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@protanope.bsky.social

Ok, maybe I'd prefer to.

created June 16, 2023

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Profile picture smith (@protanope.bsky.social)

almost not response after 14 hours is 😊

TCW responding to JCO on X regarding The Big Lebowski, and striking out 000
1/9/2025, 7:32:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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i could build this for $3421

1/9/2025, 6:45:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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where are the bean sprouts??!?🌱?!

1/9/2025, 4:18:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Please contact Chuck Schumer for next steps

30/8/2025, 11:39:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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a pre-wake for the anti-woke

30/8/2025, 6:03:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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pre-wake for the anti-woke

30/8/2025, 6:02:25 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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horrifying - though perhaps mainly unintentionally horrifying? - movie. undermines the very idea of love AND DATING, while pretending it’s smiling about it.

30/8/2025, 5:30:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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holy shit this could be good almost. what the fuck is this acting and this script

30/8/2025, 5:21:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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wild that a director could make one root against chris evans, just so he might stay away from Dakota Johnson?

30/8/2025, 5:14:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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lol tonally shit.

30/8/2025, 5:12:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ok fully unsurprising that it has Dasha. nit sure that’s ironic or smart at this point

30/8/2025, 4:49:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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to make a sex comedy with fairly dreary sex must be the point: life is a desert of dreariness

30/8/2025, 4:36:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ugh. wtf. eric rohmer in reverse

30/8/2025, 4:27:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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is Dakota Johnson the best actor of her generation? no. is Dakota Johnson the best actor of ger generation at making you wonder if she or the script or the direction is worse?

30/8/2025, 4:16:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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what the @jdcmedlock.bsky.social said, no?

30/8/2025, 2:43:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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dong ding, the supreme court is the thing / early to celebrate when courts don’t enforce their own ruling

30/8/2025, 1:20:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture smith (@protanope.bsky.social)

could not be more correct

28/8/2025, 1:50:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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uber but for countertransference

28/8/2025, 12:44:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What we need more of

26/8/2025, 3:02:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) reposted

this point—that this era is not forever and accountability can come in many forms—has for some reason proved bizarrely elusive for democrats

25/8/2025, 10:08:34 PM | 4507 958 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture smith (@protanope.bsky.social)

ha yes unreal. and why would allowing 15 year olds into professional sports in the UK not be full of the risks of sending minors into the big leagues anywhere else

25/8/2025, 6:34:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture smith (@protanope.bsky.social) reply parent

true. this is why we hired you to WIN

25/8/2025, 4:32:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture smith (@protanope.bsky.social) reply parent

*implies

24/8/2025, 11:45:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture smith (@protanope.bsky.social) reply parent

as you should be! political messages are not isolateable: as @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com inplirs, it’s like other gestalt messaging … like comedy. Don’t have Shor write your jokes!!!!! bsky.app/profile/adam...

24/8/2025, 11:44:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ā€œchasing the median sabotages your meanā€ is a good line, and an important crystallization of the point.

23/8/2025, 11:13:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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i’m standing here! (min wage/hr)

23/8/2025, 5:45:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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i have no passions

four films that @SirSnipeyy hates with a passion
22/8/2025, 1:44:38 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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the metaverse is funny indeed. also let’s take 99% of his money over $10 million, so we can at least try to allocate a tiny little bit better

21/8/2025, 3:49:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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wut. more and more people are saying ā€œuse potato chip bagsā€ for your official & non-official business

21/8/2025, 3:46:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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english words that don’t exist, based upon my examination of a 3x4 section of the NYTimes game ā€˜Connections’ pendar pendra pedan cedra denra narden pec [too short] errund undar lerru runar rendar plerrundarnc word that does seem to exist: rund (chiefly Scottish variant of RAND)

21/8/2025, 2:46:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ā€œbari weiss knows exactly what she’s doingā€

19/8/2025, 5:45:41 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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i do the same with sociologists. they love it. made me their king. but now want to kill me and replace me with Carnehan?

19/8/2025, 5:43:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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historians will read this and not-weep. they will salute and get rock hard and pass out from lack of blood oxygen

Not surprisingly, Trump balked at the establishment candidates presented to him for the post: Jay Clayton, his first-term chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission; Robert Giuffra, a chair of the venerable New York law firm Sullivan & Cromwell; and Missouri’s attorney general, Andrew Bailey. Trump turned instead to the Florida congressman Matt Gaetz, a flagrantly unsuitable choice; Trump’s private lawyer, Boris Epshteyn, encouraged the selection. But Gaetz’s escapades—he was under a congressional ethics investigation for sexual misconduct and drug use—proved to be too much even for the Republican-controlled Senate. Bondi, who had been ā€œgodmotherā€ to Gaetz’s Australian-shepherd mix, said privately that he was a poor choice for the job. (A Justice Department official denied this.)
19/8/2025, 5:38:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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the role of james bond should go to whoever is 7th most hated in UK the previous year

19/8/2025, 5:16:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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the reaction to Nixon was the warning

19/8/2025, 5:14:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Popo-Tate-o’s

17/8/2025, 11:01:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fuck Marry Kill? no just kill thanks.

