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The Onion @theonion.com · 19h

Third Amendment Rights Group Celebrates Another Successful Year https://theonion.com/third-amendment-rights-group-celebrates-another-success-1819569379/

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 6h

Oh no that fucking sucks!

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 11h

Apologies for the earnestness, I replied to the wrong post

Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 11h

Yes, they would absolutely riot, and some with guns.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 14h

Never would I ask that of you!

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 14h

I was wondering too. But also if they make it hard to run away. Which is part of what makes it non-threatening!

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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · Oct 31

Gotta get ready for Halloween *drinks 6 raw Cadbury Creme Eggs Rocky style*

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 15h

Would I could find a fine frog!

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 15h

And also, if you ask me a way for protesters to get Moore more attention and demonstrate that they’re nonviolent, I would not have thought of it

Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 15h

Right? I think if someone told me beforehand, I’d be like oh, well, whatever.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 16h

Tragedy is when I am criticized on social media. Comedy is when you are dismembered with a bone saw and die.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 17h

Yes, I'm describing what they meant to say. I didn't know anything about her until this morning, so I have no idea whether it's genuinely deserved.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 17h

that is pretty clearly how she's being perceived. ask the world why they think that, not me.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 17h

also she lost weight and had very good work done.

Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 17h

I agree. It busts up their warfighting fantasies.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 17h

It’s brilliant. Wouldn’t have occurred to me in 1000 years, and it’s so simple.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 17h

She was the only candidate who would be seen as a rebuke to Trump but also write this.

Tweet from Maria Machado: This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.
We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 18h

Blown away by how good an idea the costumes are. More shareable and fun than pics of a regular protest, and it’s immediately clear that the protestors are non-violent.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 18h

Theyre just threatening to shoot us now.

But it’s a bluff. Call it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 20h

And the Washington Post and CBS.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 23h

Sending our best hours for a full and speedy recoveryrecovery.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 23h

Maybe this isn’t why they chose Machado, but terms of American politics, she’s an ideal choice. Republican petulant spite at the winner will be dampened, but it is also a clear statement for democracy and against dictatorship.

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 1d

this is me too, I don’t even understand how that’s possible

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 1d

Listened to a podcast from 2021 and they were discussing a professor who issued a “listening, learning” apology for a statement he made about white scholars writing about Black people, and my God that world is simply gone. Unthinkable now.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 1d

Surprising that more Dems have not said something like this. There are ways to say it without sounding like it’s a direct threat.

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 1d

“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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