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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 10h

Losing the war on woke

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 7h

We are ruled by criminal morons

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 8h

In some ways this is the government now

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I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10h

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 14h

this has got to be the stupidest and most blatantly "unamerican" group of rulers this country has ever had. if you can't win against "goons in the streets, rotting food in the fields, orang is 90 dollars now" then i dont know what to say

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 14h

i wonder if a sufficient number of viable democrats have it in them to effectively counter a narrative of "i am tanking the economy, firing everyone i can, and sending soldiers to push you around if i dont like the way you think, and also lee greenwood is the only music allowed"

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

The people running our major media institutions are not human beings—they're paid mercenaries.

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 18h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 11h

(and I don't mean this in the sense of like, "you're euphemizing a criminal administration" as people are often rightly criticizing the press for; I mean it just does not reflect that. It is a reason for it, not a reflection of it)

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 12h

Look, I'm not the type of person to pretend that antiblackness doesn't have an impact on sales. But this would have sold. Like gangbusters. Because I assure you that most people would enjoy killing the Klan (in a video game) just as much as they enjoy killing Nazis (in a video game).

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 12h

Life would have been better never knowing what I'd lost because of these racists. Because this might kill me.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 12h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 11h

"reflects" is not the appropriate verb here for a major publication, compromised or not

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 11h

Exclusive: The Pentagon has investigated nearly 300 Defense Department employees for online comments after the death of Charlie Kirk.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's order to target those critical of Kirk reflects deepening alarm over his stewardship.

Hegseth’s sprawling hunt for Charlie Kirk critics spans nearly 300 investigations

The inquiry, resulting in a smattering of disciplinary action so far, follows an extraordinary directive aimed at silencing criticism of the slain activist and Trump supporter.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Kandy aka Juniper Worshipper @kandyelmo.blacksky.app · 12h

Genuine question: what do you mean by that?

Guyssquinting at someone at the Apple store

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

“We’re going to hold them fairly to account, and by that we mean we’ll use the propaganda term they invented and not the legal name for the department. In short, MAGA.”

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 13h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 15h

White righties: this Super Bowl halftime pick is terrible. They should get someone conservative and hip, like this 96 year old cop I know who has a bluegrass band called Burning Crosses

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 21h

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.

buff.ly

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 15h

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 17h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 15h

this is reconcilable with the theory i sketched out which is "everyone's a cop now"

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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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 2d

This guy is in charge of US health care.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

Bari tried to get cancelled and couldn’t even manage that. So she fake-canceled herself. Hilarious that @mattyglesias.bsky.social doesn’t remember that.

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1d

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker

I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money.
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The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

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Academic Anarchy🏴 - Antifa Founder @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 1d

The nazis themselves were not some clever masterminds where everything they did went perfect. They were also comical idiots who did ridiculous things, like invading Russia in the winter.

They gained power because the opposition couldn’t understand that the fascists were not rational agents.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

that said: I think the "it's not fascism unless they're good at it" brand of analysis probably isn't the move

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