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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 22h

“Regime official spreading propaganda in public spaces on big TV screen” is a scene synonymous with a fascist dystopia because it’s in LITERALLY EVERY BOOK, MOVIE AND TV SHOW EVER MADE ABOUT THAT and it ASTONISHES me how an administration comprised entirely of failed theater kids didn’t realize this

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · Jul 16

Hadn’t realized we reached the Fascist Leader Talking In An Endless Loop At Sites Of Mass Transit stage of the dystopia.

Good to know.

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 22h

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 2d

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h

These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 22h

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 1d

have to remember that raw egg nationalist is british so of course tex-mex is completely foreign to him

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

going by the decor, is this not TGI Fridays?

Someone on Twitter posted a photo of themselves doing a happy dance as they receive a hot plate of fajitas. Then "Raw Egg Nationalist" on Twitter retweets them, writing: It's incredible that these people exist, but they really do. These are the people who justify the demographic replacement of Western countries in terms of the variety of street food and how many different kinds of fried-meat-and-vegetables in flatbread they can buy.

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don't bring me a bad deal @seemicbee.bsky.social · 22h

soon 6 will cancel 7 because 7 8 9

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 1d

SAYING YOU WOULD VOTE FOR OBAMA A THIRD TIME IS LITERALLY DOING A BRADLEY WHITFORD IN GET OUT

Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social • 2h
Saying (i) a specific group of Israelis and (ii) the entire population of Gaza have suffered is not on net a pro Israel statement. And the last line is very specifically humanizing everyone.

Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social • 2h for this take i get the Brad Whitford in Get Out treatment. Yes, I would vote for him a third time. So would you.

Lauren McKenzie
@themckenziest.gay
NO WE FUCKING WOULDNT
you not caring about what actually matters has nothing to do with us
You're just a shitty person.

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 22h

Boomerism is an ideology, not a generation

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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💀 🎃 ThemBOO! 🎃 💀 @thembo.bsky.social · 1d

The "ultraviolence" Andy is talking about, when "Antifa nearly killed him", is when he got part of a drink poured on him and he pretended it gave him such severe brain damage that he dropped some fruit once and had therefore been "robbed of the confidence in holding my own food."

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 1d

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

photo of three people in inflatable frog costumes

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Pazuzu @pazuzuonline.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday I spoke to both my democratic congresswoman and my republican governor in person. The congresswoman said she's trying to make a deal with Republicans. The governor told me he's not afraid of being sued while pursuing his goals

Hmmmm

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 1d

Someday we're gonna discuss how "virtue signaling" as denigration is an evangelical Christian smokescreen intended to make doing imperfect good morally indistinguishable from the perfect nothing they do to help literally anything.

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 1d

An endorsement’s an endorsement right?

Article about a serial killer’s last words before he was executed “Tell Trump to keep making America great.”

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 1d

A good time to remind people that Clinton was gearing up to run in 2020, and the only thing that stopped her was people were so uninterested in seeing her on her tour with Bill that one of the Clintonland people got her to realize she'd lose and it'd be humiliating:

www.foxnews.com/politics/bil...

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 1d

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

the joy of tik tok

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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😱🩸Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🎃🔪 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 1d

she’s only 77 years old. that kind of youthful inexperience has no place in the hallowed halls of the capitol. i won’t vote for her unless she also has cancer.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Janet Mills's campaign account just posted this video of her saying that she just announced her campaign against Susan Collins. #MESen. Mills, 77, is expected to jump in the race against Collins. She would face Graham Platner, Jordan Wood and Dan Kleban.

I just announced my campaign for U.S. Senate to defeat Susan Collins because Maine families deserve a senator who fights back and stands up for us.

So please, can you donate 5 or 10 dollars right now to help me flip this Senate seat blue?

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PISS_SHITTER @amiyatzin.bsky.social · 1d

these are the people who say that palestinians have to be deradicalized. these are the people who want to control every palestinian school and all media in the occupied west bank and jersusalem, to curtail "radicalism"

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Caio Almendra @caioalmendra.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact: Maria Colina Machado SUPPORTS Donald Trump sinking fishing boats off their coast.

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.

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Art Martinez-Tebbel @amtebbel.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel people wanted to be clear they’re right wing but not in the gauche American way.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

so they gave the Nobel peace prize to the lady the CIA is trying to overthrow the Venezuelan government with? lol

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

A man gets a blowjob from a trans woman and his friends make fun of him so he goes to the police to claim she lied about being a woman. She was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to nearly 2 years in prison because of a man's shame.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thornaby transgender woman jailed for deception sex assault

Ciara Watkin's victim says he would not have agreed to sex had he known she was biologically male.

www.bbc.com

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

⁦
@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 10d

the thing is it doesn't matter what you do, because what they say you do becomes the reality. it doesn't matter how politely and calmly you voice your disagreement. It will count as terrorism.

Their violence is speech, and your speech is violence.

There's no such thing as well behaved enough.

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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 12d

Always wonderful to bump into my old friend Daniel Radcliffe!

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all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 1d

NIXON: this, uh, “frog guy”…

EHRLICHMAN: yes

NIXON: it’s all the networks! gyrating like that - in front of kids! despicable, (inaudible) kissinger’s people

HALDEMAN: we’re looking into it, sir

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