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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1h

I think it’s a massive misconception that people have that the Nazis were not in fact, massive dorks, and cringe nerds who if they had not been Nazis would’ve been laughed out of most rooms for being absolutely the largest nerds you’ve ever met. Modern Nazis are similarly cringey.

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 13h

It totally did, and their hopes for restricting it - like Crack cocaine - to inner cities were dashed, so they backdated its origins to the lare '70s in order to blame Jimmy Carter.
I'm not on TikTok. Ya think I could be?

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David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 1d

Hilarious and terrifying. Sums up the world in which we live.

Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22d

This is absolutely fucking hilarious and pants shittingly terrifying in equal measure.

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 2d

Just as White Supremacists provide irrefutable evidence against White Supremacy, the Great Replacement dudes are comically replaceable.
They really long for a landslide of #BlandFoodAndBadDancing.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 2d

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2d

The WH press corps sucks but for fuck’s sake, they’ve made the same mathematically impossible claim dozens of times and even fucking once do they even get asked about it????

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 2d

There have been many shameful moments on the part of the White House Press Corps in the last 9 months but the lack of meaningful pushback or follow-up questions to Trump’s constant claims that a major US city has been set on fire for weeks & most of its businesses have been destroyed is damning.

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 2d

I'm still waiting for that check from the 2017 Women's March.

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 2d

He looks and sounds like the Mayor or Principal in a 1980s comedy.
Yeah, we're all quaking with fear.

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 2d

The thing about AI is that although it looks like a bubble and is obviously a bubble and anyone who thinks about it for a moment knows it’s a bubble, unlike all other bubbles in the past I’m sure it will just be fine. I’m investing in tulips.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 3d

ICE needs its own theme music. I recommend "Entry of the Gladiators (Opus 68)," by Julius Fucik.
Doesn't it have a lovely, martial quality?
Aren't those brave officers modern-day #Gladiators?
Play it for them whenever they appear!
Play it for yourself if the title is unfamiliar.

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Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 3d

the defining image of the early 21st century is an agent of the state pointing a gun at a person, and a citizen pointing a smartphone camera back at them

we see this scene reenacted every day, around the world

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A few of my faves @phaves.bsky.social · 3d

He’s declaring war on his own citizens. He’s bombing boats off the coast of South America. He bombed Iran. He’s threatening to “take” Canada and Greenland. WHO in their right mind could possibly think he would get the Nobel peace prize?
MAGA’s perception of reality is truly mind-boggling!

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 3d

Need to add "Demon Copperhead" to the list.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 3d

Stevie Wonder, also.

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 3d

Define "Ages," please: have you read "Underground Railroad," "The Good Lord Bird," "American War" (Canadian author, but set in southern US), or "James?"

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 🍂🍁🍎 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 4d

“…”tolerant attitudes” were “largely explained by increased positive contact with individuals from different cultures” and the positive associations created by the sensory experience of eating good food.”

www.theguardian.com/food/2025/oc...

Enjoying international cuisines makes people more tolerant, UK study finds

Frequent and varied eating found to reduce likelihood of perceiving immigrants as ‘cultural or economic threats’

www.theguardian.com

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · Sep 13

Ask Republicans if it would be OK for the Mexican military to blow up a US fishing boat because they believed it was smuggling deadly guns into Mexico and offered zero evidence. “It’s a ‘river of iron’ that has slaughtered hundreds of thousands!”
Would that be acceptable to them? If not, WHY not?

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Sep 12

Awful: Sen Tim Kaine reached out to numerous GOP Senators to ask them to join his letter laying out basic questions for Trump about drug boat bombing, Senate staffer tells me. Zero Rs agreed.

On the pod we discuss this & deeper legal issues w/ @sranderson.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2003...

Trump Drug Boat Bombing Takes Darker Turn as Damning New Info Emerges

As Trump’s decision to kill 11 drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea suddenly starts looking even worse, a legal expert explains how brazenly Trump is stretching the law—and why it’s so unnerving.

newrepublic.com

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 4d

Prisoner swap for Bolsonaro?

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Bill Wolkoff @billwearsties.bsky.social · 15d

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 4d

a civilization is collapsing before our very eyes, and even if we can stave off the worst, we are not prepared for what is yet to come

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 4d

"The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa."

a black and white photo of a woman saying " play it, sam "

Alt: a black and white photo of a woman - Ingrid Bergman, in "Casablanca," - saying " play it, sam "

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 4d

a girl with red hair is standing in front of a chalkboard

Alt: a girl with red hair is standing in front of a chalkboard

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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