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Here to read history and awful takes, in that order. He/him

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Nick Kodama @nickkodama.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026
look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 05/09/2026
SHERIFF: On the victim's breath. What's that smell? REACHER BUT HE WORKED AT PAPA JOHN'S INSTEAD OF THE ARMY: Acrid, likely pepperocini. Parmesan, fontina... not your standard blend. It's got to be Tuscan six cheese, but there's no pizza box at the crime scene... Son of a bitch. Bread sticks.
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Virginia S. Ontario Possum @virginiaopossum.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Oh, everybody should see this. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/s...
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Your Cat Is Being Nice? Think Again. (Gift Article)
A new study finds that sometimes cats groom each other specifically to be annoying.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
anyway i think the proper takeaway here is that a bare majority of the court thinks the plain words of the 14th amendment mean what they say, that four members believe there is a secret hidden meaning only recently discovered by hack lawyers
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
if i had my way when that tarp and scaffolding come down both Trump and Kennedy's names will have been replaced with a sick-ass mural of Dale Earnhardt killing God with an X-Wing
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Playing on their turf never ever wins, not morally, not politically. Here's a response: "this is a wedge issue targeting kids, getting into their doctors' decisions. Next, they'll come for your hysterectomy, your vasectomy. And it's because they can't talk about the economy." Say Fuck You back
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
he still sees himself as American. Despite everything, EVERYTHING, this government and this nation did to him, he sees the strangers and neighbors who rallied to his side because it was RIGHT, and he chooses to believe in that America. He looks at America and sees HOME.
The Country He Still Believes In
Hernández Romero also reflected on the support he received from Americans during his detention.

His disappearance prompted an extraordinary campaign by advocates, lawyers, journalists, elected officials, and ordinary citizens who refused to let his name fade from public view. When asked what he would say to those supporters now, he expressed gratitude.

"I never imagined my name, my image, my story would be so influential in the United States," he said. "I never thought a large part of the American community would identify with the problem we were facing."

Then he offered a thought that captures the complicated relationship he still has with the country that both imprisoned and inspired him.

"By nationality, I'm Venezuelan," he said. "But in my heart, I'm American."
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 21/05/2026
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Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue @combatcavscout.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I don’t need to hear never-Trump or reformed or converted Republicans opinions on things, thanks. The best of them are catching up and that’s fine and all but they aren’t saying anything someone else hasn’t been already and most of them were actively part of the problem. Stop posting them.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.
Bugs Bunny giving a monster a manicure, caption: My I'll bet you monsters lead interesting lives.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/04/2026
The Epstein Cover-Up Goes All The Way To The Almost Top. theonion.info.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
in limited defense of michelle she is taking the L squarely, on the chin. like just absolutely clotheslining herself with the L. if people took their L's like this more often we'd be doing much better. L-taking should be a sacred rite
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Michael Jackson's music needs to be deleted and his grave desecrated for the countless children he raped
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
People in the Budapest Metro, Hungary, shouting: “Russians, go home!”
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Jonathon M. Floyd @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The self-censoring nature of many of the most important facts about Trump's presidencies is a load-bearing necessity for his career. The median voter cannot and will not believe that he is as bad as he actually is. They invent a less bad version of him that they can then be persuaded to support.
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
2 panel comic 

Panel 1: 
A Blue Person and a Red Person shaking hands. Both look very happy. Blue person says “We’ve taken all the gay out of our movie”. The Red Person replies “Thanks Pixar. Now I can tell my kids about gay people on my own terms”

Panel 2: 
Kids’ bedroom, night. Two children sit on the floor. Red Person is wearing a hoodie and holding a torch under their chin like they’re telling a horror story. On the wall is a poster with a scary silhouette entitled “The Gays”.
Red Person: “THEY’LL COME FOR YOU IN THE NIGHT”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/02/2026
Americans waking up to news that Prince Andrew has been arrested for Epstein ties
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squidward from spongebob squarepants looks out a window
ALT: squidward from spongebob squarepants looks out a window
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 15/02/2026
My English-Scots-Irish ancestors didn't die for multiculturalism; they killed for it. Killed Confederates who said shit exactly like this.
A racist tweet by Elon Musk:
For a country to survive, there has to be a common culture. Nobody dies to defend a "multicultural economic zone!" American culture, with its English-Scootts-Irish origin, is great and worth fighting for. Some may not realize it, but that's why people come here.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Some noble, inclusive, and democratic "real America" from the past is not coming to save us, nor are we doomed to forever live in an oppressive, racist, and exclusionary "real America" that has always existed. Both versions of "our" history are real. America's future is up to us.
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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
These shitheads have three settings: "I am an apex predator unjustly constrained by society's rules", "I'm not touching you, I'm not touching you", and "Guuuuuaaaaarrds!"
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
He prefers to be called Mr. President.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The fact that we can produce more food for fewer man-hours than at any other time in history by literal orders of magnitude is a fucking miracle, and we should be trying to expand on the implications of that, rather than rejecting it.
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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 09/02/2026
I have immense respect for indigenous cultures. However, it is deeply impractical to feed 8+ billion people sustainably and reliably without high-tech industrial agriculture. Ultimately, this is just reactionary, conservative pastoralism wrapped in leftist framing.
OP: farming in traditional and indigenous methods is what will SAVE the planet this capitalistic ass lie should disgust everyone"

