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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 1h

It kinda has been a revelation to be on a micro generation website, I do love it

Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 1h

No one born before or after 1987-1988 is a person, excited to introduce this new form of discrimination onto the earth. I am on my way to court so I can start divorcing my wife because she was born in 1985.

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 3h

The fine state of lower Westchester will be reliably blue

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 3h

The great states of Manhattan, Brooklyn (annexing Staten Island), Queens and the Bronx (8 Democratic Senators, not represented by Kirsten Gillibrand).

JB stan account @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 5h

I am no longer content with 4. I want DC split into 100+ states so we can rewrite the Constitution and put an end to Republican power indefinitely

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 4h

People are still doing “there aren’t going to be midterms” posts as we see these people struggle to handle a guy in a frog costume

Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev saying “You are accused of doomer behavior. The court finds you guilty and sentences you to be shot.”

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 4h

This was a really good piece, the section about JD knowingly using Haitians as scapegoats is particularly sharp. Recommend.

Wade Armstrong @kaizendad.bsky.social · 5h

Have you read the Wired piece on this? It's well worth the price of a subscription and pretty straightforwardly explains... well, a lot of the modern right, actually. Basically, he took the crypto-Catholic views of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt and ran with them www.wired.com/story/the-re...

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

www.wired.com

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 6h

We can make it a social norm! Or at least try really hard

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 7h

I wrote a thing.

Religion Dispatches @religiondispatches.org · 7h

Joel Swanson on VPOTUS' casual, horrifying antisemitism

religiondispatches.org/jd-vance-tri...

JD Vance Trivializes Jewish History by Referring to ICE Criticism as 'Blood Libel' — But Reveals What this Admin Thinks of Jews

Last week, in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Vice President JD Vance accused critics of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of committing “blood libel” against ICE agents. As Va...

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 7h

All I’m saying is that I found a book of Greek myths illustrated in Lego, possibly the same brand?, and do recommend

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 10h

I still can't believe a person who is responsible for healthcare in this country said out loud and meant it that a cause of autism is children getting circumcised. I still cannot believe that this is the country, the world, that I fucking live in

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 7h

You may even get 150 million dollars for it, if you select enemies carefully enough and make sure your enemies correspond to the enemies of the very wealthy

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 7h

This is the key point that I believe normal people can be made to comprehend

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 7h

10/10 column, no notes, perfect day for it btw @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 13h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 7h

Exxxxacctly

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 13h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 7h

He knows that people in the 17th and 18th century basically had a mania for accusing others of being the antichrist and I’m quite sure the puritans did not think they were fleeing Yakub

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 7h

I get that we’re meant to take the American flag back, I get it those people making that argument are “right”. But for me now? The people flying the American flag are flying it to mean they are maga (in my neighborhood), Pete Hegseth literally wraps himself in it…pride is for everyone in my mind

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 8h

One of the only things Trump has ever been right about: Obama had no business winning the Nobel Peace Prize for what amounted to the accomplishment of being a US president who was not George W Bush. (Remember, he had been in office for eight months at the time.)

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 7h

I’ll be pretty upset if I don’t see a lot of pride flags and variants, it’s the real flag of liberalism now and that’s a good thing

Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 7h

Remember:

– Your symbolic kit for these rallies should be red, white, and blue.
– if you plan to use these rallies to push some other cause, please stay away.

And no, that won't prevent the Far-Right Cinematic Universe from misrepresenting the rallies. Their fan base isn't your audience.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Long Live the Gerontocracy @urban-achiever.bsky.social · 22h

Periodic reminder that my state’s junior senator is the heir to a plumbing business that is worth, inexplicably, millions. Maybe hundreds of millions.

And he’s a moron. I’ve met him at various civic events in Tulsa and he’s not very bright.

Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 22h

Lmao

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 22h

What do you mean "possible rise," dude is at the top of the pack. He is the literal pope

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

As Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”

As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 21h

Holy shit I would play that game

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 23h

Why is it both heaven and hollow earth

scaryssa walmart dog @meo.bsky.social · 1d

how do u even compete with this level of propaganda. and why tf do these vril guys love tatu so much

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

for all the talk about how voters need to touch the stove, like, we are touching the stove. this [waves arms wildly] is what touching the stove looks like. nothing happens on a twitter timescale.

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 1d

They’d send a limousine anyway is just a great line

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 1d

All im saying is that my kids learned the days of the week because of Police on my Back so i am eternally in their debt for that one

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