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Previously known as JohnM15 on the bird site. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sdkxyw2r7xlx5kjhsolgagv6/feed/aaaggrgfgbb7k

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John @johncnj.bsky.social · Nov 9

Somehow I always thought that being on the right side of history would probably feel better than this.

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John @johncnj.bsky.social · 5h

What they fail to mention when they say that it’s easy to get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich is that the ham sandwich has a far greater chance of getting convicted than the pending prosecutions of Comey, James, or Bolton.

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headless horseDan @etbeeegood.bsky.social · 9h

Little House on the Prairie is so wild, I’m glad I don’t live near any prairies

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grilled cheese 🧀 @grilldcheese.bsky.social · 8h

the best human on the planet can't compete with a halfway decent dog. would you pick up the best human's shit for them? the defense rests.

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debbspook @debbshock.blue · 7h

give a dude a fish, nobody knows what the fuck he'll do with it. he could wear it on his head. dudes are so weird

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d.ly @dly.bsky.social · 6h

it's called "gross pay" bc it's gross that you don't actually get all of that money

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Stace Fiction @girlawhirl.bsky.social · 9h

Moral of the story is if you want a qualified President, don’t pick one from The Apprentice.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6h

So greasy fascist lunatic Peter Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg may be the Antichrist?

Guess whose name appears in the Epstein Files that have been released, Peter? No hers. Yours!

So that, technically, makes you more evil than the Antichrist.

Wilson Dizard III @wpd3.bsky.social · 8h

[Excerpt:] Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg & critics of tech or AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that linked government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 7h

YOU COULD PERHAPS HAVE LED WITH THE MOVIE PART

NPR @npr.org · 8h

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga

Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 7h

Once again, we should've never backed off the weirdness train. And a good way to keep winning is to make all of these fascists feel weird by confronting them with weirdness that shows how weird they are. Portland gets this. Everyone else needs to catch up.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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John @johncnj.bsky.social · 7h

I’m assuming that CBS is really regretting using the slogan ‘Truth is messy’ in the ad campaign for the new season of ‘Matlock’ right about now.

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𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚁𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 @unfitz.bsky.social · 7h

Reverse cowgirl, because the merry go round is more exciting facing backward.

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korpisworld @kwkorpi.bsky.social · 8h

Sorry, I would have liked your skeet, but it was on 69 and I didn’t want to ruin it.

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Eric Replatformed @21stcenturyeric.bsky.social · 1d

Would it be the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect if Stevie Wonder and Alanis Morissette sang "Ebony and Irony"??

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

The fact that they are still doing the "Soros-paid protestors" bit is just an incredible testimony to the durability of certain tropes to negate the popular will, regardless of the lack of evidence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 12h

Can’t wait for Bill Burr to find out how popular his “angry hypocrite” schtick is when he next decides to tour

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 12h

These freaks keep getting on TV talking about opposing antifa and how they believe antifa wants to destroy them, and not a single person in mainstream media has asked or commented on what is the opposite of antifascism and who is threatened by antifascists

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9h

The US is going to host a Qatari air base in Idaho which is somehow fine but Mexican immigrants are somehow not

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 8h

The person who leaks the Epstein files will never have to buy a drink again in their life.

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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 8h

Pro Tip: If Vladimir Putin says you deserve the Nobel Peace Prize you DO NOT deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h

Why has Dominion Voting Systems been settling defamation lawsuits with Trump allies who falsely claimed the company stole the 2020 election?

Because Dominion has just been bought by a company run by a former GOP election official.

Be warned.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 8h

Lord give us the Democrats that Republicans warn us about.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 9h

It's not hyperbole to say that the United States doing this to its own citizens is Nazi-like.

Sean Woods @seanwoods.bsky.social · 10h

"They disappeared her." This story from @timdickinson.bsky.social is so upsetting. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump's Admin Disappeared Them Anyway

Donald Trump's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) disappeared an immigrant mom living in Portland and her four U.S. citizen children.

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