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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 33m

I'll be your corner man. & sell popcorn out of one of those rolling carts.

And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 1h

Electric State is back on my feed for the first time since it came out, lol. I knew I watched it, knew I reviewed it, but have no memory of it or of writing this | boxd.it/9gvzZ7

A ★½ review of The Electric State (2025)

The Russos have directed two movies since Endgame and I've ignored them because consensus says they were the definition of “mediocre.” And now I see why. I saw this movie before when it was good and c...

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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 1h

Not a revolution worth having at the very least.

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Visions of Hope @visions-of-hope.bsky.social · 3h

Just come out of One Battle After Another.

It’s good. I enjoyed it.

Reminds you that if it doesn’t make you intensely horny… is it even a revolution?

a picture of a man and woman kissing with #onebattleafteranother written on the bottom

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 4h

Not sure Red White and Black is the color combo you should be trying out today boss lol.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 5h

If we want to defeat Susan Collins, we need to try something new. The same old tired playbook will not work.

A graphic with a quote from: “We need to try something new. I fear going with the same playbook that we’ve used before — we may fail to unseat Susan Collins again.”

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Fantasy Football Draft Dodger @liberationnow.bsky.social · 21h

People are more upset about the demolition of the East Wing of the White House than they are about the demolition of the majority of buildings in Gaza.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 4h

Ok let's see here, I have an economy dependent on consumer spending, and where everyone is leveraged to the gills. Should I make everything more expensive for no apparent reason and see how it goes?

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Icky Kinicki @lolakinicki.bsky.social · 2h

Looks like this needs to be said again today.

White t-shirt with the Dead Kennedys song Nazi Punks Fuck Off scrawled in black marker on the front.

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Visions of Hope @visions-of-hope.bsky.social · 2h

[1/3] Thinking about the Riyadh Comedy Festival has made me realise just how much I hate this Shameless Piece of Shit Industrial Complex we seem to have now.

Time was when a celebrity said something racist or transphobic they had to at least PRETEND to be sorry.

You’d have to watch them-

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 14h

Christopher Lee with his cat, Renfield.

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 5h

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

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AllNewSux @allnewsux.bsky.social · 3h

The Democrats will always be spineless, useless, pathetic cowards who will keep helping Trump every chance they get...these traitorous Democratic fucks just helped Trump confirm yet another of his unqualified criminal appointees in addition to the 100+ they already helped him appoint.

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 5h

By a vote of 66-32, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Harold D. Mooty III to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 3h

*John Carpenter fires up his synth*

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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 4h

That would've violated their sacred Norms.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 11d

It’s almost like the capitalist ruling class are literally extracting surplus value from the workers. Gosh, how I wished more working class people were class conscious. 😭

Karl Marx referred to this as "surplus value" — the unpaid labour that workers create but never receive the full value for.

A collage of two headline screenshots highlighting the economic inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The first headline, from Business Insider by Juliana Kaplan (January 25, 2021), reads:

> “Workers lost $3.7 trillion in earnings during the pandemic. Women and Gen Z saw the biggest losses.”

The second headline, from WION News (January 26, 2021), reads:

> “World’s billionaires get richer by $3.9 trillion during the pandemic.”

Both headlines together illustrate the direct transfer of wealth from workers to the capitalist ruling class — billionaires during the pandemic — showing that what the global working class lost, the ruling capitalist elite gained.

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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 4h

John Carpenter's The Fog out here this morning. Pirate ghosts everywhere.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 19h

The @nytimes.com decided last year what the story was; Trump II was the righteous punishment visited upon their interns and junior staffers and grandchildren for being so annoying about MeToo and BLM, and once they understood that and repented, they could have democracy back.

Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 1d

Just insane thing for a NYT editor to say publicly:

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Daniel Harper @danielharper.bsky.social · 7h

Crying on the inside because the whole schtick of right wing "journalists" covering The Antifas like Katie Daviscourt or Nick Sobor or Andy Ngo is that they alone are the real media going out with iPhones to show "what's really happening on the streets."

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 22h

You're only a journalist if you have a nice camera.

Also, they shot my reporting partner (and others) in the face with a pepper ball while she photographed agents with her nice camera.

Quite the riddle.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

Byers makes a comment about ICE not targeting "actual, professional journalists."

"You're making a distinction among journalists?" Ellis asks.

"There's people with cell phones, calling themselves journalists," Byers responds.

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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 7h

Meanwhile, we ain't getting no food stamps next month & millions of people are already rationing their meds.

NewJukeboxCafe 🇨🇦 📎 @newjukeboxcafe.bsky.social · 18h

Trump’s ICE Jacks Up Weapons Spending by 700%—Including ‘Guided Missile Warheads’

“ICE was always going to be Trump’s private military to deploy domestically against Americans,” said one critic.

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Trump’s ICE Jacks Up Weapons Spending by 700%—Including ‘Guided Missile Warheads’ | Common Dreams

The Trump administration's massive increase in funding for ICE weapons is alarming. ICE is now armed to the teeth, treating its officers as a private military to deploy against Americans. Why does ICE...

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Tele-Piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 1d

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i understand missing rainbow capitalism but part of the entire critique was that corporate interests would abandon LGBT advocacy as soon as doing so became politically and economically risky and that critique has been pretty categorically proven right

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Wendigo Speedrun @earthpigjohnson.bsky.social · 8h

Though love has its place in the sun, it’s only man’s fear that carries him on.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 1d

New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for.

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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 17h

Wondering what’s the latest with National Guard in Oregon?

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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 16h

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 18h

twitter is making mainstream reporters dumber, and because they're all getting dumber together, none of them can recognize it and they actually think they're getting smarter

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