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AndreaaaHHhHHHHhHHhhh!! Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 8d

literally anyone who has done abortion rights work in the last 30+ years could tell you that "destroy science by any means necessary" was the only thing on the bingo card

Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 8d

This. This administration is even worse than any of us thought possible. Who had destroy NIH, CDC, USAID, EPA, scientific research all at the same time on their bingo card?

Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 9d

My thesis is that no matter how doomer you were in Nov. 2024, we're probably past your worst-case scenario for the first 9 months of this administration.

It's very strange for me to realize I wasn't pessimistic enough.

www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-in-...

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sarojini @sarojini.bsky.social · 25d

Someone got fired for saying some tame stuff like maybe if you spew hate, hate will be come back to you. But this guy? He won't be fired because there are no standards for conservatives

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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Skeet Child O' Mine @furiosity.bsky.social · 27d

My take-home message is that mainstream white America doesn’t think white supremacy makes him an awful person

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 27d

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 27d

It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses

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sarojini @sarojini.bsky.social · 27d

Why are these morons acting like he was their MLK

Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 28d

They have never, ever expressed anything close to this level of pain and sympathy for school shooting victims.

On Fox News, the anchor Will Cain choked up on-air as he read aloud President Trump's announcement of the death of Charlie Kirk. "I don't know where we go from here as a news program," Mr. Cain told viewers, "and I don't know where we go from here in America."
Megyn Kelly, streaming live on YouTube, was tearful even before the news was confirmed, sobbing with her guest, Glenn Beck of The Blaze.
She described Mr. Kirk as a friend who supported her even when her relations with the MAGA world were strained. "I am so sorry to be bringing you this news," Ms. Kelly told her audience. Later

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 28d

if charlie kirk didn't get shot the right wing would be equally and as consequentially as mad about a tv commercial or restaurant logo or something else, they're gonna do what they're gonna do regardless

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 28d

what a fucking way to find out magic is real

Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · Sep 8

If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares.
www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some...

We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk

If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares.

www.jezebel.com

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 29d

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.

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onion person @junlper.beer · Aug 19

the ai bubble is bursting soon thank god

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · Aug 19

Nah, he's a hugely influential right wing troll who was elevated as a liberal by centrists and right wingers in the mid-2000s to mid-2010s and if anything is not criticized enough. I wouldn't call him a neoconservative because neoconservatives have beliefs.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 18

you’re telling me the trump administration was lenient toward someone accused of sex crimes against children? crazy

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Aug 18

Holy shit.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · Aug 18

Hold up: if I read this right, Texas Republicans expect a serving representative and Black woman to … accept being shadowed by a police minder? To go to the bathroom?

A post to X by NBC correspondent Ryan Chandler. Over a photo of an empty Texas state House chamber — with a chair cocked in front of a laptop and purse at a desk seated at the picture's bottom center, Chander wrote:

"There is one Democrat still locked into the House chamber because she refuses to sign her permission slip. Rep. Nicole Collier will be here until, well, I guess we'll see.

"Members are really not happy with the individual DPS escorts. Say they are not free to move on their own."

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · Aug 15

One thing I know for sure is that if *I* called the cops and said “some guy just threw a sandwich at me” they would consider me to be a huge baby and think I was wasting their time.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Aug 16

Lmfao

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Aug 15

Is that good

The Verge @theverge.com · Aug 15

Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble

Is the bubble about to burst?

buff.ly

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · Aug 16

📢 JOB ALERT: Block Club is hiring a full-time reporter to cover Beverly, Morgan Park + Mount Greenwood on Chicago's South Side!

Deadline to apply is 9/15: blockclubchi.co/417MIqG

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sarojini @sarojini.bsky.social · Aug 15

Horrible and unreal

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Aug 14

More photos:

An angle of two soldiers, a vehicle and a tourist bus

Several soldiers standing in front of a vehicle

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 13

if democrats just would have let republicans put one criminal hatchet man on the court, republicans nearly 40 years later would not have put this criminal hatchet man on a court

Ben @coxsportsohio.bsky.social · Aug 12

should've let us put nixon's hatchet man on the supreme court, sincerely, the Good Conservative Tom Nichols of MSNBC

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 13

once you notice that people simply do not believe that republicans have agency or any responsibility for the actions they take, you see it everywhere

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · Aug 14

Amazing how peak masculinity for a Republican is swearing that you’re too afraid to go outside

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · Aug 13

Might not be a better illustration of the conservative legal movement’s foundational lie than “Emil Bove is our revenge for Robert Bork”

Ben @coxsportsohio.bsky.social · Aug 12

should've let us put nixon's hatchet man on the supreme court, sincerely, the Good Conservative Tom Nichols of MSNBC

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · Aug 12

Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.”

This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.

Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.

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sarojini @sarojini.bsky.social · Aug 9

Sometimes I want a one way ticket off this planet

onion person @junlper.beer · Aug 7

we have to stop

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · Aug 6

screenshot because this person is being earnest and I don’t want to encourage a dogpile, but this is exactly the kind of thing that I just increasingly have no fucking tolerance for. snake oil bullshit comes from all cultures, and it’s still snake oil bullshit. I don’t find it funny anymore!

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