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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 2h

I have been saying this for a while: why did the president pardon the FBI agents provocateurs who helped steal the 2020 election from him?

Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 3h

Funniest outcome is if 274 pardoned insurrectionists go back to jail

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3h

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 3h

the division of labor is so important.

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 8h

Listen sometimes the situation simply requires a Catholic

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i love that 17th century jewish poltergeist story where the family living in the haunted house calls a catholic priest for help before they contact a rabbi, because yeah, i think that would be my call too; id be like, oh? a demon in my house speaking latin and drawing inverted crosses on my wall in sulfuric bile? then without even questioning my faith i'd call up the catholic church and be like yo father, one of your boys loose come get him

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 3h

protesting a Kamala Harris book event is entirely lacking a strategic rationale. it is comically removed from any actual levers of power.

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 3h

mood:

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 3h

I have terrible takes from Ross Douthat stuck in my brain, but millions of Americans who decide whether or not to vote the week before the election have never heard of him but are watching & listening to things of which I have no idea.

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 3h

I have been thinking this more & more lately. Between, like, the New York Times op-ed page & a procedural TV show or a podcast where the hosts “don’t talk about politics,“ I’d rather the latter two be dominated by liberals.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 3h

negative stereotypes in mass market entertainment cumulatively build up, especially in the kind of middlebrow to lower end mass market stuff that people watch (but is culturally invisible here).

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 4h

every politician there is spiritually Bloombergian.

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 4h

they get assigned Important Investigative Work that involves sitting in an office all day & doing paperwork, without guns.

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 4h

new right intellectual:

disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 10h

I don't think women should do science. I think when they do it they're reinforcing mass surveillance.

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 4h

“grok, assemble a list of a hundred employees we can eliminate.”

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 5h

you can design a much improved system than ours (which is, in fact, greatly altered from that of 1787), but I think it’s going to be hard to design one that would have forestalled the worst of our present crises while retaining any element of democratic representation.

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 5h

oh, I kid the British constitution!
(as Bill Maher might say)

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 5h

at least the Bill of Rights is written down.

debnicktom.bsky.social @debnicktom.bsky.social · 2d

A reminder that the beloved American Constitution is absolute shite or this wouldn't be possible. Ditto the revered 'Founding Fathers' who wrote such a flawed and dangerous document, just hopeless twats.

Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder that this baseless indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James is part of Donald Trump’s corrupt weaponization of the criminal justice system against anyone who has sought to hold him accountable.

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 7h

yeah. also, regional & ethnic differences were also important.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 7h

If it wasn’t incredibly obvious before that X revenue sharing is treated as a slush fund for Elon to funnel cash to his future baby mommies and favorite right wing influencers, it is explicit now.

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 7h

They can keep their special little traditions, like all wearing seersucker on one day.

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 7h

why is the Times normalizing raw-dogging mayonnaise?

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 7h

A. G. Sulzberger must answer for this.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7h

Initially, our testers (even those who were big fans of mayo) were intimidated by the thought of eating such a fatty condiment by the spoonful. Surprisingly, it wasn’t as daunting a task as we had expected. nyti.ms/3KyWLQd

Headline: We Tasted 25 Different Mayonnaises and Lived to Tell You About Them. A photo shows three dollops of mayo on a blue surface.

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 7h

people talk about “fire & brimstone“ emanating from evangelical Protestants, but Catholic rhetoric can have a nice flair, with a touch of the medieval.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 11h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 23d

There are 48-hour affairs in Paris that have half the erotic enthusiasm of a Milwaukee Brewers radio broadcast talking about brats and cheese spreads

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 7h

this is confirming my hypothesis that many of the people angriest with Democrats here don’t want someone to “just fight,” they want different political *events to occur.*

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 8h

to be clear, I should be ashamed for engaging here, too.

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 8h

this is as aggravating as talking to people who think that Hollywood’s leading stars have been executed & replaced with holograms.

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 8h

Your responses are frivolous because they show a blithe indifference to actual outcomes which would involve the use of armed force.

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 8h

your frivolous response.

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