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OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 11h

Another loser and failure heard from.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Klobuchar: "I remember Bondi saying, 'the president is the most transparent president in history.' I wish I said, Well then why doesn't he just release the Epstein files?"

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12h

When they say that Trump is the most transparent president in history, they are just talking about the Emperor's new clothes.

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OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 11h

Sure likes like Nobel or Noble Peace Prize material to me.
open.substack.com/pub/chrished...
/sarcasm

Trump’s Sham Peace Plan

There will be no peace in Gaza. Only the temporary absence of war.

open.substack.com

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OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 12h

Hey, wait, isn’t there an opposition party responsible for fighting back as, you know, their job?
Weird…
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/deafening-...
/sarcasm

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

Leaders are underestimating the risks of not fighting back

donmoynihan.substack.com

OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 13h

“The Criterion Channel’s retrospective on Robert Altman, the auteur behind masterpieces like Nashville, M*A*S*H, and The Long Goodbye, is a reminder that, not long ago, Hollywood backed maverick filmmakers ready to shake up the medium and the culture at large.”
jacobin.com/2025/10/robe...

Hollywood Could Use Another Robert Altman Right Now

The Criterion Channel’s retrospective on Robert Altman, the auteur behind masterpieces like Nashville, M*A*S*H, and The Long Goodbye, is a reminder that, not long ago, Hollywood backed maverick filmma...

jacobin.com

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OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 13h

As the Republicans fought for power for seven decades, the national Democrats pissed it away—as they were financially rewarded for doing.
And here we are.
That said, this: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Pam Bondi’s Shameless Message to Democrats

You have no power.

www.thenation.com

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OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 13h

What we need thousands of: www.wonkette.com/p/guy-who-wa...

Guy Who Wants To Beat Susan Collins Is Concerned. No, In A Good Way!

Meet Graham Platner!

www.wonkette.com

OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 13h

They’re asking nicely.
www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

www.404media.co

OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 13h

Yet again: it’s a tool.
If we’re incapable of uding a tool responsibly, it’s on us.
www.theargumentmag.com/p/you-have-1...

“You have 18 months”

The real deadline isn’t when AI outsmarts us — it’s when we stop using our own minds.

www.theargumentmag.com

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OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 14h

👍🏻👏🏻, of course.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 3d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 14h

That interviewer…
digbysblog.net/2025/10/09/q...

OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 14h

If there was any problem here, woukd the Democrats be acting on it and the establishment news media reporting on it with all appropriate focus &c.
www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

www.axios.com

OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 14h

Oh, no!
Baby Donny’s sad!
Won’t someone help Baby??
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/t...

Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado praises Trump after White House criticizes snub

Some of Trump's Republican allies have called for him to get the Nobel Peace Prize, though the nomination deadline passed early in his current term.

www.cnbc.com

OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 14h

How unfortunate.
Karma’s a bitch.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 19h

Here's the full memo.

OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 14h

Time will tell…
www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/10/t...

The Nativists Are Getting Restless: How the Rhythm of the Comey Prosecution May Backfire - emptywheel

The two prosecutors DOJ found to prosecute the case against Jim Comey have no understanding of the case, much less the wider ethically fraught context. At least on Wednesday, that made it easier for P...

www.emptywheel.net

OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 14h

Well, it’s not like what majority wants or needs is of interest to either party…
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

The Recap: Americans hate RFK Jr.'s medical quackery, and GOP shutdown hits the IRS

A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Trump has FBI harassing immigrants instead of fighting terrorism What could possibly go wr...

www.dailykos.com

OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 14h

Let’s see who’s providing proof for my theory that they’re all insane…
Here we go!
boingboing.net/2025/10/09/t...

The incredible disappearing black eye of Katie Daviscourt

If ever there was a reason to doubt all the fantastic and chronologically inconsistent claims by Katie Daviscourt, her magical black is a big red flag.

boingboing.net

OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 23h

What nearly everyone can say:
"I have since learned that what I said was true but incomplete, because I was insufficiently cynical."
In this case, @pkrugman.bsky.social:
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/bailing-ou...

Bailing out Bessent’s Buddies’ Bets on Argentina

Trump bails out hedge funds’ failed bets on Milei while his foreign aid cuts will kill millions of children

paulkrugman.substack.com

OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 1d

Regrettably necessary. But you can say that about more and more things every day.
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/415-no...

No War on Chicago; No War Anywhere!

“The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to ga...

www.haymarketbooks.org

OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 1d

A movement is needed ASAP: www.americasundoing.com/p/the-proble...

The Problem With Waiting for 2028

Ain't nobody got time for that

www.americasundoing.com

OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting, FWIW.
prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

Mamdani Courts the Cops

He is doing a lot better than you might think.

prospect.org

OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 1d

My crazy old fart theory: the better things look for the GOP in 2026, the less likely Trump will pull shit like suspending the elections.
Note that looking good doesn’t preclude massive Democrat losses.
Vote rigging doesn’t preclude voter hatred of Trump.
www.the-downballot.com/p/heres-ever...

Here's every state that could draw a new congressional map by 2026

Most states can't pass new maps quickly—but those that can favor Republicans

www.the-downballot.com

OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 1d

TBH, if nearly everyone hasn’t already figured out by now that the establishment media are untrustworthy…
Audience numbers suggest that it already happened.
So this is only so bad but not very bad at all.
fair.org/home/magas-l...

MAGA’s Little Helpers: Sinclair, Nexstar and the Consolidation of Broadcast TV

Sinclair and Nexstar need to stay in Trump’s good graces to ensure FCC approvals. To survive, however, their ABC affiliates need national programming.

fair.org

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OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 1d

Considering their actual job was as propagandists, of course this should be unsurprising.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/karsh-fell...

Legacy Journalists from NYT, CNN Are Mentors in a Fellowship Founded for Pro-Israel “Information War”

Hardline Israel advocate Jacki Karsh says she founded the new journalism fellowship to help “shift some of the narrative” in Israel’s favor.

www.dropsitenews.com

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OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 1d

Tres cool.
The way it should be, the way things will have to be.
gizmodo.com/toxic-avenge...

'The Toxic Avenger' Has Helped Eliminate Over $15 Million in Medical Debt

The ooey-gooey, proudly raunchy horror comedy launched a fundraiser ahead of its theatrical release—and it's still going along with its arrival at home.

gizmodo.com