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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 7h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

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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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 6h

prose style that anyone who has ever graded undergraduate papers can immediately identify as "roommate's Adderall, 3 AM"

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 20h

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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Infield Fly Girl @infieldflygrl.online · 6h

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Beetlejuice Delores @beedelores.bsky.social · 7h

~$500 behind in bills because a month of doctor appointments and a pub that haven’t paid me. Anything helps!

Beetlejuice Delores @beedelores.bsky.social · 2d

That pub from two months ago STILL hasn’t paid me. Any help would be appreciated. 💜

Related: I think I’m going to finish out this year and figure out what else I can do besides writing… 😭

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 7h

Stepping to Derek Guy is like accepting Isaac Chotiner’s interview request. The moment you do it, your fate’s decided.

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 6h

that's why his ass is so big. it's full of homers.

🦅 Dan 🦅 @jhsbmvp.bsky.social · 7h

Judge is an incredible baseball player but when a catcher nicknamed for his prolific posterior hits 60 homers you don't need to overthink this

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 16h

The "you wouldn't download a car" screen but it reads "you wouldn't scrape all the art ever made and use it to create an Anime titty generator"

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MovingTrainMedia @movingtrainmedia.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunate.

Here is a seven year old palate cleanser if you need it.
by Rebel Diaz.

FVCK I.C.E.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9C1...

Rebel Diaz- FVCK I.C.E

YouTube video by Rebel Diaz

www.youtube.com

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Rachel Cholst @rachelcholst.bsky.social · 1d

Against of course! I won't malign his character like that. But it's the most boomer lib-coded drivel

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Rachel Cholst @rachelcholst.bsky.social · 1d

It features incisive commentary like how ICE agents couldn't make the cut for the police academy

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Rachel Cholst @rachelcholst.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no. Jesse Welles has a song about ICE now

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Dr. Rebecca Dickinson, LISW, RPT-S @dickinsonmsw.bsky.social · 1d

It would be really nice if @cswe.bsky.social & @naswsocialworkers.bsky.social took a vocal stand on why social workers students need these courses to be both effective and ethical practitioners with the marginalized populations they will work with.

Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 1d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Rachel Cholst @rachelcholst.bsky.social · 1d

I feel for his security detail

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White Water Tavern @whitewatertavern.bsky.social · 1d

Today! Arkansas Community Advocates and a Food Not Bombs Potluck ft live performances from STEPHANIE SMITTLE, WHATEVER THIS IS, and a sing a long w/ CORNBREAD & ROSES * 6pm-10Pm * Tickets available for $10 at whitewatertavern.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

Live rn from a tiktok user at Broadview, Pritzker still has the Illinois state police out in force protecting 🧊 and brutalizing protesters there

A line of riot gear police with clubs advances on protesters in a “designated free-speech area” near Broadview, Illinois ice facility

Police aggressively clash with protesters, dragging one to the ground

Line of police before they started attacking protesters. Footage is from TikTok live of Amanda protests.

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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · 2d

We are looking for volunteers who are interested in writing 300-350 words, (about 1-2 paragraphs) on how disability is portrayed in horror movies. Deadline 24th October 2025
Contact Richardamm(at)gmail.com
Find our free disability zines: linktr.ee/disabilityark

Horror & Disability. Help us write disabled takes on horror movies for a free zine. We are looking for volunteers who are interested in writing 300-350 words, (about 1-2 paragraphs) on how disability is portrayed in horror movies. Please feel free to reach out for more information. Deadline 24th October 2025
Contact Richardamm(at)gmail.com
Find our free disability zines: https://linktr.ee/disabilityark

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 1d

Stella Sacco
@antlervel.vet
It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"
April 23, 2024 at 1:28 AM © Everybody can reply
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Lis Schendel @schendel.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly I’d cry

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Seen in Maywood, Illinois

Handwritten sign on parked car dash that reads ZIP TYING CHILDREN IS FUCKING WRONG

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Rachel Cholst @rachelcholst.bsky.social · 2d

QPL is EASY! I still need to get my Brooklyn card

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Rachel Cholst @rachelcholst.bsky.social · 2d

Did you all see that Tyler Childers has a bookclub thing with Libby?

pages.libbylife.com/TylerChilder...

Hickman Holler Reading Club x Libby

These handpicked titles reflect the stories, voices, and themes close to Tyler Childers' heart.   Borrow and read them with Libby.

pages.libbylife.com

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Rachel Cholst @rachelcholst.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent thoughts on the impossibility of separating the art from the artist

Country Universe @countryuniverse.net · Aug 31

Have had this one cooking for several weeks now: www.countryuniverse.net/2025/08/31/a...

A Separate Peace

Considerations on separating the art from the artist in 2025.

www.countryuniverse.net

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Rainbow Rodeo Magazine @rainbowrodeo.bsky.social · 3d

Contributor @joshfrmusic.bsky.social dissects the myth of authenticity in country music -- and takes us through a literature review of scholars and journalists hard at work to dispel it.

rainbowrodeomag.com/...

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 3d

"Lost Science"

Like ... I dunno man. Have you checked in with your paper's anti-trans science reporters who helped create this situation or?

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 4d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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