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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 4h

we gotta raise taxes. a lot.

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It’s been two hours and I’m still hung up on this doofus, who thinks that there are secret Ashkenazi delicacies that are being kept secret from gentiles like me, and not, like, the most flavorless boiled brisket you’ve ever had.

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 1h

5th Amendment does kind of complicate that last one

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Your Scary Ad Here @cooluser354.bsky.social · 1h

The media will cover any random dipshit college leftist but will say nothing about blatantly homophobic messaging from Elon Musk Anyways we gotta nationalize SpaceX by force and shut down Tesla.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 4h

Piece came out at USAToday Why? Because USAToday owners (Gannett) only own media companies, so they have an incentive to attract an audience & advertisers Tech elites like Bezos, Ellisons, Musk, & Benioff use their media firm to cozy to Trump, not to make profit www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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DEI initiatives didn't cost companies. Just the opposite. | Opinion

Firms that kept DEI, whether due to executive decisions or shareholder pressure, performed as well in the stock market as those that rolled it back.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1h

I have now read this article, which I was pleased to be interviewed for, and am actually quite dismayed at the both-sidesing of the issue at hand. It is true that “both Dems and Reps gerrymander“ (paraphrasing) but to equivocate the 2 and make that the central framing in 2026 does a real disservice

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 3h

A 19th Century Japanese Depiction of an American

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 7h

The Apprentice producers edited footage to make Trump firing decisions look justified,even when they thought he’d fired the wrong person. They helped manufacture his image as a business genius, a TV persona that later helped fuel his rise to the presidency www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/b...

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The Star-Making Machine That Created ‘Donald Trump’ (Published 2024)

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 4h

Quick story. My op-ed on how corporations that kept their DEI programs performed just as well financially was accepted & factchecked at TIME Magazine. Just needed "pro forma review by the legal department." Suddenly the piece is spiked Why? Benioff owns TIME and wants to ingratiate himself to Trump

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 20h

I try to be fairly open-minded but if you sincerely believe that a person who has chosen to spend months of 18-hour days running for electoral office doesn’t care if they win that office: you’re just dumb. Your brain don’t work. Your thoughts are bad.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2h

no one reads the articles. all of the quotes assume this is because the party is broke because of (spins wheel) whatever that person is mad about today, but the reason they’re scrambling is because they’re trying to run moonshot campaigns in deep red districts they ordinarily would never attempt

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2h

Low-hanging fruit for reporters and Dem trackers: ask a Republican running for office, "what would you do if you were in a car with your child and men in hoodies charged at you with guns drawn?" Follow up with "do you think it's reasonable for a parent in that situation to use lethal force?"

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 2h

This story is fascinating to read, and it's interesting that the original proposal - a 2km wide strip of development spanning that same length - might actually, you know, have been feasible then MBS decided to make it vertical cuz he's an idiot

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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled

Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance

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John Stuart Thrill @jsthrill.modphi.com · 4h

Mere minutes from downtown Whiterun

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 2h

The thing about The Line is that A) it is actually a very cool idea B) sometimes things that are very cool in fiction are also very stupid and impractical in reality C) fuck KSA and MBS

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2h

AHHHHHHH THE ONLY REASON HE EVEN STAYS TO DIE AT TROY IN THE ILIAD IS TO AVENGE PATROCLUS. IT'S A POEM ABOUT HIS RAGE. THE OPENING LINES ARE PRETTY CLEAR WHY CAN'T A SINGLE DEFENDER OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION READ A SINGLE THING FROM THE WESTERN CANON AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 4h

You can blame @charltoncussans.bsky.social for pointing out the existence of this shit earlier today. The most "I am DESPERATELY COMPENSATING for something" old-timey magazine I've ever seen.

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Soldier of Fortune Magazine

Editions of the Soldier of Fortune magazine

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 4h

Ossoff and El-Sayed are way too quick on their feet for people who haven't had to defend their own trash talk since the 1970s

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 4h

again, this is a stark example of how Rs have just regularly spewed incredibly disrespectful and inflammatory lies about Democrats with basically no reciprocal pushback from Ds—until like this week.

