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@aprilm.bsky.social

A middle-aged Aggretsuko. I’m here for the journalism, art, science & wrestling. There is probably a Bullet Club t-shirt under my sweater. DM’s are for IRL friends only.

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HBO Max feedback form. "Do not run any fucking ICE ads during Dynamite."

HBO Max feedback form. "Do not run any fucking ICE ads during Dynamite."

#AEWDynamite
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02.10.2025 00:42 — 👍 369    🔁 193    💬 23    📌 37
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The Mainstream Media Is Catastrophically Failing To Meet The Moment Earlier today we wrote about Trump’s extraordinary admission that he was basing military deployment decisions on old Fox News footage and lies from his advisors. But there’s an even mor…

A belter of a post by @mmasnick.bsky.social: "The pattern is clear: mainstream media has become so terrified of appearing biased that they’ve abandoned their basic responsibility to clearly communicate truth to the public."

Also one of the reasons why independent journalists are vital right now.

01.10.2025 02:10 — 👍 195    🔁 73    💬 3    📌 3
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Republicans control the House.
Republicans control the Senate.
Republicans control the White House.

But Trump and congressional Republicans would rather shut down the government than protect your health care.

02.10.2025 00:34 — 👍 171    🔁 52    💬 8    📌 2

Taurus: It’s great that you have a 5 year plan, but maybe 4 of the 5 years shouldn’t be, ‘Scream repeatedly into the void.’

21.09.2025 17:38 — 👍 275    🔁 78    💬 1    📌 34

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

21.09.2025 14:10 — 👍 5950    🔁 925    💬 117    📌 55

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us.

We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.

That's the revolution.

19.09.2025 13:03 — 👍 18268    🔁 5797    💬 379    📌 243
Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/

19.09.2025 14:00 — 👍 10582    🔁 2965    💬 195    📌 217

Can’t believe the CDC. Can’t believe the DoJ. Can’t believe the BLS. Can’t believe the FBI.

But I believe in us.

19.09.2025 02:13 — 👍 17138    🔁 3172    💬 497    📌 131
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The Black Panthers didn't mock people for their lack of education. They taught people how to read

The Black Panthers didn't mock people for their lack of education. They taught people how to read

A lot of people need to hear this

27.07.2025 01:30 — 👍 27370    🔁 5097    💬 382    📌 192
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ROH Final Battle 2022, Double Dog Collar Match, the Briscoes vs FTR.

Credit x.com/pharrfromhea...

#AEW #ROH

27.07.2025 11:44 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Never in US history has the DOJ been 'led' by two lawyers who were also criminal defense lawyers for the President.

27.07.2025 05:48 — 👍 3151    🔁 922    💬 98    📌 42

Looks like someone is filtering hip hop analysis through their mom’s side of the family

27.07.2025 12:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Scotland treats him the way our media should except they’re scared.

25.07.2025 11:54 — 👍 58    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 0
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Page One in Scotland.

25.07.2025 11:01 — 👍 18962    🔁 5511    💬 716    📌 486

The most interesting fact about Hulk Hogan is that as a kid in France, Andre the Giant sometimes got driven to school by playwright Samuel Beckett

25.07.2025 03:33 — 👍 8782    🔁 979    💬 59    📌 49
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7/24/25💡Houston Congressional Candidate Isaiah Martin dragged & arrested for speaking against gerrymandering (obviously violence against him was escalated due to his skin color)🙏🇺🇸🙏

25.07.2025 07:14 — 👍 70    🔁 43    💬 7    📌 6

I love and care about Palestinians because I love and care about being Jewish.

I do not want anyone to experience foreign occupation, dispossession, a lack of freedom, statelessness or mass death—and certainly not at the hands of my people.

It’s anti-Jewish to take their lives and their land.

25.07.2025 05:11 — 👍 579    🔁 78    💬 5    📌 1

Reasonable people can disagree about the best ways to achieve Jewish safety, self-determination, or liberation.

Absolutely no one can justify the mass starvation of children and violent enforcement of statelessness upon another people.

25.07.2025 03:18 — 👍 851    🔁 117    💬 4    📌 1
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a smurf looking at himself in the mirror Alt: a self-satisfied smurf (blue, bulbous nose, soft white hat) looking at himself in a red mirror, kissing his reflection and thinking “I deserve to party* on a private jet/island” *in this context, “party” means molest/assault

Has to be

25.07.2025 11:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
courthouse in greenbelt

courthouse in greenbelt

HAPPENING NOW: Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia are back in court following yesterday’s wild evidentiary hearing.

The parties have re-convened for oral argument on Abrego’s motion to be returned to Maryland if he’s released from criminal custody in TN next week.

Follow along ⬇️ 🧵

11.07.2025 13:31 — 👍 3066    🔁 851    💬 66    📌 77

HAPPENING NOW: Judge Xinis comes in hot this morning after DOJ fails to produce the ICE detainer to keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia locked up.

She won't take DOJ's word for it that it exists.

"You have taken the presumption of regularity and you’ve destroyed it in my view," she says.

11.07.2025 13:20 — 👍 12020    🔁 2919    💬 201    📌 140

they want to destroy higher education and do as much as they can to segregate what remains. basically, then the clock back to before the 1960s, when university education was reserved for a small slice of the public.

11.07.2025 11:28 — 👍 4647    🔁 1273    💬 111    📌 37

Mayor Karen Bass just told me that there was a kids summer camp in MacArthur Park when the federal agents in camp and long guns swooped in and they had to be brought inside so they didn’t get completely freaked out.

09.07.2025 00:52 — 👍 11098    🔁 3026    💬 412    📌 162

So this phrase “able-bodied” has clearly been on the most recent list of R talking points. It comes from the first round of English labor laws, which were instituted after the Black Death.

A mini medieval story time!

08.07.2025 20:11 — 👍 1904    🔁 850    💬 63    📌 141
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This.

09.07.2025 04:13 — 👍 11021    🔁 4295    💬 375    📌 240
Goodbye to All That My resignation from the FBI. 

A few weeks ago, an important — and largely private — chapter in my life ended; I’m incredibly thankful to @lawfaremedia.org for giving me a forum to write the next one.

03.07.2025 17:47 — 👍 1012    🔁 255    💬 112    📌 52
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Pam Bondi fires two Jan. 6 prosecutors, sending another chill through DOJ workforce The dismissals were the first time that prosecutors who worked on Jan. 6 cases and were past their probationary period of federal employment had been fired by the Justice Department.

Pam Bondi fires two more Jan. 6 prosecutors. This administration is destroying the professional, apolitical federal workforce over Trump‘s hunger for revenge and disinformation about an imaginary deep state.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

28.06.2025 00:49 — 👍 933    🔁 354    💬 100    📌 21

I keep hearing from highly educated friends, including Ivy League attorneys, that I’m overreacting to the authoritarian onslaught of this era; I would ask them what they think they know that she does not

27.06.2025 23:27 — 👍 3284    🔁 884    💬 110    📌 27
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And this is why we love Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 👏👏👏💙😎

28.06.2025 00:44 — 👍 76    🔁 34    💬 2    📌 1

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