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HAYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @dirtcupart.bsky.social · 6h

ok like wrt like "leftists have a messaging problem leftists need to be nicer" it's like at some point what the fuck am i supposed to do for you bitch. you're a 37 year old college educated woman scared of mexicans and transexuals so bad u wanna kill them what am i supposed to say to you girlie pop

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 8h

Genuinely impossible at this point to disentangle his foreign policy from one of supporting an international system of fascism and this compounds in a media environment that seems incapable of pressing him on the fact that he is simultaneously fucking over his own base.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: What do you have to say to farmers who feel that the deal is benefitting Argentina more than it is them?

TRUMP: Look, Argentina is fighting for its life, young lady. You don't know anything about it. You understand what that means? They are dying

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

watching WISHMASTER and are we positive that the united states hasn’t been cursed by an evil genie

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 12h

i think people sometimes overstate the likelihood of america’s credibility being lost forever; forever is a very long time. but i think the next dem AG will need to commit effort and resources to investigating the full truth of the second admin and prosecuting them accordingly, starting with rubio.

Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21h

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 13h

I get that there are times when disputes over news coverage are a matter of emphasis or perspective on big, sprawling events, but it feels bad for public trust in a publication when it fails to accurately describe a video that’s 20 seconds long, and that everyone can see.

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leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 13h

With Trump, the NYT & other outlets are unable to subtlety subvert journalistic norms because he is so deranged. In a way, he further exposes what utter clowns they are because they end up sane-washing a video where the president literally takes a giant shit on US citizens.

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 19h

As someone doxxed by Andy Ngo, myself, I understand the drama it can bring.

His latest target, Daryle Lamont Jenkins is the hero of the film SKIN, and an even greater hero in real life: A Black man who, on his own for decades, has targeted and transformed white supremacists.

Now, he needs our help

Donate to Support One People's Project in Crisis, organized by Daryle Jenkins

The past two years have taken a toll on One People's Project, particularly in re… Daryle Jenkins needs your support for Support One People's Project in Crisis

www.gofundme.com

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 14h

Every time I post something like this, some ppl push back at me saying that it's a sign that these freaks have no fear of blow back. Yeah they don't, because they are idiots. They don't have a coherent plan; they are just zombies reaching and clawing to the nearest fresh meat

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 14h

It rules so hard that these idiots just straight up post "yeah I fired this guy, as an official government act, because I personally don't like his first amendment protected speech"

May as well take out a few million from the UT budget and give it straight to "woke" w/o all these extra steps

Greg Abbott on Twitter: +Univ. of Texas professor was dismissed from an administrative post overseeing university academic affairs because of ideological differences.

Texas is targeting professors who are more focused on pushing leftist ideologies rather than preparing students to lead our nation.

We must end indoctrination and return to education fundamentals at all levels of education.
axios.com/local/austin/2…+

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15h

There's just no way to exaggerate how cooked your brain has to be to think like this. Trump is an unprecedented, law-breaking, norm-breaking, increasingly demented maniac who is destroying this country's basic institutions. Like, right now! As we speak!

But media elites find that boring.

It’s 2025, and Democrats Are Still Running Against Trump

www.nytimes.com

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 19h

the nativists are all despicable, but this kind of nativist is by far the most despicable

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

For sure some of the legacy media outlets are downplaying the protests because they’re aligned with Trump, but I think an even bigger factor is how many elite journalists have a patrician disdain for the idea that politics can happen in the streets and not just the CNN green room.

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calizaybak.bsky.social @calizaybak.bsky.social · 1d

They did the same thing with the massive protests against the Iraq invasion.

Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 1d

Biggest protests in U.S. history are #5 story on NYT app. 🤷‍♂️ #priorities

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

Remember back in January when all these sage politics-knowers were writing about how there had been a vibe shift and now the resistance was over?

lol. lmao.

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 1d

Profiles in Cowardice. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 1d

His bet isn’t that they’re stupid, it’s that they’re racist and will take a bail out. So far he is correct, don’t bail them out and let bankruptcy depress their turnout.

Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 1d

10. His betting - to the extent this is rational - is that his rural farm base is too ignorant to connect those dots and won't abandon him and his party in the midterms. I wouldn't take that bet, but who knows, maybe his next round of stupid will pay off.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d

immigrant grocery store owner who voted for Trump to lower grocery prices and then got wrecked by tariffs. mfer you run a business called "Wong Kai Imports" what the hell did you think was gonna happen

Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 1d

"A beloved family-run grocery store in Florida may have to close its doors after 43 years because of tariffs." www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/ar...

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 2d

earthbound is one of those overplayed, overhyped and oversaturated classics that you play and realise it's actually underrated

RaisonDetriment @raisondetriment.bsky.social · 5d

Playing Earthbound for the first time ever in 2025 is fascinating, actually. You're just a kid and the world's gone mad. All the adults are useless at best or trying to kill you at worst. Everyone talks like a crazy person. Everything's too expensive. Your next door neighbor wants to be a dictator.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2d

Clearer than ever that the Epstein Files are what could bring this all crashing down and they're trying to get everything fascisted up before anyone can make that happen

Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 2d

Rep. Johnny Olszewski D-MD (lower left) tried but failed to get recognized on the House floor today to get Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva D-AZ sworn in. Speaker Johnson has refused to seat Grijalva for more than 3 weeks. "This is wrong and you know it Mr. Speaker."

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 2d

white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 2d

A really interesting, fundamental conceit of all these AI enthusiasts is that the ideas they have are great and all they need is this magic box to execute them. As pedestrian as these people‘s brains are for anything except self aggrandizement, I kind of doubt that’s what’s holding them back.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

It’s tiresome at this point, but again, their entire pitch is “wouldn’t it be great if there were no such things as talent, craft, and skill,” and what that means is a bland, slop-filled world. www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...

Didn't go to film school? Don't worry. Legendary investor and movie buff Marc Andreessen doesn't think that will be an issue for future creatives.

During an episode of "Monitoring the Situation," the podcast for the venture capitalist firm that Andreessen cofounded, A16z, he said advancements in AI technology — like OpenAI's Sora 2 — have made it possible for a new type of filmmaker to emerge.

"The filmmaker with no visual skill, or access to a set, or to a camera, or to actors, but with an idea," Andreessen said on Friday. "It's going to start with shorts and animated things and so forth, but it's going to work its way up to full movies."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 3d

Don’t say I didn’t warn you! x.com/rhcm123/stat...

Sky Marchini @rhcm123 • 23/06/2024
I was at the bar last night and this woman across had this guy talking to her and she was looking around with the "please help" face (women, queers, you know what I'm talking about) and caught my attention, so | went over and bailed her out ("omigod heyy girl it's been so long!")
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and the dude eventually gets pulled away by one of his bros and she's like "oh thank god he's gone, he gave me massive ick" and I'm like oh what'd he do
And she says (paraphrasing slightly) "well we were just chatting, kinda hitting it off, then he leans in and whispers" (2/3)
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And I swear to god I'm not making this up: "I want to suck your milkers dry."
We have to ban straight men. I'm sorry but it's time.
That phrase has been rattling around my brain for like 12 hours now and it causes me physical pain every time I remember it
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 3d

So, regarding the “demise of wingperson” line below, y’all want some Sky lore about the time I saved a woman in a bar from quite possibly the worst thing any human being has ever said to another human being, in attempt to hit?

Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 3d

It's the approach.

That's the hook for the apps, at least the het ones.

You'll *know* they're interested when you approach on an app.
You won't at a bar.

(The demise of wingmen/women/people has been devastating)

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