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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 13h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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💥LazarAAWOOOTagWolf @lazartagwolf.bsky.social · 13h

No one did this but the voters.
The voters did this.
American voters did this.
People who refused to vote for Kamala Harris did this.
There are zero excuses.
Don’t’ call them.
Do t take their calls.
Don’t have dinner with them.
Scrape together some dignity.
Go no contact.

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 14h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Donryu @donryu.bsky.social · 1d

fun fact: Reptar ( star of Reptar on Ice) is actually one of our prime generals you can often find at ANTIFA headquarters.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

#WarRavagedPortland

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 8h

⚡️A $25K Ukrainian rocket just took down Russia’s “stealth” Kh-69 cruise missile.

$25K Rocket Takes Down Russia’s Kh-69 “Stealth” Cruise Missile in Ukraine

Ukrainian air defenses utilized a laser-guided APKWS to down a Kh-69 missile, proving effective during a complex night operation on October 10.

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Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · 15h

It’s the Portland way.

LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 9h

I Restarted A Civil Dispute For No Reason And All I Got Was Harassed By Garfield

midnightsun49.bsky.social @midnightsun49.bsky.social · 9h

Total zoo 🤣😂

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Not only this is amazing because part of fascism is the destruction of joy but it also makes it look ridiculous that the military is being deployed to put a stop to this

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d

War is hell, Portland style

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ianbobmorris.bsky.social @ianbobmorris.bsky.social · 9h

a half decade ago when they used so much tear gas it got into the water

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 23h

Undead Neil Postman, after a couple cigarettes to steady himself, would look at a smartphone and a video app, let out a loud guffaw, and say “my god, they let some Californians enslave the world, did they?”

Microsoft Visual Kei @joebaldwin.me.uk · 23h

You know I think if you resurrected Neil Postman and gave him five minutes on TikTok he'd start waving his arms and screaming and not stop until he was sedated

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Son of Sandor @sonofsandor.bsky.social · 13h

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ianbobmorris.bsky.social @ianbobmorris.bsky.social · 11h

@nberlat.bsky.social i like having a mindset where i think that Bad Things will happen to people and that there will be a lot of things that can't be prevented, deserve has nothing to do with it

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Tony Serrata 🇺🇦 @serrata.org · 14h

Just goes to show, the goal is to kill as many poor people as possible. Because if it's good enough for the so called president, why isn't it good enough for the rest of us?

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 18h

I mean, I think the fact that the NYT employs Douthat full-time to launder the views of fascists for their readership is kind of the point.

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 18h

The fact that Ross Douthat is employed by the New York Times, the most important "liberal" media institution in the country and that Chris Rufo is one of their favorite sources, should probably illustrate the problem.

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David Quinn @davidquinn.oideachasmedia.com · 14d

YouTube summary of the comments section :)

YouTube’s ai : Reactions to science vary shows YouTuber Hbomberguy saying Science really had it coming

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 16h

Undergrad: "Man, 10 page essay. what am I going to write in here"

Lawyer: "What do you mean just 13,000 words?"

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 14h

So the absolute insane stupidity of this is the idea that he could set up a theocratic state and also get a 'significantly smaller government.'

The folks on the authoritarian right do really seem to be believe there is a secret government liberalizer ray they can just switch off to change society.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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ianbobmorris.bsky.social @ianbobmorris.bsky.social · 13h

Some magazines sometimes land on good takes, including ones about saw

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15h

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 1d

It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc

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ianbobmorris.bsky.social @ianbobmorris.bsky.social · 13h

A lot of things get labeled condescension, some of which are not

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13h

Please keep making podcasts about how democrats need to stop being so condescending about red states

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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ianbobmorris.bsky.social @ianbobmorris.bsky.social · 14h

@eleanor.lockhart.contact imagining a political pollster whose projections are wrong because they didn't factor in the sith

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GPT-Ern Malley @denam.bsky.social · 23h

Academic lab leak theory: there are a lot of ideas that are useful or even true within the ivory tower which are nonetheless invasive and disruptive if brought into the wider discourse ecosystem

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 15h

He got the shots that his own HHS is telling you are not necessary

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 15h

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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Behemoth & Leviathan, LP 🎃 @harkov311.bsky.social · 1d

As I was saying...

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