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Meatball Rob

@wrenispinkle.bsky.social

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." falo português 🇧🇷

created June 26, 2023

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Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social) reply parent

Chicagoans - remember your training

2/9/2025, 2:52:36 AM | 22 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 2:50:19 AM | 51 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Likely, yes exactly this

2/9/2025, 2:47:32 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sean Manaea literally saying “I was dicking around a lot and not focused at all” is what broke me

2/9/2025, 2:46:55 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is all I’ve seen (I had to unmute, damn you)

Screenshot of Mueller she wrote, saying knowing our luck, it’s probably just some fashy EO
2/9/2025, 2:45:48 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“how DARE you ask us to work hard at our literal jobs” say the guys who would lose their shit if the waitstaff at STK brought out their drinks 2 min too late

2/9/2025, 2:42:37 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That was the same fan fest where they didn’t limit tickets and I almost got crushed to death on a terrace level escalator, good times

2/9/2025, 2:41:01 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gurriel batting 5th was a psy op

2/9/2025, 2:40:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“what’s a no-fail way to make us lose, i got bookies to pay”

2/9/2025, 2:07:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My working theory is he’s a gambling addict in deep

2/9/2025, 2:05:47 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social) reply parent

That cop emoji tho 🤨

2/9/2025, 2:02:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We never should have let Tanner Scott go

2/9/2025, 1:57:30 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have a funny meme about jokes going over my head that I would never dare use on you

2/9/2025, 1:56:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I already assume most baseball players are bog standard chuds, the least they could do is keep it to themselves

2/9/2025, 1:55:46 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I saw this episode of The Studio

2/9/2025, 1:54:42 AM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture load-bearing wokeness (@pauleke.bsky.social) reposted

2/9/2025, 1:48:31 AM | 1010 205 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social) reply parent

BAHAHAHAHAHA

2/9/2025, 1:31:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social) reply parent

I was like, uh, way to derail the fun

2/9/2025, 1:30:28 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hannah gais (@hannahgais.bsky.social) reposted

federal buildings are only closed when they’re in extreme distress, like Trump dying

2/9/2025, 1:28:04 AM | 107 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s the weird Gen X fixation

2/9/2025, 1:27:41 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social) reply parent

Also he is 6’8” he could simply eat all the homophobes

2/9/2025, 1:25:48 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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dear gods

2/9/2025, 1:25:14 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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YES I followed him on Instagram when he was in the minors, his reels were all “Black Lives Matter” and Pride and wife guy stuff

2/9/2025, 1:24:11 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Watching Robocop as impressionable children is what made the Millennials the greatest generation

2/9/2025, 1:23:03 AM | 17 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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My parents who wouldn’t let us watch a movie with even the most benign hint of sex let my brother watch Glory when he was like, 6 years old 🙃

2/9/2025, 1:21:43 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jason Adam and Steve

2/9/2025, 1:20:31 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This team needs a vibe shift that can only be accomplished by putting our giant woke king on the mound. Bring out Sean Reynolds!

2/9/2025, 1:19:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh look Arraez is once again on base and Manny did nothing about it

2/9/2025, 1:16:47 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social) reply parent

I know Adriana means well, I just have no sympathy for these guys. They’re getting paid fuck you money to throw a little ball around and they still have to make these little culture war grievances their whole personality and I’m fucking sick of them

2/9/2025, 1:15:00 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Like, he tweaked his knee. He didn’t take a bullet in war. We don’t have to salute the guy

2/9/2025, 1:13:55 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have a hard time feeling bad for someone who publicly - and willingly - told every LGBTQ baseball fan that their very existence is a “lifestyle” he can’t encourage and they should “abstain from that behavior”

2/9/2025, 1:12:21 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jason Adam’s knee rebelling against his grotesque homophobia

2/9/2025, 12:56:30 AM | 32 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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The himboest team in all of baseball (complimentary)

2/9/2025, 12:50:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love chicken so much, I need this to happen

2/9/2025, 12:45:00 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bogaerts was repeatedly spotted being the first at practice and the last to leave and clearly was trying and wore his slump and owned it and with Manny we just get puerile back talk and condescension

2/9/2025, 12:42:24 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A regular Socrates

2/9/2025, 12:40:47 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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👀 👀 👀

2/9/2025, 12:39:48 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’s been a giant let down lately but instead of doing the Bogaerts thing where you put your head down and work on it quietly, he’s decided to just do that cocky thing

2/9/2025, 12:39:25 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@maseinurface.bsky.social we manny posting

2/9/2025, 12:37:25 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wasn’t spring training 2023 the “Let’s Go Brandon” year, too?

