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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1h

If I was told I couldn’t do a job Meghan McCain did I think I’d become a monk

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Travis @unraptured.bsky.social · 4h

what an odd thing to say

Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 11h

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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Travis @unraptured.bsky.social · 5h

oh shit they caught Anne Tifa

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 7h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 7h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Travis @unraptured.bsky.social · 5h

Bondi always sounds like she's reading from a script she was just handed

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 7h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Travis @unraptured.bsky.social · 5h

yeah, I'm into gamer girls:

KOTH Screens @kothscreens.bsky.social · 5h

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 9, Episode 15

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 6h

The Butlerian Jihad must have sucked for guys who just bought a new computer

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 6h

Wow, tell me more about Weimar Germany and what came after?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 7h

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Travis @unraptured.bsky.social · 5h

jfc

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😱🩸Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🎃🔪 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 8h

so bluesky finally got some thiel money huh

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angrytaco @angrytaco2.bsky.social · 8h

Jay got caught newly following a fucking transphobe after her “WAFFLES” incident; her team forcibly removed Link for calling her out and now nearly a week later the labeler is getting shut down. Fucking shameful behavior by everyone on the BlueSky team.

😱🩸Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🎃🔪 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 8h

so bluesky finally got some thiel money huh

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Travis @unraptured.bsky.social · 6h

I think I figured it out

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: A MAGA X account often shared by Senator Mike Lee and House Republicans like Nancy Mace--that often alleges Democrats encourage voting fraud-- is run by a man who not only has never stepped foot in the US, he also illegally donated to an American campaign.

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The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America

Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.

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Travis @unraptured.bsky.social · 8h

two men are sitting in front of a sign that says aew hey

ALT: two men are sitting in front of a sign that says aew hey

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Travis @unraptured.bsky.social · 9h

he's on the CW of news networks

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 9h

you cannot lose elections to people that suggest lee greenwood for the super bowl halftime show over bad bunny

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Travis @unraptured.bsky.social · 14h

going to go way out on a limb and suggest national guard guys from Texas absolutely are maga

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Travis @unraptured.bsky.social · 15h

so we have a plan then

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Travis @unraptured.bsky.social · 15h

"harassment" is SF techlord slang for "any interaction that isn't glowingly positive"

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bob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social · 15h

“Remember, these are not Nazi SS, these are every day teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their Fatherland with their spare time”

Do you even hear yourself

Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 23h

Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

We won’t LECTURE you with ideology but also you better be patriotic lol like for real haha we’re all having fun here but capitalism should not be questioned but hey let’s all be pals as we all agree that Jeff Bezos is actually not bald but simply had very short hair in a fashionable way

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

What will the new Adam O'Neal–hosted WaPo opinions podcast sound like for the next few decades? Maybe a little something like this x.com/WashPostComm...

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Travis @unraptured.bsky.social · 1d

it does and it doesn't but it eventually led to like six movies filmed simultaneously in Romania where nothing supernatural happens and Pinhead shows up at the end and goes "how about that huh"

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