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esmezelda 🇺🇸🇬🇧🌱 @esmezelda.bsky.social · 1d

This is too believable

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esmezelda 🇺🇸🇬🇧🌱 @esmezelda.bsky.social · 3d

Dude!!

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esmezelda 🇺🇸🇬🇧🌱 @esmezelda.bsky.social · 3d

a man in a suit and tie is smiling with the words i see what you did there above him

Alt: a man in a suit and tie is smiling with the words i see what you did there above him

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Zion Grassl @ziondood.bsky.social · 3d

Ganondorf IS EVIL

Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 3d

Ganondorf has condemned the No Kings protests taking place across Hyrule today, has baselessly accused them of being funded by “The ‘Sloppy’ Seven Sages”, and threatened to send his Demon Army after any “insurrectionists and agitators” who threaten his authority.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Jul 7

block quickly
block often

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esmezelda 🇺🇸🇬🇧🌱 @esmezelda.bsky.social · 7d

@dieworkwear.bsky.social check out this stylish specimen!

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esmezelda 🇺🇸🇬🇧🌱 @esmezelda.bsky.social · 8d

Bots. It’s the bots.

esmezelda 🇺🇸🇬🇧🌱 @esmezelda.bsky.social · 9d

This looks really familiar - what’s it called?

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esmezelda 🇺🇸🇬🇧🌱 @esmezelda.bsky.social · 13d

STT episode notes??

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15d

FYI: There's a Nemik super-edit that's…weirdly powerful? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf60...

Andor: Karis Nemik

YouTube video by SWFT

www.youtube.com

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18d

We're not at war with Venezuela, these boats are many hundreds of lines from our waters, much less our shores, there is no threat, this is just murder.

I really do think everyone from the SecDef to the guy who pushed the button should be tried for murder on this.

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 18d

Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19d

But somehow Trump not just breaking a promise but intentionally misrepresenting his entire extremist, revolutionary agenda to absolutely devastate and reconfigure US government is treated as, more or less, Trump Just Being Trump.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19d

But for some reason, our media doesn't want to talk about it like that. Our political class, which considers things like "if you like your insurance you can keep it" to be five-alarm whoppers, acts like Trump has a mandate for Project 2025 and it must be respected.

Again: it polled at FOUR PERCENT.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21d

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."

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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 22d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 23d

I genuinely don't know how you extract meaningful concessions if the executive branch can choose to spend money or not regardless of what's in the CR, apparently with SCOTUS's shadowy blessing.

That and all the rest of the rampant lying and lawlessness, of course.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23d

At this point, any Democrat who votes to keep this government open without extracting very serious concessions — RFK’s resignation, ICE rollback, Epstein Files release, etc — will absolutely face a primary challenger who will set fundraising records.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23d

Republicans run the White House, Congress and Supreme Court on the principle that the only role Dems can play is bailing the GOP out from facing the consequences of their own actions.

They expect Dems to clean up after them and save them from voters’ blame, and sadly some Dems want to do just that.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23d

At this point, any Democrat who votes to keep this government open without extracting very serious concessions — RFK’s resignation, ICE rollback, Epstein Files release, etc — will absolutely face a primary challenger who will set fundraising records.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23d

Republicans run the White House, Congress and Supreme Court on the principle that the only role Dems can play is bailing the GOP out from facing the consequences of their own actions.

They expect Dems to clean up after them and save them from voters’ blame, and sadly some Dems want to do just that.

Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 23d

Actual White House quote: “go fuck yourself.”

Its not being some pearl clutching prude to ask whether this is really how most Americans want their kids to see the seat of our government behave. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

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esmezelda 🇺🇸🇬🇧🌱 @esmezelda.bsky.social · 24d

This one. I always think it’s a really old song but it’s only like a decade old.

a man with a mask on his face sings now you 're just somebody that i used to know

Alt: a man with a mask on his face sings now you 're just somebody that i used to know

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Tilmon Edwards @tilmonedwards.com · May 5

I have 3 axioms that help me decide when to talk to people I disagree with:

1. To debate a subject is to concede that the subject is debatable.

2. To reason with a person is to concede that the person is reasonable.

3. To ask for evidence of a claim is to concede that the claim might be true.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27d

i made a helpful reference

$top right: a fractured black rectangle where one half is labeled "autism is bad" and the other side is labeled "FACT CHECK: autistic people are productive members of society". top left: WRONG -negating their frame reinforces it -starts with what it isn't instead of what it is - your argument is shaped like their argument bottom right: large image of Kirby, a pink blob inhaling and the "autism is bad" fragment, labeled THEY'RE DOING EUGENICS bottom left: RIGHT - you eat their frame -starts with what's actually happening -contains and explains what they're doing -your argument is shaped like kirby$

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The Onion @theonion.com · 25d

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 26d

The Democrat message should be simple:

“The GOP controls the House, the Senate, the White House, and the Supreme Court. They control the whole government, and they are the ones shutting it down.”

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esmezelda 🇺🇸🇬🇧🌱 @esmezelda.bsky.social · 27d

Why though? Republicans are in control of both chambers!

esmezelda 🇺🇸🇬🇧🌱 @esmezelda.bsky.social · 28d

Looks very cute!

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 28d

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?

He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.

So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

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