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Tommy

@zucko.bsky.social

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I tried to teach you how to handle comics in the sixth grade, but oh, no, you wanted to play little league instead.

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Tommy @zucko.bsky.social · Mar 27

Trump out here nominating tiny handed men to be ambassadors. 4d chess indeed.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Mar 27

You can’t say he doesn’t rep the White House’s point of view?

Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight to End Apartheid talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...

Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight to End Apartheid

As Black activists in South Africa fought against their country’s racist apartheid...

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Tommy @zucko.bsky.social · 1h

unfortunately many Americans will never see this as a problem

steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 1h

How many employees and staffers of this administration must be outed as Hitler Admirers before it becomes a widely accepted Problem

Tommy @zucko.bsky.social · 2h

we should be rioting

Reuters @reuters.com · 7h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Tommy @zucko.bsky.social · 4h

the corporations were never going to save us, guys

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 6h

Quite a day.

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Grim Milestone @grimmilestone.bsky.social · 1d

Another extrajudicial execution by the peace president.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is no longer even pretending to have any kind of argument that his murdering of people in the Caribbean Sea has any kind of statutory validity. Just straight up declaring that he has quasi-unlimited power to execute people based on (nominal) suspicion.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Important to note that this isn’t a problem for the billionaire buying media properties. If they make them into successful rightwing propaganda? Cool more money. If it fails? Cool they’ve destroyed one of the few outlets with the resources to investigate them. Either way they achieved their goal

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

It is tacky for really famous people to be in TV commercials for products. Their gambling debts/boat repairs are not my problem, those roles should belong to actors like the Time To Make The Donuts guy and the actress who said "who are you calling a cootie queen you lint licker" in that Orbit ad.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 3d

i actually think most cops and fash are fairly clear-eyed about who the goodies & baddies are and just choose to side with evil because its a quick & easy way for weak men to feel powerful

they know theyre evil & they relish it because villainy is cool & naughty while heroism is vanilla & cringe

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 3d

Cops answer to nobody and live their lives confused about who the heroes of history are versus the villains

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 4d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Jacquie @jmteo.bsky.social · 2d

A government entirely focused on stroking the ego of a 79 year old man lol

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

MARCO RUBIO: This is probably one of the most important days for world peace in 50 years. That's not an exaggeration

TRUMP: Only 50?

RUBIO: Maybe 100

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 2d

That the third in line for the presidency has no idea what extra-constitutional actions a president from his own party is up to is obviously grounds for removal—his or the president’s. Or both. Obviously.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

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Semple Fi @semplefi.bsky.social · 2d

gm say it back now

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 3d

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Tommy @zucko.bsky.social · 3d

NFL is a joke - that's not reviewable, but they can "discuss" it and flag it from memory?

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 3d

That asshole fired all the people who help kids with disabilities in education.

Fuck him. Fuck everyone who enabled him

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 3d

I am simply begging everyone to at least *try* not to be an easy mark

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

If a pharmaceutical company could mass produce whatever compassion pills Marjorie Taylor Greene seems to have been taking lately, we could save the world

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Tommy @zucko.bsky.social · 3d

lol "allegations" - they're actively telling us this is entirely partisan at every fkn turn

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3d

President Trump’s move to cancel projects in Democratic states during the government shutdown has prompted allegations of partisanship.

Democrats see a pattern of inflicting pain on places that are politically unfriendly.

Trump escalates his use of federal power to target Democratic states

Democrats see a clear pattern of inflicting pain on places that are politically unfriendly, while Trump has declared his intent to hurt liberal areas and policies.

www.washingtonpost.com

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 3d

The "you wouldn't download a car" screen but it reads "you wouldn't scrape all the art ever made and use it to create an Anime titty generator"

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t know, maybe not a good thing that consumer spending is being completely driven by a billionaire class, jobs are being shed at breakneck speed, and the entire economy is resting on a historically large and precarious bubble.

It’s almost like capitalism is inherently self-destructive.

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 3d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Tommy @zucko.bsky.social · 3d

actually what we need to do is [REDACTED] Russell Vought, but yours is a necessary first step