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The National - “Mr. November”
@blakesquest.bsky.social
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Husband of @wendycat.bsky.social. Chicago lawyer. All views are my own. Annoying politics stuff, sports posting, occasional gaming stuff, goofing around, etc. Chi DSA. Left is best. Free Palestine. Trans rights. Solidarity forever. He/him.
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Ring ring ring ring ring ring
Lobster phone
Lobster Telephone, 1938, Salvador Dali (displayed in the Tate Modern in London)
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Friendly crew, 5 stars
Google review of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald: “I was able to get a wristwatch from one of the crew who was still within the wreck.”
November 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Political parties have no institutional resources or influence that can be leveraged to help people materially, and if you expect them to try, you know nothing. I am a savvy politics knower 😌
Post: This is one of a fascinating genre of posts, where the author’s conception of the “DNC” is inserted into an idea space where an actual political party would be, if actual political parties were not broadly illegal in this country. Quoted post: If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Krystal Ball had a bad take about the Platner situation???
Surprised Pikachu face
October 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Diedrich Bader in Office Space “I believe you’d get your ass kicked saying something like that, man”
October 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Charlie Brown had more hoes than Hugh Hefner, I guess
Post text: it’s deeply sad that certain parts of the pro-Pali left would rather lie and smear the second-most openly pro-Palestinian prominent elected political figure after Rashida Tlaib than concede an inch rhetorically.
October 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Dropping a tactical nuke on a strawman
Post text: Oh, I’m still gonna regret this, but it’s true. The way the alt left talks about the Democratic Party is the same way they talk about Israel. The Israeli government does something evil therefore the entire country, every single person in it, is also responsible.
October 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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(Aggressively Chicago accent) I’m ganna run down to da Jewels, dey got a two for one deal on Leinenkugels, ya want me ta pick up a six pack a Berry Weiss for ya?
A six-pack off Leinenkugel’s Berry Weiss
October 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Riot Fest rules, more and more people are saying
September 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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My finger is hovering over the “add to wishlist” button
A black cap with a blue brim on Amazon. It has the NFL shield logo with the word National on top and the words Football League on the bottom.
September 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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The old school Batman comic where the Joker uses the word “boner” (meaning “mistake”) a bunch
August 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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The vibes at the @katmabu.bsky.social petitioning launch party last night were great! We packed the office!
A room full of people in chairs on the left with Kat Abughazaleh standing and speaking on the right
August 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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I want to articulate how I feel about this, but
I prefer not to speak, if I speak, I am in big trouble
August 4, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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This is from a while ago, but what the hell, here’s some deeply unserious analysis that I’d like to skewer with a mini-thread because I’m bored 1/
Post text: what does move left mean? Mostly nothing. Except for Gaza there is little or no difference between policy proposals of someone like Mamdani and someone like Pelosi. AOC went to Congress with great ideas that the rest of the party supported and Biden acted on—but the legislative process exists
August 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Lmao
YouTube thumbnail from a channel called Star Wars Theory showing Anakin Skywalker looking all evil and shit. The video title is Anakin Skywalker did NOTHING Wrong
July 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Never a bad time to post this imo
Pete Buttigieg gradually morphing into a rat in the style of an Animorphs book cover
July 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Hey guys, I found a TERF to block
Bunch of rancid transphobic bullshit that I don’t feel like describing in detail
July 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Bootleg Morpheus: Keano, we are in matrix Bootleg Neo: Wow this sure is a crazy matrix BM: Yes, now eat some medicine BN: Ok but which medicine? BM: Either one, you get to pick BN: Whoa o.O
July 29, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Surprised Pikachu face
July 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Case in point:
Post text: it’s because frankly what passes for most of the online left are psychopaths as bad as Neo-Nazis
July 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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youtu.be/IiTfnpgNkmI?...
Post: I mean the online left such as it is does not have humanistic politics. They like the purges and gulags and blowing people’s brains out and tipping them into a ditch and have only a passing interest in the actual functioning of the state they putatively want
July 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Acht, mein lolli!
JD Vance with chubby cheeks, propeller cap, and huge lollipop
July 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Semi-related to your first point, I stumbled across this particularly egregious take
Post text, in relevant part: Worst opinion of the day, KBJ’s dissent in CASA, says absolutely nothing useful and all interesting points were made by Sotomayor.
July 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Brain worms
There’s no need to feel down
I see brain worms
Coming out of the ground
Post 1: DSA is in part responsible for getting us to this place. I remember 1980. 1984. 2000. 2004. 2016. 2024. Post 2: And yes, DSOC was pushing candidates other than Carter in 1980 or else not voting. I was there.
July 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Truly a Pokemon card made for the Bluesky crowd
A picture of Guzzlord EX from Pokemon TCG Pocket. One of its attacks is called “Tyrannical Hole”
June 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM