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an actual dog @devtesla.bsky.social · 21h

I can't believe incredibly stupid people believed in magic

Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · Feb 27

esoteric fascism is easily the most embarrassing fascism. oh was hitler magic?? grow up

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 23h

Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

it's so fucking incredible

Pronounced June 8 @junayt.bsky.social · 1d

I never knew that in the United States literally the president can do anything as long as everybody agrees not to stop them. Very weird, realizing the entire thing was made of cotton candy

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23h

the most popular smartphone maker in history literally had to stop using "AI" because it would constantly just make things up and had zero contextual "understanding" of what it was doing

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Justin Oaksford @justinoaksford.bsky.social · 23h

Americans vastly underestimate the amount of wealth under their noses. A WA capital gains tax that was projected to bring in 300 million brought in nearly 3x that in its first year.

The best time to tax the wealthy was decades ago. The second best time is now.

Dave Lee @davelee.me · 1d

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

www.bloomberg.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 23h

my favorite rightwing crank take to have right now “i have no idea why a pedophile would defend a pedophile”

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 22h

this is the pipeline now: dipshit influencers basically have the power to call in the troops

The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 22h

a conservative influencer live-streamed herself harassing a group of street vendors on Canal St in manhattan and a few days later ICE shows up with dozens of shock troops and a military vehicle.

Military-Style Sweep Hits NYC as Masked Federal Agents Arrest Canal Street Vendors

Spontaneous protests were met with an armored military vehicle and assault rifles in a crackdown that escalated the Trump administration’s focus on NYC.

www.thecity.nyc

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23h

I need y’all to take five seconds and think about what it feels like to be a Jew whose family was massacred by people wearing this symbol and watch you analyze and debate this.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23h

Why is this a debate? Why is this an analysis? Why are we discussing his motivations or the reasoning behind why he has it or why he kept it? (These are all rhetorical questions.)

Nazi tattoo = you’re done.

It’s literally that simple. There’s no nuance or further conversation needed.

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 22h

I think there's a small but meaningful distinction to be made between being an edgelord – especially as a younger person – and fully embracing nazi values/beliefs. the former primes people for the latter, but they're not the same thing, and I don't think we should ever excuse nazism as a "phase"

amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 1d

i actually don’t think the “average” american millennial man had a nazi phase. it’s not some boys will be boys shit. this makes me side eye you and your friend group, sounds like a personal problem

The average American millennial man has been a neocon, a pacifist, a liberal, a libertarian, a communist, a nazi, and I believe now most of us are back around to liberal again. This isn't a defense of platner it's just weird how normal this shit is for guys that age.

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 1d

He says he isn't King and then demands tribute. Not tax- tax is paid to the state. *Tribute* is paid to the monarch.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on asking taxpayers to compensate him: "They probably owe me a lot of money. But if I get money from uhhhhh our country I'll do something nice with it, like give it to charity or give it to the White House where we restore the White House."

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 21h

we've had decades of media about evil genius serial killers that are impossible to catch, when in reality they're usually dumb assholes who would have been caught in a second if the police were halfway competent and not so lazy

wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 22h

every true crime doc: for decades the police tripped over their own dicks and tried to pin the murders on random people and then suddenly someone called and told them exactly what happened

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1d

An actual general going on record (even anonymously) like this is lmao

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

That clampdown on the Pentagon press corps has done wonders. 🤡

@jamiedupree.bsky.social
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc...

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

So like I dont think we have words for this because “obscene corruption” really doesnt do this justice lol

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

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Meesh @cookiedoves.bsky.social · 1d

✨ goldfinch ✨

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

Trump should be forced to pay every American citizen $1m in damages and he should have to write every check personally by hand for 16 hrs a day until he’s finished.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

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gash williams @ritalinrodent.bsky.social · 23h

every month is maetober when you have a black cat named after her! who also enjoys stealing things when you’re not looking! seriously, you would think she had fingers with how good she is at that

a black cat with big yellow eyes on a yellow blanket

a black cat in a silly position, sitting like a person with one back leg sticking up

a black cat with HUGE yellow eyes, looking alarmed, standing with her paws up on a couch

a black cat with yellow eyes crouching on top of a stairway banister thing

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 1d

Some of you are not seeing the potential silver lining of a structurally unsound ballroom filled with members of the Trump administration.

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realGuyFawkes. @realguyfawkes.bsky.social · 1d

We need to make these assholes infamous.
Clark Construction, McCrery Architects, and AECOM for their willingness to illegally demolish The White House without Approval from Congress and the National Capital Planning Commission

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 1d

Beyond sexuality, this is also the psychology that drives the right crazy when it comes to dominating liberal culture, both on and offline. They don't just want us to obey, they want us to *want* to obey.

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

so this is kind of [apologies in advance] the fukuyama theory of pedocons. people crave not just power but recognition. but recognition only *matters* when it comes from a genuine human other--which is to say, someone who might also decline to respect you. for the powerful that's a *problem*

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

the thing that struck me reading about this in various places (chiefly Ashley Mears' excellent book) is that many want the *illusion* of consent and equality - they want to believe that these 19-year-olds are genuinely excited about the prospect of sex with them, and that their skill won them over.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 1d

The “One Big Beautiful Bill” brings ICE’s budget from $10B to $100B by 2029, and allocates $45B to increase the capacity of detention facilities by 100,000. Even if they support the deportations, what do people think will happen to all that infrastructure once there aren’t many immigrants to deport?

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

the tariffs alone are a direct attack on working people. all of us who aren't living on substantial investment income and dividends. it's violence

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

it's going to be interesting to see how much you can squeeze the american people with intentional, crippling consumption taxes and stagnating economic opportunities punctuated by street violence

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

every day another data point that these goons are razing this place and salting the earth. no one in the history of public service has held american people and american traditions in greater contempt than these freaks

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Traveling to the real America, doing a racism, running up a massive tab, and then skipping town is not just a Young Republican thing

Alexander C. Kaufman @alexckaufman.bsky.social · 1d

Oh man, the New York Young Republicans implicated in the Nazi groupchat scandal ran up a $23,000 tab eating filet mignon and drinking at a hotel in Syracuse -- a city with one of the highest child poverty rates *in the nation* -- and then refused to pay the bill.

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