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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 14d

It's Taylor Swift Album Week! (Or so I'm told)

This week, Kelly and I talk about the Christian right's obsession with Taylor-as-TradWife, Pete Hegseth's love of massacres, and bid a sad farewell to recurring character Ryan Walters!

Here or wherever you get podcasts!

#055 – Taylor Swift: Christian TradWife Extraor... by Pod Only Knows

Kelly and John talk about the right's obsession with the idea that Taylor Swift is secretly, deep down one of them!

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 16m

The right-wing is terrified of empathy. They are terrified of feeling it, and they are deeply, profoundly terrified of seeing it.

Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 4h

At a raid on the drop-off line at a local elementary school, hundreds of parents had ICE surrounded within three minutes. ICE gave up and fled.

🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 40m

"we are going to track down who is responsible for this.”

You literally already did. He's literally in prison right now.

Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 40m

"Scott Bessent said that his department is launching a War on Terror-style campaign against progressive nonprofits."
“Charlie’s death is like a domestic 9/11,” Bessent said. “Just as after 9/11, and Osama bin Laden... was captured... we are going to track down who is responsible for this.”

Big Talk: Treasury Secretary Declares New War on Terror Against the Left

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that his department is in...

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 41m

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good!

🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 1h

Supreme Court to honor Charlie Kirk by ending the Voting Rights Act

From the New York Times:
Mr. Kirk believed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a destructive force in American politics, calling its passage a “mistake” that he said has been turned into “an anti-white weapon.”

He also blamed the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the law and was highly critical of the slain civil rights leader, calling him an “awful” person. Mr. Kirk said he desired a colorblind society but blamed the veneration of Dr. King for what he saw as America’s fixation on race.

Mr. Kirk was also a staunch opponent of affirmative action and was highly critical of the Supreme Court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, calling her a “diversity hire” who wasn’t qualified to serve on the highest court.

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 1h

Ladies and gentlemen, the Master Race:

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 1h

A few kings! Reach across the aisle! Find COMPROMISE! Occasional kings!

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 1h

Centrists to hold "SOME Kings!" rally on Saturday

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 1h

Well I guess that whole "the 1960s" thing was kinda pointless at this point

🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 4h

No, but! It's! But! No...but...

🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 4h

Reporter: "Uh, what about Janu..."

Johnson: "THAT WAS ANTIFA AND FBI PLANTS!!!"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 5h

Sure seems like a bad time to have an illegitimately-formed Court stacked with white supremacist religious zealots!

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 5h

Oral arguments in the SCOTUS case challenging the VRA - and whether it’s unconstitutional racial discrimination to prohibit legislatures from redistricting away minority voters’ political power - start shortly.

Here’s my preview - on the case & term: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

A 160-year-old campaign against civil rights heads to the supreme court

Louisiana v Callais could roll back what remains of the Voting Rights Act, putting the future of America’s multiracial democracy at stake

www.theguardian.com

🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 5h

So it is, in other words, working exactly as intended.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 5h

A Chicago teacher said tear gas deployed by ICE drifted toward a school playground, forcing students and recess indoors.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Chicago teachers say immigration enforcement near schools is scaring kids and disrupting class

Staff members are reporting ICE activity and patrolling areas around their schools and, in some cases, escorting families to and from school.

www.nbcnews.com

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 5h

I have UNSKEWED the FAKE NEWS "DATA"!!

MAGA!!!!

The graph showing the price of everything going up since Trump took office, but it's turned upside down to counteract the LIES and VICIOUS BIAS against PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP who has been treated Very Unfairly at levels no one has ever seen.

🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 7h

She is not a guardrail.

She is a career, dedicated antisemite conspiracy theorist.

That what she's saying here happens to align with reality is beside the point - she's saying it to promote hate. She's not an ally. I strongly encourage you not to further boost her voice.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 8h

a skull full of soup.

cinesthetic. @TheCinesth.... 13h
Teaser trailer for 'AMADEUS' starring Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany has been released.

Graham Linehan @Glinner 7h
How would you like to see Amadeus again, except this time Mozart is black?
Me neither! Yet here it is!

Clara @Americana Mama79 6h
That guy is black?

Graham Linehan @Glinner 6h
Apparently not but the point rrrremains!

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 17h

If any actual journalist ever again has the chance to interview a member of this administration, they must ask them to name - literally provide the name of - any one known member of Antifa and explicitly identify any one event for which Antifa has been demonstrably responsible.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

HANNITY: Antifa is working against the American people. What would that be called?

BONDI: It would be called organized crime. And that's what they're doing ... they are no different than MS-13

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 17h

I dislike the Los Angeles Dodgers of Anaheim

🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 18h

Fuck

R&B Legend D'Angelo Dead At 51

The singer won a Grammy for vocal performance for his hit single "Untitled (How Does It Feel)."

www.huffpost.com

🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 19h

"Don't you hate learning in a CLASSROOM from a HUMAN?!"

"No."

"Well great news, soon you won't have to!"

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 19h

"Hey guys you know how everyone hates the experience of intimately bonding with other humans??"

"No."

"Us too! And some EXCITING news on that front...!"

🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 19h

The entire tech industry exists solely to cater to the needs of people whose greatest fear is interacting in any capacity with a human being.

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 19h

Current Bluesky poster John Brooks warns that water is "wet"

Former special counsel Jack Smith warns that rule of law is 'under attack'

In his first public remarks since leaving the Justice Department, Smith said he's sad and angry about the dismissals of career public servants and the loss of credibility the DOJ has suffered.

www.npr.org

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 20h

I...
It's...
I'm.............

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 21h

The sexts are AI
The verified adults are AI
All is AI

🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 21h

Ah yes but did you KNOW the KKK were DEMOCRATS?!?!

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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