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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 3h

This is what every Democratic state needs to do, tell its state university leaders that they will lose all state appropriations if they sign the compact. Take the decision out of feckless college administrators’ hands.

Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 10h

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 12h

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3h

In some ways this is the government now

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I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city

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TFRaw.com Transformers Multimedia Archive @walruslaw.bsky.social · 4h

Behold Golden Megatron and his gun force from what I think is TV Magazine pages from 1983.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10h

Despite getting whatever anti-trans narrative they wanted out of the Charlie Kirk shooting, the American right is now blaming the Jews instead, because content must be created. It is almost like the "first they came for" thing is not hypothetical!

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10h

It's the golden rule of grievance politics: you will never be happy. You are a permanent captive to the infinity goalpost.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 7h

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 6h

If you wanna know why Miller and Vought and Vance are speedrunning the playbook it's because they know when he goes they no longer have the juice to finish the plan. No one is gonna listen to them and there will be a power vacuum.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 5h

The original Bad Bunny

The Ice Cream Bunny, huge and terrifying

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M(orte) Sipher @msipher.bsky.social · 5h

For to celebrate an @awd.bsky.social birthday, I felt like drawing the absolutely adorable Jeramie.

Pencil sketch bust-shot of Jeramie, an anthropomorphic donkey boy, very femme, with really long ears and really long hair.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 6h

at that point, it will complete its transformation into a metal it’s more prestigious NOT to receive

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6h

Trump hints that he's going to give Andy Ngo, Pizzagate Jack, and others at the antifa roundtable the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

"You have been amazing, you have been brave. You are real patriots. At some point, we will look into rewarding you with very important medals and honors."

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 13h

The COO of bluesky, Rose, is following the heritage foundation account on bluesky.

Soyweiser @soyweiser.bsky.social · 14h

She is the COO en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_o... of bsky. This is worrying because after the 'we are turning waffles into an anti-trans thing' by the CEO the CEO started to follow a transphobe. Shows a pattern.

Wonder when we find out one of them follows the discovery institute.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 6h

Asking Nick Clegg and his peers for permission to remove valuables from their homes would kill my burglary company

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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gruffthedog.bsky.social @gruffthedog.bsky.social · 10h

It doesn't even make sense. They lost because people who support trans rights (and oppose war crimes etc) didn't vote dem but also these issues do not matter to voters?

if these issues don't matter to voters, how did it cause the dems to lose an election?

Just nonsense, from bigots and idiots.

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M(orte) Sipher @msipher.bsky.social · 6h

every "purity test"-puking face-anus get in the fucking sea

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Amethyst Mare - COMMISSIONS OPEN 🏳️‍🌈➡️ Pawsome @amethystmare.bsky.social · 7h

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M(orte) Sipher @msipher.bsky.social · 6h

So who among your family and friends are you willing to let die for "long-horizon strategy"? Are YOU willing to die? You willing to forego life-saving healthcare, using public restrooms, deciding your own name, not being beaten to death by any jackass who thinks you look "wrong"?

No? Then shut up.

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I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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M(orte) Sipher @msipher.bsky.social · 6h

So who among your family and friends are you willing to let die for "long-horizon strategy"? Are YOU willing to die? You willing to forego life-saving healthcare, using public restrooms, deciding your own name, not being beaten to death by any jackass who thinks you look "wrong"?

No? Then shut up.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 10h

If you are willing to throw away entire groups of people to protect your insular strategy that will only protect you instead of protecting everyone then I don’t want your leaders and I sure as hell don’t want to be associated with you.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 13h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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M(orte) Sipher @msipher.bsky.social · 7h

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 7h

also even if you don't care about any of that other stuff, it was in robocop!

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Diem (but spooky) @diemtf.bsky.social · 7h

A European company basically saying "the US is too racist for us to make an anti-slavery, anti-Klan game". Things are Great Again!

Three sources told Game File that word filtered through the company last July that management in Paris had stopped development of the game for two reasons: 1) online backlash that spring to the reveal of Yasuke, a historically-inspired Black samurai, as a protagonist in the company’s then-upcoming Assassin’s Creed Shadows; and 2) concern that the political climate in the United States was becoming increasingly tense.

“Too political in a country too unstable, to make it short,” one source familiar with the game and its cancellation told Game File.

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 10h

This picture is from Two Thousand and fucking Eleven

A picture of John Pike (the cop) spraying a group of seated protestors with pepper spray during the UC Davis incident back in 2011

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 10h

hey if a friend of a friend shows up in the group chat and is like 'we should charlie kirk some mfs who's in'

yeah

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11h

1. AG Ken Paxton of Texas has announced undercover operations into left leaning groups, citing "transgenderism" and "antifa."

It is the latest in a series of moves that indicates LGBTQ+ people and left-leaning orgs may be targets for domestic surveillance.

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