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"The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'T is not too late to seek a newer world." We need not always mourn what is dying. Fairly erudite. More than fairly iconoclastic. I adore Jade.

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 26d

To all who watch America from afar,

Please learn from this.

Please root out your evil and do not coddle or celebrate it.
Please rein in your rich and please lift your poor.
Please remember that hate is a drug, and to guard against both its suppliers and addicts.

Please be free while we are not.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 8h

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 7h

Right?

Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 9h

Dear MAGA,

You will never be the culture.
Not fucking ever.

You're authoritarian, and uninventive, and cringe as fuck.

You. Will. Never. Be. The. Culture.

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 9h

When I say you can read Whitman like scripture, I mean that he can be picked up, opened to any page, enjoyed in just a few passages, and set back down. He's not really meant to be read cover to cover.

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 9h

Me, after listening to any MAGAt opine about practically anything: "Yes, that's because you're a willful dipshit."

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 9h

MAGAts never cease to cringe the fuck out of themselves.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

The counterterrorism experts have arrived at the White House..

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 10h

Also fuck you Texas for doing this, invading another state with armed troops; lone star Republic my ass

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 10h

Walt Whitman essentially wrote ONE book, and rewrote it several times over. Usually, people either read the first version or the last version. It doesn't particularly matter, to be honest.

Whitman's famous tome is called LEAVES OF GRASS and you can read it like it's scripture. Seriously, like that.

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 10h

Yes

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 10h

Sooooo... Dinesh D'Souza would watch a dude fuck a sheep... and then try to analyze... what? The farmer's technique? The sheep's enjoyment or lack thereof? And all of this is what thinking about Candace Owens reminds him of?

Okay.

Trying really hard not to kink-shame on this one... but damn.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12h

This is a real post from Dinesh D'Souza. 🥴

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 10h

"I think heroic deeds were all conceiv’d in the open air, and all free poems also,
I think I could stop here myself and do miracles...."
- Walt Whitman

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 14h

Play Trump saying "We Took Freedom Of Speech Away" on loop forever and ever and ever in every fucking corner of the country.

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 14h

To be fair, Andy Ngo sucks and IS boring as all fuck.

Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 14h

Methinks the MAGA hatred of "out-of-touch elites" wasn't genuine.

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 15h

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

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."

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 15h

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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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14h

Portland is ... right there. It's a real place. People live in it. People can go look at it. You could call someone there right now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

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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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 14h

Oh I heeeeeeeeeeear you so hard on that.

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 18h

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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Sly 🐺 @slywolfy.bsky.social · 17h

You gotta go into the sourced court docs but he was fedposting to chatgpt at the time the fire started, had a history of being really focused on fire with image genAIs, and they have video & gps data to show he was exactly where it started when it started and that it grew too fast to be from a cig

NPR @npr.org · 18h

Authorities have charged a 29-year-old man in connection to starting the Palisades Fire, which killed 12 people and destroyed more than 6,800 homes and buildings. (via @laist.com)

Uber driver charged in connection with starting the Palisades Fire

The Palisades Fire erupted on Jan. 7 and went on to kill 12 people and destroy more than 6,800 homes and buildings.

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 15h

Federal goons don't have a right to your bathroom.

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Phoenix Rising @62walterp.bsky.social · 16h

This 💯💥

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

All these headlines saying “Bondi Goes on the Attack.” Really? She wasn’t in the octagon, she’s a public servant who was at an oversight hearing. Her job was to answer questions. She refused to do her job. Stop glamorizing and whitewashing this moronic, performative bullshit.

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 16h

The slavers' mentality HAS to be eradicated from the collective psyche of the United States.

We didn't do it at the Revolution. We lost our resolve to do after the Civil War. We whitewashed the Civil Rights Movement and pretended the job was done.

It's not.

We HAVE to collectively heal from it.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

Sickening.

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 19h

Billionaires like Andreessen are a sin.
They are a blight on humanity.

We would all be better off if they did not have the money and influence they do.

Let's change that.

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