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Rebel Against Hate @rebelagainsthate.com · 6h

My cardiac age is 118, mostly due to current circumstances.

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Rebel Against Hate @rebelagainsthate.com · 8h

Unsolicited Glick pic.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 11h

An ancestral sickos meme. “Aye…ha ha ha…AYE!”

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Rebel Against Hate @rebelagainsthate.com · 11h

Inflatable frog is THE Halloween costume of 2025.

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Rebel Against Hate @rebelagainsthate.com · 11h

Infinity tariffs.

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Rebel Against Hate @rebelagainsthate.com · 14h

The number of HUGE leaps you have to take to arrive at “financial regulation of billionaires spurred by a young autistic activist is the end times,“ is substantial.

Rebel Against Hate @rebelagainsthate.com · 14h

I know Peter Theil doesn’t read my social media, but even if you take a literalist view of the book of Revelation, Greta Thunberg ain’t anywhere near being the Antichrist.

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Rebel Against Hate @rebelagainsthate.com · 14h

I know Peter Theil doesn’t read my social media, but even if you take a literalist view of the book of Revelation, Greta Thunberg ain’t anywhere near being the Antichrist.

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Rebel Against Hate @rebelagainsthate.com · 14h

Russ Vought should have picked a country other than the one he lives in to fuck over.

I mean, just seems like you don’t shit where you eat for lots of reasons.

Rebel Against Hate @rebelagainsthate.com · 16h

Our flag has been grossly tainted as a symbol.

Jillbles @jillbles.bsky.social · 16h

I'm seeing a lot of, "Take back flag iconography from the baddies," today, and... I don't know, y'all.
I really don't know.
Our flag has made me feel sort of sick since about 2002. Everyone rallied around it in 2001, including me.

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Rebel Against Hate @rebelagainsthate.com · 16h

Never, in all my years in tech, have I sent a newsletter to a person in leadership over me to underscore how massive and difficult this problem is.

But I suppose there is a first time for everything.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 18h

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 17h

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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Rebel Against Hate @rebelagainsthate.com · 18h

Think of why they dress the way they dress in all that khaki tacticool bullshit. The masks, the weighted gloves, the vests, etc. ad nauseam.

They need this to look like a war. They want the smoke on the news. They want the conflict.

How you gonna fight an inflatable frog?

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Rebel Against Hate @rebelagainsthate.com · 18h

I think this makes a broader point I've been thinking about: they want the people protesting them to look militaristic. They need the resistance to look dangerous.

Making it silly, publicly and overtly, is a powerful use of optics.

Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 18h

Wearing goofy costumes to fight them is an amazing tactic fuck their self-serious scary guy faux intimidation were out here being silly and kicking your ass fuck you

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Rebel Against Hate @rebelagainsthate.com · 18h

Remember when they gave Trump an award made from metal from the Twin Towers?

Rebel Against Hate @rebelagainsthate.com · 18h

A machine can’t teach you better than a human because a machine doesn’t actually know anything.

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Rebel Against Hate @rebelagainsthate.com · 20h

I can’t imagine what it must be like to be a Republican congressman and getting the call from the Whitehouse that you have to go on TV… TO MAKE THE PRESIDENT FEEL BETTER.

Rebel Against Hate @rebelagainsthate.com · 21h

You know those movies where the president has to weigh the awful decision of dropping a bomb on an American city to prevent some other tragedy?

Trump might do it because he’s having a bad day.

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