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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 5h

Oh shit, ANTIFA is suiting up

From the sound of music. Seven children stand in a line inside a grand house, wearing identical light blue sailor-style uniforms with dark collars, neckties, and knee socks. They are arranged from tallest to shortest, standing at attention on a patterned rug with a staircase and ornate wall paneling behind them.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

have we not, as a society, moved past “elon musk says thing” as a headline

Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 2d

Elon Musk announces xAI game studio will release a great AI-generated game before end of 2026.

Powered by Grok, the studio aims to revolutionize gaming with dynamic, photo-realistic experiences.

#xAI #Grok #AIGaming

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The Mysterious Empty Spacesuit In Control @strikepenguin.bsky.social · 1d

Wildly swinging a kanabo at anyone who voices an opinion on the V-22 Osprey

The Mysterious Empty Spacesuit In Control @strikepenguin.bsky.social · 1d

Corny as they are, though... idk, fuck it. If it gets squishy libs to consider maybe that they're gonna have to actually fight these rat bastards, maybe they can have their ahistorical memes

The Mysterious Empty Spacesuit In Control @strikepenguin.bsky.social · 4d

YMMV but we *are* talking about a country that took 192 years to begin resembling its founding ideals, which made the Right very angry and they've been trying to undo it ever since. I don't think it's doomerism to say that the US is a mixed bag and the "original antifascists" D-Day memes are corny.

Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 4d

The Left continues to think they can mobilize Americans on the principle that "America is bad and has always been bad."

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, took a while to look up original poster, she deserves the credit for the video

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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The Mysterious Empty Spacesuit In Control @strikepenguin.bsky.social · 1d

Bah, I'm too young to have knees that hurt this much. At least for a guy who didn't make a career out of slamming his knees into things. I gotta get back in shape

The Mysterious Empty Spacesuit In Control @strikepenguin.bsky.social · 1d

Credit where credit's due: This is a huge improvement in messaging.

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 1d

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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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

Just heard someone say that if you aren't willing to get arrested or die at a protest you aren't serious about the cause and that's a) not true and b) not helpful

You don't need to have a death wish to fight for a better world, and anyone who says you do is throwing up a massive red flag

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 1d

Folks who tell you that it’s okay to temporarily sacrifice a marginalized group in order to win

Do not care about the marginalized group

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The Mysterious Empty Spacesuit In Control @strikepenguin.bsky.social · 1d

The entire point of a primary is making your case for the candidate! If the best thing you have to offer is "shut up and color," that's a weak ass candidate!

The Mysterious Empty Spacesuit In Control @strikepenguin.bsky.social · 1d

It is truly bizarre how you can object to a septuagenarian centrist hopping into an election that already has popular lefty candidates, and a bunch of self-identified "brunchlibs" will hop in to start hollering about how everyone should've shut up and voted for Harris. That's not the same topic!

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The Mysterious Empty Spacesuit In Control @strikepenguin.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yeah, it suuuuucks. I replayed the series recently and if I didn't already have the difficulty-based achievements unlocked, I knocked down the difficulty because it just wasn't a fun challenge, it was this nonsense.

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The Mysterious Empty Spacesuit In Control @strikepenguin.bsky.social · 1d

"Nothing satisfies you frauds" - the guy who reduces every progressive to TikTok videos

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The Mysterious Empty Spacesuit In Control @strikepenguin.bsky.social · 1d

I really don't understand this logic. They win primaries, they win office, and even then it's a bunch of hand-wringing "what have they done?" Meanwhile ancient centrists just show up and it's assumed that they're the answer. It's bizarre.

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The Mysterious Empty Spacesuit In Control @strikepenguin.bsky.social · 1d

"GOP falls in line, Dems fall in love" false. GOP conceals its contempt for its base, even LARPs as them. Dems openly hate everyone they claim to represent.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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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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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 2d

I just watched a video of an ICE agent trying to find a costumed frog's rear air hole to stick pepper spray in it, and, like, why are we paying people to do this

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 1d

Look im disappointed by Trump [trafficking white people] but you have to admit he is really following through on his promise of [trafficking brown people]

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 2d

ASIDE FROM THE EPSTEIN STUFF

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

Both Bari and MattY quit their jobs and pretended they were fired so they could promote their substacks. Neither have ever been cancelled or interesting

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.

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker

I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money.
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The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

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dtsjr @dtsjr.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, watch this. Descriptions won’t do it justice. There’s no technical difficulty.

The amazing pause here from Miller is him realizing he said the quiet part out loud (probably a few months early) and then freezing like a possum in the face of a coyote or something as a defensive measure.

CandyCoatedChaos @candycoatedchaos.bsky.social · 2d

Not Stephen Miller accidentally outting the regime in an interview. Let that "plenary authority" claim slip right out and then had to act like the audio cut out.

Sir! We heard you.. and the President does NOT have plenary authority.

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The Mysterious Empty Spacesuit In Control @strikepenguin.bsky.social · 2d

Remember when they tried to say living in Chicago was more dangerous than being deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan?

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 2d

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop.
Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform.

Panel 2:
Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public
Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself

Panel 3:
Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but…

Panel 4:
Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

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Kristofer Goldsmith @krisgoldsmith85.bsky.social · 2d

The Antifascist Book Club Guide is free at Veterans Fighting Fascism (dot org). If you want to rep your ABC, whether you’re a veteran or civilian, we’ve got new gear for you! #bookclub #antifascist #antifascistbookclub #veteransfightingfascism

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