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"The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'T is not too late to seek a newer world." We need not always mourn what is dying. Fairly erudite. More than fairly iconoclastic. I adore Jade.

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 27d

To all who watch America from afar,

Please learn from this.

Please root out your evil and do not coddle or celebrate it.
Please rein in your rich and please lift your poor.
Please remember that hate is a drug, and to guard against both its suppliers and addicts.

Please be free while we are not.

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 7m

Jeez, these fuckers are such insufferable nerds.

Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 16m

Except I don't think anyone in the Trump regime can count to ten, much less be able to fathom that an ace might count for one or eleven. They'd see that as some crazy trans shit that Satan did to the number one.

Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 1d

We won't know who is in Antifa until the administration releases a deck of playing cards with their pictures on them.

Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 18m

I like that. I like that a lot.

Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 1h

MAGA's out here screaming about how much their dictator deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, while the actual Nobel Peace Prize goes to someone actually fighting dictatorship.

NPR @npr.org · 2h

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 1h

Hegseth's vaunted "warrior-ethos" would put a Real Housewife to shame.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

“The defense secretary underwent a round of cosmetic injections last month.” One insider: “He’s always been full of himself, but lately his ego has been off the charts.”

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 9h

If Stephen Miller's mouth is moving, he's lying.

Every time.

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 10h

Trying to not heave at the thought of her.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 11h

Anything that helps anyone who isn't a billionaire pedophile.

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 11h

Oh, look. Puppy murderer Human-Trafficking Barbie is also corrupt as fuck.

Surprise, surprise.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 12h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 11h

🤣🤣

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 13h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 11h

(throws furniture through the walls in unmitigated righteous rage at the naked self-defeating evil at the core of the American psyche, then looks up and apologizes for the outburst)

Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 11h

It's the same reason they countered the presidency of Barack Obama with that of Donald Trump.

It was their collective assertion that the worst white man was better than the best black man.

I can't count how many 2024 voters I heard rationalize their Trump vote with "Well, I COULDN'T vote for HER."

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 11h

Honestly?

Because in their own minds, it's a measure of power.

"We don't have to be truthful, or legal, or popular, or anything. We, as right-wing white men, have a natural right to rule, and the less we adhere to any standards of decency or governance, the more our inherent right is affirmed."

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 11h

The White House press pool was already pathetic and superfluous in previous administrations, but now it's just a pack of craven stenographers who dutifully jot down the most laughable bullshit that can fall from a human face.

I don't think most of them even have critical thinking skills anymore.

Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 11h

The person I most want to get into a rap battle with, honestly, is crass-ass Trump toadie Stephen Cheung.

Like, the overcompensation on that motherfucker could choke a sperm whale. I'd make that shithead cry in about five minutes.

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 11h

Because we don't have journalists anymore.
We have craven idiots who think "access" matters.

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 11h

I would ask horibly inappopriate but accurate questions like "Why can't you at least lie plausibly?" or "So when precisely did your dick fall off? Can you give us the date?" or "Seriously, though, you know that you look like a fucking clown pasting that shitty ass cake makeup on yourself, right?"

Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 12h

(nods, trying not to laugh)

N.B. Lindberg @nblindberg.bsky.social · 12h

When the dodgers loaded the bases, I thought to myself they’re going to win on a walkoff passed ball, what could be funnier than that? Well, that could be funnier

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 12h

Once again, the Washington Post proves that its headline and lede writing sucks aaaaaaaaaaaass.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 12h

a woman in a pink dress is saying " popular i know about popular "

Alt: a woman in a pink dress is saying " popular i know about popular "

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 12h

His weird bruised hand caked in makeup.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 15h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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