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Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑 @why-not-zoidberg.bsky.social · 5h

The only thing I am beginning to agree with Trump on is that mainstream media is the enemy of the people.

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Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · 5h

“She plays to an audience of 200 people,” one Hollywood executive with ties to Weiss told Variety. “It just happens to be that audience is made up of people like Jeff Bezos and Bill Ackman. The superrich f------ love her.”

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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Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑 @why-not-zoidberg.bsky.social · 5h

As I posted yesterday, mainstream media decided in the 90s that Nazis and "Hard Fascists" needed to be heard and has been normalizing them ever since.

Not only in the US, but in Europe too. Swedish here, and I definitely remember when mainstream media suddenly went "let's interview them!"

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

Here's a thread on ways Jack Posobiec has been normalized in mainstream media since Charlie Kirk's death:

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 27d

I'd list all the things Jack Posobiec is known for, but I think it would get me banned on Bluesky in the current environment of automated moderation.

Let's just say he has an extensive page at the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Anyway, CBS News is talking with Posobiec about his friend Charlie Kirk.

YouTube screenshot of Face the Nation from CBS News: Jack Posobiec reflects on the life of his friend Charlie Kirk

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 8h

It was only a matter of time before these stories started to come out
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘Get out of my f--king shot’: Katie Porter tears into staffer in newly released video

The former member of Congress, who is now running for California governor, also vented that she was snubbed by the Biden White House, complaining she raised the president “a shit ton of money.”

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11h

it always blows my mind when these people act like “the left just calls everyone nazis” these days and it’s like no. we’re calling nazis nazis! there just happens to be a lot of them in and around the government these days!

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 11h

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 10h

I'll stay here until I'm banned, but imo this last week or so has been Team Bsky writing their intentions on the wall in letters of fire, so get fallback plans in order imo

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 10h

so the devs are going all in defending Jesse Singal and making this platform a safe space for TERFs

I know posters generally dislike Mastodon & understand why, but the influx of bksy shitposters this week has really improved the vibe + the Phanpy app also does wonders making it poster friendly

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 11h

It's not a shock collar. Every day now there are out if context clips on here going after this guy.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

“We’re going to hold them fairly to account, and by that we mean we’ll use the propaganda term they invented and not the legal name for the department. In short, MAGA.”

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 15h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Critical Role @criticalrole.bsky.social · 12h

Welcome to Aramán! ✨

Catch up on all the twists and turns of #CriticalRole Campaign 4's intriguing premiere episode with our brilliant Lore Keeper Dani Carr's complete written recap! 📜 🪶

READ CRITICAL RECAP ⬇️
https://critrole.com/critical-recap-critical-role-c4e01-the-fall-of-thjazi-fang/

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Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑 @why-not-zoidberg.bsky.social · 11h

The fact that he's still hailed as the Blessed Savior of America by the "Resist" Liberals is a very Mask Off moment for liberalism.

Of course it turns out a lot of accounts are bots, but a lot of them aren't, and are absolutely fine with Fascism as long as it ONLY happens to brown or queer ppl.

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 11h

You might think this is unconstitutional but due to a severe foresight error, it is actually super legal to make it illegal for public school teachers to say Israel is doing a genocide

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Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑 @why-not-zoidberg.bsky.social · 12h

EXACTLY.

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Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑 @why-not-zoidberg.bsky.social · 12h

People (often highly educated people) who think there's no difference between disagreeing over +5% or -5% tax on chewing gum and disagreeing over "should black people be lynched regularly and should transpeople be forced into asylums for existing" or not are a danger to society.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 17h

Columbia cancelled my class on race and media, and Washington Post fired me for speaking about race..

But I’m teaching (again) and speaking anyway.

Behind the scenes of rehearsal for the Fall cohort of Race, Media and International Affairs.

600+ students this fall.

We move! ✊🏾

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Timothy @landbeforetim.bsky.social · 15h

Ken Paxton’s plan

“How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?" is a reaction image commonly used to respond to users pretending to be part of a community that they are clearly unfamiliar with. The image features the actor Steve Buscemi dressed youthfully and holding a skateboard, and is usually subtitled with the tagline. The image is often photoshopped to adapt to a particular subculture, and the phrase is often used in conversation without the image. It’s edited to include random trans symbols including a trans Texas saying “y’all means all” and a badge that says “fuck the cis stem” and a trans hat with the hammer and sickle symbol.

Text reads: How do you do fellow transgenders

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Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social · 15h

Trans rights are human rights. There is no difference between someone's right to find their proper sex/gender and *your own* right to body autonomy. Either we're all free or none of us are.

alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 15h

this is not negotiable, mother fuckers

Civil rights or GTFO

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 17h

This whole thing is delightful.

Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 18h

the only thing people want to do on Sora, it seems, is generate images of copyrighted characters. now that they can't, they're crashing the fuck out www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation er...

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 22h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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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Sean @thefirstsean.bsky.social · 16h

Shit even immediate family. Blood don't mean shit.

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Antifa Central @kevinhewett.bsky.social · 16h

People think extended family means something, but actually, one's extended family is meaningless and can easily be ignored.

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Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑 @why-not-zoidberg.bsky.social · 16h

The Nineties was awful in so many ways...

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Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑 @why-not-zoidberg.bsky.social · 16h

Neo-Nazism was coined when people were still shocked some skinheads were waving the flag. Then of course mainstream media decided you needed to "let them have their voice heard" and from there on we were fucked.

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Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑 @why-not-zoidberg.bsky.social · 1d

To be 💯 honest I have only managed to watch three TV shows produced the last 15 years for more than three quarters of a season:

The Middle
Wednesday
Fallout

Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑 @why-not-zoidberg.bsky.social · 1d

Why do so many modern TV shows just... Lose it last season?