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Tom (kid codger) O'Neill

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Tom (kid codger) O'Neill @doctecazoid.bsky.social · Sep 14

This extremely long, extremely thoughtful essay does an absolutely phenomenal job of explaining the 𝙬𝙝𝙮 of the current sociopolitical melieu in which we find ourselves today. tl;dr but well worth your time, attention and consideration.

terikanefield.com/heres-why/

Here's Why - Teri Kanefield

* * * Welcome! If you’ve already read Part I, click here to skip to Part II: We Are Forever Stuck in a Cycle * * * Part I: Why Intolerance and Extremism Happen Introduction In September 2024, I visite...

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LateNighter @latenightercom.bsky.social · 44m

When Eli Manning teams up with SNL impressionist James Austin Johnson, it doesn’t take long before a Bob Dylan impression enters the game.

WATCH: SNL’s James Austin Johnson Imagines Bob Dylan Doing Play-by-Play

When Eli Manning teams up with SNL impressionist James Austin Johnson, it doesn’t take long before a Bob Dylan impression enters the game.

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Tom (kid codger) O'Neill @doctecazoid.bsky.social · 44m

What are the symptoms you are experiencing?

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1h

just this perpetual cycle where the tech press helps zuck pretend he's innovative and interesting, he falls flat on his ass after setting billions in boomer ad money on fire, then all his employees pay the price for him being a pointless, unremarkable dipshit

Reuters @reuters.com · 2h

Meta is cutting around 600 roles in AI unit, Axios reports reut.rs/4opgmAI

Meta is cutting around 600 roles in AI unit, Axios reports

Meta is cutting roughly 600 positions out of the several thousand roles within its Superintelligence Labs artificial intelligence unit, Axios reported on Wednesday.

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Tom (kid codger) O'Neill @doctecazoid.bsky.social · 44m

When you're pwned, you speak and act accordingly.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 1h

New Yorkers look out for New Yorkers.

Tonight. Foley Square. 6pm.

Ice out of ny. Stop the deportations!

Wednesday Oct 22 6pm foley square.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1h

This is important

Purrsist @wkymary.bsky.social · 2h

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world

Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 79th day out of the last 91.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2h

Mamdani hasn’t been elected yet and he’s already driving criminals out of New York.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1h

Feel strongly there are some GRU guys taping up the White House demolition photos on their cubicles

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NPR @npr.org · 3h

Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva has still not been sworn in four weeks after her win. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is suing House Speaker Mike Johnson, citing “taxation without representation.”

Arizona Attorney General’s Office confirms lawsuit against House Speaker Johnson

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 3h

NEW: Ken Casey of the Dropkick Murphys joins the Home of the Brave advisory board.

“Growing up here in Massachusetts, you learn to never take shit from a bully...Trump's a bully who's bad for America, and it's time to stand up to him."

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3h

The Democratic primary in this race will be held fully eight months from now in June 2026, there are nine active Democratic candidates, and there could be more! Even the filing deadline is still months away (March 15, I believe). I don’t get the PSA crew adopting a bunker mentality this early.

Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 12h

“Let him among you who is without a Nazi tattoo cast the first stone.” -The Bible

Only perfect candidates off the harvard law conveyor belt pls, highly disciplined, all boxes checked, well liked and humble, absolutely no spiritual connection to having a physical body except for severe IBS, volunteered at a soup kitchen in high school, signs email "cheers," etc.

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23h

Graham Platner should have just said the tattoo was off the record

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 18h

Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 16h

Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.

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Tom (kid codger) O'Neill @doctecazoid.bsky.social · 1d

When confronted with inconvenient truths, engaging in evasive "kill the messenger" tactics is not a viable long term strategy.

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

CHICAGO: “They took my son. He’s only 16. I just want my baby back.”

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 1d

🇵🇱 "Poland will force Putin's plane to land for arrest," - Foreign Minister Sikorski said that the country cannot guarantee the safe flight of the plane over its territory.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

You need to see this…

Just so we’re all clear on the gravity and historical significance of what Trump has done to the East Wing of the People’s House.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

It’s fun to contrast dhs’ ultra fash nostalgia aesthetics on social with the reality that you would find higher fitness standards in a spin class on the upper east side

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Tom (kid codger) O'Neill @doctecazoid.bsky.social · 1d

Money well spent.

Tom (kid codger) O'Neill @doctecazoid.bsky.social · 1d

Immigrant carpenter not born in the US? ICE would surely apprehend him.

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Spiked Doormat @spikeddoormat.bsky.social · 1d

The Republicans sure as hell wouldn't have shut down the government if it was only Democrats on the Epstein List. There would have been a gold plated book out already.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

The Epstein files contain the name of a prominent former PM who brutally beat & sexually assaulted an 18 year old.

Trump, Bondi, Patel & Johnson don’t want the world to know his name.

That’s why Johnson will have the House adjourned today for the 78th day out of the last 90.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson has given the house a very very very very very very very very very long vacation because he’s worried about the Epstein files

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