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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to post about it.” Solidarity through goofin' about it. Unaffiliated with the Twitter version. Some shared takes will be good

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Bad History Takes @badhistorytakes.bsky.social · 12h
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Tim Robinson: Oh My God, He Admit It!
ALT: Tim Robinson: Oh My God, He Admit It!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h
The president promised to conduct a whirlwind tour for the 32 days before the midterms, even a long haul to Alaska, and I for one can't wait to see how his fragile 80-year-old body holds up from the strain.
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erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 16h
A multi-polar system is a system in which you've got multiple organizing centers of power *in competition with each other.* When you see this happening at a national level, it doesn't get a nice neutral term like 'multipolar', it's called a Warlord Era and everyone agrees it sucks*.
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 16h
Money does not buy elections. Lack of money can surely lose one. But the diminishing returns come quick
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 22h
Also noteworthy that almost no one has gone harder on the “civilization-state” thing than 🇷🇺 and they don’t get a shoutout because that would be too embarrassing by to claim as 🇷🇺 gets bodied by a former imperial subject Pre-2/24/22 or if 3 Days to Kyiv had actually worked it certainly would have
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eek @eke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
to quote some queer hyperpop theys: get your ass off twitter because it gives you fucking mental illness
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Right like the core problem is that voters elected a bunch of cowardly and/or treasonous Republican senators
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Walter MOONdale @dabenner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is NOT funny or cute, the French only have mass protests when they are mildly annoyed.
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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 06/10/2026
as a 'blue no matter who' person of record marcy fucking kaptur is your free "throw a dem under the bus", it will be actively better for all of us if she loses her job, her district is cursed now post-gerrymander, we need to lose it and get it over with
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 07/10/2026
it's the same joke as this one except people under 40 seem especially bad at realizing it
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
legalizing gambling was the single biggest social disaster of the last decade, and that's a high bar to clear.
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Gumby Screens @gumbyscreens.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Frame #1392 from E31 Little Lost Girl
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Bad History Takes @badhistorytakes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This sucks.
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Benjamin Ahr Harrison @benjaminahr.mobi · 06/10/2026
Seems like the world needs a reminder.
A poster in the style of Shepard Fairey's iconic Obama Hope poster, but it's a horga'hn, the love totem used to signal availability on the pleasure planet of Risa from Star Trek the Next Generation. This particular horga'hn is styled to look like Commander Riker, and it has one leg raised, as if he is preparing to swing it over the back of a chair in which he intends to sit. At the bottom, in a blocky gothic font is the caption "CONSENT."
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Jeff F @jfeej.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
1991: It Was Bad!
Chart from WBEZ showing the decline in "index" offenses in Chicago relative to 1991
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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Gloom🌺 @oddish.net · 06/10/2026
you are not allowed to be nostalgic for this decade, I was there and it sucked. 
collage of images that I made in early 2020, titled "decade literally no one is nostalgic for", featuring images of primitive smartphones, Justin Beiber, Twilight, Myspace, AOL, Foreclosed Homes, Brokencyde, PT Cruisers with Fake Wood, George W Bush, Crazy Frog, and $4+/gallon gas, which as the time I made this only existed in memories of 2008.
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Someone from high school on Facebook. We were literally in high school when Bush was president. More proof that nostalgia for the past is mostly about wanting to be young again.
Everyone from GW bush on back is fine with me bc gas was cheap. I could fill my Ranger up and get snacks for a 20
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i'm beginning to be on the cusp of when nostalgia shit is aimed at my age group specifically, like not quite there yet but can definitely see it from here, and it still seems as pathetic as it ever was. maybe will change when my micro-cohort is in the bullseye, but still seems contemptible for now.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I was gonna say 9% but I was like “no better look up the unemployment rate when I graduated I don’t want to exaggerate” and turns out I was off in the wrong direction
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
These are the basic contours of every major religious schism
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Professor Frink saying this
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 05/10/2026
It's almost like those of us who spent the last 20 years saying overdependence on oil is a national security issue weren't just tree hugging hippies!
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 05/10/2026
