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@erchristensen.bsky.social
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Dad, writer, cookie monster, dorkus malorkus. All puns intended. He/Him. eric-christensen.com
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Helen Rosner
26 minutes ago
If I posted something so dumb that Dril himself showed up in my comments to dunk on me, I would simply walk directly into the sea
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Post a fictional comedian who definitely would accept an invitation to the Riyadh Comedy Festival. (He couldn't understand why the Riveria Casino is paying him so much.)
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Carl Quintanilla
about 7 hours ago
“.. a fivefold increase in U.S.-based applicants seeking to relocate to European institutions ..” 🤡
@politico.com
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
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Max Kennerly
about 2 hours ago
I know, everybody's been bombarded by clips from this horrible speech, but this one's worth watching. 🙏
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Joe Uchill
about 2 hours ago
When the history of our time is written, this will go in the preface - for one reason or the other.
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Helen Kennedy
about 2 hours ago
Shot, chaser
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
about 2 hours ago
this isn’t true, but i strongly encourage the president to keep telling the country he’s going to cut off their social security and medicare
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digby
about 2 hours ago
Yup. A couple of narcissistic rapists putting women in the military on notice: get out now or suffer the consequences.
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Kyle Cheney
about 2 hours ago
The ruling itself is remarkable, but it closes with something I've never seen: a 12-page assessment of Trump himself as an ignorant bully, braggart and threat to free speech and the republic writ-large.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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WIRED
about 2 hours ago
Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Carl Schmitt, the German legal theorist tapped by the Nazi's to justify Germany's slip from democracy to dictatorship. Those theories have been a roadmap for the billionaire ever since.
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The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession
Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-real-stakes-real-story-peter-thiels-antichrist-obsession/
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Quinta Jurecic
about 2 hours ago
(Battle Hymn of the Republic continues playing)
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Quinta Jurecic
about 2 hours ago
(Battle Hymn of the Republic plays in the background)
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Darin Self
about 2 hours ago
This is why they're desperate to capture governments and schools so they can siphon off public funding.
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Jonathan Hansen
about 5 hours ago
Trump is white America, while his administration each represents a facet. Miller represents the Nazis, Pirro the drunken country club people, Bondi is all the middle managers vindictive of their mediocrity, and Leavitt is white American Christianity. Hegseth is the coke guy wife-beater wannabes.
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jon ben-menachem
about 2 hours ago
really does feel like 2008 will look like a hiccup in comparison
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Will Oremus
about 4 hours ago
This post is getting ratioed on X because all the Democrats are like "no they're not" and all the Republicans are like "no we're not"
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Critical Nostalgia
about 4 hours ago
It's 2026. The entire economy is built on AI, sports betting and bribes paid to the Administration to settle nuisance lawsuits.
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Stonekettle
about 4 hours ago
Trump just called us "the enemy within" Those are LITERALLY the words Adolf Hitler used to describe Jews in Nazi Germany. Literally the same words.
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Anthony Moser
6 days ago
i made a helpful reference
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Darin Self
about 4 hours ago
To me the big speech of Hegseth and Trump with American flags everywhere is revealing that they are facing a huge principal-agent problem with the military and they do not know how to resolve it so they're going overboard on showmenship because its the last card they really have.
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Josh Gondelman
about 4 hours ago
Chuck Schumer, in an hour from now: The president plans to flood the streets with military personnel to oppress innocent people, but what he should be flooding the streets with is tax credits for the middle class!
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Sam Brody
about 4 hours ago
These people are simply not scared enough. They won a regular American election by a regular amount and they are acting like it’s the Thousand-Year Reich. Someone needs to frighten them and it’s not going to be Schumer, Jeffries, or frankly Newsom
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Alan Rozenshtein
about 4 hours ago
Seriously—in any other administration the President telling the SecDef (sorry, "SecWar") that American cities should be used as "training grounds" for the military would kick of impeachment proceedings that same day.
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Nick Bednar
about 22 hours ago
Notable: Some federal unions are opposing the budget in a letter titled "No Bad Budget in Our Name." "[F]ederal workers will willingly forego paychecks in the hopes of preserving the programs we have devoted our lives to administering.”
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC
about 4 hours ago
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jamelle
about 5 hours ago
the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
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Coach Finstock
about 4 hours ago
People talk shit constantly on like Eagles fans at the Linc, but golf brings the worst people. Most don't even follow sports and only follow golf because it's part of their white asshole culture Wife and I went to the Ojai Valley Inn a few weeks ago for a weekend. The worst people you've ever met.
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الكسندرا ميراي
about 14 hours ago
"She had tears streaming down her face, and she told me one of the ICE agents pulled out his cell phone, laughing, and took a selfie," Schutzstaffel level psychopath
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jamelle
about 6 hours ago
you know what probably isn't great for military readiness? turning a blind eye to violent hazing, sexual assault and bigotry, while purging leaders on the basis of race and gender.
