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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 3h

I think a lot of people got scared off from shitposting because there are literal warriors here and make it their personality to take everything seriously but to them I say: fuck you.

Endy اےنڈی 🍉🏁🏎 @endybutworse.bsky.social · 3h

lets normalize shitposting again, please

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 4h

Only YOU can make Bluesky pre-2020 Twitter.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 57m

Trump: I want to thank Stephen Miller I would love to have him come up and explain his true feelings. Maybe not his truest feelings. That might be going a little too far

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 2h

Gonna stop responding to people trying to make vibe explanations to me about the 00s and just posting 80s-00s era controversies today.

Starting with: Fox news used to love photoshopping jewish journalists into der sturmer like creations:

Journalist Jacques Steinberg edited to look like an antisemitic cartoon.

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 1h

"Oh someone started the Teams meeting early, better join

Oh good nobody else has joined yet

Oh good I'm just sitting here with the meeting organizer"

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 2d

If the US can ever vomit this stupid era out we're gonna need widespread all-ages education on basic facts like when you'd see old billboards or MST3k shorts advertising the concept of hand washing or being good. Stop Using Gasoline To Wash Clothes. Springs Are Ubiquitous & Essential To Modern Life

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 3h

after spending all year behind the paywall, part 1 of my documentary series FOOL TIME is now unlocked and free to watch for everybody: www.patreon.com/posts/fool-t...

FOOL TIME, Part 1 of 4 | Pretty Good | Secret Base

Get more from Secret Base on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 2h

They know they're not the good guys, they love it, they'd do it for free and at this rate they just might

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 3h

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah but now they're just dropping the pretense

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 3h

Ok so they're just strip mining at this point

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 3h

U.S. budget chief signals massive layoffs: Budget Director Russell Vought said the government is planning layoffs that could exceed 10,000 workers as part of federal cost-cutting measures. Vought cautions on critical services: He warned that the administration aims to avoid

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · 3h

ceo jay trying to delete the whole app after realizing she can’t win back the user base

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 3h

They're going to argue over exactly how much we should not tax billionaires or hold anyone to account for war crimes?

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 4h

Why they're on the same side

Politico @politico.com · 4h

Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will debate Wednesday on C-SPAN.

The yet-to-be-scheduled showdown will take place on “Ceasefire,” hosted by our Dasha Burns.

Mike Johnson and Hakeem Jeffries will debate on C-SPAN

The yet-to-be-scheduled showdown will take place on "Ceasefire," hosted by POLITICO's Dasha Burns.

www.politico.com

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 4h

You ever look at someone and just *know* they went to private school

Defector @defector.com · 5h

Free Press reporter discovers that being an amoral dickhead can cost you friends: defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you…

defector.com

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 21h

That young Republican group chat reminds me of every single police group chat that’s ever been leaked.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 4h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 5h

Again, if I were trying to dismantle a superpower, it'd look a lot like this

White House Watchdog @whitehousewatchdog.bsky.social · 5h

The Trump administration reduces over 1,000 CDC jobs amid shutdown, but officials retract more than half the layoffs, according to union reports.

CDC employees sort through chaotic ‘outbreak of firings’ followed by some reversals

The Trump administration reduces over 1,000 CDC jobs amid shutdown, but officials retract more than half the layoffs, according to union reports.

www.govexec.com

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Lauren Gill @laurengill.bsky.social · 5h

Everything about this case shows how easy it is to send someone to death row.

Anthony Boyd was sentenced to death entirely on dubious eyewitness testimony. His lawyer had a month to prepare for trial. Alabama plans to execute him next week.

My latest @boltsmag.org:
boltsmag.org/anthony-boyd...

He Was Convicted Entirely On Clashing Eyewitness Testimony. Alabama Plans to Execute Him Next Week. - Bolts

No physical evidence connected Anthony Boyd to a 1993 murder. He was sent to death row on the word of a co-defendant who testified under the threat of capital punishment.

boltsmag.org

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 5h

I knew the names of Luigi's elementary school teachers about 4 days after yet I had to look up Tyler Robinson's name

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 6h

Republicans love children's genitals
floridapolitics.com/archives/760...

Erin Grall files bill that would require minors to get guardians’ permission for STD treatment

With the Legislature reconvening next year, Sen. Erin Grall filed a bill to strengthen parental rights over minors' health care.

floridapolitics.com

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 6h

You know you're from Tennessee when you're born with a tank top sunburn
www.today.com/parents/babi...

A very large baby with skin blotching that resembles a sunburn but let's give it a break it's new here

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 6h

The fact that we didn't flatten Facebook/Meta and Zuckerberg after Cambridge Analytica will haunt us forever

Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 21d

Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor with a mandate to make the company's chat bot less 'woke.' www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...

Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor

Robby Starbuck has been appointed as an AI bias advisor at Meta with the goal of making the company's chat bot less "woke."

www.advocate.com

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 7h

I'm sure the repeated use of Nazi language, symbols and tactics is all a coincidence

White House Watchdog @whitehousewatchdog.bsky.social · 7h

The DHS's use of "Remigrate" in a social media post sparks backlash amid concerns of ethnic tension and immigration policy debates.

Trump admin slammed for using ethnic cleaning euphemism: ‘Wannabe Nazis’

The DHS's use of "Remigrate" in a social media post sparks backlash amid concerns of ethnic tension and immigration policy debates.

www.rawstory.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 7h

Man you should see how much ICE is offering to arrest brown people with no cause

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h

I don't think I've seen a network TV news report more transparently full of shit since maybe 2003, right before we invaded Iraq

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 7h

A official Border patrol Instagram reel uses the controversial Michael Jackson song "They Don't Care About Us" with the lyrics:

Jew me, sue me...
Kick me, k*ke me

We have a nazi government.

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