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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3h

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 4h

The thing about the Roberts Court is they're not evil geniuses, because they're not geniuses.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 11h

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Ben 🍁 @benjaminoknobi.bsky.social · 6h

Open the schools

Teles Santos @telesjr.bsky.social · 7h

The US never fought to end fascism anywhere. They joined the war because Japan forced their hand, and they saw a great way to make money. After the USSR pretty much had pushed Germany out of eastern Europe and they knew the nazis were going to lose, they jumped in.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Ben 🍁 @benjaminoknobi.bsky.social · 1d

Tech companies, man.

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

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone, I’m just <sniffs> I’m just so proud of us all.

We finally did it.

LibsOfTikTok finally targeted me.

<single tear rolls down cheek>

I’ve been waiting for this moment for so long <unfolds acceptance speech> and first I want to thank everyone who made it possible: Harambe, Kony2012, my fa

A post from failed real estate agent and local ghoul Chaya Raichik aka LibsOfTikTok targeting me. Text of the post reads:

“Leftist CA State Assembly candidate Chris Kluwe, who promotes the harassment of ICE online, was ARRESTED at a Huntington Beach City Council meeting earlier this year.

Chris was protesting a proposed library plaque that featured a phrase similar to ‘Make America Great Again’

Chris called MAGA a ‘Nazi movement’ before leaving the podium and approaching the council member, where he was grabbed by police and carried out.

This unhinged lunatic wants to be an elected official…”

Thanks for the free advertising, Chaya!

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Ben 🍁 @benjaminoknobi.bsky.social · 1d

*Leto Atreides voice*

Graham Marbles @grahammarbles.bsky.social · Jan 9

I view American feral hogs as an untapped military resource.

Air power. Sea power. Hog power.

Let he who neglects any of these bury his dead in shame.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Chanting, "we are the body of Christ! The body of Christ will be free!"

This crowd has swelled considerably. Few hundred here now.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

it'd be funny if Trump II gave us the rebirth of the social gospel and a woke Great Awakening

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1d

I have friends (of christ) everywhere

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Chanting, "we are the body of Christ! The body of Christ will be free!"

This crowd has swelled considerably. Few hundred here now.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

RPGs are one of the most satisfying types of video games to finish in general - that's right, my ragtag band of heroes DID save the world - but it's astounding how much more satisfaction an epilogue adds

give me slides! letters! cute little cutscenes! let me see how I affected people!

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Ben 🍁 @benjaminoknobi.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome back Martin Luther

disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 1d

When you think of it, Greek Orthodoxy is awkward and harmful bullshit which never should have been invented and any proper Puritanical movement should seek to abolish it.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

“‘I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor,’ Pope Leo XIV states in his first magisterial document …” www.americamagazine.org/vatican-disp...

Pope Leo in first major document: Love for the poor is not optional for Christians

“I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor,” Pope Leo XIV states in his first m...

www.americamagazine.org

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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kim @kimmymonte.bsky.social · 2d

taylor swift should write a song about when your sleeve keeps rolling down every time you wash the dishes

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 2d

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Ben 🍁 @benjaminoknobi.bsky.social · 2d

I spend most of my days blissfully not thinking about who that minister is, and then the odd time I remember and ahahaha ahhhhhh

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 2d

Currently leading CNN homepage:

DOJ indicts NY attorney general who defeated Trump in court

Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a press conference in New York, on February 16, 2024, following a verdict against Donald Trump in his civil fraud trial.

She is the second Trump foe to be indicted in two weeks as the president continues to pursue charges against his opponents

Trump-loyalist brought charges after other attorneys voiced concerns

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Ben 🍁 @benjaminoknobi.bsky.social · 2d

Goddamn, ya know?

Ben 🍁 @benjaminoknobi.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes I think about the alternate universe where Hillary won and then I have to quickly stop thinking about that to avoid going insane

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

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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Ben 🍁 @benjaminoknobi.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone play Rogue Trader

Ben 🍁 @benjaminoknobi.bsky.social · 2d

(This such a stupid joke lmao)

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Ben 🍁 @benjaminoknobi.bsky.social · 2d

The Great Khan announces formal alliance with the Priesthood of Mars. Praise the Omnissiah!

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

“Asshole with a thin leftist veneer” is what a substantial number of people want, because they don’t actually want to make the world better, they want to feel they’re part of a club and that their resentment of life and desire for someone to tell them how to think is justified.

fleurdor.bsky.social @fleurdor.bsky.social · 2d

I have never understood this guy's appeal. He's just an asshole with a thin leftist veneer. Like Vaush with even less substance.

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 2d

Man if only there was a famous Bible story about this, and maybe a well-known philosopher that Wilson pretends to have read could talk about that Bible story and how getting people to stone someone is the work of anti-Christ

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d

Listening and learning

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