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Mortan Joe

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Midwestern Bluesky user is enough to give a pretty clear picture of me. He/him

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Mortan Joe @chimpana.bsky.social · 14h
Good to see the Monster House cast back together
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Update on this: ICE took down these reviews, which they initially posted. The site where they were now just says "not found." But @prospect.org downloaded the files when they were first available, and you can read them at our story.
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Mortan Joe @chimpana.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Doom backward is mood. Needle drop with this track incoming youtu.be/KVJAxGhXzLg?...
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Mood 4 Luv
YouTube video by Reggie And The Full Effect - Topic
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Why do we keep talking about this and the bunker (disguised as a "ballroom") like it's some funny excess and not actions being taken by the same president who has already used violence to hold onto power before
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Sam Antics @dsoart.com · 18/09/2026
I am cutting it close this month if you’d like to help or share ko-fi.com/K3K6AVVJ/goa...
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Become a supporter of Sam today!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
promise kept
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Mortan Joe @chimpana.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Speaker Barch Barley doing what he does
Tim Robinson as Barch Barley on ITYSL saying “On my show, nothing’s off limits. Fighting’s a lost art. But if I smell blood, I go in for the kill. And if you start to win, I go on my phone.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.
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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The thing triangulating Democrats seem unable or unwilling to internalize is that the right wing thinks people who espouse liberal and leftist views are full of shit. Walking those views back, from their perspective, doesn't win their support but rather confirms their priors.
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Would be really nice if reporters asked Trump why he isn't giving everyone $5k now, when he has full control of Congress, instead of uncritically repeating his lie about giving everyone $5k if the republicans retain control of Congress in 2027.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If only the media had as much interest in the world's richest person, the primary funder of the Republican Party, who spoke at Trump's Inauguration and gave a Sieg Heil, once again declaring his belief "white solidarity is the only way to survive" as they do some Twitch streamer.
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phylan @phylan.website · 08/09/2026
"my LLM is so powerful it's dangerous and risks breaking containment!" "ok let's destroy it" "oh, haha, no. no." "let's intensively regulate your company then" "oh, no. no. look can you just put it in the newspaper that it's powerful"
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
The value of Graham Platner is that right up until all his red flags came toppling down upon him is that he is the most naked example of the amount of grace & credibility Simply Being White grants you. Compared to Abdul El-Sayed, who has to re-earn every ounce of credibility he has on a daily basis.
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A 20-year-old undergrad at Wright State - he easily could have been a student in the class that I just taught. A class, as it happens, where we discussed the history of Haiti and how countries like the U.S. and France have inflicted structural violence on it for literally *centuries*
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Pastor Carl Ruby, of Springfield's Central Christian Church, can state the issue more clearly than 98% of people working in politics today.
"I wish President Trump could hear the mom's wails. The

family wants people to know that this was a suicide and they

want people to know that President Trump, (Stephen) Miller, and Markwayne Mullin's inhumane immigration policies made this happen," Ruby wrote.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Fun fact — and reminder: For all their focus on “officer safety” and arguments about aggressive tactics being necessary, no ICE officer has ever been killed in the line of duty. It is more deadly in the US to be an elementary school student than an ICE officer.
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...
local12.com
Police request public's help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in Walmart
A police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart.
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is the crux of it. You do not argue that this should be permitted unless you think there's *something* valuable in it. These people don't advocate for hiring young earth creationists into a paleo departments! They don't argue for the hiring of alchemists into chemistry labs!
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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Tweet from Josh Denny
@JoshDenny
I’ll be 43 in a week. I’ve been mostly single for the past 18 months, and I’m just now realizing that my intelligence has ALWAYS been THE biggest issue in my relationships.

Not getting old, or fat; Not having professional failures. 

Look at dating site blurbs. No woman EVER lists high IQ or intelligence in their “wants” section.

Women actually DESPISE men of high intelligence.

It is their single greatest insecurity.Tweet from Josh Denny @joshdenny
Just emailed @chipotletweets. Thanks for ruining our day. Burrito bowl in the bag sideways=ruined $400 jeans.
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is so #Inspirational #RobotDeath
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
ICE and CBP are full of rapists and child predators. A new report details it in horrific detail.
forever-wars.com
The Sex Criminals and Child Abusers of ICE and CBP
Rape. Domestic violence. Epstein friendship. It's all tolerated by our valiant homeland-security apparatus. PLUS: COINTELPRO 2026
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
404media.co
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
How fucking convenient it is that they get to fear for their lives anytime they want to absolve themselves of anything they might do and yet when we actually fear for our own lives because of them and do anything a scared person would reasonably do it's used as a justification for our killing.
She also wrote poems 
Every single day is like the parable of the man on the deserted island refusing to be saved by boat or by helicopter because he's waiting for God's help to arrive but instead it's about any Democrat with a backbone and an iota of charisma refusing to take the opportunity to become the next president by simply describing reality as it is. 


