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hg2985.bsky.social
Bless you sir. Is there a way we can participate?
December 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
ggobertx.bsky.social
Rest in peace @therealjoeely.bsky.social youtu.be/o5zbUuxo-jU?...
Joe Ely "Live Forever"
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December 16, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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raypride.bsky.social
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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downwithdan.bsky.social
tesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore
Oli @CARNØN X.com The other night I was driving in pouring rain, fully dark, and the car randomly lost GPS. No location. No navigation. Which also meant no FSD. I tried two software resets while driving just to get GPS back. Nothing worked. So there I was, manually driving in terrible conditions, unsure of positioning, no assistance, no guidance. And it genuinely felt unsafe. For me and for the people in the car. Then it hit me. This feeling - the stress, the uncertainty, the margin for error - this is how most drivers feel every single day. No FSD. No constant awareness. No backup. We've normalised danger so much that we only notice it when the safety net disappears. Chris Robovan @chrisrobovan • 1d So true. I couldn't imagine trying to figure things out myself anymore I feel it every time I have to take over to take a separate entrance or find an area different from the exact pin at a destination. 12.6.4 does 98% of my driving but that last 2% is tough I couldn't imagine also being without GPS 55 L7 14 118 ıhıl 96K 贝 Oli g @CARNØN• 1d It was a very tough situation • 21 4 • .. ill 74K 冂 山
December 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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athul.acharya.cc
TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit
Deck the hall with boughs of holly, Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la! "Tis the season to be jolly: a, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la! Fill the meadcup, drain the barrel, Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la! Troll the ancient Christmas carol. Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la!
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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bypatforde.bsky.social
Catch-22 was written in 1961, and yet this passage feels alarmingly current:
December 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Trump: The stock market is booming! Only I could do this and it’s all because of me!
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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sanho.bsky.social
President Hernandez was serving 45 years in prison for a plot to distribute 400 tons of cocaine before Trump pardoned him. Meanwhile, Trump is murdering fishermen in small boats for allegedly smuggling far smaller amounts.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26d
“Additionally, I Will be granting a Full and Complete Pardon to Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez who has been, according to many people that | greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly.”
Trump: If Tito Asfuro wins for President of Honduras, because the United States has so much confidence in him, his Policies, and what he will do for the Great People of Honduras, we will be very supportive. If he doesn't win, the United States will not be throwing good money after bad, because a wrong Leader can only bring catastrophic results to a country, no matter which country it is. Tito will be a Great President, and the United States will work closely with him in order to ensure the success, with all of its potential, of Honduras! Additionally, I Will be granting a Full and Complete Pardon to Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez who has been, according to many people that | greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly. This cannot be allowed to happen, especially now, after Tito Asfuro wins the Election, when Honduras will be on its way to Great Political and Financial Success. VOTE FOR TITO ASFURO FOR PRESIDENT, AND CONGRATULATIONS TO JUAN ORLANDO HERNANDEZ ON YOUR UPCOMING PARDON. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE HONDURAS GREAT AGAIN! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP 3 ReTruths 4 Likes 11/28/25, 1:15 PM
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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jefftiedrich.bsky.social
by the time this is all over, we're going to find out that Epstein was in the Trump Files
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Brilliant story line!
A tweet from Boze the Library Owl (@BozeReads) reads: “I'm glad the villain of the new Toy Story is a child's tablet. I hope the film conveys how screens eat up a child's hobbies, interests, literacy, ability to function socially. I hope it provokes millions of parents to think twice before making the iPad a babysitter.” It quotes a post from Pop Base (@PopBase) that says: “The first teaser for ‘TOY STORY 5’ has been released. In theaters June 2026.” Below is an image from the teaser showing a cartoon frog-faced tablet with large eyes and the word “Hi!” on its screen.
November 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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stevanzetti.bsky.social
Lebensraum for the late American Century
The Tarrant County GOP chairman saying "we need to remove 100 million people from the country" in order to lower housing prices.
November 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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brianmfloyd.bsky.social
it is the marshawn lynch approach to politics
November 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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adavidhalejoint.bsky.social
The bottom 1/3 of the B1G is a combined 2-31 in conference play. Both Ws are vs. other teams in the bottom 1/3 of the league. Only OOC P4 win vs. BC by 2 in 2OT.

Oregon has 6 FBS wins vs. teams that are a combined 3-23 vs non-Oregon P4. Those 3 wins are UCLA & Purdue(2x).
November 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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tznkai.bsky.social
It's incredibly normal to feel uncomfortable being near people who are different from you. And your job as a human being is to feel a little ashamed of that, grow the fuck up, and get over it.
factpostnews.bsky.social FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · Oct 29
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
🎯🎯
October 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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edsbs.bsky.social
if you want AI to do everything for you then...what the fuck are you
October 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.
October 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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solomonmissouri.bsky.social
To model mercy not in the abstract but in the tactile and tangible… what Peter Thiel and western evangelicalism miss … if you worship Christ but don’t follow Christ … you are not a Christian

You are a zealot

Worship is not the point … love is
October 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
I guess it’s not ever possible for Vance to wait 5 minutes to get the facts before he seeks to exploit terrible incidents for political gain. At least he’s consistent.
September 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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petersagal.bsky.social
Dana Carvey parodied George HW Bush on SNL — “Nah, wouldn’t be prudent” — the President called him up and they became friends. .

Daryl Hammond imitated Clinton through his Presidency, including savage stuff during his sex scandal. Clinton invited him to do a “dueling Presidents” gag.
mrsbettybowers.bsky.social Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Sep 20
President Johnson, in a November 9, 1968 letter to the Smothers Brothers:

“It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”
September 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Ooop!
September 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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sickoscommittee.org
Gonna tell my kid this was The Wiggles.
markparmstrong.bsky.social Mark Armstrong @markparmstrong.bsky.social · Sep 20
College football being normal
September 20, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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eugeniast.bsky.social
The Nazis did not tolerate ridicule
Article clipped from The Montreal Star * Herr Goebbels Angered By Anti-Nazi Wit Comedians Banned For Humorous Remarks on Leaders: * BERLIN, Feb. 4 - (U.P.) When Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels yesterday blasted Germany's cafe society, he called it "society rabble and intellectual snobs," for laughing at comedians who make Nazi leaders the butts of their jokes. Goebbels turned his anger upon the "society rabble" after announcing that live German actors had been banned from the stage for publicly rediculing Nazi party and state functionaries. He بماسمفمسمنمطاللمطا party and state functionaries. He denied that there was any lack of humor in Nazi Germany, but said that it must be kept "good- natured, decent and clean." "There is plenty of humor in Germany, more than enough," he said in three and one-half column editorial in the Nazi party's newspape Voelkischer Beobachter. "But we do not per- mit ourselves to be ridiculed.” The five actors were W Or- ner Finck, actor-author: Pete Sachse, vaudeville comedian, and Helmut Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi, the latter three members of a vaudeville combination known as. "The Three Rulands." The five were said to have been warned re- peatedly to stop making jokes about the Nazis.
September 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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matthew.flux.community
Pam Bondi deleted a government study showing that right-wingers commit more terrorism. The right cannot think coherently so instead of making their own studies, they censor legitimate ones.

But don't worry Pam, I saved it for you web.archive.org/web/20250911...
web.archive.org
September 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM