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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 58m

John Oliver taking Bari Weiss and The Free Press to town was appreciated. She’s such a hollow fraud: her success just reflects how hollow and fraudulent the current ruling class is

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🐸👻🎃 @jamesdena.bsky.social · 1h

Taylor singing about Travis on Wood.

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1h

I shall hereafter detail to you all the specialities and concentrations of potency everywhere lurking in this expansive monster

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 3h

I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 4h

I do not want to see a Supreme Court justice’s face on cable news, period

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 4h

okay one time talking about heaven is just a random thought word vomited into the world. This is what? the third or fourth time?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

Me: [some farrago of vapid twatwafflery]

Everyone: [rolls eyes, snorts, shakes head]

Me: IS THIS AN INTELLECTUAL DONUT SHOP BECAUSE I SMELL THE THOUGHT POLICE

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 10h

caring what words mean is liberal bias

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 11h

Please nobody tell professional writer praising professional journalists Caitlin Flanagan what "out of whole cloth" means

Screenshot of text:

Not now but soon enough, there will be major stories about The Free Press being the creation of three female founders who constructed a hugely successful digital business out of whole cloth.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 11h

Or more simply: they're using violence as a tantrum, in the instinctive belief that if they tantrum hard enough they'll get what they want.

This is a recipe for horror, of course, but also for their own overthrow.

shock twerker @danskubi.bsky.social · 11h

The right has no compunctions about using violence but they also feel no need to construct a mechanical theory of how their violence will produce political change. Their killings are more like ritual magic than anything else. The highest goal is just to produce a satisfying spectacle.

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Greedo @greedo.bsky.social · 11h

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I’m not falling for that hot take that’s clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at I refuse to participate in that kind of perversion

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 11h

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Ben Shapiro warns that conspiratorial right is taking over social media

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not an art thief @famousartthief.bsky.social · 11h

yes i’ve seen the stupid post by the writer defending the writer for defending the free press owner and my only thought is that it’s a club and you ain’t in it. everything else is just noise.

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🐸👻🎃 @jamesdena.bsky.social · 10h

Happy Birthday, Sharky! 🎉

a stuffed shark wearing a party hat with a slice of cake on a plate

ALT: a stuffed shark wearing a party hat with a slice of cake on a plate

media.tenor.com

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11h

Bari’s “journalism” is pure donor porn. Not surprising that she caught the eye of a billionaire nepo kid.

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 11h

The conflict here is that the justices aren’t using the emergency docket as a temporary tool, they’re making “precedent” and expecting lower court judges to apply it without explanation. This is why we’re seeing so much frustration from lower court judges.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Andy is a very serious person @acallan1.bsky.social · 11h

“we have a trifecta & lackey-filled SCOTUS but everything is somebody else’s fault” is beyond parody, just the biggest babies in America

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 21h

It became imperative to lance the flying whale, or be content to lose him

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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 2d

Context: the Trump administration has also made deep cuts to support for food banks.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Panda Bernstein @j4years.bsky.social · 23h

We should definitely blame, and oust, whoever was president on January 6, 2021

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

Our country is being run by evil men. But also very stupid and incompetent ones.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

Eugenics, all the way down www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 1d

gotta burn this motherfucker down folks

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil."

"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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