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Counting Harlan Crows @lolsuits.bsky.social · 6h

Predator handshake meme: Limp Bizkit, Conservatives, Faith as a cover.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 7h

Cmon man lmao

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The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 2d

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

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Lifelong Democrats for Zohran #ImWithHim 🌊🌊🌊 @vodkasnowflake.bsky.social · 4d

brutal lol

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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · Nov 14

I really, really recommend you see this. Kaleb posted this years ago and I have never forgotten it. It sounds insane to say that something based on Dilbert could be haunting and beautiful but it is

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 6d

Rudy Giuliani asked to leave Cuomo fundraiser because he keeps looking up “Tilly Norwood nude” on the iPad hooked up to the projector

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 8d

“I’m resigning from my position as Democratic leader and retiring from the Senate.”

A fundraising text

NEW MESSAGE
FROM:
Chuck Schumer
Meredith, is there anything I can say to convince you to donate $20 (becomes $80!) to help take back the Senate majority

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Russel Pepper @rpepper.bsky.social · 8d

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 8d

Big personal news - just booked my first international standup gig! Related: can anyone tell me what the Taliban find funny?

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 8d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 11d

“We can’t help poor people because that will help black people” is an unusually honest expression of Republican policy goals

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · Jul 18

These are some of the most odious people alive.

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Adam Tool @adamtool.itch.io · 9d

Meanwhile at the Riyadh comedy festival

Screenshot of The Princess Bride’s Inigo Montoya with text that says “Hello. My name is Pete Davidson. You killed my father. Prepare to laugh”

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 9d

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 9d

(final thought as i'm swiftly slain by a band of ninja assassins) kind of a crazy amount of ninjas to hire for this

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Counting Harlan Crows @lolsuits.bsky.social · 10d

Absolutely. There are already parody songs about them.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 12d

You see the Before pic and then his whole deal makes way more sense, huh?

SorryHat @sorryhat.bsky.social · 12d

So hold up Theo Vaughn’s mullet is fake?!?

They Foreal made a pod casting deep state Joe fucking dirt?!?

Get the fuck out of here lmfao.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 13d

I’m not autistic, I’m acetaminodivergent.

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weinberg @weinberg.social · 14d

a matador's goal is to avoid physical contact

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 15d

Katie Miller joked about her husband being a “sexual matador” in an interview with Jesse Watters.

Stephen Miller's Wife Drops Cringe-Inducing Sexual Brag

Katie Miller joked about her husband being a “sexual matador” in an interview with Jesse Watters.

trib.al

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 14d

I feel strongly that the president should go on TV and explain to the American people what palm beach in the ‘90s was like www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15d

Isaac Chotiner interviews Cass Sunstein. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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THE NEW YORKER ICO
In terms of human rights, I've always found it a little bit puzzling, given what you write, and given who your wife is, that you two were so close to Henry Kissinger. Of all the pre-Trump political figures in America, he is the one I think of as in some ways the opposite of liberal, given his behavior toward the rest of the world.
I'll tell you a story. I wrote a book a few years ago on Star Wars. We invited Dr.
Kissinger to my Star Wars book party, and he said, "You wrote a book about Star Wars? Why'd you write a book about Star Wars?" He was puzzled and courteous, but really confused. And then he came to the book party, which was quite generous. He was a busy person.
But, despite his busyness, he came to the book party.
Yeah, and then I gave a talk on Star Wars, and he came up to me afterward and he said, "Oh, I see why you wrote a book on Star Wars. There's a lot there.
It's, like, about families and it's about governments and freedom." The amount of curiosity and generosity that he showed was incomparable. I don't know anyone who showed that level of curiosity and generosity. And we really got into Star Wars. He just wanted to think about it. I know there are strong views about his career, and I'm hardly an expert on his career.

But your wife is one of the great human-rights experts in the world. I asked you about him being anti-liberal, and your response was that he was very nice to you about your book.
About Star Wars.
It is certainly a touching story. But that's not totally an answer to the question.
Yeah. Well, I don't know. What he would think of this book I'd love to know.
But no second thoughts about being friends with him or anything?
I feel generally very grateful for friendship, and he was, when I knew him, a person of immense kindness.
Those who think of him as someone who was something horrible or worse, 1 don't know what to say about that.

But you could have an opinion on it.
You have an opinion on all kinds of things, right?
Well, on him and his role in
government, that's not something I've particularly studied, so I don't know. I know some people who think he was a horrible historic figure. They would say,
"Would you be friends with Genghis Khan? Would you be friends with Stalin?" And I wouldn't be friends with Stalin, so I concede that.
Well, the next time someone brings up a terrible anecdote about Cambodia or Vietnam, I will definitely drop the Star Wars story to show that people have two sides.
Yeah. And I get those who think you shouldn't be friends with someone who did terrible things. I hear that. I can just say that he was, as a very large number of people would say, though many fewer would say it publicly, an extraordinarily generous friend.
Professor, thank you so much for doing this.
Great, thanks. If we go light on the Kissinger part, I wouldn't complain, because it could dwarf everything else. *

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 15d

I'm not worried yet. Mock raptures had me projected as a 7th-round pick.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 15d

Justin Trudeau got in trouble for this but when Trump does it? Crickets

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16d

looking good brotha 👍

A screenshot from Fox News' The Ingraham Angle showing footage of Donald Trump answering questions on Air Force One this past Sunday and he looks so goddam weird, he is absolutely CAKED in fake tanner

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 18d

this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 19d

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

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