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big felix @realbillhicks.bsky.social · 5h

why are you wasting your brain cells and bandwidth earnestly engaging with someone like this

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 5h

I really think people are underestimating the degree to which 21st century politics are going to be apocalyptically bad; we are collectively sliding towards mass ethnic cleansing being the norm in the Western World, out of no reason but pure fucking spite and empty nostalgia.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 7h

Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR

This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"

NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt

No govt since Idi Amin has done this

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Hans MLman @hansmlman.bsky.social · 9h

This Platner tattoo scandal is going to make it a lot harder for good honest Blackwater freaks to run for office

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carrion🐛 @carrion.bsky.social · 9h

oh so now you’re going to ‘purity test’ black water mercs, with 20 year old Nazi tattoos? Grow the hell up, we’re trying to stop fascism

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 9h

The search for “large oaf of virtue true” continues

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Doug @dougg.bsky.social · 9h

Insane to have that tattoo and not drop—what? A grand? How expensive can the best tattoo in Maine be?—to get it covered up BEFORE you run for the United States fucking senate

April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 9h

Platner’s former political director →

(He released it himself???)

Genevieve McDonald
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I've run out of self-restraint, worse than when the guys on the train to Boston were fan boying over Reds Eats.
The DC consultant class has fucked up our US Senate race again and you all need to stop snipping at each other.
This is seriously the dumbest timeline.
Graham has an anti-Semitic tattoo on his chest. He's not an idiot, he's a military history buff. Maybe he didn't know it when he got it, but he got it years ago and he should have had it covered up because he knows damn well what it means.
His campaign released it themselves to some podcast bros, along with a video of him shirtless and drunk at a wedding to try to get ahead of it.
The vault is open for the GOP to fucking crush any dreams we had in the general and literally everyone I know is fighting with each other on social media.
We cannot be this painfully stupid.

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Derek (cosmic horror) @nocontroller.bsky.social · 10h

Guy getting a swastika tattoo but shaking his head the whole time so you know he disapproves

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

at that level of wealth living in the place you like is worth vastly more than a small additional tax bill

people are going to complain, some of them may briefly try to leave, and then they will return because living elsewhere isn’t the same

Dave Lee @davelee.me · 12h

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

www.bloomberg.com

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12h

ill be honest i was ready to assume that whatever graham platner did was not all that bad in the context of this political moment because admit it you guys can be awfully fussy. but i’ll be damned that sumbitch literally has a nazi tattoo lmao

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bob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social · 12h

“What we need to do is ensure that the party is vetting people for us to vote for” is a thing said when you want to be ruled by a different elite class of people

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Doug @dougg.bsky.social · 12h

My 11th grade history class spoiled the end of Band of Brothers

James Whitbrook @jwhitbrook.bsky.social · 14h

again this is just how the concept of linear time works

A very stupid headline from a valnet website that simply reads 'Game of Thrones' Didn't Just Spoil the Ending of 'House of the Dragon' - It Also Spoiled the Upcoming Prequel Spin-off'.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23h

one of the reasons I don’t really like to get into even silly sounding conspiracy theories is that the answer to “fun conspiracy or antisemitism” is almost always “antisemitism”

it is the ugly ur-conspiracy at the bottom of most of these rabbit holes

Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 1d

Before you start making jokes about this - the reptilian conspiracy theory is deep, rabbit hole-level antisemitism.

www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...

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Bartleby Crumbford @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 1d

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Diana Thirst @dianathirst.bsky.social · 1d

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Doug @dougg.bsky.social · 1d

It’s called “curb appeal”

Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody adds a ballroom to a house they plan on leaving.

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Jordan @slclunk.com · 1d

This entire government is the gym staff from Burn After Reading

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

How to Join ICE

theonion.com/how-to-join-...

STEP 1
Be born with something just…missing

STEP 2
Try deporting a few neighbors without the constitutional authority to do so, to see if it’s for you

STEP 3
Unlearn any secondary languages you may know

STEP 4
If filling out the application form presents a challenge, candidates may instead demonstrate how hard they can punch a dog

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Doug @dougg.bsky.social · 1d

These guys look exactly like how I would have pictured the founders of Hooters if the only piece of information I had was that there were four of them.

Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 1d

"For Hooters’ Original Founders, Saving The Chain Is A Higher Calling: 'America Needs Us.'"

@chloesorvino.bsky.social for @forbes.com

For Hooters’ Original Founders, Saving The Chain Is A Higher Calling: “America Needs Us.”

A group of Florida friends thought it would be fun to open a restaurant in the 1980s that “they couldn’t get kicked out of.” Now in their 70s, they’re buying back franchises with a plan to restore the...

www.forbes.com

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

like even if you have no idea who he is take one look at that man and try to tell me with a straight face that he’s ever lost a game of chicken in his life lmao

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Kim Philby fan account @jafarvcf.bsky.social · 1d

I consider myself to be a pragmatic (Marxism) progressive (Leninism)

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 1d

According to the 9th Circuit, the president can just make shit up and the courts have treat it as if it is factually relevant.

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Frances "Are You Scared Yet" Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 2d

making up a guy to get mad at but then we talk it out and acknowledge each other's pain. we're at a spa in salzburg now.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

futurism.com/future-socie...

It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It

He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.

futurism.com

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Doug @dougg.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a centrist because I think anarchists and Marxist-Leninists both sometimes have good points

🔞 🔆 the greenwich goblin (idk what greenwixh is) 🌈 @zymandia.neocities.org · 1d

new meta: say you’re a centrist and espouse radical leftist politics.

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