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Re-posting this with alt-text added
Describing Donald Trump, Oliver Kornetzke wrote: "Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul - all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn't but always has been - arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshipped like gospel. It is America's shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn't just lose its soul - it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader."
December 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Should've been top 10
A gorgeous 'No Kings' protestor holding a hand painted cardboard sign reading, "OBVIOUSLY I DON'T BELIEVE CIRCUMCISION CAUSES AUTISM, BUT THE EVIDENCE LINKING MICROPENISES TO FACIAL SEEMS TO BE ADDING UP."
October 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Just leaving this here... 👀
Image showing a desktop screenshot showing the 'likes' column from Sen. Ted Cruz's Twitter account. The top liked tweet is from the "Sexuall Posts"account and features a still image of a blonde female actor, back pressed against a wall wearing glasses and a red blouse (that's off one shoulder), with her left index finger between her teeth, eyes looking off-camera to the viewer's left, as if she's seen and/or thinking something racy. Animated gif images of this same scene did the rounds at the time of the incident, mocking Cruz's public puritanism whilst he seemed to be browsing porn on Twitter (not that there's anything wrong with that). Cruz later claimed the visit to and like for the Sexuall Posts page was attributed to a staffer use of his account... Oh, COME ON!
September 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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I mean...
A picture of a somewhat unimaginatively named "BLUE FISH". Apparently this species swims in water as much as 90m deep.
July 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Alternate title, "The Mendacity of This B..."
Meme of a cover for a mock book by Barack Obama titled 'The Audacity of This Bitch: Thoughts On Goin Off On Your Bitch Ass'. The real book this is based on was titled 'The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream'
July 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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#Ozzy, walked it like he talked it. One of a kind. RIP. 🤘
Black and white photo of a very young Ozzy Osbourne, arms crossed, leaning against a wall, looking off camera to the left.
July 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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2 x @intlanthem.bsky.social releases make it onto @pitchfork.com's latest '10 Best Albums of the Last Two Weeks' list 🙌
link.pitchfork.com/view/610fa36...
Cover image for Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer's Different Rooms LP Cover image for Ben LaMar Gay's Yowzers LP
July 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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“Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to the Smithsonian. The records I used to listen to and still love, you can’t make a record that sounds that way. Brian Wilson, he made all his records with 4 tracks, but you couldn’t make his records if you had a hundred tracks today.” Bob Dylan
#BrianWilson
Black and white photo of Brian Wilson wearing a patterned short sleeved shirt, neck bent forward, looking directly at the camera, with both hands resting on the keyboard of a piano.
June 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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RIP #ThankYouFaletinMeBeMyself
Black and white photo of Sylvester 'Sly' Stone
June 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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After pushing for Claudine Gay's ouster from Harvard, I'm sure Bill Ackman will be about as outraged regarding this revelation of Hegseth's plagiarizm as when his wife, Neri Osman, was similarly caught out.
Screenshot of a tweet by John Hudson (@John_Hudson) with text reading "New: Pete Hegseth allegedly plagiarized the Washington Post and the New York Times and others in his senior thesis at Princeton, according to the The Daily @Princetonian". Embedded below that text are two images showing text that Hegseth allegedly used in his 2003 thesis alongside almost identical text from a 2003 New York Times article.
May 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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'He advocates a permanent regime of tariffs, barriers and quotas to “balance” the trade deficit, discourage imported goods and encourage domestic manufacturing.'

So now you know who to blame for Trump's tariffs...

4/end
Peter Navarro pictured in June 2024 at a Trump rally [Courtesy Tom Brenner—The New York Times/Redux]
April 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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'Navarro hadn’t always been a Democrat. Before running for office, he had been registered as both a Republican and an independent, and in his writing he professed concern that Democrats waste taxpayers’ money.'
3/-
Photo showing Peter Navarro and Hillary Clinton, both on stage, clapping in 1996, the year Navarro ran for Congress as a progressive Democrat. [Courtesy of John Gastaldo—TNS/Zuma]
April 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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😍
Screenshot from CNN as Kat Abughazleh does an epic eye roll after Jim Sciutto asks her if Dems are too "woke".
April 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Thinking about some great buddy double acts...

