Zonker
@zonker.bsky.social
If you can't join 'em, beat 'em
Posts are 70% sarcasm.
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Spending a lot less time on X (@barstoolz)
Posts are 70% sarcasm.
verified account @barstool.com
tips@barstool.com (not BS sports).
Spending a lot less time on X (@barstoolz)
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Zonker
@zonker.bsky.social
· Nov 12
That actually put me in the first 2.25% but who's counting?
Can't wait to be one of the first 1%
Can't wait to be one of the first 1%
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Something I don’t see acknowledged much about X versus its alternatives is that now that you can make money by stoking discourse between verified X users, so much of the content over there is completely inauthentic rage bait—and non-verified users engaging with it are basically suckers
November 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Something I don’t see acknowledged much about X versus its alternatives is that now that you can make money by stoking discourse between verified X users, so much of the content over there is completely inauthentic rage bait—and non-verified users engaging with it are basically suckers
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With all due respect to JFK, the time has come to ask what this country does for us.
November 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
With all due respect to JFK, the time has come to ask what this country does for us.
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Beautiful tribute to Alice 💔
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
lithub.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Beautiful tribute to Alice 💔
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The Heinous Truth...
At the moment, the official voice of the US government is a rancid mixture of trolling, cruelty, propaganda, and crass jokes about the human suffering they’re creating.
The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The Heinous Truth...
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In Exec Order 14300, President Trump directed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to loosen exposure standards. Limits could increase 5x. Women face 1.5-2x higher cancer risk from a single exposure. Infants born near power plants face elevated lifetime cancer risk.
thebulletin.org/2025/11/trum...
thebulletin.org/2025/11/trum...
Trump's new radiation exposure limits could be 'catastrophic' for women and girls
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission may soon loosen radiation exposure safety standards at nuclear plants and operations. Experts warn the general public is unsafe.
thebulletin.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
In Exec Order 14300, President Trump directed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to loosen exposure standards. Limits could increase 5x. Women face 1.5-2x higher cancer risk from a single exposure. Infants born near power plants face elevated lifetime cancer risk.
thebulletin.org/2025/11/trum...
thebulletin.org/2025/11/trum...
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If I’ve ever seen you do something embarrassing and it haunts you to this day, don’t bother trying to self soothe by telling yourself “I doubt they even think about it anymore like I do” -because I DO and I’m still laughing about it
November 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
If I’ve ever seen you do something embarrassing and it haunts you to this day, don’t bother trying to self soothe by telling yourself “I doubt they even think about it anymore like I do” -because I DO and I’m still laughing about it
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We’ve got some wins. We’ve got some hope. That’s not the time to ease up—it’s the time to tighten. A number of these companies would undo what landed them on the boycott guide. That’s leverage. That’s how we shape their future behavior.
psychopete1.substack.com/p/psycho-pet...
psychopete1.substack.com/p/psycho-pet...
Psycho Pete's Living Guide to Boycotting the Big Orange Menace
The beast eats money. Don't feed it with yours.
psychopete1.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
We’ve got some wins. We’ve got some hope. That’s not the time to ease up—it’s the time to tighten. A number of these companies would undo what landed them on the boycott guide. That’s leverage. That’s how we shape their future behavior.
psychopete1.substack.com/p/psycho-pet...
psychopete1.substack.com/p/psycho-pet...
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Trump’s military occupations of U.S. cities have cost nearly half a billion dollars.
The skyrocketing price of Trump’s occupations come as the president threatens to deploy additional troops to more American cities to quell dissent and turn America into a full-blown police state.
The skyrocketing price of Trump’s occupations come as the president threatens to deploy additional troops to more American cities to quell dissent and turn America into a full-blown police state.
Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising
Trump’s campaign to quell dissent by deploying the American military to U.S. cities comes at an immense price.
theintercept.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Trump’s military occupations of U.S. cities have cost nearly half a billion dollars.
The skyrocketing price of Trump’s occupations come as the president threatens to deploy additional troops to more American cities to quell dissent and turn America into a full-blown police state.
The skyrocketing price of Trump’s occupations come as the president threatens to deploy additional troops to more American cities to quell dissent and turn America into a full-blown police state.
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"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
lithub.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
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‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation
‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation
WASHINGTON—Responding to recent revelations suggesting the prominent economist was a close associate of the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a devastated nation reportedly joined together to...
theonion.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation
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Q: There's a report that Ted Cruz is laying the groundwork for a 2028 presidential run. Would you consider supporting him?
TRUMP: I haven't spoken to him about it. It's a little early. We had quite a campaign against Ted and it worked out quite nicely. We're in the Oval Office.
TRUMP: I haven't spoken to him about it. It's a little early. We had quite a campaign against Ted and it worked out quite nicely. We're in the Oval Office.
November 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Q: There's a report that Ted Cruz is laying the groundwork for a 2028 presidential run. Would you consider supporting him?
TRUMP: I haven't spoken to him about it. It's a little early. We had quite a campaign against Ted and it worked out quite nicely. We're in the Oval Office.
TRUMP: I haven't spoken to him about it. It's a little early. We had quite a campaign against Ted and it worked out quite nicely. We're in the Oval Office.
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Covering Democratic primaries is depressing. Writing about Republican politics is much more fun! I present to you round one: Maine Policy Institute CEO Matt Gagnon versus young MAGA upstart John Salamone! Fight!
open.substack.com/pub/andyobri...
open.substack.com/pub/andyobri...
A Mini MAGA Civil War in Maine?
