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Arizona fRight Watch 🎃 @azrww.bsky.social · Dec 23

Also taking pictures on media row at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest this weekend was Myron Gaines, the misogynistic, antisemitic host of Fresh & Fit who has used his platform to both deny the Holocaust and say that "Hitler was right."

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Jachra 🏳️‍⚧️ @jachra.bsky.social · 3h

I'm sure the Democrats will put a stop to it with a sternly worded letter 😒

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3h

Just received from a colleague: looks like Penn is going to join the universities refusing the extortionary Trump "compact". I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

screenshot of an email saying:

"To the Penn Community:

For 285 years, Penn has been anchored and guided by continuous self-improvement, using education as a ladder for opportunity, and advancing discoveries that serve our community, our nation, and the world.

Since receiving the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education on October 1, I have sought input from faculty, alumni, trustees, students, staff and others who care deeply about Penn. The goal was to ensure that our response reflected our values and the perspectives of our broad community.

Earlier today, I informed the U.S. Department of Education that Penn respectfully declines to sign the proposed Compact. As requested, we also provided focused feedback highlighting areas of existing alignment as well as substantive concerns.

At Penn, we are committed to merit-based achievement and accountability. The long-standing partnership between American higher education and the federal government has greatly benefited society and our nation. Shared goals and investment in talent and ideas will turn possibility into progress.

I am grateful to the Penn community for your thoughtful input and for what you bring to our University and our missions every day.

Sincerely,

J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD
President
University of Pennsylvania"

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Jachra 🏳️‍⚧️ @jachra.bsky.social · 14h

Libs will never believe us. It'll always be an exaggeration of the aggrieved until they see it with their own eyes.

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans: Stop calling us Nazi fascists!

Also Republicans: Anyone who disagrees with us should be sent to a gas chamber.

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BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 16h

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Jachra 🏳️‍⚧️ @jachra.bsky.social · 17h

There are some cats who have verifiably lived into their late twenties!

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Jachra 🏳️‍⚧️ @jachra.bsky.social · 20h

I hate to paraphrase Rand, but it's not about who will let him, it's who will *stop* him

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Jachra 🏳️‍⚧️ @jachra.bsky.social · 23h

I know Wicked doesn't, and that this is from an anthology, but a modern Oz-related adaptation that touches on Baum's occult and theosophic influences would be really interesting

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Jachra 🏳️‍⚧️ @jachra.bsky.social · 1d

This, too, is a fertility ritual

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · Mar 15

cop in The Wicker Man (leaving unharmed because he slept with that hot blonde): what a strange, sexy island

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Jachra 🏳️‍⚧️ @jachra.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, I don't think it's so bad that you can't

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Jachra 🏳️‍⚧️ @jachra.bsky.social · 1d

Begone to the JKR fire, Cawthon!

"Cawthon has donated to a myriad of political candidates and lawmakers that have been rightfully decried as homophobic or transphobic via their actions in office."

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.