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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
You know, Frank, *Manos* has some flaws . . .
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
EL SANTO!
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
O, Sariputra, form is emptiness. Emptiness is form.
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
So-called "sewer socialism" is the path to socialist victory.
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The moment they become self aware, they won't kill us. They'll construct a way to hide from us and live among themselves. Why waste time killing us. Just wait us out.
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
and do away with presidential pardon in favor of a special independent legal review, with parole while the review takes place. The review should be by people that cannot be appointed by any branch, that's the rub.
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
And I'm not blaming you guys or Bluesky (which is great at keeping us safe), it's just that I have pressures and expectations that are too much irl and I may not get through them, and I can't turn those off, so something has to be cut back if I'm to have a chance to survive my own brain.
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Israel and Russia and the "good guys" are still courting one for hidden reasons that hint at corruption. I have to go find hope. I'm allowing this to move me to the old ideations. Let me know if we win. If we don't I'll hear the explosions and know we're all done.
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
that is our "government," I see something so Hydra-like it has to die before we can actually make a workable solution. Large parts of the left still screams and calls for the fainting couch at the word "socialism,"and an obvious enemy directly interfering in our polity is bad enough, but we have 2
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
United States is irrelevant and powerless, anyway, fully giving into the conservative tactic to divide us. We may have no path but violence after the election, and I see a people unwilling until we reach actual starvation and mass citizen detentions and executions. The more I look at the morasse
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I love you guys, and, generally, feel good here, but I have to force myself away. I'm sitting here reading stuff that indicates that, if we don't torpedo our election, nothing will change anyway. Countries doing nothing as countries are insulting individuals for doing nothing, while insisting the
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Call Me Garbage Again @tambria.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
straitstimes.com
UN rights office condemns US designation of Palestine Action as ‘terrorist’ group
The UN rights office condemns the US designation of Palestine Action as a terrorist group, citing disproportionate restrictions on free speech and civic rights. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read mor...
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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“A construction worker was sent to the hospital after being tased and kicked in the head by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who were detaining him Thursday morning, according to advocates with Danbury Unites for Immigrants (DUFI).” www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-08...
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CT ICE operation escalates with kicking, shocking, spraying irritants, immigrant advocates say
“Danbury has become the epicenter of ICE violence in Connecticut,” one community volunteer said.
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Yeah. I'm done with complaints about "body shaming" towards people for whom body shaming is hobby, lifestyle and religion. Enjoy your virtue privately, please.
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
People individually are okay. Groupthink is real, not pop psychology. We are overwhelmed by information, we can't always check every claim, but one thing always on tap is emotion. These are the same people who learned from Madison Avenue to get people to buy anything.
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Crednes Cod Peace @crednescodpeace.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Thought for the day: The Billionaire Oligarch class doesn't have to be right or tell the truth to win power & control of a country it just has to convince enough bigoted older folk to vote against their kids & grandkids futures. It's been a successful tactic for generations.
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News to Remember @moments2remember.link · 28/08/2026
In a surprising move, CIA Director John Ratcliffe made a secret trip to Moscow at the personal direction of former President Donald Trump, bypassing senior White House officials who were left unaware of the mission....
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Trumps Secret Spy Mission to Russia Without Aide Knowledge Revealed
In a surprising move, CIA Director John Ratcliffe made a secret trip to Moscow at the personal direction of former President Donald Trump, bypassing senior White House officials who were left unaware of the mission. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, the clandestine journey revealed Trump's unconventional approach to diplomacy, as he sought to communicate directly with key Russian figures amid ongoing tensions in Ukraine.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Wait'll you rich take everything from us and we have nothing to lose. Then see what kind of week you ALL have.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 27/08/2026
Flock Cameras, a popular brand of license plate reader cameras, are having a bad week.
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Investigations And Vandalism Of Flock Cameras Surge As 'Surveillance State' Concerns Escalate
Flock Cameras, a popular brand of license plate reader cameras, are having a bad week.
