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Wes
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Psychology, politics, philosophy, technology, larp, psychedelics, ADHD.

Portland, OR.
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"How to woo a woman, step one" over a picture of Rick Flair in a gaudy robe captioned WOOOOOOOO!!
November 22, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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My $72 product from Germany gets an extra $23 in tariffs.

Fuck you, Trump.
Screenshot of a receipt with $72.80 subtotal and $23.66 in duties.
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Seen in Portland.
A row of posters with a frog face saying "DON'T OBEY"
October 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Near the ICE facility in Portland.
A rack of colorful costumes on a sidewalk with a FREE sign.
October 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Claude is better, though not by much.
A screenshot of claude.ai fumbling around trying to figure out that there's no seahorse emoji and failing.
October 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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The "live map" isn't up any more, but the site still has the data. Choose the appropriate election and select by congressional district.

www.atlasizer.com
Map of the NY 8th Congressional District with voting results showing 44.15% of the vote to Mamdani and 41.23% to Cuomo.
October 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Did it?
Screenshot of a table of results by congressional district showing Mamdani winning the 8th district (where Jeffries won his election).
October 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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In the words of Hakeem Jeffries...
A tweet from Hakeem Jeffries saying "Trump is the existential threat poisoning America. Vote BLUE (no matter who)."
October 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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The fascist project requires the suppression of human virtue, which means showing virtue is anti-fascist.

www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...
There's a picture from the early days of the Trump regime that has lived with me ever since: A man at FBI headquarters painting over words on a wall. Each word is a human virtue. The man is covering them all with a large paint roller; overwriting fairness and compassion, leadership, diversity, integrity, respect, responsibility, leaving nothing but a blank plane of grey. The man could be anyone. He's not extraordinary. They told him to paint over human virtue and he did it, as if human virtue can be eradicated with a bit of paint. There can be no better picture of the fascist project. From www.the-reframe.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Observing who someone chooses to celebrate tells you something about their values.
Chat: I'm watching a movie about America's first serial killer Reply: Christopher Columbus?
October 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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ANTI-ANTIFA on a hoodie worn by one of a group of right-wing thugs with the caption: ok now reduce your fraction
October 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Wow. This is some powerful writing.

And the footnotes are *so good*.
Judicial text: Small wonder then that our bastions of independent unbiased free speech -- those entities we once thought unassailable -- have proven all too often to have only Quaker guns. Behold President Trump's successes in limiting free speech -- law firms cower, institutional leaders in higher education meekly appease the President, media outlets from huge conglomerates to small niche magazines mind the bottom of the line rather than the ethics of journalism.
September 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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This is a disgusting amount of left-behind trash.
A city street with piles of trash and debris everywhere and a caption: This is a picture of "war ravaged" Portland. Just kidding, this is a picture of Glendale, Arizona after the Charlie Kirk memorial.
September 29, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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So the only two white actors in Black Panther are Martin Freeman, who played Bilbo Baggins, and Andy Serkis, who played Gollum. So I guess that means... they're the Tolkein white guys. Post by Marvel.
September 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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This gives me the impression that Brendan Carr is fully aware that he's a fascist now. Especially with the ton of other receipts in the 🧵.
Brendan Carr says "The debate over free speech and censorship is a very good proxy for the broader contest between freedom and authoritarianism. When someone tells you where they stand on free speech, they've told you just about everything you need to know about their position on government power." Dated Sept 1, 2024.
September 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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This one escaped bsky and came back to me.

I can see why.
Starting a conversation with "how are you" is wild like whoa that is a third margarita question these days my friend bsky post by Jonathan Edward Durham @thisoneOverhere
September 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man. You take a step toward him. He takes a step back. Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man. By A.R. Moxon @JuliusGoat
September 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Be cognizant of your safety, but for those with the right kind of privilege...
The back end of a Tacoma truck with a large Mexican flag on the tailgate, superimposed with a post: I am as white as a hotel towel, and the closest thing to Mexican I am was a single all inclusive resort stay in Cancun. I put a Mexican flag sticker on my old Tacoma and was promptly pulled over by ICE in San Antonio. I'm happy to waste their time. A reply: This is the way OP says: Their big question was like "why the sticker?" I told them it was on the truck when I bought it and they suggested I remove it. Obnoxious creatures.
September 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Readers adding important context.
A tweet from Katie Miller saying "It's a real treat to see all these Liberals condemn political violence now. You called us Hitler." A reply from Richard Hanania saying "Vance is literally the only national politician who has called Trump Hitler." A community note adding context "RFK Jr. also called Trump Hitler. With a partially obscured politico link"
September 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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With alt text.
My grandfather used to say "and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel" and I never knew what it meant until after he died my grandmother explained some magazine did a fluff interview with Magda Goebbels a few years before WW2 that included her strudel recipe and my grandfather, who hated the Nazis with the passion of 10,000 suns, thought it was an example of the media sanitizing evil people and he would use the phrase when someone asked him to overlook a bad person doing bad things and focus on the good.
September 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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I hear Charlie Kirk died of a drug overdose.
A series of comments: So that means the left can be super cruel about his death for years, right? I'm just trying to figure out the rules. by @jane.meangirls Charlie Kirk died of a drug overdose. by @astro-kraken He walked past someone who had fentanyl in their pocket and then his neck just did that. by @kellysmcgonigal the courts won't let us tell the truth because it wouldn't fit their agenda. by @astro-kraken again systematic brutality against assholes. by @thediscoveryofzero
September 13, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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#ThanksTrump
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September 13, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Received via text - anyone know how to attribute the bottom quote?
"I think empathy is a new age made up term that does a lot of damage." Charlie Kirk. #MIIGAADINoKE "I choose to honor Charlie Kirk's memory as he wished, and in that way, I can pay my respects." (Unattributed)
September 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Relevant info
Screenshot of a wikipedia preview on the topic "Mint Mobile" mintmobile.com Mint Mobile, LLC is a mobile virtual network operator owned by T-Mobile US blah blah blah
September 11, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Seeing these two at the same time did not feel good.
The Heritage Foundation released the following words from the organization's president, Kevin Roberts, about the death of Charlie Kirk: "His martyrdom must be a turning point for our country." Yes, he said "martyrdom." Remember, we don't even know who killed the man or why. Posted by Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart https://bsky.app/profile/mskellymhayes.bsky.social Fox has it too FOX NEWS HEADLINE: "An American Martyr" Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA founder, assassinated at 31 on college campus. Posted by Gwen Snyder is uncivil https://bsky.app/profile/gwensnyder.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM