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Nikkolas Smith

@4nikkolas.bsky.social

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

October 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM

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Davis Bickford

@davis.social

rip 🫶

A 3 panel comic featuring a 1990s computer desk setup with a 56k modem, monitor, keyboard, mouse, and tower. The modem is making noises and the monitor and tower look annoyed. The modem takes a breath and the other look relieved. The modem begins shrieking louder.

October 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM

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Carl T. Bergstrom

@carlbergstrom.com

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

www.scrippsnews.com

August 12, 2025 at 4:48 AM

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The Onion

@theonion.com

Fox News Decries Woke Casting Of Indian Man As Star Of ‘Sankranthiki Vasthunam’
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Fox News Decries Woke Casting Of Indian Man As Star Of ‘Sankranthiki Vasthunam’

NEW YORK—Arguing that producers should consider their audience before catering to the whims of the “woke internet mob,” Fox News host Jesse Watters decried Tuesday the casting of an Indian man in the lead role of the film Sankranthiki Vasthunam. “I don’t know about you, but I like my Tollywood films all-American,” said a visibly […]

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August 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM

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The Onion

@theonion.com

Congress Passes Blank Bill For Trump To Write Whatever Law He Wants

WASHINGTON—After weeks of eliminating what many lawmakers called “frivolous” and “unnecessary” provisions, Congress reportedly passed a blank bill Thursday in which President Donald Trump can simply w...

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July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM

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Anonymous

@youranoncentral.bsky.social

Rebrand Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ as ‘Alligator Auschwitz’, take control of the narrative, don't let the fascists define themselves and drive home that this is nothing less than a concentration camp. #3E #EndImpunity #StopICE

Trump White House ai image reversed to represent true nature, Alligators dresses as Nazis infront of a US concentration camp. Fence and barbwire.

July 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM

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Bryce Tetraeder

@brycetetraeder.bsky.social

Here is Why I’m Sending Issues of ‘The Onion’ To Every Member Of Congress.

Click here to read The Onion’s open letter to Congress:
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Why I’m Sending Issues of ‘The Onion’ To Every Member Of Congress
By Bryce P. Tetraeder, Global Tetrahedron CEO

If you are reading this, you are likely either a member of Congress or one of the many underlings tasked with prodding lawmakers from a senile haze when they must cast a vote. You may be wondering why you have lucked out and received a free issue of our storied publication without so much as inserting a rider into a bill classifying The Onion as a tax-free religious organization.

Simply put, the inaction of Congress has already made me happier than any legal loophole could.

June 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM

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The Onion

@theonion.com

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

June 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM

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hby's stuff

@hby.bsky.social

#pixelart #artpost

April 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM

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John Epiphany

@wokeoaf.bsky.social

Now, then, forever

A guitar amp with six pink stickers with a word each on them: text reads: “TRANSPHOBES EAT SHIT AND DIE ALONE”

April 16, 2025 at 9:24 AM

taskmasterjosh.bsky.social

@taskmasterjosh.bsky.social

If you are an REI member remember to vote withhold for all nominees in the board elections
actionnetwork.org/petitions/vo...

actionnetwork.org

March 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

so i don’t know if susan collins knows this but she belongs to a body that has the constitutionally designated power to tell HHS to stop making these cuts because they do not have the authority to unilaterally refuse to spend congressional appropriations.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · Feb 10

Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins slams the Trump admin’s NIH cuts as “poorly conceived” and says she has called RFK to “to express my strong opposition to these arbitrary cuts in funding for vital research.” She says he promised to “re-examine this initiative” if confirmed as HHS secretary.

February 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM

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The Onion

@theonion.com

Elon Musk airlifted to the hospital with severe burns after attempting to impregnate a toaster

YouTube video by The Onion

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January 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM

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Technology Connections

@techconnectify.bsky.social

I've been trying to understand why I feel the particular flavor of distressed that I do right now. I think it's because we can no longer discuss the lessons we should be learning from any kind of disaster without the worst chucklefucks coming out of the woodwork to wreck everything.

January 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis.net

I would absolutely read a 5,000-word deep-dive on whatever high-powered PR agency is charging Mark Zuckerberg tens of millions of dollars to shape his public image as a bootlicking scrub