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These are the times that try men's souls

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 5h
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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James @jamespgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm choosing to remain in the dark about "Choosin Texas"
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Mr. PotHead @mrpothead.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Stuart Stevens made a great point yesterday: Dems need to just start acting like they’re gonna beat the shit out of the Republicans. Just own it. We’re going to win big and you fuckers are going to pay. Stop saying, “oh, you know, who knows what will happen.” Say’ “We’re going to kick their asses.”
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We have an even-handed Supreme Court. Half the time it upholds the Constitution and the rule of law, half the time it doesn’t. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...
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Supreme Court Allows Federal Voter Identification Tool Ahead of Midterms
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
“Rather than worrying about eating a balanced diet or maintaining an active lifestyle, our advice is to spend as much time as possible in the gym hitting dumbbell curls until your biceps are crazy big.” — Dr. Willie Underwood III, American Medical Association president
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American Medical Association: ‘Huge Biceps Are Only Thing That Matters’
CHICAGO—Granting the public permission to disregard the organization’s previous recommendations, American Medical Association officials announced this week that huge biceps were now the only thing tha...
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James @jamespgh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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James @jamespgh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Going to Gallifrey" "No Companions" "Bigbluebox" "The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Skaro" "Hast Thou Considerer the Cyberman"
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Shikha Dalmia @shikhadalmia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Graham Plattner was rightly forced to withdraw due to outrage over his Nazi tattoos and abusive behavior toward women. Here is Mike Johnson praising a GOP candidate whose toxicity can't even be captured in words. To say that this is a gutter party is to insult gutters.
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James @jamespgh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
You love to see it
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
john fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship.
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James @jamespgh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Don't blame me, I supported Conor Lamb
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026
under remarked on aspect of trump is his deep hatred of natural beauty and the natural world.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Trump’s best business insight is realizing there’s a huge market of people who want to let everyone around them know that they’re a giant asshole.
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Well yeah she's an adult
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hegseth has taken out more American generals than Iranian ones.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
In the midst of an awful lot of ever-so-sophisticated equivocating and oh-so-thoughtful-chin-stroking and too-clever-by-half-over-thinking, I just want to say, simply and unequivocally and for the record: The Resistance Libs Were Right.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In the past week, reporters learned Pete Hegseth: - blocked more minority promotions - cut DOD's civilian protections against unanimous advice of commanders - was told by his brass that Iran ops are unsustainable - secretly hired far-right milbloggers - is exploring a 2028 presidential run
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
DHS.GOV/CBРНОМЕ

Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Between October 2025 and July 2026, the U.S. accepted 10,258 refugees. All but three (3!) were white South Africans. Regardless of your opinion of South Africa's laws and government, I don't know how you could call this anything other than an explicitly racist policy.
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The grand jury report on the Florida embezzlement scheme is blood-boiling. It's clear beyond serious dispute that the current AG of Florida was part of a shameless, calculated plan to steal public funds from sick children to gift the Republican Party & his own PAC. drive.google.com/file/d/15YSC...
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Grand_Jury_Report.pdf
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
23% drop in student visas to US in 2025 57% drop from India alone catastrophic for research and learning, here and abroad www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
Graph of visas issued to students per month in 2024 and 2025
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
IN THE MIDDLE OF LOSING A WAR, Whiskey Pete appears to have fired General Randy George bc George refused to drop a probe into Kid Rock. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Before Hegseth fired him, top general was advised to drop Kid Rock probe
Gen. Randy George appeared troubled by the encounter with Gen. Chris LaNeve, the Army’s No. 2 officer now favored for the service’s top job, people familiar with the matter told The Post.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth greets Gen. Randy George, then the Army's chief of staff, during a ceremony in September 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
By Dan Lamothe and Noah Robertson
Days before the Army’s top officer was abruptly fired earlier this year, he was advised by a fellow general now vying to replace him to stop the military’s investigation into an unauthorized helicopter flyby of musician Kid Rock’s Tennessee estate, three people familiar with the matter said.

Gen. Randy George, whom Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth removed as the Army chief of staff without explanation, felt it was important to follow typical protocol and determine whether any safety regulations had been violated during the March 28 flyby, these people said. Like some others, they spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the episode.

Gen. Chris LaNeve, the Army’s No. 2 officer, told George that Hegseth did not want the investigation to proceed, one person said. The two others said that George later confided in colleagues that he seemed troubled by the encounter with LaNeve, who suggested it would be best if the review was scuttled.
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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Later he returns as Darth Flation. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/jedi PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
1-panel SMBC comic update. A circle of Jedi (including Yoda) looking uneasy surround another Jedi speaking in the center. The lecturing Jedi says "Look, whether the ruling class is officially good space-wizards or evil space-wizards doesn’t matter. know what predicts lower infant mortality and greater rights? Gross domestic product per capita." The caption below the comic reads "Later, the dark and light Jedis banded together to cast out the neoliberal faction."
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
me talking to magically resurrected founding father: and so sir you can see how the supreme court has become a deeply illegitimate institution that threatens the very republic you created founding father: there are *how many* papists on it???
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James @jamespgh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Why is the Secretary of the Treasury saying this? Does anyone in the administration have a job description?
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James @jamespgh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Make a band bigger: Beastie Men
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
i wrote this last year but there is literally no publicly available evidence that donald trump knows what a tariff actually is
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Team Trump is going to leave the nation in rubble and bitch and moan no one is celebrating them for it
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James @jamespgh.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
That there hasn't been a Power Pack TV show in the Disney era is just evidence that no one is trying very hard, imho
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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 22/08/2026
I don’t think most Americans know, and I did not until 2025, the absolutely critical nature of potash in farming. Canada is by far the largest supplier. It is the “rare earths” of farming. Imagine suddenly not having access to copper when making electronics.
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James @jamespgh.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
People without college degrees: Donald Trump thinks you're really dumb
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James @jamespgh.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Post a perfect album from the 2000s (2000-2009)
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James @jamespgh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
woke DoD never lost a war with Iran
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James @jamespgh.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A parting gift from Yoshida-san
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James @jamespgh.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Restitution was in the Memorandum of Understanding that Trump signed in Versailles
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 09/08/2026
Old Tom: Hey, kid I'm you from 15 years in the future. Young Tom: Oh, no! Are you giving me a warning against a mistake I'm going to make? Old Tom: Uh, nope. You're in the biggest movie of all time and you're married to a literal goddess. Everyone loves you. Young Tom: Old Tom: Ok, nice chat.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Every day we stray further from God meme.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
They know voters hate this shit. So they wait until Blanche has the votes for Collins to come out against him. So she can claim to be a moderate. So she gets reelected. So she can spend the next two years voting for more Todd Blanches.
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Nicholas Sarwark @sarwark.org · 02/08/2026
GOP is the party for abusers.
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James @jamespgh.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Lol
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James @jamespgh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
*standing up on the plane* In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
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James @jamespgh.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I've been having fun following along with @tomewing.bsky.social's events countdown, so I compiled the list. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com
EventsDearBoy
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Big news here. After Salgado Araujo was killed by an ICE agent, *someone* leaked that a search warrant for the van showed FBI thought they might have seen drug baggies in it. The family said it was drink powder. Apparently the substance was tested and the family was correct.
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James @jamespgh.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Donald Trump hates America.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/07/2026
One could call it, for example, a “Popular Front.”
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