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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 10h

and that was only *after* they *also* ratfucked Gary Hart in the primaries!

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 10h

God, I am once again seething about how dirty the media did Michael Dukakis.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 13h

Pete Hegseth put on his military fatigues for a new photo op a week after yelling at top brass about grooming and DEI.

Pentagon Pete Cosplays After Bizarre General Pep Talk

The Defense Secretary suited up for a new photo op with the troops.

trib.al

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 11h

god I loved it there, go Kodiaks

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 11h

Mine was a weird 3/4 hybrid:
—aesthetically Hogwarts (the main building is literally a scaled-down replica of the Petit Trianon at Versailles)
—pedagogically turbo-woke, but not hippie
—most kids turned out brilliant but went to lax bro colleges or tiny liberal arts schools you've never heard of

Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 12h

four types of private schools in america:

1) catholic schools for racists
2) nondenom schools that dont teach you science
3) hippie schools that dont teach you to read, inexplicably 87% matriculation @ top 20 colleges
4) hogwarts, costs 55k/yr, explicably 99% matriculation @ top 20 colleges

Stone Cold Jane Austen @grayathena.bsky.social · 12h

Having gone to a really shitty private school is so funny. People hear “private school” and rightly think my parents were well off but instead of playing lacrosse or whatever I was learning young earth creationism from a Russian antisemite in portables outside a church

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 15h

I simply donot understand why we couldn't just call it a tie after 12 (or pick some other number) innings

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 16h

All I'm saying is that at American Nuremberg, it's going to be important to remember which of these people is a walking, talking embodiment of Grey's law, and which of them made the *conscious choice* to destroy the country. Bondi is among the latter.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 16h

Now see, here's the thing: other than not going to a hoity-toity law school, Pam Bondi's credentials *do* qualify her to be USAG. 15 years as a prosecutor, 8 years as Florida AG, etc.

Some of Trump's accomplices can't help being Like That, because they're morons. Bondi *chose* to be Like That.

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 21h

will never get over the Washington Post Editorial Board recommending confirming Pam Bondi

ATTORNEY GENERAL
Pam Bondi
Florida's former attorney general is qualified; lawyers who have worked with her report that she is serious.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 16h

stopping off in Boston on my way home from my vacation in the Ottoman Empire to watch Babe Ruth sock a few dingers

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 16h

Do we think the last person to be guillotined in France actually got to *see* Star Wars?

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 17h

this is the monkey paw result of complaints about "sportsball" becoming socially disfavored

"but what if . . . I could still think sportsball is dumb, but launder that opinion through a few dozen layers of irony-poisoned Tumblr jargon and Baby's First Marxian Class Analysis"

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 19h

They hanged Charles I for this shit

George Pearkes @peark.es · 19h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 18h

or, even if they do have standing, how this isn't textbook "political question" nonjusticiability stuff

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 20h

the Cubs winning the World Series broke down the wall between us and the Torment Nexus Dimension

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 20h

the exact same trick the same people try to pull with the Holodomor, it turns out

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 21h

Flattering the prejudices of rich dipshits can be very lucrative if you're good at it. Weiss will Peter Principle her way out of CBS within a year, but she'll have made eight figures in the meantime, and that's all that matters as long as you don't mind words like "toady" appearing in your obituary.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 21h

I think it was @jamellebouie.net who recently said that Bari Weiss' only discernible skill is flattering the prejudices of rich dipshits.

He intended this as a criticism, but it appears many in our media class think it's something to aspire to.

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 21h

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.
https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1975375120123478491
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@CoreyWriting
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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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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

She’s left us no choice. It’s time for Isaac Chotiner to interview Bari Weiss.

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Homestar Screens @grapenutsrobot.graphics · 1d

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 23h

They are not merely bad people, bigots, crooks. They are The Enemy, people who cannot exist in any position of power if you want a government of laws, a country with any semblance of fairness or decency. They are anathema to our Constitution and every principle America ever aspired to embody

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 1d

this isn't Reddit in 2009, nobody finds this ain't-I-a-stinker shit cute anymore

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 1d

right, yes, that's what she said

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 1d

I pour it into a bowl first, of course, I'm not some sort of *weirdo*

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 1d

At least once per year, I eat a non-negligible fraction of a bottle of blue cheese salad dressing with a spoon.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 1d

ICE: The Kicker

Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 1d

don’t want that hilarious game-winning drive to overshadow that harrison butker booting the ball out of bounds set the whole thing up

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 1d

of course it does, resource constraints are a capitalist op and can be disregarded if we poast hard enough

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