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Friz(ombie!) @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 3h

STATLER; "This funeral is so boring, I'm jealous of the guy in the coffin! Ah ha ha ha ha!"
[Statler turns to the empty chair next to him and sheds one tear]

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 1h

the joy of moving from a day job to writing full time is the shift from managing other people's problems with low stakes (you get yelled at), to constantly creating your own problems with high stakes (you lose your house)

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 16h

Chris Van Hollen for Senate Minority Leader.

We need someone at the helm who understands the fight we're in and is willing to fight it. As far as I've seen, no one in the Senate Dem caucus is speaking with more clarity or conviction.

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 16h

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.

Looking forward to No Kings Day.

Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering

Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.

www.politico.com

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, the 2000 election & the 2016 election

Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 3h

Was there ever a more epic press failure than the 2024 election

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 7h

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 1h

really enjoying A CITY ON MARS by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. I am mostly enjoying the thought experiment of "how would we have to change ourselves, biologically, to not just spread throughout space, but even tolerate it"

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Michael E @michaeleichner.bsky.social · 1h

The 2024 media failures, from “fact checks” to active disinterest in Trump lies, to … everything is infuriating. When people say “I didn’t vote for this” sometimes I believe them, because the media whitewashed a TON of Trump’s more distasteful positions and statements.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 7h

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

• New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said that Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, "want to ... repeal the Affordable Care Act and elim nate protections for preexisting conditions." It's unclear what Trump would do, since he hasn't released a plan to replace the ACA. He said he would do so, if "we can come up With something that's better."

Schumer, meanwhile, was wrong to
say, as he did on the Senate floor April 28, that the bill goes "back to the day when insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."

perorats and Republicans have made
competing claims on whether the latest version of the GOP health care bill maintains protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. President Trump has said, "Pre-existing conditions are in the bill. And I mandate it." Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has said that
"insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."
Neither of those comments quite gets it right. The latest version offers lesser protections than the Affordable Care Act, but it doesn't allow insurers to deny coverage to someone with a health

Who's right? Like everything else in health care, it's complicated.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 19h

Bibi: i am in a partisan alliance with republicans and gonna play to the clock to fuck you over

Biden: sounds good

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 20h

i do not have a lot of tolerance for people whining that Netanyahu fucked Biden over in order to get Trump in office so he could do whatever he wanted. yeah. he absolutely did that. that was obvious before 10/7.

there is no person on Earth more incompetent as a foreign policy thinker than Biden

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🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵 @huwupy.kawaii.social · Mar 20

Guys I’m starting to worry about the width of this gyre

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 17h

do you ever think society was a mistake

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 17h

I tell myself this but I drove by a junkyard in Colorado with a light up Charlie display. maybe they’re crazier than we think, is the thing

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 20h

the two types of racist are food racist and sex racist. all racists fall into these two categories. hitler? sex racist. mussolini? food racist.

stephen miller? sex racist. jd vance? food racist.

despite being racist about food sometimes, donald trump is a sex racist

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

Food racism drives you crazy faster than most forms of racism

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 17h

The obstacle is that a lot of manliness is determined by first imagining a type of guy you hate, then saying the opposite is always manly

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 17h

when women wear shirts like “MAKE MEN MANLY AGAIN” it’s another one of those things that effectively says “I exclusively favor connections that result in my pain” (also, man, there is A Type of woman the MAGA ilk prefer and… that lady was not it)

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 19h

politico’s owner must have put in a call to the editors over the weekend, because their top articles on shutdown are comically one-sided against dems after reporting over the weekend that house republicans are starting to crumble

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 20h

the foreign policy of the united states during the gaza war should have been to cause the collapse of netanyahu's government by any means which were expedient

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 20h

i do not have a lot of tolerance for people whining that Netanyahu fucked Biden over in order to get Trump in office so he could do whatever he wanted. yeah. he absolutely did that. that was obvious before 10/7.

there is no person on Earth more incompetent as a foreign policy thinker than Biden

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The Onion @theonion.com · 3d

ICE Raids: Myth Vs. Fact https://theonion.com/ice-raids-myth-vs-fact/

MYTH: My grandmother was deported to El Salvador.

FACT: No one really knows where she was deported to.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1d

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

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Windows Update @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 21h

i feel like the Riyadh Comedy Festival thing had way bigger political implications re:this than nobody is really talking about beyond making fun of self-identified free speech warriors for being there

yeah no shit Dave Chappelle is there, his new favorite movement is neck-deep in global auth ties

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 22h

one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.

time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1d

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 21h

tour guide: what does the future hold for Apple TV? Let's just say we've got a few ideas up our sleeve.

homer: like what?
tour guide: I'd rather not get into it right now?

homer: why not?
tour guide: all right. we don't have any ideas for the future. we got nothing. happy?

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 22h

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

The Treasury Secretary declares himself to be pro-monarchy, and promises to punish the entire country if the people exercise their First Amendment rights.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 22h

Allred doesn't have enough of an edge over Paxton not to go with Talarico, but it's ridiculous that both men are trailing such a monstrously unfit candidate.

Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 1d

Texas - Senate Polling:

🔴 Paxton: 49% / 🔵 Talarico: 46%
🔴 Cornyn: 48% / 🔵 Talarico: 45%
🔴 Hunt: 50% / 🔵 Talarico: 44%

🔴 Paxton: 48% / 🔵 Allred: 47%
🔴 Cornyn: 48% / 🔵 Allred: 46%
🔴 Hunt: 50% / 🔵 Allred: 45%

U. Houston / Oct 1, 2025

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 22h

it is also very stupid because most virtue can easily be respun into self interest.

imagine the wonders I personally have been denied due to racism and sexism. I will die from some cancer a little black girl could have cured

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23h

“Virtue signaling” has been an all-purpose tool to invalidate any form of advocacy which isn’t centered around selfishness.

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 3d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 22h

we have to be willing to just fuck with foreign governments in order to promote pro-democracy forces and harm pro-authoritarian forces in those countries

*that's* our actual interest, not whatever faff natsec heads preach about "the rules based order"

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 22h

one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.

time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1d

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

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