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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

A nurse. A researcher. A helper.

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

been staring at this image on and off all day

Charlie Kirk at a Turning Point USA event. The caption says "THERE IS ONLY ONE HOUR OF OCYGEN LEFT ON THE TITAN SUBMERSIBLE." An inset picture shows Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

They sit in ambush in the villages; in hiding places they murder the innocent…. They think in their heart, “God has forgotten; he has hidden his face; he will never see it.”… But you do see!

PSALM 10
1 Why, O LorD, do you stand far off?
Why do you hide yourself in times
of trouble?
2 In arrogance the wicked persecute the poor—
let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.
3 For the wicked boast of the desires of
their heart,
those greedy for gain curse and renounce the LorD.
4 In the pride of their countenance the wicked say, "God will not seek it out";
all their thoughts are, "There is no
God."
§ Their ways prosper at all times;
your judgments are on high, out of
their sight;
as for their foes, they scoff at them.
6 They think in their heart, "We shall not be moved;
throughout all generations we shall not meet adversity."
7 Their mouths are filled with cursing and deceit and oppression;
under their tongues are mischief
and iniquity.
& They sit in ambush in the villages; in hiding places they murder the
innocent.
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Their eyes stealthily watch for the
helpless;
they lurk in secret like a lion in its
covert;
they lurk that they may seize the
poor;
they seize the poor and drag them off in their net.
10 They stoop, they crouch, and the helpless fall by their might.
11 They think in their heart, "God has forgotten,
he has hidden his face, he will never see it."
12 Rise up, O LORD; O God, lift up your hand;
do not forget the oppressed.
13 Why do the wicked renounce God, and say in their hearts, "You will not call us to account"?
14 But you do see! Indeed you note trouble and grief,
that you may take it into your
hands;
the helpless commit themselves
to you;
you have been the helper of the
orphan.
15 Break the arm of the wicked and evildoers;
seek out their wickedness until you
find none.
16 The LoRD is king forever and ever; the nations shall perish from his
land.
17 O LorD, you will hear the desire of the meek;
you will strengthen their heart, you will incline your ear
18 to do justice for the orphan and the oppressed,
so that those from earth may strike
terror no more."

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

A periodic reminder that DC is what we call a one-party consent state, meaning you should record any interaction you have with these people because you have the right to.

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Joseph Francis @josephgfrancis.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Like the God of the Old Testament I will turn my back to their suffering

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

on January 6th, while attempting to overthrow an election, multiple rioters wore Nazi paraphernalia. they declared their intent to murder elected officials. the right stood steadfastly behind them and are now more powerful than ever. you can stand behind someone waving a Mexican flag.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I'm imagining ICE doing to NYC what it's doing to LA — and the people of NYC responding the way people are in LA — and it all happening under Mayor Cuomo. He'll side with ICE, DHS and, of course, the NYPD. This man, who hates the city and doesn't live here, can not become mayor. Don't rank him.

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Joseph Francis @josephgfrancis.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Some of abundance’s defenders have tried defending more anodyne reforms, but I’d trust them more if it wasn’t a former Grover Norquist intern making their argument

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

if Democrats don't want to be accused of stuff like this they should stop letting Republicans like Barro speak for them imo

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I'm not a political scientist but if you're advice to the Democratic Party is pushing out unions, immigrants, and queers then I think there's already a party for that

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Joseph Francis @josephgfrancis.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

There are few feelings better than breaking through a writer’s block

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

starting to think we need a modern temperance movement to crack down on digital forms of gambling (crypto, sports betting etc)

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Bush became unpopular - an electoral millstone around the neck of Republicans - so the media invented a fake story where the current crop of Republicans repudiated Bushism even though literally none of their policies changed except for being harsher on immigrants.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

“Laken Riley didn’t get due process, so why should accused members of Tren de Agua?” — this is the thought of a barbarian. The state you envision could never provide the security you claim to desire. It would be locked in brutal, endless war with its people.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Third is the mayo

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Joseph Francis @josephgfrancis.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Reminds me of the wingnut welfare on the right where the same conservative book clubs would purchase then give free books to their members thereby pushing all conservative authors up the bestseller lists

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I heard Stephen A. Smith tell CNN yesterday that "people are afraid they're going to lose their job for messing up a pronoun" and it really amazes me how many people don't realize they are awash in intentional propaganda designed to make them afraid of the wrong things and angry at the wrong people

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 02/05/2025

At this point I'm honestly just calling my reps and bluntly saying you're old between the two of us I'm the one more likely to survive an ecoli infection. Maybe do something about this.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I was 28 in 2016 and this is an insane characterization of what growing up as a white man in my cohort was like. Demonstrative of how out-of-touch the cultural right is with actual American life www.theredneckintellectual.com/p/right-wing...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

NEW: Columbia pro-Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi walked out of court today after a judge ordered his immediate release from ICE detention. His words to Trump: "I am not afraid of you." w/ Liz Crampton www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

OK, its not a question of whether the phone is compromised. If you are the spy chief of a major country's intelligence service and your people have not compromised this phone, you should resign and find some other line of work

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21st Century Schizoid Tran @grayathena.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

And here is why the respectable publications like the New Yorker that inflated their traffic by hyping this phony company's bullshit should hang their heads in shame: “Pick your favorite species and call up Colossal.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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Trump team cites wolf ‘de-extinction’ as reason to cut endangered species list

The interior secretary hailed a biotech company’s claim to have brought back the dire wolf, while the administration and GOP push to roll back species protections.

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farce majeure @hongpong.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

as usual they are confused by mainframe date field storage

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The unspoken "solution" to this is prison labor

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The Sopranos is probably the Rosetta Stone of modern American reaction: it consists of people who bemoan the loss of an imagined past they mainly got from movies, claim victimization based on identity but hate when others do it, and view the people who build the society they prey on as suckers.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Thinking about these guys

Financial Times: "I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' without fear of getting cancelled...it's a new dawn."

Some Wall Streeters also feel able to embrace making money openly, without nodding to any broader social goals. "Most of us don't have to kiss ass because like Trump we love America and capitalism"

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

So many things Trump has done are confoundingly self-destructive unless you remember a major part of the plan for after January 6 was creating the conditions for mass civil unrest in order to justify invoking the Insurrection Act

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Y'know, the idea that government authorities have a cheat code by moving people out of the jurisdiction would have just a bit more persuasive force were it not a specific offense of the crown listed in the Declaration of Independence.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

starting to think that centering your campaign around the most viscerally offputting man in history isn’t a reliable winning strategy

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This argument would not be any different if the victim were a US citizen: sorry we "accidentally" disappeared a citizen, but he's a foreign policy matter now. That is exactly the goal. They think they found an infinite gulag glitch that works on anyone, even citizens.

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Joseph Francis @josephgfrancis.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

As a union member I endorse this message

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

You have to understand that they hate you. Yes you, the educated liberal or leftist reading this on educated lib-left dot com. They took away AIDS medication from children for the specific purpose of making this video to trigger you. Triggering you is the goal and they will murder children to do it.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

What are the moral obligations of the citizens of a country that embarks on an unjust war of conquest against an allied nation in violation of multiple treaty obligations? Seems like we ought to be prepared to take some risks and break some laws.

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Guy Bundestrivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

it is ironic that everyone voted to get 2019 back, but that is not how time works, so were are continuing right with 2021 as if the actual 2021-2024 never happened lol

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

anyway, if you were wondering why David Shor keeps arguing that Republicans will never pay an electoral penalty for racism under any circumstances, this is why

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