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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

What a relief that Todd Blanche has promised something under oath and in writing! After all, never has a Trump nominee said something like "Roe v. Wade is settled law" under oath and then later showed that statement to be an outright lie but suffered zero actual consequences for it!

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Yesterday Iran was out of the top-8 third placers until the 28th minute of Austria-Algeria, back out at 45’, back in at 55’, back out at 60’, back in at 93’, out for good at 96’. “Why do people like this game?” “It dispenses joy and misery at random. It mimics life that way.” (INDUSTRY, HBO)

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Because most theocratic legislation ultimately backfires on fundies, I hope the Bible passages Texan students are now required to read makes them interested enough to read the whole thing, then go back to their homes and churches to tell the adults “you’re not following the spirit of this text.”

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

L'esprit déconnexion: That moment after you tell a rando online you're no longer engaging with them and you have to commit to that instead of going back and typing "look, you're an asshole, and I'm not required to spend any time with assholes except for the one that came with my own body."

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I spend so many minutes of my life quietly asking the question “oh my god, why are you like this?”

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I swear that every time the words “RFK” and “road trip” pop up together it’s like a trailer for a new Rob Zombie film.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I didn’t want to be right about this fear I’d had, but clearly it was well founded. Nothing Liverpool FC did in the summer transfer market was as consequential as letting Luis Diaz leave.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Sometime in the early 2000s, I got into an argument online. Yes, I know, big deal, arguments are the second-most plentiful resource on the internet besides that which a Tony-winning musical once wrote an entire number about. But I'm going somewhere with this.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

So either the US hit an elementary school with a Tomahawk missile, Iran managed to steal Tomahawk missiles from us or our allies or we sold Tomahawk missiles to Iran. All are GREAT SCENARIOS to contemplate.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

There is no phrase in modern media I am more annoyed with right now than “appears to contradict.” ICE is lying. DHS is lying. The Trump regime is lying. THEY HAVE BEEN CAUGHT IN LIES.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I have nothing but sympathy and hope for the Guthrie family as they plead for the safe return of their mother by whoever has abducted her. And we need to recognize that there are families our government has targeted whose pleas are identical and no less worthy of our support.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

At some point he's going to say "Listen for the last time I was not part of all that Epstein stuff. I wish I had been, though, it sounds like it was a great time!" It will be like when OJ Simpson announced the book IF I DID IT, except this time the media will treat it like another Trumpian lark.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

So ICE in Minnesota is detaining five year-olds and sending them to camps in Texas, where they might be killed by guards who claim it’s a suicide, and then found not guilty of inaction to save the child. This is the hellscape we are supposed to call a Great Nation.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

ICE: "Stop calling us Nazis." ALSO ICE: "Let's do our own version of the opening scene from INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS."

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I wish my cynical mind could just enjoy THE ODYSSEY trailer for what it is without being prematurely exhausted about the forthcoming posts claiming "The Shocking Way that THE ODYSSEY (2026) Connects to TROY (2004)!"

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

THREAD: In 1990, famed gossip columnist Liz Smith had been asking Donald Trump for two years to comment on the "other woman" in his life, only to be stonewalled each time about the identity of Marla Maples. (1/10)

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

The famous portrait on the cover of “The Art of the Deal” was taken by Michele Singer Reiner. We are all of us living in the fever dreams of Aeschylus.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

On this day that FIFA honored a petty toddler as a scion of Peace, a soccer tournament my son was supposed to play in was canceled because too many families pulled out due to fears of ICE raids. I hope everything Gianni Infantino eats for the rest of his life tastes like old boot leather.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

It’s not even the tenth worst thing about it, but I utterly abhor that DHS is referencing a story of compassion and extraordinary friendship to a complete stranger when they name their latest ICE abduction campaign “Operation Charlotte Web.”

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

The first cold snap and snowfall of the season and Greg Bovino decides to end Midway Blitz. Chicago sells like a zillion hot dogs a day and we've still never seen a bigger bunch of weenies than ICE and CBP.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I guarantee you that nearly everyone who kept angrily declaring that "Old Town Road" and "Cowboy Carter" couldn't be considered real country music have no problem at all with this.

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AI country singer Breaking Rust tops Billboard with ‘Walk My Walk’

A country hit made by artificial intelligence has climbed to the top of a Billboard chart — a first for the genre.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WALMART. (This is real. I took the screenshots.)

