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The Mean Lantern

@themeanlantern.bsky.social

Bit of a cynic But I know that lack of empathy is the death of society

created November 22, 2024

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The more you know.

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What a tremendous loss to absolutely no one. Worst. Hulk. EVER.

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Absolutely.

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20/7/2025, 5:35:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They'll never see it coming.

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18/7/2025, 12:35:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Measles: I'm ๐˜ฃ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฌ, baby!!! The plague: Hold my beer.

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12/7/2025, 3:02:03 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Incels Gone Wild, Vol. 47

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12/7/2025, 2:44:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They better act fast, before Trump and Steven Miller deport them.

7/7/2025, 7:46:29 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ’”๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

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๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ˜ข

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Their stupidity is staggering, overwhelming, infuriating, and far from the last time, deadly.

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6/7/2025, 3:43:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Such courage. >stifles sniffles<

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21/6/2025, 6:14:15 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If she allows herself to be part of the Faux News disinformation machine, how terrific can she be, George?

21/6/2025, 1:29:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh, Canada... ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆโค๏ธ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

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21/6/2025, 1:27:07 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just some lovely rhetoric in this. >sniffs< Heady bouquet, smooth finish.

20/6/2025, 9:31:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In vino, veritas.

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20/6/2025, 9:29:02 PM | 4 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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God, what a fucking moron. It will never not be unbelievable that 77+ million Americans were dumb and shameful enough to vote for this ass clown.

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16/6/2025, 11:48:06 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lol, I love it, but somehow I'm iffy that that's really Pussy Riot.

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15/6/2025, 3:00:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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youtu.be/2rxWPEdYCnI?...

15/6/2025, 2:57:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿคฃ

15/6/2025, 2:55:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They would, Tyger, but he fired them all.๐Ÿคฃ

15/6/2025, 2:29:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Awwww, it couldn't happen to a nicer despot.

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15/6/2025, 2:27:46 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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"We're gonna need a bigger sharpie."

15/6/2025, 2:06:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lol, you already know.

15/6/2025, 2:05:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sadly, how many millions of MAGA Catholics out there saying 'Not my Pope!' ?

15/6/2025, 2:02:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sean Spicer out there somewhere, with a tear in his eye- 'That could be me.'

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15/6/2025, 1:57:21 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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HE'S ANTIFA!!! SOROS-FUNDED!!!!

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15/6/2025, 12:16:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Right? ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿคฃ Bless their hearts.

14/6/2025, 4:23:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not to mention steering far too much of the ship of state. I pulled no punches with this one, sorrynotsorry.

14/6/2025, 1:29:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You can't possibly be surprised, with this guy on board-

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14/6/2025, 1:28:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Meanwhile I'm betting you've seen this, @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social -

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14/6/2025, 1:24:58 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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It would be hilarious to see his Glorious Parade marching down the streets of a ghost town.

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Lol, here ya go, @gtconway.bsky.social -

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14/6/2025, 1:21:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dammit, shoulda said 'Most Shamelessly... '

13/6/2025, 11:21:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And man, there's some fierce competition in that category.

13/6/2025, 9:54:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I hear she's been nominated for a Repulsi in the category of 'Shamelessly Performative Member of the Administration'.

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Did you, @crampell.bsky.social, have you been? I like and respect you a lot, and I'm not trying to bust your balls, I honestly don't know. But so much of where we are right now is due to the unforgivable failure of the press to just ask these people over and over again why are you fucking lying??

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13/6/2025, 1:03:07 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fascists gonna fasch, grrrl.

13/6/2025, 12:36:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.

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Funny how that happens when you start tanking the world economy and the price of oil goes down.

12/6/2025, 1:31:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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12/6/2025, 12:07:26 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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History will judge these people, and they're too stupidly blind to see it.

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11/6/2025, 8:22:21 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fascists.

10/6/2025, 1:23:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fact check: true.

9/6/2025, 9:23:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fact check: accurate

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9/6/2025, 9:21:51 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Let's just call it like it is.

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9/6/2025, 2:33:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No duh.

