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Doktor Zoom

@doktorzoom.bsky.social

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Wonkette writer & senior editor I'm just an animal, looking for a home. Retweets do not imply comprehension. Born at 318.43 ppm atmospheric carbon. He/him In Idaho, but not of Idaho.

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Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 1d

The Plane to Spain took him Sanely from Trump's Reign

Rutgers Antifascism Expert Driven Out Of USA By Very Non-Fascist Death Threats
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Rutgers Antifascism Expert Driven Out Of USA By Very Non-Fascist Death Threats

He wrote a book about 'antifa' years ago, so he must be the source of all America's trouble.

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🎃💀Dan💀🎃 @dan401w.bsky.social · 8h

That Portland ICE facility increasingly looks like a new Animal Crossing game being advertised by Nintendo or something.

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Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 40m

Tom Nook is a narc.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 14h

heather34897
Heather
#ice #warzone #musicfestival #portland #frogforpresident

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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 1h

canceling a first date tomorrow because he sent me an unsolicited, impassioned defense of Sam Harris

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 47m

a window loaf for your Caturday

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 4h

Did you miss it this week?

I have a new job: president of News Creator Corps. Goes like this.

Via the people now called creators, audiences are migrating to the social layer in the internet stack. Maybe there's a way to move with, rather than against that.

newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news...

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Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 2h

Replies to the above. Hey, I thought only The Left calls for political violence?

Screenshot of two replies to the Andy Ngo tweet about the "Antifa militant in the raccoon costume"

First MAGA Chud: Those costumes are flammable, just saying.

Second MAGA Chud: I like what ur sayin.

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Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 2h

"Antifa militant in the raccoon costume" — see, the Right *IS* getting better at comedy!

Screenshot of 10/11/25 tweet by Andy Ngo: "Watch how the Antifa militant in the raccoon costume helps fellow violent comrades block public access to the sidewalk near the Portland ICE facility. They say borders and deportations must end but claim any territory they touch is theirs."

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 1d

Now Trump is hoping to at least get a Daytime Nobel Peace Prize.

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Ron Sexsmith @ronsexsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Now RFK says children who are circumcised too early..
have double the rate of autism
Hmm... sounds like a foreskin-gone conclusion! RS

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1d

the portland chicken guy 🥰

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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michelethistle.bsky.social @michelethistle.bsky.social · 1d

open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Read on, my brothers and sisters! Read on!

Silencing Mockingbirds

Reading is resistance

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

...and counterproductive? The more you take control the instruments of government communication, the harder it becomes to credibly blame others.

William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 1d

Petty garbage 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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Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 1d

Do not be cowed. Take a page from Portland and wear an inflatable cow suit!

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Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe with a little crème fraîche or cream cheese?

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Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 1d

People have been on edge since roe was overturned, and went all over the floor.

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Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, it was full of quick-setting concrete, don'tcha know, and weighed two million pounds.

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Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 1d

Andy "Milkshake? Duck!" Ngo

Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 1d

How typical. People always have to parade their token "best sturgeon friend" for social media cred.

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Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 1d

But it's probably some kind of kink-shaming. We'll be hearing from sturgeon fetishists.

Or fans of the great science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon, also know for Sturgeon's Law: "90 percent of anything is crap."

From his reply to a friend who supposedly said "Ted, 90% of this SF stuff is crap"

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 1d

MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus.

It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions.

Thank you, Governor!

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Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 1d

It's another case of the Trump administration pretending it did something that was already planned. The agreement to use Mountain Home AFB in Idaho goes back to 2022; the F-15 sale was made in 2017 under Trump I.

www.stripes.com/branches/air...

$12 billion deal may bring hundreds of Qatar, US Air Force members to Idaho base

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Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 1d

The Plane to Spain took him Sanely from Trump's Reign

Rutgers Antifascism Expert Driven Out Of USA By Very Non-Fascist Death Threats
www.wonkette.com/p/rutgers-an...

Rutgers Antifascism Expert Driven Out Of USA By Very Non-Fascist Death Threats

He wrote a book about 'antifa' years ago, so he must be the source of all America's trouble.

www.wonkette.com

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Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 1d

And of course the weird saga where Idaho's Child Support system was defunded because what if it allowed Sharia Law?

www.wonkette.com/p/sure-idaho...

Sure, Idaho, Child Support Bill Will Lead To Sharia Law. What? No, You're Not Crazy At All

Left: State Sen.

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Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 1d

Also that time Alex Jones lied that a yogurt company in Twin Falls was "Caught Importing Migrant Rapists," and had to apologize. (It was awful: 3 young kids from refugee families assaulted a little girl. Rightwing media pretended it was a gang of adult Syrian men)

www.wonkette.com/p/alex-jones...

Alex Jones Apologizes To Yogurt

We are SO immature.

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