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Vassilis Tsarnas @vassilistsarnas.bsky.social · 9h

#Greece's government, led by PM K. Mitsotakis, has been exercising its authoritarian tendencies for years and as all similar players, they are trying to say it's them or chaos. A poll is now asking this exactly. Mitsotakis or chaos. 30% still chose him but a 42% voted for chaos...
#RuleOfLaw

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Benjamin Franklinstein @mitchellg657.bsky.social · 18h

Sounds like the Charles Entertainment Kirk audience tbf

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Benjamin Franklinstein @mitchellg657.bsky.social · 1d

Khomeini and the other islamists captured the various anti-shah movements through the distribution of audio cassettes. Old physical media has a value.

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Benjamin Franklinstein @mitchellg657.bsky.social · 2d

Is this guy getting confused by a map of NYC? The city with its famous grid of streets and avenues? That are numbered? In order?

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Benjamin Franklinstein @mitchellg657.bsky.social · 2d

Polio is overblown.

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Benjamin Franklinstein @mitchellg657.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe he's thinking about his 45 minute dance party on the campaign trail.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 2d

The lib desire to correct the record, to argue honestly in terms their opponent doesn't even believe in has driven me insane watching it for the last 3 decades. They don't care about family or science or the laws of government or even the religions they pretend to believe in stop falling for it.

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 3d

I just opted out of streaming music altogether. I'm over this shit, man. I'm going analog as much as I can. I liked having a house phone. I liked records and CDs. Just because we CAN stream music and carry our fucking phones everywhere doesn't mean we have to.

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Benjamin Franklinstein @mitchellg657.bsky.social · 3d

How many of us found favorite horror movies because we were entranced by the picture on the box (looking at you, Dead and Buried)?

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Benjamin Franklinstein @mitchellg657.bsky.social · 3d

Someone recently pointed out that the algorithmic suggestions that streaming services make are never as broad ranging or as likely to return something interesting than just flipping through the bins at a record store or looking at the shelves at a video or book store.

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Benjamin Franklinstein @mitchellg657.bsky.social · 3d

The Political Writings by Karl Marx, the volume @versobooks.bsky.social published with the introduction by Tariq Ali.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 3d

I find all the monsters the monsterfuckers want to fuck and chase them out of town with torches and pitchforks, reduce them to bones with the oxygen destroyer, shoot them off the Empire State Building, things of this nature. I'm considered a "party pooper" but I've saved tens of thousands of lives.

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Liam Quane 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @specificityarchives.com · 4d

Americans need to undrrstand that this is all it takes to beat a Nazi. And no, memes don't count.

Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 4d

The moment Richard Spencer got clocked in the head was pretty much the end of his story, he had been getting glazed by several media sources all the way up to that moment

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Benjamin Franklinstein @mitchellg657.bsky.social · 4d

The day after the 1980 election a girl who was in the homeroom next to mine (this would have been 5th grade) stood out in the hall, unable to move, sobbing for what felt like forever until the rest of us got hustled inside. Her name was Erin and she clearly had a good idea of what was coming.

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 5d

He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 5d

Those who do learn from history are doomed to have people tell them they’re overreacting

Arrogant Esquire @arrogantade.blacksky.app · 6d

Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

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Scary Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 5d

if you turn away every time you feel discomfort, your world will contract and contract and contract until you are incapable of connecting to others or imagining other ways of existing in the world

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 5d

When Democrats or the left explicitly or tacitly accept nonegalitarian ideas - islamophobia, transphobia, antisemitism, etc. - they are creating weak spots that will inevitably be exploited by fascists seeking to destroy any sort of coalition

Akbar Shahid Ahmed @akbarshahidahmed.huffpost.com · 5d

Embracing secondary, doubtful status for Muslims has major policy implications. Biden’s moral+strategic disaster on Gaza, for instance, flows directly from the broad acceptance among US elites that mass punishment + destruction post-10/7 was unavoidable. Huge, horrific, still unfolding consequences.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.

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Benjamin Franklinstein @mitchellg657.bsky.social · 5d

This really feels like driving 30 miles out of your way to save ten cents on gas.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 6d

Rahm Emanuel covered up the murder of Laquan McDonald by Chicago police

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 6d

Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Thursday a decision on whether to pursue the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination comes down to whether he thinks he can meet “both the challenge and the promise of tomorrow” and execute on it.

Rahm Emanuel points to record, trust with Republicans as he considers presidential bid

Former Chicago mayor and Japan ambassador Rahm Emanuel said at a City Club of Chicago luncheon he needs to have something unique to say and know he can execute on it to run for president.

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Benjamin Franklinstein @mitchellg657.bsky.social · 5d

Can't imagine he gets a lot of opportunities to do the latter.

Benjamin Franklinstein @mitchellg657.bsky.social · 7d

I read a spoliery review of Welcome to Derry yesterday, and look, I get the appeal of mashing up cosmic horror and Cold War geopolitics, I just liked it more when @cstross.bsky.social and Tim Powers did it.

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 7d

Old Soviet joke:

Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?

One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals

Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 7d

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

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Tiger Elephant Giraffe Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7d

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

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