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Hope Dave Don't Say "Balls Nasty"❌👑 @davidhirsch.bsky.social · Dec 21

My all time top 10 albums, in chronological order, and a very long mix at the end with much of the runners' up selections.

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Hope Dave Don't Say "Balls Nasty"❌👑 @davidhirsch.bsky.social · 2h

The least racist person you know sure is a great leader.

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 3h

White privilege is when white men in their 20's and 30's are 'kids', and 12-year-old black boys are a 'threat'.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 3h

I’m not even engaging with the rest of what’s wrong or factually incorrect about this; would he apply this standard to young job applicants to any profession making a cruel joke online about Charlie Kirk’s murder

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 5h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 4h

Itamar Ben Gvir is a real monster www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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Hope Dave Don't Say "Balls Nasty"❌👑 @davidhirsch.bsky.social · 3h

So, in two years nothing around this scum motherfucker's perspective has changed, really.

"Poses no danger to others"

Trial hearing ends early for ill Netanyahu, who’s accused of exposing freed hostages to disease

PM's office says he has bronchitis that 'poses no danger' to others; Hostages Forum doctor says his Tues. hospital visit endangered newly released captives who have compromised immune systems

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h

damn

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 17h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 4h

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 5h

The funniest part of all the billionaires are building bunker stories is the part where they’re sure the class hierarchy will survive the apocalypse.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 7h

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"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

www.bbc.com

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Hope Dave Don't Say "Balls Nasty"❌👑 @davidhirsch.bsky.social · 4h

Between this - which would strangle all democracy in Congress, and what's going on at the Pentagon, and the unconstitutional occupation of our cities, it's not difficult to envision the train towards #CivilWar2 speeding up.

Early Signs from Oral Argument in Callais Suggest that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is in Real Trouble #ELB

As I explained back in August, the Supreme Court reached and and in the most opaque way on a late Friday afternoon in mid-summer, the Court turned a ho-hum racial gerrymandering case where the court h...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 5h

Why do @semperwry.bsky.social and I have an active lawsuit to simply get the plaque honoring officers who defended the Capitol on January 6th? Cut the bullshit virture signaling mike. You stand with donald... your actions are louder than your words.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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A Whole Damn Town! @im.a.whole.damn.town · 6h

Twin Peaks: Pete Martell checking out the hospital food.

Pete Martell checking out the hospital food. Twin Peaks S02E01 - May the Giant Be with You.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 6h

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 7h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 6h

One of my only remaining joys is that every single time Amy Coney Barrett makes a stupid argument, Ketanji Brown Jackson gets a chance to follow up and illustrate her stupidity.
And this will happen again, and again, for the rest of Barrett's life.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 8h

Obama explicitly endorsing the California gerrymander is good … and a little disconcerting. Wrote about it for BFT: badfaithtimes.com/barack-obama...

Barack Obama (Finally) Sees The Game For What It Is

That Obama is backing California's gerrymander is hopeful and a little frightening.

badfaithtimes.com

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 1d

I’m very very tired of “living in fear” being lobbed at maskwearers by people who frequently say they can’t wear one because no one else around them is.

Living in fear is ignoring science and endangering lives and your own health because you’re terrified of not fitting in.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 17h

One half of the country basically descended into madness at the idea that you could actually reelect the person of color.

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18h

2012 is when Republicans developed the unbreakable intuition that they were entitled to win elections notwithstanding what the voters said.

Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 22h

The media smeared Mitt Romney as Hitler. Then Republicans thought, well we might as well run Hitler.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 16h

I view masking the same way I view washing my hands after using the bathroom: It’s a very small sacrifice I make to not get sick and not get other people sick.

I mean, I’d love it if we required indoor air filtration in public-facing buildings bc it takes the burden off the individual.

Alas…

Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 1d

I am not interested in living in a society of Universal Public Masking and neither are most people. This ask is not reasonable, and the invocation of solidarity in service of it is ridiculous.

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Hope Dave Don't Say "Balls Nasty"❌👑 @davidhirsch.bsky.social · 19h

They don't value human life, they hire sadistic psychos, so why should they value a dog's?

‘F*cking Losers’: Massively Popular Dog-Themed Instagram Account Bashes ICE for Allegedly Shooting Pup in Rare Political Post

WeRateDogs, a popular social media account that shares heartwarming dog stories, took an unusual political turn Tuesday with a post bashing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over a story about...

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 1d

Put a banner on every closed rural hospital

WE SAVED ARGENTINA INSTEAD

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 1d

the entire point of cryptocurrency is to have a currency to buy child porn, drugs, or do other illegal shit, so calling something a cryptocurrency scam is kind of a misnomer because the entire point of cryptocurrency is to crime.

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Hope Dave Don't Say "Balls Nasty"❌👑 @davidhirsch.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a lab coat and gloves is standing in front of a door and asking who do you think ? the libyans

Alt: a man in a lab coat and gloves is standing in front of a door and asking who do you think ? the libyans

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