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Laurence

@pdxpatterman.bsky.social
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Comic patter baritone based in Portland Oregon. Artistic Director of @lightoperapdx. Opinions my own.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 8h
🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...
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US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2h
👏 Really welcome news.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 3h
“Infinite personalized music” was already solved, it’s called learning to play an instrument
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ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 2h
We’ve gone from “clown event still possible” to “clown event exceeded expectations” 🤡
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 1h
Here's what Blanche is going on about: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...
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Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns
In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21h
Holy shit, this ad! I cannot imagine the impetus for pardoning this guy. But I’m not even sure it matters. Kind of along the lines of that Roger Marshall ad. If you’re explaining you’re losing.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21h
we're at the "new executive order commanding my people to love me" stage of the story
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pogokero @pogokero.bsky.social · 16h
It looks like someone took the end poem from minecraft and fed it through the AI to make some corrupted version. The end poem is really cool, and it's a little disturbing to see it corrupted into fascism. en.wikisource.org/wiki/End_Poem
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End Poem - Wikisource, the free online library
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 15h
That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.
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Tara @taradeenihan.bsky.social · 12h
I’m 49 and I had cancer three years ago. Don’t be a shitty person. It ages you.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12h
This is now a sycophancy test. Joking about it I’ll accept, barely, but anyone who even remotely indulges this is a coward
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 18h
believable but also then I need to know who specifically planned it and why they are trying to make this guy buzzy without even knowing how to spell his name 💀
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18h
its worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 27/09/2026
Why do the avatars on the Meta Pervert Pendant look like characters from a 2011 Dutch children’s TV show whose title translates to “Happy Penis Man Friends and Mister BumBum”
Mark Zuckerberg announcing a lil penis guy dressed as a 2008 hipster (from the Fleet Foxes “everyone in Silverlake is pretending they like roughing it in the great outdoors now” era) by way of Michael Cera (got the outfit but couldn’t grow the beard). The penis guy lives in your cleavage and spies on everything you do.Mark Zuckerberg announcing a lil penis guy themed like Turtle from “Entourage.” The penis guy lives in your cleavage and spies on everything you do.Mark Zuckerberg introducing a lil penis guy with a short shaft and an oversized head, as an effort to make dudes with fucked up lil dicks (including many of Zuck’s friends, like Elon Musk) feel represented in his product. Zuck himself is a nevernude who has a perfectly smooth patch of skin where his genitalia should be, like a Ken doll, so he doesn’t really know what a penis is supposed to look like. Mark Zuckerberg introducing a lil happy butt guy. He is countering accusations of his VR glasses being “for perverts” with this new proposal that you should wear a lil butt guy on your chest and let it spy on everyone.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 19h
A fuckup so dumb even NYT homepage/headline writers have no choice but to describe it accurately
As Jack Smith Testifies, a Senator’s Accusation of Perjury Falters

