Owen Croak
@owencroak.bsky.social
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women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
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New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.
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People really need to stop framing it is a question of getting more evidence. I mean, sure, that too. But we know. We all know. The president of the United States raped children. Say that. When they get mad at you for saying it, say it again and treat them like an idiot for pretending they doubt it.
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
People really need to stop framing it is a question of getting more evidence. I mean, sure, that too. But we know. We all know. The president of the United States raped children. Say that. When they get mad at you for saying it, say it again and treat them like an idiot for pretending they doubt it.
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Americans want to watch charismatic people solve moderately difficult problems on a weekly basis. That’s it. And a group of fomo execs and techbros who don’t watch TV drove one of the most profitable industries in the US off a cliff rather than accept that.
Look what happenes when a TV show releases every year, with more than 8 episodes a season.
October 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Americans want to watch charismatic people solve moderately difficult problems on a weekly basis. That’s it. And a group of fomo execs and techbros who don’t watch TV drove one of the most profitable industries in the US off a cliff rather than accept that.
I'm not sure what it would take to soften my "people with Nazi tattoos shouldn't hold high office" position but this weak-ass "can't win men without a few Nazis" shit ain't it.
Graham Platner to @daveweigel.bsky.social:
"How do you expect to win back men when you go back through somebody’s Reddit history and just pull it all out and say: ‘Oh, my God, this person has no right to ever be in politics?’"
DSCC Chair Gillibrand: “It’s up to the voters of Maine to decide.”
"How do you expect to win back men when you go back through somebody’s Reddit history and just pull it all out and say: ‘Oh, my God, this person has no right to ever be in politics?’"
DSCC Chair Gillibrand: “It’s up to the voters of Maine to decide.”
October 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I'm not sure what it would take to soften my "people with Nazi tattoos shouldn't hold high office" position but this weak-ass "can't win men without a few Nazis" shit ain't it.
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we are not having a lot of luck with institutional pushback - everyone who does is fired and replaced
we are definitely not having any luck with “norms”
what we are having luck with is ordinary people looking at the incompetent bullshit put in front of them and going “absolutely not”
we are definitely not having any luck with “norms”
what we are having luck with is ordinary people looking at the incompetent bullshit put in front of them and going “absolutely not”
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro lost 3x in a closely watched case that arose during the transfer of detainees to ICE outside of the D.C. jail.
~three grand jury no bills;
~one acquittal by the judge;
~one acquittal by the petit jury.
Juries are doing their jobs.
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~three grand jury no bills;
~one acquittal by the judge;
~one acquittal by the petit jury.
Juries are doing their jobs.
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Jury Acquittal Hands Jeanine Pirro A Big L
Three-Time Loser In a closely watched case, a federal jury acquitted a...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
we are not having a lot of luck with institutional pushback - everyone who does is fired and replaced
we are definitely not having any luck with “norms”
what we are having luck with is ordinary people looking at the incompetent bullshit put in front of them and going “absolutely not”
we are definitely not having any luck with “norms”
what we are having luck with is ordinary people looking at the incompetent bullshit put in front of them and going “absolutely not”
Is there any subject this man doesn't have the right opinion on?
as i watch it i really do think i prefer TOMORROW NEVER DIES to GOLDENEYE
October 16, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Is there any subject this man doesn't have the right opinion on?
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Not gonna link the troll but Bari Weiss clearly represents “thought police” more than 100,000 Bluesky leftists scolding you for writing a defense of Weiss ever will, and ignoring that reality is clearly designed to curry the favor of thought police. You’re not a free thinker, you’re the boot licker.
October 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Not gonna link the troll but Bari Weiss clearly represents “thought police” more than 100,000 Bluesky leftists scolding you for writing a defense of Weiss ever will, and ignoring that reality is clearly designed to curry the favor of thought police. You’re not a free thinker, you’re the boot licker.
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Blueskyism is telling people who aren’t usually told that they are wrong that they are wrong.
September 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Blueskyism is telling people who aren’t usually told that they are wrong that they are wrong.
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the hiring of Olivia Nuzzi by Vanity Fair makes the new rules of media clear:
❌ lightly criticizing Charlie Kirk
✅ FaceTime fingerblasting with your story’s subject, RFK Jr.
❌ lightly criticizing Charlie Kirk
✅ FaceTime fingerblasting with your story’s subject, RFK Jr.
September 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
the hiring of Olivia Nuzzi by Vanity Fair makes the new rules of media clear:
❌ lightly criticizing Charlie Kirk
✅ FaceTime fingerblasting with your story’s subject, RFK Jr.
❌ lightly criticizing Charlie Kirk
✅ FaceTime fingerblasting with your story’s subject, RFK Jr.
