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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 45m

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21h

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

www.theguardian.com

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 13h

Before someone gets on my ass and I know someone will, I was raised catholic, my whole family was baptized in the church. Fuck this shit

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 16h

Look, as nice as it is to hear stuff like this, it means absolutely nothing coming from a golden palace staffed by pedophiles in wizard robes and jewels.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 22h

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 22h

There is no such thing

Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 1d

"Debate me about incest!"

- average spectator column

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry, but being goaded into going insane by me or @inthesedeserts.bsky.social on Twitter should permanently bar you from a government job.

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 1d

It will never stop being weird to me that multiple people I argued with on Twitter are either in the current government or orbit around it.

Jack Pissboy (who threatened to dox my military record and then backed down when it became clear i wasn't lying) and Danny Bongos (who threatened to kill me)

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1d

Bumble Jack Posobiec called Luigi Mangione and would be-Trump assassin Thomas Crooks "antifa" to Trump at this roundtable.

These people have literally no idea what is going on.

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 1d

There should probably be some kind of record for the man who has looked the most like an actively melting candle while still being alive.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump's mouth starts drooping as he struggles to stay awake during this antifa roundtable

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Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BONUS EPISODE🚨Join us live in Glasgow as we talk about Soochow, a small, racist dog adopted by US Marines stationed in China. They taught it to drink rum and coke from a bowl, eat cigarettes, and, most importantly, survive years in a Japanese POW camp.
www.patreon.com/posts/140742...

BONUS: Soochow, The Drunk, Racist, Marine Corps Dog *LIVE IN GLASGOW* | Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 2d

I feel bad for Joe Flacco. The only thing worse than having to live in Ohio is being told you're being traded and then still having to live in Ohio.

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 2d

Goddamn mitten havers

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