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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Jake Hamby @jakehamby.bsky.social · 34m

Here's a genuine UAP mystery from 130 years ago: the mystery airship sightings of 1896–97. Many sightings across many cities, including a big wave starting in California and working east, of humans piloting some unknown advanced airship with bright searchlights. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery...

Mystery airship - Wikipedia

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 7h

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...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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anti-fascist jefe @jefe.bsky.social · 2h

weird how they reserve "final resolutions" when a Democrat is president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 1d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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anti-fascist jefe @jefe.bsky.social · 2h

he's old, sick, and reminded daily of L'Affaire Epstein.

Bird Lawyer @realjoenathan.bsky.social · 2h

He's dying.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2h

President Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven.”

(I isolated Trump’s voice)

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anti-fascist jefe @jefe.bsky.social · 2h

Anyone who shoots my dog will not live much longer.

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anti-fascist jefe @jefe.bsky.social · 2h

I figured it out. The only thing Bari Weiss is good at is getting rich guys to give her money for bad journalism.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 6h

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...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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anti-fascist jefe @jefe.bsky.social · 2h

Trump doesn't get one of these very often from me.

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anti-fascist jefe @jefe.bsky.social · 2h

I still don't know what Bari Weiss has actually accomplished. And I don't count hack "journalism" as an accomplishment.

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anti-fascist jefe @jefe.bsky.social · 2h

Antifa Super Soldiers

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 8d

wizard frog is insane

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anti-fascist jefe @jefe.bsky.social · 3h

I am telling you, the love he gets from MAGAt media and hate he gets from his own side is going to push him in directions we don't want.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Maria Bartiromo tries to reassure Fetterman: "You know, senator, what you just said, it's really shamefully on your colleagues. You feeling isolated -- that is absolutely outrageous. You are a breath of fresh air. I know our viewers are grateful."

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Chris Potter @cpotterpgh.bsky.social · 8h

Looks like Fetterman found that "room of love" the New York Times quoted him saying he would prefer to holding a town hall.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Maria Bartiromo tries to reassure Fetterman: "You know, senator, what you just said, it's really shamefully on your colleagues. You feeling isolated -- that is absolutely outrageous. You are a breath of fresh air. I know our viewers are grateful."

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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...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4h

“WHOAH! Be careful not to step in that pile of shit there!” exclaimed the man pulling his pants back up.

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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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

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Eladio Bobadilla @eladiobobadilla.com · 5h

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Faith M. Jackson @kissedbythesun.bsky.social · 22h

🚨BREAKING🚨: Portland Frog receives Nobel Peace Prize.

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anti-fascist jefe @jefe.bsky.social · 5h

What about his “pious” divorce?

anti-fascist jefe @jefe.bsky.social · 5h

What about his “pious” divorce?

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 10h

Vought, we are told, is a pious man who never curses. Ok! Not a word about his Christian nationalism; instead, one of the most influential political platforms in the world chooses to perpetuate the number one fallacy about the modern Right: That this is all about “small government.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

oh this guy is delusional delusional

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 11h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 10h

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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anti-fascist jefe @jefe.bsky.social · 7h

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