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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · Mar 30

“Dems didn’t have a real primary”

“People cared about the economy”

“Biden should’ve stepped down earlier”

“Trump had wealthier benefactors”

“Harris/Biden shouldn’t fund Israel”

All that to me isn’t right; what the 2024 election showed me was that racism and misogyny trumps everything else

Pumpkinspacci Sequins @brentwaggoner.bsky.social · Mar 30

When I sit and think about it I still can't really believe they elected him a second time.

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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 3d

This made me laugh much too hard

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ALT: Giggles GIF

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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 3d

Humor ridicule and “idiocy” in this form has always been a good way to fight fascists

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 3d

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3d

Portland never stops being Portland.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 4d

Anybody here have a writing group they like to be a part of? Like some place where they can share their work, bounce ideas, work plots, stuff like that?

Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 4d

That’s fucking weird. Like really, that’s weird and highly abnormal

Also bro turns 50 in six months roughly; how does he look like he’s over 60. Conservatism ages people badly

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4d

“Russ Vought, the OMB director, has been dreaming about this moment—preparing this moment—since puberty."
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GOP Senator: Project 2025 Creator Has Dreamt About This Since Puberty

Republicans all know the havoc Russell Vought is about to unleash this shutdown.

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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 4d

Juxtaposed by the guy who watches The Pacific and wants to kill themselves afterward

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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 4d

I miss when films were able to be realized on home video so you could have a physical copy and when people had the ability to be even more creative when it came to filmmaking

Streaming has really erased so so much of that and that’s entirely thanks to SV tech-bros & Reagan policies finally hitting

Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 4d

All I know is Dan Rather (yes, he is still alive) is pissed

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5d

NEW from me:

Several CBS News staffers and insiders told me that the network "is not a good place now" amid the imminent arrival of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief, who one source likened to Michael Scott of The Office based on her lack of qualifications.

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom

EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

www.the-independent.com

Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 4d

Why do I feel like this has been the guiding ethos in the mainstream news industry for columnists since the late 1990s?

They more desire to showcase the contrary (and often wrong or atrocious) viewpoint to the popular audience or just ragebait or purchases/clicks

The Devil Kitty @thedevilkitty.myatproto.social · 4d

I'm guessing they don't want to pay for good takes instead? =/

Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 5d

I meanwhile am decently intelligent, have evidenced takes, & try my best to not get shit wrong and have made zero money off my writing in the past five years of being one

I wish those were actually qualifications for a news agency looking for a columnist instead of the other way around

Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 5d

I used to very much want to be a columnist until I realized a whole lot of columnists really are fucking dumb, have the worst takes, & get shit wrong all the time while making substantial amounts of money

Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 5d

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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 5d

Wait … are there Americans/Westerners who *don’t* enjoy al-Assad’s suffering, as this meme implies???

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5d

PSA:

You can always enjoy Assad's suffering
it's always morally correct
STRYCHNINE
POISON

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Fubar 🇨🇦 @captainfubar.bsky.social · 5d

This administration is utterly entirely beholden to a few dozen guys absolutely enamoured by this specific scene in Sicario, it's actually nuts.

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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 5d

Oh I’m aware; many of my profs, interviewees turned contacts, and friends who have been with Border Patrol, CIA, ICE, and elsewhere have all brought up that DHS is an atrocious, misshapen organization whose flaws are now on full display (and have been for months)

Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 5d

Thing is, if history is any precedent, they likely won’t

And it’s blood boiling for me

Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 5d

The real solution is to dismantle the Department of Homeland Security but nobody wants to have that conversation

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 5d

The reality is that the US Department of Homeland Security has been openly seized by unapologetic white nationalists who freely indulge in neo-Nazi rhetoric and use their huge and growing paramilitary army to mount massive attacks on communities of color in the US in a campaign of racist oppression

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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 5d

Quick fact about Ngo: he’s one of the few journalists whose work is credited at the end credits of Alex Garland’s ‘Civil War’

Now try and tell me that film takes a stand on Trump and dislikes fascism (when it gives thanks to “gender critical” journo Helen Lewis)

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5d

Pardoned seditious conspirator and Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio weighs in on the situation in Portland, with a hilarious shout out to the time Andy Ngo was 100% NOT hit with a concrete milkshake in Portland.

Enrique Tarrio ©
@NobleOne
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The only time I have seen PPB come out and actually do something is to arrest a journalist...
They also allowed @KatieDaviscourt's assailant walk the streets unchallenged...
Remember what happened when @MrAndyNgo was assaulted with a concrete milkshake?
The ProudBoys WILL return to Portland...
Peacefully.
Standby.
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I just spoke to the jail where Nick Sorter is being held.
I'm told he is about to be released, but only after he is given his court date ...
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 5d

Article outside paywall link: archive.ph/QCvHd

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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 5d

In fairness, I haven’t been online here much recently, but how did this fly under my radar? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/m...

Did a Green Beret Unit Commit One of the Worst U.S. War Crimes in Decades?

www.nytimes.com

Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 5d

These ICE agents, USBP/CBP agents, and any LEO enforcing these laws and doing so illegally, unethically need to be removed from service and never allowed to return to law enforcement

They have betrayed the public’s trust and made America less safe because of and through their actions; simple

alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 5d

Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby.

"I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother.

“I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 5d

Too … many … conjunctions …

Make it stop

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 5d

Kristi Noem’s message to the NFL for selecting Bad Bunny for the halftime show:

“The NFL sucks and we’ll win and God will bless us and we’ll stand and be proud of ourselves at the end of the day and they won’t be able to sleep at night because they don’t know what they believe…”

Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 5d

Ever since the whole kneeling thing, football has been proudly gained by the left in the divorce

Or at least the writing was on the wall

Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 5d

Damn, what could have been

Instead we got Siege where the villains were … just terrorists? With hockey masks and AUGs? And no backstory to their politics?

Tbf it has been a decade since I’ve played that intro so maybe there was more to it, but I don’t remember it being too in depth on that part

Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 5d

Again insane how, had RBG resigned when she was able and not worried about her “legacy”, we’d possibly be able to avoid this

At the least, we’d have a liberal/moderate justice on the court. Just amazing

Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: the Supreme Court once again, on a 6-3 vote, lets the Trump administration revoke temporary protected status for 300k Venezuelans

Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 5d

I much means that the entire U.S. Border Patrol would love that type of coin

Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 5d

Only cops and dudes who never deployed like this type of shit.

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 5d

reddit occupied government