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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 11h

Because he’s just like you

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 20h

What keeps the WH from redacting the trump out the files it does release and just hiding the rest? Honest question. Are there unalterable indexes that would indicate docs being withheld?

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 22h

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 21h

Was just saying this loudly at the village store

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 22h

We might should get “President Stephen Miller” trending to drive a wedge between him and Trump.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 22h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 23h

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The Frog War

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 1d

Currently reading the travel logs of Nikolai Vavilov, the Indiana Jones of crop genetics, or at least that’s how I’ll pitch it when I write the screenplay

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 1d

Read yourself a poem

pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · Sep 2

my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read!

“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”

Present Tense
by Todd Dillard

My father’s telling me about his dog,
how it fell into a well
when they were walking down a wooded path.
His dog ran across some rotted planks,
the planks splintered, “And whoosh!”
my father says. “No more dog.”
I look at the clock and remind my father it’s three A.M.
“I’m not finished,” he says.
He tells me about the rope he bought, the bucket,
how he knotted the rope to the bucket, lowered it down,
and yelled for the dog to get in.
“But all I pulled up was more barking.”
“Dad,” I say. “This never happened.”
He says he can’t remember
how long he tried to get the dog
to shimmy into the bucket.
Just that at some point
when the sky turned tawny—“Dad—“
as a pitcher of sweet tea—“Dad—“
he decided to give up.
“Dad,” I say. “It’s late.
I’m tired. And you’re dead.”
“Dammit, son,” my father says. “Let me finish!”
My father tells me about filling the bucket with dirt
and pouring the dirt into the well.
And I know what he’s getting at, I know
he’s going to tell me bucket by bucket
he filled the well and
the dog jumped out. He’s going to say
something about how the dog
led him home through the dark.
I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.
“Dad?” I say. “Dad, are you there?”
I keep lowering the bucket
but all I ever pull up are leaves.
Red leaves. Lately, some gold.

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 1d

Is that a long pie pumpkin at your feet?

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 2d

“The moral is that ideologies of nature imbued with corrupt race theory and a degraded romanticism can lead people up the wrong path, to genocide.”

Exactly RFKJr

archive.seattletimes.com/archive/1996...

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 2d

“The moral is that ideologies of nature imbued with corrupt race theory and a degraded romanticism can lead people up the wrong path, to genocide.”

Exactly RFKJr

archive.seattletimes.com/archive/1996...

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 2d

Where have I seen this before?

archive.seattletimes.com/archive/1996...

Why German Nazis Were Big Fans Of Animal Rights | The Seattle Times

archive.seattletimes.com

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 2d

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The Frog War

YouTube video by P'tit Belliveau - Topic

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 2d

Am I going to have to add some dumb shit like “antifa regional commander” to my profile to maybe waste some fascists’ time?

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 2d

NYers we’re actually surprised when my daughter clocked them asking where House-ton Hill was

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 3d

Also largest concrete dome in the world when built

That cape may Victorian bs only appealed to the elderly

Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 3d

My dad took us there its last summer so we’d know what was being lost. Had the run of the place and kept finding cool stuff like games rooms with billiards and darts. Nothing cheap about it. Architecture designed to make your vacation feel wondrous.

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 3d

Trump invading US cities and this is what you spend your time on.

Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 3d

Nikolai Vavilov was the Indiana Jones of awnless hard wheat

Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 3d

There are contexts where talking about the individual responsibility of voters is relevant. This ain’t it

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 3d

Snails. Got them at a restaurant on a Paris trip when I was 4 yo. The waiters were like ooh la la. It became my personality. I can most concisely be described as a man who likes snails. I cannot admit to fearing that, in actuality, I just like butter and garlic, like everyone else

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 4d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 4d

“even worse”

GFY

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 4d

Your republican colleagues are monsters who could end our national nightmare any time they chose

Treat them as such

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 5d

You could fund propublica 2 3 and 4 for what she normally pulls to get beat by thirty points

Lexington Herald-Leader @kentucky.com · 5d

“This is a different race, it’s a different year, it’s a midterm,” McGrath said, comparing 2026 to her 2020 run for U.S. Senate.

‘Battle-tested’ Amy McGrath launches second Kentucky U.S. Senate bid

“This is a different race, it’s a different year, it’s a midterm,” McGrath said, comparing 2026 to her 2020 run for U.S. Senate.

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 6d

*on this site

Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 6d

Number of times the senator has mentioned the wildly unappealing architect of this fascist crackdown

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No results found for Miller from:duckworth.senate.gov

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 7d

The CEO of Bluesky is craven and evil. The only people that build these platforms are infected with the self-reproducing moral rot of capitalism. They have no sense of duty or stewardship. They see their monetary reward as a cleansing justification for their actions.

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