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Frances: Meh and Loving It @francesmeh.reviews · 40m
daryl hannah do gymnast stuff to me boxd.it/gCFtgJ
letterboxd review for Blade Runner (1982)

catching a white dove so it can fly out of your limpened hands at the exact moment of your death is extreme diva shit and i respect it so much
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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 26m
Oct. 4, 1926: An encounter between former Boston Mayor James Curley and editor Frederick Enwright ends with Curley's fist sending the journalist to the sidewalk. Enwright retaliates by running a cartoon in his paper, the Telegram, of his rival in prison stripes with a caption: "Curley the Thug."
Springfield, Mass., RepublicanCurleyEnwright
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calizaybak.bsky.social @calizaybak.bsky.social · 25m
If I can beat someone up I am right about whatever I think I am right about I think sums up the fascist mentality quite well and explains why whenever they get into power everything gets horrifically worse. Every time. It's weird they don't notice it but then again they can't see past themselves.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1h
With Musk tweeting autism supremacy stuff again today, good time to read @juliametraux.bsky.social’s piece on the subject www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The 4chan-coded ideology behind Elon Musk's war on normies
Musk thinks autism makes him superhuman. Just don't call it that.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1h
See his latest exchange on the subject today
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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 25m
Anakin/Padme meme -- Anakin is quoting Hegseth's "Send me to fight the redcoats, send me to fight the communists" (America's antagonists in the Revolutionary and Cold Wars, respectively).  Padme is asking, "And the Nazis and the Confederates, right?" (America's antagonists of WWII and the Civil War.)  Anakin/Hegseth is not answering.
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If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This month's bonus episode is about how climate change is fake but the hosts' body horror is real.
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Conspiracies of Yore: Climategate | If Books Could Kill
Michael and Peter discuss Climategate, the scandal that rocked the climate science world. With scientists on one side, and paid lackeys for
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 3h
I appreciate the attempt to build bridges here but: 1) there's not a single thing stopping Republican voters from asking genuine, curious questions from the other side of the river; and 2) this genuinely underestimates how deranged and nasty baseline MAGA discourse has become. I don't need that.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25m
My man looks like a beluga whale pitching Bitcoin
Elon Musk, douchy and doughy and pale
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 2h
British banker who exposed Howard Lutnick's ties to Epstein has died, allegedly from suicide.
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How US commerce secretary's Epstein links were uncovered by British whistleblower
Simon Andriesz made the discovery about Howard Lutnick in publicly released Epstein files.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h
Slander is spoken; libel is written. But this isn't either of those. It's detailed reporting from a respected outlet with damning evidence. And "most consequential Commerce Secretary in modern history" is as impressive as "shortest NBA player from Luxembourg"
Speaking on behalf of Lutnick, the White House said: "The BBC's pathetic and desperate attempt to slander Secretary Lutnick will do nothing to change the fact that he has been the most consequential Commerce Secretary in modern history."
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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 1h
This clip from @majorityreport.bsky.social on Trumpers captures exactly the same spirit of these assholes 20 years ago screaming everything Obama did was "UNCONSTUSHULL": by "Constitution" they never meant the Constitution, just some imaginary conservative code. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtL5...
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MAGA 'Constitutionalist' HUMILIATED By The Constitution
YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚 @bluesnowflake.bsky.social · 1h
A lot of words for saying “I have a small dick & can’t get laid”
Cyber truck w Charlie Kirk’s face and white lettering that says white ppl support Charlie Kirk
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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 3h
I tell you my own experience: I have literally *never* had somebody on the right wing try to have any friendly exploration of my left-liberal views in order to better understand me. Never. Not once. I have only *ever* had 'how can you possibly believe this' angry challenges.
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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 1h