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The corner of the chattering class that's obsessed with "debating great ideas" is totally opposed to the idea that any of those ideas might win
September 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The corner of the chattering class that's obsessed with "debating great ideas" is totally opposed to the idea that any of those ideas might win
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The delicious end to the affair. 48 hours of the most august and respectable institutions prostrating themselves over a low rent gutter bigot with a middling podcast and as soon as his death didnt fit the narrative Trump says "RIP to that man, check out my new drapes" humiliation after humiliation
September 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The delicious end to the affair. 48 hours of the most august and respectable institutions prostrating themselves over a low rent gutter bigot with a middling podcast and as soon as his death didnt fit the narrative Trump says "RIP to that man, check out my new drapes" humiliation after humiliation
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The thing that is hard to communicate is that that specific flavor of “brainrotted 4chan slug with incoherent beliefs” is also downstream of the right wing politics factories dumping glowing nuclear sludge into the river
there’s a reason nihilism has risen and it wears Rush Limbaugh’s face
there’s a reason nihilism has risen and it wears Rush Limbaugh’s face
September 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The thing that is hard to communicate is that that specific flavor of “brainrotted 4chan slug with incoherent beliefs” is also downstream of the right wing politics factories dumping glowing nuclear sludge into the river
there’s a reason nihilism has risen and it wears Rush Limbaugh’s face
there’s a reason nihilism has risen and it wears Rush Limbaugh’s face
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Guns make weak, dumb people feel strong and smart, and leads them to fantasize about being applauded for killing someone.
September 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Guns make weak, dumb people feel strong and smart, and leads them to fantasize about being applauded for killing someone.
I have lived in the part of the valley she's talking about for 15 years. You could build a 60 story building, put the world's first combo Costco/Trader Joe's and quantum lock it so it's always noon on a Saturday and still not need more parking at Victory/Balboa.
Here’s the clip of CM Padilla bragging about reducing the size of a 100% affordable housing project in her district and increasing the amount of parking while arguing against the transit oriented upzoning bill SB 79.
(ED 1 is an affordable housing program in LA.)
(ED 1 is an affordable housing program in LA.)
August 28, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I have lived in the part of the valley she's talking about for 15 years. You could build a 60 story building, put the world's first combo Costco/Trader Joe's and quantum lock it so it's always noon on a Saturday and still not need more parking at Victory/Balboa.
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I suppose the New York Times will run daily stories on this until he resigns, unless Secretary of Defense is a less newsworthy job than a college administrator?
“A review of Hegseth’s thesis by The Daily Princetonian, in consultation with three experts on plagiarism, found eight instances of uncredited material, sham paraphrasing, and verbatim copying.”
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ’03 ‘plagiarized’ small portions of his senior thesis, experts say. But how serious is it?
A review of the senior thesis of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ’03 by The Daily Princetonian, in consultation with three plagiarism experts, found eight instances of uncredited material, sham paraphr...
www.dailyprincetonian.com
May 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I suppose the New York Times will run daily stories on this until he resigns, unless Secretary of Defense is a less newsworthy job than a college administrator?
Man whose political party gladly sided with Nazis: "Actually, the people who tried to stop us are to blame."
I was a young conservative in DC and the story about reporters pawing through Bork's trash looking for his video rental receipts definitely had an effect on me. Bork was qualified, but the attacks were so intense that his name became a verb.
Jay's right.
Jay's right.
should've let us put nixon's hatchet man on the supreme court, sincerely, the Good Conservative Tom Nichols of MSNBC
August 14, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Man whose political party gladly sided with Nazis: "Actually, the people who tried to stop us are to blame."
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the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
August 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
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As the blurry wife, I vouch for the goodness of this girl
This is Laine, who we've been fostering for a little over a week. We haven't taught her any tricks beyond apparently making herself pretty damn comfortable. If you're in SoCal, help her get adopted before she forgets where she came from.
August 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
As the blurry wife, I vouch for the goodness of this girl
This is Laine, who we've been fostering for a little over a week. We haven't taught her any tricks beyond apparently making herself pretty damn comfortable. If you're in SoCal, help her get adopted before she forgets where she came from.
August 1, 2025 at 2:07 AM
This is Laine, who we've been fostering for a little over a week. We haven't taught her any tricks beyond apparently making herself pretty damn comfortable. If you're in SoCal, help her get adopted before she forgets where she came from.
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the fight v fold axis does not track left v center. there are dumbass lefties who want to fold and they should be driven from the party just as surely as the centrists who won’t fight
Somebody please primary this guy www.thebulwark.com/p/are-dems-g...
July 24, 2025 at 1:06 AM
the fight v fold axis does not track left v center. there are dumbass lefties who want to fold and they should be driven from the party just as surely as the centrists who won’t fight
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me one week ago: no, he’s not a communist, can we please be serious
me now: the wrecker Sulzberger must immediately surrender to the All New Yorkers Congress of Soviets of Workers’ Deputies
me now: the wrecker Sulzberger must immediately surrender to the All New Yorkers Congress of Soviets of Workers’ Deputies
July 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
me one week ago: no, he’s not a communist, can we please be serious
me now: the wrecker Sulzberger must immediately surrender to the All New Yorkers Congress of Soviets of Workers’ Deputies
me now: the wrecker Sulzberger must immediately surrender to the All New Yorkers Congress of Soviets of Workers’ Deputies
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the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history
July 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history
Just thinking about this today. No particular reason.
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Judges' Trial - Wikipedia
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June 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Just thinking about this today. No particular reason.
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