A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.
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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 19h
This is connected to the Schmitt debacle from earlier - the Republican Party now talks only to itself using language that only they employ, everyone else is expected to follow along or have the power of the state come down on them
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 20h
If we can auto enroll every child into Trump accounts we can auto enroll every child into Medicare is the easiest layup of 2029.
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Hugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social · 22h
tweets that should have started 'well, anyway,'
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19h
😂😂
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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 18h
For the people using ChatGPT as a doctor
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 20h
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread text messages when he attempted to corner former special counsel Jack Smith during a congressional hearing on Tuesday.
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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22h
Quinnipiac. Trump 34% approval. General ballot D+12. Trump job approval lowest for Quinnipiac since Jan 18, 2021.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 23h
The author of this ill-timed, two-graph beat-sweetener is none other than Axios's co-founder, Jim VandeHei
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
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Seán Ferrick @seanferrick.bsky.social · 23h
This is horrible. This is disgusting. This is normalized. Seriously, is anyone truly shocked? Upset, of course. Appalled, definitely. But shocked? These men raped a woman for hours, and effectively got a finger wag for it. That's the standard. Rapists need to feel fear again. #Cornell
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m of two minds on these ads. They are clearly illegal. They are textbook examples of Trumps effort to push us into autocracy. They are also the last thing Republicans need when the albatross around their neck is Donald Trumps extreme unpopularity.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Joe Pike: "I'm here with the only person anyone wants to speak to, Sharon Graham." <Graham bellyaches at length about triple lock> Joe Pike: "So, this gives you a flavour of the debate here." NO IT DOESN'T! You literally only spoke to one person, sought out explicitly because she disagreed. 😂
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"I left Britain because of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods" said nobody genuinely ever. The Telegraph scours the globe for anyone of notable net worth who recently moved and asking them for a list of pet peeves out of which they pick the one that serves the Telegraph "capital flight" narrative best.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amazing the sides these guys put themselves on
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sen. Roger Marshall says he didn't have the pregnant patient arrested over a $50 late bill. THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS AND DEFAMATORY!!! He had her arrested for not showing up to court when he sued her for being late for $50.
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Noah @waldville.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's something perverse about this article's framing asking us to sympathize with the billionaires who, we're being shown, are actively trying to hide their money overseas to avoid having to contribute to the economy that made them wealthy.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
There can only be one option on the table. Full EU membership. 💷 £92bn for our economy. 📈 £43bn extra exports each and every year. ⬆️ Growth in every postcode, region, and nation of the UK. 🇬🇧 628/632 constituencies in favour. 🗳️ Stops Farage getting to No10. It really is a no brainer.
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Burnham vows to seek new ‘long-term’ relationship with EU in emotional Labour conference speech
PM also confirms plan to end pensions triple lock to pay for national care service and pledges to put electoral reform i
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
CRUZ: Do you have any evidence whatsoever to believe that I and 20% of Republicans in the Senate will engage in destruction or tampering with evidence or intimidation of potential witnesses? JACK SMITH: No. We had powerful evidence that Donald Trump and his associates would
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As someone who was born in Missouri I need to say not everyone born in the state is a roadkill bumblefuck like this clown. Or not most. Or at least a large plurality.
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Richie Daiches Barlow @thedogwalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is a genocide. If you think differently, there’s something seriously wrong with you. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
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Google Earth exposes devastation in Gaza with new updated images
Google Earth shows the unprecedented devastation in Gaza, illustrating the scale of the wreckage
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nobody seems to bat an eye that Rufo's podcast partner is a longtime anonymous troll who called gays "f*ggots," referred to Asians as "mongoloids," and explicitly sees his partnership with Rufo as a strategy of normalizing what most of us would see as bigotry www.vox.com/politics/368...
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An inside look at how the far right is mainstreaming itself
An radical troll got unmasked — and then spilled the beans.
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump administration was found in contempt of court Friday for wrongfully deporting a Salvadoran young man last month for the second time — after he had already been unlawfully deported in March, then returned to the U.S., before being removed again. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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Judge Finds Trump Admin in Contempt of Court Again for Wrongful Deportation
Three Different Court Orders Violated The Trump administration was found in contempt...
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Slightly adapted from the original published in Pravda in about 1976.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.
Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

Labour Unions
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/09/2026
Naomi Smith: This is a signal that the political class is finally catching up with where voters have been for a long time. Read here: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/polit…
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Tara @taradeenihan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Damn, is even Foghorn fucking Leghorn over it? 😂
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026
I’m increasingly of the belief that we’ve never truly left the Great Financial Crisis. Everything we’re dealing with today started there, and every excess and problem stems from the US government’s failure to contain or eradicate its causes.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026
AI has lost the Mandate of Heaven I’m afraid. WSJ saying it’s a “when” the ai bubble bursts. SNL dabbing on their biggest names for being weird. FT says 50% of chips sold in 2026 and 2027 have nowhere to go. Hundreds of billions short on revenue for even 10% ROIC. A disaster.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/09/2026
In a private discussion today this came up: “We need the January 6th Commission hearings, for DOGE.” One could do a lot with NIH and NSF alone. There are clinical trials that ended, patients that died, young people leaving the US… and bad stuff that happened inside the agencies.
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Laurence @pdxpatterman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@whoculture.bsky.social @elittlechild.bsky.social Looks like the loss of the Disney money might have impacted the new Dalek designs…
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The pay for a US Secretary of Defense is $246000 a year. They don’t even bother to hide the corruption these days
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 27/09/2026
These dipshits picked the worst year possible to antagonize what was already a pissed off electorate.
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