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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 57m

there has got to be some way to coordinate starving the beast

"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 1h

what if we all refused to file federally in april? they already fired most of the irs. how are they going to prosecute 100 million people?

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Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · 59m

hello, my fellow Hitler Youth

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

President Trump posts his first TikTok on his personal account since the election and says

“To all those young people of TikTok, I saved TikTok, so you owe me big….”

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Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · 1h

Mike Johnson looks *exactly* like the kind of guy who enters into an anti-porn app pact with his son

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Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · 1h

'you sound like a fucking child' is a good response to keep in everyone's back pocket these days.

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · 1h

aw hell

do we, in fact, gotta hand it to them?

PRITZKER: TRUMP DEMENTIA BEHIND TROOP DEPLOYMENT
DERANGED DON WANTS GOVERNOR JAILED
CONSTITUTIONAL ALARM BELLS

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Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · 1h

my guess is pre-Tea Party Springsteen circa 2009, but even that may be a stretch

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Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · 1h

the Lee Greenwood Lobby has descended upon the swamp

Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 2h

lmao this dolt is beyond parody.
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

“Lee Greenwood for Super Bowl halftime show!” says the idiot

Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · 3h

the Delphi murders may be the most True Detective-ass situation to happen in decades but y'all don't wanna talk about that

www.indystar.com/story/news/c...

Will Odinism be part of Delphi murder trial testimony? What we learned

Three days of hearings ahead of accused killer Richard Allen's trial revealed details not previously made public.

www.indystar.com

Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · 3h

they should also start boning up on which of their local cops are big Odin fans...

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · 3h

i keep thinking about how i will inevitably overhear a Trump cultist at one of our midwest town watering holes in the very near future

and god help them, because they aren't prepared for the decibels i am capable of producing with my throat

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Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · 3h

you know the first governor to call up their own National Guard to defend protestors will likely earn a one-way ticket to the top of the Democratic Party presidential poll, right?

please do with that what you will.

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Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · 4h

also,

Benicio Del Toro's arrest shimmy is an absolutely iconic vibe that rises to meet the moment

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Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · 4h

"You like Black girls? i LOVE 'em." - David Marcus

Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 4h

‘“For this movie to make any sense at all, one has to believe the United States, today, right now, is a fascist dictatorship,” wrote David Marcus at Fox News.’

Damn, this movie must make a lot of sense.

Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie”

While Paul Thomas Anderson's film is being heralded as a masterpiece by many, some conservatives accuse it of potentially inspiring left-wing violence.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · 4h

imagine being so manufactured mad at a movie that you don't get to (openly) enjoy Teyana Taylor in lowcut jeans

Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 4h

‘“For this movie to make any sense at all, one has to believe the United States, today, right now, is a fascist dictatorship,” wrote David Marcus at Fox News.’

Damn, this movie must make a lot of sense.

Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie”

While Paul Thomas Anderson's film is being heralded as a masterpiece by many, some conservatives accuse it of potentially inspiring left-wing violence.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 4h

So grateful to @gabriellekorn.bsky.social and @autostraddle.bsky.social for this <3

"Masad blends meticulously well-researched history with lyrical invention, weaving a braided narrative that asks with urgency and tenderness: are any of us ever truly alone?"

www.autostraddle.com/queer-histor...

Queer History Meets UFO Lore in Ilana Masad's Stunning New Novel 'Beings'

"I think having crushes can be really nice. It can remind you that you have a body that can reach out, that you have a nervous system capable of excitement as well as anxiety or stress or anger or enn...

www.autostraddle.com

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 4h

People don't like it when you ask whether Peter Venkman is supposed to be Jewish

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Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · 4h

you were right on the money for this one @josie.zone

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 6h

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · 6h

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

NC nonprofit still pushing for Durham County sheriff to release jail policies

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

bit.ly

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Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · 5h

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER review:

10/10

plus bonus points for convincing Sean Penn he was in on the joke

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Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · 21h

you know i almost just went that route while drafting that one

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Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · 21h

Bari Weiss looks at herself in her bathroom mirror, straightens her blazer's shoulder pads

'Let's do the FUCKING news!'

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'LET'S do the fucking news!'

no that's not it

'Let's DO the fucking news!'

c'mon Weiss get it together

'Let's do the fucking NEWS!'

'Let's do THE fucking ne

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Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · 22h

Overton WinD'oh

is this a thing

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Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago folks: is Johnson legit? everything i've seen of him so far certainly points to that, but i'd like to hear from more knowledgable people

WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 1d

Can Chicago truly enforce an "ICE free zone" or is this executive order symbolic?

"We most certainly will," Mayor Brandon Johnson said Monday, adding they will use "every single tool available" to do so, including the courts.

Watch the full interview: https://to.wttw.com/4nP3F2n

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

the entire pam bondi hearing:

MILQUETOAST SENATOR: would you like to address why you're dead set on protecting a dead pedophile?

BONDI: i'd like to address how you smell like shit and sound like a fucking baby, bitch

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Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · 1d

yet again, it's all a performance for the mushbrain watching back at the Oval Office

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi tells Blumenthal that "I'm not going to be lectured about integrity by someone who lied about being in the military." (Her disrespect for Democratic senators has been really over the top this morning.)

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