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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 2h

This is why the inflatable costumes works so well -- it works the same way calling them "weird" or "creepy" did. It disrupts their narrative, and makes them seem pathetic rather than cool-and-cruel.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 1h

If you're going to a No Kings march instead of a witty sign that might elicit a chuckle maybe you could just carry an American flag

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 5h

No, I need to go back to a time when *love* was still possible.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 2d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Chuck🏳️‍🌈 @mooney039.bsky.social · 2d

So far we have
DPI picked up for no reason
Catch when ball clearly hit ground
Incomplete when ball clearly trapped
In the span of like 5 plays

Chuck🏳️‍🌈 @mooney039.bsky.social · 2d

The ACC should be fucking DISSOLVED

Chuck🏳️‍🌈 @mooney039.bsky.social · 2d

The ACC should be fucking dissolved lol

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grengle @gregoe86.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not one for conspiracies but. Like.

What the fuck.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 2d

it would probably be sorta hard for just anyone to do it *this well* because it requires you to actually be normal about trans people, but still it feels important to state for the record that WE ARE NOT HARD TO STAND UP FOR AND ANY OF THEM COULD DO IT.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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grengle @gregoe86.bsky.social · 2d

Benching Walz and burying "weird" is quite possibly the biggest political fuckup in generations. Don't know if I'll ever get over it.

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 2d

I feel like this theory also explains why the “Trump is weird” approach that Walz hit on last year was so effective and why everything fell apart once the consultants got involved and told him to act normal.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 2d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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grengle @gregoe86.bsky.social · 2d

Time for a local LEO to make those quotas and pull over some black vans

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grengle @gregoe86.bsky.social · 3d

I actually grew up in PDX, and I'm not at all surprised that that frog has become the symbol of resistance *and* comes from that city

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grengle @gregoe86.bsky.social · 4d

I've never been in a scene like that, but I have a strong memory of hearing the endless LRADs on citizen livestreams from Ferguson in 2014. Sucks to know PGH was effectively the testing ground for that madness.

grengle @gregoe86.bsky.social · 4d

Daaaang I'm not proud to say I wasn't fully aware of that whole thing - I was still in grad school in 2009. Cheers to the OGs like you!

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 4d

I am bound by the ancient contract of the internet to repost this.

👻 YSUBoOooOooOo 👻 @bassoonysu.bsky.social · 4d

As is always correct and in accordance with all the laws of the internet, I just watched Tom Holland's epic Lip Sync Battle performance, and now I am sharing it with all of you so you can do the same.

Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland

YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica

youtu.be

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grengle @gregoe86.bsky.social · 4d

Shockingly, no! He actually didn't sign on to this one 😮

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 4d

typically you don't receive play by plays of what a grand jury is doing

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 4d

Per Fox News, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia is currently weighing whether to charge NY AG Letitia James with mortgage fraud.

Fox News & @FoxNews
X.com
BREAKING: A federal grand jury is meeting in the Eastern District of Virginia court, weighing charging NY AG Letitia James with mortgage fraud, two sources confirm to Fox News.

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grengle @gregoe86.bsky.social · 5d

Is there an AO3 tag for "not nearly as speculative as I'd like" fiction?

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grengle @gregoe86.bsky.social · 5d

All while a battalion of flurries march down Grant St

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grengle @gregoe86.bsky.social · 5d

Aw hell I absolutely love this. I see it now: Humvees on Forbes, snipers on Cathy, and 300 Mr Rogers cosplayers in schenley plaza? That's the kind of dystopian nightmare I can survive.

Our Tank Man is Daniel Tiger.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 5d

I teach in my undergrad class on the history of the US jury system that the institution's roots are in colonial juries serving as a counterweight to abuses of imperial power. The American jury has problems for sure but still can serve that roll. Don't blow off jury service.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 5d

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach

A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Luke Bonner @lukeybonner.bsky.social · 5d

Portland, OR, the city where your high school’s most prolific hacky sacker/hula hooper now lives with their two kids named after minerals and a front yard chicken coop crafted out of old license plates, is war ravaged.

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grengle @gregoe86.bsky.social · 5d

Ah yes good point. Should be useful first, with a joke as extra flavor

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WIRED @wired.com · 5d

US president Donald Trump appeared confused by a question over the possible suspension of habeas corpus, during an “antifa roundtable” event at the White House attended by conservative influencers.

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grengle @gregoe86.bsky.social · 5d

My favorite part of this site is using alt text as a punchline, something smbc and xkcd have been doing for years but we all get to do now

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