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

So if the policy is supposedly that we’re catching all the child rapists and sending them to countries they were never from, at what point do we start deporting these evangelical leaders, like former Trump advisor Robert Morris, to the Darien Gap?

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

A reporter will ask a conservative politician why they were caught holding a bloody knife near a murder scene and they will say “nah-ah, that’s a gotcha question.” And then they turn around and yell ZOHRAN MAMDANI’S AUNT IS NOT HIS PARENT’S SISTER!

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Have felt oddly compelled of late to watch clips from HELL’S KITCHEN, a show I never watched once while it aired, and I think it’s because I’m finding it cathartic to watch Gordon Ramsay scream obscenities at people and hold them accountable when they’re so clearly fucking things up.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Being a guy who is interested in both modern cinema and presidential history means that I have an odd, unexplainable feeling about the concurrent careers of two actresses named Mikey Madison and Maika Monroe.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

We need to convince Trump that he doesn’t want to be king or dictator, but pharaoh. Then, when he dies, all of his servants should be entombed with him.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

"You thought that patriotic video of our heroic President Trump was of him showering Americans with feces? That was the finest of chocolate mousse, served with benevolence and his unerring gourmet taste. Of course you woke communists don't know the difference." Hey, I can be Press Secretary too!

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Every time Karoline Leavitt goes to a restaurant, she should be brought something she didn’t order. When she complains, she should be told “oh, we assumed you were lying,” before turning briskly and walking away.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

What has become evident is that if an American city ever actually were attacked by hordes of violent gangsters, ICE are not by any means prepared — tactically, mentally, or physically — to handle them. If your city is invaded by schoolchildren, journalists, and clergy, though? LOOK OUT.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

It’s impossible not to see the Nobel Committee’s selection of a pro-democracy, Venezuelan woman for the Peace Prize as a direct “Fuck Off, Donald.” Good.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

What’s the over-under on how many weeks it takes before Trump learns penicillin began as mold, claims “nobody knew this before,” and starts to insist that it be banned for medical use?

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The Chicago River just got clean enough for swimmers to use it and now they’re polluting it with the filth.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Saying you feel “vulnerable” on a stopped escalator in one of the most heavily guarded buildings in New York only makes it seem even less likely that you felt in danger the day you were almost assassinated. Not saying. Just saying.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

GOP: “Stop calling us Nazis!” ALSO GOP: “Exterminate the homeless, lock up the transgendered, send undesirables to concentration camps, and criminalize dissent! All of which will be enforced by our secret police!”

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

"Charlie Kirk was a peaceful Christian man who believed we should have spirited debate with our political opponents. To honor him, I require that we commit widespread bloody violence against the evil, inhuman leftists."

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

What I believe: It’s possible to manifest hate in your heart and still be a good person. It’s not possible to *hold* hate in your heart and remain a good person. And regardless, the hate itself will never make you a good person.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

"Nineteen Eighty-Four," by George Orwell.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Our government now routinely does things that would make us root for Jason Statham to break every neck in the room.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

American Media: “Far-right Media Figure Ruffles Feathers” Australian Media:

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

So for the sake of stylistic consistency we should go back to every relevant chyron and revise them to read “Heterosexual white man kills X, wounds Y.” Right? Or is that story just too “dog bites man” now?

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Enjoyable editorial comment from THE ATHLETIC today on the recent decision to move the World Cup draw and the relationship between FIFA president Infantino and Trump.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Dammit, LFC, giving up a two-goal lead and sending on an impact sub to win it at the death is NOT A SUSTAINABLE STRATEGY and also not great for my heart.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

To be clear: The Trump cabal plans to exile to Uganda a man who they previously renditioned to El Salvador's most brutal prison before he faced any charges in court... ...after transferring the president's known associate, a convicted sex trafficker, to a more comfortable prison.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Against my better judgment I looked at the new Cracker Barrel logo and it instantly turned me into a trans athlete who thinks slavery was evil.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Remember: The goons bursting into the women’s bathroom to accost a woman have also been warning you that transwomen existing in similar spaces represent a mortal threat to others.

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I don't spend much time with right-wing podcasts. Could someone with more experience clarify for me: Is there anything more to them than dudes asking questions with easy answers in the most demeaning tone imaginable and then leaning back like they'd just checkmated Garry Kasparov?

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Bilal Dardai @bilald.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The first thing Putin and Trump will need to agree on is their safe word.

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