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mtraven @mtraven23.bsky.social · 4h

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cri...

1. You encounter a strange, cult-like group that lives in almost total isolation...They jealously guard their arcane knowledge and practice some exceedingly cruel rituals. ... but you ultimately feel at home there because they give you a sense of family.

Critically Acclaimed Horror Film of the 2010s or Your PhD Program?

1. You encounter a strange, cult-like group that lives in almost total isolation from the outside world. They jealously guard their arcane knowledg...

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mtraven @mtraven23.bsky.social · 12h

It is of course very close to reality; billionaires gleefully breaking society and plotting to pick up the pieces. Barely exaggerated. It was made rapidly staring in Dec 2024 and intended to reflect the present reality, which it does, almost too well.

mtraven @mtraven23.bsky.social · 12h

Finally got around to watching Mountainhead. Kind of a shit movie with no real narrative, but enjoyable for how it captured elements of the tech transhumanist zeitgeist. The guy dropping Hegel references as he plans to upload his consciousness onto an AI platform in five years…perfect.

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mtraven @mtraven23.bsky.social · 1d

There was more honking from cars today at the local #TeslaTakedown in #Colma . Not sure why, my theory is that the white house demolition has got the attention of people who have been trying to ignore politics. It's a pretty visceral image.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

It cannot get lost in the shuffle, even with so much else going on, that the world's most wealthy people have had their minds absolutely rotted out, just saturated to the dripping point with black mold down to the studs and frame, by the all encompassing unhumanity of their wealth.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

They abolished the House of Representatives ... solely to prevent the release of information about the president's best friend, the pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives

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Insatiable Antifa Slut @insatiableone.bsky.social · 2d

Brilliant thread is brilliant

Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 5d

Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull”

First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided.

With me so far? 1/x

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

The most Christmas Adventurers ass mug that you'll see today

Screenshot of Brent Bozell, Trump's nominee to be the ambassador to South Africa, and a longtime racist piece of shit.

Bozell has white-ish blonde hair and a similar beard. He looks like one of the characters from the movie One Battle After Another (2025)

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mtraven @mtraven23.bsky.social · 2d

I'll come in again

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mtraven @mtraven23.bsky.social · 2d

nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition to be supported by a prominent conservative wait yes that is exactly what you would expect.

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mtraven @mtraven23.bsky.social · 2d

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

"The Bozells moved to Spain in the early 1960s and fell in love with Franco’s fascist regime. ...With a Carlist friend, Bozell dreamed up the idea of a Catholic magazine they wanted to title La Inquisición, in tribute to the Spanish Inquisition. "

Meet the Bozells, America’s First Family of Right-Wing Violence

From union busting and cross burning to the January 6 riot, the Buckley-Bozell clan is the embodiment of reactionary lawlessness.

www.thenation.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

every passing day, rightwingers are inventing new and unexpected ways to signal to the world they may be the dumbest iteration of humans so far

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mtraven @mtraven23.bsky.social · 4d

Protest ICE invasion of the Bay Area

www.bayresistance.org/get-ready

Rally and March at 5pm Thursday, starting at Embarcadero Plaza.

Bay Get Ready United Call to Action — Bay Resistance

If federal troops invade the bay or Ice raids escalate we will mobilize. On the day that it starts happening march and rally at Justin Hermin plaza in San Francisco

www.bayresistance.org

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 4d

ok who did this? ☹️

a doctored photo of the back of a $20 bill featuring the White House being demolished by an excavator

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mtraven @mtraven23.bsky.social · 5d

Mushroom music youtu.be/NbP2DgDp890

Mushroom in the Wild Playing Keyboard

YouTube video by BionicandtheWires

youtu.be

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 6d

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 6d

Whether it's Obama wearing a tan suit to a press conference or Trump dumping brown liquid on protesters, both presidents have made some controversial earth-tone color choices.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 6d

Donald Trump has destroyed the East Wing of the White House the right way.

by Ezra Klein

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · Sep 17

The key thing to understand about the tech elite is that they protest too much about independent thinking and disagreement. A key way to explain why their political shift is so dramatic from 2008 to 2024 is that it is an extremely conformist culture where everyone embraces the latest trend.

Dave Lee @davelee.me · Aug 25

“They claim to read the same books” is such a multilayered burn, I LOVE it

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 8d

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 7d

one category of show prep material for TRMS staff is something we've always called "subway reading".

it's something that's not exactly current events or new reporting... but nevertheless relevant food for thought given the news we're in.

today's subway reading:

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world

Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

www.bbc.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 7d

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 7d

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

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mtraven @mtraven23.bsky.social · 7d

I remember getting the idea from Robert Anton Wilson that politics was at its root just rival ape bands flinging their shit at each other. Seemed a bit simplistic and reductive, but we live in simplistic times.

mtraven @mtraven23.bsky.social · 7d

The Trump diarrhea video is such a public and irrefutable indicator of how utterly degraded our culture has become. *We* have become, because this is in all of our heads now. It’s kakistocracy in its most literal form.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 7d

Republicans say they like fascism and Democrats say that they are against it. The truth is more complicated.

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