16/8/2025, 6:31:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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indicative that NYer publishes this, in Trump era

16/8/2025, 6:26:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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shockingly ill-conceived menand piece in the NYer on Baldwin. seems to be aiming for a blandly omniscient pov, but is weird and sad and limited, particularly on the subjects of race and sexuality. limited particularly by menand’s imagination

16/8/2025, 6:26:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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wtf is this monstrosity why are we even alive

16/8/2025, 5:38:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Human history: here is twenty billion more documents in more languages than even exist now what are you gonna do checkmate

16/8/2025, 5:29:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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yes. and d w a l l a c e w e l l s - is on bsky.social; are we just commenting or wanting to knew why he chose her to talk to?

15/8/2025, 9:20:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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jesus christ, this is it, the whole ballgame

15/8/2025, 8:46:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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essential part of a white mother-in-law dowry

15/8/2025, 1:57:52 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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yes but bsky.app/profile/seth...

14/8/2025, 8:30:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"A sandwich of a sandwich is a sandwich between two piece of bread." - Unknown

14/8/2025, 8:02:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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file under: waiting until it’s too late to matter about anything

12/8/2025, 12:44:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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did NPR news have a come to Jesus moment after the stripping of CPB funding? wow what is this actually good, hard-hitting, anti-RFK analysis regarding mrna vaccines?

11/8/2025, 9:20:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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comics HATE h——(big hook like Gong Show)

8/8/2025, 3:18:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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waiting for hard left - one that will set up for freedom. ā˜€ļø immigrants: we need them! need to work asap! especially if they’re not criminal! trans: we cannot let them be less than full citizens! every slight against them is a slight to all americans! motherfuckers: need to fuck fathers!

8/8/2025, 3:15:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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hope the NYer article abt parents in Maine w trans kid moving to Mexico is just leading edge & indicative of whole set of later reporting they’ll do in style of deeply investigative & goddamned wordy stories that hold people to account. There’s No Place at Home www.newyorker.com/news/as-told...

8/8/2025, 2:32:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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it’s dumb people’s version of being smart about AI.

8/8/2025, 1:06:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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disgrace after disgrace.

8/8/2025, 1:03:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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yeah amazing how Fox News makes this true

8/8/2025, 1:01:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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assume the Greenland tourist places with the full blackout shades are overrun?

8/8/2025, 12:59:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ā€œbeeedeee beeedeee, Buckā€ not neeedeeed

8/8/2025, 12:57:01 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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may John Roberts be treated like Alan Dershowitz from here on out

8/8/2025, 12:52:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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pet peeve: quoting Jonah Goldberg in one’s profile

8/8/2025, 12:49:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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hard hitting journalism;: ā€œThe announcement, in the gold-adorned Oval Office, came after Mr. Cook presented Mr. Trump with a 24-karat gold gift and lavished him with praiseā€ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/u...

7/8/2025, 1:28:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted

Finally, a united nation.

4/8/2025, 11:38:57 PM | 22363 5870 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture smith (@protanope.bsky.social) reply parent

so close! that’s a camera.

2/8/2025, 7:25:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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might have to watch it again to make sure I can be the role-model needed

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1/8/2025, 11:01:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff.bsky.social) reposted

Young men lack positive models of healthy masculinity because they haven't seen Alec Guiness's portrayal of George Smiley in the BBC adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy

1/8/2025, 10:52:15 PM | 215 32 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture smith (@protanope.bsky.social) reply parent

uh no. for instance, why would this be described as ā€˜scrambling’ as opposed to the long slow boring of hard boards that is & has been the GOP long-term strategy for minority rule, making deeper and deeper holes in the foundations of American republican democracy ?

31/7/2025, 7:15:21 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cursed media environment, cursed country; the US really trying to catch up with a burst of awfulness here in 2025

28/7/2025, 11:35:46 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Another political scientist w/ another incoherent analysis Yale prof explaining why minorities voting MAGA: ā€œtheir political decisions are driven more by the realities their racial communities faceā€ Garbage analysis w/ no mention of media environment www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

25/7/2025, 6:03:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ICE not beating the racist blood money accusations.

