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Damian Lay
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Hong Konger in Fresno, CA
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Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
September 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in cheap cellophane and marked down to $4.99 in the bargain bin."
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Jun 30
Here he is, folks. The President of the United States selling his new men’s cologne for $199 and women’s perfume for $249.
June 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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maggieserota.bsky.social
Andrew Cuomo gets publicly humiliated. Bill Clinton learns his endorsement is worth less than dogshit. What a great time to be a hater. A golden age.
June 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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noahshachtman.bsky.social
If you're a member of the Democratic gerontocracy, the chances of you catching a primary challenger just went up 1000%.
June 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
What we learned yesterday.

The Times They Are a-Changin'
June 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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mickeykuhns.bsky.social
"This is what you get when you order your 79th birthday celebration from Temu, but didn't pay the tariffs."
June 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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lincolnproject.us
Trump parade vs No Kings march, San Diego
June 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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kevinbuist.com
Yes, you did vote to deport moms.
May 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
dlay01.bsky.social
Thanks for this reminder…
josiahhawthorne.bsky.social Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · May 24
While in the LOTR movies Denethor just randomly went crazy, that's not the whole story.

Denethor became a doomer. He spent all night scrolling through bad news on his magic device, because the Dark Lord only let him see bad news and not good, until he lost all hope and it broke him.
But Gandalf ’s face was grave and sad, and bidding Beregond and Pippin to take Faramir into the Houses of Healing, he went up on to the walls nearby; and there like a figure carven in white he stood in the new sun and looked out. And he beheld with the sight that was given to him all that had befallen; and when E´ omer rode out from the forefront of his battle and stood beside those who lay upon the field, he sighed, and he cast his cloak about him again, and went from the walls. And Beregond and Pippin found him standing in thought before the door of the Houses when they came out. They looked at him, and for a while he was silent. At last he spoke. ‘My friends,’ he said, ‘and all you people of this city and of the Western lands! Things of great sorrow and renown have come to pass. Shall we weep or be glad? Beyond hope the Captain of our foes has been destroyed, and you have heard the echo of his last despair. But he has not gone without woe and bitter loss. And that I might have averted but for the madness of Denethor. So long has the reach of our Enemy become! Alas! but now I perceive how his will was able to enter into the very heart of the City. ‘Though the Stewards deemed that it was a secret kept only by themselves, long ago I guessed that here in the White Tower, one at least of the Seven Seeing Stones was preserved. In the days of his wisdom Denethor would not presume to use it to challenge Sauron, knowing the limits of his own strength. But his wisdom failed; and I fear that as the peril of his realm grew he looked in the Stone and was deceived: far too often, I guess, since Boromir departed. He was too great to be subdued to the will of the Dark Power, he saw nonethe- less only those things which that Power permitted him to see. The knowledge which he obtained was, doubtless, often of service to him; yet the vision of the great might of Mordor that was shown to him fed the despair of his heart until it overthrew his mind.’ ‘Now I understand what seemed so strange to me!’ said Pippin, shuddering at his memories as he spoke. ‘The Lord went away from the room where Faramir lay; and it was only when he returned that I first thought he was changed, old and broken.’ ‘It was in the very hour that Faramir was brought to the Tower that many of us saw a strange light in the topmost chamber,’ said Beregond. ‘But we have seen that light before, and it has long been rumoured in the City that the Lord would at times wrestle in thought with his Enemy.’ ‘Alas! then I have guessed rightly,’ said Gandalf. ‘Thus the will of Sauron entered into Minas Tirith; and thus I have been delayed here. And here I shall still be forced to remain, for I shall soon have other charges, not Faramir only. ‘Now I must go down to meet those who come. I have seen a sight upon the field that is very grievous to my heart, and greater sorrow may yet come to pass. Come with me, Pippin! But you, Beregond, should return to the Citadel and tell the chief of the Guard there what has befallen.
May 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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christabrown.bsky.social
"Donald Trump never needed to learn how to groom a population into blind loyalty, because...

White evangelicalism had already done that part for him." - Stephanie Jo Warren

thestrongwilledchild.substack.com/p/evangelica...
Evangelicals Did Not Abandon Their Values-They Revealed Them.
They didn't want Jesus, they wanted justification.
thestrongwilledchild.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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seantcollins.com
Andor is one of the best television shows ever made.
'Andor' Series Finale recap: Unstoppable force
After forty years of fandom, forty years of it being a catchphrase, “May the Force be with you” meant something to me again.
decider.com
May 14, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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amirtalai.bsky.social
Me: I absolutely dgaf who the new pope is

MAGA: we hate the new pope

Me: NEW POPE IS DADDY!!!!
May 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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joshuaholland.bsky.social
Be like The Verge.
A string of headlines by different outlets saying Trump fired the Democratic commissioners on the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and then one headline from The Verge that begins: “Trump illegally fires…”
May 10, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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wajali.bsky.social
Imagine if America had more politicians like Mon Mothma at this moment.

Alas.

At least we have her in fiction and #Andor.
May 7, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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artcandee.bsky.social
MAGA is already big mad at the new American Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost, for saying that JD Vance is wrong.

🤣
May 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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mayleechai.bsky.social
Then why cut $370 million from the budget of the CSU, @governor.ca.gov ? The California State University system teaches one in 10 Californians, including a double-digit percentage of first-gen college students! Why won’t the 4th largest economy in the world support public education? #CSUCuts
governor.ca.gov Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · Apr 24
NEW: California is now the FOURTH largest economy in the world.

Last year, the Golden State's GDP topped $4.1T — surpassing Japan ($4.02T) and behind only Germany ($4.65T), China ($18.74T), and the entire U.S. ($29.18T).
April 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
dlay01.bsky.social
It’s a cult
isaacdovere.bsky.social Isaac Dovere @isaacdovere.bsky.social · Mar 14
Seen on the live feed: on her way leading Donald Trump into Department of Justice for his speech, Pam Bondi made sure to point out the official photo of him over one of the doorways. He was pleased to see it.
March 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM