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Jared Dunn @jddunn.bsky.social · 6h

What if we had another Civil War, but this time over imaginary things?

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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 9h

“Our opponents are the people who opposed Hitler.”

WE KNOW!

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 9h

Jack Posobiec speaks at the "Antifa Roundtable" and immediately references the Weimar Republic. He's a nazi.

Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 9h

Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit.

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 9h

Note that 'Nuh-uh" is gradually morphing into "I'll fucking kill you."

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15h

The most fundamental political debate of our time: You are integrated into and have responsibility for our complex, imperfect society vs. Nuh-uh.

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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 14h

And what do you call it?

The Meritocracy!

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 14h

Last year the Secretary of Defense was a black general and now the Secretary of Defense is a washed up National Guard major who the military considered a white supremacist insider threat and said white supremacist is also an alcoholic accused of spousal abuse.

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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 14h

The dream of the 90s is alive in Portland (hugely complimentary).

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 17h

That’s a shame.

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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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 18h

A very friendly amendment: Presbyterians don’t have priests. They have pastors. Yes it’s confusing. Especially when they wear what is typically understood as a priest collar.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 1d

Pam Bondi contemptuously asking Schiff “do you have a law degree?” is just pure uncut ressentiment.

I’m better than you because I’m less qualified. My ignorance is good, actually. Better than knowledge.

Amazing stuff.

Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 1d

Besides, it’s 50/50 that the chicken-suit guy is free on a weekday because he’s a postdoc.

Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 1d

Look I try real hard not to be a snob but Noem completed college with credits she got *for being in Congress* like it was an internship or something.

So maybe cool it on the “y’all uneducated“ bit.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

This made me laugh so hard. Second screenshot is of the video posted by Benny Johnson of the event.

Benny Johnson « @bennyjohnson
X.com
BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stares down army of Antifa and a guy in a chicken suit from the rooftop of the ICE facility here in Portland.
Noem says:
"Hey; Guy in the chicken suit. You can do better.
Too bad they are uneducated and ill-informed."
Noem isn't chicken: [chicken emoji]

A view from the roof of the building. There are about 15-20 people visible in total, several of whom appear to be reporters. Most are holding signs. They aren’t even taking up the whole sidewalk. One guy is wearing a chicken suit.

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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 1d

Hell yeah multi-cultural democracy. Big ups for human rights. People just doing their things freely. Self-determination and whatnot. Genuinely the best. No idea why it isn’t more popular.

Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 1d

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 1d

This man was born a Phillie.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

“If I can get seconds, thirds and fourths on that raw milk now? Ooh boy!”

Bryce Harper on the birth of his fourth child, a boy, last week: "I've got an incredible wife, man. She pushed that thing out in three pushes and 30 seconds. She's an absolute monster doing it. Women, man, what a breed.
I'm serious, it's an incredible thing."

Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 1d

This is just the mob.

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 1d

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes in everyday life I hear people rag on renewables and batteries and I don't even fight it now. Think your little thoughts. Be mad. Renewables plus batteries are economically inevitable. Electricity is going to be cheap and plentiful and it’s going to be awesome.

Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 2d

New record battery output of 47.2 GWh on the California ISO grid on Sun 10/5/25. 9.2% of all demand was met by batteries.

Now 191 days of 2025 with > 100% WWS for part of day.

Gas is down 18% v '24, 37% v '23
Solar up 15% v '24, 45% v '23
Demand down 1.7% v' 24, 1% v '23 despite more AI

Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 1d

Every professor in the humanities gives up and walks into the woods, never to be seen again.

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 1d

What's the excluded middle case look like over the next few years?

Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 1d

Making ham instead of Turkey for Thanksgiving is bucking tradition. This is just breaking the law.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 1d

I’M DOING MY PART!!!

Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 1d

Dude continues to demonstrate his willful ignorance of American history and the Constitution he swore an oath to. Americans have birthright. THAT is what makes one different from a subject or a serf. FFS

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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 2d

As a society we cannot persist if “just do the illegal/bad thing first and then see if you’ll get caught” is a good general strategy. Crime has to be prevented, not just punished.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 2d

Good afternoon. U.S. District Judge April Perry just took the bench for today's status hearing in Illinois v. Trump, over deployment of the National Guard.

A link to the complaint, for those who don't have it: t.co/yaknq55rr8

Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 2d

When I was a teenage asshole who was good at video games that seemed like a real good idea.

Now, not so much.

Syz @syzygial.bsky.social · 2d

Orson Scott Card is the most prescient sci-fi writer, for daring to ask: "what if teenage assholes were put in charge of society for being good at posting and video games?"

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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 2d

Less contrarian than collaborator.

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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 3d

Hold up, didn’t Trump negotiate the Afghanistan withdrawal? That was you buddy! Did you forget?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 3d

We can debate whether the entire government is fascist yet. But I have no problem calling these specific guys fascists. Drunk on power. Taking pleasure in violence and arbitrary unaccountable authority.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

“There’s a baby!”

Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 4d

ecstasy but ruined several seasons after it because any loss felt like the season was over.

Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 4d

I have a weird theory where college football is actually more fun if your team is kind of bad. Because every big win feels amazing. And after a while a loss here and there is like “eh… it’s fine”.

Had a friend who was a die-hard LSU fan through the 90s. Said winning their first championship was

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