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The Marriage Braggart @bombsfall.bsky.social · 13h

If the US can ever vomit this stupid era out we're gonna need widespread all-ages education on basic facts like when you'd see old billboards or MST3k shorts advertising the concept of hand washing or being good. Stop Using Gasoline To Wash Clothes. Springs Are Ubiquitous & Essential To Modern Life

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J @jaseomcn.bsky.social · Jun 15

Thought I had posted it on here before but apparently not

CHILDREN YELLING: MCDONALDS! MCDONALDS! MCDONALDS!

Where would the Taoisigh stand on this:

We have food at home:
Harris, Dev, the Cosgraves, Costello
Garret

*Pulls into the drive through as children cheer*
*Orders a single black coffee and leaves*
Varadkar, Bruton, Kenny

"MCDONALDS!
MCDONALDSI MCDONALDS!"
Lemass, Lynch, Bertie

“Fry”
Cowen

“Ortolan”
Haughey

Doesn’t make it to McDonalds
Reynolds

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 12m

The good news is that we could probably deal with those 400 people over a long weekend as there’s not that many of them and they wouldn’t be that hard to catch

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17m

Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.

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Illiterate Autodidact 🇵🇸🙂👍🇮🇱☹👎 @cigaretteliker.bsky.social · 16h

The virgin AGI existential risk vs the chad global warming

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 7h

Truly can’t believe they took this quote
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-other-...

"They keep saying as loudly as possible, we're going to do more illegal partisan impoundments, and I think Democrats are seeing this and it just reinforces their sense they can't negotiate with these guys," Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, told me. "It's Darth Vader saying 'I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it any further'—again and again and again."

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 9h

He keeps seeing a tall figure in a black cloak in the corner of the Oval Office and it gets closer to him everyday.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12h

Sure, I can’t talk or think and parts of me turn purple and sometimes half my face is 2” lower than the other half and I talk about heaven regularly at inappropriate times but don’t let that fool you I’m as healthy as a horse.

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 9h

Would that it twer so simple

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A ★★★★½ review of Hail, Caesar! (2016)

This film is extremely my shit and I think it has some of my favourite bits in the Coen’s filmography. The scene at the start where the religious committee of different faiths is debating the nature o...

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 9h

Did you hear the pope put a monastery on a dirigible? Yeah, he wanted to make sure the faithful had air friars.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 9h

why does he keep bringing this up people.com/donald-trump...

Donald Trump Says He Doesn't Think He's 'Heaven-Bound' After Fundraising for Help Getting There

President Donald Trump is once again referencing his wish to be 'heaven-bound.' Speaking to press aboard Air Force One on Oct. 12, the president joked, 'I think I'm not maybe heaven-bound.'

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onion person @junlper.beer · 18h

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Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 10h

Is Mr Burns involved? He did make shells for the Nazis. But his worked dammit!

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 10h

Watching Hail Caesar. The bit at the start where the religious committee of different faiths is debating the nature of God is an all timer Cown Brothers gag.

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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 11h

Battlefield 6 doesn't have enough "grunt" dialogue. Like "Tajeekeestahn, why do they call it that?"

"Stan means 'place of', the people are Tajiks"

"Oh, why don't they teach that in school?"

"Maybe not in the 'special' school you went to, devil dog."

"Recruiter wouldnta picked me otherwise"

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 11h

I just want politicians to understand if you want the United States to still meaningfully exist in the future. That they are going to have to spend the bulk of the 2030s DeNazifying the American state and it’s going to be a generational project

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11h

Send every ICE employee to the fucking Hague.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 13h

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...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 14h

Anyone writing about the influence of these thinkers really needs to provide detail on what they have actually written. Most of it is incoherent, lacking any substance and often downright weird.

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 15h

Reading Thiel, Yarvin, Peterson et al. makes you realise what passes for intellectual iconoclasm these days is all absolute bollocks. Why anyone gives any of these people the time of day let alone credibility is baffling.

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Bom Tellino @bomtellino.bsky.social · 15h

It’s been said but it bears repeating: in addition to the people being abducted, all Chicagoans are being psychologically terrorized. Seeing feds driving/walking around and videos of violent attacks in places you know and love will fuck you up. Get ready, it’s coming to all of America soon.

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 12h

So we’re really truly fucked when the AI bubble pops

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 13h

"The U.S. is two economies. There's an enormous AI boom going on, huge investments, particularly in data centers. If you took that out of the numbers and you just looked at the non-AI parts of the economy, it's basically flatlining. We're on the cusp of a non-AI recession."
-- Me

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conure 🐦 @conure.cc · 1d

the cost of denying another's humanity is paid with one's own

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 1d

thinking about the liberal politicians willing to try to compromise with fascists by abandoning minority groups they don't really like - i wish they understood that fascists will come for everyone eventually. even themselves. fascism unopposed is a ruined state with everyone dead

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 12h

He knows he’s going to the special part of Hell that the Devil keeps for American presidents

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13h

Doocy: Does this help get you into heaven?

Trump: I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven. I think I’m not heaven bound.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13h

Lemme get this straight. Trump was chosen by God to lead America, or so says a good portion of Christians, but even he admits he's not getting into heaven. Think this audio would be funny to run as an ad on Sinclair stations

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13h

Doocy: Does this help get you into heaven?

Trump: I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven. I think I’m not heaven bound.

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