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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 5h

I can't get over how utterly useless the national press proved to be. Not just vapid, not just gullible, but brazenly uninterested in being "press." A scandal a minute from the objectively stupidest, most corrupt administration in history and they just do. not. care.

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Erik, the stepbrother of the girlfriend of the founder of Antifa @erikgunderson.bsky.social · 5h

And it's on video.

Remember, this is a natural-born citizen, who offered up his ID to prove it.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 9h

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 15h

"Antifa-led hellfire"

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help

For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property —

www.whitehouse.gov

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Wrath @cscnme.bsky.social · 5h

Tomorrow on Fox News:

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Frances "Are You Scared Yet" Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 8h

rereading a novel from the 50s set in the 30s and i know this passage did not hit as hard when i first read it in the 90s as it does now

Photo of a passage from "The Watch That Ends the Night"

Jerome stopped and stared at me with incandescent eyes.

"Try and understand this-the fascists have brought back tor-ture, and torture calls for martyrs. And what else is fascism but the logical product of the capitalist system?"

"What do you mean—torture calls for martyrs?"

"Simply this. Unless a man is able to stand up and look the torturer in the eye and say, 'I'm not afraid,' torture becomes the way of the world. It's as simple as that."

"Is it really as simple as that?"

"No." He shook his head impatiently. "No, because underneath it all is the plain economic exploitation of a rotten world.
The communists are the only people who understand that. How can you pretend they're not one hundred percent right when they say that at a time like this the life of a single individual isn't worth a snap of the fingers? Wasn't Debs right when he said that so long as there was a soul in prison he wasn't free?

What does a single marriage count in a balance like that? It isn't easy being me. I know what all this means. [Highlighted sentence:] This evil inside the human animal-the fascists are charming it out like a cobra out of its hole and the capitalists let them do it because they think it's good for business. You think I'm abandoning Sally by leaving for Spain. I tell you, if I don't leave for Spain then I really do abandon her to a future of fascism and concentration camps."

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mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 1d

when you say "Albany" wrong once and just roll with it and then you're in too deep

kos data: 🇺🇸🇦🇱 NYC Mayor Eric Adams is traveling to Albania for an official visit, one week after dropping his reelection bid.

(Via: NBC New York)

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Darrel Plant @darrelplant.bsky.social · 4h

Assuming Turkish Airlines flies to Albania

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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 8h

I was told we were going to fight the terrorists abroad instead of at home. Also I was not told who exactly would be declared the terrorists.

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Darrel Plant @darrelplant.bsky.social · 4h

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Confused Teacher Crashes Out Over His Job | Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping | Channel 4 Comedy

YouTube video by Channel 4 Comedy

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 9h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 8h

Not snark: I don't know that I remember any high ranking political appointee or elected pol who had the face-punch-ability or anti-charisma that Miller does. And I honestly don't think that's a partisan thing on my part; I bet people he works with can't stand him.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 7h

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID.
In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in.
How in the world are you going to check our voters?
Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon.
But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation.
For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections.
COMMON SENSE
Vascluar

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why?
Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five.
You talk about trade-off, right?
COMMON SENSE
Sanctuany

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 12h

I will have to disagree, Max! Those cars are wonderful but the best one was the 1968 Shelby GT 500. I almost had to support the Christmas Adventurer’s Club. As a Detroiter, I clutched my chest when it came on screen. It was so pretty.

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Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 18h

Guns N' Roses, while playing a show last night in Bogotá, Colombia, borrowed this flag sign out of the crowd. Axl held it up for everyone then later ran around stage wearing it around his neck while singing. Said the whole band would sign it then make sure the fan got it back.

Meia tigela @brunodoamaral.bsky.social · 21h

No show do Guns N' Roses de ontem em Bogotá, o Axl recebeu essa bandeira da plateia durante a música Civil War.

Cantor Axl Rose, homem branco de meia idade com cabelo louro, segura uma bandeira da palestina com o logotipo do Guns N' Roses e escrito "I don't need your civil war".

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Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show @vmspod.bsky.social · 1d

New #podcast: @tomtomorrow.bsky.social rejoins the show to talk about his big new #Kickstarter, OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE! (We also talk #comics, #politics, life changes, among other stuff.) GO LISTEN: chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...

Episode 657 – Tom Tomorrow

Virtual Memories Show 657: Tom Tomorrow (a.k.a. Dan Perkins) “Every week is a battle between my deadline and my self-loathing.” Political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow (a.k.a. Dan Perkins) is…

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 8h

In this discussion with my friend Gil, the book Ministry of Time comes up -- I was about 20 pages in when we recorded, I have now finished it. A novel of love and brutal loss, so, obviously in my wheelhouse.

Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show @vmspod.bsky.social · 1d

New #podcast: @tomtomorrow.bsky.social rejoins the show to talk about his big new #Kickstarter, OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE! (We also talk #comics, #politics, life changes, among other stuff.) GO LISTEN: chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...

Episode 657 – Tom Tomorrow

Virtual Memories Show 657: Tom Tomorrow (a.k.a. Dan Perkins) “Every week is a battle between my deadline and my self-loathing.” Political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow (a.k.a. Dan Perkins) is…

chimeraobscura.com

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 8h

Dee Snider

Nicholas Goldberg: Twisted Sister's Dee Snider to MAGA 'fascists': Write your own damn songs

Frontman Dee Snider versus candidate Kari Lake is just the latest battle between recording artists and political candidates.

www.latimes.com

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 11h

Just a reminder that Jack published a book last year called “unhumans” that makes the argument that all Democrats and anyone left of Francisco Franco should be rounded up and murdered en mass for the rest of the populations entertainment.
Jack is a Nazi and hell bent on the murder of his opponents

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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Rockom Sockom NoBots @rockom.bsky.social · 8h

This Unipiper Blend Bull Run Whiskey is the first bottle of liquor I've owned that has a EULA.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 8h

Antifa? What’s that? An ifa for ants?

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Eryq Ouithaqueue @eryq.bsky.social · 8h

Jesse Watters will soon be interviewing a woman in an ANTIFA balaclava who looks suspiciously like Robert O'Neill in a pink wig

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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 · 9h

“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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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8h

The federal government is basically being run now by the algorithmically amplified, right wing grifter industrial complex, as exemplified by this weirdo from Washington state who was flown in for Trump’s Antifa round table.