Musicology Duck
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you’re the one arguing with an internet duck
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i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
anybody put down any bets yet of which reps would actually resign
Neguse: "Many of these Republican members are heading to the exit for a reason. They realize they're going to lose the midterms next year. The president is deeply unpopular. His economic agenda is devastating working families across the country. They'll pay an electoral price in 11 months."
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
anybody put down any bets yet of which reps would actually resign
does anybody have sixty thousand quid or so i could borrow
November 26, 2025 at 2:38 AM
does anybody have sixty thousand quid or so i could borrow
i can't weigh in on pie discourse because i'm pretty sure the reason I don't like pie is that there weren't really any good pie bakers in my family and also nobody committed enough to go to a real bakery haha
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
i can't weigh in on pie discourse because i'm pretty sure the reason I don't like pie is that there weren't really any good pie bakers in my family and also nobody committed enough to go to a real bakery haha
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This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
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The truth is, organizers are not magical people whisperers, and we can't indulge that fantasy in the name of empowerment or motivation.
Some places and people are ready to be approached, some places and people aren't.
Some places and people are ready to be approached, some places and people aren't.
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The truth is, organizers are not magical people whisperers, and we can't indulge that fantasy in the name of empowerment or motivation.
Some places and people are ready to be approached, some places and people aren't.
Some places and people are ready to be approached, some places and people aren't.
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I think certain organizing trainings did some of us real psychological damage in teaching us that YOU, ORGANIZER, PERSONALLY have responsibility for going out and making people leverage organized power and ultimately saving the world.
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I think certain organizing trainings did some of us real psychological damage in teaching us that YOU, ORGANIZER, PERSONALLY have responsibility for going out and making people leverage organized power and ultimately saving the world.
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who could have predicted that "Trump Mobile" and the "Trump Phone" was all just part of a lazy lifestyle brand targeting the country's dimmest patriots
The Trump Mobile phone is nowhere to be found after months of delay
Trump Mobile has posted conflicting photos of the phone and scrubbed mention of its “Made in the USA” promise.
www.nbcnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
who could have predicted that "Trump Mobile" and the "Trump Phone" was all just part of a lazy lifestyle brand targeting the country's dimmest patriots
ok as a beyoncé tattoo this is terrible but as carly simon maybe not as bad?
I'm so sorry to this poster but unfortunately this is extremely funny
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
ok as a beyoncé tattoo this is terrible but as carly simon maybe not as bad?
going through old pics and still thinking "this guy. they think they're going to smear THIS guy"
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
going through old pics and still thinking "this guy. they think they're going to smear THIS guy"
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NEW: Amid reports that the U.S. DOGE Service is "dead," alleged Acting Administrator Amy Gleason breaks her silence on LinkedIn: “I’m alive.”
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
NEW: Amid reports that the U.S. DOGE Service is "dead," alleged Acting Administrator Amy Gleason breaks her silence on LinkedIn: “I’m alive.”
trying to not send this to all my conservative family members in ohio who commented "but there has been no crime!" on all my horrifying photos of the occupation
it won't do any good
but apparently i'm going to seethe over it all again
it won't do any good
but apparently i'm going to seethe over it all again
While discussing his crime-fighting efforts in Washington, D.C., President Trump claimed that it’s been months since the city has seen a murder. But that's not true. There have been 62 homicides in Washington since May, including one last week.
FACT FOCUS: Trump gets it wrong claiming no murders in DC for the last six months
In addition to pardoning two North Carolina turkeys at the annual White House ceremony, President Donald Trump discussed his crime-fighting efforts in Washington, D.C., claiming that it’s been six months since the city has seen a murder.
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM
trying to not send this to all my conservative family members in ohio who commented "but there has been no crime!" on all my horrifying photos of the occupation
it won't do any good
but apparently i'm going to seethe over it all again
it won't do any good
but apparently i'm going to seethe over it all again
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Quite the day he had last week: bsky.app/profile/dcmi...
An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀
November 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Quite the day he had last week: bsky.app/profile/dcmi...
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‘Racism is when you alert people to ICE’s presence’ - yard sign stealing guy. Honestly, we'd be embarrassed for him if he wasn't terrorizing our communities.
Hopefully, someone buys him a dictionary for Christmas!
Hopefully, someone buys him a dictionary for Christmas!
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
‘Racism is when you alert people to ICE’s presence’ - yard sign stealing guy. Honestly, we'd be embarrassed for him if he wasn't terrorizing our communities.
Hopefully, someone buys him a dictionary for Christmas!
Hopefully, someone buys him a dictionary for Christmas!
i really need those kids who made wearing pimple patches in public socially acceptable to make breathe-rite nasal strips cool
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
i really need those kids who made wearing pimple patches in public socially acceptable to make breathe-rite nasal strips cool
lol was i the only one who saw this crew doing IG lives with all of them talking about stuff during the shutdown?
Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
lol was i the only one who saw this crew doing IG lives with all of them talking about stuff during the shutdown?
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given the source this reads to me like a warning shot for the moment, but also, I took so much crap on this website for saying that the House GOP was cracking and it wasn’t all Epstein files bill haha
☀️TOP in @punchbowlnews.bsky.social AM: MTG announced the end of her House career Friday night in a manifesto, of sorts, that was stinging for House Republicans. Why? Because the message rang true to so many in the House GOP.
Full story:
punchbowl.news/article/hous...
Full story:
punchbowl.news/article/hous...
What MTG got right
MTG’s four-page note was stinging for House Republicans. Why? Because the message rang true to so many in the House GOP.
punchbowl.news
November 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
given the source this reads to me like a warning shot for the moment, but also, I took so much crap on this website for saying that the House GOP was cracking and it wasn’t all Epstein files bill haha
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there is some amazing internet lore in this thread
Hell, even in the last few years before Usenet functionally died outside of moderated newsgroups (and by "last few years before Usenet died" I mean "shortly after Cantor & Siegel's green-card spam in 1994/Sanford Wallace era") even spam moderation was becoming largely automated (cancelbots)
1/2
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November 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
there is some amazing internet lore in this thread
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messing up an OSU-Michigan joke might actually be legally disqualifying for statewide office in Ohio, someone check
November 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
messing up an OSU-Michigan joke might actually be legally disqualifying for statewide office in Ohio, someone check
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movember
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
movember
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also checked to see how our newest congresswoman’s decor is coming along, and I would say…nicely
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
also checked to see how our newest congresswoman’s decor is coming along, and I would say…nicely
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Incredible tribute to someone who did so much for music in this country
November 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Incredible tribute to someone who did so much for music in this country
also checked to see how our newest congresswoman’s decor is coming along, and I would say…nicely
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
also checked to see how our newest congresswoman’s decor is coming along, and I would say…nicely
I really have to not let myself think days like this (when I also chit chatted with a congressman amongst other things) are just …routine
not me sitting with relatives of the Gershwins and Johnny Cash watching the acting librarian of Congress cry at Roberto Diaz playing a Stradivarius viola
November 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I really have to not let myself think days like this (when I also chit chatted with a congressman amongst other things) are just …routine