9/6/2025, 2:31:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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lazy, go-along-to-get-along complicity and an often credulous abandonment of the adversarial duties of the press. 3/3

8/6/2025, 6:17:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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long before he had the kind of power he has now. And I'm not one of these idiotic chodes that goes around constantly bashing the "mainstream media" without even having a clear idea of who or what that is or what I mean by it. This was more than just cowardice, but it was certainly a kind of 2/3

8/6/2025, 6:16:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dude, that's a huge part of how he won in the first place, back in 2016. Even how he won the Republican nomination back then. Where we are now is greatly due to a stunning failure on the part of virtually every interviewer and reporter who's ever got to ask him a question, and it goes back to 1/3

8/6/2025, 6:15:25 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When fascists started gaining control of all the levers of power, Grandma.

8/6/2025, 4:29:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sickening.

8/6/2025, 4:27:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fascism always slithers in darkness until it can march in the light of day.

8/6/2025, 3:31:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Amen.

8/6/2025, 3:29:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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These are the facts, in black and white. But predominantly in white.

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8/6/2025, 3:28:08 PM | 4 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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I just read his short story EPICAC for the first time since I read it in some comp through lit book in high school. Maybe that was before I knew who he was, or maybe I just didn't notice the author's name, but it stuck with me all these decades & I finally tracked down who wrote it. Brilliant man.

8/6/2025, 1:33:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Evils come and go, but the song remains the same.

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8/6/2025, 1:27:59 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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8/6/2025, 1:23:50 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Again, Heather, fuck this guy.

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8/6/2025, 6:59:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fucking Nazis.

8/6/2025, 6:57:29 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Humor so dark it might have been baked in a Nazi oven, Val.

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'a ... high tech, for-profit Trail of Tears' 'masked men, wearing no name tag, unbound by our Constitution and laws, and subject to no one but the whims of a mad King' 'America will never be the same. Whatever you used to think, it is now gone.' 'You will now have to choose a side.'

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I pulled no punches with this one -

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8/6/2025, 12:10:14 AM | 8 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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A simple plan.

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7/6/2025, 11:53:25 PM | 11 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lord, all the rocks are turned over and all the slimy creatures under them crawl proudly in the light of day now.

7/6/2025, 9:39:44 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lord, all the rocks are turned over and all the slimy creatures under them crawl proudly in the light of day now.

7/6/2025, 9:37:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hunh, it's not often that you see a picture of Melania where she looks like the classy one.

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Well ain't that a surprise? Bondi's press announcement yesterday was positively Stalinesque.

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#Facts

7/6/2025, 6:35:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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God, I hate that little fascist, Heather. No punches pulled with this one -

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Yeah, so were the Nazi henchman who got tried at Nuremberg.

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7/6/2025, 5:48:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You are, Jane. You know you are.โค๏ธ

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Not that you'll have time for riff raff like me then, I didn't mean to infer.

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Look at this, @janeotn.bsky.social, you're blowin' up!!! It's a sure sign of your social media success when other people are making meme quotes of things you posted without even attributing!! I'll be able to say I knew you when!!

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Unfortunately, Adam, I have!!๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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๐ŸŽตTaco, Taco Maa-aan He's got to be a Taco Man๐ŸŽถ

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Jeez, Jane, you need to ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฏ.๐Ÿ™„

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It's a Roman salute, you know.

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What's your favorite song off this album? Go Your Own Way? Never Going Back Again? Oh Daddy?? Maybe this one - ๐ŸŽผAnd if you don't love me now You will never love me again ๐ŸŽตI can still hear you saying You would never break the chain๐ŸŽถ

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Lol, jkng, there's no such thing as an honest MAGAT.

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Awww, what's an honest MAGAT to do?

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Accurate.

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I mean, just an idea.

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Maybe don't put her bed on your work desk?

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Awww, that kid coulda gone to Harvard.

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He's never satisfied a single woman.

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I can't breathe in America

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No big deal, what could go wrong?๐Ÿ™„

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More on this later...

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Oh my god, fuck yes.

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You know, except the red one.

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No cap.

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Stolt!!

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since he won the election. Literally. He's made 2 to 300 million off of his crypto scam alone. And his net worth has likely gone up by a couple billion at least since November, and the other scumbags in his family are doing about as well. It's best to know things before you speak up.

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Muskrat's wealth has dropped dramatically in the last few months, no doubt, though we could quibble about whether or not he was ever actually in government service. But ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ assertion about Trump is so factually incorrect as to be ludicrous. Both he & his family have been making out like bandits 1

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