I agree with this as analysis of how to increase effective potential outreach (assuming that's a goal versus anthropological/ethnographic research). I do think it's worth being clear that this is *entirely* something assumed to be going from the lefter-->righter direction, and *never* vice versa.
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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 1h
People these days are largely ignorant of the historic organizing power of things like newsletters, radio shows, and camp meetings, and later VHS videos & DVDs. Sure some doofy typed newsletter seems antique & harmless compared to a slick video but they worked! issi.berkeley.edu/centers/crws...
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CRWS Archives and Resources | Institute for the Study of Societal Issues
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 1h
Yup exactly. The whole Left Behind series was a HUGE pop culture phenomenon that 1) did not require the internet, 2) really helped spread & normalize apocalyptic thinking, & 3) was more or less invisible to secular people. Because they simply did not read those books. bsky.app/profile/bens...
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 1h
Ok we're continuing to miss the point in the replies here? It did not ACCELERATE cranks finding each other. They were already doing that just fine. It made the cranks VISIBLE TO POLITE SOCIETY.
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 2h
is the pope catholic
this is an honest question. are there any lefty catholics? I think this kind of thing may actually come up, if there were any catholics in leftist spaces to begin with. v conservative and/or regressive religious bents are incompatible with social justice to some degree, as with the examples you give
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1h
googling "history of Catholicism in Latin America" a i take a big sip of water
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1h
very funny that a clown like hassett thinks powell should give a shit what hassett thinks
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1h
my best friend worked at University of Mississippi at the time when nearly the entire faculty and student body was demanding the Confederate statue at the entrance be taken down but it wasn’t, because apparently the answer to Mike’s question is “a handful of very rich football families”
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2h
That this is *not* the trust that has been broken astounds me. I gave feedback earlier this year on some restoring trust projects. I mentioned Cornell's president hitting a student and alum with apparently little regret as the type of damage these projects need to care about. Elite impunity matters.
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 1h
Also shocking how quickly everyone moved on from this: www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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Weill Cornell Settles Sexual Abuse Claims for Over $1 Billion, Announces $30 Million Patient Safety Initiatives
Weill Cornell Medicine will pay over $1 billion to settle civil claims brought by patients sexually abused by former assistant professor and urologist Dr. Darius Paduch. The agreement will also establ...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h
Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.
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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'
J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 16/09/2026
ANGIE NIXON DID NOT COME TO PLAY. LETS GOOOOO! Click below and donate to her campaign for us senate❤️✊🏽 secure.actblue.com/donate/frien...
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h
It’s really fucked up we told generations of kids they had to take out personal loans in order to improve their lives as we cut funding to schools and when that turned out to be bullshit the general consensus has been “fuck those kids”
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1h
Yglesias has lost his mind. This is not "progressive economic thinking," this is what you see on Twitter. substack.com/@matthewygle...
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 1h
TMZ says this 24-year-old is Trump's new press secretary. She reposted the story on Facebook, so I guess that's confirming it? This is a photo she posed for previously. Trump's malevolence and corruption are clearly more important. But the coarsening of the presidency makes me sick.
A young woman in a Christmas photo holding some kind of gigantic gun and wearing a T-shirt that says "fuck Joe Biden"
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 6h
Whether it’s Obama saying “yes we can” or Donald Trump say “we’re gonna shove it up their ass” both presidents adopted divisive slogans.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 4h
One can only assume Pete removed the laurel and the olive branch to intentionally look more fascist.
Congress established the War Department at the cabinet level, Aug. 7, 1789. In 1947, the Navy and War departments and the newly independent Air Force merged to become the National Military Establishment. Two years later, in 1949, the name was changed to Department of Defense and then-Defense Secretary Louis Johnson authorized the first design and use of a seal for the department. The seal was updated in September 2025 to reflect the use of a secondary title, Department of War, as directed in Executive Order 14347.

