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Billy Bragg's Liquid Aminos
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I lost my Senate seat, now I'm just a shit-kicker.
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Seriously, if I'm expected to dress like it's 1953 that plane better look like it, too.
Vintage photo of people relaxing in a spacious airplane cabin. Seriously, it's mind-boggling how enormous and capacious the cabin is. It's like a hotel lobby or something.
November 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Oh, you mean this?
Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership, the title has been subtly edited to say "The Conservative Promise. We Want you Heathens Dead. We Promise."
November 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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It's nice to see the actor who played "Ham Rove" getting work again, it's been a long time since the Colbert finale. Good for him.
Screencap of a character called Ham Rove on "The Colbert Report" back in 2011 (?) It's literally a greasy, overprocessed canned ham stood upright, no embellishments, save for a pair of glasses.
November 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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For a "consummate showman" these Oval pressers are horrible optics for Trump. There he squats, hunched and dazed, looking swollen and aged, as bootlicker toadies of no discernible talent scamper around him.
Jabba the Hutt, a disgusting, drooling, suppurating slug, surrounded by toadies and slaves in Return of the Jedi
November 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Headline story from the Financial Times, "Why America’s economy is soaring ahead of its rivals," subhed "The country’s outperformance is rooted in long-term productivity growth that is the envy of the developed world. Could Trump’s policies endanger its lead?"
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Nonstop acquisition is what leads to endless expiring stockpiles and "million-dollar minutes" where branches blow up shit-tons of ammo so they can justify the the next FY budget request. This is a giveaway to contractors, not wartime readiness. Again, Eisenhower's farewell address:
On January 17, 1961, in this farewell address, President Dwight Eisenhower warned against the establishment of a "military-industrial complex.": A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction. . . . American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. . . . [highlighted text mine] This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. . . .Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. . . . In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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When your legacy is undoing the good works of... Nixon, JFC. www.history.com/articles/foo...
Although launched by Democratic presidents, the food stamp program saw its largest expansion under the stewardship of a Republican president, Richard Nixon, in the wake of Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s highly publicized trips to the Mississippi Delta and Appalachia, the Poor People’s Campaign of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 1968 CBS documentary “Hunger in America,” which shocked viewers with images of starving children with sunken features and bloated bellies. “That hunger and malnutrition should persist in a land such as ours is embarrassing and intolerable,” Nixon asserted in a May 1969 message to Congress that expressed his determination “to put an end to hunger in America for all time.”
November 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Beautiful illustration of Manos, from the film Manos, The Hands of Fate. The text says "Maybe it will happen today." And holy fuck, let's pray it happens today.
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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If you never claim it's very worthwhile.
Screencap of the monty python sketch where the adjuster is telling the claimant that his insurance policy doesn't actually cover anything.
November 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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If trump brings prescription drug prices down 900% I'm gonna get me one of those diseases where there's a miracle cure that costs $20,000 per pill and I'll be a billionaire. 🥳
Screencap of a dumbass quote from the Oval Office just now: Trump made a number of other hyperbolic, in some cases, mathematically impossible claims about his administration’s achievements as he spoke during the Diwali event at the White House. The president said of his efforts to lower the cost of prescription drugs that “drug prices are going to be coming down 100 percent, 200 percent, 300 percent, 400 percent, 500 percent in some cases.” (A 100 percent reduction would reduce a price to nothing.) A minute later, he returned to the claim, but the numbers kept rising: “I’m bringing prices down 600 percent, 700 percent, 900 percent.”
October 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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*sigh* The last badass republican to lead the United States in 80 years. Nothing but bullshit ever since.
An official photo of Dwight Eisenhower. He's sitting on a bench with his legs crossed, one arm daintily crossed across his lap. He's smiling a full-toothed smile. This is the kind of photo modern republicans would call GAYY, yet this was last strong, admirable republican the USA knew.
