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Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social · 8d

Stand-up comedy has come a long way from Lenny Bruce to the preferred medium of state propagandists. Inspiring.

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Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social · 8h

Any form of media that involves an angry man telling an audience what to be angry about for several hours a day is probably not good for the human brain

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 10h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 8h

this is a program of national immiseration unlike any other in the history of advanced democracies

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 17h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 8h

They claim the right to stop anyone and demand their papers based solely on the discretion of masked, cos-playing thugs who've decided you "look scared" or are "gripping the steering wheel tightly."

Miller is telling us, "Brown people today, the rest of you tomorrow." Listen to his words.

Trump Watch @trumpwat.ch · 14h

Border Patrol's Gregory Bovino: "We need reasonable suspicion to make an immigration arrest. Notice I did not say probable cause, nor did I say I need a warrant? Perhaps you look panicked when you see a Border Patrol agent. Perhaps you look scared ..."

So they scare people and then can arrest them.

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 13h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 8h

Our forebearers fought and died on battlefields to protect our right to free speech from tyrants. This right is so central to the Constitution we vowed to protect that it is enshrined in the very first amendment. You will NEVER take our freedom of speech away on our watch.

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 16h

The American people would gladly trade the entire bill of rights for slightly cheaper gasoline

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 15h

I will believe this is a sincere concern once I see a single person making this argument call for the 84 year old Senator from Vermont to retire

Paul Rabin @rabinpw.bsky.social · 1d

Insanity, at this time.

The energy that the dems need is not a 78 year old person.

Sorry to be ageist, but this is stupid bullshit.

Why Schumer and Gillibrand show us continuously, that they are not up to the times.

Such shitty “leadership”.

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 8d

My bigger issue is that Trump got elected and he fucked off to France and wrote comic books, which is fine, but when you pop up every couple years we don’t have to treat you like a thought leader anymore

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 7d

Like buddy he’s the Pope, he’s just definitionally right about some of this stuff, nobody is stopping you from going to Justin Bieber’s church where they shoot fireworks at gays or whatever it is prods do

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 7d

Much like evolution reproduces the crab, rightwing American Catholics continually try to reinvent Protestantism

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7d

Far-right Catholics freaking out about the Pope doing normal Pope things will always be entertaining.

The Pope blessed some water? Can you even imagine?

Matt Walsh: Horrific. The whole thing. Pope Leo blesses a block of ice and then stands there while these communist freaks do some kind of weird pagan Earth worshipping hippy ritual. The leader of the Catholic Church shouldn’t be anywhere near this nonsense. What the hell are we doing here

@CatholicSat: The Blessing of the Waters by Pope Leo XIV, at today’s ‘Raising Hope for Climate Justice’ International Conference at Castel Gandolfo.

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VaJenell Hugh-Briss @finalgirlboss.bsky.social · 8h

Houston Street #IYKYK

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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M @maybem.bsky.social · 8h

Houston Street

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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⚜️New Logic @freshlogic.blacksky.app · 8h

MAN, I WOULD’VE DRESSED MY CHARACTER AS DJANGO SO FAST

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M @maybem.bsky.social · 8h

We don’t make it our whole personality or identity though. And we don’t form terrorist cells because the new Kratos doesn’t have a big enough dick.

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GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 21h

Just under half of gamers worldwide are women, according to a new report published by the Entertainment Software Association

www.gamesindustry.biz/esa-48-of-vi...

ESA: 48% of video game players are women

2025 Global Power of Play report also found that mobile is the preferred device for women and players overall

www.gamesindustry.biz

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M @maybem.bsky.social · 8h

We either have a social contract or we don’t. And if they want it that way fine every man for his or herself and i will find some other country to retire in

M @maybem.bsky.social · 8h

I’d be fine with paying a childlessness tax if there were institutional accountability for the kids these parents raise (civics, literacy, and math exit exams as an example) but I’m not paying extra for these homeschool loonies to raise un-vaxxed christofascists.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 13h

Something I've found is that people respond to this idea very differently depending on if you put any effort into hiding you're doing this. Broadly speaking, childless people are fine paying taxes for public schools and not fine paying a childlessness tax even though they're basically the same thing

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15h

My most controversial take on this is probably that while I think reproductive freedom should be sacrosanct, I don’t really have any problem with additional taxes on (high income) childless people. Someone gotta pay into the pensions!

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demotivational speaker. 💕 @heysita.bsky.social · 16h

Big Ang taught kid me all there is to know likeee

- Men should be able to provide and potentially kill for you
- Never forget your lipgloss
- Don't be the bigger person
- Leopard print is FUN and for IT girls
-Bad bitchery is a way of life and thinking
- Always find a way to have fun

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M @maybem.bsky.social · 8h

China was spot on about the great firewall.

M @maybem.bsky.social · 8h

That person has three flags in their profile none of which are 🇺🇸. They don’t even go here

Dr. Ironclad, Brunch Democrat @feclad.bsky.social · 9h

No matter what Jeffries does...It will never ever be enough for these faceless, cat and dog profile pictured do somethings in his mentions.

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Dr. Ironclad, Brunch Democrat @feclad.bsky.social · 9h

No matter what Jeffries does...It will never ever be enough for these faceless, cat and dog profile pictured do somethings in his mentions.

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Attorney General Keith Ellison @ag.state.mn.us · 8h

Donald Trump just told 800 top military leaders that they need to prepare to confront an “invasion from within.” He is preparing the United States military to turn on Americans who don’t agree with him.

This is tyranny.

More on Substack: affordingyourlife.substack.com.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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