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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 5h

"...Alito delivered the opinion..."

badly-drawn boo! 👻 @soapachu.bsky.social · 7h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"I've added some notes"

Squiddy (eldritch horror beyond comprehension) @dr-squiddy.bsky.social · 7h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Mini cheddars and yoghurt.

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 4d

There’s no B actor too small for revival in season 2 of the greatest sh*tshow on earth

kathykustra.bsky.social @kathykustra.bsky.social · 4d

Of course they did

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA

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thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · 5h

You do excellent reporting and I do appreciate that. But you also were relentless in providing excuses for his slow dragging the investigations and dressing it up as savvy analysis. It wasn’t and he wasn’t up to the moment.

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thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · 5h

Tell me what I should be saying, oh brilliant strategist who spent the entire Biden administration simping for Merrick Garland’s “strategy”

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thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · 5h

Of course you can. You say that of course there should be law enforcement responding to a violent insurrection AND point out that this lunatic was the one in charge who refused to send much needed reinforcements

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thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · 6h

If you think the answer to this “question” is yes, you need to take a look in the mirror and gaze upon the emptiness of your soul

thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · 6h

We can do both

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d

People are confusing their own tedious self-importance with effectiveness.

The animal costumes are a genius move. It should be adopted by every protest.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 2d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

Stillframe from a video of Portland protesters dancing in inflatable suits

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 7h

What's important here is that it's the ICE raids that are capturing their attention.

This is why the reliance on focus groups and polls and the inevitable claim that voters only care about "kitchen table" issues misses the mark.

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Why Trump Lost the Podcast Bros

It's cool to support the Rebellion. It's not cool to support the Empire.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 13h

“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

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 15h

The case against Comey is beyond weak. The case against James is worse. It is based on a lie, and they know they're lying because exculpatory evidence that contradicts the indictment had already been presented to a grand jury in another jurisdiction. Everyone involved with this needs to be disbarred

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thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · 1d

Yes they would. If they put up roadblocks and checked everyone for guns like they did in DC, the gun humpers would throw a fit.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 3d

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Trump will just have to keep murdering fishermen until you stupid jerks give him the peace prize

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3d

papers like the New York Times actively help right wing propagandists by introducing false claims as something that's open to debate and interpretation, instead of clearly framing them up front as lies pushed by unreliable operators

Turning Point USA is a right wing propaganda op aimed at kids

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 3d

The America we used to live in—the America we want to think we live in—is gone.

We’ll have to build again.

We want to think that the repeated, widespread abuse of basic rights by DHS; the DOJ actions against former officials like James Comey and John Bolton; the presence of 2020 election deniers across congressional and executive branch leaders; the unconstitutional dismantling of federal agencies; the consolidation of old and new media under leadership favorable to Trump; the use of lawsuits and executive branch power to intimidate and silence critics; and the clear attempts to subvert the 2026 and 2028 elections; and Trump’s constant insinuation that he might seek a third term do not all in fact mean that we have crossed the threshold into a competitive authoritarian environment.
But we have. We have passed through the veil. Whatever becomes of American liberal democracy in the near or distant future, it will be a resurrection and not a continuation.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 3d

Relatedly, Dems have to stop ceding any ground on the crime issue. Stop saying Trump has a point or that Rs are right about crime in cities.

First and foremost, they aren’t right. They are presenting a nightmarish hellscape that doesn’t exit.

Second, there’s no compromise here. They want tyranny.

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thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · 2d

David Simon keeping it real

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · 2d

Read the room you asshole comedians

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 2d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · 4d

The really need red and black armbands to complete the look

thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · 4d

And shitty labor leaders like Sean OBrien saw to it that he would not endorse the candidate that would be an actual advocate for labor. Instead he sucked up to trump and spoke at his convention.

thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · 4d

Totally normal country we have here

JM Rieger @riegerreport.bsky.social · 4d

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for jailing Chicago's mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the third-largest U.S. city. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · 4d

Buy a tuner for $20