quoted post: Bill Gates, intends to completely re-engineer the entire global food supply, to
artificial, "non-agricultural" methods of production which do not require "vast
amounts of land" under the guise of "saving the planet".
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Brian @xwingfella.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This is what full spectrum opposition looks like
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
If many people hold a left-wing opinion they are a mob and should be ignored; if few people hold a left wing opinion they are fringe and should be ignored. The substance or correctness of the opinion is irrelevant. This is the reactionary centrist credo bsky.app/profile/eliv...
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
A fine is merely the cost of doing business. We need to be throwing C-suite level people in jail.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."
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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Yeah it's a 75 million dollar bribe
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 31/01/2026
THEY'RE NOT AFTER WILL STANCIL
THEY'RE AFTER YOU
WILL STANCIL
IS JUST IN THE WAY
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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
"if they can get Jeff for being a pedophile, then they can come after me for fraud/organ farming/hush money to victims of son's DUI crashes/etc and that's simply not acceptable."
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Usili (Talia) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Bilbo looking at his phone top

on bottom is ChatGPT

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?

You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/01/2026
This is one of my favorite charts because the obvious implication is ... obvious, but you absolutely are not allowed to say it out loud in US public discourse.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
"[Some fear] republican gov. cannot be strong. … I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest Gov. on earth. I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern." Jefferson
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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This reminds me of one of my favorite stories. During a Javelin Thrust in Yuma one year, we brought two Navajo Code Talkers out to talk to the comm Marines about doing the job in WW2, get a brief on modern comm gear, and so we could ensure we still had Marines who could say they shook their hands.
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Head Engineer - Blinky Light Dept. @cppilgram.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Tangential, but I keep seeing an anti-military thread w/ a decent number of flat-out lies, the gist being: "don't join the military it's evil" and I'm sort of dumbstruck. We need a military, and ideally we should have moral people staffing and running it. Don't cede control of that to shitty people!
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Block instantly.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
please put me first on the "people who defended their neighbors" list. bold and underline it while you're at it
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Brian @xwingfella.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
The Montgomery bus boycott worked because black people made up a massive chunk of the transit network's revenue. The Target boycott worked because lots of liberals shopped at Target. The Bud Light boycott worked because chuds drink a lot of beer. You have to be a customer for them to care about you.
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Militant Nerd @militantnerd.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The number of Gestapo in Germany was 32,000. The population was 70 million. That's one Gestapo for every 2200 citizens. The number of ICE agents is 20,000. The population of the US is 348 million. That's one ICE agent for every 17,000 citizens. There are more of us.
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Jay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal: “No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle. “What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.” Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 10/01/2026
I wrote this almost 11 years ago theweek.com/articles/444...
When heavy military equipment is taken from its original context and placed in the hands of a domestic law-enforcement agency with little training in wartime scenarios, it becomes nothing more than an instrument of intimidation. It simply has no other purpose. Wearing jungle camouflage in an urban setting, pointing guns at civilians, driving around pointlessly in an armored personnel carrier — all of these egregiously violate military best practices. This is playing soldier dress-up to scare the pants off the locals — except the guns are real.

Notice also how many of these riot cops have their faces completely covered by gas masks and insect goggles. That is almost never seen in recent wars, because covering the face makes a soldier look less human, which is directly at odds with modern counterinsurgency thinking.

But covering the face to dehumanize the enemy is a common feature in first-person shooter games (like Half Life 2 and the Killzone series), where the player often has to slaughter them by the score. Doing it to oneself is, I think, a deliberate effort to broaden the emotional distance between law enforcement and the people who are being forced into submission.

It turns out that when you put normal cops into soldier gear, you don't get soldiers. You get paramilitary goons.
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 10/01/2026
the frontrunners for the Dems should be loudly announcing "we will dissolve ICE, we will delete your pensions, we will prevent any current ICE employees permanently from working in government and will prohibit any government contract to be issued to a company that hires a single one of you"
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Charles I was less tyrannical. George III was less erratic. Louis XVI cared more for his people. Nicholas II was less incompetent.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
One of the core purposes of right-wing media is to rewrite your memory and reprogram your moral response to an event you saw with your own eyes. George Floyd died of a heart attack. Jan 6 was a peaceful picnic. This process has already begun
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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
this is exactly why having to concede on deployment of the national guard was a big fucking deal
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