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Christopher
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We must have
the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless
furnace of this world
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bouletcorp.bsky.social
Je déclare ouverte ma liste personnelle de one-panel-comics préférés.
Pour marquer sa subjectivité elle commencera par la Joconde des one-panel, à savoir "Cow Tools", par Gary Larson.
Une vache à l'air sérieux se tient debout devant une table sur laquelle sont posés des outils grossiers. Il y a une ferme en arrière-plan. La légende dit juste: "Cow tools".
November 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
This is 100% not someone who has been trained to use a gun. He's waving it around nervously. This is insane
rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 20d
ICE is completely out of control
November 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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billjank.bsky.social
One out of ten people doing something for their community can make a huge difference.
thefarce.org 🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org · 20d
Mamdani got 1,036,051 votes and had 108,000 volunteers. One out of ten people who voted for him also built the campaign. Amazing.

All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.

Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
November 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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thefarce.org
Mamdani got 1,036,051 votes and had 108,000 volunteers. One out of ten people who voted for him also built the campaign. Amazing.

All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.

Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
November 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
toayc.bsky.social
I assume you've seen the silly saga of the DC sandwich slinger
November 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
toayc.bsky.social
Go see The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
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March 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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ditzkoff.bsky.social
remember tonight to set your clock ahead an hour. but if canada and mexico set their clocks ahead an hour, then set your clocks back an hour. except for clocks in the automotive industry and clocks made with parts already covered under the USMCA, in which case
March 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
"It’s disgusting and, frankly, counterproductive to point out that I voted for this. To imply that I had personal free will and agency when I walked into a voting booth and picked Mayor Bomberman is insulting."
Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t Mean I Approve of the Mayor Blowing Up the City
It’s so easy to label people these days. From the way folks have been talking, you’d think everyone falls into two buckets: those who voted against...
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February 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
toayc.bsky.social
This is a heart-warming thread that I needed to remind me not everything is terrible even when things are bad
annabookwriter.bsky.social Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · Mar 8
Reminded this evening- I was at a department store looking for a bra and this 60 ish year old guy came up to me. I braced in dread, but really softly he asked, “Can I ask you for some help? My wife just had a mastectomy and I want to get her something that will make her feel pretty but is soft.”
March 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Let me assure Justice Roberts, his conservative brethren, and the FedSoc forces that put them there that the President of the United States is right: we won’t forget what you’ve done. We’ll remember where you’ve brought us.
March 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Reminder: if you predicted half the things happening now (threatening to take Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal; lawless mass firings; complete defiance of Congressional prerogatives; mass pardons of violent supporters) even a couple of years ago, Serious Thinkers would have dismissed you.
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March 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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sandibachom.bsky.social
🔥🔥🔥 I’m 80 years old. I decided to call #SocialSecurity

“If you are calling about a disability application due to staffing reductions, our average processing time for disability applications is 200 to 230 days.

The estimated hold time is greater than 120 minutes”
March 5, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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atrupar.com
Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes
March 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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coreyryung.bsky.social
Trump and Musk are absolutely destroying Indian colleges, which are federally funded as part of the government's trust obligation to tribes. Haskell, which is here in Lawrence, is the oldest Indian college in the US. DOGE even fired the women's basketball coach, during the season!
February 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Feb 27
Wow—Trump is firing and banning all trans people from the military, per DoD memo.

“Military service by members and applicants for military service who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria is incompatible with military service.”

