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The Infinitely Prolonged
@wowbaggert.bsky.social
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Either way - patriot or treason
it's gonna be one long hard ride
- Melissa Etheridge
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Repost with an iconic fictional band.
Pebbles and Bam Bam playing "let the sun shine in"
November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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I admit I did not have "Marvel's Hydra was actually kind of a real thing" on my big bingo card but ...
Robert Redford in Captain America: Civil War "Hail Hydra."
November 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Repost with an iconic fictional band.
Randy Watson & Sexual Chocolate!
November 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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angry goose meme "fighting how, motherfucker?"
Chuck Schumer: Democrats have been fighting for months to address America's healthcare crisis For the millions who will lose coverage For people with cancer who won't get the care they need For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare We will keep fighting
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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White Goodman: "It's a metaphor. But that actually happened."
November 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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lol Dave Portnoy is such a whiny loser
Defector: "When reached for comment Thursday, Portnoy declined to say whether he'd follow through on his company relocation plans, but sent this in stead" Portnoy: Suck my cock Samer
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Goose: "Where are all the people leaving NYC?" Angry Goose: "Where are the million Uhauls, you clowns?"
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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union soldier drinking confederate tears
November 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Election vibes
Union soldier drinking Confederate tears
November 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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And we know what that makes the Republicans:
Poster of alien from movie They Live, captioned "SLEEP"
November 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Conservatives vs Things That Don't Happen
November 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Republicans don't think the lower classes count.
Half the people on this ship are going to die. Not the better half.
November 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Nick Fury: "You've made me very desperate. You might not be glad you did."
October 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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As the Republicans continue their shutdown, and refuse to convene the legislative branch, and dismantle the administrative state with clowns and cranks like RFKJ and DOGE, I keep thinking about how "government is bad" is in fact their core brand going back 50 years.
My goal is to cut govt in half in 25 years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub. - Grover Norquist The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the govt and I'm here to help. - Ronald Reagan
October 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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It's all incredibly frustrating, since the swift-boating of Kerry should have discredited this bullshit strategy. But Dems seem incapable of learning anything from experience.
Republican voter with purple heart bandaid mocking John Kerry's military service.
October 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Gen-X literally grew up on nazi punching.
Blues Bros: I hate Illinois Nazis Indiana Jones: Nazis - I hate these guys.
October 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Ocean's 8
October 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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It’s not written in stone that conservatives can’t make art. But MAGA couldn’t be better designed to repel the creative urge. The whole movement is based on a notion that difference is scary, change is bad and everything that’s happened since you were 11 years old is a travesty. Fearfulness and intellectual laziness are kryptonite to the imagination. How can you think of something new when your ideological position is that everything new is bad?
October 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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same energy
old trunk with sign says "Free (not haunted)"
October 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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crookedtimber.org/2025/10/09/d...
But creating coalitions again and again to fight off stupid, dangerous nonsense is hard. Civil society and real movement politics, as so many of CT’s enduring readers know, is hard fucking work. I’m glad that we do it and that we have deep knowledge and experience of it, but I’m also exhausted. Again and again I find myself wondering, if we didn’t have to expend most our energies saying ‘No’ to this stupid, ghastly shit, and saying ‘No’ to the stupid, ghastly shit of the tech oligarchs, what might we have built instead? How productively and joyfully could we be spending our lives? Actually growing good things? Showing what can and must be done for us to live decent lives for our own purposes and in service of others, and not repeatedly campaigning so that a few less lives will be wrecked? Don’t get me wrong. Plenty of us – indeed, growing numbers – are working on the alternatives. But if feels like we lost twenty years just trying to get tech policy and tech firms to kill fewer people, to be just a bit less egregious, and that is time we’ll never get back. Time we needed to be building and growing the technology infrastructure and human networks, capabilities and structures of feeling we so desperately need for what comes next.
October 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"
Marion Ravenwood from Raiders of the Lost Ark, about to win a drinking contest
October 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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idk about money laundering, but as far as espionage goes, this happened, and he was elected president for a 2nd time:
photo of classified documents stored in Trump's bathroom at Mar a Lago
October 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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sure, "classified justification"
source? I made it up.
October 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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"I've been to that city and it was f̶u̶l̶l̶ o̶f̶ c̶r̶i̶m̶e̶ war ravaged!"
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON PANEL 1 A white man wearing a baseball cap looks around nervously as he walks on a city sidewalk. Behind him, we can see storefronts and pedestrians. All the people are brown-skinned, enjoying their day, including an adorable family with a toddler riding on her mom’s shoulders. PANEL 2 A residential city neighborhood. The same white man presses against a wall, trying not to be seen, as he watches a little girl playing hopscotch, while another girl sits on a stoop reading a book. Nearby, a middle-aged woman waters some potted plants on a low wall. Again, the white guy is the only white person in the panel. PANEL 3 The white guy peers out from behind a tree at a piragua cart, where the piragua vender is smiling as he talks to a customer. In the background, we see a man walking a three-legged pitbull, and a couple of people playing basketball. Again, everyone but the white guy is a person of color. PANEL 4 We see the white guy in a professional-looking podcast studio, clenching a fist and talking intently into the microphone. WHITE GUY: I’ve been to the city, and it was full of, uh, crime.
October 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
October 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM