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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Schumer doing us a favor here. Making it crystal clear he will not help us. We ignore or rationalize his message at our peril. He, Jeffries et al must be swept aside on the path to power. Thanks for absolutely nothing Chuck.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

It's time to state clearly that if MAGA and Republicans can't condemn any part of this shooting, continue to blame the victim for it, and even hint that it's a just outcome that others "deserve," that's a crossing of the line that the rest of us won't ever be able to forget.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/12/2025

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

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Jason @heffaloompa.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Damn, I was hoping to hear how to disable it too.

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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Does anyone else remember a couple of months ago when a Republican terrorist shot four people killing two of them in an effort to give control of the Minnesota legislature to Republicans?

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Marielza @marielza.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." ❤️🔥

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Anthony Breznican @brezwrites.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before? That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators. My how times change ...

A 1940 newspaper clip from the Springfield Leader and Press, declaring: Superman Poisoning American Children, Irate Nazis cClaim."

"Superman Arouses Teutonic Anger" reads the headline in the Amarillo Daily News"

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Jason @heffaloompa.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I can totally picture Ian McShane snarling that line in Deadwood. I’m stealing it.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/06/2025

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 17/06/2025

When Black people told you that it is a normal occurrence for police to lie about protest and assaulting officers now you see ... the test run for the justification of authoritarianism always begins in communities of color

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

The man who tried to assassinate Trump was a gun-loving Trump supporter who later turned on him. Right-wing media blamed Democrats, because of course. The alleged Minnesota shooter is an anti-abortion Christian nationalist w/ a list with other Dems as targets. They're still blaming liberals.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Dear god let this man cook.

Pritzker: It’s time for us to be done with optimism about their motives. Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research… Autistic kids and adults who are loving contributors to our society don’t deserve to be stigmatized by a weird nepo baby who once stashed a dead bear in his car. Our military service members don’t deserve to be told by a washed-up Fox TV commentator, who drank too much before being appointed Secretary of Defense, that they can’t serve their country simply because they are Black, gay, or a woman.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

This is, unsarcastically, unironically, exactly what Democrats need to be doing: the entire “we need a strong Republican Party,“ “we have to work together” shit needs to end. They need to say with their whole chest: Republicans are evil, stupid people, and need to stop having power. That’s it.

Congressman Marc Pocan: “I work with idiots.”

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 17/04/2025

This should be the easiest boycott ever and if you can’t even satisfy this baseline level of solidarity then you have no right to question why we are all now under the gun.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Israel murdered this beautiful soul. Remember Fatima Hassona. Watch and spread the film "Put your soul on your hand and walk". And never stop fighting the mass murdering death machine that is the Israeli state. She was 25.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 11/04/2025

Whenever right-wingers deride empathy, I am reminded of this quote from U.S. Army psychologist Gustave Gilbert who interviewed the Nuremberg war criminals.

Gilbert's lasting contribution to the Nuremberg trials came in his work defining the nature of evil. In his 1950 book The Psychology of Dictatorship, Gilbert wrote, "In my work with the defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

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Jason @heffaloompa.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

My vote is that it is, in fact, the whole point.

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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Best sign I saw all day.

Sign that says "They want 1939 Germany. Let's give them 1789 France."

I couldn't agree more.

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

There has been discussion about how if you have too much money the only remaining way to increase your power is too immiserate everyone else

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

A true heater 48 hours for The Onion, in my unbiased opinion.

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Jason @heffaloompa.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Me too. Let's encourage this behavior. If he gets a bump in contributions, maybe some of the other Dems will take notice.

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 01/04/2025

Momodou Taal left the United States. forwarding his statement from twitter:

I would like first to thank from the bottom of my heart every single individual and organization that supported me through this, particularly my fantastic legal team. Everything I have tried to do has been in service of affirming the humanity of the Palestinian people, a struggle that will leave a lasting mark on me.

Today I took the decision to leave the United States, free and with my head held high. For those following this story: I decided to sue the Trump administration with the hope that it would offer reprieve for myself and other similarly situated persons. But Trump did not want me to have my day in court and sent ICE agents to my home and revoked my visa. We held out but our first motion was denied. We were due to submit a second briefing with the hope that I could stay out of detention whilst the lawsuit progressed.