Recently, a little online fissure has opened up between the nationalist MAGA wing of the Maine Republican Party and the corporate wing of the party.
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Covering Democratic primaries is depressing. Writing about Republican politics is much more fun! I present to you round one: Maine Policy Institute CEO Matt Gagnon versus young MAGA upstart John Salamone! Fight!
open.substack.com/pub/andyobri...
open.substack.com/pub/andyobri...
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The fifth #SPSFC is about to close for entries and we're looking for a few more judges:
spsfc.space/2025/11/07/l...
Come for the free books. Stay for the Discord community full of self-published authors and avid science fiction readers.
spsfc.space/2025/11/07/l...
Come for the free books. Stay for the Discord community full of self-published authors and avid science fiction readers.
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The fifth #SPSFC is about to close for entries and we're looking for a few more judges:
spsfc.space/2025/11/07/l...
Come for the free books. Stay for the Discord community full of self-published authors and avid science fiction readers.
spsfc.space/2025/11/07/l...
Come for the free books. Stay for the Discord community full of self-published authors and avid science fiction readers.
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"Progressives’ crude hostility against young people and eagerness to suppress their internet access at every turn is among the most baffling, self-destroying bigotries of our time."
Progressives indulge irrational hostility to sabotage young people’s rights and any hope of a future
Right-wingers don’t care what I say. So, I direct my ineffectual rage at progressives: WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?
mikemales.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"Progressives’ crude hostility against young people and eagerness to suppress their internet access at every turn is among the most baffling, self-destroying bigotries of our time."
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This week, documentarians Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman discuss The Alabama Solution, a searing exposé made possible by the immense courage of inmates using contraband cellphones.
And @lucasshaw.bsky.social and I banter (what else?) the fate of Warners.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
And @lucasshaw.bsky.social and I banter (what else?) the fate of Warners.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
‘The Alabama Solution’ filmmakers on exposing America’s prison crisis
Podcast Episode · The Business · 11/07/2025 · 30m
podcasts.apple.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This week, documentarians Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman discuss The Alabama Solution, a searing exposé made possible by the immense courage of inmates using contraband cellphones.
And @lucasshaw.bsky.social and I banter (what else?) the fate of Warners.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
And @lucasshaw.bsky.social and I banter (what else?) the fate of Warners.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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“Are you still talking about Epstein?” Trump keeps asking. Epstein is a “dead issue”, he says. The man stays dead but his issue is very much alive. That is because the system that protected Epstein has still not been held to account." My column. on.ft.com/43p8IhQ
Epstein is not going away
[FREE TO READ] The issue is Trump’s Achilles heel — and the US president knows it
on.ft.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
“Are you still talking about Epstein?” Trump keeps asking. Epstein is a “dead issue”, he says. The man stays dead but his issue is very much alive. That is because the system that protected Epstein has still not been held to account." My column. on.ft.com/43p8IhQ
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On this Epstein stuff, just a reminder that multiple contestants in the Miss Teen USA pageant - to repeat, TEENAGERS - said that when Trump owned it, he would walk into the dressing room so he could watch them changing clothes
www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kend...
www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kend...
Teen Beauty Queens Say Trump Walked In On Them Changing
“Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.”
www.buzzfeednews.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
On this Epstein stuff, just a reminder that multiple contestants in the Miss Teen USA pageant - to repeat, TEENAGERS - said that when Trump owned it, he would walk into the dressing room so he could watch them changing clothes
www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kend...
www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kend...
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A picture worth a thousand words.
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM
A picture worth a thousand words.
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Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
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The rapist withdrew his endorsement of an actual lunatic. Why do either of these morons have any power? Why is everything so stupid?
Trump says he’s withdrawing his endorsement of Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling her a “ranting lunatic”
November 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
The rapist withdrew his endorsement of an actual lunatic. Why do either of these morons have any power? Why is everything so stupid?
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"In 2025, the US is France. As impunity and lawlessness have grown in the US over the last several decades, it has also grown everywhere else. Even now, in the days of dwindling US status as a global endo-ideal, US news is watched more than anywhere on earth." #3E #EndImpunity 🧵
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November 15, 2025 at 1:59 AM
"In 2025, the US is France. As impunity and lawlessness have grown in the US over the last several decades, it has also grown everywhere else. Even now, in the days of dwindling US status as a global endo-ideal, US news is watched more than anywhere on earth." #3E #EndImpunity 🧵
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“‘This Sucks’: Trump and the GOP Thought They Survived the Epstein Scandal. It’s Back”
Asawin Suebsaeng reports for Zeteo on how Trumpland is annoyed that GOP lawmakers aren’t running effective interference for the president and are getting ‘played by Democrats.’
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Asawin Suebsaeng reports for Zeteo on how Trumpland is annoyed that GOP lawmakers aren’t running effective interference for the president and are getting ‘played by Democrats.’
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‘That Sucks’: Trump and the GOP Thought They Survived the Epstein Scandal. It’s Back
Trumpland is annoyed that GOP lawmakers aren’t running effective interference for the president and are getting ‘played by Democrats.’
zeteo.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
“‘This Sucks’: Trump and the GOP Thought They Survived the Epstein Scandal. It’s Back”
Asawin Suebsaeng reports for Zeteo on how Trumpland is annoyed that GOP lawmakers aren’t running effective interference for the president and are getting ‘played by Democrats.’
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Asawin Suebsaeng reports for Zeteo on how Trumpland is annoyed that GOP lawmakers aren’t running effective interference for the president and are getting ‘played by Democrats.’
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