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Brian Hiatt @hiattb.bsky.social · 36m

A little moment in my newest James Gunn interview www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 2h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21m

😕🇺🇸

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Skeptic Tank @skeptictank.bsky.social · 26m

also exploding fishermen

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Skeptic Tank @skeptictank.bsky.social · 27m

that's a lot of words to say "i'm a little bitch", andy

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 1h

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 56m

is this what people on the right side of history say

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Skeptic Tank @skeptictank.bsky.social · 1h

omfg

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2h

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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Skeptic Tank @skeptictank.bsky.social · 1h

also anyone who doesn't already drink the cool-aid is going to be instantly repelled by this

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Skeptic Tank @skeptictank.bsky.social · 3h

the good news is that this comes in the form of a focus group chart, the only message that is comprehesible to Democrats

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Skeptic Tank @skeptictank.bsky.social · 4h

categorize the nobel committee as a terrorist organization

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 20h

sherman, for the love of god!

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Skeptic Tank @skeptictank.bsky.social · 8h

Genocide can start again I guess www.nobelpeaceprize.org

Nobel Peace Prize - Home

www.nobelpeaceprize.org

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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 21h

I needed this! ROTFL.

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Skeptic Tank @skeptictank.bsky.social · 20h

i'm probably just old but i don't think i've ever met anyone who even watches a streamer of any sort

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Skeptic Tank @skeptictank.bsky.social · 20h

aren't bogeymen supposed to be scary though? like, is there a type of bogeyman who's just a sycophantic twerp who would self-immolate to protect a pedophile?

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Skeptic Tank @skeptictank.bsky.social · 20h

my favorite album of all time

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Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 1d

Presented without comment.

A screenshot of me trying to prove a transphobe is actually an AI bot by instructing it to write a limerick about potatoes.

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 23h

100%, it’s also WAY more likely to go viral if it’s something absolutely absurd that people can’t look away from

wesin-🎃a spooky version of 🎃-japan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 23h

I've been going over these costume tactics with my Crisis Comms students. I have to say, they are very effective in defusing the Trump messaging. One student even said today that it was a way of deescalating.

C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 6d

"In honor of all the people who brave the unthinkable struggle of having to be American every day: The Thin American Line"

A b/w US flag, with a squeezed normal flag in the thin blue line spot.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

🤷🏼

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Skeptic Tank @skeptictank.bsky.social · 1d

20 minutes of autotuned truck selfie rant videos

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Turning Point USA announced it will host counterprogramming to the Super Bowl halftime show, called “The All American Halftime Show,” as MAGA critics have been enraged over the selection of Bad Bunny as the 2026 headliner.

MAGA rage over Bad Bunny at Super Bowl sparks an alternative show

Counterprogramming hosted by the group that Charlie Kirk founded spotlights the growing political polarization surrounding one of the biggest events of the year.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

"THEY WERE EVENTUALLY LET GO AFTER SHOWING THIER DOCUMENTS". In other words, they were pulled out of their cars for looking "Mexican".

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 1d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Skeptic Tank @skeptictank.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel Peace Prize (*goes to someone who is not Trump*)

a couple of hockey players standing next to each other holding hockey sticks and a puck .

ALT: a couple of hockey players standing next to each other holding hockey sticks and a puck .

media.tenor.com

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