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troutfish.bsky.social
There isn't a circle of hell low and cold enough for these motherfuckers.
ashtonpittman.bsky.social Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · Oct 10
ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.
ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.
A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.
www.mississippifreepress.org
October 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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theguardian.com
The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement
The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement
The complete works, including previously unpublished poems and expert notes, are brought together in one volume for the first time
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.
October 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Recently @amyremeikis.bsky.social reminded my of Umberto Eco's 14 points of "eternal fascism" in which "it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it".

And well , there is a sh*it load of coagulation happening.
1. The cult of tradition. 2. The rejection of modernism. – Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.” 3. The cult of action for action’s sake. – Thinking is a form of emasculation.” 4. Disagreement is treason. 5. Fear of difference. – The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. 6. Appeal to social frustration. 7. The obsession with a plot – At the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged.” 8. The enemy is both strong and weak – By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. 9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. 10. Contempt for the weak. 11. Everybody is educated to become a hero. – heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.” 12. Machismo and weaponry. – both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality 13. Selective populism. – the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People. 14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. – all the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.
September 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
no, yeah, everything's fine...why do you ask? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
August 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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jotatx.bsky.social
possibly the best cover for any song in any time in the entire human history.

and I am not even exaggerating.

(I am obviously not)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cZ_...
Heart - Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin - Kennedy Center Honors HD
YouTube video by Mark Pakula
www.youtube.com
January 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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razzball.bsky.social
During a debate titled "One Christian vs. Twenty Atheists," Jordan Peterson loses by forgetting what side he’s on
May 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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tomlevenson.bsky.social
I’m Tom Levenson and I approve this message.
February 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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joneshowdareyou.bsky.social
"What would you do if your child burned to death after your neighbours child was blown to pieces after your cousin's child was shot 355 times? I know what I'd do."

— Colin Sheridan, 15 November 2024
February 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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sadmonsters.bsky.social
Trump did say he’d be dictator on day one. What he didn’t say was Musk would be dictator on days 2 through infinity.
February 8, 2025 at 2:09 AM
troutfish.bsky.social
This, and tell that traitorous lummox Fetterman to get with the fucking program or else he's expelled from the party.
February 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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crunkdriver.bsky.social
I think the greatest movie that we'll never get to see is: shadowy black ops agents repeatedly attempting to murder Clark Kent, because he's breaking a huge story about tech-adjacent, governmental corruption, and repeatedly (ludicrously) failing, because they have no idea he's Superman
January 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM