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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 5h

They kept saying “never again” but they still allowed fascists to run for office.

Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 5h

I just saw Raoul Peck’s Orwell film, and it’s masterful. It’s good for clarifying where we really are in terms of fascism and totalitarianism. Orwell: 2+2=5.

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 5h

He smells like a field of porta-potties at a chili festival.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10h

ITALIAN PM GIORGIA MELONI COULDN'T GET AWAY FAST ENOUGH.

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 6h

A foreign country (Egypt) illegally helped the Republican candidate in 2016 with ten million dollars. When the story surfaced, Bill Barr covered it up. Don't forget about treasonous Billy Barr.

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 6h

*I don't know if (sheesh) :-)

Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 7h

All the country was idle, and could do no virtue.

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 7h

You’re thinking of “discreet.” Discrete means individually separate and distinct. I know uf that’s true in the context, I’m just pointing out the difference in the words.

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 12h

The casual understatements of friends not yet affected by the catastrophe. Yes, they are painful too.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 15h

Masked, ID-less, badge-less, warrantless ICE goons who show up in your neighborhood to snatch people off the street should expect to be treated by the locals *exactly* like any other potential carjacker or child kidnapper who swoops into your community to do crimes in broad daylight.

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 12h

Putrid Gargoyle gets standing ovation from blood-stained murder group in Jerusalem, asks that chief butcher be pardoned.

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 15h

Even Al-Jazeera (!) reported on Troll’s speech in Israel as if it were coherent. Maddening.

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Miss Riss @missriss.bsky.social · 16h

The GOP and capitalist MSM: create and perpetuate a view of "the left" that has never existed in the history of this country, nope not even that one time over a century ago

Dems: terrified of this thing and put all their efforts into fighting the spectre and denouncing any connection to it

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 15h

Also it’s copied from a meme, so even the insult is fake.

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“james adomian” @jadomian.bsky.social · 17h

Well-buttered rightwing propagandists are always screaming lies about “paid leftwing protesters” because 100% of all rightwing political activity is very obviously deeply funded by the hyper billionaires who own them - so they fabricate a symmetry that doesn’t exist

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 16h

Fences

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16h

The hostage release is a reminder of how bad the Dems are at politics. Not only did Biden refuse to force this deal on Netanyahu & thereby help Harris win, but most people aren’t even aware that Biden got way more Israeli hostages (over 100) released with his 2023 ceasefire than Trump did with his.

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 17h

Putting my head on the chopping block is known as “civility.”

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 17h

If a good teacher reads a student essay that’s vague, empty, and bland, the student will get a D or an F. That solves the problem of students using chatbots to help them write.

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 19h

“The radical leftists must be funded by a wealthy Jewish mastermind. There’s no other explanation for those 75 million votes against our god king.”

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 19h

Older couple with a Jesse Watters shrine complaining about their adult children being “estranged.” It’s all the fault of those damn therapists, apparently.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t understand why we need a “Columbus Day” when this country celebrates incompetent white men failing up and taking what isn’t theirs all year round.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 22h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23h

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

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Ten Graves @tengrain.bsky.social · 19h

The Shutdown Follies, Cont.

Today is House Republicans 70th day-off WITH pay in the last 82 days, which seems like a helluva expensive way to conceal a sex trafficking scandal because the perps are wealthy and powerful Republican donors and/or elected officials. Oops, I mean fighting over the…

The Shutdown Follies, Cont.

Today is House Republicans 70th day-off WITH pay in the last 82 days, which seems like a helluva expensive way to conceal a sex trafficking scandal because the perps are wealthy and powerful Republican donors and/or elected officials. Oops, I mean fighting over the budget, not refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva (D AZ) who has vowed to sign the petition to force the DOJ to release the Epstein Pedo-Files…

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 1d

hmm

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