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Sam (ABeardedPanda)

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Paradox Interactive School of International Relations (ongoing) I hate your favorite dictator. Spicy liberal. (He/Him) https://www.offensive-bias.com/

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · Nov 15

Greetings new arrivals. I'm Sam and for the most part I am but a humble shitposter.

I have a background in studying Nazi Germany, the late Russian Empire and the early USSR which I thought would be a neat party trick but then Timothy Snyder started appearing on MSNBC and now I hate everything

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 25m

❗️ Drone swarms over Kyiv and the Kyiv region, as well as the Poltava and Dnipropetrovsk regions. More than 150 UAVs over Ukraine.

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · Nov 9

Seeing what the CARES act got us, I am now drafting a Larry Summers apology form. Insufficient stimulus is actually the answer or the hog people of this country will deport their Abuela.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 50m

there was a video back in 2022 of Russians who captured Polish equipment and thought the instructions were Russian written using Latin characters and the whole thing was part of an elaborate psyop

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Kampf mit Kette @kampfmitkette.bsky.social · 2h

I just find it incredibly funny that the largest military power in the world goes into third world incompetent military mode for a few weeks every 1-2 years

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1h

feds have been all over chicagoland today.

reports of people abducted from back of the yards, cicero, rogers park, hermosa, barrington, batavia, and bridgeview.

feds are out in force in aurora. not sharing video, but residents have likewise turned out in force—and they aren't happy.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 1h

From a Russian indoctrination camp to freedom—Valeriia's story unfolds in Evgeny Afineevsky’s new documentary Children in the Fire, shared by The Times.

🧵 1/9 ⬇️

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 1h

MLRS on a residential area, with no regard for human lives, as per usual, and with no consequences or even deep concerns from the west, as per usual

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 5h

🙏 Zaporizhzhia region. Kushugum community. Russian terrorists are shelling civilians using MLRS.

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all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 1h

there’s no Big Narrative or A Thoughtful Decision On The Issues. there almost never is. it’s just swing voters going “vibes are good”/“vibes are shit”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h

As a reminder, when Jack Posobiec was in the US Navy, they assessed his full capabilities and concluded that he was best suited to collecting samples for urinalysis

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7h

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1h

Senator Durbin doesn’t believe this is worth stopping in exchange for rural healthcare

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 2h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 1h

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1h

ICE is a rabid animal and must be put down. Its rogue agents must be unmasked, stripped of their badges, and prosecuted. Its leaders must be imprisoned.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 1h

I'm at the point where I think the whole "coastal liberal elite" thing is total bullshit because it's very obvious that everything to the west of the Appalachian Mountain range is viewed differently

Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 1h

I also genuinely think this is downstream of Dem senate and house leadership both being from New York

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 1h

I also genuinely think this is downstream of Dem senate and house leadership both being from New York

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah like the biggest thing here is that there hasn't been much noise about stopping the gestapo shit as part of an agreement and the whole "they can just ignore it" argument applies to any agreement we make with them

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 18h

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1h

This is nightmarish and every Dem politician, every media figure who is silent is complicit. This is not supposed to happen here. Masked thugs with guns dragging moms away in front of their screaming children. Trump’s government must be destroyed and his accomplices must rot in prison

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 1h

Genuinely kind of weird to see the same people who tell us that the most common sentiment out of their normie lib relatives is "I want vengeance" saying that the Dem base might end up being squeamish about the realities of stove touching

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 16h

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 3h

the fun (not really) part of that one was that in the same sentence he said Chinese people spread Covid so no one noticed that part

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 3h

it’s so cool that this is a government by and for the sweatiest and most unpleasant conspiracy theorists in the country

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 3h

new snakehandling just dropped

Juliette Rihl @julietterihl.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t usually cover breaking news, but this story is truly wild.

A pastor in central PA brought an AR-15 to church and pointed it at people during his sermon. Gun safety experts and internet commentators are, predictably, not happy!

(Paywall free link below)

www.pennlive.com/news/2025/10...

Dauphin County pastor under fire for pointing assault-style rifle during sermon

In a move experts called a serious safety violation, he pointed the unloaded weapon at churchgoers, while asking for a 'violent action of faith.'

www.pennlive.com

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 3h

This is an example of mirroring given the prevalence of the "NPC" meme amongst right wing commentators

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 3h

it's so funny (in a cosmic way) how easily propagandized the GOP electorate is. just decide $issue needs to be the zeitgeist, get on the teevee, and they'll fucking dance for you

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 6h

This holds true for thinking "is crime a serious issue." Also interesting to note that it persists for "crime near you"--GOPers are apparently now afraid of even their shadows, but Dems are more grounded on this issue.

That gives Dem pols more room to push back against the narrative.

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