2/9/2025, 12:36:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Never forget

2/9/2025, 12:33:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 12:32:40 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And yet he is constantly whining about how unfair everyone’s being to him, personally

2/9/2025, 12:29:52 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah I love mayo so this may have influenced my opinions 😅

2/9/2025, 12:28:31 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social) reply parent

And tbc I think Nadler generally votes correctly and has been a good soldier, but he’s old and lacks the energy and stamina and fire to be the voice we need in the House going forward. He should be applauded for doing the right thing

2/9/2025, 12:17:42 AM | 38 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Studio on Apple TV was so good and there is a literal fake cop movie in it called “Alphabet City” 😅

2/9/2025, 12:13:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The message is starting to break through, keep it up everyone

2/9/2025, 12:11:59 AM | 60 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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They are?!?

2/9/2025, 12:08:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social) reply parent

Who THE FUCK makes a waffle cut fry and then doesn’t coat them in seasoning?? It’s criminal

2/9/2025, 12:07:18 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social) reply parent

At McDonald’s in Brazil they sell lemon pepper chicken sandwiches and banana pies and it’s like, damn, we could have those things 🥲

2/9/2025, 12:02:07 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

The correct answer to a citizen of Klansville, Alabama saying they feel like the country is leaving them behind is “good.”

1/9/2025, 6:16:55 PM | 538 74 | View on Bluesky | view

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Popeye’s and Church’s

1/9/2025, 11:56:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social) reply parent

Honestly Popeye’s and KFC have good fried chicken sandwiches and way better sides, who would go to Chik Fil A

1/9/2025, 11:55:32 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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See it’s been a very long time since I’ve been there but the chicken sandwich tasted like every other fast food chicken sandwich I’ve had? I don’t get it

1/9/2025, 11:52:28 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social) reply parent

I have only eaten there once, literally 18 years ago in Houston, and it was fine? I did not understand the hysteria when they first opened some locations here on the West Coast

1/9/2025, 11:51:35 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As we walked by he yelled, “if you actually believed any of this you’d stop paying your taxes!” and I was like, “bro, I already have!” (true story)

1/9/2025, 11:50:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As if the homophobia weren’t bad enough, Chick-Fil-A selling waffle cut fries with no seasoning whatsoever is an affront to god and man why do people wait in interminably long lines for this shit? what is wrong with you people

1/9/2025, 11:46:00 PM | 149 9 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fuckin A

1/9/2025, 11:39:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She’s in a Grunt Style shirt so I humbly suggest she deserves to be bullied

1/9/2025, 11:34:20 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social) reply parent

this sonofabitch

1/9/2025, 11:28:52 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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now watch Machado blow this

1/9/2025, 11:27:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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RBI single for Luis Arraez Alhamdulillah!

1/9/2025, 11:27:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There’s a Carnitas Snack Shack right.there.

1/9/2025, 11:25:59 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social) reply parent

You got a way better wide angle than I did!

1/9/2025, 11:22:25 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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GIVE THIS MAN ALL THE VOTES

1/9/2025, 11:18:05 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They’ve done a rally driving course!

1/9/2025, 11:17:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🙏

1/9/2025, 11:16:15 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 (@indivisiblechicago.bsky.social) reposted

Chicago's already great, thx #NoTroopsInChicago

People marching outside. One holds a dogn reminiscent of Chicago flag. It says Chicago's already great, thx
1/9/2025, 10:12:20 PM | 109 27 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social) reply parent

Stretch jorts? I’m in

1/9/2025, 10:58:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social) reply parent

Just today I was taking pictures for and handing our Democratic Party club flyers to a bunch of members of the WFP the real adults know what’s up

1/9/2025, 10:45:05 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social) reply parent

I was thinking this exact thing at the protest today, there were socialists tabling and waving Palestinian flags right next to old ladies with “cringe” signs calling on Trump to croak and everyone was fine and we all generally want the same things People who are Too Online refuse to see this

1/9/2025, 10:37:11 PM | 13 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social) reply parent

Probably. All the accounts on here with the biggest number of followers are pretty run of the mill leftists/Progressives/Never Trump Republicans and I’m on here a lot, I have no other social media accounts

1/9/2025, 10:02:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m not sure that’s what he’s trying to say, though

