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Hal 10000

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Pennsylvania Astronomer, writer at Ordinary Times, maker of YouTube videos, caretaker of two kids and two dogs. My Novel: https://www.amazon.com/Water-Lily-Pond-Michael-Siegel-ebook/dp/B01BBFWYI8/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelSiegel14

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · Nov 16

The main side effect vaccines have on children is that they live to be adults.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 39m

I'd actually respect him more if he'd pulled a Krusty and just said, "Look, they backed up a dump truck full of money up to my house. I'm not made of stone."

Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you, Bill Burr, for being paid handsomely to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival for Saudi Arabia’s “oppressed people.” Very courageous.

Does he actually believe the total nonsense coming out of his mouth? Come on, man. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Bill Burr is lashing out at critics for slamming his appearance at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. During an interview on the “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast, Burr said he does not “give a fuck what all these phony fucking people are saying.”

“The general consensus is, ‘How dare you go to that place and make those oppressed people laugh, you fucking piece of shit. I can’t believe you went to that place. I can’t find it on a map, and this bot said I was upset about it so now I am,'” Burr said about the outrage over the festival. “It’s one thing to wear clothes made by sweatshop labor. It’s quite another to go to the factory and make ’em laugh. I can’t believe how much anger I had about this issue after it went viral

Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 42m

"Habeas Corpus? I don't think he should be suspended. Great linebacker. I remember him making all the tackles. I said he'd be good out of college but no one believed me. This is why I win the White House fantasy league every year."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 55m

Yes, your tweet about how "I haven't noticed the government was shut down hurhur" has totally not been made four million times before.

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El Coopitan @onaircoop.bsky.social · 15h

Oh man, Pam Bondi is going to be pissed at Major League Baseball for allowing Toronto in the American League championship.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 2h

In the interest of disclosure, they asked my to be their Astronomer Royal. I refused because they wanted me to give woke names to all the stars. I don't just mean the ones that have Greek names. I mean ALL of them. All 400 billion in our Galaxy just to start.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18h

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 4h

I can't stress this enough: opposing birth control isn’t a fringe position in the anti-abortion movement—it’s the norm. 'Mainstream' groups like Students for Life say so explicitly on their websites!

But because mainstream outlets don't report on it, most Americans don't know

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 7h

This also demonstrates, once again, that the GOP does not actually care about antisemitism. They’re using it as an excuse to crush people they don’t like.

Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 7h

Any media outlet that mainstreams Posobiec needs to fuck off so hard they go backwards in time and are engulfed in the Big Bang.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8h

Annals in sane-washing. When I checked NYT, WSJ, Politico, and WaPo for a story abt how Trump invited PizzaGate guy to the White House and declared an end to the First Amendment, this single story that mentioned it was on top of WaPo. Now it's buried.

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A story headlined, Trump builds case for deploying National Guard to Chicago, Portland The president said he would pursue designating antifa a "foreign terrorist organization" and called for Democratic officials in Chicago to be jailed.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday looked to bolster his public case for deploying the National Guard to Chicago and Portland, Oregon, cities where he claims Democrat politicians have failed to protect journalists and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from people whom he sees as left-wing domestic terrorists.

Trump said during a televised meeting at the White House that he would pursue designating antifa as a “foreign terrorist organization” — a label that would allow for key financial and legal penalties because foreign entities are not protected by the First Amendment. Proponents of antifa — a political protest movement composed of unaffiliated groups — militantly oppose fascism, right-wing ideologies and are often anti-capitalist or anti-state.

Trump also repeated a call he had made earlier in the day for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, both Democrats, to be jailed, accusing them without evidence of “failing to protect” ICE officers who have been sent to the city.

His statements and other remarks given by top aides during a 2½-hour event laid out a legal and moral case for the administration’s push to send National Guard troops into U.S. cities. Designated foreign terrorist groups can face financial sanctions imposed by the Treasury Department. The Justice Department can prosecute supporters under enhanced charges of providing “material support” to a terrorist group.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 20h

Antisemitic, pro-Putin, in league with white nationalists, promoted the Pizzagate conspiracy theory - and now being platformed by the president of the United States

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 13h

If "it agitates and irritates crowds" is the standard now then this entire Administration should have duck tape over their mouths.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 18h

I mean, at least they've dropped the facade that they actually want legal immigration.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 18h

Saint Dolly of the Blessed Bosom

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h

Again, if you live in Portland, just strolling around the city to verify the (checks notes) existence of store windows would do wonders for counteracting the delusions of President Livia Soprano.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 22h

If I say, "That's great ... but who are the Chefs?" and you reply "Great googly moogly", we can probably be friends.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 22h

Everyone relax. The only royalty we all recognize is OK.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 22h

This is what I said to people about totality during an eclipse.

Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 22h

I will pay someone $1 to climb a tree outside SCOTUS and toss in a pair of dentures wrapped in a false weather report.

Em @wvesquiress.bsky.social · 1d

Oct 8:

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 23h

Not only the weirdest people; they dumbest.

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 1d

My dearest Gertrude,

I fear I shall not make it home. This war has ravaged our supplies and broken our will.

We arrived with weapons, purpose, and a directive. Yet at every turn, we are mocked. Belittled.

I have never experienced an insult so great in a war zone

Send my best to the children

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 1d

Especially difficult when your primary evidence is "the statute of limitations was running out".

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 1d

Jerry Orbach would kill in Les Mis. Dude could fricking *sing*.

Damn. Now I'm Mad Online that we never got that.

Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 1d

the next time you find yourself getting Mad Online, try this: make a Les Miserables cast consisting only of character from Law & Order (*not counting SVU or Criminal Intent or other associated properties, if you really want to be challenged)

Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 1d

I appreciate you keeping this up. The Greenland and Canada stuff seem like an age ago.