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Golden Öyster Cult

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For-profit healthcare is genocide #311,920 Fav bands: Blue Öyster Cult, Golden Earring, Pearl Jam, The Beths, Frank Zappa, The Kinks Fav films: Hot Fuzz, There Will Be Blood, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Jaws, The Towering Inferno, The Great Escape

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Golden Öyster Cult @theocean85.bsky.social · Jul 27

My wife had to undergo emergency surgery and she suffered multiple strokes. She is DETERMINED to get better but nevertheless the bills and ongoing expenses are more than we can handle. Please donate, and please share. Thank you 💙

Donate to Support Laura’s Stroke Rehabilitation and Surgical Recovery, organized by Lauren C

In early February, my wife of 11 years began to experience severe… Lauren C needs your support for Support Laura’s Stroke Rehabilitation and Surgical Recovery

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 7h

Remember how the murder of a federal LEO in Oakland during the anti-police protests in 2020 was initially assumed to be a leftist crime, but it turned out to have been committed by a far-right Boogaloo Boi?

www.dailykos.com/stories/2020...

Bay Area 'Boogaloo Bois' charged with ambush of federal officers at anti-police protest

The “Boogaloo Boi” who shot a California sheriff’s deputy last week was officially charged Tuesday with the shootings of two federal officers in an ambush at an anti-police protest in Oakland a week b...

www.dailykos.com

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 7h

This has always been part of the GOP playbook: Downplay incidents of right-wing violence, and then repurpose them as supposed acts of leftist terrorism for public consumption. They first did this in 2020.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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👻 Pablo Hidalghost 👻 @infinata.bsky.social · 8h

Nobody talks about mom when her hands rise to cover her face. Where did she go?

Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 8h

I’m currently at a pop culture convention with 120k+ attendees where there’s Game of Thrones stuff literally everywhere, and the Marvel TV panel was so overpacked they had to shut down the floor. But I will agree people do not talk about Succession quite as often as when it was airing every week.

Nobody really talks about Succession anymore. Or Game of Thrones. Sort of confirms my thesis that, with rare exceptions, television does not really matter.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13h

I'd start by pressuring elected officials to stop recognizing the authority of the court. Supporting officials who promise to fix it once in power and to refuse to recognize any of its rulings since at least 2015 as valid. And investigate, charge, prosecute, and convict its extremist members.

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Simusz @simusz.bsky.social · 15h

Reads like what you would expect to happen to an American journalist in Putin’s Russia.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

This is an unbelievably riveting read.

bit.ly/4n4KjVP

Locked in the Levant

a firsthand account of my arrest by the IDF and my incarceration and interrogations by the Israeli security services.

bit.ly

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davepermen @davepermen.net · 18h

not just "a ceasefire deal", but basically the same deal that exists now. that deal offer existed btw since october 9th or 10th 2023.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

I will never get over this.

It is MINDBLOWING that Biden/Kamala could have had a ceasefire deal in Sept 2024. Would have won them the election without a doubt. And yet could not do it because Israel’s right to exterminate millions of people could not be violated. This is where racism will lead you folks

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 16h

there have certainly been "oh well that didn't work out well" nobel peace prizes before but maybe not one so immediately self-refuted since kissinger

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 20h

apparently the new Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story invented an "autogynephilia" backstory for their serial killer (because of course they did!). so time to re-up my collection of writings on this pseudoscientific zombie theory...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...

Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience

plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic

juliaserano.medium.com

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Golden Öyster Cult @theocean85.bsky.social · 17h

At least the Phillies loss was memeable

A pitcher, labeled “me” is about to throw the ball for an attempted out. While he should be throwing to first base, labeled “a water,” the catcher gestures desperately to first base, but instead the pitcher throws to home, labeled “another beer”

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 21h

as I said on hellsite: this has to be the dumbest pretext for targeting political enemies

“I didn’t want to overthrow the election based on things that made me genuinely believe I had to take action to help defend democracy. Some chick in a Trump beanie told me to punch a cop and I just…did it.,,”

post from fascist nutjob andy ngo: New York City Antifa member Talia Jane Ben Ora was at Jan. 6 in a MAGA costume. She was never charged with any crimes that day.

ngo’s post includes two stills with a person circled, the first person wearing a trump beanie and clearly filming with a phone. the second is a person entering a turnstile. ngo’s doing a quote tweet on a post from marjorie taylor greene where she says: “I just reviewed footage from Jan 6th. There was Antifa in the crowd, just like I and many others, always said.
Eye witnesses in the crowd were…”

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 17h

Look at how blatant this phrasing is in the guardian

Israelis are “hostages” while Palestinians are just “serving long terms” or being “detained”

They were among the 251 people kidnapped during the Z October attacks on southern Israel, in which Hamas-led militants killed about 1,200 people.
Hamas is expected to release the living hostages within 72 hours, after which Israel will free 250 Palestinians serving long terms in Israeli prisons, and 1,700 others detained in Gaza during the war.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 21h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 22h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Toxidrone @toxidrone.bsky.social · 1d

Archive, archive, archive

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

is this what people on the right side of history say

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Cold Elmo 🥶 @anarchymarshmallow.bsky.social · 1d

... I hope people have been archiving as much of it as possible. I hope that one day it will all be evidence for new Nuremberg trials.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

is this what people on the right side of history say

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Golden Öyster Cult @theocean85.bsky.social · 1d

Beahahahahahahahahaha

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

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Golden Öyster Cult @theocean85.bsky.social · 1d

iSrAeL iSnT aN eThNoStATE

Golden Öyster Cult @theocean85.bsky.social · 1d

He was already doing mass layoffs anyway. There’s nothing new here he’s doing.

Golden Öyster Cult @theocean85.bsky.social · 1d

Store owners in Portland are making their stores out of wood and I saw one of the stores made out of wood and the wooden store looked at me

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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Golden Öyster Cult @theocean85.bsky.social · 1d

Store owners in Portland are making their stores out of wood and I saw one of the stores made out of wood and the wooden store looked at me

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 1d

let's do the fucking news

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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Golden Öyster Cult @theocean85.bsky.social · 1d

Centrists and liberals will never forgive progressives and leftists for being right before they figured it out.

Golden Öyster Cult @theocean85.bsky.social · 1d

“Three thousand years” 🙄

Golden Öyster Cult @theocean85.bsky.social · 1d

Another “ceasefire” with indefinite terms and timelines TBD. It’s tailor-made for Israel to violate.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 1d

What the actual fuck, Ro Khanna? The best you're going to be able to come up with is you didn't know who Ian Carroll is--a very old antisemitic conspiracy theorist; a fascist. (I say that as a fierce critic of Israeli genocide.) What's next, Alex Jones?

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 2d

I don't take a dime from any PAC or lobbyist, including AIPAC.

I am proud to be one of the handful of Democrats standing up against Big Money.

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