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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14h

Donald saying his wife calls him "Sir" is rather amusing. I know it's a lie—Melania probably *never* speaks to him—but it shows that he is more interested in pretending to be respected than loved.

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thesageofportugal (ironic) @sagebrennan.bsky.social · 7h

This eats at me constantly. I feel like our entire society has been dragged under the thrall of this genocidal cult. On balance, I would prefer to have learned about the whole Nazi thing from high school textbooks rather than this immersive experience.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?

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thesageofportugal (ironic) @sagebrennan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The new language surrounding AI is starting to give me fits of "misaligned agent activity." (h/t Fortune Term Sheet)

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thesageofportugal (ironic) @sagebrennan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm not going to accept the Kalshi founders as anything other than incidental destroyers of whatever remained of American culture before about a year ago, even if they aren't terrible people.

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thesageofportugal (ironic) @sagebrennan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

LITERALLY WEARING ROSE-COLORED GLASSES!! Surely, he’s doing this to intentionally “own the Libs” and I am so here for that. Fuck this permagrin doofus.

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thesageofportugal (ironic) @sagebrennan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Trump’s final rally of this election season, presumably November 2nd, probably somewhere Appalachia-adjacent, is gonna be WILD. “We’re gonna go down and occupy the dumocrat polling places… Stop the Steal. I’ll be there with you!”

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thesageofportugal (ironic) @sagebrennan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lifelong #redsox fans are like: everything about this season just feels exactly like a Sox season *should* feel, from beginning through the surge and to the end.

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thesageofportugal (ironic) @sagebrennan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Given the impact of climate change on the timeline of this glorious new shipyard, it will need to be built in, like, Kentucky.

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thesageofportugal (ironic) @sagebrennan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Most Americans instantly think: spoiled frat bros in small town Ivy League bubble with class/age/sex disparities — yep. But happens everywhere without media exposure. Kudos to student newspaper.

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thesageofportugal (ironic) @sagebrennan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Teachers all over France are linking arms in protection of their students who are protesting for more resources in schools, in advance of national elections in a couple of months. So moving. Wonder if kids in Red-State America will someday do the same, protesting oligarchs’ “charter school b.s.”!!

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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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thesageofportugal (ironic) @sagebrennan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Opinion | Brooks Potteiger brings scholarship and compassion to Hegseth’s Department of War.

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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i’m sorry, but i have to post this political ad

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance...

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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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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We cannot let ICE hide their crimes behind the anonymity of masks and cover-ups by the Trump administration Any citizens or immigrants harmed by DHS agents deserve justice-with both civil remedies and criminal prosecution, if applicable And we must rid the country of these bloodthirsty thugs

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have a relative—more distant all the time—who told me at Thanksgiving, "AOC is so stupid." I replied: "Back off from Fox News. It's turning your brain into porridge. I've watched AOL question witnesses in hearings and she does cross-examination with more precision than most $1k/hour NYC lawyers."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026

Q: Barack Obama just said 'if you put women in charge of every government for two years, things would be better.' Do you buy that? TRUMP: It's ridiculous. I love women. I think they're great. But what a ridiculous statement that is.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Democrats want to trans your kids—I just want to drug and rape them in Orlando hotel rooms." —Matt Gaetz

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23/09/2026

been thinking about this for awhile. you can point out how it's similar to what Bill Clinton said in the 90s, but it could also be Zohran starting a frankly overdue debate about the left approach to crime and bureaucracy bsky.app/profile/core...

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thesageofportugal (ironic) @sagebrennan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

‘Choosin Texas’ is not a song that I’ve ever heard, and I don’t know who Langley is. Guess I’m pretty out of touch. “The longest-running No. 1 hit of all time.”

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5 reasons why 'Choosin' Texas' is now the longest-running No. 1 hit of all time

Let's take a look at how and why "Choosin' Texas" has come to define and dominate the pop charts in 2026.

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thesageofportugal (ironic) @sagebrennan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Once the AI companies IPO, the pressure will increase to drive token pricing higher, and all of us ’normies’ — eventually, inevitably — will be priced out of commercial AI models, at least in the way that we currently are using them.

