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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 6h

Needs little further comment.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

Per WSJ, the Trump regime and Bannon are bragging they’re “ruling Congress with an iron fist” and that it is “largely ceremonial” like the Russian Duma.

Shameful. Not what the founders intended. 🇺🇸 @MarshaBlackburn @RepTimBurchett @AndyOgles

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 10h

It’s amazing watching so many people choose the wrong side of history while history is happening all around us

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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 14h

Akin to Arnold at the RNC in 04 telling a sad story about his father and uncle hiding from Russian troops in Austria.

Also funny that Woods translates “German” and “Communist” but not “Anti-fascist Action”.

Thoughtful, though, that he’s reminding his reader that antifascism is anti-Nazism.

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, what was happening in Germany in the 1930s? I forget.

James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
For those who actually respect history, the origin story of Antifa is well documented. Antifa is an organization that emerged with the “German Communist Antifaschistische Aktion” movement in the 1930’s.
German Communists smeared anyone to their right as "fascists,” a common ploy used by the ignorant hysterical activists of the Democrat Party today. Like today’s leftist loonies, the German Antifa of the Weimar years even labeled the leftwing SDP as "social fascists." Today’s Antifa are a paramilitary mob used by the usual suspects to foment fake “mass protests” and burn down cities. The same puppet masters of the Democrat activist judges ruining America today also fund these “useful idiots” of Antifa to impede the mandate given to the current President in his landslide last election victory.

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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 15h

Frankly, Judy, we obviously have no idea what we’re doing.

Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 17h

Groomed by video games where you gamble in-game for items or points that are worth or can be exchanged for actual money.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 18h

Why are young people, males in particular, so susceptible to sports-bet apps? One gambling addiction expert tells Rolling Stone:

“This generation was basically bred for addiction, raised on cell phones inches from their faces.”

Read: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 17h

May well be a source of many folks’ distrust of science and scientists, like with regard to global warming and Covid, among boomers who can’t quite make sense of wth is going on. Unlike genx folks who grew up with Bruces Banner and Wayne and their ilk as heroes.

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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 1d

For fuck’s sake.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 1d

Cc @queencityjamz.bsky.social

"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 1d

Hello! I’m Mike Nesmith and I’m one of the Monkees.

Frank Zappa, in knitted tuque, “portrays” Mike Nesmith on a circa-1968 episode of The Monkees. Not shown is Nesmith, who “played” Zappa with a rat’s-nest brown wig, false facial hair and a large prosthetic beak

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 1d

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
October 11,1954

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
P1- WE SEE A BURGLAR ENTERING THROUGH AN OPEN WINDOW

P2-THE BURGLAR HAS ENTERED SLUGGO’S BEDROOM WHO IS SOUND ASLEEP, THE BURGLAR SEES THE POOR LIVING CONDITIONS THAT SLUGGO IS STAYING IN.

P3- THE BURGLAR HAS COMPASSION AND EXITS OUT THE WINDOW, BUT BEFORE LEAVING HE DROPS SOME COINS IN SLUGGO’S PIGGY BANK.

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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 2d

!!!

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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 2d

In American politics, when one sub-ideology rises to power, its opposite rises to oppose it. Hence, perhaps, these inflatable civil and human rights frogs, the mirror of the 2D alt-right nihilist meme frogs.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 2d

looks like it’s working as expected

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2d

Lol

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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 2d

behold, an oligarch manipulating religious folks so that they oppose laws that would govern his company in the people’s interest, in the grand tradition of the oil, guns, war, and pharmaceutical industries.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 3d

we goin to
Sliwa
Cuomo
Mamdani
Forever

Voice4Justice @voices4justice.bsky.social · 3d

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ✊

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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 4d

Democracy dies in dark mode.

@washingtonpost.com “forgetting“ that Smith was investigating a coup d’etat against the United States, its people, and its Constitution … because the coup has succeeded, the criminals who planned it are in power, and the Post’s billionaire owner is seeking their favor.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 5d

My Very Dear Ones,

I write to you from near the front lines of war ravaged Portland.

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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 5d

Definition of “goon”.

The original Nazis were also just corrupt goons and thugs.

David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 5d

As basic question from an ex-police reporter: Can some of our journalists detail the training regimen all these new federal agents receive? The lethal incompetence involving use of force and perameters of the 4A suggests they are just handed guns, masks and badges and told to go fuck people up.

John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 6d

ICE is made up of men who have failed the human test and have nothing of value to offer this nation.

Adults with decency and options and possibilities don’t do this shit.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks, New Yorker

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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 5d

Oh. Right. Yes, Lindsey Graham was a co-conspirator.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5d

This from @jessicatarlov.bsky.social may be the most efficient use of 76 seconds of Fox News airtime I've ever seen.

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 5d

Jessica Tarlov: I'm stunned that Republicans want to draw attention to this because... the senators who were part of this investigation are not just random names that he picked off a list, but people who were named in Jack Smith's charging documents for trying to turn over a free and fair election.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5d

This from @jessicatarlov.bsky.social may be the most efficient use of 76 seconds of Fox News airtime I've ever seen.

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 5d

Jessica Tarlov: I'm stunned that Republicans want to draw attention to this because... the senators who were part of this investigation are not just random names that he picked off a list, but people who were named in Jack Smith's charging documents for trying to turn over a free and fair election.

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Pulpfiction Books @pfbvan.bsky.social · 6d

On sale @ both PFBs tomorrow (Tue 7th) at opening. Special orders available for pick-up at the same time.

I live semi-nearish; anyone who wants to pick up from Main Street at 12:01am is welcome to DM ***before 9pm*** & if there is any interest I'll walk over & briefly reopen the shop.

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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 6d

Apologies — that’s clearly Judge Rudolph, front left.

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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 6d

Back row, from left: Justices Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen.
Front: Justices Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Rudolph.

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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 6d

I don’t get it, either. Thinking is the joy. I’m not sure I understand why folks would want to hand over that most rewarding of human functions away to some other entity. Like buying a machine to do love for us so we don’t have to do it.

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