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🦇 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 3h

More than half of these countries literally have kings

darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 13h

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 6h

Breaking: Text messages of Young Republican groups across the country have just been leaked.

They talk about putting Democrats in “gas chambers,” attacking “Jews,” calling Black people “watermelon people,” calling to “rape” their enemies, and bringing back slavery.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: Major clashes in southeast Chicago this pm.

DHS agents who crashed a car had eggs thrown at them. According to ABC7, they then fired pepper balls at local residents. It’s now a scene of flying rocks & tear gas.

Chicago was never a war zone. But Trump’s militia is turning it into one.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10h

On Saturday, the American people will rise up again for a truly historic day of defiance. Make your plan to be part of the biggest day of peaceful protest in modern US history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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🦇 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 10h

What exactly would stop them from taking YOU?

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🦇 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 10h

You'd think so, but look at the Democrats 🥁

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🦇 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 10h

That was not my takeaway at all. Diamond notes that by the time Pizarro arrived in S America, the Incans were in a civil war as a result of the epidemic which raced across land faster than the Spaniards. He notes an up to 90% depopulation of the east coast from first landing to second.

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🦇 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 10h

Not just blaming the victim, but blaming the victim for the crime of not doing enough imperialism of their own. Amazing.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17h

"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism

Had the Aztecs and Incas shown a bit more interest in the world surrounding them - and had they known what the Spaniards had done to their neighbours - they might have resisted the Spanish conquest more keenly and successfully.

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🦇 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 10h

The GEICO Caveman is more famous than Kirk and shouldn't have to share a statue with him.

Your Friend From Work’s Awkward Halloween Party Man @hombredefiesta.bsky.social · 11h

The great thing about running a private Catholic university is that you can just venerate anyone you want and the Pope can’t say shit because he’s all the way in Rome.

Ave Maria University commissions bronze statue of Zakk Wylde cosplaying as Jesus while embracing Charlie Kirk

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🦇 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 11h

I can barely believe Wired lets him do this shit

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🦇 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 11h

idk seems like a good way to get into running

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🦇 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 11h

I actually thought that the Libertarian ethos espoused by the tech elite and the GOP would protect us from a quick slide into authoritarianism, but it turns out they didn't mean it at all.

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🦇 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 11h

Frankly, we need to discuss what really happened instead of taking Gaius’ story at face value

I am told that the Killers’ management reached out to him to request $600,000 in back royalties for unauthorized use of their song in the intro

John Calvin’s Strongest Soldier @waveturtlejake.bsky.social · 12h

Hey guys, bad news about my upcoming appearance on Brightsiders. On the one hand, I wish this would have happened before I got on the plane and missed my brother’s wedding. On the other hand, we don’t hold grudges in the Bright community. It’s not what Daryl and Nick would have wanted.

Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · Aug 18

Sad news everyone, I’m officially pulling the plug on Brightsiders, my super fan podcast for the 2017 movie Bright. I still feel like there were many interesting topics left to discuss but after 7 years of weekly episodes I’ve learned that no one has ever listened to the show.

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🦇 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 12h

I also took my mom to see this film on opening weekend

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🦇 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 12h

Scott summers found dead in Miamj

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🦇 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 20h

This motherfucker absolutely deserved it

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🦇 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 23h

You are probably saying this for thematic reasons, but i also agree because bombadil is the principle that there is always something older and weirder

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🦇 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you Jason Momoa for giving us the image of Queen Kaahumanu doming dudes with a rifle

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🦇 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 23h

Sharif don’t like it though

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🦇 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 1d

Probably got a big bump after kirk

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🦇 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 1d

Prove it

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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🦇 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 1d

the delusional horizontalist kumbaya will always be outlasted and destroyed by the organized state

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🦇 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know how anyone can seriously post "we keep us safe" while thousands of people are abducted and sent away to foreign concentration camps

What WE are doing is not sufficient. We need to create or recruit a force that can physically protect us. We need leaders and institutions, not platitudes

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🦇 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 1d

Anything that slows cars is good from a practical perspective and anything that makes driving less pleasant is good from a moral perspective.

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