Part of memo:
ATTACHMENT Service Members and Applicants for Military Service who Have a Current Diagnosis or History of, or Exhibit Symptoms Consistent with, Gender Dysphoria 1. Policy. It is DoD policy that: a. Service in the Military Services is open to all persons who can meet the high standards for military service and readiness without special accommodations. b. It is the policy of the United States Government to establish high standards for Service 1s inconsistent with the medical is inconsistinest the medical, surgi, al, and mental he, un constraints on individuals wiplicy gender dysphoria or who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria. c. Military service by Service members and applicants for military service who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria is incompatible with military service. Service by these individuals is not in the best interests of the Military Services and is not clearly consistent with the interests of national security. d. Individuals who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria are no longer eligible for military service, except as set forth in sections 4.1.c. and 4.3.c. of this attachment. e. Service members who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria will be processed for separation from military service in accordance with section 4.4. of this attachment. Characterization of service under these procedures will be honorable except where the Service member's record otherwise warrants a lower characterization. f. The Department only recognizes two sexes: male and female. An individual's sex is immutable, unchanging during a person's life. All Service members will only serve in accordance with their sex, defined in Executive Order 14168, "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to i. Absent extraordinary operational necessity, the Military Services will not allow male Service members to use or share sleeping, changing, or bathing facilities designated for females, nor allow female Service members to use or share sleeping, changing, or bathing facilities designated for males. j. No funds from the Department of Defense will be used to pay for Service members' unscheduled, scheduled, or planned medical procedures associated with facilitating sex reassignment surgery, genital reconstruction surgery as treatment for gender dysphoria, or newly initiated cross-sex hormone therapy. k. Consistent with existing law and Department policy, commanders shall protect the privacy of protected health information they receive under this policy in the same manner as they would with any other protected health information. Such health information shall be restricted to personnel with a specific need to know; that is, access to information must be necessary for the conduct of official duties. Personnel shall also be accountable for safeguarding this health information consistent with existing law and Departmental policy. 2. Applicability. This policy guidance applies to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Military Departments, the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Joint Staff, the Combatant Commands, the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Defense, the Defense Agencies, the DoD Field Activities, and all other organizational entities within the DoD.
February 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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chuckwendig.bsky.social
Take the town halls to them.
rollingstone.com Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · Feb 26
House Republican leadership has advised caucus members to avoid in-person town halls, fearing that voter backlash may become viral if circulated online.

🐔 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
February 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
toayc.bsky.social
I did not want to do it, but it was long past time

Bezos has made the @washingtonpost.com unsupportable

Democracy dies in billionaires pockets
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February 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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kcsoccerjournal.bsky.social
Dejan Joveljic forgot what sport he was playing. #SportingKC #ATXvSKC
February 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story.

Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.

This is what "merit" means to them.

apnews.com/article/trum...
Hegseth had previously taken aim at Brown. “First of all, you gotta fire, you know, you gotta fire the chairman of Joint Chiefs,” he said flatly in a podcast in November. And in one of his books, he questioned whether Brown got the job because he was Black. “Was it because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt — which on its face seems unfair to CQ. But since he has made the race card one of his biggest calling cards, it doesn’t really much matter,” Hegseth wrote. Caine’s military service includes combat roles in Iraq, special operations postings and positions inside some of the Pentagon’s most classified special access programs. However, it does not include key assignments that were identified in law as prerequisites for the job, with an exemption for the president to waive them if necessary in times of national interest.
February 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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johnpfaff.bsky.social
All white men should be increasingly concerned that they can’t be sure they got any job on the merits.

Could be they are merely the lucky beneficiaries of rampant racism and misogyny.

We’ll just never know. We should probably fire most of them to be sure.
maxkennerly.bsky.social Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · Feb 22
Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story.

Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.

This is what "merit" means to them.

apnews.com/article/trum...
February 22, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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whstancil.bsky.social
Dem base: "Oh my god, Trump is acting like a king! Please raise the alarm!"

Democrats: "Too complicated. No way to explain this to normie voters."

Dem base: "OH MY GOD HE LITERALLY JUST CALLED HIMSELF A KING"

Democrats: "A distraction. We should talk about the complicated policy stuff."
danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co · Feb 19
Dear media:

Please do not waste time hyperventilating about this dumb comment.

It’s intended to be a distraction from all of the damaging actions he’s taking.

Focus on those.
February 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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numb.comfortab.ly
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numb.comfortab.ly Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Jun 11
Musk promised to sell his Tesla stock and solve world hunger if United Nations World Food Program would describe exactly how $6B would be used.

When WFP did exactly that - he didn't do jack squat. Musk is incredibly full of shit.
Musk: If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it. WFP Chief: This hunger crisis is urgent, unprecedented, AND avoidable. @elonmusk,you asked for a clear plan & open books. Here it is! We're ready to talk with you - and anyone else - who is serious about saving lives. The ask is $6.6B to avert famine in 2022.
February 18, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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kakape.bsky.social
This part:
Less than a month into his second term, Mr. Trump has eviscerated U.S.A.I.D., the U.S. foreign aid agency long reviled by Moscow. He has pushed through Cabinet officials who regularly traffic in Kremlin talking points, including the new head of U.S. intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. He has exacerbated the discord in relations with Europe, threatening Washington’s closest allies with a trade war. He has empowered and elevated Elon Musk, who spreads falsehoods beneficial to Moscow on X and publicly advocated in favor of Germany’s far-right movement
February 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM