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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 14h

MAGA lawmakers regularly share its content. Elon called it "one of the best accounts on X." It's run by a Macedonian who has never set foot in America — and who illegally donated to a U.S. congressional campaign.

Great stuff from @jsweetli.bsky.social:

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America

Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.

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M Maher @marvelle.bsky.social · 9h

FOX Sports is looking for a color analyst after their last one almost got stabbed to death.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 10h

🧵 Trump is criminally invading states under false pretenses. His supporters are trying to instigate violence by dressing as antifa and committing crimes.

In this clip from Portland, Joey Gibson of "Patriot Prayer" and his fiancée, Lindsey Nichols, tried to cause trouble before being forced away.

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M Maher @marvelle.bsky.social · 9h

man, Hulu really should have made that documentary this season

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M Maher @marvelle.bsky.social · 9h

our fundraising is hidden all around you! - PTA? Parent-Teacher-Antifa! AARP? Antifa Antifa Retired People! Don't get us started on AAA!

M Maher @marvelle.bsky.social · 9h

we start sending the fundraising emails when the Soros checks stop coming

Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 9h

Weird how Antifa never asks me for money. Everyone else does, but Antifa is very quiet.

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M Maher @marvelle.bsky.social · 9h

This game would have kicked ass and right wingers suck for being such little piss babies.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 10h

Ubisoft canceled an 'Assassin's Creed' game set after the Civil War

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Would fight the emerging Ku Klux Klan

• Leadership canceled it — concerned with US political climate & Yasuke backlash

(via Game File)

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M Maher @marvelle.bsky.social · 10h

you're on to something

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M Maher @marvelle.bsky.social · 10h

don't feed the trolls, block and ignore (but nice comment)

M Maher @marvelle.bsky.social · 10h

Can't throw a punch if you're always in a defensive crouch.

M Maher @marvelle.bsky.social · 10h

Authoritarianism for the social media age. 4chan-verment.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 12h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

M Maher @marvelle.bsky.social · 10h

There are a dozen stories of Trump cutting funding for domestic terrorism tracking and hate crime documentation. If he actually gave a shit about any of this why would he do that? dbknews.com/2025/03/26/t...

Trump administration cancels funding for UMD-ran domestic terrorism tracker

The database tracked events across the country such as hate crimes, school shootings and instances of workplace violence.

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M Maher @marvelle.bsky.social · 10h

This is the Philippines approach: Start with drug dealers (or just people on boats) then extend to your political enemies. We'll all chalk it up as bluster and then the bodies will start showing up.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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M Maher @marvelle.bsky.social · 10h

they are trying to cancel the current late night hosts to make room for this - which they are convinced we will love

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M Maher @marvelle.bsky.social · 10h

$500k to book Danny Bonaduce? What did they do with the other $495k?

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M Maher @marvelle.bsky.social · 10h

Agitating and irritating crowds is the entire schtick of Kill Tony comedy

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

M Maher @marvelle.bsky.social · 10h

This is how daily life would be in those right-wing “sovereign cities” that rich tech weirdos want to build.

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M Maher @marvelle.bsky.social · 11h

what are we doing here? The blame is squarely on the illegitimate SCOTUS www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Republicans could draw 19 more House seats after an upcoming Supreme Court ruling

Many experts are forecasting the end of a key provision of election law — enabling Republicans to shore up their advantage in the House, according to a new report.

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404 Media @404media.co · 11h

BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE

🔗 www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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ChrisP @wordsmithgetxo.bsky.social · 19h

In an old ad for board game Scattergories in Spain a player was shown flouncing out while anothet said “OK, we’ll accept ‘octopus’ as a pet”.
“Aceptamos pulpo” has now entered the language in the meaning of “that’s a bit of a stretch but let’s go with it just for the sake of argument”.

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M Maher @marvelle.bsky.social · 13h

Cursed TV: “Are hub-sons the new trad wives?” on The View.

M Maher @marvelle.bsky.social · 13h

Are those “people” Marc Andreessen and his fellow VCs?? Because they are the ones hyping this technology not “people.”

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

ANDREESSEN: "The employment shifts everybody’s worried about are .. not going to happen at anywhere near the velocity people think .. because a significant percentage of jobs in the U.S. are licensed or unionized .. in a way where they literally cannot be replaced.”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_1c...

Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley

YouTube video by Stripe

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 14h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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M Maher @marvelle.bsky.social · 13h

Too bad they took the white supremacist VC money from Andreessen.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 17h

That is an absolutely massive Series C, wow. Base has a fascinating business model, see the attached episode of @volts.wtf for more.

*BASE POWER RAISES $1 BILLION SERIES C
*BASE POWER INVESTORS INCLUDE ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ, LIGHTSPEED

A clever new way to distribute storage on the grid

A new startup called Base Power aims to bring more stability to the volatile Texas grid by selling customers oversized home batteries at minimal costs and then using the excess capacity to trade on th...

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15h

“Milei basked in the adulation, throwing his leather-clad arms into the air, and took a sip of water before proceeding with his nine-track set of mostly 1980s rock anthems. “I’m human,” he told the packed stadium. “It might not seem like it, but I am.””

They’re all ridiculously whiny.

Burning down the house: Milei plays rock star as Argentina economy crashes

Facing protests and scandal, Argentina’s ‘rock star president’ performs in Buenos Aires, saying: ‘I’m human’

www.theguardian.com

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