The design of the original seal and its symbolism is described in Appendix VI Joint Army and Air Force Bulletin No. 23:

"An American eagle is displayed facing to the right. Wings are horizontal. The eagle grasps three crossed arrows and bears on its breast a shield whose lower two-thirds carries alternating white and red stripes and whose upper third is blue. Above the eagle is an arc of thirteen stars with alternating rays. Below the eagle is a wreath of laurel extending to the eagle's right and wreath of olive extending to the eagle's left. On an encircling band is the inscription 'Department of Defense' and 'United States of America.'

The American bald eagle, long associated with symbolism representing the United States of America and its military establishment, has been selected as an emblem of strength. In facing to the right, the field of honor is indicated. The eagle is defending the United States, represented by the Shield of thirteen pieces. The thirteen pieces are joined together by the blue chief, representing the Congress. The rays and stars above the eagle signify glory, while the three arrows are collectively symbolic of the three component parts of the Department of War. The laurel stands for honors received in combat defending the peace represented by the olive branch.

When the seal is displayed in color, the background is to be of medium blue with the eagle and wreath in natural colors and the arrows, stars, and rays of gold.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Why is MAGA suddenly enthusiastic about rewriting the history of Watergate? They want to make post-Watergate anti-corruption reform laws go away. If Nixon was never corrupt, those laws were never needed, and Trump and his cronies shouldn't have to abide by them. They are planning ahead.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 22h
Watch Tucker Carlson get a quick economics lesson after claiming Russia’s economy is bigger than Britain’s.
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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 8h
OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 3h
I like it!!
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 3h
I can think of no better illustration of this point that "holistic influencer" gulping from a ceramic vat with a radioactive glaze because the Rothschilds supposedly tried to take them away from us.
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Alternative Health Influencer Boasts That He's Been Drinking From a Radioactive Jug for 250 Days Straight
Holistic influencer Matt Roeske recently bragged that he's been drinking from an irradiated jug for the better part of a year.
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That Old Broadbean @thatoldbear.bsky.social · 12h
a black cat stares down a large inflatable halloween black cat lawn decoration. in the second image, the inflatable is deflated and the black cat sits astride its goofy looking floppy head
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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 3h
In the same way that the New York Times hired Bari Weiss *because* of her background as a rotten bigot persecuting Muslim and pro-Palestinian academics while in college, they made Chris Rufo their uncredited coverage boss on CRT and anti-transgender issues, b/c they like him & what he was doing.
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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 2h
The NYT, Atlantic, etc., know exactly who these people are and what they are doing, so when they choose to constantly boost them and follow their agenda, it's because the owners & management & several of the star employees _agree_ with them and like it.
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 2h
Very few people know this, but there is another way to get the water out of rhat jug. futurism.com/future-socie...
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Alternative Health Influencer Boasts That He's Been Drinking From a Radioactive Jug for 250 Days Straight
Holistic influencer Matt Roeske recently bragged that he's been drinking from an irradiated jug for the better part of a year.
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Canuckstan 🇨🇦 @jonchevreau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#via Canadian cartoonist Dave Whamond #CanadaSky #USpol
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 2h
Christopher Rufo is single handedly the reason most white people who never went to law school know that they hate Critical Race Theory even if they'll never be able to define it
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 3h
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h
He systematically targeted Black scholars, offering bounties for evidence of plagiarism. He's make the accusation, regardless of the evidence. In one esp bad case, I wrote a rebuttal and Rufo personally went after every faculty member who (rightly) disagreed. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/open-seaso...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h
Impossible to understand how anyone could look at Rufo's career and conclude he was someone engaged in a "forthright defense of meritocracy." Rufo's entire career is built on the idea of purging people who don't think or look like him from positions of power.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h
Is there a gas leak at @theatlantic.com? Can someone check to be sure Adam Serwer at least is OK?
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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 3h
This is just nuts. "Microreactors may eventually end up on the moon, but none are proven and ready. Fundamental safety questions--how to get rid of heat, how to shield the reactor, how to maintain the structural integrity--have not been fully resolved for space reactors...."
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Superpowers Race to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon (Gift Article)
The United States wants a reactor on the moon by 2030. A Russian-Chinese alliance is working on one for 2036. Some leading scientists say the danger is great.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 2h
Just learned that one of the Cornell 7 is now a COP. This country, man.
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 2h
Who knew that deportation requires a plane with marble showers and a table topped with manta ray skin? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left (Gift Article)
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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