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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 10h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 6h

This is why Americans think 29% of the US population is Asian

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

It's clear most Trump supporters have no idea the videos are fake.

Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World

Trump supporters are doubling down on AI sadism.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 6h

Opinion: Katie Porter doing the Christian Bale meltdown tells us she's serious, and savvy enough to win Hollywood's support

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 7h

Congratulations, you played yourself

Charlie Kirk memorial at the Yankees jumbotron

Trump shaking hands with the Yankee players in their locker room

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 8h

This is maybe the most insulting thing you could say about a human being lol

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 12h

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 13h

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 15h

Leftistly: we should tax women who don't want to have kids

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 16h

I'm thinking the entities profiting from the labor can pay into the pensions

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 18h

My most controversial take on this is probably that while I think reproductive freedom should be sacrosanct, I don’t really have any problem with additional taxes on (high income) childless people. Someone gotta pay into the pensions!

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 17h

'By applying protections meant for vulnerable groups to shield government actors, Apple has created — within its own ecosystem — a new kind of protected class: state power itself."

migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 19h

any reporter is free to ask mike at any time if he thinks it's a liability to be the speaker of the house and lack a middle schooler's understanding of government

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 19h

They're a half step from convincing the government that fighting for the rights to others' labor is too burdensome, and then the neoconfederate victory will be complete.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 19h

No other possible end state in an economic system that has always encouraged business models that relied on underpaying for labor. Paying at all is now a sucker's game.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 23h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 1d

I’ve been circling a cursed thought for a while and it’s time to let it out: These guys are Disney Adults for fascism.

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 2d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

We won’t LECTURE you with ideology but also you better be patriotic lol like for real haha we’re all having fun here but capitalism should not be questioned but hey let’s all be pals as we all agree that Jeff Bezos is actually not bald but simply had very short hair in a fashionable way

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

What will the new Adam O'Neal–hosted WaPo opinions podcast sound like for the next few decades? Maybe a little something like this x.com/WashPostComm...

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Truther_Dare @truther-dare.bsky.social · 1d

This is MAGA.

Just George Oh🍂 @timmytwoshirts.bsky.social · 1d

A Michigan MAGA father who was convicted of exposing his genitals to a child, Jeff Smerer, woke up and shot 3 of his kids the morning of his sentencing

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A Michigan man will face trial on murder and assault charges in connection with the murder of his teen son, and shooting of his two other children.
Jeff Smerer, 44, was arrested last month after allegedly shooting his three children, killing one of them, on the morning he was scheduled to be sentenced on a sex-crime conviction, per several reports.
His son, 17-year-old Kayleb, was killed in the Sept. 11 shooting in their Port Huron, Mich. home; his 13-year-old son Bentley and 12-year-old daughter Kinzely survived the shooting and were transferred to a Detroit-area hospitals in critical condition, Port Huron Police Department said in a statement.
The children were not named in the police statement, but their identities were confirmed by The Detroit News and ABC 7.
Smerer was identified by authorities to several news outlets. Port Huron police did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comments.
On the day of the shooting, Smerer was scheduled to be sentenced for an indecent exposure conviction, The Detroit News, the Port Huron Times Herald and CBS News reported, citing court records and the District Court Judge Dennis J Rickert.
He was convicted for exposing his genitals to a child in the care of his family’s daycare between 2020 and 2023, the Port Huron Times Herald reported.
Huron police were notified of reports of a shooting around 6 a.m. that morning, they said in their statement, and found the three children shot in the home.
His wife and their 20-year-old son intervened and were able to stop him from committing further violence, police said, per FOX 2, CBS News and WPHM.
Prosecutors allege Smerer confessed to the crime and told police he had been planning the attack for a week, per FOX 2 and the Port Huron Times Herald.

https://people.com/dad-convicted-indecent-exposure-allegedly-shot-3-children-day-of-sentencing-11822433

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1d

oh cool a crazy person

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss, CBS News, 1965

- New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1d

guard guys looking like the old Da Bears skits

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1d

It's actually pretty considerate that they picked the 200 guys who already look like they've been in Chicago for six generations

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1d

25-35 are the same age and then somewhere between 35 and 40 it all catches up to you at once overnight and you wake up in agony

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1d

where have all the homen gone

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1d

They wanted a super soldier program but the only formula they got working was the Kash Patel serum

ICE goon looking wild eyed and unhinged pointing his gun at the camera

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