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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2h

you know what fair

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 11h

@b0tster.yeag.gay said it best

Bunlith PSX, reclined like Sonic, saying "I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding"

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LOWρUFO 🐁🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 4h

If you're ever accused of a federal crime, apparently you can just claim your ex was the founder of antifa and they'll take you 100% seriously as an informant

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 6h

a lot of people who claim that they think kiwifarms is morally evil in every way seem to nevertheless know exactly what is posted on kiwifarms

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ivysorta @ivysorta.bsky.social · 7h

WW2 style poster saying "This man is your FRIEND. He fights for FREEDOM." and a picture of the Portland inflatable frog

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

gang, there are going to be between 20k-40k people at the portland NO KINGS rally, and at least half are going to be wearing inflatable costumes, i want you to think about how funny that looks for a minute

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Psychopomp Gecko @psychopompgecko.bsky.social · 7h

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 8h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 8h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 11h

Which leads me to an absolutely desperate plea: is there anyone in Japan who can collect this bag (not from Oshima [probably from Kyoto]) for us and send us the contents?

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 21h

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 7h

like I think this is a seriously sus image in general but this, in particular, does not strike me as off, to be clear

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 7h

eh, this isn't a huge tell for me. I just took some pictures of my hand in a similar position and it looks kinda like that. I think she just has a long thumb?

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 12h

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12h

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

apnews.com

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 10h

From the bad old site, in response to pro-immigration commentary from Cato scholars. I wonder whether there's something dangerous in letting presidents just arbitrarily declare one or another group to be a terrorist organization -- nah, I suppose that's alarmist.

Four tweets from X, text:

[user] Sep 20
The CATO Institute should be labeled as a domestic terrorist organization.

[user] Sep 20
Replying to
@AlexNowrasteh
Trump's next EO needs to be declaring the CATO Institute a terrorist organization.

[user]
·
Sep 19
The next group that
@realDonaldTrump
needs to designate as a terrorist organization is the Cato Institute

[user]
·
Sep 19
Replying to
@David_J_Bier
we are going to designate the CATO Institute as a terrorist organization next.

Tweets from X, text: "

[user]
·
11h
Replying to
@David_J_Bier
The Cato Institute should be declared a terrorist organization.

[user]
·
11h
President Trump needs to declare Cato institute domestic terror organization
Quote
The Alex Nowrasteh
@AlexNowrasteh
·
Oct 8
Americans would be slightly more pro-immigration if they knew how hard it is to come here legally."

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 7h

That's right! I remembered the 3 I mentioned and was too lazy to look up any other ones lol

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 7h

"One by one, the free lands of Middle Earth fell to the power of the Ring.

"But there were some who resisted."

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 8h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 11h

Fond memories of 2020, when it was decided by the media that it was definitionally impossible for Republicans to be homophobic even if they opposed SSM or gay rights, in the same way that "everyone agrees" that racism is bad, ergo nobody important can ever be accused of racism.

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 11h

An exchange in tonight's VA Gov debate:

AS: My opponent has previously said that she does not think gay couples should be allowed to marry.

WES: That’s not discrimination!

AS: She said that she is, quote-unquote, morally opposed to same-sex marriage.

WES: That’s not discrimination! (1/2)

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 8h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11h

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 9h

One of the reasons to reject the obligatory demands for conservative affirmative action in liberal institutions is that the people who take advantage of it almost invariably function as a fifth column explicitly dedicated to destroying the institution from within.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11h

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 8h

Earlier I read a lament that Republicans have no legislative agenda — which is true, but shouldn’t be misread to mean they have no *partisan* agenda.

They want impunity for themselves, and unfettered oligarchy for the economy. They wreck government from the inside to further those goals.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 10h

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...

www.propublica.org

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 9h

No money flowing to USAID and hardly any to PEPFAR despite their duly enacted funding; well north of twenty billion dollars being deployed for other weird hair autocrats. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, treasury secretary confirms

The U.S. Treasury has finalized a financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country’s central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 17h

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 8h

the giants have won a super bowl in each of the past 3 decades (91, 08, 12) so tbh I think we're due

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 8h

I appreciated everyone's insight but then I remembered her talking about how she hasn't had bibimbap in a while so got Korean

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