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Zeebucket

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“For he was a man of very little brain.” History, Literature, Tolkien, and politics, mostly.

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 16h
Here’s LL Cool J trying to explain Clausewitz’s “remarkable trinity” to an uncomprehending Joe Rogan
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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The song was The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda by June Tabor and I STAND BY IT, IT’S A BANGER
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“You secretly long for a cold-hearted Republican to lower taxes, brutalize criminals, and rule you like a king!” #TheSimpsons episode “Sideshow Bob Roberts” first aired on this day, October 9, 1994.
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Democratic candidates up and down the ballot take note: when your central thesis is "i have scraped dogshit off my shoe that has more moral fiber and respect than my opponent" you can land some real body blows on the other guy across a VARIETY of topics
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 08/10/2026
🧵 The Wehrmacht was a CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION responsible for mass crimes against humanity and genocide.🧵 🔥The mother of threads.🔥 Click below for an exhaustive discussion of the criminality of the German Army during WWII as I try to once again kill the cockroach that is the Clean Wehrmacht Myth!
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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...
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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA
Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...
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Piper @the-pied-piper.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Median Dem voter: My soul will remain in tumult until I bathe in the blood of tyrants. Break them upon the wheel and break them again. Median MSNBC Talking head: Sure there were some strong results but I’m worried Democrats still aren’t popular on the economy and we need to continue moderating
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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What would Fox News look like this morning if a Democrat had welcomed the killing of the residents of Houston and Salt Lake City at a rally last night? Hmm…
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The national security party!
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former
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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2026
comedians suffer one (1) consequence and turn into the whiniest men alive
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
hard to think of a cartoon that better sums up the mind of a Trump voter than this
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Kim @kimoco.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And his white relative comes up with racist conspiracy theories that the dead man was a sort of suicide bomber meant to harm local white population. This nation is full of racist sick people. I wish we could fix them.
But Diana, who had spent years working as a nurse in Ohio prisons, continued. She said her experience had taught her to think “outside the box,” and she offered a theory that none of the investigating authorities had suggested. She believed that what happened could have been more than a suicide, that Pierre could have been “almost like a suicide bomber,” attempting to send a political message. She said she believed that this could start happening more often.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026
Sword and sorcery moving spiritually enriching sublime "high" art!
LITRPG vapid juvenile commercial hack work "Low" art
Genre subverting LITRPG sophisticated irony philosophically challenging "High" art
Suppose I make a LITRPG that is self-aware and self-effacing
sophomoric intellectually sterile "low" art
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
holy shit, the Kansas senate race is tied if you want dems to take the senate, donating to @Hamilton4Kansas is probably the best bang for your buck given how little money has been put in the race to date vs. the other battlegrounds secure.actblue.com/donate/ksvf-web
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026
That’s more or less been my position www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-going...
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We Are Going to Win
Trump's revolution will fail, but we still have a long and painful road ahead of us.
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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It is kinda funny to me that most "reasonable centrist reforms" like Supreme Court term limits need constitutional amendments while making every woke college professor a supreme court justice is a simple 50% vote in the senate.
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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Imagine what we could create in a world where rage donations went to historical societies, libraries, and institutes instead of long-shot Senate bids.
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You gotta be fucking kidding me
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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Imperialism uses violence as a mechanism for administration, fascism uses administration as a mechanism for violence"?
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
he's so breathtakingly stupid
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Nick (derogatory) 🎃 @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One surefire way to get a repost out of me is to make a dumb joke with a Fromsoft death screen.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some books are lesser. It's ok to be a snob.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My neighbor told me the Middle East keeps eating his carrier groups so I asked how many carrier groups he has he said he just goes to PACOM and gets a new carrier group afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding carrier groups to the Middle East and then Pete Hegseth started crying.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
THERE IS NO NONPARTISAN SOLUTION TO A PARTISAN ATTACK ON DEMOCRACY
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
just like the Fugitive Slave Act, conservatives demand that they can impose their evil systems upon liberal states, democracy be damned, but if liberal states so much as offer a mild disincentive for evil to make conservative state maybe Suck Less then it's unconstitutional tyrannical overreach
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One month until midterms one month until midterms one month until midterms one month until midterms
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You're losing the war you started for no reason, dumbass.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I really think Jon Ossoff, James Talarico, and a few others are in the process of creating a new kind of language, a new politics, for the era of Late Stage Trumpism. As I argue in the piece, the banal cruelties of sunsetting Trumpism are all around us, and some Dems are pointing to a way out.
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solomons.bsky.social @solomons.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“What do you mean they can deport abandoned children?” “What do you mean you can be refugee for being a persecuted white South African but not a persecuted woman?” “What do you mean being abducted and enslaved by terrorists makes you deportable terrorist?” Immigration law is worse than you think.
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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You don’t start an attack with small arms. In woke 1, we were sending in infantry to do artillery’s job. The Cornell Daily Sun has spotted the target and called in the fire mission. The mayor of Ithaca has zeroed the enemy’s position. Fire for effect.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ITS THE LAKE OF AMERICA. ITS THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR. ITS THE GULF OF AMERICA. ITS SUPER INTELLIGENCE. You people sound like fucking North Koreans
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John Bolton's Mustache @jonboltonsmustache.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This will result in service members being killed.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay “They were men who felt that The Time Had Come. Regimes can survive barbarian hordes, crazed terrorists and hooded secret societies, but they're in real trouble when prosperous and anonymous men sit around a big table and think thoughts like that.”
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Even if a federal prosecutor was watching the Atlanta Hawks and not the Iowa Hawkeyes, I still think crime should be treated as illegal, and coup attempts should be treated as bad.
Rockwell "Freedom of Speech" painting
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Terrible Swift Sword Enjoyer @hamantaschendog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We need a dead-eyed rule of law Terminator
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
there's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Like we’ve already invented the superhero that turns to camera and tells you what kind of communist he is
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Michael Tracey is actively attempting to dox Jane Doe in the Cornell 7 rape case
Michael Tracey : If you happen to know who this Cornell "Jane Doe" is, get in touch and I would be happy to publish her name and identifying information. And yes -- this is 100% permitted under the First Amendment, whatever threats or emotional blackmail people might want to deploy"Report" me for what, exactly? Save your breath, scumbag. Sorry you hate the First Amendment so much. Her identity is obviously newsworthy at this point, and I will take extreme pleasure in reporting it. (Not "doxing" -- that's a total canard)
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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yeah a lot of comments about "I want Batman to be about municipal policy" just comes down to, frankly, people who are too lazy to read non-fiction books about municipal policy
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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are sitting at a table, in front of a game board set up with several character figurines and various pieces of landscape terrain. On the table is also a measuring tape and a scattering of dice.
Green: Okay, that makes six. How many points did we need to dodge that strike?
Blue: Eight.
Green: Oof.

Both of the foxes look at the board pensively.
Blue: I guess that concludes the campaign. Another party wiped out in their first combat encounter.
Green: At this point we're just feeding adventurers to highwaymen.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
*whispers* stunt on these hos
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