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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 3h

the paranoid and the activist usage were the same (the difference being only whether one was “raising consciousness”) about something real.

the Right seized on it when it was used in slogans in 2020, because “save the nation from Woke Ideology” sounds better than “police brutality is good”

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 3h

it’s had the same meaning since people outside the circles of black activism were introduced to it a few years ago

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 4h

“woke” is a technical term for everything that annoys Republican Dads, and few things annoy them so much as criticism of ICE

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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 6h

Pam Bondi, in this single exchange, confirms beyond a shadow of a doubt that she is not the Attorney General of the United States.

She is Attorney Specific of Donald Trump.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

COONS: How did you conclude that these strikes on boats in the open ocean are legal?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any legal advice that my department may or may not have issued

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 5h

Proclaim Wokeness throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof.

Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 6h

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown

www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 20h

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

I know we’re going in circles but it is abundantly clear that they have literally no idea, let alone a plan, to fix their own mess.

Nobody is at the wheel, it is the first social media AI presidency and they drove themselves into a blind alley.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

What the folks who no longer trust mainstream news fundamentally want is to be lied to, and not just on the editorial page. You will never win them back as long as you're doing serious journalism. I wish this wasn't the case, but for the moment it sure seems to be.

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 1d

in other words, they don’t understand that the people reporting bad things about Israel are doing a different kind of project from the people expressing positive opinions about Israel

Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 1d

Not an expert on this stuff but I have the sense that no one backing Weiss understands that what she has done her whole career, opinion-based news-flavored content, is distinct from news reporting.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

Look I think there is a limit to what mockery practically achieves but it fucking rules that the American Himmler had to go on TV to sputter about how he’s not actually under five feet tall

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller responding to AOC calling Miller a clown and saying he is angry that he is 4’10”: We knew her brain didn't work—now we know their eyes don't work.

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Scott D. Moringiello @sdeltam.bsky.social · 1d

It would be funny if our Augustinian Pope weighed in on this ...

Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 1d

a fascist president, a corrupt president, a vindictive president, a senile president we might endure — but a pelagian president?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I want to be good because you want to prove to God so you go to that next step, right? So that's very important to me."

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 1d

a fascist president, a corrupt president, a vindictive president, a senile president we might endure — but a pelagian president?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I want to be good because you want to prove to God so you go to that next step, right? So that's very important to me."

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2d

“It was just a lil peppermint taste, you know, I’ve tasted spicier… I’m Mexican” 🫡

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 2d

Portland Frog updates about getting pepper sprayed in his fan intake 🐸🫡

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Funkle @cooter.bsky.social · 3d

ONLY TEN COPIES LEFT!! GET IT NOW OR YOU WONT BE ABLE TO UNTIL A COLLECTED EDITION COMES OUT LATE NEXT YEAR!!!

Funkle @cooter.bsky.social · 10d

Back in print!

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Written and illustrated by me!

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TYPE I • NORMAL POSITION @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online · 3d

cancelling the Obama administration for normalizing bigoted language with the Cash For Clunkers campaign

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 3d

Just ten years ago this kind of opinion was something you'd find on the freerepublic forums, now it's something Democrats in good standing say out loud

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 5d

if you abandon a principle the first time it under performs electorally, it was never a principle in the first place, it was just a pose.

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 5d

If only the tsar knew!

Dan Saltzstein @dansaltzstein.bsky.social · 5d

“Mr. Trump was first told of the cuts by Ms. Hochul during a phone call on Sunday evening, according to three people with knowledge of the conversation.”

Trump Administration Reverses $187 Million in N.Y. Counterterrorism Cuts

www.nytimes.com

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 5d

Emil Bove is even younger and looks even older. And Stephen Miller at age 17 looked like he was 45. So, theory confirmed.

The universal human intuition that being consciously evil makes you look physically decrepit has a basis in observable fact.

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 5d

I know this isn't a popular point to make these days but we need empowered security forces backed by the might of the federal government to round these people up and throw them in prisons

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 6d

I’ll be happy for my kids to learn impractical languages too, but I’ve started doing a little Spanish with them because they’ll almost certainly live their whole lives in places with many Spanish speakers

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 6d

Having won over the brass by calling them fat and gay, the next step is to win the hearts and minds of the grunts by taking away their cheap treats

The Pentagon wants out of the grocery business, so it's calling on the industry for ideas on what to do with 178 commissaries

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 7d

I think this is the best piece I've read so far about the large number of elites who basically can't deal with the situation we are in. it doesn't compute and they keep hunting for an exit that doesn't exist

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 7d

"You are—at most—going to be one piece of that solution in a chain of many people that begins before you were born and continues after you die." degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-...

You don't have to swallow frogs

Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.

degenerateart.beehiiv.com

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