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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 6h

“You know how meandering, bloated and unfocused the last four HP books were? Let’s bring that energy to the entire show.” My prediction: this show will tank; if not immediately, quickly. And my hope is that deals a significant blow to JKR’s cultural power. God knows she’s done enough harm already.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 4h

Neurodivergence is not a superpower or an elite club. And these people do not speak for anyone but themselves.

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 4h

Should have been obvious to people when energy prices soared after the pandemic that we should detach the global energy markets from the whims of corrupt petrostates, but then we elected the most irredeemable and stupid pieces of shit alive, and, well...

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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

term limits and age limits are populist bullshit meant to give people an out from admitting whats wrong with America: The Republican Party and their fucked up ideas.

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 4h

This is notably why anime based on ongoing manga tends to catch up and need to do filler arcs or hiatus One weekly episode can be the plot of ten or more weekly chapters. TV goes fast!

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 4h

Paxton’s support isn’t rooted in racism, it’s just an accident that every Paxton text I get is about being white.

YOUR NAME could be put on a terrorist watchlist in Texas...
...if you have white skin

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s notable that some foreign leftists actually did join the PLO and other groups in the 1970s. They were mostly idiots and sociopaths but at least they put their money where their mouth was.

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Bobby Schroeder @ponett.dog · 10/10/2026

it's so funny to be surrounded by queer kinksters going "yeah puppygirl petplay and cannibalism as a metaphor for love are SO played out and normie" and then see someone outside that sphere be like "omg, be careful online, there are people attracted to SONIC THE HEDGEHOG characters! can't unsee!! 😱"

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 13h

You guys are trying to play this cute game where, since you are too morally pure to have been Harris supporters, the outcome of the election wasn’t bad for you. But unless you are entirely devoid of empathy for all of the people who are suffering, who would not be, then you also lost.

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 13h

You still have never understood the point of the question and at this point it’s embarrassing. I don’t know if you and/or that guy voted or abstained. But regardless, unless you *wanted* Trump to win rather than Harris, or unless you genuinely believe it didn’t matter, you lost too.

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 15h

I didn't even bother saving the result it was too depressing

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 15h

I had an absolutely *immaculate* Tentpole movie going on, Leo was the lead, it had Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, it was a gangster revenge pic, R-rated and I could not find a good director, I used all my rerolls and I got the guy who directed Boss Baby 😰

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 15h

we can do that when we get the DOJ back in 2029

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yall wanna see a puppy with hiccups getting mad

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Aboorrent Abby @abhorrentabby.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Being trans is a lot like Gundam. You're thrust to the front line of a war you didn't make. Random adults want to kill you. Char is there.

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 17h

Saying this is very silly. It is even more silly in an election cycle when there are multiple progressives running all over the country they're just not in red states which are, by nature of red states, more conservative yes, run as Ds, win primaries, but also be strategic, jesus

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 17h

Well, that's an absurd thing to say

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 17h

yeah and the problem is that we haven't actually been doing that consistently though and those guys keep winning if it was her ahead of the indie, then the indie should drop out. but she's not, so she should

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 17h

No that's by not taking houses of congress

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1st Minnesota Volunteers Stan Account @himdogson.bsky.social · 18h

this is a very dishonestly framed article given that in the actual text of the article it acknowledges that he confirmed he stands by sponsoring the equality act after giving the answer the headline refers to, a fact that directly contradicts the headline

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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is just so ridicolous. Andy has talked for years about rebuilding Democrats in the South and competing in places the party has abandoned. Act like you mean it!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 20h

we found her, the one democrat who can completely fuck up a 2026 midterm race

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 18h

there's like 22 months every 2 years where you are indeed free to criticize shit Dems as much as you want - obligated, even, to do so. To hold primary challenges, etc But from Sept-Nov before an election, naw bro, it's all hands on deck, you're either fighting the fascists or dead weight

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 19h

Should people who abstained or voted third party be judged, harshly, for their failing an easy moral test? Yes, absolutely, they fucking suck, they did something monstrous to soothe their ego But they objectively did not cost her the election, it was inflation that did that

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 19h

yeah man not beating the illiteracy allegations, sorry

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