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Big Beautiful Billablog @billablog.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s gratuitous advice to the internet:

No, the right wing media and Republicans in congress are NOT turning against Trump.

Sure, some of them are being mildly critical of him but that’s because they have nothing to lose right now. (1/3)

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Big Beautiful Billablog @billablog.bsky.social · 22h

#WQuers
#Bandle #1153 2/6
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Current Streak: 16 (max 48)

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Puzzle #855
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Strands #589
“Bring binoculars”
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Framed - One Frame Challenge #315
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Big Beautiful Billablog @billablog.bsky.social · 1d

Bookmark this thread and see if I'm wrong.

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Big Beautiful Billablog @billablog.bsky.social · 1d

And then they will point to the times they criticised him this year as evidence that they’re not just being partisan lickspittles but genuinely fearful that someone else may come along and start treating people who aren’t identical to them as human beings too. (3/3)

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Big Beautiful Billablog @billablog.bsky.social · 1d

Plus, it sets them up for deniability. We saw exactly the same thing when Bush was in the first year of his second term.

This time next year, they’ll all be saying, “Please support your local fascist.” (2/3)

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Big Beautiful Billablog @billablog.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s gratuitous advice to the internet:

No, the right wing media and Republicans in congress are NOT turning against Trump.

Sure, some of them are being mildly critical of him but that’s because they have nothing to lose right now. (1/3)

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 1d

The real red pill is realizing that 80% of Twitter discourse is people pattern-matching to 'high status opinion in my tribe' and then confabulating reasons why

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Big Beautiful Billablog @billablog.bsky.social · 1d

What I love most about the #PortlandFrogs is it reclaims the image from the alt-right dog whistle it's become.

From now on, everyone with a 🐸 in their profile will be presumed to be anti-fascist, not a crypto-Nazi.

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Big Beautiful Billablog @billablog.bsky.social · 1d

#WQuers
Bandle #1152 2/6
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Current Streak: 15 (max 48)
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Puzzle #854
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 2d

The gunman who murdered the state lawmaker is a far-right conspiracy theorist and evangelical Christian.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

newrepublic.com

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Big Beautiful Billablog @billablog.bsky.social · 2d

#WQuers
Bandle #1151 6/6
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Current Streak: 14 (max 48)
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Connections
Puzzle #853
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Strands #587
“That's branding”
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Big Beautiful Billablog @billablog.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe look at the cover. 😉

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Big Beautiful Billablog @billablog.bsky.social · 3d

Go home, Pink Floyd merchandising. You're drunk!

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Big Beautiful Billablog @billablog.bsky.social · 3d

Do you know what is REALLY stupid... a guy who spends $20k per outfit to look like he chose the "I'm on the register" costume from Dollar General talking about anyone else's appearance.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Big Beautiful Billablog @billablog.bsky.social · 3d

That's not true.
That's what it says if you play it forwards.

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 3d

i just got back from Antifa headquarters.

they're making an INSANE new set of demands.

first, the radical left is saying, "no money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law."

David Noll @david.noll.org · 3d

interesting that if you say the constitution creates a separation of powers systems in which there are no kings, they think you hate america

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Big Beautiful Billablog @billablog.bsky.social · 3d

#WQuers
#Bandle #1150 2/6
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“I'm a ladle hungry”
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Numble #1335 ✅
Numbers: 5/6
Answer: 585
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Big Beautiful Billablog @billablog.bsky.social · 4d

The Nobel Peace Prize has just been announced and ABC24 is showing a recorded episode of Planet America. I like the show but when are they going to learn that when it comes to 24-hour news, regular programming is Plan B?

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Big Beautiful Billablog @billablog.bsky.social · 4d

#WQuers
Bandle #1149 6/6
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Framed - The daily movie guessing game

Guess the movie from 6 frames. Come back each day to see if you can guess the daily movie, or visit the archive to answer the days that you missed!

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 4d

You really do have to be a cretin or a coward to fail your way up into editorial management in Australian newsrooms

The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 4d

Distinct Gulf of America vibes

www.smh.com.au/business/com...

SBS staff sworn off naming Palestine despite federal recognition

SBS staff remain unable to use the word Palestine in news reporting despite federal recognition of the state last month as tensions over reporting on the conflict in Gaza remain high.

www.smh.com.au

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Big Beautiful Billablog @billablog.bsky.social · 5d

We can admit now that Wag the Dog got it wrong.
The movie envisaged a president starting a FAKE war against ANOTHER country to distract from his sex crimes.

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Amy Flower/Pop! @thepopau.bsky.social · 5d

A happy 30th birthday to 'Tingly'!
The little song that fought the odds and made it out into the world on October 9, 1995.
To celebrate, download a free original instrumental demo, slapped onto MiniDisc the day that I first wrote the music back in 1994. An interesting curio. :)
tinyurl.com/2t4fbn8x

Tingly (First instrumental demo), by Pop!

track by Pop!

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Big Beautiful Billablog @billablog.bsky.social · 5d

#WQuers
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Connections
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Numble #1333
SOLVED: ✅
Numbers used: 5/6
Answer: 819
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Big Beautiful Billablog @billablog.bsky.social · 6d

Those pesky Russian windows again.
www.newsweek.com/former-russi...

Former Russian newspaper publisher dies after falling from window: reports

Vyacheslav Leontyev, 87, the head of the Pravda publishing house, has been found dead in Moscow.

www.newsweek.com