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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 5h

In which I call for a Brown Scare and a left-wing McCarthyism.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-coming...

The Coming Purge

We're going to need a left-wing Joe McCarthy

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J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 6h

Willem Dafoe and Sean Penn

bob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social · 7h

This is incredibly homoerotic

J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 14h

Hour’s getting late.

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 15h

Newsom’s office told the Los Angeles Times that it has received reports that the White House is directing a plan to use Navy ships off the California coast to fire missiles into Camp Pendleton.

Newsom rips into Trump celebration plan to fire missiles over California’s I-5 freeway

Newsom’s office told the Los Angeles Times that it has received reports that the White House is directing a plan to use Navy ships off the California coast to fire missiles into Camp Pendleton.

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 16h

Unlike Trump, Pritzker made money at a casino

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J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 16h

You’re allowed to gamble.

Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 18h

Gov. JB Pritzker and his wife reported making $1.425 million in income last year from “gambling.” A Pritzker campaign spokesperson said, “The Governor had winnings and losses from a casino during the year and those amounts are reported on his tax return.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/15/g...

Gov. JB Pritzker and his wife report $10.3 million in taxable income — $1.4 million in gambling winnings

Five months before the Democratic primary, Gov. JB Pritzker released partial tax records showing $10.3 million in taxable income — including $1.4 million in income from gambling.

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J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 16h

Give the anarchist a cigarette.

J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 17h

God said to Abraham “kill me a son”

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J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 17h

Big River is such a fucking good song.

J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 17h

My presidents

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18h

Sanders: They have refused to negotiate. And anyone thinks that tomorrow they'll suddenly start negotiating. I think, is smoking what is illegal in many states

AOC: And should be legal in more.

J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 18h

If I could do anything in my life, I’d like to write a song like that.

J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 18h

Yes.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

as i watch it i really do think i prefer TOMORROW NEVER DIES to GOLDENEYE

J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 22h

In that same alternate timeline, he reprises his role of Philip Jeffries in Twin Peaks: The Return.

J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 22h

The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) - Pontius Pilate Scene (5/10) | Movieclips

YouTube video by Movieclips

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J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 22h

be heartbroken* you dummy

J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 22h

Literally the perfect choice.

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J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 22h

I will never not by heartbroken by the fact that David Bowie was supposed to play that role.

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 22h

there has been exactly one jared leto role i liked, bladerunner 2049 which was only a bit of an act for him

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J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible chyron for the sitting vice president of the United States of America.

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Ray Padgett @raypadgett.bsky.social · 1d

We should all agree the rule is no phones out at shows I personally am at. But if I'm NOT there, phones up filming the whole time. Thanks.

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J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 1d

This changes everything.

Jonty @fairless.xyz · 1d

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

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🎃 Ballooween 🎃 @whyballoo.bsky.social · 3d

"We cannot ask tourists to come across the world to see the Statue of Liberty then discard the words written on it." @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Zohran Mamdani at Riverside Church, October 12, 2025

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Paul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 1d

An underappreciated improvement in the world is how YouTube comments used to be the stupidest place on the internet and now somehow the top comment is always a pretty funny joke, a fascinating episode from someone’s life, or the most heartbreakingly poignant shit you ever heard

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J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 1d

Especially if it features concentration camps.

J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 1d

There’s always something surreal to me when I’m watching a WWII movie and realize it was actually made during the war.

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J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 1d

Just the worst person you know. The person everyone else dreads getting pulled into a conversation with.