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Hegseth declares an end to 'politically correct' leadership in the US military
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned hundreds of U.S. military officials to an in-person meeting to announce directives for troops that include “gender-neutral” or “male-level” standards for physic...
https://apnews.com/article/trump-hegseth-generals-meeting-military-pentagon-0ecdcbb8877e24329cfa0fc1e851ebd2?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=68dbd3d804d79e00019eb587&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Andrew Lawrence
about 5 hours ago
“now get out there and pick up trash and spread mulch for your president”
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Josh Marshall
about 6 hours ago
DHS Had a Program to Stop Political Violence. Trump Largely Abandoned It.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-had...
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DHS Had a Program to Stop Political Violence. Trump Largely Abandoned It.
In July, Franklin School District Superintendent Dan LeGallo got a surprise letter...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-had-a-program-to-stop-political-violence-trump-largely-abandoned-it
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Amy Maxmen, PhD
about 5 hours ago
About 25% of women in the military & 6% of men experienced sexual harassment in the past year. 7% of women experienced "unwanted sexual contact" Fewer than a third reported it. Of those who did, 60% say they experienced retaliation.* It's tragic that this situation will almost certainly worsen.
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Peter Sterne
about 5 hours ago
It really does not get more explicit than Trump telling top active-duty military generals that they will need to participate in occupations of large cities run by his political opponents as part of his "war from within"
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Walter Olson
about 5 hours ago
"Arrest all the undocumented construction workers you can find and you'll open up plenty of jobs for native-born labor" doesn't seem to be working out as planned.
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Tim Onion
about 5 hours ago
Did he just declare war on four American cities?
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Radley Balko
about 8 hours ago
This passage nearly broke me.
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Will Stancil
about 6 hours ago
The headline here is “Hegseth announces changes that will protect domestic abusers in the military.” Even though this is incontestably true, no news organization will use this headline, because telling the truth is deemed impermissible if the truth hurts the right too much
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The Associated Press
about 6 hours ago
BREAKING: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he's loosening disciplinary rules and weakening hazing protections at rare meeting of top military leaders.
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Hegseth declares an end to 'politically correct' leadership in the US military
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned hundreds of U.S. military officials to an in-person meeting to announce directives for troops that include “gender-neutral” or “male-level” standards for physical fitness as well as an end to “woke” culture in the military.
https://bit.ly/4gSfTEO
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jamelle
about 6 hours ago
pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.
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Karl Jacoby
about 6 hours ago
Hegseth's words seem especially chilling in light of his whitewashing of the Wounded Knee Massacre as a heroic "battle" only a few days ago. The message would seem to be that the Trump Administration is willing to forgive any atrocity US troops may commit as an "earnest mistake."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
about 6 hours ago
Man who has read one (1) book on history: "as history teaches us." Also, look, I know it's not the point, but EVERYONE deserves peace. You don't have to "earn" peace. It should be the default!
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The Washington Post
about 6 hours ago
Exclusive: In the first half of the year, upheaval from the Trump administration’s foreign aid freeze delayed the delivery of hundreds of USAID shipments of antimalarial and HIV medical supplies to regional warehouses in dozens of countries. The consequences were deadly.
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Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.
USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2025/usaid-trump-malaria-hiv-drugs-death/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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Christopher Webb
about 17 hours ago
NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”
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Jacob T. Levy
about 9 hours ago
Taking a nine-figure piece of property away from a college in order to give it to Trump for a new Trump Tower (with a presidential library tucked in there somewhere).
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
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Florida Plans to Hand Over Prime Miami Property for Trump Library
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/us/miami-property-trump-library.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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CNN
about 9 hours ago
That revelation came while discussing the Trump administration's recent indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, which Romney said he disagrees with: "The idea that the system of justice is used to punish political opponents is a very dangerous path to go down."
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Mitt Romney reveals he personally urged Biden administration to preemptively pardon Donald Trump | CNN Politics
Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney revealed Monday night that he called the White House during the Biden administration when Special Counsel Jack Smith was investigating Donald Trump t...
https://cnn.it/4gNr0yT
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southpaw
1 day ago
Content creators tend to think any spectacle is defensible if they can say health and safety concerns have been attended to behind the scenes, but that’s not really it imho. Mr. Beast’s whole thing is that his subjects’ desperation for cash allows him—a wealthier person—to indulge his sadism.
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Reuters Legal
about 9 hours ago
More than 150,000 federal employees will leave the U.S. government payroll this week after accepting buyouts - the largest single-year exodus of civil servants in nearly 80 years, triggering what unions and governance experts warn is a damaging loss of institutional expertise.
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US government faces brain drain as 154,000 federal workers exit this week
More than 150,000 federal employees will leave the U.S. government payroll this week after accepting buyouts - the largest single-year exodus of civil servants in nearly 80 years, triggering what unions and governance experts warn is a damaging loss of institutional expertise.
https://reut.rs/3KtdJzh
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Wendy Xu
about 24 hours ago
"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED
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cait (and adonis)
about 19 hours ago
just guess
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