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Clay Jackson @clayjak.substack.com · 1m

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Clay Jackson @clayjak.substack.com · 13h

resist whimsically. joy cripples them

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 13h

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Clay Jackson @clayjak.substack.com · 2m

whimsy wins

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 37m

#WarRavagedChicago

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 31m

Bullshit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Clay Jackson @clayjak.substack.com · 7m

war is peace

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10m

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

oh this guy is delusional delusional

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2h

YES

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3h

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

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Clay Jackson @clayjak.substack.com · 1h

the ribbitlution is here 🐸

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2h

Portland, OR, 2025

Protester in frog costume stands in front of tank (meme of Tiananmen Square “Tank Man”)

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2h

Portland, OR, 2025

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1h

need Sunday reading? explore what's on the ballot next month!

I put together the 180+ key races you should know about, across 32 states.

so explore, & find the ones that interest you the most, here: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

and let me highlight three under-radar races, in 🧵 below. ⬇️

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

Supreme Court Justice hawking her book on a media outlet that is effectively an extension of the administration she is charged with overseeing

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11h

we need to abolish this shit

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4h

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

MEMPHIS — Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social rallies after just announcing his run for Congress: “We need new energy to meet this moment… a moment unlike anything we have ever seen before.”

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Clay Jackson @clayjak.substack.com · 3h

war is peace

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 4h

This has real -- I intended to dm "Pam" -- energy.

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Clay Jackson @clayjak.substack.com · 10h

ty g dub

George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 14h

Remember self-care. Sprinkle some joy in with the doom scrollin' and whatnot. I love you and there's absolutely nothin' you can do about it.

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Clay Jackson @clayjak.substack.com · 11h

whimsically is the way

Trish K @tkaz99.bsky.social · 12h

This is the energy 👏 🙌

Antifa Frog Brigade (Portland)
via: @mtcstw.com

They don't know the army they awakened

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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 13d

Hello. A special Monday drop: youtu.be/Ab7k09CI9qI?...

Kawhi's Agent Pushed Aspiration to Pay Up. The Feds Closed In. Ballmer Made a Quiet Donation. | PTFO

YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 14h

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 16h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Clay Jackson @clayjak.substack.com · 12h

i don’t he forgot. just knows the truth no longer matters to 10s of millions

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 12h

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump No Longer Remembers That He Was President and Controlled the FBI on January 6, 2021, Confirming Americans' Worst Fears About His Advanced Dementia