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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 1d

googling "can I get an inflatable frog costume in time for the no kings march"

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

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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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 1d

"2 more feet and I can fit it in fridge!"

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 10d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot like this enough times

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 2d

so many trains

a woman in a colorful sweater is screaming with her hands in the air .

Alt: a woman in a colorful sweater is screaming excitedly with her hands in the air .

media.tenor.com

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 2d

J Walter Weatherman lives!

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 3d

I've been a dem for 40+ years, and realizing how much disdain dem party leadership has for their own party voters has been a hell of a ride

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 8d

I hope someone is cataloging all of these videos to easily id these motherfuckers when it's time to through them in the Hague

alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 8d

Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby.

"I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother.

“I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 9d

While this is certainly true, don't discount the titanic force of "Americans would rather suffer themselves than see someone 'unworthy' get a benefit" (aka white supremacy)

Rep. Mark Pocan @pocan.house.gov · 9d

If every single developed nation in the world can make universal healthcare work, maybe it's not the system that's complex, but our refusal to challenge big pharma and insurance giants.

Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 10d

If those of us in cities are getting burned because they wanted to touch the stove, then they should too or this is just going to keep happening

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 10d

This reminds of the time my friends had "the first ever '90s party" in 2000, and showed up as full-on Xena warrior princess (complete with fake muscles) while everyone else was dressed in baggy jorts

🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 11d

me being the only account to change their name after this:

photo of the babadook costumed woman at her party of no one dressing up

Katie Dippold
@katiedippold
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Tbt to Halloween when I dressed as the babadook but my friend's house had more of a grown ups drinking wine vibe

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 14d

My 78 year old super bipartisan-brained mom rants about how useless the democrats are in fighting trump's fascism

I can assure you, she is not aware of the bsky discourse

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · Feb 2

A government that deliberately abandons the rule of law is not morally entitled to its protections.

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 15d

(It's also making me get out my wallet, which I, a lifelong D donor, have not done ONCE this year)

(In case anyone at @democrats.org is interested in this data point)

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 15d

At a time when dems can't run away from the principles of our party fast enough, seeing someone willing to defend abortion, women's health, and equity this expertly and forcefully is making me feel some really big feelings.

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15d

This is EXCELLENT.

1) this is spot-on analysis of the problem & a great immediate 1st thing a city can do to improve outcome.

2) as a 2 min clip? He's giving history, hope & change. Speaking to women, to Jewish & Black NYers, saying "abortion." & also naming eugenics in feminism. 100/10 no notes.

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 16d

Cuomo could never.

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 18d

"The point is that the possibility of overreach is a price worth paying exactly because shame serves as a robustly liberal alternative to the political violence that Klein and company rightly abhor."

This article is so good and so necessary

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18d

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

www.bostonreview.net

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 21d

What drives me crazy here is I most align with progs in areas where they correctly id systemic issues which guides policy (pub safety, health, climate, etc), but on housing it's suddenly just a bunch of selfish yuppies making bad individual choices

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 24d

this is extremely my jam

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 29d

Crying bsky.app/profile/skee...

sqooky from:me @skeet.best · 29d

Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · 29d

If I have to know about this, so do you

Themperor Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedytcooper.bsky.social · 29d

honey, what's wrong, you've hardly touched your festive fall gendered butt wipes

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · Sep 12

I'm on the east coast for work - I salute you for allowing me to experience the insanity vicariously

a man wearing glasses and a tie looks serious

ALT: a man wearing glasses and a tie looks serious

media.tenor.com

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · Sep 12

Yes. These guys just can't stop shooting their own movement in the dick

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · Sep 11

My spell check just changed "reasonably" to "Taibbi" and LOL it has never been so wrong

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · Sep 11

Haven't read yet, but as a Gen Xer I feel reasonbly certain I could sketch the outline. (I'd also like to point out that those against Guantanamo warned that getting Americans used to the govt disappearing "other" people could easily be turned against us)

Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · Sep 11

can't wait for Klein to blame his transformation to full-throated right-wing pundit on the left for accurately telling everyone who he really is

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · Sep 11

Jesus Christ

Charlie Kirk Was Practicing
Politics the Right Way

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · Sep 10

Are you seriously fucking kidding me - did you have a stroke?