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Mongo, The Dog Who Was A Whale

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"O! [Could I] reach the nation’s ear, I would.. pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke..." THE DEVOLUTION *WILL* BE TELEVISED.

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Mongo, The Dog Who Was A Whale @mongo.bsky.social · Jan 29

Like the French under nazi occupation, sooner or later each American will find themselves in a moment where they have to choose between collaboration and acquiescence, or resistance. And I have a feeling that will be sooner rather than later.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 9h

And not just any reporter. Radley Balko's reporting has gotten an innocent man off death row. He's broken multiple major stories about huge scandals. He goes in-depth on the ground with tons of local sources. Dismissing his detailed debunking as Weiss did is something no serious journalist would do.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

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 · 12h

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...

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Mongo, The Dog Who Was A Whale @mongo.bsky.social · 17m

They're putting ICE thugs up in a Hilton? That's on the taxpayer's dime.

I'm a taxpayer, and as far as I'm concerned, they can stay at a Motel 6. The one with the malfunctioning ice machine.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 21m

My uber driver: So ICE shot things at you and now you’re checking into their hotel? What if they shoot things at you in the hotel?

Like please let them tear gas me in the lobby of the Hilton.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1h

You can just share my video from me instead of sharing a screen recording of my video from a content farm account that isn’t on the scene btw.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 12h

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10h

Smithsonian museums, research centers, and the National Zoo temporarily closed Sunday due to the federal government shutdown.

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 1d

Was at ground zero for true geography nerds today

The intersection of 45 degrees north latitude and 90 degrees west longitude. The middle of the northwest hemisphere.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 10h

It's striking that even in the defenses of Bari Weiss's broader thing no one ever says that she or her website does good work. Even the people that admire the success she's had selling lite reactionary shit to rich old guys top out at "people do seem to like it." You could defend Jake Paul that way.

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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 9h

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 8h

The funniest thing about defending Bari Weiss being hired to lead CBS and beating back any criticism of that as “cancel culture” is that we are about to enter an era of collusion between the government and media targeting any critique of the state not seen since McCarthyism

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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 17h

Rep. Jason Crow is a former Army Ranger who served three combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of the 82nd Airborne Division and the elite 75th Ranger Regiment.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

TEXAS senate candidate Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social (grandson of a Baptist preacher): “I put my hand on a Bible and swore an oath to the constitution, not the other way around.”

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 15h

“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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Mongo, The Dog Who Was A Whale @mongo.bsky.social · 7h

**Bam**, you fuking puffy weasel, you.

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14h

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 16h

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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Mongo, The Dog Who Was A Whale @mongo.bsky.social · 7h

Dump the WaPo.

You'll be glad you did.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 9h

Never forget that when Bondi was appointed, Democracy Docket immediately called her out while The Washington Post gave her a thumbs up.

If you value independent, pro-democracy media that won't bow down or obey, support Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 8h

3D printers: WE NEED YOU! If you have a printer, start making whistles for your community. Volunteers of ours have been printing and passing them out across communities, over 200 have been handed out so far!

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 1d

“Get back,” troopers scream, as they surge on the crowd:

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 15h

Great this is being noticed but the framing in these stories that centre on Farage's own words rather than the issue itself tells you all you need to know about the appalling coverage of the far right and the role the mainstream media play in enabling its rise and mainstreaming

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

Lots of stories about Nathan Gill and Russian bribes.

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Mongo, The Dog Who Was A Whale @mongo.bsky.social · 7h

Folks: Some here in the US are not following Farage / Reform Party news in the UK (and British politics generally). The Trumpist Maga Right in America has forged links with fascist parties in Britain, Germany, France, Austria, Italy. *Stay informed* because this is a global fight now. Believe it.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

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Kepano Kolohe @alala55.bsky.social · 16h

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Mongo, The Dog Who Was A Whale @mongo.bsky.social · 7h

There is a subcategory of 'Rat Fuk Bastard Perverted [redacted]', where the winner doesn't get a Nobel Prize but is relentlessly mocked and shouted at in restaurants.

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Repugs R Stinky @artfulscribe.bsky.social · 1d

Just wondering … is there a Nobel Prize for Clownish Incompetence?
www.thedailybeast.com//cdc-scrambl...

CDC Scrambling to Restaff After Accidentally Firing Top Scientists

More than 4,000 government employees were laid off on Friday in what has been dubbed a “massacre.”

www.thedailybeast.com

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Mongo, The Dog Who Was A Whale @mongo.bsky.social · 7h

Follow @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social .
You'll be glad you did.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