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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 10h

The servicemembers who are conducting these strikes need to be told, explicitly, by Dems in Congress that they have criminal liability, because they do

Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 11h

Trump has no legal authority, "standing" or otherwise, to order the killing of people in international waters for unsubstantiated accusations of non-capital crimes.

Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 10h

not that those of us in the bar ever cover ourselves in glory, but I don’t see how we rebuild confidence in or integrity of the law without a whole lotta disbarment

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 10h

it’s a pretty big problem for the bar that a whole lotta the lawyers working for the feds or mil have almost necessarily engaged in some amount of misconduct to keep their jobs

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 15h

all magazines must be shut down. all magazine editors and writers go straight to prison. too many of you have fallen for the katherine dees of the world, and she, specifically, makes it really easy to figure her whole deal.

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 15h

katherine dee is herself a reactionary who has written for TERF blog fairer disputations. her bio there cites her work at american conservative, unherd, and the washington examiner. interesting how the bio she chose here doesn’t reflect that bias. the work itself features no actual citations

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

www.gq.com

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 15h

katherine dee is a nazi

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 17h

to the editors of the atlantic, my offer: you stop publishing stupid bullshit and shut your dumbass magazine down, i will not support sending you all to prison

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 17h

shut the fuck up

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17h

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 17h

i'm gonna be so mad if people start pretending to be libertarian again once trump is gone

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bob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social · 21h

I swear to Christ you all are trying to do the fascists work for them

Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 1d

Now, more than ever, it's important to understand why so many the myths we tell ourselves about immigration are actually very harmful.

First of all, your great-great-grandparents names *were not changed* at Ellis Island. No one there had the authority to do that.

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 21h

“how silly of you, you haven’t looked at the consolidated statutes of 1897 to see that immigration officers, in fact, had no authority to change names! how are they changing names without statutory authority and funding”

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 21h

what pure, unadulterated proceduralism will do to a mf 😔

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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 1d

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

"what the fuck just happened"

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 1d

what the fuck are you guys talking about

olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 1d

everyone involved in this story (including the journalists writing it up) is a loser

She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

www.nytimes.com

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 1d

phenom lol, do you guys think he's white obama or something

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 1d

i was gonna do this one when i saw that post, and i am glad that i saw you already beat me to it

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 1d

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 2d

was in downtown Milwaukee to watch the game last night (because of a pokemon regional lol) and the fans, folks, are ready for this team to stomp the dodgers. go brewers

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 2d

let him cook etc etc

olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 2d

luffy transforms, his eyes start bulging five miles out of his head, everything around him goes looney tunes, and he makes the roadrunner noise any time he moves

thiel “wow, just like jesus, my favorite character from my favorite book, the bible”

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 2d

luffy transforms into a an even bouncier guy who looks like he’s straight out of looney tunes. thiel: “wow just like jesus”

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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 3d

This is the fucking Prussian constitutional crisis. If you let them fund the military without Congressional authorization you've just given up on constitutional government. Congress is a dead letter.

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