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Richard Brecky presents: JELLYBEAN! @spm1961.bsky.social · 6m

saw it in theaters lo those many years ago and (on top of the incredible audible responses it got just from how good it is) people in the theater actually gasped/ooh-ah'd/"holy shit!" at some of the big effects moments (especially that first dino reveal with the brontosauri).

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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 13h

Reminder that the right has been openly attacking Wikipedia very loudly lately

Both sides tho

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 17h

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

By Andy Newman

At Civic Hall in Union Square, a man with a gun walked onto the stage at a Wikipedia conference.

Richard Knipel, CUNY's Wikimedian-in-Residence, jumped the gunman and, with others' help, saved the day. Gift link

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

www.nytimes.com

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MadameNostalgic | Tanya @madamenostalgic.bsky.social · 1d

Good Morning.

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Richard Brecky presents: JELLYBEAN! @spm1961.bsky.social · 1h

you mean trump will have to suck his own dick?

Al Lane @allane625.bsky.social · 20h

Supreme Court 'expects to run out of funding' in hours due to shutdown: report

www.alternet.org/supreme-cour...

Supreme Court 'expects to run out of funding' in hours due to shutdown: report

Both the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) and the federal judiciary itself is about to run completely out of money to do anything beyond basic operations, according to a new report.The Hill...

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Ul @cnpompeius.bsky.social · 16h

Please block all Maga govt Accounts and block anybody following them/reposting their garbage.

I blocked them all and already blocked a couple of followers whom I noticed were already following some of these accounts as I was blocking. Took about a minute!

Thank Cindy for posting the list!

Cindy @glambert3599.bsky.social · 18h

Here is a block list for them bsky.app/profile/best...

Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 18h

Blockety block block BLOCK!!!

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Richard Brecky presents: JELLYBEAN! @spm1961.bsky.social · 2h

you've got to sign up for something like "listifications" to be notified of a block - i suse that too - it's very handy so you don't have to bother w/people first blocking you, then unblocking you to post shitty comments you can't see.

bsky.app/profile/list...

bsky.app

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Richard Brecky presents: JELLYBEAN! @spm1961.bsky.social · 2h

never heard of this guy before but he's now #3 on my "right wing influencers likely to be indicted within the next year for having sex with a minor and/or possessing child pornography" list

peep the pipe/moustache combo - dude obviously spends every waking moment wishing it was the 19th century

Mercedes Allen @mercedesallen.bsky.social · 20h

"Far-right commentator Joshua Haymes recently posted a video in which he beseeched his fellow Christian nationalists to learn to defend the institution of slavery because the Bible makes it clear that 'it is not inherently evil to own another human being'…"

www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Christian Nationalist Commentator Joshua Haymes Says 'Slavery Is Not Inherently Evil'

Christian nationalist podcaster Joshua Haymes says Christians must be willing to defend the institution of slavery because the Bible makes it clear that "it is not inherently evil to own another human...

www.peoplefor.org

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Piper @the-pied-piper.bsky.social · 14h

One gets the impression Mike Johnson’s life is a rip off of The Ring but instead of the cursed vhs he must avoid any screen displaying a news clip or notification.

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 21h

I made a feed, it's an ongoing collection of things Mike Johnson haven't seen or heard about.

bsky.app/profile/numb...

Based on great clips posted by @atrupar.com

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Richard Brecky presents: JELLYBEAN! @spm1961.bsky.social · 3h

annnnd... OP promptly blocked me.

Richard Brecky presents: JELLYBEAN! @spm1961.bsky.social · 3h

SPOILER ALERT: she won't.

Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 1d

We are seeing a real time experiment as to whether Karoline Leavitt will be held to the same media outrage standard as Hillary Clinton.

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Richard Brecky presents: JELLYBEAN! @spm1961.bsky.social · 3h

conspiracy theories" over "schemes done out in the open and in some cases even reported by mainstream media" - feels like this is more disinfo meant to keep people off the ball.

i'd rather see harris' supporters go after vote suppression than turn into a dem version of QANON with this bullshit.

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Richard Brecky presents: JELLYBEAN! @spm1961.bsky.social · 3h

and palast isn't selling conspiracy theories like OP - palast is talking about vote suppression done right out in the open by republicans, something ppl like OP steadily ignore in favor of "elon hacked the voting machines" - honestly, i'm weirded out by ppl who'd rather embrace/peddle "unprovable

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Richard Brecky presents: JELLYBEAN! @spm1961.bsky.social · 3h

well-known accounts like @fleerultra.bsky.social and @spacetwinks.bsky.social probably don't encounter this but i (a humble li'l reply guy) remember getting blocked by sargent back on twitter/x just for LIKING a post where someone disagreed with his milquetoast bullshit.

Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 11h

lol the day after greg sargent yelled at me for not being sufficiently impressed with swalwell’s “fund ICE but make them remove the masks” proposal

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

This graph from a new AP-NORC poll out this week highlights a crucial point: The Democratic Party's favorability rating is so low today (when compared to the GOP's) because _Democrats_ are upset with the party, not because swing voters rate Ds more negatively than Rs. 1/3

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 15h

Not being even vaguely sarcastic:

At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children

MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.

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Richard Brecky presents: JELLYBEAN! @spm1961.bsky.social · 4h

reminder: good billionaires don't exist - never have, never will - no matter how they got that money, these motherfuckers legit think it makes them better than everyone else.

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 17h

Me, when they refuse to serve a happy meal to a grown ass man

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 9h

Same mistakes everywhere.

Tadzio Mueller @tadziomueller.bsky.social · 11h

Erkenntnis: man soll Faschos nicht nach dem Maul reden, sondern sie bekämpfen.

"German mainstream parties are allowing the far right to set the agenda. They unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas & disseminating them more widely."

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds

Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers

www.theguardian.com

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 5h

Trump and his agenda *are* deeply unpopular. This doesn’t do anything on it’s own. It is a resource with which we can do things.

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Richard Brecky presents: JELLYBEAN! @spm1961.bsky.social · 17h

it's the end of the week and i'm so exhausted by these fucking wormy dipshits that i don't even feel like looking for the "we're all out of ideas and we've tried nothing" GIF

Richard Brecky presents: JELLYBEAN! @spm1961.bsky.social · 17h

every time poppinfresh stancil hits "post" he creates another hill he's ready to die on

Richard Brecky presents: JELLYBEAN! @spm1961.bsky.social · 17h

i've always been pretty block happy but expect to break all previously held records in the coming weeks

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Richard Brecky presents: JELLYBEAN! @spm1961.bsky.social · 18h

while "smith" is a love story btwn a man and a country - sorry, that does nothing for me. credit where due though: jimmy stewart's filibuster at the end is one of the finest pieces of screen acting ever recorded.

Richard Brecky presents: JELLYBEAN! @spm1961.bsky.social · 18h

as i've gotten out of the habit of raining on others' parades, i'll quietly say here that i have never especially cared for "mr smith goes to washington" - always found it forced and mechanical compared to its predecessor "mr deeds goes to town" + "deeds" is essentially a love story btwn 2 people

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18h

Trump is basically an insult comic, which means the only person that can defeat him is a drag queen

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Richard Brecky presents: JELLYBEAN! @spm1961.bsky.social · 18h

oh def - someone else i follow pointed out that homeland sec and the white house were here a few hours ago and i found their accounts and blocked 'em

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Richard Brecky presents: JELLYBEAN! @spm1961.bsky.social · 18h

on the plus side - arguing with nazis could give the #resistance gang something more useful to do with their time than relitigate the '24 election with leftists here.

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