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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 11h

This could seriously be one of the 2 or 3 biggest Presidential scandals in US history

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 11h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 9h

i cannot imagine having a brain which makes you think this and not "it is regrettable that the Republican party could not maintain a cordon sanitaire"

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 9h

everyone needs to internalize that this is just how all republicans are and when nancy pelosi said "the country needs a strong republican party" she meant that more people like this should be powerful. they are all like this! they all think just like this and like trump and they love it and it's fun

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6h

activists are doing a lot of good work to try to help the people being brutalized but the biggest and most important thing that needs to be done is to break the regime, by any means necessary, and absurdist mockery is proving to be an extremely effective part of the arsenal

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6h

the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 6h

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 7h

I love this so much. Funny, sweet, hopeful, and kind of bad-ass.

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6h

by this time next year, we want ICE agent to be one of the most miserable, soul destroying, hated jobs in america, we want parking enforcement to look like a dream job by comparison

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6h

the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 6h

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 6h

Probably best to chase it indefinitely

2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 6h

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rare-whit...

Locals stunned by world-famous white whale sighting off NZ coast

Locals near Kaikōura captured rare footage of a white humpback whale.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 7h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6h

mike johnson’s son currently confiscating his phone and deleting all his news apps

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 7h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · Feb 23

the median republican volunteer for 2024 is a 25 year old groyper with a statue avatar twitter account who uses the word cuck roughly as often as I use "fuck" and is obsessed with seed oils and has a laptop full of the kind of anime porn that should get you 20 years in supermax

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12h

fortunately I have invented 'Ultra-Kirkman' who is a version of Robert Kirkman who writes good comic books.

DC Updates @updates4dc.bsky.social · 3d

Invincible and The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman says Omni-Man could easily take down Superman, adding, “Superman sucks.” (via Collider)

#OmniMan #Superman #Invincible #TheWalkingDead

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Glonzo Ball @groverhaustenbosch.bsky.social · 7h

> it’s honestly just crazy to me that so many drivers simply choose not to use blinkers when turning

i always thought that was something i'd get a ticket for

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 7h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

a real water is wet scenario here

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Mdh @mdh2.bsky.social · 8h

Imagine the incentive structure at play to get your hands on data that can tie users with their real names and payment details to typing in horny shit. that is going to get breached at some point and exploited either as a public leak or blackmail.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 9h

Man, if you’re going to use the an article about how the Republicans are using slurs in the group chat as a way to get mad at Democrats you should probably take a break for a while.

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Glonzo Ball @groverhaustenbosch.bsky.social · 7h

remembering during the tesla takedown protests i never saw any DSA people but once did see some pencil-necked wrecker cosplaying as a turn of the century factory worker shilling his paper and telling people they shouldn't bother voting lol

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 8h

Obviously this is a particular left-wing species of it, but I think this is a reflection of a very real Online trend found all over the political spectrum where people don't understand some aspect of the world and so assume their ignorance must reflect a conspiracy by The Powers That Be

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

what everyone needs to internalize is

picture of Garfield the cat with the text YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO PROPAGANDA

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

you can just read the interview, you know.

So I see this election as very critical to who we are as a nation - the character of America, democracy. And they may not like hearing that, but I don't like what they're saying either. And what they're - the assault that they are making on - no one is above the law. That's been what America has been about, except if you're Donald Trump.

KELLY: When you say they, you're talking about who? Republicans?

PELOSI: Yeah. I'm talking...

KELLY: People who support Trump?

PELOSI: ...About the cult that the Republican Party has become - a cult to a thug. And that thug would be Donald Trump. So I wish they'd take back their part of - the country needs a strong Republican Party. It has had a strong Republican Party with great leaders for America. And that is really not what we're seeing there. It's up to them, though.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

One of my earliest smart political instincts was that Enron must be about to go bust bc of all the donations they were dropping.

This time around, I look at David Sacks, he of the SVB run followed by the bailout, and understand that the INSTALLED the bailout inside the [White] House.

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 11h

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 7d

more and more I am convinced a good share of why Trump 2 is so much worse than before is because of what Elon did to Twitter. it's like those group chats where people gassed themselves up to join ISIS, scaled up a millionfold

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12h

it is funny but also makes some sense. racism is going to have obvious appeal to hideous losers who otherwise lack any sense of self worth bsky.app/profile/dark...

Richard @darklighter.bsky.social · 12h

Every photo in this article:

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

if you invite donald trump to speak at your loved one’s memorial, you deserve to have to watch him insult your dead loved one

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9h

U.S. police kill roughly 25 pet dogs a day, the majority of which pose no threat to them.

scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr/vol17...

trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss...

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 10h

GAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump on Charlie Kirk: "He was able to fight people that were enemies. And he didn't necessarily love those enemies so much. You know, I heard 'he loved his enemies' and I said, 'Wait a minute, is that the same Charlie that I knew? I'm not sure.' But I didn't want to get into it."

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