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Billy Christ @redletrcrusader.bsky.social · Feb 14

When we drive across Indiana, we play The Indiana Game. One player counts billboards for strip clubs, the other counts billboards for mega churches.
The game is always neck and neck, right to the border.

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 8h

Woke 2.0 is going to hit like 80s crack

@loganclarkhall

Trump won. You don't have to do this anymore.

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Young Republicans

We are appalled by the vile and inexcusable language revealed in the Politico article published today. Such behavior is disgraceful, unbecoming of any Republican, and stands in direct opposition to the values our movement...

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 7h

Indiana: the Florida of the Midwest.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 9h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

i get what 404 is doing, but, like, you very much cannot fuck the chatbot. that is not a thing you can do.

404 Media @404media.co · 11h

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

www.404media.co

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rattatatouille @rattatatouille.bsky.social · 9h

The best part I feel is that some point you realize it's not about the monuments per se - that they're ultimately part of a greater story.

(It's also a very personal work, if you've been following Eve for a while now)

The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 15h

The Monument Mythos is...weird, but still something that fits into #AlternateHistoween. Its an analog horror series created by Eve Casanas and set in a world where America's monuments and symbols contain eldritch horrors. See President James Dean, God Nixon and a host of other American monsters.

LIBERTYLURKER | The Monument Mythos

YouTube video by M4NTICOR3

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 15h

The Monument Mythos is...weird, but still something that fits into #AlternateHistoween. Its an analog horror series created by Eve Casanas and set in a world where America's monuments and symbols contain eldritch horrors. See President James Dean, God Nixon and a host of other American monsters.

LIBERTYLURKER | The Monument Mythos

YouTube video by M4NTICOR3

youtu.be

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Tron's evil twin brother Troff @tonygoldmark.bsky.social · 10h

GOOD. Go full Nuremberg on these fascist fucks. "I was only following orders" wasn't a valid excuse then and it ain't a valid excuse now.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11h

The State of Illinois is documenting the criminal misconduct of Trump secret police agents in order to bring charges against those who engaged in acts ranging from assault to reckless endangerment and negligent operation of motor vehicles in the near future, Newsweek reveals.

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 10h

An amazing artist.

Andrew 🐻 @awd.bsky.social · 16h

Rest in Peace, Drew Struzan

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 10h

FINAL UPDATE — Around noon, the community responded to the presence of Border Patrol agents at 105th Street and South Avenue N., only a few blocks from the Walgreens.

Dozens of locals gathered at the scene after the agents were reportedly involved in a car crash.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/fede...

Feds gas Chicago neighborhood, detain young Black man amid day of Southeast Side raids • The TRiiBE

For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in Chicago residential neighborhoods. Nearby, they detained a young Black man onlookers insisted was a U.S. citize...

thetriibe.com

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 12h

Like this is just nonsense talk from Dementia Don. Billionaires don't just give away billions of dollars.

a woman is sitting at a table in a living room talking to a man .

ALT: a woman is sitting at a table in a living room talking to a man .

media.tenor.com

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 12h

He's from the Credulous Doofus Entertainment Coterie

The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 12h

My first introduction to Dr. Phil was when my Catholic high school made me watch an episode of Oprah where he warned parents of kids who prefer giving bjs instead of kissing.

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 12h

I mean my Google Fu tells me it has to be at least over $10 billion a month on troop salaries so if this is true I doubt this will cover it for very long right?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 12h

Man, nice try but this shit is OVER. You squeezed any little drop of fascism-juice you could out of it. Sorry it wasn’t what you hoped!

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 13h

President Donald Trump will honor influential conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Tuesday with a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor the White House can bestow on a civilian. https://to.pbs.org/3J8JYDA

WATCH LIVE: Trump awards Charlie Kirk posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom

President Donald Trump will honor influential conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Tuesday with a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor the White House can bestow on a civilian.

www.pbs.org

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Ariel Elias @arielcomedy.bsky.social · 17h

Airports are refusing to show the video of Kristi Noem. It's one step forward in making flying more dog friendly.

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 12h

My first introduction to Dr. Phil was when my Catholic high school made me watch an episode of Oprah where he warned parents of kids who prefer giving bjs instead of kissing.

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 12h

Now that is some fine schadenfreude.

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 13h

Dr. Phil went full MAGA and tried to reinvent himself as a MAGA media mogul and culture warrior. Now his world is unraveling, his media company is laying off thousands and had to file for bankruptcy, and he's being sued for fraud. The whole plan is collapsing.

www.rawstory.com/dr-phil-trump/

Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report

Dr. Phil McGraw's attempt to transition from daytime television personality to a politically aligned media mogul during Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by spectacular failure a...

www.rawstory.com

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 21h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18h

in a way it's heartening to see journalists realizing they don't need physical access to the halls of power in order to report on what's happening in them.

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

www.npr.org

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 13h

Fuck off with this lecturing.

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 13h

My old neighborhood. Glad to see people there fighting back.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: Major clashes in southeast Chicago this pm.

DHS agents who crashed a car had eggs thrown at them. According to ABC7, they then fired pepper balls at local residents. It’s now a scene of flying rocks & tear gas.

Chicago was never a war zone. But Trump’s militia is turning it into one.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 14h

It sucks that humans can't just do what scorpions do and extrude the metals we consume into their claws to make them tougher. My claws are, I'll admit it, lame.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 14h

Everything is starting to make sense at last.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 16h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 14h

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 14h

Cave to Trump, get dumped

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 15h

In America, students joking about gas chambers and saying you love Hitler is not antisemitic, but protesting on campus in support of Palestine is.

Politico @politico.com · 15h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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