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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 9h

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 15h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 1d

Heartbreaking reading, but this Reddit thread gives a sense of the relentlessness of the horror inflicted by ICE, and the damage being done to so many innocent people that doesn't make the news.

From the AskReddit community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskReddit community

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小島秀夫 @hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp · 14h

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Colin McLaughlin @colinthecrab.bsky.social · 1d

Chase moving from supporting to lead means the movie may be the first in 12 years to get 4 acting noms in all 4 categories... could even get 5, though I think (unfortunately) Regina's a long shot because Teyana is the play for supporting actress

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

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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Colin McLaughlin @colinthecrab.bsky.social · 1d

I had the very 2020s experience of seeing that Apple TV had just released a show I'd never heard of/seen marketing for, checking it out, and discovering it rocks.

(The Last Frontier btw)

Colin McLaughlin @colinthecrab.bsky.social · 2d

John Cena is like one of our top 5 best living actors

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Jordan, Jesse, Go! @jordanjessego.bsky.social · 2d

On today’s JJGo, we welcome back comic and television writer @yayforzig.bsky.social to chat about canonically thicc superheroes and more. Listen on @maximumfun.org or:

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

@jessethorn.bsky.social
@jordanmorris.bsky.social
@stevenraymorris.bsky.social

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Colin McLaughlin @colinthecrab.bsky.social · 3d

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Colin McLaughlin @colinthecrab.bsky.social · 3d

If I Venmo you will you bring me back an inappropriate bust of Black Cat for my desk

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 3d

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Trash @trash69.bsky.social · 3d

I do think it's terribly funny in a post-ironic sense that the viewer managed to, accidentally, self-insert themselves into the work and experience the themes firsthand. you couldn't pay for that level of metatextual immersion in a semiotics course

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 3d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 3d

kinda sweet that bookshop.org's anti-prime sale overlaps with banned books week, which means today you can get free shipping PLUS 20% off their banned books list! bookshop.org/info/banned-...

Banned Books

bookshop.org

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Colin McLaughlin @colinthecrab.bsky.social · 3d

Austin Books n Comics (ABC), say hi to the life-sized Hulk statue

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

Waiting on those $1000 tariff rebate checks. 🤡

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 3d

trump saying "we took the freedom of speech away" needs to be in every single democrat ad and repeated every time a camera is pointed at a democrat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 3d

WE TOOK THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH AWAY

Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 3d

trump saying "we took the freedom of speech away" needs to be in every single democrat ad and repeated every time a camera is pointed at a democrat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Colin McLaughlin @colinthecrab.bsky.social · 4d

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Colin McLaughlin @colinthecrab.bsky.social · 4d

Every action movie now:

Guy: "Boss, we completed the plan and the only hiccup was we pissed off some nobody"

Boss, solemn: "Unfortunately the nobody you pissed off is actually Jack Murder

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Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com · 5d

Bookshop is having an Anti-Amazon sale, with cheap e-books and free shipping for print today and tomorrow:

bookshop.org/lists/ebook-...

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Colin McLaughlin @colinthecrab.bsky.social · 4d

There's a Waingro-esque villain at the center of the story; that's my guess for either Leo or Cooper. And the word I've always read is Driver as Neil

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 4d

Another beautiful Burbank morning.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4d

Again, going in circles, but Trump ****literally**** does not understand how the American government works. He has ****never**** understood it. He was, until this administration, protected from his own stupidity but now there is no longer anyone at the helm. It’s ***actual*** anarchic governance.

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