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Ben Van Bloem

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dillo saint dillo @dillo.media · 11h
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kei truck with lights under. they're purple
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Noah VanDowe @vandowe.bsky.social · 17h
In this week's edition of Podcast Wars @mmfa.bsky.social: Mark Levin calls Tucker Carlson a "traitor" Ben Shapiro says Theo Von is "one of the dumbest people to walk planet Earth" James Fishback blames Fox News for his primary loss & more 👇 www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carls...
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Podcast Wars: “Traitor” Tucker Carlson, “evil” Candace Owens, and “pathetic” Nick Fuentes
Welcome to Media Matters’ regular debrief on the Podcast Wars. This week, many figures directed their ire toward Tucker Carlson following his contentious and controversial interview with former member...
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Lewis @oyster.cafe · 08/10/2026
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Eric @wordandvoid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Gonna fuck around and have a good day
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I…got nothing. Feeling just wave after wave of absolute revulsion and white hot rage at the violence that poisons every centimeter of this cursed country
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Overton Window position on AI is that companies and execs should be sued into bankruptcy and behind bars. Easy case that they stole lots of IP to train models and knowingly released harmful products. Their marketing is literally: “Oh no our products are too dangerous!”
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Richard E Frankel @refrankel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Racist Cheaters Panic That Racism and Cheating Will Fuel Democratic Victories
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😳 GOP Panics That Racism and Trump’s Election-Rigging Attempts Will Fuel Democratic Victories
Republican operatives are in midterms meltdown, with years of gerrymandering and stirring up hatred set to come home to roost. In Maine, Senator Susan Collins met Troy Jackson on the debate stage.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
As a technology it is an absolute blight and the companies that own and control it should be held fully responsible, including criminally responsible, for every single harm.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
AI has talked kids into suicide, fueled paranoid delusional that led to murder, degraded education quality in both k-12 and higher ed, run roughshod over copyright law, increased spam, fueled spam, fueled fraud, degraded the environment, put people out of work, the list goes on and on.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 06/10/2026
I think we need to take misogyny more seriously
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
The Trump administration says none of this is happening. 

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." 

