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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 1h

One of the things she’s most known for is creating a fake university for conservatives who are mad that actual facts (“news”, if you will) doesn’t accord with their preconceptions.

Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 2h

What is with the continued insistence that Weiss has ever covered “news,” she was an op-ed writer who started a website for opinion pieces. You are just objectively making stuff up.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 2h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3h

Vance: I’m sure that in the course of his life he has been paid more than $50,000 for services. The question is did he do something illegal.

Stephanopoulos: I’m asking if Homan accepted the $50,000

Vance: Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services? Low income women can’t get food

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 3h

Holy shit man.

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 3h

Republicans engage in outrageous vice signaling as an electoral tactic. It’s the only way to win an R primary.

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 3h

If you’re roughly the same age I am, you encountered many people in your 20s who supported republicans like W bc of their “personal morals” or whatever, which democrats were supposedly lacking due to the behavior of Bill Clinton, and, fucking hell look where we are now.

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 4h

Yes it seems to be essentially impossible to get an A and very easy to get an F.

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 4h

He says his initial reaction was that this is scary. My initial reaction is “this is a bad model”.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7h

No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 5h

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 10h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 16h

I just wish they’d tell us what country London is in. Otherwise it’s perfect.

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 16h

This is a world-class reply.

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 16h

edino, 6 ft tall human, has “same genital size” as 14 ft elephant, doctor says

Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 16h

In fairness, most people (and most of Nate’s readers) probably assume its main uses are doing better at gambling, and opening new frontiers in porn.

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 19h

James Woods attempts to discredit Antifa by admitting that he would’ve voted for actual Hitler. Incredible stuff.

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 20h

Hey, what was happening in Germany in the 1930s? I forget.

James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
For those who actually respect history, the origin story of Antifa is well documented. Antifa is an organization that emerged with the “German Communist Antifaschistische Aktion” movement in the 1930’s.
German Communists smeared anyone to their right as "fascists,” a common ploy used by the ignorant hysterical activists of the Democrat Party today. Like today’s leftist loonies, the German Antifa of the Weimar years even labeled the leftwing SDP as "social fascists." Today’s Antifa are a paramilitary mob used by the usual suspects to foment fake “mass protests” and burn down cities. The same puppet masters of the Democrat activist judges ruining America today also fund these “useful idiots” of Antifa to impede the mandate given to the current President in his landslide last election victory.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20h

Airports should play public-service announcements for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals instead

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 21h

“And how will the children ever learn how to join society?”

“Oh, robots, artificial processes, things of that nature.”

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 22h

Also how is this meme supposed to specifically be “liberal”? It’s just anti-fascist.

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 22h

“It’s just a 5 oz sample dude, how drunk could it get you?” runs my inner monologue as I stumble into line for my 17th 5 oz sample.

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 22h

“Most Americans don’t care *how* something gets done, they only care *that* it gets done. As a journalist on the left, my role is not too disabuse people of this confused and often morally problematic ideology, but to praise Trump for another brilliant exhibit of the art of the deal.”

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 1d

America first!

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 2d

What’s the O/U on number of days before someone who goes by Fat Shaft is put in charge of firing long-tenured reporters

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the full memo.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

"No, no, we have the Nobel Peace Prize at home."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 2d

he wants people from other countries to come to the US during the World Cup. woah, no way, really

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 2d

wtf is an “internationalist”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bartiromo attacks Mamdani for pointing out that tourists aren't traveling to the US as much because Trump is brutalizing people: "You just heard that. He wants illegals and internationalists to come here, particularly ahead of the World Cup."

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 2d

Tired: I think participation trophies are for babies

Wired: I didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize so I am having a public tantrum

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