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Are you fucking kidding me? I hate these bastards down to my very DNA.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding robespierre and the committee of public safety. actually you do, under these circumstances, "gotta hand it to them". well done.

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If every worthless dimwitted blue maga shitbird who thinks “hurr hurr let’s fight racism by being racist” is cool would just block me now to spare me the trouble of blocking you, that would be very thoughtful and I would be appreciative.

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I'm not expecting Obama to save us. It's just incredibly jarring to see him try to maintain pop culture relevance rather than spending his post-presidency on building houses for the poor, profiting off of lobbying connections, and/or quickly dying.

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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Andor concluded one year ago, and for my May 4th money, it's not only the single best thing to ever come out of Star Wars, Tony Gilroy created the best television show that ever aired. It is miraculous that it exists at all, and I will be forever grateful for this series. Stone and Sky.

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ALT: a close up of a man 's face with andor star wars written on the bottom

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Sometimes, to keep things in perspective, I remind myself that the many troubles I'm facing today are insignificant compared to the ones I will face tomorrow.

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Sometimes, to keep things in perspective, I remind myself that the many troubles I'm facing today are insignificant compared to the ones I will face tomorrow.

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Imagine a stack of fifty $100 bills. Then imagine a pile of those small stacks that would amount to a million dollars. It will take 2,000 stacks. Can you visualize that big pile in front of you? Now imagine one million of those piles. We're only at $1 billion.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

dammit *cough* Uh, I meant that's great news for his family. Presumably.

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In the now all-too-common category of things that are completely unsurprising and yet utterly shocking, Republicans have completely memory-holed the killings of the Hortmans and shootings of the Hoffmans in Minnesota. As far as they’re concerned it just never happened.

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ROXANNE You don't have to put him in red tights Turn the paper over You don't to have to do this crime tonight ROXANNE You don't have to draw hot femme Jar Jar Walking the streets of Otoh Gunga You don't care if it's wrong or right ROXANNE You don't have to put him in red tights

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 02/05/2026

One thing I love about BlueSky is PhDs get to complain that they're not considered working class and that socialism is all about teaching working people to read novels and go to the symphony so they'll become more fully human. I feel pretty sure the revolution will definitely happen soon-ish.

Joel S.

@joelhs.bsky.social

Farmers are coded "working class" as rural white people, even though they own their means of production. Meanwhile, I have a PhD and teach at a liberal arts college, so no one will ever call me working class, even though I earn a lot less and depend on wages. It's gendered vibes, all the way down.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social

Farmers vote Republican because they're people with money & property. So they vote like people with money & property.

That's it. It's not rocket science.

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If I understand this correctly, the POTUS completed a phone call with the leader of Russia, then announced that we don't need troops in Germany, all of which was news to Germany? Did I get that right? Because I've got 1950 on the phone here with me and it's very, very confused and worried.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 02/05/2026

I wonder if either of have worked in a factory. I have. In any factory or mine are always gonna be some people who are familiar with and enjoy art that you think is worthwhile. But maybe you're not seeing those people because you aren't even looking.

A screenshot of a social media post responding to another on a dark mode interface.

The main post is by Jay Hulme (@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social) and reads:

'My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.'

Embedded within this is a quoted post by Paul Boldrin (@paulboldrin.bsky.social) that reads:

'I read a history of early 20th century socialism and it's crazy how much of it is just clubs doing art or reading books and trying to get miners and factory workers to do art and read books.'

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 02/05/2026

I mean, the universe wasn't required to include this. But it does.

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DreadwoodGirl @redwoodgirl.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Yep. in 2021 we had the largest single-year decrease in childhood poverty in the U.S. Then those child tax credits ended and in 2022 we had the largest increase in childhood poverty. I need elected Democrats to talk about what that proved. www.cbpp.org/research/pov...

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Expiration of Pandemic Relief Led to Record Increases in Poverty and Child Poverty in 2022

Overall poverty and child poverty rose in 2022 by the largest amounts on record in data back to 1967, a sharp retreat from the historic progress made during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 01/05/2026

Today: '“Isn’t she despicable?” Trump asked. “Their whole life is based on fraud and a scam,” the president said of Somali Americans. “The whole thing is a scam and we ought to get those people the hell out of our country,” he said, to wild applause.' Wow. It just gets more and more blatant.

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Scott Stein @sstein.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

New healthcare plan just dropped

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Remember not long ago Alito said you couldn't make changes on the "eve" of an election when it was like a year away. Now an election has already started but suddenly that doctrine doesn't apply. #CorruptCourt #CriminalAlito talkingpointsmemo.com/news/republi...

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Republicans Celebrate Landry’s Decision to Suspend Active Election, and Dems Sue

In the aftermath of a Supreme Court ruling this week that struck...

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President Werewolf G. Harding @popeawesomexiii.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

TV: And if you follow the cold front through the weekend, you'll see we have a 30% chance of upset. Me: ...What's upset? The Egyptian God Set: NOT MUCH DAWG, WHATS UP WITH YOU

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 29/04/2026

We should start early on figuring out just what we could propose to build in place of the ballroom that would most upset Trump.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

/4 To prove incitement outside of First Amendment protection you must show that the speech was intended and likely to cause imminent unlawful action. Obviously pretty hard with seashells, unless it’s, like, a friggin mermaid or something?

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So, what I find fascinating is how right when you think they might finally realize they are in trouble, they double-down on the very most unpopular things. Why do they think *now* is the time to press their advantage when it's never been more obvious they don't have the advantage?

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The Republican Party would do well to consider the ‘let them eat cake’ story, who the villain is, and that we've telling that story for two hundred years before they continue to do their ‘the people demand a ballroom’ routine as gas hits $5 a gallon.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Aww! There's the adorable First Lady we all know and love!

A screenshot of a live news update. At the top, a timestamp reads '16m ago 15.55 BST'. Below this is the text: 'Donald and Melania Trump have now arrived,' with 'Melania Trump' highlighted in red, indicating a hyperlink.

The main portion of the image is a photograph of Donald and Melania Trump standing side-by-side with neutral, serious expressions. Donald Trump is on the left, wearing a dark blue suit, a white shirt, a solid red tie, and an American flag lapel pin. Melania Trump is on the right, wearing a structured, tailored white jacket with a row of small buttons down the front, paired with a matching flat-brimmed white hat that has a light-colored band.

A caption below the photo reads: 'Donald and Melania Trump ahead of the royals' arrival. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images'.

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i just need republicans to explain to me how a ballroom is a better use of taxpayer money than a 30 ft tall mechanical spider that shoots nanowire webs and that donald trump can ride around on

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I'm trying to find a pithy way of saying that: It's a huge red flag when someone believes that people outside of the home hearing about what's happening inside the home is worse than what's happening inside the home. That formulation isn't bad, but I feel like there's a better version.

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