Missiouri Republican Rep. MarkAlford to his angry constituents: "If you didn't want to hear my lies, why did you come here?"

28/8/2025, 6:40:13 PM | 2097 705 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 🇨🇦 NanaGale (@nanagale.bsky.social) reposted

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28/8/2025, 5:40:01 PM | 15898 4851 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

28/8/2025, 1:38:02 PM | 23223 6373 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture altNOAA 🇺🇸 (@altnoaa.bsky.social) reposted

To whom it may concern: If you need a work force to pick up trash and rake leaves in DC, then hire National Park Service employees. That's not what the National Guard is for. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

27/8/2025, 10:31:45 PM | 1821 472 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Thee NYC angry black latina mom! ♉️🇩🇴🗽 🐝💛 (@urbanmodernism.bsky.social) reposted

Y’all worried about Gavin Newsom running for president—if we don’t win the midterms there won’t be any presidential run to argue about. People need to start understanding we don’t have a fictional federal government. We’re running on residue from the past, only protected by city & state. #Pinks

28/8/2025, 2:27:25 AM | 2024 476 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

This is an excellent piece by @stevevladeck.bsky.social. Not only does he lay out the case in a way that's easy to understand, but he talks about why the Trump administration feels like it can improperly run straight to SCOTUS. Definitely worth the read.

27/8/2025, 5:07:59 PM | 901 318 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted

one that annoys me is that what these people think is cutting edge new political thinking is just warmed over slaveholder ideology

27/8/2025, 1:13:24 PM | 5290 1138 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social. Another school shooting...

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28/8/2025, 2:37:10 AM | 1392 464 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture neptune45.bsky.social (@neptune45.bsky.social) reposted

newrepublic.com/post/199594/... what we need is the democrats saying the same thing Fred Higginbotham is saying with bull horns standing on street corners and on the steps of the capitol

27/8/2025, 8:53:25 AM | 44 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Zaid, Esq (@markzaidesq.bsky.social) reposted

Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:

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27/8/2025, 11:14:56 PM | 21528 7083 | View on Bluesky | view

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

So why shoot little Catholic kids? Makes no sense

27/8/2025, 10:32:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Why? Because you voted for this blowhard!

27/8/2025, 10:22:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Unfortunately they already have

27/8/2025, 9:54:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

I’d rather have an incompetent governor than an incompetent president like him!

27/8/2025, 9:50:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture This Cranky Old Geezer Opposes Fascist Oligarchs (@bhamilton001.bsky.social) reposted

HEAR THE EPSTEIN VICTIMS TELL THEIR STORIES US CAPITOL PRESS CONFERENCE WED SEPT 3, 10:30 am ET

26/8/2025, 10:14:16 PM | 34 20 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Masked immigration raids don’t protect us. They hide abuse and strip away our dignity. Stand with me in demanding transparency and accountability by adding your name to this petition.

26/8/2025, 8:24:13 PM | 10200 3035 | View on Bluesky | view

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

As if he knows anything about it

26/8/2025, 6:04:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Amazingly stupid

26/8/2025, 5:41:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

This man deserves an Oscar

26/8/2025, 5:31:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Morgan J Freeman (@mjfree.bsky.social) reposted

PRITZKER to Trump: “If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.”

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26/8/2025, 8:47:46 AM | 3024 784 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Stomach turning display of disrespect!

26/8/2025, 3:55:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Pritzker: Over the last four years, we have seen homicides drop in half. That’s something the President should pay attention to. I know he doesn’t read but I know he watches TV so perhaps if someone from Fox or Newsmax is here

25/8/2025, 9:24:08 PM | 19183 4726 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ellen Braaten (@ellenbraaten.bsky.social) reposted

The entire administration wants to create its own reality. If you don’t like the facts, make something up

25/8/2025, 8:05:49 PM | 80 18 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ElJeffo nature lover & budding Luddite. (@eljeffo.bsky.social) reposted

"Only when the last tree has been cut, the last river has been poisoned & the last fish been caught will they realize that they can't eat money" old Cree proverb

25/8/2025, 10:02:55 PM | 8218 1851 | View on Bluesky | view

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

I’ve heard military law experts advise, if you are given an illegal command as a soldier, do not blindly obey. Call your attorney. Obeying an illegal command can result in a court martial.

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25/8/2025, 8:07:03 PM | 15681 5676 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Governor JB Pritzker (@govpritzker.illinois.gov) reposted

Illinois stands with Ukraine today, and always. Slava Ukraini!

25/8/2025, 1:03:13 AM | 3810 508 | View on Bluesky | view

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

And grass

24/8/2025, 9:08:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Liar

24/8/2025, 4:00:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sharon Carbine (@sharoncarbine.bsky.social) reposted

Wonderful hearing Kendall Brown (a military wife) stick it to Kristi Noem for living rent-free, illegally, in military housing. @kendallyb.bsky.social also discusses Noem's well-known affair with sleazy Corey Lewandowski. What's the deal with Noem's husband while Noem globe trots with Lewandowski!

23/8/2025, 5:15:42 AM | 23 13 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Sure they are

23/8/2025, 3:40:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

And Epstein

23/8/2025, 2:49:47 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum.bsky.social) reposted

The war is over when the Russians understand that they can't win. Last week's summits did not help us reach that point Listen to Radio Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

22/8/2025, 10:11:08 PM | 914 208 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Hard to understand why anyone elects to live in Texas

21/8/2025, 10:23:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted

Gavin Newsom responds to Fox's OBSESSION with him

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21/8/2025, 2:51:27 AM | 27411 6963 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Yuk

21/8/2025, 3:24:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

She deserves it!

