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lydelle buster @babyshoes4cash.com · 17h

don't assume this means wario has any virtues,
he just knows a trap when he sees one

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 18h

Feel like Waluigi would be on the Epstein flight logs but not Wario and I think that’s the fundamental difference between the characters

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 20h

Guy, I must have seen Mr. And Mrs. Smith like 500 times for this exact reason. Also that Joaquin Phoenix Johnny Cash movie.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 22h

Entire way of experiencing movies that zoomers will never remember, that people my age barely remember, where you watched something because it was on. Feels like there is an entire genre of movie that was meant to be seen in that format. You couldn’t make Swordfish (2001) today.

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 21h

Do I have any t guy mutuals and, if so, where do you get your shoes? Trying to find a size 7 is a fucking nightmare

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 22h

Oh fuck OFF

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

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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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Alex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social · 2d

i'm always torn between "a lot of people have stupid ideas about money because they don't understand it's a stand-in for social permission to do things" and "a lot of people have stupid ideas about money because they do understand that, but are grubby cheats or servile boot-lickers at heart"

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 3d

Perry asks whether the “petty acts of vandalism” including "slashed tires" and "keyed cars” is significant enough to impede the execution of federal laws even if it does not make it as “quick and easy” as they would like.

"Some of this frankly sounds like a Carrie Underwood song."

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 2d

“The truth is that antifa groups have been responsible for some of the most prescient & impactful organizing countering the far-right during the last decade”

Amazing corrective to liberal punditry abt antifa from Matthew Whitley (& basically the thesis of my book) theintercept.com/2025/09/27/t...

What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa

Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea. That opens up the activists, researchers, and organizers to a real risk of persecution.

theintercept.com

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 2d

Johnny Cash: I'm going to wear all black, sing about crime, and perform concerts for prisoners

The author of this article: seems kind of uncool to me but ok I'll try it

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 2d

In what universe has Johnny Cash ever seemed "deeply uncool"?

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 3d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 2d

Huge congratulations to Maria Corina Machado who has won the Nobel Imperialism Prize for steadfastly supporting Israel's genocide and calling on the US to invade her own country so she can be installed as puppet leader while Trump takes Venezuela's oil ♥️

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

nobel peace prize goes to Trump’s little extrajudical murder supporting friend

What a pack of fucking loser weirdos that panel is

Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 2d

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 2d

Conservatives spent DECADES claiming we didn't need public programs & that charities and non-profits would fill the gap. Well, I guess they're shedding that pretense as well.

Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 2d

These people are absolutely deranged

www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...

Exclusive: Peter Thiel in talk on 'Antichrist' says he told Elon Musk not to give wealth to charity

Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and early supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, has urged long-time associate Elon Musk to quit the Giving Pledge under which signatories leave the majority of their wealth to charity.

www.reuters.com

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The White Rose Society (Australia) @whiterosesociety.bsky.social · 2d

Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea — instead of acting to defend the activists, researchers, and organizers facing persecution. theintercept.com/2025/09/27/t...

What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa

Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea. That opens up the activists, researchers, and organizers to a real risk of persecution.

theintercept.com

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 2d

Its darkly ironic that the evangelical right spent my entire adolescence hammering it in that, one day, militarized government agents might physically attack Christians for no other reason than being ontologically evil.

Well the day is here and the evangelical right is all too happy to rule in hell

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Portland DSA @portlanddsa.bsky.social · 2d

This is a lesson in messaging discipline from our DSA Socialists in Office

Bulldog @harpua.bsky.social · 3d

Portland City Council member Angelita Morillo humorously criticizes Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, leading to laughter from CNN's Boris Sanchez.

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Bulldog @harpua.bsky.social · 3d

Portland City Council member Angelita Morillo humorously criticizes Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, leading to laughter from CNN's Boris Sanchez.

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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 3d

Like I said: Kristi Noem is a liar, has no honor, and we are lucky that we have a proud protest tradition that shows this administration we are not backing down. 🫡🐸🐔

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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 3d

Portlanders will not be cowed by this administration. When undignitaries like Kristi Noem visit for their photo ops and get mocked by people in animal costumes it’s because that’s the level of respect they deserve. Doing the work of mass deportation is the least honorable thing a person can do.

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 3d

Basically its perfectly coherent for the fascist to want both racism and public benefits (for white cis het Christians)

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 3d

Yes fascism often does support lip service to public programs and state interventions in the markets. The reason these are not leftist or socialist actions is very specifically due to who the public is considered to be and what the interventions are in service to.

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 3d

Once again: fascists are not simply ultraconservatives. There's a reason fascism was initially seen as a third path distinct from both capitalism and socialism.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Marjorie Taylor Greene on CNN (!): "I'm getting phone calls from people that are saying if the ACA tax credits expire, they aren't gonna be able to have health insurance. They're going to have to drop it."

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 3d

"Couch Street"

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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