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Marble Liberal @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 1h

Half of Europe, 1620

☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · May 8

help help i'm being negatively polarized into communion with the apostolic see

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Catherine Prendergast🇺🇦🪬 @badtoss.bsky.social · 1h

that Walter Reed visit must have been baaaaad.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 8h

I'm loving this Pope.

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 6h

I would be so excited to read the Kristol/Kagan one. Ever since I found out Gertrude Himmelfarb was the number one neo Victorian I’ve wanted to know what that meant for young William

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Keith (vibe spreadsheeter) @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 7h

Moore: "Don't delude yourself it's good to build the Torment Nexus"

Thiel: "got it. Make sure it's a Christian Torment Nexus"

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 8h

I finally read that Peter Thiel essay about Alan Moore's WATCHMEN, and it's incredible that his actual argument is: "Moore argues that Ozymandias will fail because history defeats all world conquerers, and no victory is permanent. But maybe I, Peter Thiel, am built different?"

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 8h

"peter thiel releases a bad Watchmen essay" feels like a cruel joke on every nerdy person who does serious analysis and knows who he is

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1d

I think, in the long term, historians will view the executive branch seizing unilateral control of the power of the purse as the the inevitable result of decades of legislative dysfunction.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Trump says he’s ordered Hegseth to pay the troops during the government shutdown.

“We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS.”

Trump: Chuck Schumer recently said, "Every day gets better" during their Radical Left Shutdown. I DISAGREE! If nothing is done, because of
"Leader" Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, our Brave Troops will miss the paychecks they are rightfully due on October 15th. That is why I am using my authority, as Commander in Chief, to direct our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to use all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th. We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS. I will not allow the Democrats to hold our Military, and the entire Security of our Nation, HOSTAGE, with their dangerous Government Shutdown. The Radical Left Democrats should OPEN THE GOVERNMENT, and then we can work together to address Healthcare, and many other things that they want to destroy. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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10/11/25, 10:35 AM

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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 1d

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 1d

Has the milkshake duck ever failed

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 1d

And the owner of grestides for some reason

Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 1d

Equally alarming

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 1d

But a horrifying thought, right?

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 1d

I think they get the sense that the blue hairs are repulsed by them, and therefore will not fuck them, and therefore are preemptively declared unpersons to reduce the sting of the anticipated rejection but idk

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 1d

Bro what the fuck is a jelly omelet

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 2d

It kinda has been a revelation to be on a micro generation website, I do love it

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 2d

No one born before or after 1987-1988 is a person, excited to introduce this new form of discrimination onto the earth. I am on my way to court so I can start divorcing my wife because she was born in 1985.

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 2d

The fine state of lower Westchester will be reliably blue

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 2d

The great states of Manhattan, Brooklyn (annexing Staten Island), Queens and the Bronx (8 Democratic Senators, not represented by Kirsten Gillibrand).

JB stan account @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 2d

I am no longer content with 4. I want DC split into 100+ states so we can rewrite the Constitution and put an end to Republican power indefinitely

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 2d

People are still doing “there aren’t going to be midterms” posts as we see these people struggle to handle a guy in a frog costume

Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev saying “You are accused of doomer behavior. The court finds you guilty and sentences you to be shot.”

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 2d

This was a really good piece, the section about JD knowingly using Haitians as scapegoats is particularly sharp. Recommend.

Wade Armstrong @kaizendad.bsky.social · 2d

Have you read the Wired piece on this? It's well worth the price of a subscription and pretty straightforwardly explains... well, a lot of the modern right, actually. Basically, he took the crypto-Catholic views of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt and ran with them www.wired.com/story/the-re...

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

www.wired.com

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 2d

We can make it a social norm! Or at least try really hard

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote a thing.

Religion Dispatches @religiondispatches.org · 2d

Joel Swanson on VPOTUS' casual, horrifying antisemitism

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JD Vance Trivializes Jewish History by Referring to ICE Criticism as 'Blood Libel' — But Reveals What this Admin Thinks of Jews

Last week, in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Vice President JD Vance accused critics of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of committing “blood libel” against ICE agents. As Va...

religiondispatches.org

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 2d

All I’m saying is that I found a book of Greek myths illustrated in Lego, possibly the same brand?, and do recommend

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 2d

I still can't believe a person who is responsible for healthcare in this country said out loud and meant it that a cause of autism is children getting circumcised. I still cannot believe that this is the country, the world, that I fucking live in

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