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Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 2h

The billionaire class has decided that they don’t need us anymore. Perhaps they believe they are days away from replacing us with machinery, androids, and AI, who knows. So now they are trying to kill us off through neglect. Maybe “they are killing off their own voters” is a feature not a bug.

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Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 2h

They are always on the side of power.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2h

Yes, because NYT is a fascist institution

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2h

Douthat is laundering hard core white Christian supremacy into the mainstream, with the NYT's blessing.

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Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 3h

The house is beautiful but they don’t have the faintest idea how to decorate it. All those antiques and they can’t figure out what to do with them.

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Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 4h

Douthat has always wanted a theocracy, with himself as the pope, and I am not joking. He is one of those guys who never felt sufficiently appreciated by the world and has been getting his revenge against it ever since, despite his enormous and undeserved privilege.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 4h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

The Democratic Attorneys General Association established a Legal Defense Fund for exactly this moment: when its members — including AG Tish James—are targeted by the Trump administration for political prosecution.

Donate here.

Donate to DAGA's Legal Defense Fund

The Democratic Attorneys General Association has launched a defense fund to help defend Democratic attorneys general and their staff who are targeted for political retribution by the Trump administrat...

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 4h

No good billionaires and none of them are okay

David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 5h

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Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 4h

Winsome, lose some.

Agora01619 @agora01619.bsky.social · 4h

Meanwhile in #Virginia

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GOP Candidate: It's Not Discrimination to Fire Someone for Being Gay — The New Republic

Virginia Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears had a truly wild debate performance.

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Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 6h

They are going to punish Ds for things they didn’t do, so Ds might as well do them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 6h

I have a Cuisinart and 99/100 I just use a knife.

Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 6h

This is the criteria around which my life is organized.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 6h

I mean we can talk about the way these tech billionaires have scrambled eggs for brains, but I'm going to talk about something else: kitchenware.

I like to play this game called "how hard is it to clean" and so much kitchen shit is hard to clean.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 7h

this man's name is written in the book of life

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 10h

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.

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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...

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Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 7h

Can you short Christmas? Is that a thing?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump announces he's putting a bajillion percent tariff on China

It has just been learned that China has taken an extraordinarily aggressive position on Trade in sending an extremely hostile letter to the World, stating that they were going to, effective November 1st, 2025, impose large scale Export Controls on virtually every product they make, and some not even made by them. This affects ALL Countries, without exception, and was obviously a plan devised by them years ago. It is absolutely unheard of in International Trade, and a moral disgrace in dealing with other Nations.

Based on the fact that China has taken this unprecedented position, and speaking only for the U.S.A., and not other Nations who were similarly threatened, starting November 1st, 2025 (or sooner, depending on any further actions or changes taken by China), the United States of America will impose a Tariff of 100% on China, over and above any Tariff that they are currently paying. Also on November 1st, we will impose Export Controls on any and all critical software.

It is impossible to believe that China would have taken such an action, but they have, and the rest is History. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 7h

Oh God, that I were a frog! I would eat his heart in the marketplace.

Expatriot @expatriot.bsky.social · 7h

Cry havoc! And let slip the frogs of war!

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Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 7h

no
effing
clue

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "AI is based on information. I hope they're right about information. I don't know. You've gotta make a lot of money to-- there's gotta be a lot of information out there, but that seems to be pretty hot. We're leading the world on information on AI."

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Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 7h

You know who else is a criminal?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Q: ICE are making arrests at courthouses in NYC and around the country--

TRUMP: Criminals. They're arresting criminals. I'm happy about it. I want them to arrest criminals.

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Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 7h

Hatred takes a toll on people. People either find a way to take the edge off or their hearts explode.

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Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 7h

This is his second big mistake. I wonder why.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 8h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 7h

Hell Comes To Frogtown

spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1d

donning the armor of god to face the forces of hell

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Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 8h

Because both sides want the other side to croak.

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 8h

Why are fascists and antifascists in the United States both represented by rival cartoon frogs? Nobody knows, yet on this fact history turned.

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Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 11h

Ahhhh. I suppose a mirror in the eyes of paintball snipers would have an effect too. And there are options for night as well.

But that would be wrong, of course.

Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods

That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.

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Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 12h

D leadership would rather have a dead Congress member than one they do not control.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12h

the idea that the only way we can have a primary is to run a 77 year old career politician against a newcomer is a sign of a tragically unimaginative politics

We need retirement from being an elected official to be a thing for politicians

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Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 12h

A Noem stop. Does ICE get a bonus for shooting dogs?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

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Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 13h

I smell an ideological purge.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 15h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Richard White @rhwhite.bsky.social · 18h

A set of five Japanese porcelain dishes molded with lobed rims and painted with an asymmetrical polychrome flower design of chrysanthemums and butterflies above two banded hedges in blue. Hizen (Arita) ware, 18th-19th century.
A fine set, nicely-decorated. (see ALT)

MARKS
A stylized version of the fuku (happiness) mark in blue under each dish.

MEASUREMENTS
7 1/4” (18.5 cm) in diameter.

PROVENANCE
George E. McCague, purchased in Japan in April 1903.
Bonham’s, New York, Sale 28441, Fine Japanese and Korean Works of Art, 22 March 2023, lot 934.

George Emmet McCaque (1857-1926), Pittsburgh resident and veteran railroad traffic manager and partner in the Carnegie Steel Company, immediately after his brief retirement in 1903 took his family on a vacation to Japan where he purchased these dishes as part of a small collection of fine Japanese decorative art.

The blue of the stylized hedges contrast beautifully with the red in the flowers above.

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 19h

So fucked up

bennydiego @bennydiego.bsky.social · 1d

Dominion Voting Systems, the election vendor that was falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election, is being sold to a Republican and will be rebranded as Liberty Vote effective immediately.

Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting Systems, says he’ll push for paper ballots | CNN Politics

Dominion Voting Systems, the election vendor that was falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election, is being sold and rebranded as Liberty Vote effective immediately.

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