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Bobby Silverman

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · Aug 9

At @wtevs.bsky.social's BASKETBALL FEELINGS, the Zesty KAT stuff took me right back to my own dumb childhood jock dreams and the ugly homophobia that’s seeping into ever corner of the current fascist moment—even the '24-25 Knicks. www.basketballfeelings.com/p/exits-some...

Exits: Something darker

Writer Robert Silverman on the Knicks, the authoritarian need of humiliation, outgrowing childhood fears, and Karl-Anthony Towns.

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 4h

gosh, Ro Khanna appearing on far-right programming for clout? Why I never...

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 4h

dudes rock bsky.app/profile/cjze...

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 4h

We've gone full frat bro with Fitzpatrick & Skattebo

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 5h

[guy who hasn’t watched the NFL since Peyton Hillis was on the cover of Madden, watching Skattebo run the ball]

I’m getting Peyton Hillis vibes

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 8h

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 8h

I'm not sure why t.A.T.u. is catching strays. They whip ass

scaryssa walmart dog @meo.bsky.social · 12h

how do u even compete with this level of propaganda. and why tf do these vril guys love tatu so much

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Christopher Graves 👻🎃✊🏿 @itsmechriswade.mov · 9h

BAD PEDOPHILE by THE ONION.

On YouTube NOW.
youtu.be/XjhSoGcQhWU?...

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h

Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile starts... now.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 9h

say what you will about James Gunn, but no one else is making superhero flicks that are capable of hitting you right in the FEELS

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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 12h

NEW: I wrote about the dozen-plus MAGA influencers who have been flocking to Portland, how they are shaping perceptions of anti-ICE protests, and how they and the Trump administration are playing off one another. www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

Portland's anti-ICE protests have become a magnet for MAGA influencers

Right-wing influencers and media figures have flocked to Portland, helping bring national and Trump administration attention to ICE protests in the city.

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 9h

It's great. GREAT. Thank you for sharing this important info (that I'm right and have good taste)

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onion person @junlper.beer · 9h

i’ll never get over this

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 9h

again?

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 10h

LeBron James (DNP - Old AF)

Shams Charania Tweets @shamsbot.bsky.social · 11h

Lakers star LeBron James is sidelined for at least 3 to 4 weeks due to sciatica on his right side. He is out for the start of the 2025-26 NBA season.

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 12h

the nonsense phrase "now barge the lathe!" is probably what I'll be muttering on my deathbed

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 12h

I hope you were able to shoehorn in a reference to one of my fave Simpsons bits

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 12h

Darren Rovell join bluesky you coward

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13h

Alt text:
A collage of four tweets from Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) discussing concerns about artificial intelligence.

Top left tweet: Walsh warns that within a year or two, people will be able to create indistinguishable fake videos for defamation, and that nothing is being done to prevent this.
Bottom left tweet: He says AI will destroy jobs, art, reality, and civilization, yet no action is being taken to stop it.
Top right tweet: He criticizes AI-generated films as soulless and meaningless, saying art requires human expression and that AI will be the “death of art.”
Bottom right tweet: Walsh argues that if a robot paints a picture, the robot is the artist, not the person prompting it, because the robot lacks consciousness and meaning.

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 13h

hell yeah man. and also ffs

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 14h

A man was just abducted by ICE on Clark and Lunt, feet away from our campaign office.

Now our community is showing up and patrolling for ICE. Join us by getting involved in Protect RP: www.facebook.com/share/1DQqPQ...

Redirecting...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18h

The Atlantic, the NYT, the Post, the Free Press, Persuasion ... god, so many others ... they did it. They participated in the destruction of norms against bigotry & now bigotry is running rampant, out in the open, at the highest levels.

Great work everyone.

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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 14h

The Secretary of Health and Human Services does not know that babies don't grow inside placentas

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 17h

Some stories about my friend Kaleb, on the occasion of his funeral:

channel-6.ghost.io/its-just-dif...

IT'S JUST DIFFERENT VALLEYS, THAT'S ALL

Kaleb Horton has departed this life, and for those left behind there is nothing that reconciles any part of what’s happened with what should’ve happened. He had a family, grieving now. He had friends,...

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15h

"Jack Posobiec, a far-right influencer and conspiracy theorist... called Bray a 'domestic terrorist professor.' 'The day after the Posobiec tweet, I received a very direct death threat saying that someone was going to kill me in front of my students,' says Bray." Jack was at the White House on Wed.

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 15h

it's like a dipshit Canadian King Lear