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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 57m

No Kings might not “do anything” but it boosts morale and puts a bunch of likeminded people in the same place to meet each other and talk about other more useful things they’re doing. A clear net positive!

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 1h

This has the same vibes as when my dipshit MAGA cousin got mad she had to take any non-degree, liberal arts focused class at Vincennes University.

She ended up getting her vet tech certificate (and nearly as much debt as I did!) from this place.

www.vettechinstitute.edu/campuses/ind...

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 1h

“Do your own research!”

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 1h

Stop calling us Nazis or we’ll murder you over things you say

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Homan: "If the hateful rhetoric continues, there will be bloodshed. People are going to die ... there is going to be more bloodshed unless this hateful rhetoric stops."

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2h

our most radical leftists are tearing each other apart in the group chat about using AI to generate social media copy while the "Reagan would be rolling in his grave!" libs are openly speculating about ideas that would make Jan 6 look like a church potluck.

Micah @rincewind.run · 2h

many conversations I have had with complete normie libs, the kind who have a tote bag from donating to NPR and shop at Whole Foods, involve the kind of rhetoric that under no circumstances should be put on the internet

people are very mad

Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 2h

look i was recently talking to a septuagenarian life long dem (who shall remain nameless) and generic lib, and she was like “i just think there should be firing squads and they should sell tickets.”

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 4h

I’m sure it’s a veritable cocktail of things.

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 4h

Kanye at the height of his powers might be up there, but how much of his awful behavior stems from the nitrous addiction complicates the question

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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 6h

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 5h

Fuck ‘em up, Socrates

NPR @npr.org · 5h

Politico exposed racist and homophobic messages sent by leaders of the Kansas Young Republicans. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly said the state GOP modeled similar behavior in its own social media posts.

After racist Kansas Young Republicans chats leak, Gov. Kelly calls out posts from state GOP

Politico exposed racist and homophobic messages sent by leaders of the Kansas Young Republicans. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly said the state GOP modeled similar behavior in its own social media posts.

n.pr

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 5h

Final Fantasy IV, 1991 (Super Famicom)

Greg Fromenteau - Art @gfro-art.bsky.social · 6h

Little #fish and #ships #ink sketch last night - petit #croquis de porteflot hier soir.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 22h

these metrics are not meaningfully connected to the claim

Eric Daugherty: JUST IN: Stunning data reveals Christianity is SURGING in the United States

Bible sale: +41.6%
App downloads: +79.5%
Christian music streaming: +50%

What an amazing sight to see.

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 16h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

Sleepaway Camp
Hellraiser
The Thing
Bram Stoker’s Dracula

JP Jordan @jpjordan.bsky.social · 17h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

Get Out
The Honeymoon
Scream
It Follows

Chris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · 17h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

Scream
The Descent
The Babadook
Alien

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 20h

It’s time to abandon the idea of chasing after “swing voters.”

We gotta start targeting the angry. Those who have been failed by the system. Those who are being screwed every day despite giving it their all.

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 20h

This shit sucks.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 21h

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director
By IDS staff
Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm · Updated Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm

IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our newspaper. Upon pushback, the university fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision.

Media School Dean David Tolchinsky sent the order to IDS leadership in an email responding to its appeal that the school not censor the newspaper. And the dean attributed the decision to “the campus.” He has not yet responded to a message for clarification.

Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 23h

For me it’s always the hair. You’re gonna walk into a salon and ask for THAT?

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Michael @scottgoblue314.bsky.social · 1d

Unless Jeffries's every line is "I am not going to acknowledge the Speaker until he seats my duly-elected colleague", he's just giving up the game entirely

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 1d

the "protein powder has a zillion percent lead in it" story explains a LOT of the conversations i overhear while waiting for a bench to free up

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 1d

Funniest thing about this is all the conservatives saying it’s “college aged kids”/“boys will be boys” and it’s actually a bunch of subcreatures in their 30s-40s.

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

very annoying that we had to endure about a month of these people going “calling us nazis hurts our feelings” to then immediately be revealed saying nazi shit and going “yup, we want gas chambers. so what libs”

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 1d

…I have questions about the frequency with which you are approached for this

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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Charlie Browns mom: Waaah wah wah wah waaah waaah waaah wah

Charlie Brown: oh, you mean pigpen

Charlie browns mom: Wah way. Waaaah wahwahwah wah wah waaah waaaah wahwhawah wah wah

Charlie Brown: yeah I get that. It’s pretty bad over there but I don’t think they hit him

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 1d

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.