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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 13h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · Dec 1

Her: You better not be cunty western Gary Cooper when I get there

Me:

A black and white very early photo of Gary cooper in western gear, slicked down flapper hair, makeup, and smoking a cigarette

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 10h

Why is Congress still getting paid

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 11h

Nuremberg 2: Electric Chair Boogaloo

muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 14h

As Democrats contemplate a 2026 or 2028 run and wonder what message will most motivate voters, they need to understand that the minimum opening bid is vengeance.

Justice for All - Truthdig

To restore the rule of law, Democrats must enforce the constitution with brass knuckles like there’s nothing to lose. Because there isn’t.

www.truthdig.com

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 12h

Unfortunately if they'd have won they'd have just blamed the Senate parliamentarian and not done squat. Party needs a gut renovation.

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 12h

A messianic South African speed freak with $20 is his own problem. A messianic South African speed freak with billions of dollars is the entire world's problem. Ban billionaires.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17h

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 12h

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Never attribute to Machiavellian genius what sheer brazen dickery will explain.
Fascism isn't chess, it's street thuggery in office.
11:02 PM • 1/31/17

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 1d

I'll be honest I haven't been the same since I found out that turtle shells have nerve endings and they can feel pain and pleasure through them. Like damn I thought they were protected in there and even when they're hiding inside they feel it 🥺🥺🥺

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 1d

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Please please please if you've come within 30 feet of this man (Stephen
Miller) please get tested and quarantine

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8:31 PM • 10/6/20 • Twitter for iPhone

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Aug 28

I have complete faith in my health secretary, Robert Fungus Kennedy

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 1d

Nice²

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 1d

Mother nature

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 1d

This little guy

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 2d

What are the odds that an eagle attacks a cat which is defended by a goat, all in front of a camera, and conveniently wrapped up in 4 seconds?? Have some fuckin critical thinking. Of course fuckin snoop is celebrity patient zero on this particular clip

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 2d

Depressing number of anti-AI celebrities inadvertently reposting fake cute animal videos on Instagram clearly labeled "Sora" and it's obvious they don't know and fuck we're really cooked when it starts to come to unlabeled riot footage nefarious actors (the regime) are going to start pumping out

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

In some ways this is the government now

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I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city

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Grant @gdubbstl.bsky.social · 2d

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 2d

"What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?"
Bertolt Brecht

Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 3d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 3d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 2d

No other book better synthesized for me all the strands of American history, of enslavement and capitalism, of the power relationships between the colonies and states and how they were warped by the original sin of slavery. Must read. (hard read)

kottke.org @kottke.org · 2d

The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry. “Instead of treating slavery as a source of unpaid labor, as it is typically understood, they focus on the ownership aspect: people as property, merchandise, collateral, and capital.” [kottke.org]

A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry in the United States

The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry (Amazon) by Ned & Constance Sublette is a book which offers an alternate view of slavery in the United States. Instead of treating slavery as a source

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 2d

As part of @everylibrary.bsky.social's roster of events for Banned Book Week (buy a banned book @bookshop.org), Jessica Stoya and I talked about Fanny Hill, criminal and civil book bans, and the US Supreme Court: