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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 1h

Nope.

This isn't the "absolute worst stereotype" of young Republicans and Trump supporters.

The ABSOLUTE WORST stereotype involves real guns & lynchings & passionate support of bigots & rapists & murderers.

And you know where stereotypes begin.

THESE young Republicans are the fucking BASELINE.

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 19h

These young Republicans are exactly what you would think young Republicans are like if you believed the absolute worst stereotype of young Republicans and Trump supporters.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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DancesWithBees 💙 Wildly at Peace 🦋 @gatitakicksass.bsky.social · 2h

Not only worth watching, definitely worth sharing far and wide.

Matthew Cooke @matthewcooke.bsky.social · 17h

NEW VIDEO: Is ANTIFAscism a terror movement? History answers clearly.

Identify a fascist by their 5 masks:
1. Statist
2. Militarist
3. Theocrat
4. Corporatist
5. Ethnonationalist

youtu.be/GV60cYEJCqg

Is ANTIFAscism really a violent, extremist movement?

YouTube video by Matthew Cooke

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Xander vs. The 21st Century @futurexander.bsky.social · 2h

A posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom for Charlie Kirk reflects a troubling trend in glorifying divisive figures. This move signals a dangerous endorsement of extremist ideologies that fracture societal bonds.

Trump honors Charlie Kirk with Presidential Medal of Freedom

President Donald Trump has posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist who was fatally shot last month while speaking at Utah Valley University.

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Wealthy Theatre @wealthytheatre.bsky.social · 13d

Movies on the big screen this month at Wealthy Theatre!

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Steven E Schend @seschend.bsky.social · 13h

So excited to finally see James Whale’s BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN on a big movie screen at @wealthytheatre.bsky.social in Grand Rapids! So happy to share this with my daughter who’s never seen the movie before tonight!

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Kevin Freeman @ksfphd.bsky.social · 14h

There really are only two groups of people who are against some kind of universal/socialized health care. People who have never experienced it or people who profit from the existing system.

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Steven E Schend @seschend.bsky.social · 14h

a bald man wearing a chicago fire department vest is clapping his hands

Alt: a bald man wearing a chicago fire department vest is clapping his hands

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Steven E Schend @seschend.bsky.social · 16h

I still have a copy of that poster still waiting for a frame all these years later. Wonderful art and Mr Struzan will be sorely missed

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Steven E Schend @seschend.bsky.social · 16h

True (name) birthplace of Volothamp Geddarm of the Forgotten Realms!

Jake @jp1102.bsky.social · 16h

The Volo Bog NW of Chicago.

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Steven E Schend @seschend.bsky.social · 16h

True (name) birthplace of Volothamp Geddarm of the Forgotten Realms!

Steven E Schend @seschend.bsky.social · 16h

Hot glue those discs to a tshirt to make very shiny scale mail for Halloween!

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Steven E Schend @seschend.bsky.social · 16h

I hope to see this man & all enablers (including SCOTUS) being found guilty for their crimes against this country and humanity.

Then we must work at making black letter law to prevent his abuses from recurring.

Let’s also try & erase the skid marks they’ve left upon the country’s honor

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 17h

A lifelong inspiration, even before Star Wars, before I knew his name.
There is a pantheon of poster illustrators, Richard Amsel, Robert McGinnis, Bob Peak, Howard Terpning, Frank McCarthy, Mitchell Hooks, waiting for him with a cool drink and a job "Well done."

Rest in peace, Drew Struzan.

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Steven E Schend @seschend.bsky.social · 16h

I just hope Oprah is seriously stepping up some charitable donations as recompense for having foisted him (& the creepy Dr Oz) upon the public

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Steven E Schend @seschend.bsky.social · 16h

For all these alleged people who are so holier than thou, they seem so surprised when they merely reap what they’ve sown.

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Steven E Schend @seschend.bsky.social · 1d

Hadn’t heard of these until now but I’ll give them a whirl. Probably easier to get ebooks too on this side of the pond

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TJSeer_TTRPG @tjseer.bsky.social · 1d

As a huge reader & media consumer, I wake up every day, read the news and wonder. Life is suddenly full of pulp villainy, B-movie scripts mixed with racism, blind hate, pain & truly horrifying monstrous war crimes. Can't change the channel

Nightmare hell on earth, for so many, just to fill pockets

Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 1d

I'll say it: I think its rly annoying and frankly amateurish that writers are constantly told their villains must be understandable or have sympathetic motivation to be interesting or realistic when all our big villains irl are in fact rich, stupid, selfish, trickster dillweeds and always have been

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

The EU has provided the first €10 million for a Special Tribunal to ensure Russian war criminals don’t escape justice.

EU Foreign Affairs head Kaja Kallas: “The evidence of Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine is plain to see.
Unpunished crimes only encourage new atrocities.”

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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 2d

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Steven E Schend @seschend.bsky.social · 1d

Haven’t thrown up in my mouth in a while, but the en I saw this Reichshit

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Steven E Schend @seschend.bsky.social · 1d

Seemed gray more often except on covers but it’s guesswork for me as it’s been decades since I’ve read those stories

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 1d

All jokes aside, this is an incredible piece of analysis & the way it concludes by motioning to the growing phenomenon of RW billionaires buying & destroying anything that challenges their regime of unchecked profit & power should serve as a wake-up call to those of us still missing the thread.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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Steven E Schend @seschend.bsky.social · 1d

Just when I think the corruption is bad, they find new cellars in which it’s alive and even worse than expected.

Shame on Wells Fargo—now a codefendant in the inevitable corruption & treason trials in the near future…

Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 7d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 7d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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Steven E Schend @seschend.bsky.social · 1d

No, ya dipshit.
A dysfunctional government in shutdown means no paychecks (for most but pay continues for the least deserving like Temussolini & his ilk).

Also, people exercising their free speech rights on a Saturday isn’t exactly under your purview.

Stay in your lane, Bessent, and shut up.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

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

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 3d

Today I'm doing a talk about Women and the (early) Gothic and it might be time for a list!

So here are ten early women writers of the Gothic to give an idea of the range of things that women were creating in the period!

a cartoon of a wizard holding a wand and a purple pot

Alt: a cartoon of a wizard holding a wand and conjuring books into a purple bag

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