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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 15h

so crazy to just be living every day through the slow motion car crash of escalating fascism and it’s still like. aw man i have to go to the dentist

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Marv Was Here @marvmadethat.com · 3h

Oh thats gonna sting

Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 5h

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 2d

As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 13h

WHO THINKS THERE SHOULD BE WORK REQUIREMENTS FOR THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (no session since 9/19😡)? ✋

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 13h

Some good news!

A librarian got fired for refusing to remove LBGTQ books and sued the county, its board of commissioners, the library board, and members of both government boards for violating her 1st amendment rights, and discriminatory and retaliatory firing.

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Librarian gets massive payday after firing for refusal to yank LGBTQ books off shelves

A librarian fired by county officials in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves got the last laugh with a $700,000 settlement. According to The New York Times, "Terr...

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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 12h

lmfao he tried to donate “part” of his fee

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 14h

whew

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Human Rights Watch ‘Cannot Accept’ Donations From Aziz Ansari and Other Comedians Who Performed at Riyadh Comedy Festival

Human Rights Watch says it 'cannot accept' donations from Aziz Ansari and other comedians who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

variety.com

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 13h

SHOUTS & MURMURS
ICE wants YOU to betray your fellow-HUMANS. Join ICE today and receive UP TO a $50,000 signing bonus, which YOU can spend on anything YOU want-like a LAWYER when you're eventually TRIED at THE HAGUE.
NEW YÖRKER

SHOUTS & MURMURS
ICE wants YOU to forget that YOU and nearly everyone YOU have ever KNOWN are descended from IMMIGRANTS. We also want YOU to ignore the FACT that the FIRST LADY worked in the U.S. before ever getting a WORK VISA. ICE reminds YOU that YOU will not arrest MODELS, as they are CRUCIAL to our ECONOMY.
NEW YORKER

SHOUTS & MURMURS
ICE wants YOU to put on a MASK to do your JOB. But NOT like
during COVID when YOU didn't WANT to wear a MASK. This time, it's NOT for protecting OTHERS from HARM—it's for protecting your IDENTITY while YOU harm OTHERS.
THE
NEW YORKER

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 13h

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 13h

ahahahahaha what quiet part

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13h

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Marv Was Here @marvmadethat.com · 14h

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 5d

DOMINO MEME

Little Domino says: President Rutherford B Hayes retreats from confederate capitals, ceding control of the southern states back to the redeemers in 1877

Big domino says: Oops! All Nazis 2025

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Skeets Nehemiah @319e17th.bsky.social · 14h

In 20 years, no one will believe that the term “Trumped up charges” wasn’t determined nominally.

#NominalDeterminism

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 14h

I was Today Years Old when I learned that Garrison Keillor is still alive. I was sure we already did the dance about not speaking ill of the dead regarding him being a sex pest. Let me get a jab in now before it's too late.
I don't have to separate the art from the artist because his art sucked too.

weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 16h

Of course Garrison Keillor did the Riyadh Comedy Festival 🙄

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Moon-Watcher @bobsmyusername.bsky.social · 14h

When they come for me I’m definitely ratting out this guy who radicalized me

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 14h

Years ago I was teaching my gun history class and at the end of the quarter one of the students said that he was in the campus TPUSA chapter and they put him up to taking the class to spy on me but he felt bad about that because he loved the class and learned a lot and had a great time

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Marv Was Here @marvmadethat.com · 14h

Yeah, not gonna get the outpouring Dolly got, sorry not sorry

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 14h

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 15h

Anyone who was paying attention during Gamergate recognizes these tactics.

“Oh *we’re* against doxxing, of course, but that person who got doxxed totally deserved it, and yeah, sure we’ve been calling for them to be fired and their lives ruined, but *we* didn’t personally do it.”

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

This pretty much captures the contradictions of the politics of Kirk and Turning Point: Of course we oppose doxxing and violence, but we will absolutely use inflammatory language, false claims, and enemies list that fuels threats and intimidation.

Several days after publishing the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s dismissal from Rutgers, the Turning Point USA chapter added an update saying that it did not support harassment or the doxxing of him or anyone else.

“I think that all death threats and doxxing are unjustified and not how political disputes should be resolved in civilized society,” Ava Kwan, a Turning Point USA chapter member, said in an email on Wednesday.
But she defended the broader point of the petition, saying, “I think Dr. Antifa, who believes in violence as a political tool, should be fired, of course. Taxpayer money should not fund the salaries of terrorists.”

For years, Turning Point USA has maintained a watch-list of hundreds of professors whom the group accuses of advancing leftist propaganda in the classroom. Dr. Bray is on the list.

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 16h

IL lawyers literally preparing their Wish wording, knowing they have a vindictive DM who will say “You didn’t specify no National Guard from THIS state!”

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 16h

Christopher Wells from Illinois tells Perry "we would request the addition of language intended to cover National Guard from other states, or the National Guard of the United States.

"We don't want to get into an Oregon situation."

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Jeffrey Rowland @wigu.org · 16h

I miss being paranoid when everything to be paranoid about wasn't a factual reality

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 15h

Paul Pierce said it was “hard to find a good woman”

Without… and i mean not for a single second considering he is not a good man

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 15h

Let me tell you something… if you can’t find a “good woman”

And you got a pulse????

You scaring them

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 16h

Walking to work in London, a trio of random Japanese tourists approached me excitedly, asked for a selfie with me and for my autograph, which I gave. I'm not famous and I have no idea who they thought I was.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

As a reminder, when Jack Posobiec was in the US Navy, they assessed his full capabilities and concluded that he was best suited to collecting samples for urinalysis

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Frankensorrel @sorrelish.bsky.social · 20h

Reminder that the best defence against authoritarianism is ALWAYS absurdism. It doesn’t matter how natty your jackboots are, nobody looks scary when oppressing Creatures.

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