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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12h

Trump voters are looking my way because I'm not bought off. I want money out of politics, money in your pocket, and Medicare for All.

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 12h

Ossoff and El-Sayed took different tacks tonight vs their opponents—El-Sayed was more of a subtext of “you dumb fucking racist jackass” while Ossoff’s was more “if you fell down at a gas station I’d toss a lit match on you”—and I don’t think either of those is a bad choice tbh

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Altogether Ooky Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 8h

Goddamn, two in one evening! no problems ever in peliccan mouth because good Shape and Support for baby neck weak of big baby head. How is babby formed?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19h

This new Sherrod Brown ad debunks a anti trans ad while tying the Republican senate candidate to Jeffrey Epstein. THIS is how you fight back against anti trans ads.

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Altogether Ooky Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 10h

Kid Zoom just told me about one internet tradition I was not previously aware of: "Spiders Georg." Look it up yourself. Yay. I'm living out XKCD 1053 today! Also hooray for Susan Hoover, who described/transcribed the cartoon here, as copypasted into the alt text. uh-ir.tdl.org/server/api/c...

The title is Ten Thousand. The comic has two panels.
The left panel says: I try not to make fun of people for admitting they don't know
things. Because for each thing "everyone knows" by the time they're adults, every
day there are, on average, 10,000 people in the US hearing about it for the first time.
Fraction who have heard of it at birth = 0%. Fraction who have heard of it by 30
approx = 100%. US birth rate is approximately 4 million per year. Number hearing
about it for the first time is approximately 10,000 per day.
The right panel has two stick figures. A box at the top of the panel says: If I make fun
of people, I train them not to tell me when they have those moments. And I miss out
on the fun.
Stick figure 1 says: Diet Coke and Mentos thing? What's that?
Stick figure 2 says: Oh man! Come on, we're going to the grocery store.
Figure 1 says: Why?
Figure 2 says: You're one of today's lucky 10,000.

The hover text says: Saying 'what kind of an idiot doesn't know about the Yellowstone supervolcano' is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time.
The gist is, if we scoff at people for not knowing X or not using Y, not only is that
unkind, but you lose out on the fun of teaching someone something new and fun and
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useful.
Ironically, when I described the interactions I had observed, and their relationship to
this comic to a couple of people yesterday, neither one of them was familiar with this
particular episode, so they were two of yesterday's lucky 10,000, who now get to find
other people to introduce to the concept of supportive enlightenment. And now that
you have all been introduced or reintroduced to this comic, you have the opportunity
to spread it forward.

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Altogether Ooky Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 16h

I'm not sure about this draft headline for the story I'm doing on the Senate race in South Carolina. "Frightened By Annie Andrews, Republicans Expel Own Digestive Tracts, Like Sea Cucumbers Wearing Red Ties."

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Altogether Ooky Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 16h

As I 'splainer further here, the Medicare bribes are coming from a mostly-unused fund for "improvements" that Team Trump noticed was just sitting there. The $90 payments will wipe out the fund, too. www.wonkette.com/p/donald-tru...

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Donald Trump’s Midterm Scam: Pathetically Measly Healthcare Bribes For Some, Miniature American Flags For Others

You know it’s a great idea when an American Enterprise Institute dude calls it ‘inexplicable.’

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Altogether Ooky Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 16h

Well sure the bribes are corrupt, probably illegal, and won't offset higher costs Trump caused. They won't help Republicans in the midterms, either. Donald Trump’s Midterm Scam: Pathetically Measly Healthcare Bribes For Some, Miniature American Flags For Others www.wonkette.com/p/donald-tru...

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Donald Trump’s Midterm Scam: Pathetically Measly Healthcare Bribes For Some, Miniature American Flags For Others

You know it’s a great idea when an American Enterprise Institute dude calls it ‘inexplicable.’

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

Whoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.

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Trump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article)

Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary.

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Them @them.us · 21h

Basic fact-checking reveals the ad has nothing to do with the state of Ohio or Democratic Senate candidate Sherrod Brown.

