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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

also god please have more all black productions of shakespeare PLEASE

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 9h

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 9h

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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aust.in.tifa @abw56.bsky.social · 8h

They say beauty is only skin deep, but this man's ugliness goes clean to the bone.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 8h

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 10h

This is Red Guards shit, I don't know why people keep getting mad at that comparison

Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 10h

Years ago I was teaching my gun history class and at the end of the quarter one of the students said that he was in the campus TPUSA chapter and they put him up to taking the class to spy on me but he felt bad about that because he loved the class and learned a lot and had a great time

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 8h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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aust.in.tifa @abw56.bsky.social · 14h

MTG's face turn has begun.

aust.in.tifa @abw56.bsky.social · 14h

Absolutely. Each party needs to be capable of running the government on its own, within the bounds of the constitution.

aust.in.tifa @abw56.bsky.social · 14h

How do you read stuff like this and not feel like our democracy is being swallowed whole by billionaires?

Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 15h

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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aust.in.tifa @abw56.bsky.social · 14h

How many Trump voters waved those little "Mass Deportations Now" placards and are now comfortably able to look away? Never shown or forced to see the harm their selfishness is causing innocent people?

They shouldn't be able to look away.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

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

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 22h

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

bit.ly

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 21h

people on here apparently need to learn a lesson most of us learn in elementary school, which is that it’s fucking rude to correct people on zero stakes things and doing so leads rightfully to social ostracism

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aust.in.tifa @abw56.bsky.social · 20h

Their head of Gov Affairs worked for John Thune, so it's hard not to see this as just one hand washing the other.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

yeah, trump has made very clear that he doesn’t think black people deserve to be in jobs of influence! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d

People who live in big cities and have MAGA relatives in rural and suburban areas are getting deja vu, that's for sure.

We've all had conversations with relatives who insist they know better than us what our cities are like. That we must be deluded not to see the constant riots and muggings.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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aust.in.tifa @abw56.bsky.social · 22h

Prosperity Gospel, and its attendant implications about who "deserves" wealth, and who wealth belongs to, have been a rot on our society.

So many of the wealthiest among us are the weakest and most craven. It's not a coincidence.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 23h

So many normal people being brave and then all these wealthy and powerful people being cowards. History will not be kind to the people like shari Redstone who enabled Trump.

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aust.in.tifa @abw56.bsky.social · 1d

If Roberts were a true institutionalist, he would have publicly called on Mitch McConnell to allow Obama to have his nomination considered.

He allowed that crack in SCOTUS' foundation, and he has only let it grow deeper and wider ever since.

aust.in.tifa @abw56.bsky.social · 1d

Respect Patrick's perspective, but since Scalia's passing every 5-4 ruling has been substantively illegitimate. And with the sweeping adoption of unsigned shadow docket rulings, they've tipped over the ledge to becoming procedurally illegitimate as well.

This era will be one of counter-precedent.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

keep calling and telling them to stand strong

the difference between last time (when they got yelled at incessantly for caving) and this time needs to be a chasm in terms of the feedback they're getting from constituents

we can get them to hold

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Tina Smith says Democrats are digging in: “If anything, we’re feeling more strong.”

“I think we've tapped into something that's really important to Americans.”

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller believes that if he supercharges the debate over Trump's abuses of power with enough propaganda, he can polarize it and force low-info voters to embrace authoritarianism. Pritzker/Newsom have accepted that this requires an information war in response.

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Morgan @mport25.bsky.social · 1d

REPTAR IS ANTIFA. SUPPORT OUR ANTI FASCIST RUGRATS KING.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 2d

“Either this machine will be powerful enough to take your job or it’ll blow up and you’ll lose your job in a recession” is a tough outlook for white collar workers over the next few years.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 1d

USAID was both morally correct and a huge part of our foreign policy, and that duality is hard for people to grapple with in a sincere way. But if we're going to reconstitute USAID after this shitshow is over, we should think about the pressures that creates and how to mitigate them

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