19/8/2025, 3:31:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture German Aid to Ukraine (@deaidua.org) reposted

The German Chancellor Friedrich Merz with a clear message that he and others will hopefully still remember in a few days, weeks, and months. Further talks and negotiations only make sense if Russia has agreed to a ceasefire.

18/8/2025, 10:27:04 PM | 872 175 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

here's clips of Elise Stefanik getting brutally booed at an event today in her district

18/8/2025, 10:45:02 PM | 22451 5024 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted

President Donald Trump announced he will issue a new executive order as part of a “movement to get rid of” mail-in voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

18/8/2025, 2:17:43 PM | 2160 931 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Trump Confesses that the United States Is a Client of Russia www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/18/t...

18/8/2025, 9:28:03 AM | 734 355 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

Life comes at you fast

17/8/2025, 10:09:38 PM | 28593 11430 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Race Bannon (@racebannon.bsky.social) reposted

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16/8/2025, 10:07:46 PM | 54 11 | View on Bluesky | view

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

How about “grabs”

17/8/2025, 8:59:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Caffeine 🇺🇦 (@caffeine.fellas.army) reposted

The President of the United States of America raped a 13 year-old girl and then threatened her until she dropped her lawsuit against him.

17/8/2025, 4:43:41 PM | 1351 542 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Chamberlain

17/8/2025, 4:12:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Me neither

17/8/2025, 12:47:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Baloney

16/8/2025, 7:21:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Linda K Sienkiewicz (@lindaksienkiewicz.com) reposted

Big win for stopping book bans: In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries. “None Of These Books Are Obscene.” #booksky bookriot.com/penguin-rand...

15/8/2025, 10:10:40 PM | 3228 755 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Imitation, the highest form of flattery, but in this case the highest form of mockery!

16/8/2025, 6:30:27 AM | 58 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ma Carol (@caroodles.bsky.social) reposted

That’s why after exposing Trump about Epstein, Elon became a little lamb and deleted those tweets. Too much to lose.

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Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

“He’s been here 25 years cutting the state’s grass, paying his taxes — never even had a ticket… we got a felon in the White House but these are the people they got in there. Without immigrants this country is gonna go down.” 🇺🇸

15/8/2025, 8:02:39 PM | 7430 3003 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ma Carol (@caroodles.bsky.social) reposted

The “Russian hoax” is not a hoax. The connection is decades long. Trump desperately needed oligarch money after the downfall of the Soviet Union.

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Profile picture Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) reposted

Love this.

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15/8/2025, 2:44:00 AM | 14376 3574 | View on Bluesky | view

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

And you know that how?

15/8/2025, 8:41:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

I think the “big balls” attack was a set up !

15/8/2025, 8:29:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Karsh (@jkarsh.bsky.social) reposted

Extortion of Nobel Prize is Hall of Fame level abuse of office. Every single Democrat should be mocking this clown for being so fragile, so insecure, so weak, and so openly corrupt.

15/8/2025, 12:55:05 AM | 2453 780 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Unbelievable!

15/8/2025, 7:07:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

No not “running “ just grabbing! He’s good at that, remember!

14/8/2025, 9:58:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

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14/8/2025, 11:44:49 AM | 9618 3542 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture vsbrink.bsky.social (@vsbrink.bsky.social)

I'm attending Fight the Trump Takeover's event, “Fox Valley Rising and We Can Lead Change's Fight The Trump Takeover Rally” - sign up n www.mobilize.us/fightthetrum...

14/8/2025, 5:03:23 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Unfortunately they still could be here. All of them!

14/8/2025, 11:17:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ma Carol (@caroodles.bsky.social) reposted

Spread this everywhere. Masked men stopping people in the nation’s capital. For the whole world to see.

14/8/2025, 4:25:03 AM | 7 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum.bsky.social) reposted

An unfathomable humanitarian crisis is unfolding in the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher. RSF forces are refusing to allow in food The BBC has some of the only video www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

14/8/2025, 4:43:47 AM | 971 499 | View on Bluesky | view

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

So this unbelievable vaccine is not up to maga standards yet it prevented the death of millions! Puleeze!

14/8/2025, 4:39:54 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ma Carol (@caroodles.bsky.social) reposted

Matthew Memoli terrorized the NIH: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

14/8/2025, 4:17:05 AM | 3 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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

So awful especially by a gang of idiots!

14/8/2025, 4:21:00 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

Zelenskyy: "I told President Trump and all our European allies that Putin is bluffing. He's trying to push before the Alaska meeting on all directions of the front. Russia wants to occupy the whole of Ukraine. This is his wish ... he does not want peace."

13/8/2025, 2:31:30 PM | 9215 2848 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 (@kojamf.bsky.social) reposted

July 17, 2025 jessicalaynewarnermcdonald Jessica Warner McDonald @jessicamcd.bsky.social

13/8/2025, 3:10:12 PM | 2192 1206 | View on Bluesky | view

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

So typical

13/8/2025, 6:57:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

ICE should get him!

13/8/2025, 5:11:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

It’s a double! And the farther one is in reverse!

13/8/2025, 5:03:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) reposted

Big Balls’ Edward Coristine, may receive the highest US civilian honor, joining the likes of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mother Teresa. www.thedailybeast.com//white-house...

12/8/2025, 9:31:49 PM | 496 192 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Who is this? Powerful protest!

13/8/2025, 2:32:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

It was the same with Covid: stop testing!

12/8/2025, 9:41:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view