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A Detransitioner Stars in a New GOP Ad. Surprise! It’s Full of Lies

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19h

NEW: We knew in April that DOJ was investigating Hutchinson. Now NBC reports they are seeking a grand jury indictment for lying to Congress. The thing is, she didn't lie to Congress. She testified truthfully about what someone else told her. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

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Justice Department seeks criminal charge for former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson

The former Trump aide was a star witness before the Jan. 6 committee. The case is being pursued by the Civil Rights Division, led by Harmeet Dhillon.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is the thing. If AI is supposed to save you time for the things that Really Matter, and reading a book to your baby is not something that Really Matters, then what are you doing? These guys really just want AI to live their lives while they grind Kalshi and Polymarket all day every day.

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Altogether Ooky Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Trump’s political career is the apotheosis of politics as a kind of tent revival, complete with fake faith healing, portents of apocalypse, and promises of divine wrath for the unsaved. How The 1980s Televangegrifts Prepared The Way For Donald Trump www.wonkette.com/p/how-the-19...

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How The 1980s Televangegrifts Prepared The Way For Donald Trump

We’d call them Baptist Johns, but they were mostly Pentecostals.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I wanted to flick at two things in particular in here 1) the growing fear among Ohio gop and Trumpland elites that a “Bradley effect” among voters, particularly the GOP’s own voters, could help sink Vivek’s Ohio guv run (it’s Ohio so it’s hard to believe but recent polling shows him trailing Acton…

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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's finally publication day for this decade-in-the-making book. @noamlupu.bsky.social and I explain why working-class jobs make up 70% of the average democracy's labor force, but only 2% of the average democracy's national lawmakers had working-class jobs when they got into politics.

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Altogether Ooky Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This, kids, is why Archie & Edith Bunker singing "Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again" was perfect shorthand for how out-of-touch Archie's politics were in 1971. Playful reminder that fascism invokes nostalgia for an idealized but imaginary past. (Gee our old LaSalle ran great!)

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

Usually, we think of whistleblowers as the good guys. Esp when they’re blowing the whistle on people like Ka$h. Key word here: usually. @lizdye.bsky.social once again shows amazing patience to sort through another clown car pileup: www.lawandchaospod.com/p/kash-patel... (h/t in comments)

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Kash Patel Fires ‘Whistleblower’ For MAGA Pod Hits, Gets Sued

The girls are fighting!

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Altogether Ooky Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I ended up going with the bucket because I'd already decided on the headline, and thanks to all you smartasses for your comments! Rapey Televangelist Jim Bakker Kicks The Dehydrated Food Bucket www.wonkette.com/p/rapey-tele...

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Rapey Televangelist Jim Bakker Kicks The Dehydrated Food Bucket

Status upgrade: ‘Wait, that fucker's still alive?’ now ‘Wait, that fucker was still alive?’

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Kat4Obama @kat4obama.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Jessica, by helping the shepherd, you’re helping the sheep.” 🤢

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Altogether Ooky Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I love finding goofy stuff like this. Yesterday evening the Boise community radio station (Radio Boise, you need to be on Bluesky!) played the Hot 8 Brass Band's delightful cover of "Sexual Healing," which I'd never heard before. youtu.be/ZsDUXo5TcZY

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Hot 8 Brass Band - 'Sexual Healing (Official Video)' [Marvin Gaye Cover]

YouTube video by Tru Thoughts Records

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Altogether Ooky Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Attention media outlets: Jessica Hahn was raped by Jim Bakker. (Add "allegedly" to calm the lawyers). It wasn't an "affair," a "sexual encounter," a "dalliance," or any other synonym for consensual sex Rapey Televangelist Jim Bakker Kicks The Dehydrated Food Bucket www.wonkette.com/p/rapey-tele...

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Rapey Televangelist Jim Bakker Kicks The Dehydrated Food Bucket

Status upgrade: ‘Wait, that fucker's still alive?’ now ‘Wait, that fucker was still alive?’

