M. Velez
@thunderstick.bsky.social
Working Man, Part-Time Podcaster, Possibly The Mysterious Masked Hero ThunderStick
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Why would the NYT publish such hateful garbage? Why elevate this man with a history of writing anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian hate?
Again, using a tragedy to promote extremism, hate, and justify Israel's genocide.
Again, using a tragedy to promote extremism, hate, and justify Israel's genocide.
December 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Why would the NYT publish such hateful garbage? Why elevate this man with a history of writing anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian hate?
Again, using a tragedy to promote extremism, hate, and justify Israel's genocide.
Again, using a tragedy to promote extremism, hate, and justify Israel's genocide.
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An Australian trauma surgeon, who is a friend of a friend, said in a group chat that in her entire 20-year career she has only treated TWO gunshot victims.
TWO.
Can any American trauma surgeon who has also practiced for twenty years say the same?
I highly doubt it.
TWO.
Can any American trauma surgeon who has also practiced for twenty years say the same?
I highly doubt it.
December 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
An Australian trauma surgeon, who is a friend of a friend, said in a group chat that in her entire 20-year career she has only treated TWO gunshot victims.
TWO.
Can any American trauma surgeon who has also practiced for twenty years say the same?
I highly doubt it.
TWO.
Can any American trauma surgeon who has also practiced for twenty years say the same?
I highly doubt it.
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A lifetime of "thoughts & prayers" have done JACK-SQUAT to reduce or eliminate gun violence. We need to do MORE.
It is the GUNS.
#SadButTRUE 💔
It is the GUNS.
#SadButTRUE 💔
December 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
A lifetime of "thoughts & prayers" have done JACK-SQUAT to reduce or eliminate gun violence. We need to do MORE.
It is the GUNS.
#SadButTRUE 💔
It is the GUNS.
#SadButTRUE 💔
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Part of the problem i feel is that people want to treat Twitter as a Habermasian public sphere when in reality, the ideological skew is defined by Musk
This is probably the worst sales pitch I've ever heard - "join this app, everyone is radicalised, hates you and wants to argue with you" - 99% of social media users don't want an experience that resembles that at all
December 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Part of the problem i feel is that people want to treat Twitter as a Habermasian public sphere when in reality, the ideological skew is defined by Musk
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Look, not to pick on this lady in particular, but do people not have moral agency anymore?
I have a friend for instance - an assistant headteacher in a grammar school in South East England - who has radicalised herself into racism and fascist apologia simply by being there. Would that be the case if liberals she took seriously were still posting on the app by which she’s addicted?
December 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Look, not to pick on this lady in particular, but do people not have moral agency anymore?
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"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
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The Bezos Post: "Free markets, personal liberties, and suck it up and accept rapid inflation while the billionaire class gets even richer."
The Washington Post, everyone
December 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The Bezos Post: "Free markets, personal liberties, and suck it up and accept rapid inflation while the billionaire class gets even richer."
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the latest - he means white people are being attacked & must ethnically cleanse their countries
(see quoted)
(see quoted)
December 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
the latest - he means white people are being attacked & must ethnically cleanse their countries
(see quoted)
(see quoted)
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really weird -- Margaret Brennen presses Bill Cassidy on why the White House isn't doing more to crack down on mifepristone and what he's doing to encourage them to do it
December 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
really weird -- Margaret Brennen presses Bill Cassidy on why the White House isn't doing more to crack down on mifepristone and what he's doing to encourage them to do it
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Rand Paul: "My plan is this -- let people on the Obamacare market, which is about 4% of America, a small number of people, let them buy their insurance through Costco, Sam's Club, Amazon ... "
December 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Rand Paul: "My plan is this -- let people on the Obamacare market, which is about 4% of America, a small number of people, let them buy their insurance through Costco, Sam's Club, Amazon ... "
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Trump on the shooting at Brown University: “Things can happen”
December 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Trump on the shooting at Brown University: “Things can happen”
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We’re closing in on two decades of Republicans telling you, in no uncertain terms, that they do not care about kids being shot dead. In schools, in movie theaters, at church, in the street. They. Do. Not. Care. But hey, at least they’re good at racism and destroying the economy, amirite.
