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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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🎃 Gourdon P. Squash 🎃 @dewterium2.bsky.social · 3h

Becoming rich selects for this, and being born rich just never gives you any grounding in reality to anchor to.

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🎃 Gourdon P. Squash 🎃 @dewterium2.bsky.social · 3h

I think it's this. Without the real world constantly correcting you, most of us would end up weird in some way or another, probably.

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🎃 Gourdon P. Squash 🎃 @dewterium2.bsky.social · 3h

I think no one ever stands up to them or questions them, so they lose all their social ability to filter out saying things that are nuts, or dealing with being told they're nuts.

It's like an alien with no immunity to Earth's bacteria and just melts on the spot.

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🎃 Gourdon P. Squash 🎃 @dewterium2.bsky.social · 4h

elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire and says freedom

ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire and says freedom

media.tenor.com

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🎃 Gourdon P. Squash 🎃 @dewterium2.bsky.social · 4h

If anything, you want to avoid looking pretentious.

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🎃 Gourdon P. Squash 🎃 @dewterium2.bsky.social · 5h

Saw this at work. Chuckled.

🎃 Gourdon P. Squash 🎃 @dewterium2.bsky.social · 20h

A nation of nepo babies too busy chanting about how awesome they are to actually do anything awesome.

🎃 Gourdon P. Squash 🎃 @dewterium2.bsky.social · 20h

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🎃 Gourdon P. Squash 🎃 @dewterium2.bsky.social · 20h

Go to Salt and Straw and get the Honey Lavender ice cream.

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Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 1d

New study finds Democrats represent public opinion better than Republicans: "the quality of statehouse democracy, here meaning the dynamic relationship between opinion and policy, is substantially weakened by Republican Party control of state government."

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

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🎃 Gourdon P. Squash 🎃 @dewterium2.bsky.social · 1d

I need to reconnect the drier hose, and I'm hoping to talk my 13 year old into shimmying back there, AFTER we unscrew a utility sink from the wall so you can even access the space at all.

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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 1d

Barron’s upstairs in the White House seeing what stock he can short tomorrow when his old man gets home and posts some more China sh*t. Market manipulation is real.

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🎃 Gourdon P. Squash 🎃 @dewterium2.bsky.social · 1d

I mean the "port" part of Portland, for real.

🎃 Gourdon P. Squash 🎃 @dewterium2.bsky.social · 1d

Hell yeah!

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 1d

Don Winslow

I think Democrats should implement this nationwide at all protests.

A competent attorney with a bullhorn directly communicating to law enforcement and the surrounding cameras.

This is a VERY smart idea.

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🎃 Gourdon P. Squash 🎃 @dewterium2.bsky.social · 1d

Hell yeah

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Preacher from the Black Lagoon @revpoppop.bsky.social · 1d

“Why are they upset about the frog?”

Because the frog has power. As silly as it sounds. The frog is not just a good idea. It’s our greatest weapon.

And I’m going to explain why…

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🎃 Gourdon P. Squash 🎃 @dewterium2.bsky.social · 1d

w00t!

🎃 Gourdon P. Squash 🎃 @dewterium2.bsky.social · 1d

If you get a chance, visit Camas in Washington. Go to the lake. It's a very charming town not far from Portland. Get a burger at K&M Drive In and eat it outside (if the weather's nice).

🎃 Gourdon P. Squash 🎃 @dewterium2.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, if you want to see "the economy" you have to go through Beaverton and Hillsboro.

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🎃 Gourdon P. Squash 🎃 @dewterium2.bsky.social · 1d

oh...Eem IS Thai food! lol...I've never been there. Will add it to my list.

Si Senor in Beaverton has really nice Mexican food.

🎃 Gourdon P. Squash 🎃 @dewterium2.bsky.social · 1d

Thai restaurants and Guardian Games holds it all together.

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🎃 Gourdon P. Squash 🎃 @dewterium2.bsky.social · 1d

Mark down another point in favor of Everyone Is 12 theory

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🎃 Gourdon P. Squash 🎃 @dewterium2.bsky.social · 1d

TOO REAL, ONION!

The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Ohio Begins Executing Random People In Hopes They’re Criminals https://theonion.com/ohio-begins-executing-random-people-in-hopes-they-re-cr-1851218315/

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🎃 Gourdon P. Squash 🎃 @dewterium2.bsky.social · 1d

Antifa airbenders

RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 1d

#OTD in 1944. Horrocks, H.M. the King, Gavin and men from American 82 Airborne Division. #WW2 #HISTORY