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Brad T. Jonas @bradtjonas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
sure is monday again
p1: “Hey how’s it goin, Tom?” Tom is asked.

p2: *dramatic intake of breath*

p3: *exasperated SIIIIIIGH*

p4: “Can’t complain, how ‘bout you?” Tom asks.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
DAVE MATTHEWS: “I said it last night, but I’ll say it again - man, I’m so tired of this fuckin’ President.”
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Look at the community notes on this one. 👇
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Rightwing TV and Radio love to harp about the perils of life in Seattle. It's actually one of the safest big cities in the country.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Ossoff: "Georgia deserves so much better than Mike Collins. And America deserves better than Donald Trump."
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/09/2026
We are opening 51 safe overnight locations for New Yorkers, especially those living in basement apartments or low-lying areas who need a safe place to stay. Locations are listed at on.nyc.gov/SafeLocations and are also available by calling 311. Service animals and pets are welcome.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time
a picture from the NY Post titled "	today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century guillotine-loving revolutionaries" (way too long) that shows Mamdani (the specter haunting Europe) smiling in the sky as a bunch of French people goof around
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julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 07/09/2026
the most realistic part of the metal gear saga is the military industrial complex's dogged, decades-long dedication to developing and testing a weapon that has never, ever, ever won a fight
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Valkyrie Thunderbitch @valkyrieladyk.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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Rachel Bean, still sick but less @colocharachel.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It’s looking like I’m gonna need financial support to get through June and July. 🫠😩🙃😔 If you’re able to chip in or share to help my partner and I stay afloat while searching for new employment or some kind of money tree: V: colocha_rachel $: ColochaRachel Zelle/paypal via DM
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Ken Paxton was indicted for scamming his own friends. He convinced them to invest hundreds of thousands in a company while secretly pocketing a commission. Paxton sold out his own friends for a quick buck. What makes you think he won't sell you out in the Senate?
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Pretty sure I’ve seen this X-files episode
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Mysterious 'ship goo' contains new life forms
No one quite knows how the tar-like substance got on a Great Lakes research vessel.
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Downtym @downtym.com · 19/04/2026
A picture of "Mooby, the Golden Calf" from the movie "Dogma".
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Lum @brokentoys.social · 19/04/2026
This is a prescription for fascism espoused by one of the country's leading defense contractors.

Palantir
@PalantirTech

Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.

7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.

8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.

9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.

10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.
11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.

13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.

14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.

15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.

17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.

18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.

19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.

20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation…
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Tech workers: Remember “psychological safety”? Tech CEOs:
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Downtym @downtym.com · 19/04/2026
This reads like someone spent the weekend in their bedroom procrastinating on r/politics instead of writing their A.P. Government final.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
huh, makes the whole 25 year period when the Shah was our top ally kind of awkward
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 08/03/2026
Wouldn't even have to leave town
Frasier's luxurious condo on the Counterbalance, Queen Anne Hill, Seattle.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/03/2026
TAPPER: You know that if you vote against an additional $50 billion of funding for operations in Iran, that vote will be cast as you voting against the troops. CHRIS MURPHY: Come on. The American people do not want this war. If you support the troops, you should be voting against this war.
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Hawkeye8 @hawkeye8.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
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Downtym @downtym.com · 25/02/2026
I'm reminded of 2017 to 2021, every week someone would say "Tonight he became presidential!" It was a running gag among my friends that when Trump did anything we'd go "After years of being president, he's finally become president!" It was the most demeaning insult that I could imagine.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/02/2026
American not only becoming a cult of personality but becoming the dumbest cult of personality in the history of the human species is a lot to process
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 19/02/2026
JESUS, I SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE FOR OTHER PEOPLE, AND I WANT THAT FOR ME.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british
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TJ resists! Bluestormcoming! @tjjohnson.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
5’th Amendment: “No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process.” It doesn’t say anything about citizenship status, party affiliation, religion or race. Just “person.”
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Downtym @downtym.com · 18/02/2026
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Downtym @downtym.com · 17/02/2026
Early 2000s gaming had no politics? My darlings, Deus Ex was released in 2000.
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TJ resists! Bluestormcoming! @tjjohnson.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The epstein files might take down two monarchies yet congress, the DOJ and the elites continue to cover up and protect the abusers in the US.
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Thad Luckenbill @thadluckenbill.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
How come a sitting president can sue an individual, but an individual cannot sue a sitting president?
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
It isn't an empty gesture, it may not do anything now, but it's a signal to history, and to the world and to ourselves, that this is not ok.
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Downtym @downtym.com · 11/02/2026
Pam Bondi would apparently sacrifice her child for the markets to go up 1%.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Brawndo’s got what plants crave.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/02/2026
So if I have this straight, the airspace around El Paso got shut down for ten days because the military got spooked and fired up the Annihilator Ray 3000 and it was a party balloon
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 07/02/2026
“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”
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Renee Good's partner addresses Minneapolis immigration crackdown one month after killing
Becca Good has seldom spoken out since Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
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Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade
The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.
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Downtym @downtym.com · 03/02/2026
I know for a fact that Mike Johnson is in the United States of America illegally and therefore, by his own logic, be immediately arrested and deported without a trial.
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.
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Sansa Sandisk @cheatlines.co · 01/02/2026
Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent
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Downtym @downtym.com · 02/02/2026
This is who runs this account
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Downtym @downtym.com · 01/02/2026
Seen here: Stephen Miller implying that the American Dream is bad, actually.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I approve this message.
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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
If all these oligarchs named in the Epstein Files are totally innocent, surely they’d be in favor of an independent investigation into Epstein’s crimes. Right?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Crazy how Trump's lawyers have never seen anything Trump has ever said or done.
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Bailey Wolfe, Voice Actor and Lactase Apostle @bbwolfevox.com · 25/01/2026
We all burned to death in 2020 and the feds have sent ICE to kidnap our ghosts.
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