December 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
We’re closing in on two decades of Republicans telling you, in no uncertain terms, that they do not care about kids being shot dead. In schools, in movie theaters, at church, in the street. They. Do. Not. Care. But hey, at least they’re good at racism and destroying the economy, amirite.
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The Washington Post, everyone
December 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The Washington Post, everyone
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Just like they used to say when Biden was president!
The Washington Post, everyone
December 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Just like they used to say when Biden was president!
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At SNL I worked with artists who made the funniest, stupidest graphics in no time flat. Some of my biggest jokes would have been impossible without these geniuses building an insane image or finding the perfect real-life photo of a politician. Sucks that their work is being pushed aside for slop.
December 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
At SNL I worked with artists who made the funniest, stupidest graphics in no time flat. Some of my biggest jokes would have been impossible without these geniuses building an insane image or finding the perfect real-life photo of a politician. Sucks that their work is being pushed aside for slop.
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So probable cause is now just...going to an East African restaurant
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
So probable cause is now just...going to an East African restaurant
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“We would win California by a lot” — a delusional Trump claims he won California in 2024
December 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“We would win California by a lot” — a delusional Trump claims he won California in 2024
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
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Had to go watch the video myself before reposting, because this seemed so absurd I thought it might be fake. But, nope, it happened. He also says (in the same sentence) "with enough effort, you could probably stop aging, reverse it..."
He really doesn’t understand any of the most basic biology concepts at all, huh
December 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Had to go watch the video myself before reposting, because this seemed so absurd I thought it might be fake. But, nope, it happened. He also says (in the same sentence) "with enough effort, you could probably stop aging, reverse it..."
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When Trump announced his bid in 2015, there were all sorts of articles talking about he was a populist, a working-class hero, not like the 'traditional' GOP. Anyway, he, Johnson, and Thune are legislating Paul Ryan's wet dreams into reality.
December 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
When Trump announced his bid in 2015, there were all sorts of articles talking about he was a populist, a working-class hero, not like the 'traditional' GOP. Anyway, he, Johnson, and Thune are legislating Paul Ryan's wet dreams into reality.
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I still can't believe that Republicans are throwing millions of Americans off their insurance policies next month. They've never actually done this before.
December 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I still can't believe that Republicans are throwing millions of Americans off their insurance policies next month. They've never actually done this before.
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The hamburger supply is dwindling, but the face supply just keeps going up.
They got what they voted for, and, to quote Mencken, they deserve to get it good and hard.
They got what they voted for, and, to quote Mencken, they deserve to get it good and hard.
'They Voted for This': 3,200 Meatpacking Workers Thrown in the Trash as Tyson Shuts Plant in 74% Trump Town
Residents of Lexington, Nebraska, are facing uncertainty after the town’s largest employer announced it will close early next year. The news, reported Friday by MS NOW, comes from Lexington, the seat ...
thedailyadda.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The hamburger supply is dwindling, but the face supply just keeps going up.
They got what they voted for, and, to quote Mencken, they deserve to get it good and hard.
They got what they voted for, and, to quote Mencken, they deserve to get it good and hard.
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Horrific, disgusting, inexcusable, antisemitic
BREAKING: 11 people were killed at Sydney's Bondi Beach in an attack on the Jewish community, an official says.
Gunmen kill 9 at Bondi Beach; police kill one, arrest another
Two gunmen have shot dead nine people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. This tragic event occurred on Sunday.
bit.ly
December 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Horrific, disgusting, inexcusable, antisemitic
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Oseh shalom bim-romav
Hu ya'aseh shalom aleinu
V'al kol Yisrael
V'imru, v'imru amen.
May the Supreme Power who makes peace in high places,
make peace for us
and for all the Jewish People,
and let us say, amen.
Hu ya'aseh shalom aleinu
V'al kol Yisrael
V'imru, v'imru amen.
May the Supreme Power who makes peace in high places,
make peace for us
and for all the Jewish People,
and let us say, amen.
December 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Oseh shalom bim-romav
Hu ya'aseh shalom aleinu
V'al kol Yisrael
V'imru, v'imru amen.
May the Supreme Power who makes peace in high places,
make peace for us
and for all the Jewish People,
and let us say, amen.
Hu ya'aseh shalom aleinu
V'al kol Yisrael
V'imru, v'imru amen.
May the Supreme Power who makes peace in high places,
make peace for us
and for all the Jewish People,
and let us say, amen.