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illbleed for sego dreancas @impemboganecue.bsky.social · 7h

Libertarian fascism is the funniest ideology

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 8h

ARGENTINE PESO COLLAPSES TO RECORD LOW — DOWN 99.8% SINCE 2009

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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 8h

My throat hurts like crazy and apparently, current covid variants give you "razor blade throat" like are you kidding me

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Themperor Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedytcooper.bsky.social · 8h

Oh hell yeah!

the White House's east wing facade being torn down with a "Spirit Halloween Coming Soon" sign hanging up

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 11h

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Screenshot of a text exchange via Signal between Anna Bower and Lindsay Halligan.

Halligan: By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know.

Bower: I'm sorry, but that's not how this works.
You don't get to say that in retrospect.

Halligan: Yes I do. Off record.

Bower: I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked. But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story?

Halligan: It's obvious the whole convo is off record.
There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never even told me about a story.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11h

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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That Queer Writer @falcc.bsky.social · 10h

Becoming a new kind of Truther where I believe George W Bush drove a crane into the White House to complete his work on 9/11

That Queer Writer @falcc.bsky.social · 10h

Like all memes, the entire concept of shitposting was ruined the day a politician got involved.

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 11h

future grandchild: like shit, from an ass?

me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House

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That Queer Writer @falcc.bsky.social · 10h

"but dentist, I *am* all the company I need"

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That Queer Writer @falcc.bsky.social · 10h

There's always the west wing. We should get to do the one that'll make Sorkin the most mad.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 12h

I don't think we should let it go that the president posted a video of himself shitting diarrhea on us. It should be on his wikipedia page

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 11h

Flesh and Fantasy (1943)

Barbara Stanwyck to Charles Boyer: "I remember the perfume of orange blossoms"

Barbara Stanwyck to Charles Boyer: "in Palestine on the road to Jericho."

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That Queer Writer @falcc.bsky.social · 11h

I hope the ballroom ends up being a Neom style project where everybody is constantly telling Trump it's going great, underbudget, etc but the big hole is just still there.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 12h

It’s kind of wild that after seven million people were in the streets protesting, the president posted a hallucinated video of himself wearing a crown and shitting on Americans and then proceeded to start demolishing parts of the White House

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 11h

counterpoint, they should leave it like this forever so we can never make believe this ridiculous shit didn't happen

Stephanie Zacharek @szacharek.bsky.social · 12h

I know nothing should surprise me, but I'm stunned by this picture. If you own a designated historic property (not that I do), usually you can't even install a doorbell that isn't period-specific. Or at least you wouldn't. This makes me heartsick.

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That Queer Writer @falcc.bsky.social · 12h

That was Jennicet Gutiérrez that asked about that, btw.

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Jennifer 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 13h

i still think the defining moment of the obama administration, for me, is when an abolitionist asked about trans women in women's prisons during a presser. the rest of the press pool booed her and she was removed. after, obama said "not in my house" and everyone cheered.

Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social · 14h

Trump's like the most American president there ever has been. Like Obama is who we want to pretend to be and notice he was charming and competent and also murderous and somewhat craven. But Trump is like the Mr Hyde of America. He's what the world correctly sees us as. Gaudy, stupid, belligerent.

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Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social · 14h

This is who the rich really are, by the way. This is what capitalism IS. Peter Thiel and Musk and Bezos and Kennedy - the last rotten remains of Camelot, the brain-eaten and soul-rotten eugenicist plaguemonger. The Land of the Free and Home of the Brave!

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Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social · 14h

And it's like - look America. You don't like it but this IS America. This is what made America, this is what thrives in America, this is who America is for. The belligerent, the stupid, the greedy. The men who don't accept no. Rapists killers staff every agency. They just made it official.

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Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social · 14h

Trump's like the most American president there ever has been. Like Obama is who we want to pretend to be and notice he was charming and competent and also murderous and somewhat craven. But Trump is like the Mr Hyde of America. He's what the world correctly sees us as. Gaudy, stupid, belligerent.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 19h

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 19h

“Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.” Everything about this is so cursed. Masks off at the University of Oxford.

Curtis Yarvin & David Starkey - The End of the End of History
By Oakeshott (formerly Scruton)
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The second Oakeshott Lecture of 2025 - with perennially viral tech philosopher Curtis Yarvin and eminent historian David Starkey

In the second Oakeshott (formerly Scruton) Lecture, Curtis Yarvin will address the End of the End of History in the Post-Cold War Era.

A former software developer, Curtis Yarvin came to international prominence under the pen-name Mencius Moldbug as a critic of contemporary democracy. An avid promoter of technocracy and critic of ‘the Cathedral’, Yarvin has become an influential figure on the American right - a reliably controversial voice and a confidante of JD Vance and Peter Thiel.

Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.

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PISS_SHITTER @amiyatzin.bsky.social · 13h

if your land if promised to you by God or History then you shouldn't need to go to the greatest thieves and murderers of all time to get it back. If you think the UN has no credibility then you should give back all the land they gave you for free.

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PISS_SHITTER @amiyatzin.bsky.social · 13h

I for one think it's pretty blasphemous to consider the Almighty as a sort of cosmic real estate agent whose works are through the hands of the British Empire and Nazi Germany but hey, mysterious ways.

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PISS_SHITTER @amiyatzin.bsky.social · 13h

if God promised the land to the Jews then why did they need Satan to give it to them?

Melissa Jo @melissajd.bsky.social · 13h

Sigh. Read a history book. The territory was under British control and they gave the Jews a state.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 13h

Google search has reached the level of enshittification where, if you conduct searches while not signed into Google (as I've historically done) they bombard you with Captchas. I'm not about to identify traffic lights or motorcycles every time I want to check the weather or get directions, so bye bye

screenshot of message I now get wen I google search that reads:
I'm not a robot
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Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, and not a robot. Why did this happen?

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