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Gene Ahern @geneahern.bsky.social · 22h

“the world became stupider”

Internet Archive and Open Library founder Brewster Kahle on a 'the operation was successful, but the patient died' moment. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost

“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

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Gene Ahern @geneahern.bsky.social · 22h

His sense of movement is equal to his sense of borscht belt comedy: abysmal
And similar to the ability to catch a ball

FOTUS chokes playing catch with Yankee pitcher Mariano Rivera, July 2020.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

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Gene Ahern @geneahern.bsky.social · 1d

Nancy Pelosi reaches the conclusion we should reached with him before 2016. Trump is 'worst thing on the face of the earth'. He should have, like Hitler, been drowned at birth.

His existence gives permission to Germany to fall back into Nazi-ism and the rest of the world to follow.

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VanillaRage @vanillarage.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine,if you will: Laura Loomer—Trump’s botoxed Rasputin, hissing conspiracies, frothing hatred, and basking in her delusion of power.
A carnival ghoul in dark robes, as welcome as a flesh eating virus at a family picnic, proving that extremism not only survives—it gets facelifts.

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Gene Ahern @geneahern.bsky.social · 1d

Love this POV

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Gene Ahern @geneahern.bsky.social · 3d

This methodology explains every post FOTUS makes on his personal social media platform truth social (of which he owns 52%).

Starting with its nomenclature that posts are called “truths” and reposts are called “retruths,” it is all propaganda.

Sully Dawg @sullydawg2.bsky.social · 4d

The Propaganda Test

Gene Ahern @geneahern.bsky.social · 5d

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Gene Ahern @geneahern.bsky.social · Aug 26

Cheerleading this call to violence, in addition to FOTUS and his entire cabinet, is Heritage Foundation's Kevin Roberts who is desperate to scratch that itch.

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Comics in the Golden Age @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 6d

Pogo by Walt Kelly from October 31, 1955. One of several annual strips marking the birthday of his daughter Kathryn Barbara Kelly, who died as an infant. In these strips, the bug was always trying to deliver a cake with one candle to someone for their first birthday but could never find them.

Bug is rowing past Pogo and Churchy and asks them if either is one year old today. He is “looking for somebody what trying hard to be a year old—not everybody makes it-I got a cake here for he who do-“

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 15d

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

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Gene Ahern @geneahern.bsky.social · 6d

From Andrea Gibson’s book Take Me WIth You

Black and white drawing of a freshly carved pumpkin, blow which in all caps: for Halloween I’m going to be “emotionally stable.“ No one is going to know it’s me.

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Gene Ahern @geneahern.bsky.social · 6d

Privacy-walled link, but Go Vegans

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6d

The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.

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Gene Ahern @geneahern.bsky.social · 6d

This is the _smallest_ measure of justice for Virginia Giuffre. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

Prince Andrew stripped of 'prince' title and will move out of Royal Lodge

Buckingham Palace says he will now been known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. Virginia Giuffre's family say she has

www.bbc.co.uk

Gene Ahern @geneahern.bsky.social · 6d

Serial liar's claims of lies are lies.

This is the entirely of the FOTUS regime.

It's why the head of the snake is what has to be cut off: top-down management trajectory collapses with elimination of the head. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Kristi Noem: "No American citizens have been arrested or detained. We focus on those who are here illegally. And anything you would hear or report that would be different than that is simply not true and false reporting."

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 7d

Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success

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Gene Ahern @geneahern.bsky.social · 7d

@blackholefun.bsky.social offers perhaps the most plausible explanation for Mike Johnson's failure to act in any way. He's AI slop. bsky.app/profile/thed...

Der Fisher @blackholefun.bsky.social · 7d

You now have me convinced that Mike Johnson is an LLM whose training data stopped last year 😂

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Gene Ahern @geneahern.bsky.social · 7d

Graham follows up this article with evidence in North Carolina of gerrymandering, changing rules, +.

It's something of template of how it can be rolled out nationally.

It's what @marcelias.bsky.social (quoted in the article) is focused on defeating www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

North Carolina Is the Canary in the Election Coal Mine

Americans don’t have to imagine what attempts to subvert an election could look like, because it’s already happening in one state.

www.theatlantic.com

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Comics in the Golden Age @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 7d

Cover by Carl Barks.

Walt Disney’s Donald Duck #26 (1952). The cover shows Donald opening his door to find the Witch Hazel on her broom, accompanied by Huey, Dewey, and Louie dressed as a devil, a witch, and a ghost.

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Gene Ahern @geneahern.bsky.social · 7d

Steve Bannon in his recent interview with The Economist said FOTUS will have hoods third term in 2028. He didn’t say how. @anneapplebaum.bsky.social gives us David A. Graham’s warning about some ways this power grab could take place.

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 9d

Americans are on the verge of losing their ability to choose their government. But they don't seem to have realized it yet.

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 9d

Donald Trumps plan to subvert the midterms is underway
From David Graham, on the cover of the next edition of @theatlantic.com

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Gene Ahern @geneahern.bsky.social · 9d

Here in a nutshell is the Republican side

Cartoon of Rupert Murdoch with a plate FULL of cookies addressing blue collar hard hat with one cookie on a plate sitting opposite a brown person without a plate.
Careful.
“That foreigner wants your cookie.”

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 10d

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

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Gene Ahern @geneahern.bsky.social · 13d

Fascism in aesthetics bsky.app/profile/theg...

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14d

‘Dictator-for-life vibes’: our architecture critic on Trump’s bulletproof ballroom bling

He has already turned the Oval Office into a wrestler’s changing room. Now the president is building a place so gilded Nero would feel at home. Why did he pick an architect whose speciality is Catholic churches?

www.theguardian.com

Gene Ahern @geneahern.bsky.social · 13d

"He has already turned the Oval Office into a wrestler’s changing room. Now the president is building a place so gilded Nero would feel at home. Why did he pick an architect whose specialty is Catholic churches?"

Fascist aesthetics in evidence. The White House is known as "the people's house." Was.

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Comics in the Golden Age @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 13d

From Li'l Folks by Charles M. Schulz.

A small child shouts "How do you expect me to sleep with the rest of the world tossed in turmoil?"

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