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Strings and Sealing Wax (and other fancy stuff) @strings.bsky.social · 5h

Holy shit dude, take this back to Twitter where it belongs

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Strings and Sealing Wax (and other fancy stuff) @strings.bsky.social · 5h

Don’t try to backtrack now

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Strings and Sealing Wax (and other fancy stuff) @strings.bsky.social · 5h

Vandalizing a synagogue thousands of miles away from Israel with anti-Zionist rhetoric and comparing all Jews everywhere to Nazis is hate speech though

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Strings and Sealing Wax (and other fancy stuff) @strings.bsky.social · 5h

Remember when you compared all Jews to Nazis? Because I do

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Strings and Sealing Wax (and other fancy stuff) @strings.bsky.social · 5h

Did someone say Jade Helm?

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Strings and Sealing Wax (and other fancy stuff) @strings.bsky.social · 5h

Let her who has not lost track of $2.3B cast the first stone

Reuters @reuters.com · 5h

First Brands' creditor says $2.3 billion 'simply vanished', seeks probe reut.rs/46TIhSh

First Brands' creditor says $2.3 billion 'simply vanished', seeks probe

Raistone, a creditor of First Brands, asked a court on Wednesday to appoint an independent examiner, claiming that as much as $2.3 billion "simply vanished" from the bankrupt auto parts supplier.

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Strings and Sealing Wax (and other fancy stuff) @strings.bsky.social · 5h

Whomst among us

Reuters @reuters.com · 5h

First Brands' creditor says $2.3 billion 'simply vanished', seeks probe reut.rs/46TIhSh

First Brands' creditor says $2.3 billion 'simply vanished', seeks probe

Raistone, a creditor of First Brands, asked a court on Wednesday to appoint an independent examiner, claiming that as much as $2.3 billion "simply vanished" from the bankrupt auto parts supplier.

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Strings and Sealing Wax (and other fancy stuff) @strings.bsky.social · 5h

Could you do me a quick favor and fuck off

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Strings and Sealing Wax (and other fancy stuff) @strings.bsky.social · 6h

He’s basically calling jews Nazis bsky.app/profile/pene...

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Strings and Sealing Wax (and other fancy stuff) @strings.bsky.social · 6h

No, once you accept that presidents are not subject to the law we are essentially permanently stuck on the current track, there is no fixing anything so long as we are always one election away from this.

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Strings and Sealing Wax (and other fancy stuff) @strings.bsky.social · 6h

If saying “the president is subject to laws just like everyone else” destroys the constitution, then…

a man is smiling with the words if the rule you followed brought you to this

ALT: a man is smiling with the words if the rule you followed brought you to this

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Strings and Sealing Wax (and other fancy stuff) @strings.bsky.social · 6h

Like, what are we allowed to do to you as a white American man if we don’t think you’ve been sufficiently vocal about an issue of our choosing? If someone attacked you or your home or family because they were mad about cuts to USAID you’d be like “I get it”?

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Aaron D Williams @penetralia.bsky.social · 12h

Link me when this church releases a statement standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people

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Strings and Sealing Wax (and other fancy stuff) @strings.bsky.social · 6h

SCOTUS ruled last year that the president is above the law feels like the only question is whether/when we’re gonna admit that it’s illegitimate

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 8h

I think people seriously underestimate what it means to say that the Supreme Court is “illegitimate”, and what the consequences of saying it (and meaning it) are.

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Strings and Sealing Wax (and other fancy stuff) @strings.bsky.social · 6h

In this analogy, who are the Jews whose temple just got vandalized?

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Strings and Sealing Wax (and other fancy stuff) @strings.bsky.social · 7h

“U.S. political climate” is such a cop out, just say Republicans would be mad at a game about killing klansmen just like they got mad at the new Wolfenstein games where you kill Nazis

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 14h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

Strings and Sealing Wax (and other fancy stuff) @strings.bsky.social · 8h

There is zero chance the president knows what “secure” means in this context

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 8h

:: blinks ::

Does…does the president think Truth Social DMs are…secure?

Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 9h

So of course the weirdest and most alarming thing here is that Trump intended to DM the AG on Truth Social to order her to indict Comey and accidentally posted it publicly. But there are other very weird details within...

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Strings and Sealing Wax (and other fancy stuff) @strings.bsky.social · 8h

What is wrong with you

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Strings and Sealing Wax (and other fancy stuff) @strings.bsky.social · 8h

Hey man, you actually don’t have to share your opinions on what jews should and should not do, especially because nobody is asking for it

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Strings and Sealing Wax (and other fancy stuff) @strings.bsky.social · 11h

Republicans hate America so much

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

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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Strings and Sealing Wax (and other fancy stuff) @strings.bsky.social · 14h

Republicans never stopped filling public pools with concrete

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17h

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

Strings and Sealing Wax (and other fancy stuff) @strings.bsky.social · 14h

Is this not what the reskeet button is? Am I using this site wrong?

Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 16h

The "follow" button confounds "I'm looking at your content" and "I endorse this content." We need two different ways to signal the difference between the two.

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Strings and Sealing Wax (and other fancy stuff) @strings.bsky.social · 14h

It’s so funny that every time they stand up and fight for even a minute it’s wildly popular and then 2 days later it’s like their brains reset and they forget that fighting is wildly popular

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 16h

Tina Smith says Democrats are digging in: “If anything, we’re feeling more strong.”

“I think we've tapped into something that's really important to Americans.”

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Strings and Sealing Wax (and other fancy stuff) @strings.bsky.social · 14h

Bruh

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 16h

Still waiting for a more efficient explanation of everything than "Everyone got brain damage from Covid": the airline executives charging a $155 predatory premium for legroom, the guy deciding to customize his own flight experience, the chain of command aborting the whole flight—busted mind-traffic!

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 16h

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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Strings and Sealing Wax (and other fancy stuff) @strings.bsky.social · 15h

a man in a black jacket and white pants is standing on a dirt field .

ALT: a man in a black jacket and white pants is standing on a dirt field .

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