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Cmdr. Overbite

@cmdroverbite.bsky.social

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As long as I live under the capitalistic system, I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp.

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · Nov 9

The film “Mean Girls” based on the musical “Mean Girls” based on the experimental short story “Mean Girls” based on the jazz-dance performance “Mean Girls” based on the abortive Lin-Manuel Miranda-produced “Mean Girlz Mixtape” based on

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 9h

NOT SPORTS

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SPORTS

Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 9d

SPORTS

Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 10h

Also they couldn’t be doing more to make it clear that the base motivation is not concern about illegal immigration or even opposition to immigration in general but animus towards Latino people even if they’re native born US citizens.

Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 13h

In the quiet words
of the Virgin Mary, come again?

Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 14h

It’s true, the Catholic Church has been a bit touchy about priests posting things for the last few hundred years

it’s Martin Luther. This joke works better when I don’t have to spell out the punchline but people get real fussy if you don’t put up alt text so

Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 15h

you guys make fun of Sephiroth Posting but check this action out

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 15h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 15h

daaaaaaaaang

spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 19h

Imagine if you did this in any other journalistic context

"Did the Tigers or Mariners Win Game 5? In Detroit, Depends on the Narrator."

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 23h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Chrissy Wiley @chrissyone.bsky.social · 18h

Never give up hop 🐸

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 16h

damn, RIP to a Real One

Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 16h

Groundhog Day meme: "Well, we're doing Revisionist WW2 History Discourse. Again."

Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 17h

“Congratulations, gentlemen. You have defeated our rotaries and navigated our spiderweb of 1.5 block long streets all named ‘Tremont.’ Now you face the ultimate challenge. Five guys named MAHK who come outta FACKIN NOWHERE AND JUST STAHT FACKIN WAILIN ON THIS ONE DUDE.”

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · Nov 4

The sole purpose of conservatism in America 2024 is to create a framework where powerful people can demonstrate to everyone else who runs shit. This value overrides all other priorities including rampant homophobia.

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 22h

This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

"The President passed away very strongly today at his Bedminster golf course after shooting 40 under par."

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 1d

there it is

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

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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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 2d

time to tap the sign again

Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · Sep 24

To reiterate: It seems suboptimal to define “leftism” as “the collective idiosyncratic hobbyhorses of a few mutually antagonistic cliques of Internet-famous podcasters and Twitch streamers,” especially if actual leftist policy is your desired outcome

Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 2d

"The name of the game is hit the ball, catch the ball, and get the fucking job done.”

Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago’s bumper crop of Aging Weird Theater Kids need to pull the trigger on some ludicrous inflatable costumes stat

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2d

for real, though, i think the ridiculous inflatable costumes are a major flaw in the armor that can be heavily exploited, portland protestors are leaning all the way into our reputation and making heroes out of inflatable frogs and villains out of the security forces

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2d

FROGS TOGETHER STRONG is fucking incredible

Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 2d

RIBBIT, MOTHERFUCKERS

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 2d

SPORTS

Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 9d

SPORTS

Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 11d

SPORTS

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 11d

In the first Trump term, you had congressional Dems who wanted to minimize the damage of budget cuts and Trump, who believed his Big Beautiful Wall would fix immigration, and then you had the Congressional GOP who desperately wanted to keep Trump from talking to the Dems bc they were afraid…

🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 11d

not for nothing but this is basically a complete rerun of the record-length shutdown in trump 1, where he threw a tantrum about funding for the wall and ate complete shit about it in the end

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know a better illustration of the bankruptcy of certain niches of the Very Online Socialist Left™️ than celebrating the deaths of 100,000,000s from disease & starvation bc the USG has used USAID as a mechanism for subversion. Like, do they think the U.S. won't just use a different agency?

A post calling USAID a moral atrocity based on a socialist think tank discussion of three or four examples of the USG using USAID to launder efforts to subvert regimes it doesn't like — which, by the way, include the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and the kleptocratic authoritarianism of the Maduro regime.

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 2d

Gen X parents bought their infant children Johnny Cash t-shirts to bathe them in a protective layer of Profound Coolness before they could read or write.

Source: me. I’m the Gen X Parent.

Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 3d

2025 Posting Through It Championships already in shambles

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