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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
a fictional chart from 1995 to 2025 showing "guys who like sports" becoming more left-wing coded and "guys who says sportsball is the opiate of the masses" becoming more right-wing coded
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Turk! @turkenschmidt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I love when Walmart has something that was put up in 2005 and never touched since then
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
it's wild how republicans will be like "governing is bad, also elect me to govern you" and people do and they put their promise into practice and don't govern, run everything off a cliff, bankrupt everyone, light the world on fire, and after a while people forget about that and let them do it again
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Turk! @turkenschmidt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Our what!!!
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Cannonball Adderall @echoloop.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Orangey Snicket
@wooble.geoffreyspear.com
About 80% of the people who think trans women shouldn't be allowed to play sports also believe that cis women shouldn't be allowed to play sports.
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Turk! @turkenschmidt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I’ll never understand smoked meats as long as I live. I will never get wanting to preserve the awful taste of smoke like it enhances the flavor profile of the food
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Turk! @turkenschmidt.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It’s Rocco’s first birthday!
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Turk! @turkenschmidt.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Holy shit
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I wrote about the triumph of Doing Your Own Research and the stupid, nasty thing that is replacing some very recent history in real time. defector.com/were-just-go...
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We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector
In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 17/07/2026
The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/07/2026
Whoopsie daisy. 🤣😂🤣😂
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Turk! @turkenschmidt.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Knowing where this sign is it really does work as an ad way more than a PSA
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Turk! @turkenschmidt.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
God I love Happy Gilmore what a perfect movie for real
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Ashley Nichols @ashleynichols.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
90% of modern media criticism just sounds like this
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Turk! @turkenschmidt.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Whenever I see the phrase “vote with your wallet” a blood vessel bursts in my brain and idk why
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"This isn't me being gay, it's science" is a bar and I'm going to steal it.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/05/2026
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Trying To Draw Foul While Shooting Free Throw
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Turk! @turkenschmidt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
“Why the Democratic Party should be all about accepting me but nobody else” please turn to ash already
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Turk! @turkenschmidt.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I think everybody is tired of the double standard where a dem candidate can’t exist without every detail of their lives being scrutinized while republicans fart and shit into a microphone daily
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Turk! @turkenschmidt.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Paint it black is kinda an incel song
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
This is as detailed and as brutal an analysis of Ben Shapiro as you'll ever read. Incredible effort by Mike Brock. The detail here makes it all the more insane than some 'mainstream' podcasters are fawning over Shapiro...
The structure is one-way and worth naming plainly.

You concede every factual claim your interlocutor makes. Yes, Trump is corrupt. Yes, Trump tried to overturn the election. Yes, Trump’s loyalists are unfit. Yes, the reframing of January 6 is awful. Yes, the family enrichment is unprecedented. Yes, the response to political murders is morally egregious. You concede all of it.

You then argue that none of these concessions can justify changing your vote, because what you are voting for is policy. The policy is what matters. The character, the corruption, the constitutional vandalism — all of these are bundled with the policy and you cannot get the policy without the bundle. So you take the bundle. You take the wannabe dictator because you also get the tax cut, the conservative judges, the Israel alignment, the DEI rollback. The plumber fixes the toilet. The footprints on the floor are the cost of doing business.

When the interviewer asks what would constitute disqualifying behavior — the level of corruption, the level of constitutional violation, the level of cultural degradation — you respond that disqualifying is not a meaningful concept, because politics is binary and the alternative is worse. There is no level. There is no threshold. There is only the comparison. As long as Kamala Harris exists, Trump cannot be disqualified. As long as a Democrat exists who would do the wrong things on Israel or DEI or taxes, no Republican can be disqualified.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The new VERY hagriographic Michael Jackson biopic starring MJ's nephew is out at the end of the month. But back in 2004 an unauthorised and EQUALLY flattering biopic was made in Canada. Here is a clip and I promise you have NO idea where it's going. I haven't done a single edit here.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The US desperately suing for peace and Iran refusing. A war that the US, not Iran, started with a surprise decapitation strike a month ago. The most abject military and diplomatic humiliation in modern history. Trump should be dragged out in chains.
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball
Headline: 
Dow rises 300 points after Trump says U.S. in ‘serious' talks to end operation in Iran
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
99% of the time I see young men explaining why they're Trumpers and hate Democrats, it's not just erroneous, it's nowhere close to reality. They live in an alternate universe created by right-wing social media.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The historical parallel is Benedict Arnold’s popularity before and after he was outed as a foreign spy.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Umberto Eco is basically speaking to us from the grave. badfaithtimes.com/a-fuzzy-tota...
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A Fuzzy Totalitarianism
The total incoherence of fascism is its greatest strength
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Karl Marx on the American Civil War:
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
this one fucked me up so much. guy turns his life around after a drug conviction, becomes a happy, beloved, pet rescuing houseboat dad who undersells his mechanic services so poor folks can afford them. ICE grabs him one day out of the hospital for heart problems which then kill him. horrifying
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A Cuban dad did time for a marijuana bust 40 years ago. He died in ICE custody Thursday.
Isidro Pérez, 75, lived in Key Largo and had a conviction for marijuana possession in the 1980s. He was arrested on June 5 outside a community center.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The entire anti-trans care grift is built in treating the usual way medicine works as if it's a scandal. Therapists figure out if a kid is trans the same way they figure out if they're depressed. They ask questions, maybe using a formal scale to quantify how kids compare to similar kids.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
We used to call this stupidity. There were smart people and stupid people and we let the smart people do the things they were good at and the stupid people were taken care of and didn't need to worry about what the smart people were doing. But now we let the stupid people think they're smart.
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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 03/03/2026
"always the golfer, never the wildfire victim."
Photograph by Kristi McCluer: In the foreground, a golfer tees up on a green; in the background, the 2017 Eagle Creek wildfire burns.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Once again.
Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote:

"The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.

And our governments are very much the same."
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Such a perfect example of Pundit Brain at work: Harper says he always knew Trump was lying about being the peace candidate — but still turned that into criticism of Harris.
For the last time, I’ve never—once—called Trump anti-war. My point, made many times, was that Harris’ refusal to break from Biden on foreign policy left Trump a vacuum to LARP as the anti-war candidate. I said this was a disastrous campaign decision on Harris’ part. It was. 1/
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ceej @ceej.online · 28/02/2026
a tweet from the “department of war” calling the start of ww3 “OPERATION EPIC FURY”
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Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
didn’t ted bundy do this
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/02/2026
i'm a fan of the rhetorical one-two of "we're coming after you in this life and in the next"
Jen Bendery• @jbendery.bsky.s... • 2h Rep. Thanedar asks Lyons and Scott if they think Trump will pardon them and Noem.
Scott: "I don't need a pardon from anybody."
Thanedar: "You better hope so because you will be held accountable for the absolute disregard of the law your agencies have shown over the past year."
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Turk! @turkenschmidt.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
It’s Rocco’s 6 month birthday!
Rocco sittingRocco closeupRocco laying down Rocco getting ready
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Which brings us back to the funniest video in internet history.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/02/2026
crickets from the free speech crowd, of course
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
i am trying not to joke about the Epstein stuff because it's so horrible but there's also this ridiculous element where it's like... discovering Dracula is real, he's taken over human society at the highest levels, he's involved in tons of evil and also he's a huge dipshit
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