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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Something I’m genuinely kind of encouraged by is that most ordinary normal ass liberals are not buying the Cuomo bullshit and see precisely what it’s trying to do.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Where will future Atillas come from if you just describe it in cold impersonal language?! How will that delight and nurture the soul of the next Vlad Țepeș?!

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

War crimes guy: I love war crimes so much that I demand you talk about them in a way that creates beauty for all the earth

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 4h

Once again, I’m wondering why Democrats aren’t running with a straightforward message of “despotism is un-American and unaffordable” right now and all the way into the midterms.

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Godspeed You! Woke Moralists @dashwallkick.bsky.social · 43m

Of course you want everyone to go to prison for telling you no! You're twelve!!!

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 44m

‘everybody who doesn’t do what I WANT should go to JAIL’ hell yeah my little twelve year old buddy

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 49m

It's almost as if a movement that began with lusty chants of "lock her up" in regard to the opposition party's candidate for President in 2016...combined with a refusal to honor the results of the election...has morphed into a cult of unaccountable, authoritarian power.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 42m

What a joke.

Trump Returns To TikTok To Tell Gen Z They 'Owe Me Big' After He 'Saved' The Platform

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1h

Hippos last post inspired this post thank you hippo bsky.app/profile/inte...

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1h

There are only two types of products and services now: outright scam and pseudo scam (where you're like ehh technically I got something in exchange for my money but cmon)

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1h

If you don’t work until you die to produce these goods you will be homeless. Thank you for coming

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1h

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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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 43m

I am so tired of our media letting weaselly little shits like Mike Johnson slide on these evasions.

Why *aren’t* you aware of blatant violations of the Constitution, Mike?! What makes you at all capable of holding this job?? Why should anyone believe a word coming out of your shitty little mouth??

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 43m

oh thank the good lord www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/08/d...

Dolly Parton’s manager issues health update after sister urges fans to 'pray'

Dolly Parton's manager has shared a hopeful update on the singer's health after her sister caused concern by asking fans to "pray with me."

www.thepinknews.com

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Soyweiser @soyweiser.bsky.social · 2h

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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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 45m

Like, you have to be using zero community moderation tools, for their account to even be visible to you.

Like, did *you* know that Heritage Foundation was here? Probably not, if you use pretty much any community moderation tools.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 47m

Note: if you use basically *any* community modlist, you won't even see their account. Very British Bigotry, Asuka, etc already block em for you.

You have to purposely expose yourself to all the worst fucking people around, for you to *even be able to see it*

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1h

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

Soyweiser @soyweiser.bsky.social · 2h

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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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, let's check in on what the war crimes proponent has to say

David Frum This is a genuinely useful statement. The chilly formulaic language about the 10/7 atrocity ... the intense angry passion of the denunciation of Israel's self-defense ... together they arrestingly reveal what the author cares about and what/who he does not care about.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
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My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.
Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more.
I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.
In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: a death toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language.
I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.
This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end.
Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.
These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

It’s really neat that for awhile pundits like this were saying “why can’t Zohran clearly and directly denounce the violence of Hamas?” and when he clearly and directly denounces the violence of Hamas they go “but he didn’t do it with any poetry! It wasn’t beautiful! I demand panache!”

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, let's check in on what the war crimes proponent has to say

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Jay's Lowtax speedrun enjoyer @eviecorwell.etheirys.social · 44m

Collage of posts by American liberals after the 2024 election. Highlights include: "I'm done feeling empathy for these people"; "Well I guess the reasons their home countries are so crappy is that they're actually not that smart?"; "I guess I am for deportation now."

Superimposed on the collage is text in the style of Dark Souls, reading "LIBERAL SCRATCHED", in reference to the saying 'scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds'.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 2d

She’s not wrong as Israel would exterminate them just as Israel exterminates everyone.

It’s the same stupid argument for the past decade. These people think that Queer Palestinians don’t exist, that they’re not also being starved to death and bombed from the skies by that genocidal state.

World+
HERTA MÜLLER
"In Gaza, the Queers for Palestine would not survive for half an hour."
By Jan Philipp Burgard
Editor-in-Chief WELT Group
As of 04.10.2025 | Reading time: 11 minutes

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 3h

The thing is that even if there weren't queer Palestinians in Gaza who are being killed by the IDF, even if every single individual Palestinian were a raging homophobe or transphobe (they aren't), it still wouldn't be okay to murder them with explosives.

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 2d

She’s not wrong as Israel would exterminate them just as Israel exterminates everyone.

It’s the same stupid argument for the past decade. These people think that Queer Palestinians don’t exist, that they’re not also being starved to death and bombed from the skies by that genocidal state.

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Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 55m

This is a good way to hit back at Trump's deranged statements and calls to jail Democrats.

Media needs to focus on his mental decline. Democrats must force media to do it.

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Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations

In a scathing critique of President Donald Trump, Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday accused the Republican president of deploying National Guard troops to the Democratic cities of Chicago and Portland based...

www.yahoo.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1h

His masked agents already are grabbing people off the street.

Separating children from their parents.

Creating fear.

Taking people for “how they look.”

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