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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 11h

it's kind of wild that a guy died a little while ago and the government swore we would reap the whirlwind and that his widow would lead a howling army of valkyries across the galaxy and then the most you heard about it since was the secretary of domestic war saying they arrested the wife of antifa

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Patrick Winegar @cleverturnip.bsky.social · 9h

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Spencer Reynolds @sreynolds.bsky.social · 12h

Antifa is not a group; the president cannot designate domestic terror groups.

My @brennancenter.org colleague @faizapatel.bsky.social is out today with a deep review of NSPM-7. It is a dangerous directive that will facilitate predatory politics-based targeting: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · Jan 24

In the first 100 days I will dig down into the place of honor. On day one I will issue an Executive Order that the radical woke warning signs be removed and anyone perpetuating the "dangerous and repulsive" lie to be terminated. I will restore the country by touching the ancient treasures.

Graphic showing the proposed pictogram warning of the dangers of buried nuclear waste for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

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Patrick Winegar @cleverturnip.bsky.social · 10h

yeah, that's what I was wondering--I know it applies to federal employees including cabinet and there's different levels of restriction, but I dunno how much leeway they have

Patrick Winegar @cleverturnip.bsky.social · 10h

just a heads up, any condescending "oh you think laws matter" type comments--I'll just block you. I know these scumbags don't care if shit's illegal or immoral. It does matter though, and can lead to impeachments in due time once there's enough pressure and appetite for it. Gotta keep a long memory.

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Patrick Winegar @cleverturnip.bsky.social · 10h

not a lawyer, but isn't this a Hatch Act violation? www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/u...

Video of Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for shutdown “rolling out” at TSA security checkpoints across the country | CNN

Travelers waiting in airport security lines across the country will now be met with a video where the Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem blames Democrats for the government shutdown.

www.cnn.com

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Patrick Winegar @cleverturnip.bsky.social · 11h

This guy's a dumbass who endorsed the con man and racist lunatic Ryan Walters to run the state's public education so he could act like some kind of Baptist Franco, then finally publicly turned away from him when the scandals got to be too much. So, maybe it's a sign

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 20h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 14h

these people are stealing from you and laughing at you

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 11h

Marc Thiessen is so fucking stupid, willfully or not, that he argued waterboarding couldn’t be torture because Christopher Hitchens agreed to be waterboarded to find out how bad it was for a iirc Vanity Fair article and video, even tho Hitchens was all: it’s torture I felt like I was being tortured…

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13h

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Patrick Winegar @cleverturnip.bsky.social · 13h

yeah sylvester mccoy--pretty sure that's his views in real life too

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Patrick Winegar @cleverturnip.bsky.social · 14h

Scientists in the UK announce a breakthrough in their efforts to create a British Lewis Grizzard

Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 1d

The photography in this article really feels like The Times are deliberately setting these people up for ridicule. (You can read it without visiting The Times here archive.ph/KZZC1)

An article from The Times: "Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future". Featuring bizarre portraits of Charles Amos, Rhys Benjamin and Daniel Campbell.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 14h

“Baby in her placenta” is pretty bad for a HHS secretary but it’s arguably worse for a guy with six kids. It’s impossible to not learn this stuff as a dad if you’re even remotely paying attention just once.

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Patrick Winegar @cleverturnip.bsky.social · 14h

"I ran over a manatee in my pontoon boat while I was visiting the Boys' School for Biters in Cape Betrayal"

Patrick Winegar @cleverturnip.bsky.social · 14h

god damn there's some great lines in here. "Dr. Victor Vector's Salisbury Steak Diet" is gonna be my own personal "cellar door"

Charles Austin @charlesaustin.bsky.social · 21h

RFK Jr. ep with Felix just dropped

Free even for lowly, evil non-subscribers 👇
www.patreon.com/posts/408-ro...

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · Apr 28

I know it's not the most important thing here but this story also corroborates one of my biggest theories about these tech guys: they do zero hours of work in a day. They do no work no matter how much they claim to work 14 hours a day. They're just on their phones.

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · Apr 28

Ben Smith lifts up a corner of the plush comforter under which our would-be overlords have been huffing each other's farts for the past few years as they collectively dream their way back to the cutting-edge ideas of the late 19th century www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

The group chats that changed America

A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.

www.semafor.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 14h

Jeez I wonder what it’s like to go to work and be shot at and attacked by masked militants who seem like they want to kill you.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

A really old trick conservatives use is to accuse liberals of supporting an idea that would make sense under liberal values but that liberals don't actually support for tactical reasons. So you face a choice of either accepting the false accusation or you argue against your own values.

Rot Economy Critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 1d

Saw a CBS ghoul trying to hound Hakeem fucking Jeffries about whether “illegal aliens get the ACA subsidies” by reasking the question multiple times after Jeffries said it wasn’t true. You’d think he was interviewing a Nixon staffer about watergate.

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 1d

Lima, Peru is now the last place on earth still talking about Kirk, and even they don't know why. Donald Trump has already forgotten who that is. History has rendered its verdict: he is irrelevant.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Rafael López Aliaga, the right-wing mayor of Lima, Peru, widely known as “Porky,” held a Charlie Kirk memorial — filled with attendees bused in from poor neighborhoods — as he sought help from the Trump administration. Many others were more confused. “Who’s Charlie Kirk?”

How the Right Uses Charlie Kirk’s Death to Further Their Policies

The mayor of Lima, Peru, held a Charlie Kirk memorial — filled with attendees bused in from poor neighborhoods — as he sought help from the Trump administration.

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Upstate Bozo @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 1d

Starting a civil war against the areas of your country (cities) where all the uhh people live. Sure.

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Patrick Winegar @cleverturnip.bsky.social · 1d

even that fuckin idiot VJ Kennedy was able to acknowledge when a guest was slurring his words on a Fox channel, I'm astounded it's never happened with Homan on ostensibly non-regime propaganda networks www.dailymotion.com/video/x7m4apw

Fox Business Host Asks Corey Lewandowski If He's Drunk Live On Air: 'You Sound A Little Slurry'

Dailymotion video by Newsweek

www.dailymotion.com

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Patrick Winegar @cleverturnip.bsky.social · 1d

I'm honestly surprised they allowed it in the first place. Guy is clearly shitfaced every time he's on

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

If the regime does go after DSA, the appropriate response will be for as many people as possible to become dues-paying members.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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Patrick Winegar @cleverturnip.bsky.social · 1d

I remember we got really close to it after the impromptu protest following the 2016 election and they pretty much cordoned it off for several blocks every since lol

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