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@lshorts.bsky.social
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h
for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
mark of the beast factory got a new mark go get your new mark folks
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In my opinion, we can improve society somewhat by treating admirers of Adolf Hitler with the public contempt they deserve, like we used to
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Almost no one goes from first principles and thinks through an idea or a belief, even fewer people hold their principles in the face of stiff opposition from "friends" and most shrink back if it seems like the majority thinks something different no one believes in ideas.
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the sad truth that I realized over the Trump Years is most people, the vast majority, don't actually believe in things, ideas no. they first and foremost want to belong, and shape themselves, their morals, to what they understand as the view of the in group or just the majority
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026
this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 04/10/2026
Sometimes I head over to X to find an old tweet of mine or something like that and it’s shocking how evil it is now. The most inhuman putrid malevolent posts are all at the top of the feed. Literal Hell on Earth.
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Samus is Here @samusishere.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Andrew Tate stuff is so insane in retrospect because a bunch of Klan people (who currently run the United States) went to bat for a black Muslim solely because he was a human trafficker.
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the funniest thing about the "we don't trust the media" people is that they will trust literally anyone else. like, if you have an image and text, they'll buy it. shaking keys at babies type logic.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
after the guy who wrote the Alphabet Song died they were cleaning out his place and found more than ten thousand handwritten pages of an unfinished Numbers Song
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Skipped the Nazis, huh.
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Spicy Bonus Content @spicybonuscontent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
[taps mic] [clears throat] I SAID, I DON'T THINK PRESIDENT TRUMP IS BRAVE OR SMART ENOUGH TO DO A *SECOND* MIDTERM CONVENTION
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Final shot of Sunset Blvd paid for by the U.S. Government.
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Shoe-per Intelligence @shoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The same lack of restraint plus being even 10% less braindead gets pretty bad, fast. His erratic incompetence has saved us from worse more than anything else, which is one part of why "the institutions held" is a wrong lesson to draw.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.
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Jane @jane.meangirls.online · 19/09/2026
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's true for him it's just psychotic levels of narcissistic personality disorder but it's also being egged on by people in the inner circle who do understand it's tapping into deep culturally embedded historical resonances that symbolize anti-democratic ideology because that's what they believe in.
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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When people were dogging Biden for inflation I thought it was hilarious because there is usually very little that Presidents figures can do to counteract inflation. There is no "price go lower" button. Trump did the only two things presidents can do to send prices sky high: max out tariffs and war.
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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
the founding fathers: we are doing a new country because we hate mercantilism Republicans: the only thing we love more than the founding fathers is our God emperor, Donald Mercantilism
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Scott 𐚁 🦇 Cave 🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
my cousins were convinced that manatees were mean because they would occasionally hit them with a jet ski and fall off and this is one of the governing metaphors of life to me
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
For these guys, it was never about illegal immigration, it was never about cultural assimilation. You can be born in America, drinking beer as you cheer on the Longhorns, but its not enough if you are not white.
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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's really bizarre that people think Dems will take a lesson from Talarico losing as "we need to be more pro trans" when the entire attack on him is his positive voting record on those issues. Like I'm sorry the lesson learned is not going to be what you think when he loses to a top 0.0001% bigot
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
imagine the comedy potential of Kermit trying to pivot to a podcast for interviews because that’s what everyone else is doing, so we are watching onscreen as absolute chaos unfolds which he is trying to keep silent so listeners don’t know Gonzo is trapped in the ceiling
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
the most bonkers thing about this is that if a network was smart they could literally use this as free marketing. have the stars of all your other projects guest as themselves, as if in this world the standard “my movie opens this week” circuit is like Good Morning America, Kimmel and The Muppets
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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It is weird that evangelical theology and conservative policy are such an ouroboros. One is used to justify the other a lot, but one effects the other so much it’s impossible to tell where one begins and where one ends
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jackson henry @jasonemry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
god: There will be tests. I will test you. trump: I’M A TEST. HAIL SATAN. FUCK JESUS AND GOD. I LOVE DEATH AND CRIME. *shoots fire out of ass and mouth* christians: Hmmmmmmmmm…
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Doctors, lawyers and engineers" is an international online Nazi trope. The "joke" is that non-White people are too stupid to be anything other than a criminal or someone who leeches social services. Read a Spanish newspaper about Ceuta, e.g., and you'll see "médicos y ingenieros" in the comments.