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.
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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hey. Sometimes the best way to rage against the machine is to vote for the machine and that’s just a fact
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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The NY Times framing every fascist as tough strong & brilliant, and not a dumb racist liar, is one of many ways the NY Times tells Democrats that they are Not On Our Side, and Dems mostly choose not to listen
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Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox News
A fierce and nimble speaker, Ms. Leavitt is the second of Mr. Trump’s former press secretaries to join the cable news network.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
More evidence of the alliance between Tech Bros & Theo Bros. Joshua Abbottoy — Founder of Ridge Runner, which is building Christian communities in Appalachia—will attend Balaji’s “network state” conference. (Abbottoy is also Managing Director of New Founding—backed by Thiel ally Marc Andreeessen) 1/
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Excited to be traveling to Singapore for @balajis's Network School conference next week.
If friends on here will be in the area, let me know!
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Looking forward to this!
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See you there, @curtis_yarvin
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I'll be debating Balaji Srinivasan at the Network State conference in Singapore on October 9
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Ben Van Bloem @bambooboy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This was the first post I saw today, bless up I will follow your advice! Thank you for saving me from whatever discourse 🙏🏻
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 03/10/2026
why rehash the same arguments about AI when you could appreciate the beauty of a flower or a tree or a butterfly
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Kill Tim Faust 💀 @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 03/10/2026
The Covid conscious lesbian bar was self-destructive but there’s no denying that the world would be richer if those folks had access to this kind of capital instead of self-loathing Elonophiles
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Kate Burns @katerqburns.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Love this for Benny! www.ms.now/news/benny-j...
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MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson sued for defamation over ICE ride-along videos calling protesters ‘terrorists’
Johnson accompanied top DHS officials last year to an ICE protest, where he pointed out “left-wing terrorists” for his millions of followers across social media.
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the rise of anti-Indian racism has been uhhh really worrying
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: The Georgia State Election board is requesting Justice Department "intervention" ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The board sent request letters to Todd Blanche, Harmeet Dhillon, and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Docs obtained by @lawfaremedia.org: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Formal Request for DOJ Intervention to Todd Blanche
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
in the world of elden ring - cold weapons give you frostbite - flaming weapons burn you - weapons laced with poison will poison you - sharp edged weapons cause you to hemorrhage blood - if you get splashed with blood, you also hemorrhage blood...? - bit by flies, you guessed it: hemorrhage blood
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John Knefel @johnknefel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fox News is committed to pushing the "worst of the worst" myth as a way to frame Trump's deportation operations as about public safety rather than what they really are -- an attempt to maintain structures of white supremacy through ethnic cleansing
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Fox News has spent almost two years claiming Trump’s deportations are targeting “the worst of the worst.” The administration just contradicted that narrative.
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Briiiiiiaaaaannnnnssss!! @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 01/10/2026
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They made her wait all day to kill her, and now they’re torturing her.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in.
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i think anyone who believes these guys in particular would actually allow “universal high income” should be tested for lead poisoning
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shy's video folder @shyvideos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
C’mon, man.
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Marc Novicoff – Writing Portfolio
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah see that’s the problem you tried to see the movie without purchasing the Day One Ultimate Edition, you can’t expect it to have all the movie in it
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...
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X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula
Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.
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🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 24/09/2026
If we hit this goal I will go to the Western Mass lesbian bar this weekend and live post about it.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 24/09/2026
A young Salvadoran man in Frederick County whose stepfather was deported last year says that the fear of being detained is commonplace. “In our community, the Hispanic community, there is always a fear of being stopped by the sheriff office.”
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 “We're Afraid on a Daily Basis”: How a Maryland Sheriff Targeted Immigrants Long Before ICE Raids Spiked - Bolts
Frederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impossible to ignore.
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Ben Van Bloem @bambooboy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is a pretty weak ass and opaque methodology in this article, if you’re interested in solid research on the state of the right wing media ecosystem check out Media Matters!
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 24/09/2026
Hey so I think YouTube is suppressing our latest episode of @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social because the topic is so heavy. It's just not showing people the video on their timeline. But it's a great episode that people should check out! Audio episode is out now too! youtu.be/cEitSQm50Gc
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Why the Right-Wing Press Couldn't Let Jason Arday Be (ft. Dr. Jenn Jackson)
YouTube video by Cancel Me, Daddy
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i'm sorry but i find it deeply reprehensible that there is a concerted campaign to downplay the struggles trans people face.
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〽️ax krieger wants to port YOUR indie game to switch! @maxkriegervg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
saw this on my roku screen and involuntarily had to make Deep W Peed
mark wahlberg in deepwater horizonmark waw krawm in deepwpeed horiroh
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I think it's very simple, the bosses agreed with Trump about "wokeness" and this was an excuse to purge anything associated with it bsky.app/profile/trac...
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Ben Van Bloem @bambooboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Excellent work!
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
between the jaxson dart injury and the clavicular arrest, gonna be tough for the cops out there to concentrate today on stalking their high school daughters friends on flock cameras
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Ben Van Bloem @bambooboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’ve been a Frederick boy pretty much my whole life, and this is as clean a piece you will ever read on the evil ass Sheriff in the county. @boltsmag.org continues to be vital for understanding local politics.
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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
People are hiding at home, afraid to go outside and encounter ICE. They're struggling to find food and holding kids out of school, as friends and family are disappeared in bunches. This is now the reality of daily life across the U.S., and I took a snapshot of what it looks like in one community:
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“We're Afraid on a Daily Basis”: How a Maryland Sheriff Targeted Immigrants Long Before ICE Raids Spiked - Bolts
Frederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impo...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
we have a story coming out tomorrow I hope every one in Maryland reads, to know about what’s happening in their state
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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Annie @femalecenobite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I would rather be hit by a bike than a car. And it would be an honor to get hit by a bus
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Right-wing media figures repeatedly promised that soaring gas prices were a blip and would come tumbling down imminently, even as their constantly shifting deadlines came and went.
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Gas and diesel prices are soaring. Right-wing media figures promised that wouldn't happen.
Since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s war with Iran, right-wing media have attempted to downplay, dismiss, and deflect from the resulting pain at the pump, including by repeatedly claiming t...
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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