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Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 5d

It was incredibly natural for the MAGA movement to form in a culture where people attempt to satisfy their most basic, profound spiritual needs with the religious equivalent of an all-McDonald's diet. Of COURSE these people have grievances! Their fundamental social organizing force is a scam!

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Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 5d

Megachurches are a perfect distillation of everything wrong with modern American evangelical Christianity. They're an opportunity for people to assuage their consciences and identify themselves socially and politically as "Christians" without putting forth any effort--and all while being conned.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 5d

I have never understood "mega-churches". It seems geared towards undermining or corrupting any actual pastoral work.

ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕟ℝ𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕤 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ 😸 🌊 @stevefm20.bsky.social · 5d

Always GOPed

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Lee Clark @inktnerd.bsky.social · 16h

Also, dipping fries in the crab gut of fried soft shell crabs or steamed blue crabs

Lee Clark @inktnerd.bsky.social · 17h

Loaded cheesy fries with the liquid cheese whiz, bacon bits, Lowry's seasoned salt. I'll roll around in that shit

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 20h

Taylor Swift does physical airgap network segregation. You work in cybersecurity and sext your followers on Discord.

Who is the real professional here?

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Lee Clark @inktnerd.bsky.social · 21h

Two core beliefs I have:

1. There is no such thing as supernatural, the universe is composed of observable and measurable, if hard to understand, rules and phenomena

2. Some machines like guitars and printers and cars absolutely contain a soul

neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 1d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Sending troops from Texas to forcefully occupy and suppress cities in Illinois and Oregon IN OPPOSITION TO THOSE STATES' GOVERNORS is literally a civil war and it's cooking my brain that Democrats are simply pretending it isn't happening

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

UPDATE: Hegseth today called up 400 members of the Texas National Guard, with Gov. Abbott's apparent permission, to be deployed "where needed, including in the cities of Portland and Chicago." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 2d

I have been talking about US autocracy but @dhnexon.bsky.social lays it out more clearly-- the American system has failed. The checks and balances didn't work, so we will need a new constitution and new institutions once the regime is eventually toppled www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 2d

Trump talked about invading the blue states with the National Guards of the red states on the campaign trail and we tried to warn you this could happen and Very Serious People said that would never come to pass and we were just being manipulative by reminding everyone what Trump said.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

NEW: Gov. Pritzker says that President Trump is tonight ordering 400 Texas National Guard members to deploy to Illinois, Oregon, and other states. gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/s/267a0ec0-7...

Gov. Pritzker Statement on the Texas National Guard
Being Deployed to Illinois
OCTOBER 5, 2025
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Office of the Governor
JB Pritzker
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sunday, October 5, 2025
CONTACT: Gov.Press@illinois.gov
CHICAGO - Today, Governor JB Pritzker released the following statement after the Illinois National Guard was informed that the Texas National Guard is preparing deployments to Illinois:
"This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.
"We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state's military troops.
"I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.
"The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness."

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 3d

Violent thugs are terrorizing Americans and they were sent by the White House.

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 3d

Why are those of us with even passing familiarity with authoritarian consolidation freaking out? Because the answers to a) will Trump's paramilitary forces fire on civilians and b) will elements in the military follow orders to carry out unambiguously illegal extra-judicial murders are both "yes."

Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 3d

Yes. Do not rush to conclusions. But as the story develops, this looks more and more like a targeted attack. Also, once again, DHS has already been caught lying about the incident and cannot be trusted.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

ICE reportedly opened fire on rapid responders on the southwest side this afternoon.

There are *very few* details on this available at this time. Treat all rumors with caution until verified.

This Sun-Times article cites a DHS statement that should be treated, as always, with extreme skepticism:

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Lee Clark @inktnerd.bsky.social · 4d

Things have gotten so weird here that our star poasters are saying things that Slayer fans say:

oriana schwindt @schwindter.bsky.social · 4d

i don't wanna go back to mastadon

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Lee Clark @inktnerd.bsky.social · 5d

Evergreen

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7d

Young’s opinion, which rules that the Trump admin illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation, is absolutely scathing.

“In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police…ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”

And there's the issue of masks. This Court has listened
carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk's captors for masking-
up and has heard the same reasons advanced by the defendant Todd
Lyons, Acting Director of ICE. It rejects this testimony as
disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a
single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small
wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard
them
as they go about implementing our immigration laws. It
should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily wear masks.
Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor -- and
honor still matters.
To us, masks are associated with cowardly
desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we
have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.
Carrying on
in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this
administration and everyone who works in it
"We can not escape
history," Lincoln righty said. "[It] will light us down in
honor or dishonor, to the latest generation." Abraham Lincoln,
Second Annual Message to Congress (Dec. 1, 1862) .
Perhaps we're now afraid to stick our necks out. If the
distinguished Homeland Security intelligence agency can be
weaponized to squelch the free speech rights of a small, hapless
group of non-citizens in our midst, so too can the Federal Home
Loan Mortgage Corporation, and the audit divisions of the I.R.s.
and the Social Security Administration be unconstitutionally
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Peter Juul @petermjuul.bsky.social · 8d

inside you are two wolves

one has brain damage

the other has brain damage

you have brain damage

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Lee Clark @inktnerd.bsky.social · 8d

Update, it did

Lee Clark @inktnerd.bsky.social · 12d

Would this fix me? Evidence points to yes...

Halo Master Chief Collection is on sale for $9.99 on Steam

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Lee Clark @inktnerd.bsky.social · 8d

My humble entry for stock imagery in future text books on this period of US history

Jesse Plemmons from Civil War asking "what kind of brain-damaged are you?"

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Lee Clark @inktnerd.bsky.social · 8d

My humble entry for stock imagery in future text books on this period of US history

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Lee Clark @inktnerd.bsky.social · 8d

Haha whole autocorrect to wormhole is brilliant thank you, samsung electronic keyboard

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Lee Clark @inktnerd.bsky.social · 8d

My mom all but did a Darth Vader-esque NOOOOOOOOOOOOO when she found out we was hillbillies over there too

a drawing of a man with glasses crying with water coming out of his mouth

Alt: a drawing of a man with glasses crying (wojack meme)

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Lee Clark @inktnerd.bsky.social · 8d

It's also fun to disprove bs family narratives. Like a lot of southerners, I was told my whole childhood that we were related to (you guessed it) Pocahontas & that we had Cherokee, Italian, & Irish "blood."

Genealogy/DNA ancestry says we're 98.8% Scottish & the wormhole family comes from 1 village.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8d

the only real reason i like genealogy is that it's a fun way to find weird little historical stories about weird little guys who you share some sort of very distant weird little guy connection to

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Lee Clark @inktnerd.bsky.social · 9d

Everything we have ever done and will do, we will do again, and again, and again. Just as I will watch Uncle Ben and Thomas & Martha Wayne die again and again, so shall you argue this point for all eternity. But you get to try ice cream for the first time over and over too!

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