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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 5h

Happily the TERF-blocking service I signed up for must have taken care of this for me some time ago!

Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 8h

Is anybody going to spill the crucial, hidden-behind-the-paywall detail of which publisher was debased enough to take Olivia Nuzzi on, since it seem like “galleys” are floating around?

(If she was still shopping it, it would be “copies of the manuscript.” “Galleys” means somebody bought in.)

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 8h

“Charlie was the best of us, man. He was the only guy in the movement capable of speaking two consecutive sentences without heiling Hitler or using the n-word.”

Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 9h

These same people wanted anyone who didn't say "Charlie Kirk was God's perfect gift to humanity" to get banned from social media platforms, fired, and/or go to jail

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 9h

So THAT’S where my date’s been waiting.

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 9h

Wait, was that the one where the House GOP basically strongarmed the DC police into abandoning the case?

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 12h

Now, granted, my reaction in the days following Kirk’s death WAS “So if God saved Trump so he could save America, I guess God didn’t have any use for Charlie Kirk in this world,” but at least I had the tact not to share that uncharitable thought out loud.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 14h

“[Stewart] Home doesn’t argue that practicing yoga will make you a fascist... But his research suggests that practicing yoga with certain expectations might predispose you to fascism—because many ideologies associated with fascism are also woven into the rhetoric around yoga.”

It’s on my TBR list!

What does White Christian nationalism have to do with yoga?

In his new book, Stewart Home analyzes the wellness-to-fascism...

www.christiancentury.org

Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 15h

Schrodinger’s Mom.

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 16h

Who’s that asskisser Brian who says “You are indeed the peacemaker?”

Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 16h

And this is an object lesson in why you never give money to the DSCC, the DCCC, or the DNC. 99 times out of 100, those committees will throw it away on this sort of nonsense. Find a candidate you like? Give directly to them.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17h

🚨 The DSCC — led by Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Kelly, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Blunt Rochester — has formed a joint fundraising committee with Janet Mills.

Mills, running against Graham Platner in the Maine Democratic Senate primary, would become the oldest freshman (79) ever elected, to a 6-year term.

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 16h

Oh, I’m sure she’s got her own D$CC pipeline.

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 16h

It’s a supernatural love story, and definitely NOT a paranormal romance!

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Beige Mom Sleep Paralysis Demon @lovejoolz.bsky.social · 17h

Why is this man so obsessed with de-aging his penis? Because he’s probably ingested enough lead to kill several Roman senators.

blueprint.bryanjohnson.com/blogs/news/h...

How I’m de-aging my penis

Hi Friend,Men - if you're not having robust boners at night, you're 70% more likely to die prematurely.If you're grinding at the expense of your health, you're flaccid. Women - the same is true for yo...

blueprint.bryanjohnson.com

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 17h

Yes, please.

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 18h

Happily, I’ve had my shots on this one, because I am old!

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 18h

Bingo.

(Also, as the numbering implies, this is a thread, and you should read it.)

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18h

3. Whatever you’re planning to do to bring people around *after* you fight a war, so you don’t have to murder millions of people in cold blood?

Consider doing that first.

Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 1d

Really mindboggling to me that with all the things we KNOW the American government has done, this is the thing these people are willing to double down on having never, ever, ever happened because the feds just wouldn’t do that sort of thing.

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 1d

Not enough letters. Must be Damian Thorn.

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 1d

It’s pretty awesome how the studio audience goes wild halfway through the video when they see the big reveal.

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

youtu.be

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not JUST that “Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly & directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.”

Watch the clip: Beyond making excuses for Trump’s use of the Justice Department to harass NY’s attorney general, Tish James, Cuomo comes THISclose to saying she deserves it for “playing politics.”

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 1d

Sammy Davis, Jr’s “Wichita Lineman.”

Or Dolly Parton’s “Stairway to Heaven.” It really depends on my mood.

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 1d

For years, it was not, and it was like one of but a handful of Disney live action films in streaming limbo, like the Bob Crane vehicle Superdad.

Anyway, we cancelled our Disney+ in solidarity with Jimmy Kimmel. Oh well!

Sylvan Wind Studios @allisonhansen.bsky.social · 1d

Something Wicked This Way Comes is currently airing on Disney + Really worth the watch, or re-watch.

Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 1d

Like, there’s a reason the Police broke up after trying multiple variant covers on Synchronicity!

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 1d

“A case study in how religion, politics, and crime are colliding in the 21st century… this new breed of messianic authoritarians is less about one man, and more about the changing nature of a strain of evangelical Christianity that doesn’t just want to save souls but remake the world in its image.”

Kingdom of Jesus Christ, the Name Above All Names, Inc.—Asterisk

Apollo Quiboloy — according to his followers — is the appointed son of God. He’s also at the center of a criminal empire, an explosive rift in the government of the Philippines, and a shift in the mak...

asteriskmag.com

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 1d

Sacco and Vanzetti, although that’s more of a day of remembrance, really.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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