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TC @conover.bsky.social · 5h

Left Spotify today. Spotify’s strength is as an all-in-one audio platform. The founder and owner is a little Elon clone. Squeezing artists and aggressively making the world worse. There are may options that are good if not better for all your needs. No sense in handing money directly to fascists.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 17h

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

TC @conover.bsky.social · 5h

The scariest possible thing for the elites of this country could happen very soon. Once states or nations begin breaking away from the fascist death cult people will quickly realize they don’t need the federal government at all. Then the fascists become extremely desperate.

TC @conover.bsky.social · 5h

American democracy is dead. The values it was founded on attacked by fascists and neglected by performative liberalism. Americans who value freedom, democracy, and tolerance should band together to begin the renewal.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 10h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 6h

Fun fact: in chapter nineteen of the Second Treatise, John Locke writes that when the legislative power is usurped from that body in which the People have placed it, and exercised instead by a person or body not authorized to do so by the People, government is dissolved

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 10h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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TC @conover.bsky.social · 1d

Extremely good at telling rich conservatives what they want to hear.

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TC @conover.bsky.social · 1d

REAAAAALLY gonna need the off camera whining bitch fest to leak tomorrow

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TC @conover.bsky.social · 1d

The Isaac Chotiner & Derek Guy School of Owns

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TC @conover.bsky.social · 1d

21st century slave hunters bsky.app/profile/jame...

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

TC @conover.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is 21st century slave hunters. They are literally evil.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2d

This is just so very, very illegal. And Republicans in Congress aren’t the least bit interested in controlling the purse. They’re just employees of trump org at taxpayer expense. This is a dictatorship.

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 2d

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops trib.al/G0HMywT

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops

Left over R&D funds will be used to pay military members on Oct. 15, the Department of Defense said, following orders from President Trump.

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TC @conover.bsky.social · 2d

Fabulous

TC @conover.bsky.social · 2d

Like this review of The Pitt. lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-... Describes an aspect I couldn’t put my finger on. I thought I was into it because it both depicts competency porn and is competency porn in terms of Hollywood nailing a serial drama. But it’s actually cringe in an awesome way.

The Radical Cringe of “The Pitt” | Los Angeles Review of Books

Charlotte E. Rosen breaks down the political ramifications of Max’s “The Pitt” for subjects of an anti-expertise, anti-empathy fascist regime.

lareviewofbooks.org

TC @conover.bsky.social · 2d

Is there a review out there that describes wtf happened to Peacemaker? It was so disjointed it became boring and I realized I’d fallen asleep watching it. I had to go back and try again. I wish I hadn’t, was not worth it.

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Eli, from the Bad Site @fuzzbeedeli.bsky.social · 3d

A meme of someone saying "stop giving me your toughest battles" and jesus saying "You're literally just staying up past 10:30 to watch playoff baseball"

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 3d

Checks in on the baseball

Justin Klugh
@justin_klugh
JOE BUCK: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
BUCK: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
BUCK: oh god yes
1:13 AM • Oct 28, 2015 • Twitter Web Client
14.9K Retweets
1,997 Quote Tweets
29.7K Likes

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James Smyth @jamessmyth621.bsky.social · 3d

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TC @conover.bsky.social · 3d

Sweet Jesus wtf

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 3d

Trump to China: obey my command or I will destroy the United States

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TC @conover.bsky.social · 3d

Police are trained to use overwhelming force against a target. If they do not have overwhelming force they are to wait and call for more force. If more force is not coming, they back off. That is the entire strategy. A police force against ICE will not be a fight because the police will back off.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 4d

It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc

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TC @conover.bsky.social · 4d

Two of the biggest, most impactful hiphop tracks of the last few years was a Drake diss and the other started out as a Drake diss.
youtu.be/IXb9J187Wmo?...

Donald Glover (Childish Gambino) Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters | GQ

YouTube video by GQ

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 4d

The Administration

- raised taxes on clean energy with one big beautiful bill

- is stopping or making clean energy projects harder to be built

- is raising prices on materials with tariffs

- all while AI is spiking electricity demand

They are stopping supply while demand goes up

It’s a crisis

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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TC @conover.bsky.social · 4d

The Republican Party is a fascist death cult. Killing renewable energy programs is an intersection of corruption benefiting their gas and coal cronies while heating the planet eventually killing all life on Earth.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 5d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 5d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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TC @conover.bsky.social · 6d

American fascists intend to destroy America. It is their goal. It’s what they want.