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cpgorski, who did NOT die...

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*siiiiiiigggghhhh*

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cereal.bowl78 10h
In an alternate timeline, Vice President Walz is reminding us to change our furnace filters

September 19, 2025 at 1:21 AM

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McSweeney's

@mcsweeneys.net

June is in the books, and the Trump administration is now up to 313 cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors

Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: June 2025: Atrocities 273-313

Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...

buff.ly

July 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM

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Qasim Rashid, Esq.

@qasimrashid.com

ICE now has a larger budget than most of the world’s militaries.

A reminder that police have only ever *responded* to alleged crime, but a living wage, food & water security, & accessible healthcare have always *prevented* crime.

So if you want safer communities, invest in people—not punishments.

July 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM

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Randi Mayem Singer

@rmayemsinger.bsky.social

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

March 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM

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Ashley Kuckelman

@ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social

Each day under Trump seems to bring a new low…🤬

March 3, 2025 at 12:28 AM

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FloofMcGoof

@floofmcgoof.bsky.social

How is your Saturday? 😉

March 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM

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Ty Ross

@cooltxchick.bsky.social

The only shocking thing about Trump making English the official language of the United States today, is that after his appalling treatment of Zelensky yesterday, I just assumed it was going to be Russian…

March 2, 2025 at 4:48 AM

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Adam Kinzinger

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February 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM

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Ron Chan

@rondanchan.bsky.social

Severance fanart: Tabletop Team-Building Day at Macrodata Refinement! #severance

Digital color art of characters from the TV show Severance. The four members of MDR play a DnD-like tabletop game called Tempers & Temptations. Milchick acts as DM, wearing a Lumon branded cloak and standing behind a DM screen with Kier's face on it. Dylan and Helly gesture at the table and argue about something, Irving consults a player's handbook, and Mark leans back in his chair laughing with his palm on his head.

February 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM

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Kuna

@wryote.bsky.social

Me opening the news every fucking morning

February 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM

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Dan Sheehan

@dansheehan.bsky.social

Thinking about that bit in Grand Budapest Hotel where Gustave gets past military police the first time because he’s charming and knows the right legal loopholes and how the second time all the police are in darker uniforms and when he tries to negotiate they just shoot him

January 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM

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The Onion

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Rising Conservative Star Just Guy Wearing Nazi Armband And Crying
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January 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM

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Packy Anderson

@packyanderson.bsky.social

Reposting with ALT text.

@iamragesparkle

I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."

And the dude next to me says, "hey i'm not doing anything, i'm a paying customer." and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, "out. now." and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed.

Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, "you didn't see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them."

And i was like, ohok and he continues.

"You have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.

And i was like, 'oh damn.' and he said "yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people."

And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven't forgotten that at all.

January 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM

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Casey Newton

@caseynewton.bsky.social

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project.

"I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."

January 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM

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Parker Molloy

@parkermolloy.com

It should go without saying at this point, but be careful what you post on social media, especially if you live somewhere like Florida.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jan 7

A trans woman on tiktok posted about getting her gender marker changed on her Florida drivers license. Florida investigated her over it, canceled her license, and then leaked the story to libs of tiktok to announce it publicly to humiliate her.

The image shows a tweet by "Libs of TikTok" (@libsoftiktok), reporting on a trans activist who allegedly exploited a loophole in Florida law to change their gender marker on their driver's license. The tweet states that the Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) responded with a letter acknowledging the error and promising to address it. It also claims Florida law does not permit gender marker changes based on gender identity and alleges the activist may have lied about losing their license to facilitate the change. Below the tweet, two elements are visible: a video still of the activist smiling and holding their license, and a letter from the FLHSMV dated January 6, 2025.

The image is a detailed letter from the Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV), dated January 6, 2025, addressing the improper change of a driver's license gender marker from male to female. It explains that the change violated Florida law, which defines "sex" based on biological and genetic characteristics and prohibits alterations based on gender identity. The letter confirms the cancellation of the improperly issued license, issuing a corrected license instead. It also discusses potential misrepresentation of facts during the application process and warns of legal consequences for providing false information. The letter is signed by Dave Kerner, Executive Director.

January 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM

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Mr. HP

@isidoresdragon.bsky.social

Kid Me: haha that's so silly. How did Krypton collapse and violently explode without so many of them realizing what was happening until it was too late?

Adult Me: Oh.

January 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM

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CHOAM for the holidays

@samthielman.com

AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re-
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE

January 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM

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Kurt Busiek

@kurtbusiek.bsky.social

Apologies in advance for not being able to alt-text all of this...

December 23, 2024 at 4:34 AM

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Nick 🔮 Scry Society

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