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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 14h

Imagine telling someone having some fajitas and a margarita this

onion person @junlper.beer · 16h

setting aside the fact that they just don’t know what jokes are, this gives a big insight into the mind of white nationalists. they are deeply paranoid about the idea of being percieved as anything other than Epic Stoics

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Dan Hopper @danhopp.bsky.social · 9h

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Patrick Winegar @cleverturnip.bsky.social · 8h

Mainlines are generally pretty all right. i grew up catholic in the Bible Belt and they were always the ones most likely to be chill and not try to convert me lol

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 8h

I refuse to become a person who drowns in such deep cynicism that they lose all ability to discern anything useful about what's happening around them. Defenses formed from harm can protect our energy and prevent future harm, but they can easily tip into deeply unhealthy, isolating conspiracism.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 17h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Patrick Winegar @cleverturnip.bsky.social · 10h

did actually see a couple activists say shit like this when the Johnson campaign was fucking up on public transit during the election, but they at least made sure to just say transit in general was a yuppie issue. Have never seen someone make this dumb argument specifically with the BUS though lmao

Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 21h

great post sir, keep saying shit like this

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21h

Richest man in New York: AHAHAHAHA I AM TAKING THE BUS AHAHAHAHA

Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 21h

great post sir, keep saying shit like this

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

it's kind of wild that a guy died a little while ago and the government swore we would reap the whirlwind and that his widow would lead a howling army of valkyries across the galaxy and then the most you heard about it since was the secretary of domestic war saying they arrested the wife of antifa

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Patrick Winegar @cleverturnip.bsky.social · 1d

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Spencer Reynolds @sreynolds.bsky.social · 1d

Antifa is not a group; the president cannot designate domestic terror groups.

My @brennancenter.org colleague @faizapatel.bsky.social is out today with a deep review of NSPM-7. It is a dangerous directive that will facilitate predatory politics-based targeting: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · Jan 24

In the first 100 days I will dig down into the place of honor. On day one I will issue an Executive Order that the radical woke warning signs be removed and anyone perpetuating the "dangerous and repulsive" lie to be terminated. I will restore the country by touching the ancient treasures.

Graphic showing the proposed pictogram warning of the dangers of buried nuclear waste for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

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Patrick Winegar @cleverturnip.bsky.social · 1d

yeah, that's what I was wondering--I know it applies to federal employees including cabinet and there's different levels of restriction, but I dunno how much leeway they have

Patrick Winegar @cleverturnip.bsky.social · 1d

just a heads up, any condescending "oh you think laws matter" type comments--I'll just block you. I know these scumbags don't care if shit's illegal or immoral. It does matter though, and can lead to impeachments in due time once there's enough pressure and appetite for it. Gotta keep a long memory.

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Patrick Winegar @cleverturnip.bsky.social · 1d

not a lawyer, but isn't this a Hatch Act violation? www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/u...

Video of Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for shutdown “rolling out” at TSA security checkpoints across the country | CNN

Travelers waiting in airport security lines across the country will now be met with a video where the Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem blames Democrats for the government shutdown.

www.cnn.com

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Patrick Winegar @cleverturnip.bsky.social · 1d

This guy's a dumbass who endorsed the con man and racist lunatic Ryan Walters to run the state's public education so he could act like some kind of Baptist Franco, then finally publicly turned away from him when the scandals got to be too much. So, maybe it's a sign

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 1d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

these people are stealing from you and laughing at you

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1d

Marc Thiessen is so fucking stupid, willfully or not, that he argued waterboarding couldn’t be torture because Christopher Hitchens agreed to be waterboarded to find out how bad it was for a iirc Vanity Fair article and video, even tho Hitchens was all: it’s torture I felt like I was being tortured…

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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Patrick Winegar @cleverturnip.bsky.social · 1d

yeah sylvester mccoy--pretty sure that's his views in real life too

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Patrick Winegar @cleverturnip.bsky.social · 1d

Scientists in the UK announce a breakthrough in their efforts to create a British Lewis Grizzard

Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 2d

The photography in this article really feels like The Times are deliberately setting these people up for ridicule. (You can read it without visiting The Times here archive.ph/KZZC1)

An article from The Times: "Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future". Featuring bizarre portraits of Charles Amos, Rhys Benjamin and Daniel Campbell.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 1d

“Baby in her placenta” is pretty bad for a HHS secretary but it’s arguably worse for a guy with six kids. It’s impossible to not learn this stuff as a dad if you’re even remotely paying attention just once.

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Patrick Winegar @cleverturnip.bsky.social · 1d

"I ran over a manatee in my pontoon boat while I was visiting the Boys' School for Biters in Cape Betrayal"

Patrick Winegar @cleverturnip.bsky.social · 1d

god damn there's some great lines in here. "Dr. Victor Vector's Salisbury Steak Diet" is gonna be my own personal "cellar door"

Charles Austin @charlesaustin.bsky.social · 1d

RFK Jr. ep with Felix just dropped

Free even for lowly, evil non-subscribers 👇
www.patreon.com/posts/408-ro...

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · Apr 28

I know it's not the most important thing here but this story also corroborates one of my biggest theories about these tech guys: they do zero hours of work in a day. They do no work no matter how much they claim to work 14 hours a day. They're just on their phones.

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · Apr 28

Ben Smith lifts up a corner of the plush comforter under which our would-be overlords have been huffing each other's farts for the past few years as they collectively dream their way back to the cutting-edge ideas of the late 19th century www.semafor.com/article/04/2...