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jeff bezoar @vapingbaby.bsky.social · 10h

lots of great music without drums, but i still prefer them being there

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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 11h

As often as Trump gets dogwalked I’m surprised Noem is allowed anywhere near him.

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ddiiggss @ddiiggss.bsky.social · 13h

I think one of the worst things about Trump 2 so far has been how pathetic and gross people and institutions have gotten. so many people embarrassing themselves trying to out-toady each other just to win some very brief positive attention from a guy who will use and forget them

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jeff bezoar @vapingbaby.bsky.social · 14h

vapingbaby is never going to tell you to stop listening to jazz fusion, but fusion's old enough now that you should probably befriend its kids if you want to continue the relationship

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jeff bezoar @vapingbaby.bsky.social · 14h

i for one am ready for people to listen to a little less fusion and a little more m-base

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jeff bezoar @vapingbaby.bsky.social · 15h

i really want to read the news less--it is making me actively miserable--but these assholes are almost quite literally crapping in my back yard

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jeff bezoar @vapingbaby.bsky.social · 15h

i'm so fucking sick of the damage these people have done not just to the country as a whole but to this region. they are creating an economic black hole in one of the country's powerhouses for no other reason than cruelty and stupidity.

Vought sounds layoff siren: 'The RIFs have begun'

At least nine agencies appear to be affected.

www.politico.com

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 16h

Virginia Dems are going to get Saddam Hussein style election numbers

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Nat in Great Lakes Fall Color @nzorach.bsky.social · 17h

After spending decades claiming the Democrats are implementing sharia law in the United States, Republicans are now inviting the government of a Middle Eastern autocracy, under such law, to build an airbase in the United States.

thehill.com

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Particularly Miffed @miffedinparticular.bsky.social · 5d

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 21h

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 22h

Nicely done

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jeff bezoar @vapingbaby.bsky.social · 1d

jazzy hammond with an orchestra what more could you ask for
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5jd...

A Summer Day

YouTube video by Barbara Dennerlein - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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jeff bezoar @vapingbaby.bsky.social · 1d

lots of good picks/artists already but for some i haven't seen mentioned yet
linton kwesi johnson - mi revalueshanary friend
ub40 (no, but seriously) - tyler
burning spear - marcus garvey
freddie mcgregor - big ship
dennis brown - little green apples
yellowman - lost mi love

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 1d

hmm this Art. it speaks to me

screenshot from tumblr. username @matthewsiji.com says "It's 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousness of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4"

username crazy-pages reblogs with the added note: "I can't decide if it's better if they're not really uploaded into the cloud, they just all tricked themselves into thinking a GPT model trained on their brain is them, so she's playing with their fake echoes in a macabre imitation of the immortality they deluded themselves into believing they had. Or if they're real and she's just about to torment them forever"

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Shaqsquatch @shaqsquatch.bsky.social · 1d

people on WSJ will write anything. "Johnny Cash didn't have hoes."

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

wtaf are you talking about

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

This is nightmarish and every Dem politician, every media figure who is silent is complicit. This is not supposed to happen here. Masked thugs with guns dragging moms away in front of their screaming children. Trump’s government must be destroyed and his accomplices must rot in prison

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

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Dr. Kalt @kaltnull.bsky.social · 1d

Everything Is Going To Suck So Fucking Bad - And Everyone Complaining Is A Terrorist.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 8d

But for some reason, our media doesn't want to talk about it like that. Our political class, which considers things like "if you like your insurance you can keep it" to be five-alarm whoppers, acts like Trump has a mandate for Project 2025 and it must be respected.

Again: it polled at FOUR PERCENT.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: A federal judge in Illinois has blocked Trump administration authorities from using force against journalists in the Chicago area — including threats or arrest or riot control weapons. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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OrbGazer @orbgazer.bsky.social · 1d

The mayor and governor of Illinois are not going to be arrested, but arrests of the regular people who live there will continue unabated until state and local leaders truly put themselves on the line

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Bezos liked the idea of owning the Post, but has no principled belief in the role of media in a democracy. As soon as the Post did not align with is evolving worldview/business interests, he degraded it. And now it's core base of readers are also losing trust in it! bsky.app/profile/donm...

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jul 5

Incredibly grim to learn that Jeff Bezos and his wife, in addition to hanging out with the Trump family, are huge fans of The Free Press, and see it as the future of media.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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jeff bezoar @vapingbaby.bsky.social · 1d

i am aware the current democratic party would give stephen miller a box of chocolates and a dozen roses if they thought it would poll well but this is also why we have to primary the everloving shit out of all of them

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jeff bezoar @vapingbaby.bsky.social · 1d

we are living in a state of exception right now and unfortunately that means the only way we are going to be able to clean this up is with... you guessed it, a state of exception. what else did you think we meant by reconstruction 2?

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