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We're going to win.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8d

It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love.

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Happy Hanukkah

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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December 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM

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@realkmh.bsky.social

World, meet the Pee Pee Sisters*

*an offshoot of the Disgusting Brothers

Two black dogs resting under a Christmas tree. One is seven years old, the other is four months.

December 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM

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William Shakespeare

@shakespeare.lol

[Enter two other Senators with a Messenger.]

THIRD SENATOR
Thou hast painfully discover’d; are his files
As full as thy report?

November 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM

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Metaphysician

@metaphysician.bsky.social

A party composed mostly of Christian nationalists and white supremacists accusing others of "identity politics" is so funny; too bad they have no foundational values, so they never have to suffer any shame for their hypocrisy.

November 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM

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Sean T. Collins

@seantcollins.com

My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash

In response to Elon Musk dunking on someone as a "taker, not a maker," JCO quotes and replies "So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates—scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the 'most wealthy person in the world.'"

November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM

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Luke O'Neil

@lukeoneil47.bsky.social

Stunning piece. A horror movie of sorts. Will be familiar to anyone on the left trying to navigate the centrist American legacy media, albeit made all the more difficult when your bosses and colleagues all assume your people are by default murderous barbarians. bidoun.org/articles/hou...

I was assigned, at some point, a piece about a spree of killings and land thefts carried out with impunity in the West Bank since October 7th. The piece mostly focused on a single settlement where a man who had gone to pick olives on his land one Saturday was shot by an off-duty Israeli soldier. His execution had been captured on video. The story included a cast of settlers, anti-occupation rabbis, and West-Bank Palestinians who had spent their lives fearing that their homes would be stolen, and that if they were killed or dispossessed, there would be no recourse for them. I ran into the story editor in the hallway, who said he was having trouble balancing the narrative because all the Israeli characters seemed evil, while all the Palestinians were angels. A long section that documented, without any editorializing, that Palestinian dispossession was an ongoing process that had begun long before October 7th was whittled down to a single paragraph after a series of fights between the editor-in-chief and the story editor on one side, and myself and the freelance writer on the other.

Though the man’s killing had been filmed, a fact checker is obliged to seek comment from any party alleged to have committed a crime. I called the soldier’s lawyer. He picked up from a café, where I could hear trance music blasting in the background. The lawyer told me that while, yes, his client did shoot the man picking olives, and yes, the man did die, the Israeli military court found his client not guilty of murder because the man picking olives was a terrorist who was throwing stones. Even though the video did not show the Palestinian man throwing stones, the court said that he was, so he was. QED, his client did not murder anyone, and it would be slanderous for us to say so.

September 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM

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Ken Lowery

@kenlowery.bsky.social

Quick question: what the fuck is anyone talking about anymore

An airport banner with an image of a folding laptop paralleled to a hot dog that reads "feeding fans faster with AI"

September 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆

@moxiest.art

A typewritten note that reads "Nazi lives don't matter"

It has a number of effects layered on top of it, giving it a iridescent blue to green to purple to pink shimmering look, like a puddle of gasoline

May 29, 2025 at 4:11 AM

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Cohen is a Ghost

@skullmandible.bsky.social

Kurt Vonnegut on buying an envelope

Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And I says to her, I says, oh shit, you’re right. So I bought like fifty thousand envelopes. Filled the house with ‘em, toes to tits. It was horrible. We couldn’t take a step without tripping over a box of envelopes. We were going crazy trying to use them up, to make a little space for ourselves. Used them as toilet paper, coffee filters... it was a terrible time. Please don’t ask me about those goddamned awful envelopes ever again.
Kurt Vonnegut

September 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM

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Jane

@jane.meangirls.online

They should do this to Stephen Miller when It Happens

August 30, 2025 at 4:38 AM

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Luke O'Neil

@lukeoneil47.bsky.social

Don Jr. runs up to him unsure of what to do and all he can think of is to shake his father’s hand because that’s the only way they’ve ever touched and his hand is very cold.
www.welcometohellworld.com/the-very-mom...

Here's a little something I wrote back in 2019 about The Day It Happens:

Everything is so bad all the time but one thing I like to think about is ol’ Donnie Deals going ah wait I don't feel so good and then he grabs onto the tablecloth at the roast beef carving station and the little dome they have for the roast beef clangs down onto the floor but it doesn’t make a sound because the dining room is wall to wall carpeted and he goes down on one knee and he looks around in panic unsure of what’s happening and everything is silent and the roast beef is getting cold and the bags of Lays potato chips and Heinz mustard packets sit untouched as the harried staff run but not that fast to find a doctor and Donnie slumps and slumps down further onto the floor and Don Jr. is there and he doesn't move for a full minute.

The owner of something like Premier Volvo in Overland Park, Kansas jumps into action and tries to perform CPR but he doesn’t know what he’s doing so he’s humping away at his chest futilely. He’s a car dealer not a doctor what does he know and all the doctors that are there are plastic surgeons and they haven’t saved anyone’s life in thirty years and so he's trying to save Mr. Trump and Mr. Trump makes a stinky mud pie in his 75 inch waist pants and one of the turds falls out the leg of his pants and rolls under the table of the owner of a racist nail salon chain and Donnie can't hear the commotion in the room over his pulse it’s pounding so loud and it's so hot the room is so hot now and why is his tie so tight and he cries out with everything he has left inside of him to god or whoever is listening and he says I love the Bible very strongly and no one loves the Boblr more than me I can tell you that and he thinks I’m not ready to go and finally Don Jr. runs up to him unsure of what to do and all he can think of is to shake his father’s hand because that’s the only way they’ve ever touched and his hand is very cold.

August 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM

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@realkmh.bsky.social

Weird, how they ruled the exact opposite and way more punitive when Oklahoma State men's bb was accused of far less with coaches no longer there.

Nicole Auerbach @nauerbach.com · Aug 15

The NCAA says there were sufficient grounds for a multiyear postseason ban. "However, the panel determined that a postseason ban would unfairly penalize student-athletes for the actions of coaches and staff who are no longer associated with the Michigan football program."

August 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM

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@realkmh.bsky.social

Happy Juneteenth!

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‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR

YouTube video by NPR

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June 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM

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IYKYK

@nisslbody.blacksky.app

One of the things I can't help wondering is how fetal development is affected by being gestated within what is, fundamentally, a corpse. No movement, no voice, no laughter or singing. No variations in emotion being passed on hormonally. It's horrifying.

June 17, 2025 at 2:16 AM

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zach

@extrafabulous.bsky.social

June 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM

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I.G.Y. Azalea

@steelydad.bsky.social

this painted stork looks like a trenchcoat flasher

May 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM

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@realkmh.bsky.social

Just as the humble swastika met its fate when the fascists got ahold of it, so too will the American ballcap.

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · Apr 30

MAGA product placement

April 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM

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the Mountain Goats

@themountaingoats.bsky.social

there aren't any words for how much I hate the people doing this. I wish every harm upon them, it is right and just to pray for such harm

screenshot from a news item about the cuts being undertaken in services: "Mr. Kennedy is also eliminating entire but lesser known parrts of his department, such as the Administration for Community Living, which supports programs that help older Americans and people with disabilities live independently. Advocates for disability rights say the cuts could deprive the most vulnerable Americans of housing, personal care and other services."

April 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM

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@realkmh.bsky.social

soulless is a compliment compared to what this is. i cant believe how utterly retching it feels to look at this anti-human slop. like looking into the face of Zuul or abject shit incarnate or like watching lynch and knowing the horror is part of the joke, the utter feeling of abomination. my god.