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Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎

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Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎 @rvengefulobster.bsky.social · Apr 1

I got plenty of feedback on my last video and I want to be clear: I hear you, I am listening.

Many of you felt that the audio didn't match the tone of the Expanse.

After much consideration, I've updated the audio.

I think we can all agree it's much more in keeping with the themes of the show.

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 1h

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

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

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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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 3h

Just had a call with Lyle where we talked about possible edits to his essay, while at any time, North Carolina could decide to throw him in a gas chamber. How is it possible to create a system this cruel.

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 3h

Due to a new bill signed by NC Governor Josh Stein (a Democrat), the moratorium on our state's death penalties has been ended and may now proceed via *any* method. Welcome back, barbarity.

Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 19d

In the book, my essay “The False Evolution of Execution Methods” will be accompanied by a new essay by Lyle May. May interrogates capital punishment from his singular perspective; he has been incarcerated on North Carolina’s death row for over twenty years.

Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 22d

THEY LET ME WRITE ANOTHER BOOK

"You’re Not Overthinking It" is available for pre-order right now. It collects the most meaningful essays of my career alongside hundreds of new annotations on each piece’s creation, background, and legacy. Far more details below: www.lostincult.co.uk/overthinking

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Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎 @rvengefulobster.bsky.social · 2h

Let's fucking go!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Pritzker: "This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump. If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 4h

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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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4h

Marco Rubio is going to hell.

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Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs @opensketchbook.bsky.social · 7h

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Mike Duncan @mikeduncan.bsky.social · 8h

When I go into detail moving through these things day-by-day week-by-week rather than just skipping from one Big Event to the next, I'm hoping the listeners take away that even a revolution is a slow moving process with lots of downtime and accumulation of small events

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Mike Duncan @mikeduncan.bsky.social · 8h

All brought to you by the same group that in a previous episode staged a riot inside the national capital to disrupt and prevent the legal transfer of power to their political rivals after losing an election

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 19h

I know it’s easy to get inured to this stuff but imagine a podcast ep where @mikeduncan.bsky.social is telling you about this happening in some other country at the same time that a crisis in parliament has shut down the national budget.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 20h

Presidents have federalized a state's own Guard to use over its objection, most famously desegregation. And sometimes regular military has been used. But taking one state's soldiers and putting them in another state? This is a completely unprecedented breakdown of what the Union fundamentally is.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 8h

i appreciate @meredithshiner.com’s wisdom, as well as her refusal to let the coons-valentine’s day story fade from public memory

It is certainly self-evident that Democrats do not care to "do democracy," but what I would argue is that speeches about democracy do not carry the weight of collective action in support of democracy. In 2024, President Joe Biden told us repeatedly that "democracy was on the line," and yet three years earlier, Senate Democrats prematurely ended the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump because top Biden ally.
Chris Coons of Delaware wanted to go home for Valentine's Day. Congressional Democrats, despite their supposed 2024 warnings that democracy was on the brink, almost all attended Donald Trump's inauguration in 2025 as if it were normal and acceptable, and Biden himself welcomed the Trumps back into the White House with open arms.

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The Elder Memes @theeldermemes.bsky.social · 8h

Shoddy oblivion themed image of a landscape with a guard, an oblivion gate, giant opaque hot dog man, an amogus, jarl balgruuf duck, Razum Dar, a pickup truck, and a white bordered dremora image. Text says "AI CAN JEVER REPLICATE HOW FUCKIN NG STUPID I AM"

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 19h

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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SH😮CK-tor Benway @docbenway.bsky.social · 10h

USAID was a net positive in basically every way and Musk killed it, and untold numbers of people, because he’s as racist as he is stupid and he’s as stupid as he is evil.

Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 15h

I’m a single-issue voter from now until the day I die: “hold the people who did this and all these other crimes responsible, no matter what it takes”

I’m gonna go to town halls and congressional field offices and bring it up ad infinitum

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

#WarRavagedPortland

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old uncle BATface @catfacejoe.bsky.social · 1d

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Matt the outlaw
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Lady behind me at the thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? you watch and information is revealed"

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Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎 @rvengefulobster.bsky.social · 17h

LRT: Holy shit effective communications from the Senate Dems.

Also, good lord, Schumer is old.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 18h

You could at least have the decency to endorse Mamdani before you swipe his schtick.

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 21h

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 18h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 20h

Here’s video of the incident

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20h

What's it like living in Chicago today? This image gives us a strong sense of the fear that Chicagoans fear from Trump's secret police.

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 1d

a palestinian who regularly speaks out against israel's genocide in gaza is presently being demeaned by white leftists for recognizing the humanity of the victims of the october 7 attack which just shows white people of european christian heritage will never own their role in fomenting these horrors

three recent posts by kat abughazaleh condeming the genocide, israel, netanyahu, and aipac

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 1d

progressive jews and palestinians: "we refuse to be enemies."

european christians/descendants: "oh, well fuck you both then."

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 1d

Hades 2's story doesn't change the status quo
aftermath.site/hades-2-ending

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 1d

Aaron Bushnell literally immolated himself in broad daylight to protest the Palestinian genocide and every single person with their hands on the levers of power in this country gave a great big collective shrug and went back to business as usual

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1d

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 1d

As all eyes are on the negotiations in Egypt, the Israeli military launched airstrikes that killed over 100 Palestinians as of yesterday morning. This despite Hamas agreeing to release all hostages under the US-facilitated ceasefire plan on Friday.

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