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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 2h

ubtil recently, Mike Johnson held the honor of "adult man who looks most like a little haunted doll boy," but Baron Trump has decisively snatched that title. look at this haunted plastic freak

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 4h

one thing Hitler understood was that if you want to lead a military dictatorship you kind of have to bribe the military to be on your side, but i guess paying them in Trump Steaks is another way to go

CNN @cnn.com · 9h

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

GOP leaders steadfast in shutdown stance despite rising pressure inside party | CNN Politics

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

www.cnn.com

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 23h

he cares enough about trans people JUST enough to keep them alive so they can vote for him in a waking nightmare

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 1d

"GIVE IT TO ME OR I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!!!" is a bold pitch for why you should get the Nobel Peace Prize

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 1d

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 2d

"'Money will become our emperor'--that is a prophecy from the eleventh century. Do you deny that it has literally come true, making life itself a veritable hell?'"

- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 2d

lol

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 3d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 2d

shut your dick sucking lips and log off

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 2d

yes! i still need to organize it better, but i can share some stuff with you. dm me!

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 2d

my sick self-harm obsession is buying old issues of National Review from the 60s-80s and archiving the horrifically racist/sexist/transphobic/bigoted shit in them

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 2d

for some reason our old video about Rob Schneider vs Tim Heidecker is popping off. dont ask why, just enjoy! and no more bullshit!!!

youtu.be/z_W3w_E7K4U?...

Why Conservative Comedy isn't Funny: The Schneidecker Paradox

YouTube video by Maggie Mae Fish

youtu.be

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 2d

it's always a good time to shit on the legacy of crypto-Nazi, apartheid-loving, terrible writer William F Buckley Jr.

mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 2d

read this older article while researching my first podcast episode and had it on hand so I'm just gonna leave it here lol newrepublic.com/article/1224...

National Review's Bad Conscience

Why the magazine is quick to accuse liberals of fascism and Nazism.

newrepublic.com

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 2d

"they're feeding Trump AI videos, that's why he says stuff that's not true"

did you just hear of Donald Trump for the first time yesterday?

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 3d

implication: "the cops are afraid of a crime wave because Mamdani will let criminals roam free!"

reality: corrupt cops are afraid of being held responsible for their past and future crimes

Bari Weiss tweet quoting a NY cop who has palpable "dread" at Mamdani winning, and threatens to quit

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 3d

liberals are genetically incapable of learning what year the US military was desegregated

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 3d

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 4d

Bari Weiss, CBS News, 1965

- New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
jewishcurrents.org/bari-weiss-c...

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 3d

war, war never changes.

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.

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 4d

you're right! it sucks that Newsom won't compromise when lives are on the line!

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 4d

sounds like youre just afraid to be your best self

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 4d

its funny how not a single actual journalist has been like, “actually she’s good at journalism”

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 4d

"i got ostracized for liking chick-fil-a" is the kind of excuse you give when the real reason you got ostracized is so heinous, you cant even say it in public

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it

Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor

Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …

nypost.com

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 5d

CEO of Free Press excited to crush concept of free press

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 5d

I'm also reminded of the "whistleblower" report about abuses at a Missouri gender clinic, the author of which is now just a full-time anti-transgender lobbyist, that fell apart the moment any reporter tried to verify it

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 5d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 5d

churchill wanted a jewish state in the mid east because he saw it as preferable to "Jewish domination" of the world via communism. and in far right circles that sentiment lives on

"let 'them' have their little country so 'we' can keep them in their place"

trump exudes that feeling often

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