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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 11h

They spent a month saying we were being violent by calling them fascists meanwhile they’re literally talking about throwing their opponents in gas chambers

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Fete Piedler @petefied.bsky.social · 20h

Not sure what this was attached to so I've been texting them random notes like; you don't have to post every dumb thought in your head and Try and be polite to everyone because you don't know what they're going through. Also, buy in bulk as much as you can. That's my feedback.

Fete Piedler @petefied.bsky.social · 20h

Neck vagina.

Fete Piedler @petefied.bsky.social · 20h

The very definition of a supplicant. I have little doubt that Lara has him cucked in a chair in the corner. He reminds me of the hen in our flock who is lowest in the pecking order, tho I feel more empathy for the hen. Cheers.

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Fete Piedler @petefied.bsky.social · 21h

Here's some grist for your mill.

Fete Piedler @petefied.bsky.social · 21h

I do.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Fete Piedler @petefied.bsky.social · 21h

"I'm good." - God

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just rejected Alex Jones' appeal and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him by the Sandy Hook Elementary School families

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Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 1d

boarding a flight to dallas and a child (in a lions jersey) just unprompted said to the flight attendant, “the cowboys are terrible”

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alboo @captainacab.airbud.website · 1d

grandpa what was the 2020 presidential election like

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Fete Piedler @petefied.bsky.social · 22h

1. This is terrible.
2. Wasn't Sweet Home Alabama also racist?

#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 22h

WATCH: Mike Huckabee Slaps the Bass for Israel-Themed Remix of ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ in Cringeworthy Performance

www.mediaite.com

WATCH: Mike Huckabee Slaps the Bass in Cringeworthy Remix

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 2d

So basically this is Iranian Hostage Crisis 2.0, just with a 9-month delay in the payoff for no particular reason.

Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 2d

This seems like confirmation

Then Mr. Trump won the presidency back, and the Biden administration was determined to get a cease-fire in place by January, before it left office. It drafted a peace plan, much of which was quite similar to the “20 point plan” Mr. Trump recently issued. There was slow progress: More than 130 hostages had been released by the time the January cease-fire took place.

“We handed over a cease-fire that silenced the guns, had hostages coming out and aid going in, along with a day-after plan to make it permanent,” Mr. Blinken said. But when the new administration took over, “the moment was squandered,” he added. “Israel and Hamas went back to war for eight months.”

Israeli officials tell a different story. Mr. Biden was a lame duck, they noted, and disengaged. Mr. Trump was a known entity, less likely to lecture Mr. Netanyahu in private or public. They put their money on a new president, and a new negotiating team

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 1d

During the Cold War when you were watching a movie the simplest and most-often used cue to tell the audience that the setting was in the USSR (or other eastern bloc nation) was for a police officer to demand someone show their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Anonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 3d

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

TEL AVIV — HOSTAGES SQUARE

WITKOFF: “To Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…”

CROWD: “BOOOOOO!!!!”

WITKOFF: *tries again*

CROWD: *EVEN LOUDER BOOS (as Kushner holds back laughter)*

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 2d

thank god the red zone channel started running commercials. when it was commercial-free i'd get to 7:30 p.m., look at how i'd spent my day, and realize i'd burned through an entire sunday without growing or developing at all as a consumer. and if i'm not a consumer i'm nothing at all

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

So, the religious left (broadly speaking) got a lot of attention this week.

If you’re curious to know more about the modern religious left — the iterations that have emerged in the last 10-20 years — I, uh, wrote a book about it. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0062...

American Prophets: The Religious Roots of Progressive Politics and the Ongoing Fight for the Soul of the Country

Amazon.com: American Prophets: The Religious Roots of Progressive Politics and the Ongoing Fight for the Soul of the Country: 9780062935991: Jenkins, Jack: Libros

www.amazon.com

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Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 2d

The Wikipedia article on fascism now includes Trumpism. That tracks.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

Back in the 90s when neo-nazi skinheads were everywhere, people wore colored laces in their Doc Martens to signify which side they were on. Red meant nazi, one black one white meant anti-racist, blue meant neutral, and green meant you like frogs and were anti-fascist. Been thinking about that a lot.

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 3d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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