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Mitch Wolfe @whrwlfthrwlf85v.bsky.social · 7h

Off to bed now, sleep tight.

In My Dreams

YouTube video by Wig Wam - Topic

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Mitch Wolfe @whrwlfthrwlf85v.bsky.social · 9h

"You think I don't know how to drink and drive?"

Sterling Archer, disheveled, hungover, and wearing sunglasses on Archer as he quotes Bob Ferguson/Ghetto Pat from One Battle After Another.

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Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social · 1d

So Jurassic Park is about a group of rich people who don't understand that biology is far more complicated than "there are only two genders" and how this ignorance toward gender fluidity in nature causes these rich people to lose their money and die.

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Mitch Wolfe @whrwlfthrwlf85v.bsky.social · 9h

"Gentlemen, I have engaged the enemy face to face in battle, and in the dark alleys and shadows of espionage."

Kevin James as Paul Blart in Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, quoting Colonel Lockjaw from One Battle After Another.

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Mitch Wolfe @whrwlfthrwlf85v.bsky.social · 9h

Okay, it's fixed now.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 11h

Not a fully formed thought, but it’s also concerning how much of this is an open secret in Washington (feel like I’m repeating myself lately….), reporters trade sex for access & blow, and to be clear this is both men & women

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12h

i don't have much of an opinion on what kinds of sex work should be legal, but i have a very strong opinion that journalism should not be a kind of sex work

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12h

i don't have much of an opinion on what kinds of sex work should be legal, but i have a very strong opinion that journalism should not be a kind of sex work

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Mitch Wolfe @whrwlfthrwlf85v.bsky.social · 10h

*RFK Jr. voice*

🎶I want to kiss you all over
And over again
I want to kiss you all over
Till the night closes in
Till the night closes in🎶

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Mitch Wolfe @whrwlfthrwlf85v.bsky.social · 10h

There needs to be a Knives Out movie where Benoit Blanc brings his Southern folksiness and eloquent elocutions to the world's first space hotel where he has to solve a murder and Anne McClain should appear in a supporting role as herself.

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Mel, AnarcHochulist 🏳️‍⚧️🔰♨️ @astruckpersonn.bsky.social · 14h

anne mcclain, space lesbian, innocent of all space crimes

SPOOKY Mistress Usili (Sage) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 14h

This is actually incorrect.

She was falsely accused by her wife at the time, and there was no actual crime here.

piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 1d

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🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 Femininomicon ex Mortis @ofvick.bsky.social · 13h

Gritty, looking absolutely unhinged as usual, captioned THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH WELCOMES YOU in Impact font

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 13h

just completely giving up on his hair seems like a development

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 13h

god he looks dogshit

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "Boston had a bad mayor who at least is a reasonable IQ person. Most of them are low IQ. I mean, what's going on in Chicago ... "

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 12h

Everyone’s talking about Milpay, but reminder that USDA is currently using excess 25 funds to pay for WIC and School Lunch. They say they have like maybe a month of that left.

Red States are going to lose their fucking minds if they can’t draw those soon.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 11h

[low whistle]

Distinguished Herbert West Fellow, Miskatonic Institute Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 12h

How much more illegal can we get? lets find out together!
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

FBI agents will get paid despite government shutdown, Patel says

The Trump administration will continue paying FBI agents despite the ongoing government shutdown that has frozen paychecks for nearly all federal workers, FBI Director Kash Patel announced.

www.cbsnews.com

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 15h

we're going to have to prosecute this stuff

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 15h

The mechanism through which Trump is paying the troops is the most blatant large Antideficiency Act (ADA) violation in US history. It's also clearly willful. No one has been charged under the ADA before, but violations carry a two-year jail term. The statute of limitations is five years.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 12h

People have a hard time conceptualizing it, but it's no different from accepting that mold infiltrating the timbers, or the foundation being ill-set, is not the same thing as the walls cracking or the roof caving in. That one may lead to another does not make them alike, even in kind.

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 18h

there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly

and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d

My parents' generation was super racist, but they took pains to hide it from us. So a lot of young conservatives in the 90s and early aughts were earnest small government and/or evangelical types.

As I said, the overt racists and radicals had to form their own orgs.

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Mitch Wolfe @whrwlfthrwlf85v.bsky.social · 10h

YouTube is acting dumb now and having error signs on some videos that won't play while other ones are playing perfectly fine.

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Windows Update @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 11h

the pop culture dictator LARP says you need a bunch of big banners with your face on them that are illegal to make fun of

Micah @rincewind.run · 17h

the entire conservative project these days is built off of making it illegal to dislike them or say rude things about them even in private

it is not enough to be in charge, or even feared, they must be adored

or else

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 18h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

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Mitch Wolfe @whrwlfthrwlf85v.bsky.social · 10h

If Trump was going to give $20 billion to another country, which one would it be? I'd bet on the UAE or Indonesia.

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 11h

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and the Trump admin are arranging ANOTHER $20B cash infusion for Argentina through banks and wealth funds. ANOTHER. Meanwhile, seniors at home are begging for COLA paperwork just to see if they’ll be able to afford groceries.

Mitch Wolfe @whrwlfthrwlf85v.bsky.social · 10h

QT w/ the first four 10/10 horror movies you can think of:

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Ravenous (1999)
Black Christmas (1974)
Re-Animator (1985)

anti-fascist aftiej 🥂🍂🍁 @aftiej.bsky.social · 11h

QT w/ the first four 10/10 horror movies you can think of:

The Witch (2015)
Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Ugly Stepsister (2025)
Nosferatu (1922 and 2024)

Banned Library @bannedlibrary.com · 11h

Quote this with the first four 10/10 horror movies you can think of.

- The Thing (1981)
- Sinister
- Sinners
- Near Dark

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Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · 11h

In some ways this is overdetermined. Tulsi grew up in a Hare Krishna offshoot that espouses the Evola shit's outer doctrines. The French New Right and their evil little books have obvious Traditionalist influences going down. Yarvin dumbs Guénon down to his own intellectual level for CEOs.

Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · 11h

This is part of why I think the occultist/Trad/Evola connection is an overarching intellectual motivator behind a lot of these people, because it at least makes that belief digestible as a delusion induced by religious ecstasy...

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 11h

this administration is held up and together by negative polarization, but they're also basically running a natural experiment in trying to break negative polarization so we get to find out just exactly how far it'll carry them ig

Distinguished Herbert West Fellow, Miskatonic Institute Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 11h

I really can't get over how its held together by negative polarization and nothing else, and if that starts to go they're in freefall

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 11h

at some point the country is going to wake up to the fact that most people in it live in cities, and that we are real america, and that we won’t subsidize the people who abuse and try to dominate us forever, and we will demand we be given the respect we have been denied by the rurals

First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 11h

I mean, it won't ONLY be city folk protesting. I'm sure some people will drive in from the suburbs or the exurbs or the countryside to be a part of this. But again, they will drive TO the city, because THAT'S WHERE EVERYBODY IS. We're not gonna go out to THEIR place! That'd be stupid!

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