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Bob Booten @bobooten.bsky.social · Jul 18

Gaye Su Akyol - Sen Benim Mağaramsın
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Gaye Su Akyol - Sen Benim Mağaramsın (Official Video)

YouTube video by Gaye Su Akyol

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Bob Booten @bobooten.bsky.social · 52m

Going Away - Die Spitz
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Going Away

YouTube video by Die Spitz - Topic

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debbspook @debbshock.blue · 1h

look at what my dude cooked

a gorgeous ginormous roast, steam coming off

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Bob Booten @bobooten.bsky.social · 59m

Roast beast?

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debbspook @debbshock.blue · 1h

i somehow dislocated my shoulder in my sleep. so there's that

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

Would be amazing if she broke her own record just hours later.

Sally Jenkins
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Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read.
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Don't Bet Against Bari Weiss
The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.
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Bob Booten @bobooten.bsky.social · 1h

Engagement!

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1h

It’s actually incredible that as a society we never managed to find the political will to force elected officials to tell the truth on TV.

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Bob Booten @bobooten.bsky.social · 1h

The news turned into D&D an improvisational fantasy game for political nerds...

Bob Booten @bobooten.bsky.social · 1h

I should unblock her and block her again

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 2h

I went to mute her and saw I already had, and I'm very pleased with myself now

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1h

ANIMAL CRACKERS is still, in my opinion, a masterpiece. letterboxd.com/andrewmoxon/...

A ★★★★★ review of Animal Crackers (1930)

One of the most complete Marx flicks; what else is there to say? One thing, I guess, which is that I watched this 7,000 times as a kid but it was a taped version that ends with about 20 minutes to go,...

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 1h

Www.hidinginplainsightbook.com

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1h

“WHOAH! Be careful not to step in that pile of shit there!” exclaimed the man pulling his pants back up.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 2h

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Ben Shapiro warns that conspiratorial right is taking over social media

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Jason Broccardo @zoocoup.bsky.social · 3h

This is not US Border Patrol's first PBR rodeo www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How the Border Patrol uses rodeos to recruit

At fairgrounds full of young men, the government sets up shop to hire immigration agents.

www.motherjones.com

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Bob Booten @bobooten.bsky.social · 3h

The ultimate white chud fantasy

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ash @ashhull.bsky.social · 3h

Uses candy corn as ear plugs.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 3h

The two main genres of self-help articles in 2025: “you should become a subsistence farmer so that corporations don’t poison you” and “you should let a magic 8 ball on your computer do everything for you”.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 4h

as always, any "leftist" with zero followers I know is a either a fed or a troll lol

Disco Brian Davis @discobriandavis.bsky.social · 5h

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This one’s a sarcastic derailment, not a real counterpoint.

The person’s reply is mocking my moral-philosophical statement (“spirit, freedom, and kindness count too”) by pretending I’m rejecting Marxism because it doesn’t mention “chilling with the homies.”

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Bob Booten @bobooten.bsky.social · 4h

If Texas should win...

The cowboy boot really sends it home

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 4h

Cover of anti-communist propaganda leaflet, USA, 1953

Cover
a huge boot crushing a prone woman

IF Russia SHOULD WIN
If Russia and the Communists should win the next world war, many American men would be sterilized

In case the Communists should conquer, our women would be helpless beneath the boots of the Asiatic Russians

(Posed by Janice Logan in a Paramount fim)

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 4h

Resilience targeting

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 4h

History gives us plenty of examples of disease used as a weapon. There are fewer cases of governments deliberately using disease against their own citizens. We are living (or dying) through one right now.
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