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Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 7h

corporate media is absolutely part of the fascist machinery

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 8h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 8h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

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thene @thene.bsky.social · 10h

the push to stop regular people, especially women and queer people, from talking about sex and expressing ourselves sexually is unreal and it's v much in line with this attempt to make big tech companies the only ones allowed to monetize erotica. It is enclosure of the sexual body and mind.

Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 12h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 15h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Lee Morgueing @leemorgan.bsky.social · 7h

I hate this framing as if it would be ok for massive amount of lawlessness if trump was rounding up criminals
Criminals deserve rights as well

Lee Morgueing @leemorgan.bsky.social · 14h

the only thing you need to know about bari weiss is this skit is the closest the idea of her has ever been to coherence
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsWj...

The Break with Michelle Wolf | Op-Ed | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 1d

Trump is mad he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize. But @jeetheer.bsky.social writes that by honoring María Corina Machado, the Nobel Committee has endorsed his war against Venezuela—and continued Europe’s MAGA groveling. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The Nobel Peace Prize Just Surrendered to Trump

Trump is mad that he didn’t win. But by honoring María Corina Machado, the Nobel Committee has endorsed his war against Venezuela—and continued Europe’s MAGA groveling.

www.thenation.com

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Lee Morgueing @leemorgan.bsky.social · 1d

everyone making jokes, but its amerigo vespucci.
if we must celebrate italian contributions to colonization of the americas, it should be someone who both gave the continent his name and was widely respected at the time
i've never understood why italian americans chose columbus

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody wants it as a story but I have multiple NYPD sources who voted for Mamdani, are eager for his win in November, and who say their colleagues quietly feel the same.

They like that he wants NYPD to focus on crime, not quality of life enforcement.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

the more i think about it, bari weiss running CBS is direct proof there’s not really a meritocracy in any real way under capitalism. the opposite is true in this system, failing upwards is the default the more a country becomes an oligarchy

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Lee Morgueing @leemorgan.bsky.social · 1d

barrett doesn't view normal americans as people
she's so far into elite circles, she has no cognizance of the effect of shadow docket opinions on actual living flesh people
the issue of whether you have fourth amendment rights is perfectly settled for any brown person walking in LA

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.

bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 1d

Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Lee Morgueing @leemorgan.bsky.social · 1d

"we're being silenced" i say, being paid to speak into the loudest microphone on earth

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Lee Morgueing @leemorgan.bsky.social · 1d

The public money exists to meet everyone's needs. Billionaires stand like a dam between us and our money, letting only a trickle out to keep us dependent on their resources instead of our own. Its enclosure of the highest order.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 4d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Lee Morgueing @leemorgan.bsky.social · 2d

Why does Madagascar have elite army unit?

Lee Morgueing @leemorgan.bsky.social · 3d

Democrats have had a Supreme Court that prevents anything good happening under a democrat president.
Conservatives have a for me not for thee theory of constitutional power
Which is why Americans think republican are better on issues on which they’re objectively worse

Lee Morgueing @leemorgan.bsky.social · 3d

What does leto have on these people they keep putting him in films?

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 3d

Trump’s demented and demonstrably false descriptions of Portland are the rantings of an authoritarian lunatic. Why would @nbcnews.com merely say that this fascist propaganda “is disputed by local officials.” @nbcnews.com use words that convey what Trump is actually doing and their actual intent.l!

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 3d

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

www.nbcnews.com

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Lee Morgueing @leemorgan.bsky.social · 3d

Even done correctly, I simple don’t care about the rhetoric and optics as opposed to the actual state violence enacted on the regimes political enemies
This fight is not in the hearts and minds of readers. It’s in the less lethal bullets of ICE stormtroopers. A reality NYT refuses to engage in.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d

Quite a difference from the online hed

How Right-Wing Influencers Are Shaping the Guard Fight in Portland

President Trump and his administration are amplifying the voices of pro-White House podcasters and streamers eager to ratify the president’s description of Oregon’s largest city as a “hellscape.”

Lee Morgueing @leemorgan.bsky.social · 3d

Even with a correct headline, it’s such peak bullshit NYT limp liberal to focus on the optics and the rhetoric, instead of the actual facts of widespread state violence enacted on the political enemies of the regime

Lee Morgueing @leemorgan.bsky.social · 3d

new york is america's gjirokastër

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Lee Morgueing @leemorgan.bsky.social · 3d

DSCC choosing anti union janet mills over graham platner

how can you even call yourself a working people's party?

president xi, my country yearns for a labour candidate

Lee Morgueing @leemorgan.bsky.social · 3d

Nuking a stale bagel in a wet paper towel. The microwave hums like a burial hymn. If this works, I have conquered god. If it doesn’t, I will eat it anyway.

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Lee Morgueing @leemorgan.bsky.social · 3d

As a dues paying member of antifa, I demand to know where the money is going. I’ve waited three months for my tote bag.

Lee Morgueing @leemorgan.bsky.social · 4d

Ziwe, interview Anthony Jeselnik

Lee Morgueing @leemorgan.bsky.social · 4d

sparknotes still exists, and is written by and for people