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McRombles Plenty @mcrombles.bsky.social · 18h

I ,,, have passing awareness, having been one. Does this usually work for you?

McRombles Plenty @mcrombles.bsky.social · 18h

Buddy, they’re not children. I grew up in rural Illinois. They voted for, and were rocked by, Rauner. Very scant sympathy.

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McRombles Plenty @mcrombles.bsky.social · 19h

Listen, that’s the sound of intactivists grinding their teeth to powder.

McRombles Plenty @mcrombles.bsky.social · 20h

Somehow aged like wine.

McRombles Plenty @mcrombles.bsky.social · Nov 12

Disney Adults get a lot of flak, but “I sat my ass down and LISTENED to Moana 2” is more heavy lifting than the average adult now.

McRombles Plenty @mcrombles.bsky.social · 21h

Many people don’t understand how firmly she controls the IP. It’s not “oh, maybe she has residuals, sweat of the brow,” no, she’s got stakes in everything from movies to theme parks - including continued creative oversight. There’s no detangling her.

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McRombles Plenty @mcrombles.bsky.social · 1d

Very sorry to hear it. Different symptoms, but I feel you. Getting to any baseline is such a chore, 4 times the effort for half the credit! Wishing you the best, few crashes, no whammies.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 3d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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McRombles Plenty @mcrombles.bsky.social · 5d

(NSFW)
It sounds either a lady neighbour’s having a GREAT time every ~6 days, or someone NEEDS to turn the volume down on their favourite porn. Frankly I don’t want to know which.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 16d

it's just a fact. you can't have a global hegemon who every few years is at risk of electing a lunatic government that will undo treaties, start murdering people in international waters on a whim, stop aid programs, and slap wanton tariffs on the world capriciously. we have no credibility anymore

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McRombles Plenty @mcrombles.bsky.social · 20d

Ezra "Credulous" Klein, I swear.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21d

again, as somebody who has actually lived in a dictatorship and worked with dissidents from across the world, this kind of whiny cosplaying by academics pretending they have some secret knowledge of resistance is very annoying.

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 21d

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21d

You threaten to conquer a country a whole bunch of times and all of a sudden people get all mad bsky.app/profile/step...

Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 21d

“"I'm disappointed that I came to Canada — a Canada that it is very, very difficult to find Canadians who are passionate about the American-Canadian relationship,"

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www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

U.S. ambassador 'disappointed' with anti-American sentiment in Canada | CBC News

The U.S. ambassador to Canada is expressing frustration over the anti-American sentiment he sees in this country, including from politicians, after U.S. President Donald Trump hit most of the world wi...

www.cbc.ca

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 21d

It is no more a “market decision” or “voluntary” for you to give me your wallet after I threaten to shoot you than it is for ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel after the FCC chair threatened them. You can’t pretend that ABC did this on their own. The government coerced them into taking a specific action.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21d

Extraordinarily corrupt. I watched FCC chair Brendan Carr's full interview on Hannity. Carr basically said straight out that coverage of Trump he deems overly hostile can be decreed contrary to the "public interest," and thus grounds for yanking licenses:

newrepublic.com/article/2006...

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 21d

Literally fascism. Literally what the Nazis did with Horst Wessel.

Meet the Press @meetthepress.com · 21d

Possible slogans discussed include “Charlie has awakened a generation of warriors.” There is talk of using Turning Point USA chapters as recruitment centers.

Military leaders consider recruiting campaign centered around Charlie Kirk

Possible slogans discussed include “Charlie has awakened a generation of warriors.” There is talk of using Turning Point USA chapters as recruitment centers.

nbcnews.to

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McRombles Plenty @mcrombles.bsky.social · 24d

It “dictates” this? Where’s the property line? What is and isn’t a private residence? Where is the video to be stored? Is it illegal or illegal to share the raw capture or analysis? Come on, you goddamn muppet.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 24d

Removing information about slavery at Harper’s Ferry is like removing information about hydroelectric power at the Hoover Dam. “John Brown went to Harper’s Ferry because he was so infected by the woke mind virus that he had a pathological hatred of states rights.”

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24d

They’re just completely erasing history.

At Harpers Ferry, staff flagged more than 30 signs, according to a person familiar with the matter and documents reviewed by The Post, that highlight information potentially in violation of Trump's policy. They include signs referring to racial discrimination and the hostility of white people to people who were formerly enslaved.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 24d

These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.

Instagram account connected to Gilroy shooter pushed staple of white supremacist internet forums

Anti-Semitic open letter posted online under name of Chabad synagogue shooting suspect

Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect threatened Jewish groups, pushed migrant caravan conspiracies

New Zealand mosque shooting: Attacker's apparent manifesto probed

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25d

Anyone proposing that an official be allowed to revoke the passport of a citizen for criticizing *this* country would be rightly regarded as batshit insane and deeply hostile to this country's laws and traditions.

Proposing that they can do that if we criticize some *other* country?

Fuck. That.

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Pear 🍐 @purelypear.bsky.social · 25d

This is what happens when you try to cooperate with the tRegime.

They never saw you as human to start with.
That is the art of his deal.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 25d

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

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McRombles Plenty @mcrombles.bsky.social · 26d

Plenum plumbing theory, today? Now?

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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 26d

Instead of the media’s lazy posthumous takes, I am in favor of Kirk’s actual words being spread far and wide.

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McRombles Plenty @mcrombles.bsky.social · 26d

The trick is claiming an Arab Muslim did it re: the Quran, in which case they absolutely understand it as endorsement, not just glazing “Biblical truth as a concept.”

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26d

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss.

A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Screenshot of article excerpt: The Education Department also was concerned about other words in the application, said Adrian Klenz, who works with deafblind adults in the state. He said he has talked with state officials about the discontinuation of the grant.

“I was told that apparently the administration is going through past grants and two words were flagged: One was transition and one was privilege,” Klenz said. “Transition — transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Privilege came up because a parent wrote a glowing review of staff that said what a privilege it was to work with them.” ProPublica obtained a copy of the grant application and confirmed that those words were included.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26d

Remember that this was happening just as the right (and the useful idiots of the non-right) was swollen with performative celebrations of how Charlie Kirk was the hero of free speech

Andrew Dyer @andrewdyer.bsky.social · 27d

Hegseth tweeted: "Pronouns updated: She/Her/Fired"

www.kpbs.org/news/local/2...

San Diego Navy doctor fired after right-wing activists find pronouns on social media

Cmdr. Janelle Marra, a 21-year Navy physician, was the commander of Expeditionary Medical Facility 150 Bravo.

www.kpbs.org

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