17/7/2025, 5:22:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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unbelievable whiteness

15/7/2025, 7:37:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ckrrext carrot correct

15/7/2025, 7:35:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture smith (@protanope.bsky.social) reply parent

that’s not how it works on the Vineyard. the rich will literally change laws as they need to make it so they have a proletarian group available; will make beds available at hostels; will create ferries; I’ve known folks to set up tents change needs to be in immigration laws & work permit laws

15/7/2025, 7:10:14 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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has the composition of your students changed much?

15/7/2025, 5:50:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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regularization & non-prosecution of white collar crime might be most important meta-issue in America results are terrifyingly vast, represented in every element of Trump administration but the fact we didn’t prosecute DJT for insurrection is, still, jaw-dropping: twas treason, not money grubbing!

14/7/2025, 6:01:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every gold medalist at the LA Olympic better be ready to have Trump preening.

14/7/2025, 5:50:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) reposted

Rolling Stone has no problem doing proper headlines and reporting. NYT just can't seem to understand how to do it. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

13/7/2025, 1:16:56 PM | 268 92 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture smith (@protanope.bsky.social) reply parent

interestingly ā€œwhere is your ed atā€ was also the name frank herbert absolutely insisted upon

13/7/2025, 5:45:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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pretty clearly just a bit of loubouillian moƫt-profiling of solid dark matter on ice

13/7/2025, 5:19:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture smith (@protanope.bsky.social)

agreed. though let’s spread at least some blame to NYTImes and PBS and WaPo and NPR the whole ā€œwe’re neutralā€ editors and managers and owners who absolutely allowed this messaging to happen l, while pretending they’re still being neutral.

12/7/2025, 5:57:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture smith (@protanope.bsky.social)

popularists get fucked. but also: please for gods sake let’s move the political goddamned needle sooner, especially for those that want to stake out a new vision of immigration.

12/7/2025, 5:31:57 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Borges correct as usual

12/7/2025, 5:25:19 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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just got the windows down, armpits open to the breeze, waving to friends, citations piling up in the back

12/7/2025, 5:22:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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because when you’re done with them their body is gonna need two graves

12/7/2025, 5:20:28 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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goddamn. copy this message up to the stratosphere (financial journalists)

10/7/2025, 7:54:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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lol jesus christ, this isn’t sarcastic, is it? because if not this is so so so dumb.

10/7/2025, 2:13:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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want to repost this amazing point, but when did reposting @eschatonblog.com ever help???

9/7/2025, 6:21:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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+ diligent young woman + a no-nonsense activist lens + responding vocabulary + most engagements with the world ka-pow. such force! go to France, I guess.

9/7/2025, 6:05:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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a Door, say, to a new set of marks

9/7/2025, 5:59:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s right.

7/7/2025, 2:45:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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the lack of journalistic digging into Tiktok being actually truly banned…. actually banned Banned by congress is like the lack of journalistic digging into the wild & off-range Supreme Court decisions allowing people to be sent to South Sudan. South Sudan. With no connections to the country

6/7/2025, 7:03:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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this shit hits our faces

5/7/2025, 8:38:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gillian Welch and David Rawlings: I will see them anywhere, in a heartbeat; one of my very very top Americana favorites. Parasocially (the past 15 years): 🄲I hope they’re ok.

4/7/2025, 3:01:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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what are democratic governors doing??? what’s Newsom doing?

4/7/2025, 2:48:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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benjamin ryan is both a transphobic hack and a PoS who doesn’t care about such principles.

4/7/2025, 2:42:45 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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us military rolling over like puppies

4/7/2025, 2:40:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I was going to say: This is 100% a retread of the same article that you and others reprint every couple of years. Then I noticed the published date.

4/7/2025, 2:21:36 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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white white house. black black christmas.

4/7/2025, 1:16:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Billions and billions to the worst agency, the most heartless and illegal and anti-Constitution agency. Abolish it. ā€˜Abolish Ice’ asap. Not just on the margins, not in scattered areas; everywhere. Abolish Ice. Body-block it, kick it down, grind it to nothingness.

4/7/2025, 12:57:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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worse than that, complicity. bsky.app/profile/jame...

3/7/2025, 10:55:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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not really feeling all the love & affection in the world

3/7/2025, 10:54:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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NYT bizarre shitty headlines as crystal-clear as their bizarre shitty superimposed images

NYT: Republican Bill Puts Nation on New, More Perilous Fiscal Path Among the most expensive pieces of legislation in years, the Republican legislation could reshape the country's finances for a generation.
2/7/2025, 2:18:47 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ā€œi will eat a burrito with my fingersā€

2/7/2025, 1:40:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view