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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 5h

Real Brontë-heads know that it's Byron all the way down

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 5h

He said this deliberately because he is a Nazi and he wants you to know he's a Nazi who you can't touch. He also wants other Nazis to know they can be open about the fact they are Nazis too.

This isn't an oversight, a fumble or an opportunity for a "heh, well actually, dummy" zinger.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Soren Bowie @sorenbowie.bsky.social · 6h

Had to quit my workout early because I didn’t have headphones and was raw dogging the gym. Apparently they don’t want you having any kind of sex with an LA Fitness.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 36m

This editorial is riddled with so many grotesque factual and legal errors that I can't believe any lawyer was actual consulted in its preparation. It would be embarrassing if published in a high school newspaper.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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That Guy James (But Spooky) @jroberts.bsky.social · 34m

It's true. @jay.bsky.team should really free Link.

Megan E. Human @zombiscribe.bsky.social · 42m

Free Link @jay.bsky.team

Rev. Deral "FreeLink" Fenderson @fendersonia.bsky.social · 43m

Lots of Jay talk on my timeline, which makes my brain ask....

Hey @jay.bsky.team, when are you going to bring back our autistic friend that does lots of good things for all the marginalized people around here?

FREE LINK

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Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 1h

"I do not believe that we should turn our backs on the trans community in any way, shape, or form. I’ve been very proud to sponsor legislation that has increased trans healthcare and access to trans healthcare for our trans siblings here in the city."

Chi Ossé Is Tired of the Same Old Nonsense

From Kirsten Gillibrand (“she should resign”) to Eric Adams (“a power-hungry, egotistical man”) to the Democratic establishment, NYC’s Gen Z political star doesn’t hold back.

www.thenation.com

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 37m

Jeffrey this shit is basic!

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mundus sine caesaribus, @merydeath.bsky.social · 1h

"A rival petition began circulating Sunday, calling on the Rutgers chapter of TPUSA to be disbanded, accusing it of inciting violence. As of today, that petition had several hundred more signatures than the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s firing..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 57m

@annieabrams.bsky.social

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 7h

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 1h

wait a minute. this is an editorial? they didn't just pay someone to spout off this ahistorical nonsense, they did it from the paper itself?

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2h

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.

But the mere fact that a legal tool might be available does not mean it should be used. The
current rage over Grassley's revelation shows why. Smith showed little restraint in his pursuit of a former president. He charged Trump for official acts he took as president. He sought a gag order to limit Trump's ability to criticize the prosecution. He tried to accelerate the case to try a leading presidential candidate before the 2024 election.

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 8h

I'm in the newspaper again!

(I did not write this editorial I'm just quoted in it) www.theshorthorn.com/opinion/edit...

Editorial: Book bans harm students’ education

Students can benefit from learning about experiences different than their own.

www.theshorthorn.com

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 5h

No poetry but in novels.

dead manu walking @profchander.bsky.social · 5h

students said they weren’t really poetry fans but loved novels, so i wrote down a line they picked out from jane eyre, scanned it, noted the metrical substitutions and internal rhymes. reader, they took pictures of the chalkboard.

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 1h

A Gary Larson's The Far Side cartoon; one cow looks to another and says "Wendell... I'm not content."

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 1h

They used the Davy Crockett song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHiW...

Rusty Wallis Honda Jingle

YouTube video by Raventerra

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 2h

available here 💫

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 2h

Replying=let's talk about you
Quoting=I'm gonna make it about me

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The bird says, "Abolish ICE" @imadifferentbird.myatproto.social · 2h

“The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 2h

White professors leaving having a bigger impact than the destruction of entire departments and years of Black professors being pushed out is kind of the problem

And it still terrible this is happening

But “where we are” is factually just

“But wait this is happening yow white people »

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Jeffries: "Mike Johnson and this group continue to cover up for the pedophiles. That's crazy."

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2h

I guess I should also add that a key difference between the Trump investigation and the Comey indictment is that *Trump did something obviously and significantly wrong*. Like, if you can't grok that distinction as important, I don't know what to say.

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 2h

the College Board might not seem like an urgent threat to professors who more or less agree with what they see in AP frameworks, but the system is designed to deplete gen ed enrollment while turning both high school and “college” illiberal

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 3h

Mike Johnson did the same thing that Matt Gaetz did: take custody of an underage boy when they were legal adults.

We should all be asking why.

Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 5h

Mike Johnson is himself a sexual predator and pedophile. The proud Christian Nationalist has every reason to obstruct the Epstein Files’ release.

Johnson has admitted to circumventing the adoption process and simply “taking custody” of a 14-year-old Black boy, when Johnson was a single law student.

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 5h

Dolly Parton called a press conference to clarify formally that no weapon formed against her will prosper

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