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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 8h

oh things must be bad bad

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h

Crazy week.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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shirleyujest.bsky.social @shirleyujest.bsky.social · 4h

Uhhhhhhhhh

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 6h

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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shirleyujest.bsky.social @shirleyujest.bsky.social · 6h

Wait till you hear about catamounts

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6h

How do I make Justice Kavanaugh watch this?

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d

ICE agents to US citizen: Turn around or you're getting the dog.

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SaltyBitchables @saltybitchables.bsky.social · 9h

After installing a makeup studio at the Pentagon, ‘tough guy’, Whiskey Pete Kegseth decided he needed a little more help looking masculine so he got some Botox shot into his big ‘manly’ head.
Word is he’s quite full of himself even though he can’t even do one pull up.

#Pinks #ProudBlue #Kegsbreth

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Kamala Harris: "The Supreme Court made the decision that the president would be immune from any of his conduct while in office. So we went into the election with this individual, Donald Trump, knowing that he would essentially be immune from any consequence for misbehavior while in office."

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 20h

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 1d

🧵 The country's largest anti-human trafficking coalition has sued the Trump administration, asking for a permanent injunction to block enforcement of Trump's anti-DEI executive orders.

Is the Trump administration attempting to declaw an anti-trafficking org by weaponizing anti-DEI EOs?

#Epstein

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 14h

NEW: Trump meant to send a Truth Social DM to Pam Bondi about indicting his rivals. That sounds like official business, so I'm filing a FOIA for her DMs, plus those of five other cabinet members. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/my-latest-...

My Latest FOIA: Trump's Truth Social DMs

Recently, Trump posted a message to Pam Bondi that was meant to be a direct message. I want to know what other official messages he's sending to cabinet members.

www.muellershewrote.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

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Angele @angeledehart.bsky.social · 19h

Another maga loser will gladly spend their hard earned $75 plus shipping for this horrible piece of trash. I hope it’s ends up like the trump watches missing the T.

Picture of cheap trump pink watch made in China missing the letter T which shows “Rump.” Statement reads: Customers upset with Missing ‘T’ in trump-branded watch that cost $640.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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shirleyujest.bsky.social @shirleyujest.bsky.social · 15h

Siri, define “allegations”

shirleyujest.bsky.social @shirleyujest.bsky.social · 15h

Red pill major

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 21h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

oh this guy is delusional delusional

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 21h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 15h

[Picture of Peter Thiel]
"This is your brain on cocaine, twelve unregulated testosterone-like substances, and the methylated trans-isometer of a Soviet de-icing agent rejected for excessive toxicity in sled dogs".

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

oh this guy is delusional delusional

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 21h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 19h

#frogtifaunited 💪
#frogtifaforever ✊️✊️✊️

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

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shirleyujest.bsky.social @shirleyujest.bsky.social · 17h

I would love to ask conservative SCOTUS to explain to me like I'm 5 how "unitary executive" differs from a monarchy.

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Miranda 🖤🤍💜 @doomscroling.bsky.social · 17h

Correction: cowardly bitches literally charged peaceful protestors, pummeling them to the ground & violating their constitutional rights.

Maga definitely voted for this administration to burn the constitution in favor of oppression & authoritarianism.

#Pinks

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