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Megaweapon

@megaweapon5.bsky.social

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Queens-born, Long Island-residing social democrat culturally Catholic atheist. White-collar union member. Occasional obnoxious music opinion. I miss Brock Nelson and Jose Iglesias. He/him

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Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.social · Aug 28

They couldn’t get an indictment against the sandwich guy! That’s not how it works in authoritarian governments who have their act together.

“Sorry, Mr. Verwoerd, we had to let Mandela go because a grand jury wouldn’t indict.”

Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · Aug 28

No, really, they are very deliberately aping the symbology and aesthetics of fascism that exist in TV Land, which has been very effective in demoralizing people easily messaged to (see: this site), but they're doing it so closely they're also aping the incompetence.

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Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.social · 1h

Are there any of these tech titans who aren’t destroying their brains with massive amounts of drugs?

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 3h

Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

futurism.com/future-socie...

It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It

He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.

futurism.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1h

Jared Kushner is not a "top US envoy." He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. He holds no position in the US government, & this is wildly illegal & unconstitutional & a massive financial conflict of interest that would have ended any presidency prior to this One Special Boy.

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrive in Israel to shore up Gaza ceasefire

Visit by US envoys comes day after series of attacks threatened to derail fragile accord

www.ft.com

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Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.social · 2h

Someone find me an Aymara grandma from Bolivia to smack her upside the head.

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 3h

I have no trouble believing that Russ Vought is both divorced and unable to find anyone willing to sleep with him. I don't for a minute believe that Trump wants to help however.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 3h

WTAF? What did I just read @swin24.bsky.social?

This. Cannot. Be. Real? Can it? 🤢 open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

☕ What’s the Tea?
Trump kept trying to get his ‘Project 2025’ architect laid!
Over the weekend, Zeteo’s newest political reporter, Swin Suebsaeng, sent me the latest scoop he’s got from inside the weird Trump administration and, well, wait for it:

By mid-2024, Donald Trump and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought were talking on the phone fairly regularly. But it often wasn’t about policy. Trump – when he had downtime from campaigning and plotting his fascist presidency – appeared preoccupied with getting the recently divorced Vought laid, two knowledgeable sources tell me. Trump spoke to Vought, a self-described Christian nationalist who’s now one of the president’s most hardline enforcers, about the “gorgeous” and “beautiful ladies” who roam Trump’s club, Mar-a-Lago, so often that it “weirded out” some of his advisers, in one source’s words. Trump offered to be Vought’s wingman. And Trump spoke crudely of all the “pussy” that Vought would surely get as the president’s favorite “bachelor.”

OK, now I need to go take a shower. Ugh!

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Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.social · 3h

Blocked him but glad to see he’s gonna poast through it.

Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.social · 3h

It’s “Colombia” but I guess expecting Noem’s propagandists to know that there are more countries than just Mexico in Latin America is too much to ask.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

Over 500,000 views before the Community Note fact check.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 3h

bluesky is an app where distressingly well-read queer people will take turns kicking ill-informed new york times reporters (laudatory)

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Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.social · 4h

Thanks for letting me know to block that dipshit.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 4h

Republican Leaders are simultaneously saying that the Jews funded No Kings rallies AND No Kings rallies were promoting antisemitic h/t @atrupar.com

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Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.social · 5h

Ooh, if the incels didn’t already hate her, they’re gonna lose their tiny minds now.

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 7h

18 Oct 2025 -- Pop star/singer Sabrina Carpenter will now use her arena tour to funnel proceeds through the Sabrina Carpenter Fund to benefit the Transgender Law Center. Good on ya' SC! @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Sabrina Carpenter Expands Tour Fund to Support Trans Rights

Sabrina Carpenter expands her tour’s charity fund to support the Transgender Law Center, using her platform to promote trans rights and real-world allyship.

www.transvitae.com

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Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 5h

This is actually a great example of what the "pro-family" party thinks of pregnancy and childbirth. (They mostly do not.)

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 9h

DeSantis said “Most people, particularly under 50, what they really need is a catastrophic plan that’s affordable, where then they can pay whatever they’re doing out of a health savings account.”
floridapolitics.com/archives/761...