What an amazing job done overnight by @booker.senate.gov and @chrismurphyct.bsky.social.

Sen. Booker is closing in on his *14th* straight hour of holding the senate floor.
Paul McCartney and John Lennon in black and white photo, both wearing guitars, Paul holding a cigarette between his lips as he looks at the fretboard. Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan wearing their red Chicago Bulls uniforms, walking on a court. Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) wearing matching suits and black ties, glowering at the camera, in an image from 'Pulp Fiction'. Sen. Cory Booker holds his phone aloft with his left hand, taking a selfie with himself and Sen. Chris Murphy smiling at the camera.
April 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Really rich for them to complain about DeepSeek stealing from them whilst they glerfully steal from every artist in every field in all human history. Miyazaki has some thoughts:
A photo of Hayo Miyazaki in profile with English text at the bottom of the photo reading, "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." This was his answer to a question about his thoughts on AI art.
April 1, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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On a lighter note, Sen. Booker reminded me of Luther, President Obama's 'anger translator'.
Keegan-Michael Key and then-President Barack Obama on stage doing a comedy sketch at the 2015 White Horse Correspondents Association event.
April 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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More intense, dynamic and passionate at 4am than most senators are at 4pm. Amazing. More power to @booker.senate.gov !
Sen. Cory Booker gesticulating worth both attends outstretched and an intense look on his face whilst he speaks on the senate floor. Sen. Cory Booker with a raised eyebrows and a mischievous grin as he holds the senate floor. Sen. Cory Booker gesticulating with teeth gritted as he speaks on the senate floor. Sen. Cory Booker gesticulating with eyes looking fiery as he speaks on the senate floor.
April 1, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Just heard the sad news about the passing of Roy Ayers. A giant has fallen.
#Jazzsky
Photo of a smiling Roy Ayers wearing a yellow t-shirt on a yellow background, taken from the session that produced the cover image of his classic Everybody Loves the Sunshine album.
March 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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@kierongillen.bsky.social & @casparw.bsky.social — I bought volume one of The Power Fantasy last weekend and have already read it three times, found something new each time. *Magnificent* work from you both, really looking forward to future volumes!
Cover image of The Power Fantasy volume 1 trade paperback.
March 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Back in 2019 that idiot blocked me on Twitter for repeatedly posting this photo of him with Cindy Yang;
Dan 'HEAD LIKE A THUMB' Bongino and alleged brothel owner and CCP spy, Cindy Yang.
February 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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• Trump = grift (small scale, petty)
• Musk = graft (large scale corruption)
(Infographic courtesy of The NYT)
New York Times infographic showing that there are 11 Federal agencies involved in investigations and/or regulatory battles with Elon Musk and/or four of his companies (Neuralink, Space X, Tesla and X/Twitter). This seems to indicate Musk is a walking, talking worst case example of conflicts of interests in government.
February 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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I mean, COME ON
Screenshot of a post from Threads reading, "There’s a saying that “a conservative is someone who will shit his own pants if he thinks a liberal will have to smell it.” Watching them happily gloat about the theft of their own social security and banking data is really bearing that one out."
February 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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In light of recent events, I think we need to get #Dotard trending (again).
A screenshot of the definition of the word "dotard" from dictionary.com, stating that the word is a noun and that it means "a person exhibiting a decline in mental faculties, especially as a result of aging". Donald Trump was infamously first referred to as a dotard in 2017 by North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un.
February 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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(The artist is Bruce MacKinnon, the editorial cartoonist at the Halifax Chronicle-Herald.)
Under a banner reading HOW TARIFFS WORK, the cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon has drawn a picture of Donald Trump in profile on the left hand side of the frame, facing to the right, urinating towards a desk fan that's placed in the floor. The fan blades are tilted upwards slightly, on the right of the frame, facing back towards trump. A stream of urine from Trump is leaving his body vertically and bending in a parabolic arc by the wind from the fan. The stream of urine is splashing into Trump's face, a metaphor of how his tariffs will only inflict harm back at home where the price is paid, not, as he always falsely claims, that the tariffs will be paid by the other nation(s).
February 3, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Quick reminder of what she looked like before drinking the MAGA Kool-Aid:
Kristi Noem smiling in a photo taken in front of an American flag behind her right shoulder.
February 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM