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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.

List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
September 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
September 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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tobyontv.bsky.social
in Disney’s next Marvel film the hero won’t criticise the villain or even stand up to them
September 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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barackobama.bsky.social
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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mcopelov.bsky.social
Unprecedented, wildly illegal & unconstitutional corruption, happening in broad daylight. Things that would have immediately ended any presidency from Truman to Obama. All for this One Special Boy, because nothing matters anymore.

A Republic. If you can keep it.
jimgoldgeier.bsky.social Jim Goldgeier @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social · Sep 7
Ah- Trump is apparently going to be the guest of “Rolex, the Swiss watchmaker which may be looking to curry favor with Trump during his visit to their luxury suite in hopes of lowering the high tariffs he has imposed on imports from Switzerland.”
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Sep 6
What the actual fuck.

US Tennis Association: “We ask all broadcasters to refrain from showcasing any disruptions or reactions in response to the President’s attendance in any capacity, including ENG [Electronic News Gathering] coverage.”
September 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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crumpsalljamie.bsky.social
the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 5
Hegseth: "Maximum lethality -- not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're gonna raise up warriors. Not just defenders."
September 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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stephenkb.bsky.social
Among other things: Christian, who has been in government for 14 out of the last 15 years, and how many of the major decisions they made did you support?
August 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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samfr.bsky.social
The standout madness in the general madness are the enormous tariffs on South East Asia which, if these stick, is going to magnify China's sphere of influence. Geopolitical lunacy.
April 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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jane.meangirls.online
it’s so funny to be like “we don’t need diverse spies”
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Feb 21
The CIA has moved to dismiss an unspecified number of officers who were working on recruiting and diversity issues, according to former officials, in what would be one of the largest mass firings in the agency’s history.
The C.I.A. Is Planning Its Largest Mass Firing in Nearly 50 Years
The possible purge of officers working on recruiting and diversity comes as the agency moves to comply with the spirit of an executive order banning efforts to diversify the federal work force.
www.nytimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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bpavuk.neocities.org
if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
joshuaholland.bsky.social Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · Dec 25
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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soverybritish.bsky.social
Delicious
An empty advent calendar
December 1, 2024 at 1:16 PM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
There it is
November 15, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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samfr.bsky.social
Whether it works will depend on whether there are even homeopathic levels of shame left in the Republican party.
November 15, 2024 at 10:58 PM
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spflwatch.bsky.social
Quite embarrassing that the National Team of the National Sport isn’t available to watch on linear television.

A cheap YouTube stream with poor bitrate with commentary only and no presentation or punditry is an embarrassment in this day and age.
November 13, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
I haven't seen a single "we have to understand the concerns of Trump voters" take reckons with the fact that a huge percentage of their concerns are based on false information. You cannot "address" a concern about a fake thing!
lilbird9702.bsky.social Working Class Hero / Pretty Boy Ice Skater @lilbird9702.bsky.social · Nov 7
This is how I feel discussing inflation.
MAGA person: Biden doesn't care about bread and butter issues like inflation.
Me: He signed the Inflation Reduction Act and we have lowest inflation among OECD.
MAGA person: But what about inflation?!
November 7, 2024 at 11:06 PM
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newsthump.com
NEWS! ”Fascism, please” confirms America
”Fascism, please” confirms America
America has looked at the options of either a woman of colour or a felonious fascist and opted for the fascist, it has emerged this morning.
buff.ly
November 6, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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katekilla.bsky.social
oh NOW you can say this?
November 6, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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edmorrish.bsky.social
they actually LIKE that he’s a cunt, because they think he’s just going to be a cunt to *other* people
davidmuttering.bsky.social David KC @davidmuttering.bsky.social · Nov 6
This time it cannot be that they don't know that he's a c*nt. This time it must be that they don't care that he's a c*nt.
November 6, 2024 at 7:45 AM
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youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
I'm sorry but I don't think you can do "oh the Dems didn't talk about this one issue I love so that's why they lost" in *this* election, democracy was and is on the line, Trump is a horrible man who ran a horrible campaign, sometimes you have to just face the reality of the electorate being awful
November 6, 2024 at 6:09 AM
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stephenkb.bsky.social
The FT editorial board on the US election: "This is no apple-to-apple comparison. This is an election in which one candidate accepts the US constitutional order. The other wants to overturn it."
America’s fateful choice between Trump and Harris
The Democratic candidate stands for continuity of the values that underpin US prosperity
www.ft.com
November 1, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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jim.londoncentric.media
I started a Twitter account for London Centric and it doesn’t follow anyone and this is the content it was served by default last week. It’s a long way from when you’d get NBA players and Stephen Fry stuck in a lift.
October 29, 2024 at 2:45 PM
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katzish.bsky.social
This is, unfortunately, real — Danielle Allen of Harvard, who has thought a lot about ethics and democracy
Danielle Allen resignation letter from being a contributing columnist at the WaPo
October 28, 2024 at 11:52 PM
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petridishes.bsky.social
I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM
The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.) We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I’m told! Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers. But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them. Let me tell you something. I am having a baby (It’s a boy!), and he is expected on Jan. 6, 2025 (It’s a … Proud Boy?). This is either slightly funny or not at all funny. This whole election, I have been lurching around, increasingly heavily pregnant, nauseated, unwieldy, full of the commingled hopes and terrors that come every time you are on the verge of introducing a new person to the world. Well, that world will look very different, depending on the outcome of November’s election, and I care which world my kid gets born into. I also live here myself. And I happen to care about the people who are already here, in this world. Come to think of it, I have a lot of reasons for caring how the election goes. I think it should be obvious that this is not an election for sitting out. The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.” “But maybe he’ll forget” is not enough to hang a country on! Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy. But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it. Trust is like that, too, as newspapers know. I’m just a humor columnist. I only know what’s happening because our actual journalists are out there reporting, knowing that their editors have their backs, that there’s no one too powerful to report on, that we would never pull a punch out of fear. That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see; that if we think Trump should not return to the White House and Harris would make a fine president, we’re going to be able to say so. That’s why I, the humor columnist, am endorsing Kamala Harris by myself!
October 26, 2024 at 10:50 PM