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jam @socialistboat.dad · 4h

Stella Sacco
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It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"
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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 6h

But how can you wash your hands, Mr. Anderson, if you don't have a sink?

Reddit post of an insane sink setup with a faucet but no bowl evocative of the scene in The Matrix when they make Neo's mouth seal up.

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 13h

starting to suspect these guys aren't actually especially dedicated to making people feel safe in america's cities

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

Terrorism. There’s no other word to describe what we’re witnessing.

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JohnFosterFic @jfoster.bsky.social · 1d

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 22h

Lisa wheeling in a lifeless Bart saying MOM, DAD, BART’S DEAD!

BART popping to life and saying DEAD SERIOUS ABOUT GOING TO ITCHY AND SCRATCHYLAND

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Soren Bowie @sorenbowie.bsky.social · Sep 3

My brothers, wake up. The modern male diet is meant to domesticate you like a pet. We used to live off the hearts of the animals we hunted. Our ancestors sailed across oceans with nothing but rum and the very worst thing that happened to them was their teeth fell out and they died.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 17h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 20h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 16h

No Kings And No Viziers

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 18h

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Santana Abraxas @slime-golem.biz · 1d

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

TORGO, you have failed us TORGO, go get their bags TORGO

Anthony Kiedis and the joke is that he resembles “The Master” from the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode Manos: the Hands of Fate

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Myq Kaplan @myqkaplan.bsky.social · 23h

Here is a bit from my special “Rini” coming to YouTube November 19! I hope you enjoy!

And this link will take you to where the special will be and offers a handy “Notify Me” button you can click:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0uf...

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 23h

We're like a week from Stephen Miller wrestling the gun out of an officer's hand so he can shoot a protester himself.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23h

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 23h

We are through the looking glass, people.

The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 23h

Wait, so he's not a holocaust denier he's a holocaust denier denier?

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

Ian Carroll, whom Democratic representative Ro Khanna is featuring in this video, claims Israel invented Holocaust denial to discredit its critics, that the US is controlled by a "Zionist mafia," and that Jews did 9/11.

Really bad that Democrats are platforming overt antisemites like this!

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 1d

I don't take a dime from any PAC or lobbyist, including AIPAC.

I am proud to be one of the handful of Democrats standing up against Big Money.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Okay this is a good headline

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

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Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 1d

the defining image of the early 21st century is an agent of the state pointing a gun at a person, and a citizen pointing a smartphone camera back at them

we see this scene reenacted every day, around the world

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

Smart people who are conservative definitely exist. People intellectually capable of contributing if they were in academia. They mostly aren’t in academia, they’re making money somewhere, and the ones that are don’t need ideological affirmative action to get hired.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

This is why I’m extremely skeptical of any attempt to add ‘ideological diversity’ to academia, despite thinking that there are fields where some version of it would genuinely epistemologically healthy: I simply do not believe that modern conservatism actually can supply people who are not this:

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

If you ever stuck up for "ideological diversity ' or good faith debate or whatever and thought guys like Thiessen were part of that congratulations you are a huge sucker and Thiessen and the other conservatives are laughing at you now that they won.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 1d

this really lays bare the point of Bari’s job at CBS News, which is making it seem like the most radically leftist opinion you could possibly have on something like Gaza comes from *checks notes* Hillary Clinton

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1d

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