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I write about basketball and take lots of pictures of cats.

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Man, Jack's publisher works fast. I just saw the first print of the book's German edition.

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Seth Cotlar's avatar Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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Update: Donald Trump, Jr. has endorsed Jack Posobiec's new book on the "Christ-hating Communists" who Posobiec thinks a future Trump administration should use the power of the state to destroy.

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Phil Lewis's avatar Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social
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"Over the course of several months in 2024, TIME spoke to more than 40 people in the Granbury area who reported a medical ailment that they believe is connected to the arrival of the Bitcoin mine: hypertension, heart palpitations, chest pain, vertigo, tinnitus, migraines, panic attacks."

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Seth Cotlar's avatar Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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TPUSA ambassador and speaker Evan Kilgore has now taken the “brave” stand of denying the Holocaust.

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Ned Raggett's avatar Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social
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It is not that anyone here would be interested at all, he lied, but the #CocteauTwins have just hours ago revamped and updated their YouTube page to finally include all their official videos over the years, in hi-def at that. So. You know. Not that anyone here would be interested as I said.

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Mark Barrington's avatar Mark Barrington @markbarrington.bsky.social
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Very unsurprising that people who use DEI as a disparaging term are racist. The Venn diagram of the two groups is a circle.

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Lego Dolemite's avatar Lego Dolemite @psychoalpastor.bsky.social
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Either the NY Times has staff reporters that can't recognize white supremacist shit unless it literally comes with swastikas, or they see a purpose in puff pieces about white supremacists. Neither reflects well on them.

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This context- that the doctor has been visiting frequently since 2012, with **unknown** numbers of visits when the middle administration rescinded the open visitor log policy, was completely ignored when writing the headline

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.” -Lord Acton, 1887

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Mark Barrington's avatar Mark Barrington @markbarrington.bsky.social
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Hubris is pretty central to the conservative thought process.

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Mark Joseph Stern's avatar Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social
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Still marveling at Gorsuch's Ohio v. EPA opinion, in which he confused nitrogen oxide (a pollutant) with nitrous oxide (laughing gas). He did this five times, never once getting it right—in an opinion overruling the EPA's own expert scientific analysis! s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

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Mark Barrington's avatar Mark Barrington @markbarrington.bsky.social
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It’s almost like the Times are willingly allowing themselves to be a conduit for disinformation. Taking a set of facts and inferring a conclusion that doesn’t follow at all from what they’ve reported.

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Charles Johnson's avatar Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com
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If I were a right wing operative this would be the perfect time to float some false photos and reports to the media. They’re in a feeding frenzy, chances are pretty good they won’t fact check shit.

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Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴 's avatar Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴 @knilirabaj.bsky.social
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They’re already doing the birtherism again. Lol

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Seth Cotlar's avatar Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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Here we see a right wing Twitter account with 1.3 million followers being retweeted by an account with 2.5 million followers calling for conservatives to sabotage the upcoming American election. Musk, BTW, has interacted amicably with these accounts several times.

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Velodus's avatar Velodus @velodus.bsky.social
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When the France election results are good

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Mark Barrington's avatar Mark Barrington @markbarrington.bsky.social
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I love Kamala Harris and I hope she’s president someday. But I don’t believe that running as a last minute stand-in with a divided party is going to be the winning path.

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Mark Barrington's avatar Mark Barrington @markbarrington.bsky.social
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Yes, because she did go through a competitive process.

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Mark Barrington's avatar Mark Barrington @markbarrington.bsky.social
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Trying to avoid using the N word and barely succeeding.

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Mark Barrington's avatar Mark Barrington @markbarrington.bsky.social
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I mean, people think this is going to suddenly stop if Biden is somehow magically replaced with a younger candidate? A new media narrative drumbeat will emerge and the fractured democratic base will be even more panicked and divided. You gotta dance with who brung you, to use an old saying.

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Ian Boudreau's avatar Ian Boudreau @iboudreau.bsky.social
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The thing that's obvious to everyone and that nobody can actually write in the press is that the American (and yes, I'm sure elsewhere too) right wing is led by bad people and the object is to make more people extremely bad in basically every respect. It's anti-society

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Mark Barrington's avatar Mark Barrington @markbarrington.bsky.social
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“If you don’t resist, you won’t be killed” is basically comic book villain talk.

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Biden trails Trump by just 2 points across key states, a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult shows, even as three in 10 Democrats say he should leave the race trib.al/GlWZVox

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Mark Barrington's avatar Mark Barrington @markbarrington.bsky.social
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Kathleen Parker is a nut with a huge megaphone. Why is our press like this?

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Gail Simone's avatar Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social
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I know nothing about PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. I don't know the murderous aliens behind it, particularly Xarzon, who is a good friend. Anything they do, including raising the dead to destroy humanity, I wish them luck. But it has nothing to do with me. Hail Xarzon.

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Mark Barrington's avatar Mark Barrington @markbarrington.bsky.social
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I’m sorry for your trouble. I remember when we had a health crisis and had to drive 45 minutes to the only clinic who could accept us and still had to wait outside in the parking lot for a cat health crisis. Luckily, Cosmo is fine now, but it’s such a stressful situation.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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an entire movement of wicked people who celebrate wickedness

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Mark Barrington's avatar Mark Barrington @markbarrington.bsky.social
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These are the people that nearly half of Americans want to put in charge. We are a deeply sick country.

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Seth Cotlar's avatar Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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Here's the announcement from Heritage that they've hired McEntee for their PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION PROJECT. They note that McEntee headed up the Presidential Personnel Office for Trump at the end of his last administration. This is not complicated people. www.heritage.org/press/former...

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Mark Barrington's avatar Mark Barrington @markbarrington.bsky.social
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That’s Thai Grill, aka Tigril. He used to beg for food at the Thai Grill before we adopted him. Age indeterminate but at least 7 because that’s how he’s lived with our family.

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Mark Barrington's avatar Mark Barrington @markbarrington.bsky.social
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I can’t wait to see the “So you force-choked someone at a work meeting” pamphlet. There’s a large stack of them in the HR department bookshelves.

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Mark Barrington's avatar Mark Barrington @markbarrington.bsky.social
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The thing is, Trump isn’t ideological. He doesn’t care about ideas and political philosophies. He only cares about power. Which is why he cares about project 2025, and the plan for power that’s immune to legal or electoral challenges.

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Ian Miles Schlong 's avatar Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com
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Looks like something useful is happening on the Nazi site - this court document about Donald Trump’s involvement in the Epstein case is going viral This is a disgusting read

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Seth Cotlar's avatar Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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History will recall that the New York Times, that bastion of "the liberal media," on July 4, 2024 chose to give prime space on their op-ed page to a theocratic absolutist who argued that people shouldn't vote, even though he himself has voted in the last 2 elections (but nowhere is that mentioned).

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josh (oldfriend99) 's avatar josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social
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One thing that goes around every now and then that i think about a lot is that academic paper about King of the Hill where they say the show never reveals what Hank Hill does for a living

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Mark Barrington's avatar Mark Barrington @markbarrington.bsky.social
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We have a similar sitter. THIS IS NOT THE SAME AT!

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