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Cursed Macramé Owl

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Coming to you live from beautiful downtown Interbay/Magnolia in Seattle! Library person, squirrel wrangler

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Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 6d

Bill Nye should run for governor and then blow all his political capital on passing an income tax

Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 6d

Trump 2.0 has really exposed how brittle and broken the West Coast states' tax systems are. WA, OR, and CA all have a 1% property tax cap. WA has a sales tax but no income tax; OR has an income tax but no sales tax. It is not possible to effectively resist Trump without fixing these tax systems.

CalMatters @calmatters.org · 6d

The news has sent counties throughout California into a panic. The state is bracing to lose hundreds of millions of dollars for permanent housing, which is the one thing experts agree on as the most effective way to solve homelessness. https://cal.news/4nBKuZI

📷 Fred Greaves

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Dak @dak.myatproto.social · 1d

🎶Whoa, Black Betty🎶

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Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 49m

Trying to imagine Harris "joking" about bulldozing some white peoples' homes and how that "joke" would be received

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

New in PN: He's never "just joking"

"Trump is an aspiring autocrat with obvious physical and mental issues, but Johnson and his Republican cronies are insulting our intelligence about it."

He's never "just joking"

And Republicans know it, even as they play dumb.

www.publicnotice.co

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 7h

I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project.

www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

www.the-reframe.com

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Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah like you're gonna tell Tim Curry "Can we get another take?"

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2h

Most of us know the ….SPACE clip from Command and Conquer but I like how there’s three solid minutes of him being delighted with what he was asked to do

Tim Curry holds back laughter for 3 minute in Red Alert 3

YouTube video by Battle Dreadnought

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Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 2h

Which is wild because MAGA will forget all about him the moment their isn't a headline per day. Or they can just lie and no one will challenge it

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 2h

It is incredibly clear that Stephen Miller has decided this guy must be tortured, and nothing else will suffice, otherwise the Trump administration looks weak.

Dude is a literal war criminal.

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 3h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

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

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 2h

The thought police are people who tell you what to think and demand you think it, not people who tell you what you think is shallow or stupid or thoughtless

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 2d

Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

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Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 2h

Ah, autumn in Seattle. Get to see more white guy legs than all of the other seasons combined. The shorts psychos out in full force

Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 2h

Huh wonder what happened to "Back the Blue"? Do police officers and leaders know they are disposable to these people?

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3h

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

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Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 3h

Seems like a lot of people need to go to a special seminar where they teach you about sci-fi concepts like Jews in the South and the Black middle class

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 3h

Did not know this about Old Bay

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 3h

From 2016:

Milo Yiannopoulos: "The Jews run everything…the Jews run the banks…the Jews run the media…this is not in debate. It’s a statistical fact."

Ben Shapiro: "So Milo seems to be making two points here. The first: not all stereotypes are rooted in falsehood (true)."

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 4h

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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Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 4h

A memo to Democratic politicians: If part of your pitch is some hand-waving towards AI, edit that shit out of the speech

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Leelee Sobe Iced Tea @ihaveahamradio.bsky.social · 4h

Homer yelling to his coworkers: IF YOU WANT TO DO SOME INSIDER TRAINING, NOW'S THE TIME!
HE'S DOPED UP OR DYING OR SOMETHING!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

🚨 HEY NYC — This clip alone is completely disqualifying. Absolutely humiliating stuff from @andrewcuomo, refusing to condemn Trump for going after NY AG Tish James.

A vote for him is very clearly a vote for Trump.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 21h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 5h

These same people will, with a straight face, tell you that baristas are part of the liberal elite

Nicole Saltesi @nacl.sh · 5h

i gotta say, it is a societal level sorta humiliation that education about authoritarianism hasnt prevented any authoritarianism and instead it has caused people saying with their full face that the public's opposition to authoritarianism makes the average citizen a member of "the thought-police"

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 5h

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. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 5d

Police said that "family" was worried about her. But the only family member mentioned in the court records is her partner, who was arrested for abusing her and threatening her at gunpoint the day she took the pills, after which she left. He is the one who called the cops

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

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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Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 5h

Obviously we can't order the enslavement of authors who defend slavery but we should be able to force them into a lifetime of Amazon warehouse work

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 3d

Doug Wilson co-authored a (plagiarized) book that defended the institution of slavery *as it was practiced in the antebellum South*. This is how Douthat introduced the subject while providing him with the NYT's platform:

Douthat: So, just to take a related example, one of the controversies of many that you’ve been mixed up in has to do with slavery, and whether slavery is absolutely forbidden by the Bible, absolutely forbidden to Christians, or whether it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: And you think it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: On this, on a straightforward reading of the New Testament, I would agree with you. I would say, pretty clearly, there is a pretty clear path from the message of the Bible to the abolition of slavery. But there is no moment in the New Testament when Jesus insists on the manumission of slaves.

Wilson: Right.

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Bryan Ward @bryaneward.bsky.social · 1d

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 8h

My version of this is that Vought, Yarvin etc represent a kind of braindead right-Gramscianism, which leaves out all the interesting subtleties and treats civil society _only_ as a realm of indoctrination, where one ideological master-narrative can readily be substituted for another.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 10h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · Dec 24

I’m being told my most sensual aunt has received a new cooter

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Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 6h

Also the book reminds readers that one of the reasons there were Jewish communities in the Balkans was that the Ottomans invited them there after expulsion from Spain, only for modern history to cast them out again