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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 3h

shut your dick sucking lips and log off

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 10h

yes! i still need to organize it better, but i can share some stuff with you. dm me!

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 10h

my sick self-harm obsession is buying old issues of National Review from the 60s-80s and archiving the horrifically racist/sexist/transphobic/bigoted shit in them

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 11h

for some reason our old video about Rob Schneider vs Tim Heidecker is popping off. dont ask why, just enjoy! and no more bullshit!!!

youtu.be/z_W3w_E7K4U?...

Why Conservative Comedy isn't Funny: The Schneidecker Paradox

YouTube video by Maggie Mae Fish

youtu.be

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 11h

it's always a good time to shit on the legacy of crypto-Nazi, apartheid-loving, terrible writer William F Buckley Jr.

mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 11h

read this older article while researching my first podcast episode and had it on hand so I'm just gonna leave it here lol newrepublic.com/article/1224...

National Review's Bad Conscience

Why the magazine is quick to accuse liberals of fascism and Nazism.

newrepublic.com

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 12h

"they're feeding Trump AI videos, that's why he says stuff that's not true"

did you just hear of Donald Trump for the first time yesterday?

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 13h

implication: "the cops are afraid of a crime wave because Mamdani will let criminals roam free!"

reality: corrupt cops are afraid of being held responsible for their past and future crimes

Bari Weiss tweet quoting a NY cop who has palpable "dread" at Mamdani winning, and threatens to quit

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 14h

liberals are genetically incapable of learning what year the US military was desegregated

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 19h

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss, CBS News, 1965

- New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
jewishcurrents.org/bari-weiss-c...

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1d

war, war never changes.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 1d

you're right! it sucks that Newsom won't compromise when lives are on the line!

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 1d

sounds like youre just afraid to be your best self

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

its funny how not a single actual journalist has been like, “actually she’s good at journalism”

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 2d

"i got ostracized for liking chick-fil-a" is the kind of excuse you give when the real reason you got ostracized is so heinous, you cant even say it in public

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it

Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor

Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …

nypost.com

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 2d

CEO of Free Press excited to crush concept of free press

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d

I'm also reminded of the "whistleblower" report about abuses at a Missouri gender clinic, the author of which is now just a full-time anti-transgender lobbyist, that fell apart the moment any reporter tried to verify it

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 2d

churchill wanted a jewish state in the mid east because he saw it as preferable to "Jewish domination" of the world via communism. and in far right circles that sentiment lives on

"let 'them' have their little country so 'we' can keep them in their place"

trump exudes that feeling often

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 2d

as a kid growing up in the Cold War i had nightmares about nuclear war

decades later under the War on Terror i get to have nightmares about dying to a mass shooter

thanks, neverending war machine!

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 4d

the right wing project to destroy San Francisco started a few decades before i was born, but watching that project come to fruition over the course of my life has been really really sad

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 4d

The tech billionaire hunger for “parallel media” is covered in this piece.

Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter is the most well-known example.

The idea is to do to everything—media, universities, government, philanthropy—what Musk did to Twitter.

newrepublic.com/article/1786...