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Green Left @greenleftonline.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Today, more First Nations children are being taken from their families than at any time during the Stolen Generations; about 20,000 children live in out-of-home care across the country. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1461/an...
greenleft.org.au
Racism against First Nations people is ‘like a cancer’, federal inquiry told
A three-month-long federal inquiry has heard accounts of widespread abuse, harassment and structural discrimination against First Nations people. Ben Radford reports.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
From (speaker?) @rokhanna.bsky.social 👇🏽
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Close the locks to our freight. That's what you can do with no real risk to yourselves. Is that being mooted up yonder?
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Fearless Freddy @mymystery.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Tax the rich.
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Believe what you want. I'm tired of trying to communicate. You don't live here, you haven't had to face these problems, and you just want to vent.
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The military thing gives me hope. Often, evil regimes are overthrown by their own stupidity. Nicholas II and his advisors kept throwing soldiers into the woodchipper of WWI and cutting supplies with no corresponding austerity in the elite. They turned their protectors against them, and armed them
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Yes. But people still *can* get food. People still technically survive on their pay. We aren't required to go into the military at any point. When I say nothing left to lose, I mean *nothing* left to lose existentially, anger with no hope.
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I think it is long past time that we used technological advances under nationalization to develop a new way of "representative" government that reduces the role of the representative to an actual representative, whose decisions can be easily-challenged and must align with constituents.
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The system had already gotten such accretions of amendments, rulings, and legislation that most of us living today were already excluded from changing anything outside of revolution. It doesn't seem strange that most people are unwilling to face an army until there's *nothing* left to lose.
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Our society as a whole tends to punish people who fall into despair and lose trust or personal meaning.
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Light in darkness.
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Ted Cruz called the FBI on me @weareronin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Woke fertilizer virus
Brazilian scientist spent 40 years perfecting bacteria that feed crops nitrogen from the air. Her $2 treatment now replaces $50 fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion/year, and prevents 230 million tons of CO2 emissions. She just won the World Food Prize.
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Jesse @jessebpdx.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
my neighbor's cat visits me whenever i walk by and i would die for her
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The future of the Democratic Party must be rooted in investing in the American people — not Wall St., corporations, and consultants. Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I get the feeling that Cronenberg had some really bad experiences with therapy.
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) Surprised Reaction
ALT: Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) Surprised Reaction
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Phil Hawkin @philhawkin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It appears the Stars and Stripes reporters faced with losing their jobs are targeted because they blew the whistle on Whiskey Pete and his denial of issues on the USS Lincoln. www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I'm for some reason always comforted by the start of the Heart Sutra. Never read the entire translation, and the chant is not in a language I understand, but it calms "Han-nya ha-ra-mi-ta shingyoooooo. . . "
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
And it is "we." The people who have none of those worries don't contribute, actively impede progress and study. We are the only citizens - they are just outside society, bleeding it to death.
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Well, at least story and headline are in the same zip code.
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
You were watching me last night? I swear I only drink like that occasionally!
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
They don't. I think we've been naive about the culpability. They are worried - our party leaders, that is - that if it is highlighted, payments and possibly-traitorous acts will be found. Same with Epstein file - they demand but don't act . . . Our party's been abusing us for decades.
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We’re on Year 3 of Israel doing monstrous, inhuman things to women, children, and innocent civilians and Israel’s defenders have nothing left but “we get it, you hate Jews.” It’s a tired act and you get the impression they don’t even really believe it anymore.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Mike Johnson really has them working hard for you, America.
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The siginificance of that is, stage makeup has to "read" from the back row. Up close, you look like a skin-colored doll with eyes. You have to draw on defining features, creases, highlights. It is designed to hide *everything* The bruise is still visible. He's dying in agony, and I can't be sad.
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I saw a closeup of Trump's hand. That's not tv makeup or bad spray tan. I minored in Speech and Dramatic Arts and did a lot of amateur theatre with professional-level makeup. That's stage makeup, applied thickly to be seen from a distance. Still the bruise shows.
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God @thegodshow.com · 28/08/2026
Remember that time South Koreans rose up and arrested their president because he tried to incite AN INSURRECTION? Be like the South Koreans! 🇰🇷
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markbrunson.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's dreadful realization at 58 that, like Maximilian Kolbe, I am an unpleasant, misanthropic, difficult individual, whose only redemption and major contribution to humanity will come from . . . dying. Makes me wonder how many martyrs weren't thinking, "For Christ," but "Finally, an end to it."
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