Hassert was kind of a case in point for @joestieb.bsky.social’s argument. There’s more continuity with the pre-Trump GOP than people may be comfortable acknowledging. Pedocon theory was already true
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 05/10/2026
here's the actual quote just fwiw www.politico.com/story/2013/0...
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 05/10/2026
OBAMA: *You* go have a drink with Mitch McConnell
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 05/10/2026
Of the 1,125 West Point graduates who fought in the Civil War, 815 remained loyal to the United States. In other words, 72% fought for the North.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 05/10/2026
no....no!!!!!
lowly worm is now driving the trolley problem trolley :(
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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
but the proper solution is to make sure every neighborhood is walkable, with tree lined streets, protected bike lanes, great public transit options, lots and lots of additional housing and other public amenities that make it so every neighborhood is as goddamn delightful
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 04/10/2026
reactionary centrists will be telling libs to calm down already while the actual reactionaries are going to be calling for The Purge
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Mom for Ghoulberty👻 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Choosin' Texas
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 04/10/2026
no, she’s the wolf from a 4th or 5th century mosaic depicting the founding of Rome
The she-wolf who nurtured Romulus and Remus, depicted in mosaic form as a maniacal black dog with sharp teeth and white eyes.
My dog, bearing an uncanny resemblance to the maniacal mosaic wolf.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2026
every election everywhere after one (1) cycle with the fascists out of power: FASCISM NEPOBABY: 50.1% NORMAL POLITICIAN: 49.9%
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
someone call up will smith we need him to do something
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Bad History Takes @badhistorytakes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Some things haven’t changed since 2000.
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Oliver Colander @olivercolander.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Frankly, it would have been more surprising if he had voted for her. Anyway, and for no related reason, Tom Morello is worth tens of millions of dollars.
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Bad History Takes @badhistorytakes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Gotta get a stew going
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
hard to think of a cartoon that better sums up the mind of a Trump voter than this
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
545. One of the most brilliant conceits for a book I've ever encountered, so funny that I don't even want to explain it so you can go in blind. Only downside is that the country it's set in (a pastiche of 20th Century Catholic Ireland, I think) is so grim that I was rooting for their enemies to win.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
... and the latter is very obviously in fact a racist movement, the former is, I dunno, depends what you think of 19th century nationalism in general (I probably would not call all such things racist ideologies fwiw), and so there is just ambiguity because different people hear different things?
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Bad History Takes @badhistorytakes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It seems like the worst people (twitter) are blasting around about the Pneumonic plague in Russia because it validates the COVID Lab Leak theory, but there’s a big information gap because of little real/informed analysis of it.
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Haydon, frightfully @haydonmp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is my response to people saying that Trump will simply overthrow the constitution at this point tbh. “Do you believe the United States federal government is able to mobilize enough repressive capacity to stem nationwide riots with unrepentant force?” “No?” “Okay then what’s gonna happen?”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Could do without another "The Man in the High Castle" reboot if I'm being honest
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Good Birdman Mr. Evening: @embirdened.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Realize it's gauche but this is one to file away for later
Twitter screenshot of Taylor Lorenz posting "It's so annoying we can't type with our brain yet"
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"blind carbon copy" lol I am far too young to have any idea what the fuck that refers to
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Getting Jacob Rees-Mogg to turn into Will Stancil for an hour is some real gonzo Video Game Achievement But Real Life shit. Absolutely incredible.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m not one to take a single Moscow Times article reporting on an inherently difficult to confirm situation as gospel but boy would it be ironic if after all we’ve heard about NATO biolabs in Ukraine, Russia had a pathogen leak from a lab
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sr. Producer/Editor – “Preditor” (Social Media/Short Form)
National Geographic

Washington, DC

$139,200 - $186,600 a yearTobias from Arrested Development
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Bad History Takes @badhistorytakes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What a time to be alive.
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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Extremely on brand for a Brit to be mocking names and acting like the arbiter of the world
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