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Altogether Ooky Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hey, if they're solar w/ batteries (and *if* they work) that's at least useful. Overpriced, but useful.

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Altogether Ooky Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Reader feedback needed: for my Jim Bakker obit, should I use the giant food bucket photo or the blue colloidal silver photoshoop? Time for A / B testing:

screenshot of Jim Bakker holding up a huge plastic bucket of dehydrated rapture rations

screenshot of Jim Bakker hawking silver supplements; his face and visible hand are digitally tinted blue

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Altogether Ooky Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also good enough to steal: Jim Bakker has kicked the dehydrated food bucket." There's my hed

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Altogether Ooky Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jim Bakker's internet nickname has been updated from "Wait, that guy's still alive?" to "Wait, that guy was still alive?"

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Altogether Ooky Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

LOLOL you should defininitely follow Brooke Teegarden @letsnotdate.bsky.social and read her substack, which I followed because of something she wrote about history ... I think. Or maybe I saw the brilliant twitter trolling first. brooketeegarden.substack.com/p/odes-to-de...

Stranger in a DM to Brooke, who he thinks is 18: Do you have experience with men my age?
Brooke: Yes, I've been to a funeral before

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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you are dumb enough to vote Republican because you think Donald Trump is going to give you $5000 you were already dumb enough to vote Republican.

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Altogether Ooky Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Wow, this article makes terrific points to rebut the notion that there's supposedly no energy transition, since clean energy merely "adds to" growing fossil fuel production. But without new wind & solar, we'd have around 30% higher CO2 emissions annually. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/what-if-th...

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What if the world hadn't built wind and solar?

Clean energy does not simply “add to” global energy use; it displaces fossil sources that would otherwise get built.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The thing I've been mulling: for every horrifying sexual assault story you hear, there are 100 stories that don't quite reach the level of "report this to the police immediately" but still are traumatic, still have long, long effects. 1/

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026

WE GOT THEM! SNOWY EGRETS IN FRONT OF THE FULL MOON! 🪶

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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

She’s here! We just welcomed our beautiful baby girl and words can’t describe how blessed my family feels. Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I’m beyond grateful. Thank you, everyone, for your love and support. It means the world 💕💕

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Altogether Ooky Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

At Wonkette, we're always ready to take a run at whatever hopey-changey football gets held out for us to kick, and that accounts for *most* of the bruises on our butts. Holy Ducking Shartballs, Competitive Races In Idaho And Florida Too? www.wonkette.com/p/holy-ducki...

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Holy Ducking Shartballs, Competitive Races In Idaho And Florida Too?

Trump’s so awful that EVERYBODY is sick of Republicans. Including some Republicans!

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Altogether Ooky Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When I was 11 an article in Scouting's "Boys Life" explained how body structure is related to size & weight & stuff, illustrating that a lobster the size of a multistory building (in reality, not a monster movie) would just go splat. Physics requires your "giant lobster" to be built like a T-rex

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Altogether Ooky Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Have you seen that Sherrod Brown ad where voters see John Husted saying people in poverty are “not very experienced at navigating the real world," and one woman says "fuck THAT!" Class war is awesome! Wonkette Political Report Shifts Three Senate Races To HENGGHHH? www.wonkette.com/p/wonkette-p...

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Wonkette Political Report Shifts Three Senate Races To HENGGHHH?

We accept.

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Altogether Ooky Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dan Osborn's doing well enough in Nebraska that Donald Trump will go there next week for a rally to support Pete Ricketts. Trump may even remember his name (not guaranteed). Wonkette Political Report Shifts Three Senate Races To HENGGHHH? www.wonkette.com/p/wonkette-p...

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Wonkette Political Report Shifts Three Senate Races To HENGGHHH?

We accept.

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Scare Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FATALITY

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Altogether Ooky Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here's an answer no other AI chatbot will give you:

Question: Did slavery cause the Civil War?

Answer:

I do not give historical or political commentary. For official records of the Civil War, use the National Archives and the Library of Congress.

National Archives: Civil War
Library of Congress: Civil War

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault

Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.

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