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🐴Neigh, it's CK🌾🇨🇦 @neighitsck.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Losers, not leaders.

Trump and JD Vance are digitally edited onto the bodies of the stars from the reality TV series Pawn Stars.

They are standing behind a glass display counter, ready to make a deal.

Bold white impact text overlaid across the bottom of the image reads: BEST WE CAN DO IS RENAME SHIT.

barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Between Vance trying to redefine socialism and Trump trying to rename AI, the dictionary is having a heck of a day as a member of the resistance.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Man, this situation is so disturbing, I totally missed the mangled English.

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So many times, politicians criticize law enforcement for the number of shots fired in a situation where one shot is too many.

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

3) Hegseth argues this is deterrence, but the type of person who wants to watch someone die is not going to be deterred by watching a firing squad end a man's life. Heck, they might get aroused by it. These are sick, sick people.

Hegseth tells Newsweek that live streaming the execution of the Fort Hood shooter will show there are consequences for attacking U.S. soldiers.

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

2) This snuff film will make it into terrorists' propaganda videos. It will stir violence against the United States. The price for this will be in blood.

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And then everyone started yelling because they were too mad to explain to Tillis why Russert *doesn't* have a choice to vaccinate his daughter and why "having the resources" shouldn't determine basic healthcare. UGH. Now I'm mad again!!! Thank you for sharing this righteous anger.

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So, Luke Russert looked like he wanted a cage match with Thom Tillis after Tillis shrugged off his vote for Robert Kennedy.

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The early 2000s really was just an era of ignoring what was broken and "fixing" what didn't need fixed – only to make it worse in the process.

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And, respectfully, the ad started airing Sept. 23, so long ago that he's now airing a new "Final Battle" ad. I know that, back in the day, this would have been an extremely quick response, but not in 2026.

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Lustiger Name @alex.antilogik.org · 28/09/2026

I'm just so tired of living through historical financial crises

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Bisexual Visibility Week to all who celebrate.

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Document preservation demands? Brilliant idea! So sadly, I don't think any of the Democrats follow through on it.

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No kidding: I don't think I have watched one single episode all the way through of any of these shows. bsky.app/profile/hele...

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I owe you an apology, MapQuest. I wasn't really familiar with your game.

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hope Bianco doesn't hire Paramount's lawyers.

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is one small step you can take to throw sand in the gears of continuing efforts to put science, history and culture out of the reach of citizens and make them solely the province of the rich.

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You know, Trump wants his name on everything, so once his term is over, tear down all his constructions (code violations will probably be easy to find) and sell the remnants as "Trump rubble." There. You have legal justification for the teardowns, and now it's deficit-neutral. You're welcome.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 22/09/2026

My new employer is fond of the maximizing excitable headlines, but this is just the bluntest possible expression of my point: Freedom of the press is vital--and you prove that by doing the work that supports democracy, not by talking about doing it.

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

All I want is a 2026 that stops making me consider rooting for the Iranians and the Chinese. Is that too much to ask?

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

XBox announces more layoffs and says it is "roughly three-quarters of the way through previously announced restructuring." I cannot fathom how one can be so unbelievably cruel as to dangle this sword over the heads of employees for months at a time. news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...

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Continuing Our Reset

This message was just sent to Team XBOX employees globally. Team, I’m writing to share several updates as part of the XBOX reset outlined earlier this year. First, we are eliminating 268 roles across ...

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

With all these options for mindless entertainment these days, it ironically takes more effort than ever to rest in a meaningful way.

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

That this story doesn't even give a passing mention to Reverend Rafael Warnock feels like an oversight to me. Much like "working class" has come to mean the white working class, those using the term "Christian" tend to ignore the Black church.

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ugh. I hate that I'm such a pedant that it bothers me that Regan is shown correctly at the Brandenburg Gate, JFK is wearing a vest and speaking into four microphones just as he did at his inauguration, but Lincoln isn't at Gettysburg.

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That is something that I am fine if he gets his name on it.

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This entire thread. It's a nightmare scenario: an economic model that knowingly cannibalizes its inputs. In other words, it would be like candy bar manufacturers finding a way to make chocolate that pays them billions in the short term, but that burns cocoa fields to the ground.

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My word. This entire thread. Thanks for making sure I saw it.

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Have to admit something: I probably would have like your post whatever you were quoting because that GIF is from one of my favorite all-time episodes of "Drunk History."

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This article reveals that Lilly Wachowski tried to make a show based on @hannahtempler.com's brilliant COSMOKNIGHTS. While its a shame we'll never get to see that show, you can still bask in the glory of the original comic: www.cosmoknights.space

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Cosmoknights

For this ragtag band of space gays, liberation means beating the patriarchy at its own game.

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I don't understand the anti-trans community. I really don't. They want me, a cis woman, to share a bathroom with this dude?

Transgender model Aydian Dowling flexing in a photo from Getty Images. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/aydian-dowling-the-first-transgender-model-to-cover-gay-times-magazine-a6870341.html

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Bought a dog. Started to date a Canadian. Upped my contribution to my 401k. Oh, my gosh. Am I having the most boring midlife crisis ever???

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Kinehora @kinehora.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I really don’t like living in every dystopian novel ever written all at once.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

According to Trump, the neo Nazi party *in Germany* Is making the country “great” again How long before he tells American Jews that work will set us free- Oh

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026

You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

While Newsom isn't wrong, I am pretty tired of Democratic politicians telling us what we need to do and not saying what they will do. Perpetual Democratic victories cannot be the only guardrail between democracy and autocracy.

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Heck of an (accurate) headline from Axios.

"America's expensive groceries are getting less safe to eat."

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Every now and then I like to play a game that I call, "What's better now than it was 10 years ago?" And the answer increasingly feels like nothing. There's nothing that's improved in the past decade. It's all gotten worse. bsky.app/profile/shin...

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barbwirethong.bsky.social @barbwirethong.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Watched "Coyote vs. Acme" with my girlfriend. Not only is it a great film, but it comes at a perfect time, given the zeitgeist. The folks in the theater we were at applauded the speech Will Forte's character gives, in which he decries the powerful doing whatever they want.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Getting my job back at the Washington Post would not have been possible if it wasn’t for me belonging to a union. @postguild.bsky.social and @wbng.org are the unions I belong to. I was able to challenge my wrongful termination because of the collective bargaining agreement / union contract!

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