What a small ask that is right? I'm not even talking about The Truth – although that would be nice – but merely the truth. And how grateful we would be for the pittance. To have someone in a position of power accurately observe and then accurately explain what has happened and why it is wrong. What has long been wrong. Hell I'd settle for a news outlet capable of and willing to do that. 


One of those corrupted things is the longstanding double standard applied to cops of any kind in this country. How fucking convenient it is that they get to fear for their lives anytime they want to absolve themselves of anything they might do and yet when we actually fear for our own lives specifically because of them and do anything a scared person would reasonably do it's used as a justification for our killing. 


And now schools are closed throughout Minneapolis for the rest of the week. To protect the children from the government.


There is a category of people in this country that are supposed to be composed in high stress situations. They train for them in fact and get paid well and are given very broad leeway on how they react. Still they shit their pants constantly and cry about how scared they are all the time. And we're supposed to venerate them as our sainted warrior class. 


Don't you drive a little tightly and perhaps poorly when there's just a normal cop standing there as you go by? Tense up. 


Imagine a bunch of them with guns pointed at you. You would of course not be calm and collected. Or maybe you would. Perhaps you would smile and tell them you are not even mad at what they’ve done. What they’re ab…
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Mortan Joe @chimpana.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Having trouble watching Barb and Star because I keep seeing Javier Milei in Kristen Wiig
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 02/08/2026
New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
wapo.st
She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
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Mortan Joe @chimpana.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
We’re at peak white boy summer
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Imagine if New Yorkers wore top hats as political costumes. We'd make merciless fun of them. Texans do it all the time though.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.
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Bangor Daily News @bangordailynews.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
He reportedly called his ex-wife to ask her to "lie for him" and to "cover for his character."
bangordailynews.com
Ex-wife ID’s ICE agent who fatally shot man in Biddeford
David Brouillette has been identified as the ICE agent who killed 25-year-old Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero in Biddeford.
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Mortan Joe @chimpana.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
They should start adding this fact about Chris D’Elia even if the person doesn’t have the same last name. Can’t be too safe with that association.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Yep [as Linda knows] this is also a common response when someone accused of misconduct or abuse: "He was nice to me/I never saw it." Right so [Chidi voice] you get how that makes it worse??! This person KNEW how to be good, thoughtful etc & chose not to act that way in situations where it mattered!
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The sort of thing that happens when people elect leaders who actively hate the country and its people
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This weekend is the one-year anniversary of the release of my newest comedy special Positive Reinforcement! I'm really proud of it, and I'd really appreciate if you'd consider checking it out and/or sharing it with a friend! Thanks! :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAvN...
youtube.com
Josh Gondelman - Positive Reinforcement [2025] | FULL COMEDY SPECIAL
YouTube video by Blonde Medicine
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Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
An interesting thread from a month ago that predicted exactly what we’re seeing in the reflecting pool now (peeling up, prolific microbial activity)
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If he were a Columbia student and said this his citizenship would be revoked
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Mortan Joe @chimpana.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
If this ends up being real, it will only be because they promised Trump a ceremony. There’s nothing that needy bitch likes more than some pageantry.
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Mortan Joe @chimpana.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Knew Spider Noir would have to be good when Cage was talking about it like this
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Mortan Joe @chimpana.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Good things like Jack like cubed things like Phranque
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Mortan Joe @chimpana.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Idk, I think “shit actually looks even worse the more we pull back on support networks” might not be a great endorsement of our economy.
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Mortan Joe @chimpana.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Obvious choice youtu.be/1tYvGfF1Gkg?...
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Yellow River Boys "Hot Piss"
YouTube video by Tim Heidecker
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 26/05/2026
People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The whole dumb conversation about "woke" was a precursor to this absolutely sinister anti black institutionalized racism and so many people gave that segregationist logic credibility.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Some of the identified individuals the US killed in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific showed "no indication of involvement with drug trafficking." And even if they were traffickers, they'd be low level. Killing them would make virtually no impact on the cartels or drug trafficking into the US.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Child protective services ripped a 14-year-old from her home to stop her from leaving the state for an abortion. They also threatened her mother with murder charges and the removal of her other child if they crossed state lines for care. So please don't tell me Republicans aren't banning travel.
jessica.substack.com
Exclusive: She Helped Plan Her Teen's Abortion, So CPS Took Her Daughter Away
Child protective services is being used as an anti-abortion weapon in banned and pro-choice states
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