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mirthblaster36

@mirthblaster36.bsky.social
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(she/her) Middle-aged fangirling about mostly Korean dramas and film. Also US politics and assorted intemperate outbursts. Probably food, too.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
In a stunning moment of carnal desire, my calculator said “BOOBIE5”
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Oh nothing nothing just the Vice President of the United States saying aloud the truth. In the MAGA system, cutting people’s healthcare is mere minutiae as long as you can keep up with your mass deportations and fund your concentration camps.
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Everything else-—the CBO score, the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy-is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/06/2025
Every Trait Disqualifying ICE Agent From Previous Jobs Ideal For Current One theonion.com/every-t...
Every Trait Disqualifying ICE Agent From Previous Jobs Ideal For Current One
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/06/2025
according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Before endorsing Andrew Cuomo, I sat him down for a long talk, and we agreed that any future sexual contact he has with interns will be far more consensual. by Bill Clinton
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."
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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 09/06/2025
It's so funny man we have an insane king being puppeted by his evil advisors. I haven't just seen this movie, I've seen this play
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mirthblaster36 @mirthblaster36.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
This is beautiful.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I think it's easier to understand the current media environment once you understand that a whole bunch of ambitious people are looking at our descent into authoritarian oligarchy and thinking it's a great opportunity to audition as a courtier.
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mirthblaster36 @mirthblaster36.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...
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Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
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Berdawn @berdawn.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman shown smiling photoshopped in front of a burning plantation
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mirthblaster36 @mirthblaster36.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
It's not like there aren't plenty of other atrocity sites.
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ᑕ ᕼ ᓰ ᗷ 〇 ᒪ 乇 @chibole.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Happy Paperclip Day to everyone celebrating! www.instagram.com/p/DJrK2mAN4ce/
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Read the Judge's straightforward words today as he ordered the release of Rumeysa Ozturk: "There has been no evidence that has been introduced by the government other than the op-ed. I mean, that literally is the case."
“Her continued detention potentially chills the speech of the millions and millions of people in this country who are not citizens,” Judge William Sessions said during Friday’s hearing.

"There has been no evidence that has been introduced by the government other than the op-ed. I mean, that literally is the case,” he added.

“There is no evidence here as to the motivation, absent consideration of the op-ed, so that creates unto itself a very significant [and] substantial claim that the op-ed – that is, the expression of one's opinion as ordinarily protected by the First Amendment – form the basis of this particular detention.”
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This is America.
Maydee, still confronting the officers, says
"Where is the warrant?" Officer Lugo, according to his nameplate, says "Ma'am we are trying our best but they are federal."
Morales again asks for the warrant.
"They're federal."
"They still need a warrant."
Another officer, frustrated, says "They don't need a warrant." Finally, one of them tells the truth. Due process is not a matter they're concerned with.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/04/2025
DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/04/2025
occam's razor is that the people trying to make him respectable just agree with him
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I think these people know they'd be nowhere near power in a legitimate meritocracy, so they're thankful that Trump is stupid enough to elevate them
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Every now and then they still manage to say something that sticks out as exceptionally deranged, even against our current general background noise of perpetual derangement.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Breaking: the Trump admin has “temporarily” paused enforcement of a Biden-era silica rule that was aimed at combating the rising black lung crisis in Appalachia. Coal miners and their advocates have been fighting for *decades* to lower deadly silica dust exposure levels. www.msha.gov/notice-stake...
msha.gov
Notice to Stakeholders
Temporary Enforcement Pause: Silica Rule Issued: April 8, 2025
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
MMR vaccine doesn’t just prevent measles, mumps, and rubella. It also prevents RFK Jr. from showing up at your child’s funeral to exploit your grief at your most vulnerable moment.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
In fact, it is offensively ridiculous to think that any but a handful of people disappeared by ICE will be able to file habeas corpus, because it relies on them having informed families with connections to available knowledgeable lawyers with time and resources to act instantly.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
"DOGE is eliminating the government's tape backups because they're too stupid to know why they're important" is the generous interpretation, when what they might actually be doing is stealing all the money and trying to destroy the records of them doing so.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
It’s still hard to believe the simple fact that this is all self-imposed. Everything that’s happening right now wasn’t the result of some foreign adversary destroying the country. We did this all to ourselves by electing the dumbest motherfucker to ever rule a nation.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I just can’t imagine being so mentally weak that you’d allow your sense of morality to be changed because someone was rude to you online, but that’s like half the media. Half of them are like well I used to think poor people should get healthcare…but that was before PissBoner27 levied his cruel axe
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/03/2025
This, I think, is what smart people have such trouble accepting: that morons can succeed perfectly well in US politics. When a GW Bush or a Trump rises all the way to the top, it doesn't mean they're secretly smart, it means our corrupt, desiccated system is defenseless against venal morons.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/03/2025
"why does the American public not understand what's happening in their own country" I shout over the hedge fund dessicated corpse of local journalism
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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
One problem with the idea of reserving due process for law-abiding people is that due process is how we figure out which people are law-abiding.
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KatherineHawkins @krhawkins.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Our Secretary of Defense almost certainly has more threatening/extremist tattoos and has more credibly been accused of sexual assault than almost all of the people being sent to El Salvador. No exaggeration.
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
It is human trafficking.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
a liberal doing a boycott or a leftist doing a sit in or non violent occupation of a building all get called terrorists, a conservative shooting people or running them down with their car or blowing up a building is defined as let's not talk about that too much more of them might kill people
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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
They don’t want women getting PhDs, they want them pregnant
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
The moment is so big, and our leaders are so small.
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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Rodrigo Duterte: Ex-Philippine leader in The Hague after drug war arrest
bbc.com
Rodrigo Duterte: Ex-Philippine leader in The Hague after drug war arrest
Duterte, who led a "drug war" that killed thousands, was arrested for alleged crimes against humanity.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Moving a detainee around to evade judicial review is classic authoritarian behavior.
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Days since a trash can mishap: 0 This was a long time coming and it was a REALLY GOOD mishap bahahahaha full statement to follow
Photo of an orange cat looking amused. It is captioned “Jorts may be a 10, but today is a zero”

it has a breaking news chyron that says “What has gotten into him today? -Coworkers”
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Dani✨ @danisdiary.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I am gonna be honest, #JeonHyeJin must be made of a different material than me because just the thought of her playing a single mother in a kdrama, a year after #LeeSunKyun ‘s untimely passing, brings tears to my eyes.
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Today we prescribe cheerful Bulgarian postmarks. All designed by the great Stefan Kanchev. socmus.com/en/
9 cute linear postmarks. Flowers, birds, happy faces,
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Seems futile to point this stuff out anymore, but Musk and Trump holding a photo op to tout all the “corruption” DOGE has found on the same day Trump’s DOJ announced it would no longer investigate foreign governments who try to bribe U.S. officials was some real Orwell-level messaging.
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George Chidi, Evil Reporter @neonflag.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
The purpose of the "DEI" purge is to codify the idea that the competence and credentials of any Black person, woman or gay person in a position of authority can be questioned without suspicion, and to create a competitive problem for any organization that doesn't comply. It's a business lesson.
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