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vILLAGE GENIOUS @suddenlygarmo.bsky.social · 26m

Franco and Pinochet would beg to differ

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Arbusto @bskyarbusto.bsky.social · 1h

look they openly said they wanted to nuke the entire middle east off the planet but they didn't explicitly say they loved Hitler so it was completely different

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 1h

My hot take is that the "I didn't move right, society moved left" comic is correct, and that people need to get over the fact that social standards do increase for marginalized populations over time in broad strokes and that's a good thing lol.

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 1h

I can't emphasize enough that no matter what wiki tells you, the great replacement theory stuff did not start in 2015/6, the 'national identity' stuff pushed by Republicans for 30 years prior was literally just that, it's just that POC pops hadn't increased enough to force them to make it specific.

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 1h

Gonna stop responding to people trying to make vibe explanations to me about the 00s and just posting 80s-00s era controversies today.

Starting with: Fox news used to love photoshopping jewish journalists into der sturmer like creations:

Journalist Jacques Steinberg edited to look like an antisemitic cartoon.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2h

It feels very weird to have such an absolute lad as Pontiff. Like a Pope you know has gone to town on a big thing of wings.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 3h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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👻Captain SLAY-os🎃 @captainchaos.myatproto.social · 2h

Brace for inevitable "I can't quit Twitter here's why you're a bad person for suggesting it" replies

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vILLAGE GENIOUS @suddenlygarmo.bsky.social · 1h

I'm not having kids until science makes it so they come out ready to fuck up a plate of wings at the bar with me

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WeirwoodTreeHugger @weirwoodtreehug.bsky.social · 3h

Not to sound all true crime brained, but I still maintain that this could be a case of Mikhaila having Muchausen's by proxy. Three family members all sick with mysterious illnesses but she's just fine? It's all a little suspicious. Especially since she seems to be reveling in the attention.

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 3h

Motherfuckers giving themselves scurvy because fruits and vegetables are woke and then blaming it on people casting spells on them.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 2h

nice to see white ladies call out the "purity test" and "circular firing squad" rhetoric as total bullshit

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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Will Harris @willharrisinva.bsky.social · 1h

Funny, it sounds like she knows exactly how it works around there.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

FOX: Grijalva says you're afraid of her being the 218th signer to the Epstein petition, that if she was a Republican you would've sworn her in. What do you say?

MIKE JOHNSON: I say bless her heart. She's a representative-elect, she doesn't know how it works around here.

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vILLAGE GENIOUS @suddenlygarmo.bsky.social · 2h

this is how I am with Flightradar24 lol

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vILLAGE GENIOUS @suddenlygarmo.bsky.social · 2h

online is an escapism drug, basically

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Aricie | 아리시 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @parisien.gay · 2h

I don’t have data, but I see it with my depression. The worst days mentally are the ones where I’m most online, not because online triggers bad days, but because it’s a very accessible and easy way to distract myself from my worst thoughts.

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Capn Borscht @capnborscht.bsky.social · 2h

You don't understand, they had 10k bot followers and demand that level of flattery and engagement again

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KINDAFREE | IRI @denofsin.bsky.social · 4h

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 4h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Mexicology @mexicology.bsky.social · 19h

"Toady, huh?
Yeah, not like that. We're looking for Toad-like. Next!"

A poster of a frog draped in the American flag, and it says HOP, in allusion to the poster of Obama that said HOPE.

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The Kakistocrats! @didntneedallofit.bsky.social · 6h

The most effective popular movements are multi-pronged. We need the silly frogs and we need the videos showing what thugs ICE goons are and we need judges calling out their bullshit and we need… etc. etc.

Let’s do all of it. Go frogs! Welcome to the fray!

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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 9d

“When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you... to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor." - Lennon

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 10d

wizard frog is insane

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 19h

activists are doing a lot of good work to try to help the people being brutalized but the biggest and most important thing that needs to be done is to break the regime, by any means necessary, and absurdist mockery is proving to be an extremely effective part of the arsenal

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 19h

the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 20h

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 21h

I love this so much. Funny, sweet, hopeful, and kind of bad-ass.

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

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Trudeus @trudeus.gg · 3h

Boutta buy a fuckload of America drip just to tell these guys to fuck off on "you hate America"

Nah bitch I LOVE this country, you think I'd be out protesting if I didn't?

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