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Trump is not my President. He does not represent my interests, values or beliefs in any way. His feral behavior and lack of decency should horrify every American. I promise to give up the F-word when Trump and thugs are gone.

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GwenieThinks 🤔 @gwenie.bsky.social · 1d

Facts.....

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Erin Loves Outlander @erinmangerer.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t use this word lightly she was a GENIUS.

RIP Queen.

Lt. 👻 Antifa @emilias.bsky.social · 1d

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 18h

Sending strength to Joe Biden as he begins radiation and hormone therapy for prostate cancer. Few people have given more of themselves in service to this country. Wishing him comfort and healing surrounded by family and love.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 15h

Because It's More Chump Bullshit.

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Candyce 🌊🦋🌈💙🩵 @candycemv1.bsky.social · 6h

Incredible and sad for California

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

‼️ CHATTANOOGA - Public school kids outperform voucher kids AGAIN

As @GovBillLee steers more and more taxpayer funds away from public schools to private (mostly Christian) schools for wealthy families who are already there.

More: www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/oc...

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 8h

FROGS TOGETHER STRONG!

Bless The Frog Proving Kristi Noem Wrong

It's raining frogs! Hallelujah!

www.thegodpodcast.com

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 15h

Even Our Greatest Ally The UK, Know Chump and Brainworm are
Bad For Women's Healthcare......

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Schatz: They’re stopping wind and solar because this guy has some very strange ideas about the energy mix. And it’s consistent with the rest of his political and economic philosophy — if there’s less of everything, it gives him more authority to dole out favors

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

The cruelty is the point

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 1d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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

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TappsReady @tappsready.bsky.social · 7h

'Make himself richer': Jared Kushner said to have 'played' Trump to grease his own pockets

www.rawstory.com/jared-kushne...

'Make himself richer': Jared Kushner said to have 'played' Trump to grease his own pockets

Donald Trump's son-in-law just "played the president," according to a controversial writer.Michael Wolff, a journalist who has written four books about Trump, claimed on a recent episode of the podcas...

www.rawstory.com

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kajohnson.bsky.social @kajohnson.bsky.social · 8h

So, why is a gay immigrant dude with a plan to live forever (got his contract for medical freezing until science can reboot his corpse) concerned about sperm counts? Whose sperm is he counting, and why? Is he like Epstein, personally deficient so that he focusses on micro instead of macro?

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Jennifer Lee 🎃 @uofagrad97.bsky.social · 7h

What he thinks is genius is just delusion.

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Luigi-Scardoffi @luigi-scardoffi.bsky.social · 7h

I thought you were exaggerating.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 12h

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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Darcy DiNucci @darcydinucci.bsky.social · 7h

Why is Thiel still treated like some kind of pundit and not like a bonkers ranter? There is not a thread of sanity in any of his theories, and the Commonwealth Club is hosting him? “Off the record” because…?

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Doug Smith @genejockey57.bsky.social · 7h

I love the whole thing where the antichrist conveniently espouses everything Thiel doesn't like. Not only does Thiel create his own god, he creates his own antichrist.

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Andrew Lawson @itsalawson.bsky.social · 8h

The WaPo story about his antichrist lectures indicates he understands the power of misusing religion to create the dichotomies necessary to protect his wealth.

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40% Chickpeas @chickpea7.bsky.social · 8h

Just because he's rich doesn't mean his brain is working right.

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ert1913.bsky.social @ert1913.bsky.social · 8h

Both he and Musk have fried themselves completely on club drugs and are far too egotistical and surrounded by sycophants to even be self aware of it. I have friends who followed this exact arc and none were rich by their mid 20s so they all are dead or live their parents.

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Gnitschke 🇺🇦 @amulenamedsal.bsky.social · 8h

Thiel is nuts

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Raoul Duck @raoulduck.bsky.social · 8h

Mind numbing stupidity doesn’t need a counter argument. A gay atheist billionaire has a stupid opinion about John’s admonition to 1st Century Christians.

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AMGF @sushisiren.bsky.social · 8h

It's a very busy day in the solemn duty mine...but it must be done!

For anyone that hasn't seen it, BtB did an excellent series on Thiel:

youtu.be/mfXbyQ9KFdg

Part One: How Peter Thiel Became the Gravedigger of Democracy | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

YouTube video by Behind the Bastards

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John Q. Public @publius24.bsky.social · 8h

Proof that wealth isn’t correlated with intelligence and it certainly doesn’t make you a better human

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