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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 35m

Imma sound like an even more pretentious ass then I do already

Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 5h

TIL

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 6h

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 9h

Continuing our coverage from the Portland war zone, a bit of beauty and wisdom from an Oregonian (and a veteran). Happy Thursday, fam.

Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 3d

A neighborhood walk to cleanse the timeline and denature some of the psychological poison you've been mainlining today.

From the hinterlands of war-torn Portland.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 9h

Truth is truth, and people are people.

And John O'Donohue was a wise, wise man.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 9h

The number of times in the past six months where a line from this book has made everything clear in my life for a moment, I can't count.

There's deep, beautiful, human wisdom here.

I am not remotely religious, and that doesn't matter in this context.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 9h

If you've ever considered reading this book, consider this moment that by seeing this the universe telling you you should fucking do it.

John O'Donohue was a priest who specialized in Last Rites. He was a philosopher and a poet, and wrote this incredible book.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

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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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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hellyeah2030.bsky.social @hellyeah2030.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog should get the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 1d

Whomst among us is doing The Lord's Work and turning the Portland Frog hip-thrust into a GIF for the greater good?

I will use it every day.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 1d

Come on now man, have a little more imagination!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 2d

It seems that I can no longer pass the modern-day Turing Test myself.

Literally have no fucking idea what to do here. I just wanna buy two cords of firewood, man.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 2d

Trump has been saying-for years-that left wing protesters were burning down Portland

This week, he had the chance to prove it to a federal judge-one he himself appointed

Not only did he fail
Miserably

But the judge ruled that he was essentially delusional

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2d

Dunno guys maybe states should stop paying federal taxes weird no one has come up with a plan for this obviously no one saw this coming it was impossible to predict

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. we’re going to take care of our people,” Trump added. “There are some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of. And we’ll take care of them in a different way.”

@thehill.com
thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 2d

My bad my bad. Just never seen a marmot in the wild.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 2d

Weirdest cat I ever saw.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 2d

There's beauty and joy and love everywhere around us for those with eyes to see it.

Those who can't see it are *determined* to drag us all down with us. To fill us with hate. To trick us into surrendering our humanity.

To convince us our neighbors are our enemies

Don't give in

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 2d

My most optimistic opinion is that the combination of cheap AI-generated fake news and major legacy news orgs taking a torch to their reputations is going to create huge opportunities for independent journalists who maintain a reputation for honest, ethical reporting.

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 2d

it's hard to talk about this without sounding braggy but you can get pretty far as a business with sincerity and trust, mostly because so many goddamn businesses burn up that kind of intangible resource as soon as they get it, and everything is so dire right now that people are hungry for trust

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

Members of the GOP openly calling for a "cleansing."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Schmitt: "Let's just call it out. We need a cleansing here. Let's just be truthful about what's happening. This left-wing political violence is not a both sides thing. It's not."

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 2d

You are supporting a larger, less accountable, more violent government that does not recognize your rights.

You are supporting the creation of an unaccountable police state.

Your illiteracy isn't helping you, no matter how good it might feel to act tough/smart on the interwebs

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 2d

I'm sorry your parents didn't love you as much as you deserved

I hope you get that sorted

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Dale @dalejohn.bsky.social · 2d

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 2d

Plenty.
Here's me in BUD/S Class 277 even.

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