October 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Great plan!
pic of the doctor in Idiocracy whose medical opinion is (SLUR WARNING) "you talk like a fag and your shit's all retarded"
October 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Hold on, I just time-traveled to grab one from the future
The now legendary meme of a white man and his family laughing, riding a jet ski. The text from Zack Fox says: "this how the photos be lookin in headlines when a white man kills his entire family"
October 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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donald trump is the whiniest little diaper baby, hands down. Every time he speaks all I hear is the Waambulance off in the distance. Man up, loser.
The "WAAMBULANCE" meme, it's a photo of an ambulance with the relevant text edited, and three photos of pitifully crying toddlers have been added to the vehicle graphics.
September 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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And even John Adams didn't conflate religion and governance. Individuals may choose to practice religion, the United States government does not. As a state, the USA is secular.
Treaty of Tripoli, communicated to the US Senate by 2nd President John Adams in May 1797. Article 11 is highlighted, the text reads "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion;"
September 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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AI slop has gone too far. Stop putting these fake, smeary nightmares into my timeline.
This is not an AI image. It's a photo of two women (presumably) at Mar-a-Lago. They're wearing insanely tight, cheap dresses spackled with faux gold crap, their faces have been surgically altered to the point of horror. Their makeup has been applied with a trowel. One is wearing a baseball cap with "47" embroidered in gold thread. These looks would be appropriate only for drag queens playing them for theatrical laughs.
September 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Americans are such punished animals they'll celebrate violence against those willing to work for crumbs, rather than take action against the billionaires who want everyone to work for crumbs. They'll make white boys fight for those crumbs, too, Aaron.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Reports of rough tactics don’t bother Aaron Ely, either. A former bantamweight MMA fighter who went by the ring name “The Cyborg,” Ely settled on an IT career after his hip gave out. He limped into the hiring expo last week hoping ICE could use his computer expertise. He said he felt he was no longer able to advance in the private sector because the market is crowded with candidates from India willing to do the work for less. “I keep seeing these memes where Indians are bragging about taking our tech jobs,” said Ely, 36. “So I said, ‘Oh yeah? Well I’m going to work with these guys that are going to arrest you, slam your face on the pavement and send you home.’”
September 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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...Alas
Quote from the Irish Times: “After being taken to police custody, officers became concerned for his health and he was taken to hospital. His condition is neither life-threatening nor life-changing."
September 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Not relevant AT ALL, but @dieworkwear.bsky.social and I will assure you, grown men, that you don't have to wear pants like this if you're not a dancer or you're not at the club. You're wearing tights. They look ridiculous in broad daylight at the White House.
A screencap of trump leaving the white house to go golfing. A male attendant or secret service agent or whatever, easily more than 6' tall, is wearing a mint green polo shirt and a pair of THE TIGHTEST SKIN TIGHT PANTS EVER CUT FOR A MAN.
August 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Looking good, sir!
A chart showing the results of a yougov favorability poll: The democrats as of Aug 24 2025 are 63% unfavorable.
August 30, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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The words "Maybe it will happen today" in the rainbow, glittering style of the childrens' "The More You Know" PSAs from the 80s. The star in the Y of "today" is a pentagram. The graphic is from Bluesky's own Phineas.
August 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Bart Simpson writing on the chalkboard "maybe it will happen today" Image from bluesky's own @Phineas
August 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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I really wish you wouldn't launder lies like this. health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlin...
Can fentanyl be absorbed through the skin or by touching an item or surface where it is present? It is a common misconception that fentanyl can be absorbed through the skin, but it is not true for casual exposure. You can't overdose on fentanyl by touching a doorknob or dollar bill. The one case in which fentanyl can be absorbed through the skin is with a special doctor-prescribed fentanyl skin patch, and even then, it takes hours of exposure.
August 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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A copy of a (sadly, fake) tweet on March 12, 2021 from right-wing Federalist idiot Sean Davis that says "mommy milky."
July 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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A painting of a pigeon flying away with a slice of pepperoni pizza, text says "maybe it will happen today." Art by bluesky's own @phineas.bsky.social‬
July 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM