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Moses Carr @mosescarr.bsky.social · 15m

We call you the Fake Christian, Mike. Taking away school lunch and health care from less wealthy folks. How does that fit in with Jesus's teachings?

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Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social · 1d

NEW:

A dramatic voiceover video the White House and Donald Trump shared last week claiming to show "chaos" in Chicago is littered with outdated footage from Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Nebraska, California and Arizona, an AFP investigation found.

factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

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Moses Carr @mosescarr.bsky.social · 5h

Perhaps they're trying to get pro-Trump counter-protesters to show up to undercut the protests or to stir up trouble.

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Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 8h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Moses Carr @mosescarr.bsky.social · 8h

"Let them eat Trump steaks"

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 8h

"you should bow down to the king who provides for you" is certainly one possible counter-message

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Moses Carr @mosescarr.bsky.social · 8h

To me this facial expression suggest that he's an unhappy guy who believes he's better than everyone else.

Moses Carr @mosescarr.bsky.social · 8h

Why does Vance have this priggish, unhappy look on his face so much of the time? Is it supposed to convey toughness?

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Moses Carr @mosescarr.bsky.social · 9h

Those ads come off like something straight out of Starship Troopers

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Moses Carr @mosescarr.bsky.social · 2d

Re: Trump's 20 billion dollar bailout of Argentina and its libertarian President Milei

Moses Carr @mosescarr.bsky.social · 2d

Weather-appropriate song by a group of Phillips Academy students circa 1966.

The lyrics are overly earnest but it's a good song for a bunch of teens!

youtu.be/MSTH-MLeTBU?...

The Rising Storm - The Rain Falls Down

YouTube video by SaevarMarkus

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Moses Carr @mosescarr.bsky.social · 3d

Boycott Spotify!

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app

Musicians have long criticized the streaming service’s paltry payouts, but a new wave of boycotts is emerging

www.theguardian.com

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 3d

Stock market! Do not crash! I was joking!

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

“Don't worry about China, it will all be fine! Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment.”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

When you’re that rich no one ever tells you to shut the fuck up so you think everything you have to say is interesting

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 3d

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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Race Bannon @racebannon.bsky.social · 4d

This is my favorite thing on the internet today.

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Moses Carr @mosescarr.bsky.social · 4d

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 4d

Remembering Diane Keaton 🤍

More on her life and legacy: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 5d

here to discuss the field mouse question, please welcome three different kinds of owl

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 6d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 5d

"Its not our shutdown, look at how we're using it to do what we've always wanted"

Politico @politico.com · 6d

Trump said his administration will begin cutting programs backed by Democrats as the government shutdown stretches into its ninth day.

“I hate to tell you, but we are cutting Democrat programs,” the president said.

Trump promises cuts to programs favored by Democrats

“I hate to tell you, but we are cutting Democrat programs,” the president said.

www.politico.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Moses Carr @mosescarr.bsky.social · 6d

People's exhibit number 793 demonstrating yet again that Donnie does not give a f#@% if the words coming out of his piehole are true or not.

Here, he's talking out of his arse and trying to manufacture "alternative facts"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."