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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 55m

The tank's role is to draw aggro

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 3m

is there a point at which you can insult even the american public's intelligence

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 55m

Couldn't be simpler to reconcile the two! Just assume the brain staffs up with its mature functions on a last hired, first fired basis.

David Morehous @dmorehous.bsky.social · 1h

I need Everyone’s Brain Is Damaged by Covid Thought to merge with Everyone Behaves Like They’re 12 Thought

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 2h

portland is handling this like a bunch of pros

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3h

The most important political thread of our time.

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 3h

if you point out in a staff meeting that the kids are watching and learning from all adult behavior people get really mad

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 6h

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah, the costumes aren't meant to make Antifa look less scary. They're meant to take away ICE's power by making them look ridiculous. When a whole squad of agents back up in unison because a guy in a frog costume waggled his fingers like he cast a spell, fascist aesthetics lose their power.

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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 15h

I think they'll have them but they'll refuse to seat the winners. Gonna be a long parliament.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 4h

that donald trump was allowed to become president again after J6 is something we may never recover from as a nation

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5h

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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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 5h

they only ever send a few hundred at a time so they can be sure that they are enthusiastic volunteers but sure let's give the dudes running to the front of the line the benefit of the doubt

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah it sucks that you can’t refuse to follow illegal orders or anything, that would simplify things

Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 14h

Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 5h

Gotta say that while they have hellexico nailed Jefferson is missing all of Butte, Sutter, and Nevada county.

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 5h

What are you on about, Jeter has enough gift basket lore to seem profoundly strange. Zero self awareness. Deeply weird robot.

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Gabrielle🇸🇨 @djangoroo.bsky.social · 7h

Shooting a priest in the head for saying something

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 18h

Here’s video of the incident

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 21h

also weird claim that there arent feds leading DSA chapters and shit

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 1d

Philip K Dick, something of a personal expert on the boundary between the sane and the mad, once said that reality is that which continues to exist when you stop believing in it. No matter what immediate expediency abandoning the truth and reality can give you, it always ends in ruin.

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 1d

The unbearable contradictions of the neoliberal order are tearing everything apart and driving everyone insane, and the massive human rights crimes of the last two years have really accelerated the process. Every liberal institution has lost all credibility.

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Piatto Delgatto @piattodelgatto.bsky.social · 1d

This stuff is very bad.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE drags U.S. citizen out of car—initially lie about her making illegal U-turn.

"I was driving around and told to leave, but I was boxed in," she said. "I told them I couldn’t and they pull me out of my car."

Agents were upset they missed quota, "Only one and she’s a citizen."

Waukegan, Illinois

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 1d

PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police.

Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 1d

i would love to persuade on this issue! but it is beyond common to interact with people whose general response to nature is "ick" and they dont see the disappearence of species as a negative for that reason. we're beyond the windshield phenomena and onto something more sinister

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 1d

im not sure that it is just about our volume we are facing a rising biophobia that takes advantage of multiple feedback loops: people can and do avoid being outside sure, but mass extinction means that even when we do there is less beauty for us to connect with

The vicious cycle of biophobia

People can express irrational fears and disgust responses towards certain wild organisms. This so-called ‘biophobia’ can be useful and indeed necessar…

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mother dysnomia 🌚 @mamatried.bsky.social · 1d

lol it’s this guy

Tweet from 11/2/24 showing Harry Sisson and his 4 friends in a car that reads “we’re Gen Z voters and we all PROUDLY voted for Kamala Harris! Real men support Harris”

Robert J O’Neill quotes it with

“You're not men. You're boys. If there was no social media, you would be my concubines.”

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1d

!!! Small world (of upward-failing genocide boosters)

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 1d

The Free Press reporter who wrote the piece about how Gazan kids aren’t actually starving that badly because some of them had preexisting conditions was hired directly from Matt Yglesias, fwiw

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1d

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 1d

gonna be real hard to make this case - even lefty people reject this b/c they see it as a call to return to subsistence farming or whatever, rather than a call to interact with nature in a way that could sustain us all

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