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Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · 28d

MEME WARS
The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America
By Joan Donovan, Emily Dreyfuss, & Brian Friedberg
Still my top book recommendation that explains how we arrived at a super-heated online culture that focuses on national electoral & identity politics.

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Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · Sep 10

In 2025 even the Germans are saying Trump is a Fascist & Nazi.
Watch: "People Around the World React in Horror to the Fall of American Democracy" LINK: youtu.be/6vDNiHxbaH8?...

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Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · Sep 10

WATCH: THE CITIZENS OF ROCHESTER, NY SHUT ICE & BORDER PATROLL DOWN -- BIG TIME.
RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE.
Easy Company and the Soviet Red Army is not going to stop the Nazis this time -- BECASUE THE USA AND RUSSIA ARE THE FASCIST POWERS IN 2025. #ABOLISHICE #ANTIFASCISM

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Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · Sep 9

looks like a teen, right?

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Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · Sep 9

Took the old girl out for a ride last night
1986 CORVETTE C4 -- SOUND -- RAW, MEAN, AND DIRTY AF.

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Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · Sep 8

HOLY TOLEDO!!! TRUMP'S RATINGS SUCK.
HE'S BEEN IN THE GUTTER FOR 180 DAYS & TOTALY LOST THE YOUTH & HISPANIC VOTERS.
I'M FLYING THE CNN LOGO FOR MY MAGA SUPER FANS AND HOG FARM.

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Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · Sep 8

MAGA SUPER FANS. WE GOT HIM !!! IT'S JOE-VER FOR DONALD JOHN TRUMP. TRUMP'S PERV BITHDAY DOODLE TO EPSTEIN IS OUT. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #HasanAbi

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Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · Sep 8

FOR MAGA SUPER FANS ONLY: TRUMP IS PASSING EVERYTHING, BUT AWAY.
Watch: TikTokers Dream About How They’ll Celebrate Trump’s “Big Beautiful Obituary” LINK: youtu.be/Azg0JmeJBJo?...

Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · Sep 1

Watch: "How Chicago Labor History Teaches Us To Fight Fascism Today | Kat Abughazaleh For Illinois"
@KatAbughazaleh is out with another banger and must watch explainer for Labor Day and Trump's impending invasion of Chicago. LINK: youtu.be/9EYC75wtwCM?...

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Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · Sep 1

Watch: "Literally 1984 But Neoliberal"
I'm not a businessman, I'm a BUSSINESS, MAN.
Kamala made me a small business.
Join my marketplace of ideas over here, we can be the best neoliberal economists and assholes ever ...remember to like and R/T.
youtu.be/sVhU_q1ZYjQ?...

Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · Aug 31

Watch "Rationalising Colonialism - How the US Stole Indian Land." Abigail Thorn @PhilosophyTube just dropped another banger. Thomas Jefferson was kind of a weirdo on wanting to assimilate or genocide American Indians, Andrew Jackson was all in on exterminating them all. youtube.com/watch?v=dBjQ...

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Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · Aug 28

Richie Torres Let His Demons Out For Adam Friedland

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Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · Aug 28

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Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · Aug 28

BEING CONTROLLED OPOSTION IS NOT AN OPTION.
UNLESS YOU LIKE FIGHTING WITH ONE HAND TIED BEHIND YOUR BACK AND LOSING AGAIN AND AGAIN.

Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · Aug 28

People are losing their god damn minds talking to the clankers.
Watch: "I Infiltrated a Disturbing AI Cult" youtu.be/8Kb5NBAMaGw?...

I Infiltrated a Disturbing AI Cult

YouTube video by Farrell McGuire

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Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · Aug 28

Watch: "The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel"
by Lindsay Ellis LINK: youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...
#FreePalestine #stopAntiSemitism #foxNews #fascism #hasbara #NoPoliticHere #Gaza #missRachel #NewYorkPost #empathy

The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel

YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis

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Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · Aug 27

KMFDM, it's always KMFDM.
Despite what just happened (again) GenX had the best music. Change my mind. #minneapolis #annunciationcatholicchurch

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Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · Aug 27

Burn it all down.
#FirstAmendment #FlagBurning #christiannationalim #WhiteNationalism #AmericaFirst #resist

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Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · Aug 26

Charlie Kirk's honeymoon night with Taylor Swift

Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · Aug 25

'wE'RE LOsing EVERyTHING"
#crackerbarrel

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Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · Aug 23

Found in the wild:
“TRUMP IS A CHILD RAPIST”
Release the Epstein files.

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Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · Aug 23

Neoliberal capitalism is working perfectly ....for the people who designed it.

Rugged individualism for the masses, corporate welfare for the wealthy.

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Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · Aug 23

ABOLISH ICE

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Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · Aug 22

bsky.app/profile/cbor...

Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · Aug 21

Stanley Kubrick and Wendy Carlos would approve.
#JDVance #theshining

Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · Aug 22

bsky.app/profile/cbor...

Chris Borkowski @cborkowski.bsky.social · Aug 21

Stanley Kubrick and Wendy Carlos would approve.
#JDVance #theshining