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@gidgetwidget.bsky.social

Currently at VTS near DC. Recovering Twitter User. I still do cool stuff like read the Western Canon for fun & now MDiv. absurdist 'holy theatre' pashit. Peter Brook (RIP) is still my hero. I live for cats (aka Iggyboos)

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I donโ€™t think this is exactly whatโ€™s going on, or all thatโ€™s going on. Itโ€™s not that Republicans are constructing an elaborate psychological defense against evidence that Trump is a rapist. Itโ€™s that they like that heโ€™s a rapist, and they like rape: it enacts the power of the strong over the weak.

Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social

The vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because itโ€™s pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.

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i like that the big divide on this post is whether people read it, correctly, as "*run explicitly* on banning online gambling" or whether they ignored the modifying verb and adverb and read it as "i don't think anyone should ban online gambling"

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

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Disability Works *also* received Honorable Mention for the Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies! This is especially delightful because I came in #2 to ND colleague/pal Tarryn Chun's must-read "Revolutionary Stagecraft" www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

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Replying to @anamariecox.com

Itโ€™s been awhile since I watched an actual speech and not just clips (ty @atrupar.com!) but Trump seems markedly worse than usual. Voice is hoarse, heโ€™s vaguely slurring, sweating up a storm. Obv content is completely unhinged but that per ush.

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it feels truly insane that itโ€™s not

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

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Replying to @mededitor.bsky.social

I'll have to work tgat in somewhere. Maybe someday. The โ€œbars of regurgitated Jonahโ€ remark is definitely entering the rep, tho. (thanks, kids)

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My McSweeney's article is still trending, holy crap.

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net

"Letโ€™s be clear: this is not religious persecution. Itโ€™s a test. And you can study for tests. You donโ€™t even have to study that hard. You just have to believe in Jesus." buff.ly/oFYteni

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NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epsteinโ€™s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

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youtube.comMST3K - Pop Him, Pop Him, Pop Pop Pop!YouTube video by Wrenchy247
LR@lr.duangle.com

ed zitron predicted last year this would be the moment the bubble pops so i made something to entertain myself lrlrlr.neocities.org/pop/ and it's not unlikely. we read stock reddit. the spacex launch got a lot of attention there. for anthropic rel posts, you gotta dig.

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โ€œWe live for the exchange of energy between brands and audiences, you should too, and weโ€™ve made it our mission to expand every brandโ€™s market share and heart share.โ€ Heartshare. <puke>

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George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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I urge you to watch naomi klein calmly slicing piers morgan into spam

Naomi Klein@naomiaklein.bsky.social

I have refused many invitations to be interviewed by Piers Morgan over the years. This time I made an exception, on the condition that it be one-on-one, not a scream fest, and that it actually be about the book Astra and I wrote. It was... an experience. youtu.be/SMFQBQx-qSU

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as much as iโ€™d rather build something new, we have to takeover and gut the democratic party all that infrastructure belongs to the people, not the loser ass DCCC consultant class that has reduced it to nothing since the clinton era

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This dude has been the stock image of thousands of finance articles about the stock market. The dude should have been a billionaire by now except Getty owns it. More importantly, using it again is beyond lazy. Anyone recycling this should be sacked on the spot.

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Something a little different today. I started with blobs of ink on paper, and then blew them around, drew in and on it, spatteredโ€ฆ made a mess. Then I imported it to #Procreate and finessed it so itโ€™s a combination of #TraditionalInk and #DigitalInk for Day 25 of #Inktober : FRACTURE #Inktober2026