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M. Velez

@thunderstick.bsky.social
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Working Man, Part-Time Podcaster, Possibly The Mysterious Masked Hero ThunderStick www.tobecontinuedafanboypodcast.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21h
It's not "super intelligence." It's not even "intelligence." It continues to fuck up easy questions, like to whom I dedicated my most recent book. Also, Mike Johnson is a craven, simpering weasel and none of the people standing near him in this video respect him even the tiniest bit.
"To whom did John Scalzi dedicate The Shattering Peace"

"John Scalzi dedicated his novel The Shattering Peace to his longtime editor and friend Teresa Nielsen Hayden"
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 21h
i wish baseball teams could resolve their differences without resorting to baseball
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 21h
How is it possible that we’re still here twelve years later
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22h
A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-…
Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The GOP is going to get worse before it gets worse
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Area Dad Sure Knows A Lot About Local Weather Woman theonion.com/area-dad-sure-knows-a-…
Area Dad Sure Knows A Lot About Local Weather Woman
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 29/09/2026
“Elon Musk is the single greatest counter-argument against capitalism to ever exist. The man has grown his inheritance of apartheid wealth into a business empire sustained by a seemingly infinite supply of failed promises and absurd predictions.” www.liberalcurrents.com/tax-the-weal...
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Tax the Wealthy, Not Wealth
Don’t miss the forest for the tallest trees.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Mike Johnson on what Republicans will do if they hold the House: "What we would do in the next two years is exactly what we have been doing already"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
John Kennedy keeps asking Jack Smith questions about his wife. Smith repeatedly tells him he's not going to talk about his family.
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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think probably the long 20th century ends between 2007 and 2012 and the 21st century begins between 2008 and 2013. At least in terms of American history.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 29/09/2026
Interesting that conservatives are concerned about ruining the lives of male college students accused of rape but have little concern for the lives of girls and women forced to give birth against their will
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Libraries do not mess around.
Libraries employ bounty hunters to bring in people with overdue books dead or alive.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
run this as an ad right now
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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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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I will go so far as to say Jamelle has more followers on here than Rahm Emanuel will get votes
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They’ll say they just want a Christian country but turn around & deport Haitians & Mexican. Then they just want a country of English speakers, or job creators, but the b they are after South Asians. The longer you delay just identifying them as racists the greater their advantage
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not much on this yet, but I certainly hope this reporting proves accurate.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Pope can’t resist his pizza.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Someone’s finally giving him something besides another White Sox jersey.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from?
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ceeks @ceeks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
abc you got me all wrong
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rufo literally offered a bounty to anyone who could produce a video of Haitians eating dogs. He got nothing. So he found a video of Congolese men grilling chicken and tried to claim they were cooking cats.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Enough with the niggers, enough with the jewrats" This important message on X the Everything App has been brought to you by Home Depot, McDonalds and Disney.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is absolutely correct, but I worry that "truth and reconciliation" will sound too foreign to Americans who have long been allergic to truth and/or reconciliation. I'd just say "we're finally going to hold people who broke the law and violated the Constitution accountable for their crimes"
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M. Velez @thunderstick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy to be sponsoring the CSAM Generator/Nazi Bar are ya', Home Depot?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"X is better now than ever."
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 29/09/2026
"Soviet propaganda had to break into an American's media diet from the outside, past editors and gatekeepers who decided what got printed. Modern influence operations do not break in at all. They are already inside, sitting in the feed between a cousin's wedding album and a meme about gas prices."
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Social Media Has Not Brought Liberation
Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.
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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Mostly-male cops and prosecutors find it more believable that a 20-year-old would want to have sex with a room full of fraternity brothers than accept that she was raped. What ever happened to common fucking sense?”
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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 28/09/2026
💯💯💯💯💯 If we’re serious about the Third Reconstruction, we must hold the Trump administration and its enablers accountable for their many crimes and human rights abuses.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's no real point in arguing with his mouth noises, particularly not when preaching to the Bluesky choir, but this is *noteworthy* nonsense. If the revenue were real (it's not), then it would be revenue *of the United States government,* equally available to a Democratic Congress to spend.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
It's also worth noting in this context that in the United States "marital rape" - that is: the rape of a woman by the man to whom she's married - has only been illegal in all 50 states since 1993. Nineteen ninety-three. (And there are still a lot of loopholes npr.org/2019/05/04/7...) 9/
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.
Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In two weeks, Russell Brand goes on trial in the UK on rape and sexual assault charges in cases involving six women. Tomorrow in DC, he's appearing at a MAHA gathering to 'moderate' a discussion with Dr Oz about medicare and medicaid. What the hell?
1:55 to 2:25 pm Reforms at CMS

Chris Klomp Chief Counselor HHS

Mehmet Oz, Administrator CMS

Moderated by Russell BRand, comedian and brodcaster
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 28/09/2026
You think we’re just going to move on from the secret police rounding up our neighbors?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is legitimately very funny
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'd like to see James Talarico wiggle his way out of this jam
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the two big ai stories to kick off the week are - meta ai giving your address to strangers on fb marketplace - stole a scientific breakthrough and presented it as its own work this is what we get instead of healthcare or third spaces or public transportation or pick literally anything else
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
if i were a foreign government looking for an edge, id probably try to convince america that climate change is woke bull shit and combustion engines are for real men with penises, all while also convincing them to invest every dollar in bull shit tech while we take the lead on green energy
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.
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Jill Pantozzi @jillpantozzi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Last month, a Google alert directed me to an interview I did with cartoonist Matt Furie—creator of Pepe the Frog…only I haven’t done any interview and I’d never even met Furie. So I clicked. "None of this is true": AI, content farms, and one completely made-up article. bsky.app/profile/then...
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Be brave enough to stand up for the vulnerable even if you believe it won't work. Be brave enough to be that person. For the love of God and the lives & futures of actual human people, be brave.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/09/2026
Man Tries To Save Marriage By Complimenting Wife’s Jacket theonion.com/man-tries-to-save-marr…
Man Tries To Save Marriage By Complimenting Wife’s Jacket
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Ruairi Dubh @ruairidubh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
✨Bullet Shattered Cafe windows in Paris 1944 by Photographer Lee Miller✨🇨🇵💥
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 28/09/2026
Star Trek: The Next Generation started 39 years ago today. The future began again at this (Encounter at Far)point.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 08/09/2026
Facebook as currently constructed is incompatible with multiracial, multicultural, electoral democracy
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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not knowing who directed Return Of the Jedi is true, deep fandom. If you know who it was, then you’re a fake fan.
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