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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 5h

However, some experts the Times spoke with questioned if Mr. Nibbles had glowing red eyes or a top hat full of bats

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 5h

If our TV networks had not been captured by the right wing, some very easy journalism would be to play this clip besides a very not on fire Portland and then tell viewers that the President of the United States is living in an alternate reality.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 5h

You are looking cheugy, Mr Bond

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 5h

you will do joy my way or the highway

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 6h

Heads they win, tails we lose

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 9h

Huge hoist at the petard factory

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 10h

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12h

Lord give us the Democrats that Republicans warn us about.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 13h

finally, a girlboss who really believes in freedom! Unlike Cheeto Hitler, who has been vaporizing fishermen [touches earpiece]

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 13h

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 19h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 13h

Let’s save money by building a complex means testing apparatus to sift out the many bankers who choose to ride the bus, a wise man said

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16h

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 15h

excited to return to brunch, where we can support rightwing freaks abroad

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 23h

I'm at the epistemological closure, I'm at the changing material realities, I'm at the ccccccccombination epistemological closure and changed material reality

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 1d

it’s kind of wild that Kristi Noem goes anywhere or says anything without someone being like hey you shot a dog

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 1d

In a just world, there would be a trap door leading to the Hague

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 1d

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 1d

essentially no one looks worse in all this than Biden, followed closely by the tiresome, morally bankrupt blue wave scolds who shouted at all of us about how Biden couldn’t do anything

Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social · 1d

This week has confirmed my suspicion that Biden’s Middle East policies will look worse, and will be even more embarrassing for Democrats, with the passage of time.

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly weird that Trump hates George Soros given the shared interest in Argentine currency manipulation

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 1d

Routinely calling your political opponents “terrorists,” after two decades of America drooling to kill terrorists/it being legal to do so, is inconsistent with nonviolent politics

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 1d

I am too lazy to read the opinion and order, but since it’s granting a motion to dismiss, I really hope it includes something like “even assuming that Lamar’s allegations are false”

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 1d

It was so mortifying that he filed suit that I forgot it could get worse for him from there

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 1d

Tbf, it is harder for Democrats to credibly run against corruption because their party leaders have been corrupt. Not as corrupt as this ridiculous thief/vandal administration, but, Nancy’s insider trading, Hunter’s no show board jobs, etc. make it tougher

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 1d

To jump in here real quick, I am Jewish. The Israeli genocide of Palestine is horrifying, and associating all Jews with that is antisemitic

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Like a lot of things with RFK Jr if someone just said this to you and wasn’t in charge of medicine in America you’d go: ooooooookay and keep pressing the elevator button

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 1d

an essential longterm component of any successful plan to fix America will be rigidly restricting internet use to people below 40

David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

The "somebody showed me a TikTok" era of American government is going pretty much exactly how you'd expect.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."