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thesageofportugal (ironic) @sagebrennan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Is Trump going to nuke Iran tonight because his precious Press Pool camera stopped putting his strong and smart face on his special TiVo?

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Friday night at @politicsandprose.bsky.social in D.C. we had a great convo with @nikobowie.bsky.social and @daphnarenan.bsky.social about their remarkable new book Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Govt By the People.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026

Rep. Ansari: "Imagine if drug companies just put out a drug onto the market without the FDA looking at those drugs, testing those drugs, and ensuring that they were safe to consume for the American public, it is exactly the same with AI."

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thesageofportugal (ironic) @sagebrennan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Donald Trump needs to shove his head up his own godzilla el nino.

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thesageofportugal (ironic) @sagebrennan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Huh. Yeeah this kinda feels right. A longtime casual acquaintance of mine designed the “Man” creation that was burned this year, and I’ve always had close friends who’ve burned every year. But this year I bet had a bit more of the dystopian edge that Burning Man has always contained.

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thesageofportugal (ironic) @sagebrennan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I am deeply afraid of what might possibly happen in blue-dot cities when Trump starts inciting violence and making less-than-oblique references to Jan 6 Heroes and other false narratives. Plus the news about possible food security and $8 gas potentially.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If a hit on the E-W pipeline is confirmed, stuff is about to get really, really stupid. Stupid…er.*

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thesageofportugal (ironic) @sagebrennan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Without all the sinners, this old codger wouldn’t have a goddamned job.

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thesageofportugal (ironic) @sagebrennan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The L.A. Memorial Coliseum, filled with the world’s wealthiest people, would contain more wealth than the bottom 40% of the world’s population.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Donald even gets 2/3 of his wives from overseas.

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Paul fulbrook @paulfulbrook74.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

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thesageofportugal (ironic) @sagebrennan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“End the Lawlessness” has a productive ring to it!

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Here’s the best shirt for Halloween. 🎃

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My man looks like Walker, Texas Stranger Danger

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thesageofportugal (ironic) @sagebrennan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

the money Amazon makes from payola exceeds the advertising revenue received by all the newspapers in the world by 300%. Alongside that number Jeff Bezos buying the Washington Post and turning its editorial page into a sewer of shitty Ayn Rand fanfic barely registers. pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/c...

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Pluralistic: Amazon achieves enshittification inception (04 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Basically, the United States is running short of key munitions because the insecure man-children running the country keep firing off expensive stand-off emotional support munitions as a desperate act of gender-affirming self-care. Alas, there are not enough TLAMs to make Trump or Hegseth into men.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 05/09/2026

It's absolutely not true that we shot all our missiles but we are going to go bananas tracking down who revealed that we shot all our missiles.

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thesageofportugal (ironic) @sagebrennan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

1/2 Markey is an excellent representative of the smart and kind people of Massachusetts, the commonwealth of my birth. I fully support him and respect the leadership he has maintained. Wonderful person.

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thesageofportugal (ironic) @sagebrennan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Is this to commemorate our stupendous victory in Iran?

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026

Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/

Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjuror,' a painting depicting a medieval con artist playing a shell game for an audience of astonished peasant rubes. The image has been altered: the conman now has Jeff Bezos's grinning head, and the mouths of all the peasants have been replaced with inverted Amazon 'Smile' logos, so they are now frowning.

Image:
Steve Jurvestson (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeff_Bezos%27_iconic_laugh_crop.jpg

CC BY 2.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“The new plastic POTUS Phone from Fisher Price will have your child feeling important and powerful, as they pretend to call foreign leaders and extort money out of them before ordering the murders of innocent fishermen in the Caribbean by their Secretary of Defense. Booster seat sold separately.”

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God @thegodshow.com · 02/09/2026

Thou shalt not use SHOCK GLOVES and ROBOT DOGS on HUMANS who just want to live in peace.

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thesageofportugal (ironic) @sagebrennan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Trump finding a way to literally launder money THROUGH THE PENTAGON is just, on its face… kind of a flex.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

New logo just dropped.

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thesageofportugal (ironic) @sagebrennan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Beware, carpet-bagging bankers flooding gleefully into SF. I lived that EXACT dream in 1998 and the underlying tech bubble soon slumped off into the Bay somewhere near candlestick.

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