1/9/2025, 9:56:12 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Imagine being a Republican candidate and going to an event called “Labor Fest” that wasn’t *intentionally* filled with balding, goateed Teamsters

1/9/2025, 9:54:08 PM | 29 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Those are always the tourists looking at us in the most slack-jawed fashion that kind of tour must attract a certain type…

1/9/2025, 9:50:39 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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HBC made my moods way more stable and predictable regardless of the time in my cycle. Without them I an easily see myself having clawed a man’s face off by age 30

1/9/2025, 9:49:50 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture FeistyEnglishTeacher (@flower-power.bsky.social) reposted

@50501movement.bsky.social 150 protesters lined both sides of Rockville Pike in Rockville, MD to send the message loud and strong: #Resist #LaborDay

1/9/2025, 9:38:19 PM | 201 31 | View on Bluesky | view

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I believe in the power of us We will find you a romantic cruise partner sohelpmegod

1/9/2025, 9:38:04 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m sorry that’s a gendered term, it’s “blueskyismx”

1/9/2025, 9:36:05 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I was feeling dizzy this morning and wary about carrying a flag pole so I draped myself in it instead 🙃

1/9/2025, 9:25:58 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ba dum tiss!

1/9/2025, 9:25:16 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David_j_roth (@davidjroth.bsky.social) reposted

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.

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Profile picture Diedrich Bader (@diedrichbader.bsky.social) reposted

a kid like this can either bloom into an empathetic beautiful soul or can curdle into a bully bent on revenge

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31/8/2025, 10:51:43 PM | 657 78 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Normal guy: what a huge protest, amazing Me: thats the ship they used to film Master and Commander (behind the bigger ship with the white sails) bsky.app/profile/iwil...

1/9/2025, 8:32:00 PM | 148 15 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social) reply parent

The best thing about our protests in San Diego is we always pass by giant crowds of tourists 😅 Today we got to wave to people in amphibious vehicles, a trolley tour, and a bunch of people on patios of expensive restaurants

1/9/2025, 9:09:21 PM | 50 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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@banditelli.org more ship posting

1/9/2025, 9:06:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Senator Scott Wiener (@scottwiener.bsky.social) reposted

Stand up for our country & against this authoritarian regime. Big SF protest saying hell no to Trump.

1/9/2025, 8:44:44 PM | 103 19 | View on Bluesky | view

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Also that was a live person in that Cartman costume and I hope they show up to ICE raids in it from now on

1/9/2025, 8:36:31 PM | 27 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social)

Shout out to the unions who have given me the chance to make a comfortable wage and work with dignity: UFCW Local 135 IAM CSLEA SEIU Local 1000

Inflatable Cartman holding a sign saying “stop terrorizing our community, ICE out of San Diego”
1/9/2025, 8:34:56 PM | 70 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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It was huge! I managed to make it through the whole march despite feeling dizzy but I’m extremely angry about climate change today

1/9/2025, 8:30:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It was so hot in San Diego Brett, I’m not built for this 😡

1/9/2025, 8:24:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love it

1/9/2025, 8:22:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Juan Soto doing the shuffle as a Padre: “he’s adorable, look at his little personality I just ❤️ him” Juan Soto doing the shuffle now: “what the fuck, fuck this guy, man”

1/9/2025, 8:10:31 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social) reply parent

Also he was like, really REALLY good in 2019, any year he doesn’t live up to that is gonna be a disappointment for fans

1/9/2025, 8:08:34 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social) reply parent

So in short: he’s a good player for sure, but his salary indicates he’s playing at his Nationals tenure levels and afaik he hasn’t been?

1/9/2025, 8:03:29 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social) reply parent

I can answer this for his time as a Padre: His stats made him look more worthwhile than he was. He’d consistently crush like, 2 home runs a game if we were already up by 4, but then go 0-4 in games where we really needed our best players to come through also, he’s not great defensively

1/9/2025, 8:02:17 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The @resiztersband.bsky.social were kicking ass at today’s march

1/9/2025, 8:00:51 PM | 61 16 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture San Diego Progressive Democratic Club (@sdprogressives.bsky.social) reposted

A message from our Club President:

1/9/2025, 4:56:27 PM | 32 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social)

Sean Reynolds is back LFGGGGG

1/9/2025, 7:31:59 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meatball Rob (@wrenispinkle.bsky.social) reply parent

yeah sure totally do that that still does nothing to help those workers TODAY

1/9/2025, 7:29:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view