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MrNelson007 Belongs in a Museum @mrnelson007.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
As always my theory here is we Millenials grew up with the internet when it was still developing and saw these bad tendencies in their infant forms enough to more or less accidentally get antibodies against some of the things that cook everyone above and below us
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 31/08/2026
COVID was a time where there was a big moral question with a clear cut answer that most Americans didn’t want to be the answer, and the dissonance and guilt from that is an under examined engine of 2024 and now
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Man stands at a grocery store self-checkout machine with his groceries. The screen on the self-check asks the customer “Got any fun plans for the weekend? tap yes or no.” It’s likely he will tap no
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I mean it’s kind of remarkable that he’s a heretic to both Christianity and the American civil religion in the exact same way: he places himself at the top of them, and the people who most loudly proclaim allegiance to those creeds are the biggest adherents to his heresy.
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Pumpkin Spice Amateur Historian @riceandsalt97.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It's based on two principles for me. a) Do not threaten the man that has a shotgun taped under the counter and cry when he points it at you. b) Do not threaten a man even if he doesn't.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
this is ... in a narrow sense, accurate. but it is only another way of saying that one of the "benefits" of immigration crackdowns is reduced economic growth. So ... yay?
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The president has a lady Renfield that sleeps in the White House crawlspace and travels in the wheel well of Airforce 1 and prints out his posts for him on a portable printer and wipes the poo poo off of his giant ass and that's supposed to be funny?
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My read, for what it is worth, is the United States, as a country, remains a democracy, but the *republican party* is now a personalist autocracy and brings that nature with it when it is voted into power. Trump is President of the United States and King-Archbishop Lord Protector of Republicans.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It's not just that this is, of course, an insane lie—it's that *just thinking about it for ten seconds*, without looking anything up, should make it screamingly obvious that the claim couldn't possibly be remotely close to true. You have to actively shut your brain off to say stuff like this.
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
it continues to be so fucking funny watching the "this war shit is easy just stop the woke, change the name, and run it like a business" crowd being tripped up by a war of choice against a third rate regional player implementing consequences literally everyone with two brain cells said would happen
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
we let this get this bad. everyone in power let this happen. you must fix this. you cannot hold an entire nation hostage to salve a dying man's ego. and worst of all we are killing god knows how many human beings with this debacle. enough
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
this is why you don't do things this way. even if these people weren't morons, even if they weren't terrified of this weird old freak, even if they were capable of compromise, you don't just let one guy run the whole show. you cannot have a nation exist to serve one freaks ego. everyone knows this
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
you have sailors halfway around the world eating hardtack and dying of scurvy on boats lingering around the periphery because they can't get too close, but they also can't leave. you're running out of coward missiles. you can't leave because of one guys ego. no one may make a rational decision
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
this iran humiliation is revealing so much about the US. you can actually see how military coups happen, why there's a 25th amendment, why wars should ever be wages at the whim of one guy (especially a world-class idiot). the rot and the sclerosis are now apparent to anyone who wants to look
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Once it clicks that the White House deliberately chooses memes, songs, and movies that they think will get a rise out of libs it's pretty easy to tune this stuff out. Basically the government doing "do you want to hear the most annoying sound in the world?" because it's bored of the war in Iran.
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
i am tired of hoping an individual republican turns out to be so grotesque in some personal way that it becomes a deal-breaker for people who would otherwise support his grotesque policy intentions
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Missouri elections be like: Hitler (R) 79% - Christ (D) 21% And then the ballot initiative: Amend the Missouri constitution to require the state to own the means of production and work towards full communism? Yes 92% - No 8%
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