For every person that has remained silent, just know that you are not safe either. Is the imprisonment of those who speak out against a genocide a reflection of your values? Is this the kind of nation you want to live in? We are already seeing the Trump administration exploiting the complicity of those who have remained silent on the Zionist genocide of Palestinians. The repression of Palestinian solidarity is now being used to wage a wholesale attack on any form of expression that challenges oppressive and exploitative relations in the US.

Given what we have seen across the United States, I have lost faith that a favourable ruling from the courts would guarantee my personal safety and ability to express my beliefs. I have lost faith I could walk the streets without being abducted. Weighing up these options, I took the decision to leave on my own terms.

This is of course not the outcome I had wanted going into this, but we are facing a government that has no respect for the judiciary or for the rule of the law.

It is surreal that we live in a world where you get into trouble for saying killing babies is wrong. Where those advocating for, and celebrating, endless massacres against Palestinians are able to, time and again, present themselves as victims while presenting those fighting against genocide as the oppressors. For months on end, we've had to listen to - ad nauseam - concerns regarding the safety of Zionist students when they are the same students who dox, monitor and collaborate with law enforcement to target students of color. If you have been led to think that your safety is only guaranteed by state kidnap, repression, deportation, the slaughter of children, and the suppression of the global majority, then let Gaza's shards of glass be your mirror.

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ceej @ceej.online · 30/03/2025

While the left might screech about dismantling the giant robot we’ve built to shred immigrants, I am both proud of the improvements my fellow centrists and I have made to its immigrant-shredding capabilities and secure in the knowledge that nobody will ever flip the big switch that lets it shred me

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Boosting this again; will whip up a script.

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Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com · 28/03/2025

Today I learned that a graduate student at the University of Minnesota was abducted by ICE yesterday. We need a rapid response from leaders at all levels on what we can do to protect everyone in our community. I will keep working on this issue and update as I learn more.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

This is painful, and saddening, and embarrassing. I feel like we're losing a member of the family - and for no good reason other than that some Americans wanted another season of the worst reality TV show in history.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/03/2025

We do not have a free country in this moment. When they can nab someone off the street because they don't like what they say, they can nab anyone.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Consider this. 6 people in plainclothes approach you, and begin to cover their faces. At least one appears armed. As they grab your phone and backpack, they do not prove who they are. They say they're going to take you, but they're not saying why. What would you call that?

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

A reminder in dark times: kindness, mercy, decency, and respect towards the least of us enrages Trumpists. It burns them. It’s like a mirror that shows them how they fall short of humanity. Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.

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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

BREAKING: Senate just UNANIMOUSLY restored $1.1 billion for DC local govt that was eliminated Why? Because Senators of BOTH parties work in DC - and most have homes there - and none of them want to be in a hellhole Now - try applying that same logic to THE REST OF THE COUNTRY

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Jason @heffaloompa.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

This is so shortsighted. You HAVE hurt working families with your vote. You’ve ensured they will be hurt worse in the future.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Re-upping this again as more people read about the Khalil case. More information to come, but nothing in WP and NYT so far contradicts original reporting. Again, it DOES NOT MATTER what you think about him or his cause. Either government is bound by the law for all of us or we're all at their mercy.

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Jason @heffaloompa.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

It did, indeed, take way too long, but eventually I found one of those therapists you talked about. The view from this side of the woods is so worth it.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

right now we are at "first they came for transgender people"

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

One of the best things I ever did for myself was stop comparing my life trajectory to people who have support systems. I won’t say I never had help, but I’m just now truly understanding the difference between “assistance” and “support”.

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Jason @heffaloompa.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I relate to this thread so much. There were so many basic life skills that I was never taught, and I felt ashamed most of my life. Like others on this thread, it took much too long to get a proper diagnosis for my underlying issues and get actual help (47).

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Jason @heffaloompa.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I didn’t know that either. Makes the horror even more visceral.

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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?" Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.

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Jason @heffaloompa.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Just added it to my queue. Thank you for the recommendation.

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Jason @heffaloompa.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

How can I reframe this discussion to be about me? Hmmm….

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Jason @heffaloompa.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I did a second reading recently and out of curiosity looked into which parts of the story were fiction and which based on history. I did not know that The Judge was based on a real person, and it was like learning that The Babadook was real.

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Jason @heffaloompa.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Right? I think my best hope is that people my age didn’t grow up with social media.

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Jason @heffaloompa.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I had forgotten that the Discover feed existed. Having been reminded, I will now attempt to replicate that feat.

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Jason @heffaloompa.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

As a newly single guy, this whole thread fills me with despair.

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