Ron DeSantis says people under 50 don’t have much use for comprehensive health insurance

'Catastrophic care' should be enough for them.

floridapolitics.com

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Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.social · 5h

Uh huh. And there’s so many opportunities for people to shame new mothers, whether it’s for using an epidural or if it’s for feeding infants formula (we got a ton of the latter and it really affected my wife).

And that’s BEFORE we get into RFK Jr eugenics lunacy.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 8h

Now that Trump has illegally bombed a seventh boat in the Caribbean, please note this: Rep Adam Smith, ranking Dem on Armed Services, tells me that *at no point* have officials given lawmakers even the most basic information about these extrajudicial murders:

newrepublic.com/article/2019...

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mr. sardonicus @mmcgrath.bsky.social · 21h

this dickhead didn’t post this to bsky, but fuck you @talsmith.bsky.social . this legislation saved my life. condescending piece of shit.

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Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.social · 19h

Hope he enjoyed his trip to Denver to get his glasses stolen, bust his face open on the pavement, become internet famous for the wrong reasons, and then watch an absolutely BRUTAL loss by the Giants.

Now we just need the incoming shitty weather in NY to fuck up his flight home tomorrow.

Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.social · 1d

Looks and sounds like every single MAGAt in the NYC area. Hopefully the stents in his heart held after that much physical activity.

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters

Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.social · 1d

And they rip artists off too. Better for the artists if you buy the music instead.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

Cancel SPOTIFY.

They are running ICE ads.

F them.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/s...

Is Spotify running ICE recruitment ads? Here are the facts

The advertising "is part of a broad campaign the US government is running" across various platforms — not just Spotify, a spokesperson told Snopes.

www.snopes.com

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Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.social · 1d

I liked these Tom Clancy novels better when a) Jack Ryan was the hero and b) wasn’t forced out by a 25 year old groyper who doxxes him while calling him a beta cuck.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Russia-Ukraine is in the same place it's been this entire year, with Trump telling Ukraine to bow down to Putin or else, as Ukraine continues to stand up for its own freedom in the face of the best "or else" Russia is able to muster.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

Breaking news: Donald Trump urged Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept Russia’s terms for ending its war in a volatile White House meeting on Friday, warning that Vladimir Putin had said he would 'destroy' Ukraine if it did not agree on.ft.com/4ou5h1A

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Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.social · 1d

Also, we want regular cops to say “fuck you!” if Stephen Miller ever orders them to start shooting at protesters, so yes, make their lives at these events easy!

GuyWhoNeverWenttoEpsteinsIsland @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 1d

1/ Every political ideology has its blind spots and lots of left-leaning people refuse to empathize with police so I’ll explain why they like No Kings: it’s easy, chill overtime. When middle-aged people protest they don’t think anyone is gonna assault them. Crowds are so large counter-protestors …

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

As a reminder to everyone, a key part of the Bari Weiss origin story is her livetweeting editorial meetings.
In the institutions she critiques she treats leakers (including herself) as principled dissenters. In the institutions she controls, she expects loyal silence.

Bari Weiss tweeting about the civil war in the NY Times

Another NY Times employee says: "I am in the same meeting that Bari appears to be livetweeting"

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Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.social · 1d

The Giants play the Broncos this afternoon. Guessing he traveled from the NYC area for the game and decided to FAFO in the meantime.

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Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.social · 1d

The guys who climb to the top of 300 foot tall wind turbines in Nebraska to do repairs aren’t manly, according to sweaty freaks like Matt Walsh.

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 3d

Back when I was young, the question was "will capitalism kill us through its relentless extraction of surplus value from nature-obliterating technology?" Turns out no, it's dumber than that, the capitalists actually want to build solar panels now but that's not ok because it's soy or something.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Motion to replace the saying “jumped the shark” in the American lexicon with “flew the poop airplane.”

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Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.social · 1d

She and the NY Giants fan in Denver who had his glasses stolen should date each other. They can whine about how unfairly they’ve been treated over well-done steak with ketchup.

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