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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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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 17h

The funny thing about the concept of “virtue signaling” is that it doesn’t actually deny that certain things are virtuous.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15h

(watching a population vigorously oppose subsidizing the welfare state while also maintaining one of the world’s largest prison systems) these are people who love to be free

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 15h

”this person I see doing a good thing must be virtue signaling” reveals a lot about the speaker. “I cannot even imagine having unselfish motives,” “empathy is alien to me,” and so forth

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15h

the idea that freedom is in our DNA is just a misinterpretation of the fact that we’re a nation of finicky whiners who don’t like to be personally inconvenienced

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 15h

At least we no longer have to hear about freedom being in Americans' DNA or whatever. Turns out we love to eat shit and bow to some bloated halfwit like any other people throughout history

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 8d

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 1d

However, some experts the Times spoke with questioned if Mr. Nibbles had glowing red eyes or a top hat full of bats

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

If our TV networks had not been captured by the right wing, some very easy journalism would be to play this clip besides a very not on fire Portland and then tell viewers that the President of the United States is living in an alternate reality.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 1d

You are looking cheugy, Mr Bond

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

you will do joy my way or the highway

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 1d

Heads they win, tails we lose

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 1d

Huge hoist at the petard factory

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 1d

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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

Lord give us the Democrats that Republicans warn us about.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 1d

finally, a girlboss who really believes in freedom! Unlike Cheeto Hitler, who has been vaporizing fishermen [touches earpiece]

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

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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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s save money by building a complex means testing apparatus to sift out the many bankers who choose to ride the bus, a wise man said

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

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 1d

excited to return to brunch, where we can support rightwing freaks abroad

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2d

I'm at the epistemological closure, I'm at the changing material realities, I'm at the ccccccccombination epistemological closure and changed material reality

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 2d

it’s kind of wild that Kristi Noem goes anywhere or says anything without someone being like hey you shot a dog

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 2d

In a just world, there would be a trap door leading to the Hague

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

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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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 2d

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 2d

essentially no one looks worse in all this than Biden, followed closely by the tiresome, morally bankrupt blue wave scolds who shouted at all of us about how Biden couldn’t do anything

Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social · 2d

This week has confirmed my suspicion that Biden’s Middle East policies will look worse, and will be even more embarrassing for Democrats, with the passage of time.

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly weird that Trump hates George Soros given the shared interest in Argentine currency manipulation

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 2d

Routinely calling your political opponents “terrorists,” after two decades of America drooling to kill terrorists/it being legal to do so, is inconsistent with nonviolent politics

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