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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · Dec 3

Gleichschaltung, coming to an institution near you. Faster than you can learn to spell "Gleichschaltung."

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1h

Terminus has atomics and the other worlds burn coal.

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They can find trillions of dollars for data centers, but figuring out how to pay $30 for a book is beyond them.

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Hey, folks, did that Harvard settlement ever happen? I was told it was going to happen imminently.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1h

In the hybrid regime, there is no real asset that is safe to invest in, so all the cash goes into fake assets.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 11h

Artillery / infantry / cavalry

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 11h

It's even worse with kids under 15 or so. Most have known no world with music outside of cell phone speakers and ear buds.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · Aug 27

Looks like the Catholic Church will be doing what it did under right-wing Latin American dictatorships in the 1970s and 80s: being the largest organization doing anything to protect undesirables targeted by the government, and in turn having its members murdered with some frequency.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 11h

Back then, we asked for the Sony MDR-7506 for our birthdays.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12h

[sung in the same register as the version in Zulu]

Men of Harlech, stop your dreaming,
Can't you see their spearpoints gleaming?
See their warrior pennants streaming,
To this battle field!

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 12h

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12h

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 13h

carbon chaser

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Thinking of this again, for no particular reason.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · Dec 31

Kind of like how male homosexuality was a crime in the Soviet Union under Stalin but female homosexuality was not. Men being effeminate was bad. Women being masculine was good.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 13h

Have we talked about how these federal agents all look like they're tweaking?

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 17h

Another incident of federal agents pointing guns at Chicago area residents.

Tweet from @laura_n_rod

Text: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

Photo: shows a federal agent in a truck pointing a gun

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 13h

This language smacks of gender.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

CBS News current president Tom Cibroski praised Weiss on the call, saying "Bari's energy and passion is infectious and you will feel it, big time." He also added that the Free Press and CBS News "are going to learn a lot from each other...that's what this is all about."

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 13h

are you too young for compact discs?

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 13h

Chump and hump.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 14h

but why

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 14h

By Stephen Miller, yes.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 14h

You should entirely bet against Bari Weiss now that there is no one richer left to steal from.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 14h

Bad: bring back bullying

Good: by what miracle was this guy not stabbed to death thrice over by age 25?

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 14h

As "Golden" enters its 14th week as the most played song in the world, it's worth asking yourself how much you really know about culture.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 14h

"No no, I meant a government so small that all it does is drown women in bathtubs."

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 14h

as a kid growing up right-wing i regularly heard people express their desire for "a government so small I can drown it in the bathtub". imagine my surprise growing up to realize i was the only one who actually believed that.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 18h

How is there even more spraypainted gold schlock there?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

"You are a transformative president" -- I regret to inform you that Mark Carney is kissing Trump's ass

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 18h

Gungans were traditionally solid center-left voters based on class and race issues but recently trended strongly toward Palpatine because they admire autocratic rule and attribute lower prices to him, while the Naboo resistance is mostly educated, professional class humans.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 19h

What current audience?