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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · Aug 9

At @wtevs.bsky.social's BASKETBALL FEELINGS, the Zesty KAT stuff took me right back to my own dumb childhood jock dreams and the ugly homophobia that’s seeping into ever corner of the current fascist moment—even the '24-25 Knicks. www.basketballfeelings.com/p/exits-some...

Exits: Something darker

Writer Robert Silverman on the Knicks, the authoritarian need of humiliation, outgrowing childhood fears, and Karl-Anthony Towns.

www.basketballfeelings.com

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 50m

the nonsense phrase "now barge the lathe!" is probably what I'll be muttering on my deathbed

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 58m

I hope you were able to shoehorn in a reference to one of my fave Simpsons bits

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 1h

Darren Rovell join bluesky you coward

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2h

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A collage of four tweets from Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) discussing concerns about artificial intelligence.

Top left tweet: Walsh warns that within a year or two, people will be able to create indistinguishable fake videos for defamation, and that nothing is being done to prevent this.
Bottom left tweet: He says AI will destroy jobs, art, reality, and civilization, yet no action is being taken to stop it.
Top right tweet: He criticizes AI-generated films as soulless and meaningless, saying art requires human expression and that AI will be the “death of art.”
Bottom right tweet: Walsh argues that if a robot paints a picture, the robot is the artist, not the person prompting it, because the robot lacks consciousness and meaning.

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 2h

hell yeah man. and also ffs

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2h

A man was just abducted by ICE on Clark and Lunt, feet away from our campaign office.

Now our community is showing up and patrolling for ICE. Join us by getting involved in Protect RP: www.facebook.com/share/1DQqPQ...

Redirecting...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7h

The Atlantic, the NYT, the Post, the Free Press, Persuasion ... god, so many others ... they did it. They participated in the destruction of norms against bigotry & now bigotry is running rampant, out in the open, at the highest levels.

Great work everyone.

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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 3h

The Secretary of Health and Human Services does not know that babies don't grow inside placentas

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

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."

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 6h

Some stories about my friend Kaleb, on the occasion of his funeral:

channel-6.ghost.io/its-just-dif...

IT'S JUST DIFFERENT VALLEYS, THAT'S ALL

Kaleb Horton has departed this life, and for those left behind there is nothing that reconciles any part of what’s happened with what should’ve happened. He had a family, grieving now. He had friends,...

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 4h

"Jack Posobiec, a far-right influencer and conspiracy theorist... called Bray a 'domestic terrorist professor.' 'The day after the Posobiec tweet, I received a very direct death threat saying that someone was going to kill me in front of my students,' says Bray." Jack was at the White House on Wed.

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 4h

it's like a dipshit Canadian King Lear

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 4h

"In my community where I teach, there’s kids not coming to school for a month at a time because they’re scared of what can happen to them,” he said. “I’m overwhelmed with blinding anger and depression for the people who are being affected.”

blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/08/h...

Chicago Protesters Take To The Streets To Denounce National Guard Deployment, ICE

The latest protest against the federal government's militarized presence in Chicago saw hundreds march past Trump Tower.

blockclubchicago.org

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 5h

literally, there's a name I haven't heard in years dot meme

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 7h

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC

President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday

www.mediaite.com

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 6h

Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use:

www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

www.404media.co

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 6h

I wrote about Chicago: "Is this city burning? There is a definite answer to the question. In all these cities, the answer is no. No American city is currently on fire, and if Chicago is a war zone, it’s because it’s being invaded by the president."

Trump Is Waging War on an American City

The real threat to people in Chicago (and Los Angeles and Portland) is our maniacal president.

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Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 6h

they're gonna be so mad we have a better frog

escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 17h

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 6h

I genuinely think he can't really differentiate reality from fiction at any given moment.

Anyway, please subscribe to this, it's free for the moment but I'm getting toward time-to-charge-small-amounts-for-my-work territory.

www.gravityisgone.com/portland-is-...

I have long "joked" that Trump lacks both object permanence and theory of mind — other people essentially do not exist to him, and the most true thing in the world is whatever the last person who he does not completely hate told him. The "person" he hates least of all is the television — primarily Fox News, given its complete subservience, but the screen in general is his best and arguably only true friend. That friend, these last few weeks has been telling him One Big Thing: that Portland, Oregon, is on fire, and that he, the President, must act to save it. There is a chance that some part of him knows this is all a lie, but...

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 15h

It definitely wasn’t good!

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 18h

No. They're the same price

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 18h

it's Joever

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 18h

Many people are starting to leave the stadium? There is an entire inning left!

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 18h

wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus—an very large and extremely real segment of the population

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 18h

it's something in the wudder

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K. Liakos @kliakos.com · 20h

America 2025:

The facade of a store in a Delaware strip mall called its fashion but the lights on the o n and exclamation point are out so it says it’s fashi

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 19h

DIDI: Let's go
GOGO: We can't
DIDI (slaps own forehead): Why?
[chorus enters tapdancing from stage left & right, sticks pose]
CHORUS (singing): we're waiting for Godot!
DIDI + GOGO (singing) Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh!