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

okay so. inflatable frog costumes are shitposting. shining lasers at aircraft is aura farming. glad we cleared that up

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 19h

"no no you don't understand. we deploy OUR shitposters against THEIR aura farmers. WE farm aura with normies. but secretly our aura farmers all have normie alter egos--yes, like batman--who can actually govern after we reconquer the cathedral. no, the other batman"

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 38m

"Show them you're not afraid. Do it for the country. For the Constitution. For your family. For yourself. Do it for your freedom. While you still can."

This is excellent. Every Dem strategist who thinks there's risk in engaging these debates should watch it for guidance.

Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 2h

On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump.

No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social

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DakotaVAdams @toxicmicroceleb.bsky.social · 39m

You're fully missing the ointment. If I thought you were a nazi it would've just meant a block, I asked you a question about judging by pfps and you prefer jumping to calling me stupid over answering it.

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 8h

Also, while "Abolish ICE" has been the normie Dem stance where I am for a very long time, that's not been true everywhere in the country, and it's absolutely a good thing that normie white people who have never been in high stakes situations in their lives are turning out to defend their neighbors.

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DakotaVAdams @toxicmicroceleb.bsky.social · 7h

What's the over/under on a shitload of people assuming that JD Vance had him killed?

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 8h

A lesser discussed aspect of how the press has approached Biden and Trump's health is that it's priming a large number of people to believe in insane conspiracy theories about Trump's demise

choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 9h

The difference bet the way the press handled Biden’s vs Trump’s health issues, as well as the standard to which they hold his conduct is one of the greatest scandals in the history of journalism.

Their conduct, and the knowledge they’ve done tremendous damage to their profession, should shame them.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10h

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 8h

Protest gatekeepers don't understand anything about successful protest movements, exhibit eleventy bazillion.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 8h

I’m curious what the actual diagnosis he got was.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10h

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13d

Same as it ever was.

Screenshot of a NYTimes headline and subhead that reads:

"N.Y.C. Mayoral Candidates Move to Capitalize on Adams’s Departure
Zohran Mamdani and Curtis Sliwa hit the campaign trail on Monday after Eric Adams left the race, while Andrew Cuomo called donors."

Highlighted in blue is "while Andrew Cuomo called donors."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16h

Earlier this year, I interviewed Jacob Hurwitz, co-founder of American Trench. They mostly sell directly to consumers. To pay for the marketing, packaging, customer service, and other costs associated with retailing, Hurwitz says direct-to-consumer fashion models have to mark-up at least 3x.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 8h

Bret Deveraux has a (largely correct) recurring point about how the only thing humans fear more than death is shame and this motivates a lot of pro-social behavior and the increasing shamelessness across human society is kind of a massive problem for that

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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 11h

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 8h

There is opposition & an alternative to the establishment parties & status quo. It's not the far right. Reform & those on the streets stand for the same entrenched interests & against the same targets as the Tories & Labour. Partly because the latter pander to them, but that's also why they do.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 18h

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Ben Shapiro warns that conspiratorial right is taking over social media

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DakotaVAdams @toxicmicroceleb.bsky.social · 8h

My experience of you being a dumbass in this conversation yes. Which is frustrating to me because judging by your profile you don't seem like an idiot, otherwise this conversation would not be happening, but you refuse to even consider thst you might just be wrong & resort to quips when pressed.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 13h

I sometimes joke that I was trained by the jesuits.
As a punk rock dropout I met the bad-assed Michael Czerny who advised us about political organizing. He faced down death squads in El Salvador.
He married my wife and I.
He is the pope's right hand.
www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/meet-the-j...

Meet the Jesuit Cardinal Behind Pope Leo’s Social Justice Revolution

From drafting Leo's first apostolic exhortation to championing migrants and the planet, Cardinal Michael Czerny is shaping the moral heart of this papacy.

www.thelettersfromleo.com

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DakotaVAdams @toxicmicroceleb.bsky.social · 9h

Angrily dying on Argument Hill feels a lot better than admitting fault, doesn't it?

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DakotaVAdams @toxicmicroceleb.bsky.social · 9h

It does if you're 100% wrong, 180 degrees from true, [EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER], all around completely mistaken about what literally happened, in a way that would be kind of ironically hilarious if it weren't a serious subject. Which you are, and which you refuse to admit.

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 18d

Please don't call it that

What You Will Need
• Experience: 5+ years as a video editor or producer-editor ("preditor").

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DakotaVAdams @toxicmicroceleb.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah, you're just fucking wrong and making it everyone else's problem that you only sort of know how to read and won't allow any doubt to influence your emotions once you've decided on something. You won't look, because you won't allow yourself to be in danger of realizing you were wrong.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 1d

It's almost exactly four years since Tim Shipman's notorious "Boris Johnson squats like a giant toad" tweet.

Seems like important context given how we often talk as though the next election – four years away – is a done deal.

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DakotaVAdams @toxicmicroceleb.bsky.social · 9h

Spend as long scrolling thru OPs post history as you have dying in this hill in the replies, ask yourself if this seems like a guy who would unironically invoke Blood and Soil nationalism on behalf of Israel, or if it's possible that you just read it wrong.

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DakotaVAdams @toxicmicroceleb.bsky.social · 9h

If you let go of digging in your heels to win the argument and just look, look with your special eyes, you will see that I am right.

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DakotaVAdams @toxicmicroceleb.bsky.social · 9h

The replies on this one are genuinely dismaying. Just a sea of people who don't know nearly as much as they think they do and will dig their heels in forever to argue otherwise.

Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 17h

This joke is funny because it's saying Israelis are fake, rootless people who steal all their culture, see? Not a real ethnicity whose material culture is rooted in their blood and soil. No, some kind of sub-people.

This meme was heavily pushed by an influencer who claims Israel killed Charlie Kirk

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DakotaVAdams @toxicmicroceleb.bsky.social · 9h

Would it be fair of me to assume you're a pedophilic Nazi because you have an animal girl pfp?

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