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A. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social · 6h

I was kidding, and yet...

screenshot of my post "Trump to designate Nobel Peace Prize committee as antifa"

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ALTON🏺🦊 @rudefoxalton.bsky.social · 1h

Some pretty cool stuff or so I hear

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Don Hasan @golmia.bsky.social · 3h

Hey guys, can any history buff out there tell me how this usually turns out for people like Trump and co. when those in the military aren't adequately paid and fed?

TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 4h

Military families literally waiting on long lines at food pantries.

Meanwhile, Mike Johnson won’t reconvene the House to save their troops’ paychecks, Senate GOP won’t stop huge health care premium increases, and Trump is gleefully firing 1000s of workers.

The GOP is cruel, through and through.

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ALTON🏺🦊 @rudefoxalton.bsky.social · 1h

Someone already basically covered it, but yeah essentially they basically have to keep on expanding the franchise to stay at all relevant. The crazy thing is how many people decided it was worth losing their culture to assimilate.

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ALTON🏺🦊 @rudefoxalton.bsky.social · 2h

As a child I was given double chocolate chip bagels as a treat and cruelly I have not been able to get any since we moved. Nobody makes chocolate chip bagels for some damn reason.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6h

more tariffs please

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 5h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 8h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 6h

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I'm like pretty pro Palestine for a lefty Zionist lib
Jew but man do l ever have ms Rachel derangement syndrome and I hate myself for it
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her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character
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also I get it the Palestinian side has seen the disproportionate majority of the bloodshed and suffering at this point but if you didn't shed the same tears for innocent Israeli civilians I think you at best have an agenda and at worst are an unrepentant antisemite but that's a whole can o worms
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Dude it's a fucking genocide

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that's kind of a non sequitur

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 10h

The thing about this that's worth recalling is that it *wouldn't* even offend most Americans: just the group of reactionary grifters who make money by being professionally offended online.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 14h

Assassin's Creed pulls planned game about the Civil War, apparently because having a black protagonist fighting the KKK would offend too many Americans

www.polygon.com/assassins-cr...

The canceled Assassin's Creed Civil War game was a powder keg waiting to explode

Ubisoft was reportedly working on a game set after the Civil War era, but canceled it due to politics and Assassins Creed Shadows backlash.

www.polygon.com

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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 9h

The Soviet Union was widely ridiculed for their ancient General Secretaries. The oldest of them died when he was 75, which is TWO YEARS YOUNGER THAN THE PERSON YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.

Donald M. Kreis @dmokreis.bsky.social · 10h

Really? Based on what? People acquire wisdom and judgment with age.

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ceej @ceej.online · 9h

we cannot reopen the government until the leaders of antifa agree to return the thousands of POW/MIAs lost in portland

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 8h

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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ALTON🏺🦊 @rudefoxalton.bsky.social · 7h

Vgatwtoe doing better numbers than Hillary Clinton hell yeah

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 8h

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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ALTON🏺🦊 @rudefoxalton.bsky.social · 9h

As a fan of greek mythology I can definitely see where she is coming from. I think the struggle is capturing the most interesting parts of the mythos. Still, I loved the dynamic in hades 1 of the Olympian gods being a dysfunctional family.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 21h

This shit feels very astroturfed because if you sort the top posts of all time in the subreddit they're either from the last month or 6 years ago and almost nothing in between.

a bunch of screenshots of the top submissions from r/lifestreamfails sorted by top views of all time, with them either showing they're from at most 1 month ago or 6 years ago. subsequent screenshots show similar things.

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Simpley Thom. 🏳️‍🌈 @mongreldog.bsky.social · 15h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"Saying you're 'buying a house in New Zealand' is kind of a wink, wink, say no more," Reid Hoffman previously said. The same presumably goes for bunkers.

But there's a distinctly human flaw.

I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking.

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Constance Trouble @constancetrouble.bsky.social · 12h

Woke up very sick with no food in the house, and because of a clerical error we need to put together $200 to get our garbage pickup turned back on, so I could use some help.
EleanorIsWeird on venmo or Cash app
Thank you

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ALTON🏺🦊 @rudefoxalton.bsky.social · 18h

So my employer has a monthly all staff meeting and this month it included a "yo don't expect any bonuses we're trying to stay alive this year" section, which I'm pretty sure is a very good sign for the economy.

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ALTON🏺🦊 @rudefoxalton.bsky.social · 21h

Posting from a $1000+ gaming machine is great, it's like taking an expensive racecar to go get a gas station hotdog.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

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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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23h

Arrest her?

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

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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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

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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berserk du soleil @aetataureate.bsky.social · 1d

this is the funniest thing i've seen someone act like they're mad about in a very long time

someone posted, "or when asked why you're engaging in bi-erasing you said that the B in LGBTQA stands for Bolg?" a screenshot from the time shows that gretchen felker-martin posted this joke

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 1d

One cool feature of Steam is they provide a Harassment Zone for each game you announce. It's a place for people who hate progress to come and crap all over games they haven't even played. No, they won't help you moderate it, but hey, at least you can't delete it!

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 1d

Classic Steam forums

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

it sometimes feels like people think the outcome of all of this is going to be, like, trump voters going on television and begging for forgiveness. that’s not what happens, and that won’t happen for several reasons.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

for all the talk about how voters need to touch the stove, like, we are touching the stove. this [waves arms wildly] is what touching the stove looks like. nothing happens on a twitter timescale.

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