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Shangalar @shangalartheblack.bsky.social · 1h

Someone should ask him to explain what the joke is. This is commonly known as "Schrödinger's douchebag".

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Shangalar @shangalartheblack.bsky.social · 16h

Like Charlie Pierce said, it's all Tiger Beat on the Potomac.

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Shangalar @shangalartheblack.bsky.social · 16h

He makes stunning decisions every quarter.

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Shangalar @shangalartheblack.bsky.social · 16h

I'll bite. He'll continue to play like the biggest dipshit in the league like he always has.

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Shangalar @shangalartheblack.bsky.social · 16h

There is less than nothing to talk about in the pre-season. One could argue there isn't a hell of alot to talk about until Christmas unless you are a diehard fan of a certain team.

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Shangalar @shangalartheblack.bsky.social · 21h

There is a Netflix documentary that perfectly illustrates how humans are far more likely to react to brutality to domesticated animals than to other people. Called "Don't F**k with Cats".

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 21h

I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually.

The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

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Shangalar @shangalartheblack.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who has ever visited a gaming forum is neither shocked nor do they think it's crazy. Of course this is how conservatives talk.

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 1d

young republican/conservative institutions and groups have been this way for at least a decade. charlie kirk was acutely aware of and fostered this, incidentally. the future leaders of the white supremacist party

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 1d

Mind-blowing film. And so real in all its surreality.

This is the kind of film that is to 2025 what Strangelove and Catch 22 were to an earlier generation.

Art and popular culture must step up. It is necessary to fuel us for the long fight.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5d

Finally saw it and yeah it rules:

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

Precisely the person Justice Kavanaugh said would not be inconvenienced.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Shangalar @shangalartheblack.bsky.social · 1d

It is absolutely a valid topic to bring up when a gang of grown men are kidnapping a minor based on no actual information or crimes. I bet you any amount of money there is rampant sexual abuse going on in ICE detention centers.

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Shangalar @shangalartheblack.bsky.social · 2d

Some people absolutely would rather see the black female unemployment rate be higher than be able to afford groceries.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 2d

Weird, I thought everyone was just planning to eat their own satisfaction with the black female unemployment rate.

TAT360 💕💚 @tat360.bsky.social · 2d

finance.yahoo.com/news/gofundm...

GoFundMe CEO says economy is so challenged people are raising money to buy food

GoFundThis: Some surprising items have begun to make the list for crowdfunding lately, according to this CEO.

finance.yahoo.com

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Shangalar @shangalartheblack.bsky.social · 2d

Watergate is the reason we are here. #1, because Ford pardoned Nixon and #2, because Roger Ailes was determined to never allow a Republican President to be held accountable ever again, and created FOX News to make sure of it. It worked.

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Shangalar @shangalartheblack.bsky.social · 3d

I keep coming back to the fact that in Ted Nugent's Behind the Music in the late '90s, there is like an entire 10 minute section where he brags about essentially adopting a teenage girl to be his concubine on tour and no one batted an eyelash. And it's never brought up now.

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 3d

police are gangs that we all collectively pretend answer to elected officials because the truth is scary

i'm not even properly an anarchist but i thought we all knew this

Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 3d

sorry, who’s the ultimate authority of state police again?

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Shangalar @shangalartheblack.bsky.social · 3d

People always seem to memory-hole the fact that, if you are going to get murdered, it's almost certainly going to be by a family member or close acquaintance, not a random, amorphous bad guy.

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Shangalar @shangalartheblack.bsky.social · 3d

People perpetually think crime is bad because their local news leads off every night with a rundown of victimless drug possession charges and petty shoplifting stories.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

if we'd treated their obvious baldfaced lies and deflections more like this over the past eight years maybe we wouldn't be in this situation

shocking how easy it is when you actually see it done

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 3d

“F**k ICE forever.”

— Chappell Roan at her show in Pasadena

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Shangalar @shangalartheblack.bsky.social · 3d

"Rage Against the Machine-ism" is literally why I didn't vote in 2000, my first chance. It didn't matter in my state, but I realized my mistake within 72 hours as the recount saga unfolded, and have never again engaged in "both parties are the same" bullshit.

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Shangalar @shangalartheblack.bsky.social · 3d

They would find issue with Che Guevara resurrected. At various times, AOC and Bernie have been traitors to their cause as well. They will turn on Zohran soon enough.

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