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@optimismprime01.bsky.social

big ol nerd of: music/guitar, ttrpgs, pc games, sf/fantasy, politics, food. not here for followers, if i don't follow you you'll get blocked.

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16.10.2025 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

The MAGA movement is and has always been a racist extremist project and anyone who is too afraid to say that in plain language does not deserve your support and should not be taken seriously

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

16.10.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 152    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

yeah that's just a petey guitar

16.10.2025 11:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

15.10.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 6021    πŸ” 1822    πŸ’¬ 124    πŸ“Œ 78
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i feel like we need this today, well i do.

06.10.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 95    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 10

"You will only get paid if you kiss His Majesty's ring" is an interesting hill to die on, but I say go for it.

15.10.2025 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1781    πŸ” 393    πŸ’¬ 64    πŸ“Œ 17

When a nation that started as colony for convicts decides that you are too troublesome to let in, that should be a sobering wake up call.

15.10.2025 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1054    πŸ” 194    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 9

from my facebook memories three years ago today:

just watched the redeem team documentary on netflix and let me once again extend the heartiest of fuck yous to larry brown for shitting the bed as the 04 coach.

i'm furious all over again.

15.10.2025 10:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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15.10.2025 10:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

fuck larry brown always and forever for having lebron, wade, and melo, and keeping them on the bench to play iverson and marbury to cost us the gold medal in 04.

wouldn't have needed a redeem team if not for his ego.

play the right way? fuck you, you cost us a gold in OUR GAME.

15.10.2025 03:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah man, for sure

15.10.2025 00:13 β€” πŸ‘ 922    πŸ” 83    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 5
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EXCLUSIVE: 'Yeah that was too far': Private Facebook chats for Gavin Wax's Liberty Conservative littered with racial slurs, Holocaust jokes Wax previously called out a DeSantis supporter for his old, offensive conversations.

whoa hitler stuff in the young republican chats?? no way.

15.10.2025 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 263    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3

good thing the world is so safe these days huh

14.10.2025 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

yeah there's your weirdfriend group chat, and there's whatever the fuck this is.

i think we need to have all of them id'd publicly for when they inevitably run for office.

people deserve to know if their elected officials want gas chambers, i think.

14.10.2025 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The best part is going to be when they integrate sports betting into the sexts

β€œYour throbbing manmountain makes me SOOOOOO wet, but you know what would make me even wetter? If you put a three team parlay on DraftKings using promo-code β€˜SUCKER.’ Oh yeah, baby, let me suck you dry.”

14.10.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 484    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 2

So glad we’re burning down rainforests and drying up lakes to help total losers masturbate in an entirely new way

14.10.2025 21:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1894    πŸ” 403    πŸ’¬ 81    πŸ“Œ 13

Young Republicans say they love Hitler. But what does that tell us about their politics?

14.10.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1321    πŸ” 201    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 6

β€œWe’re saving God by shooting priests in the head with crowd control weapons” is generally something you only get in the most unhinged JRPGs from the SNES era

14.10.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 779    πŸ” 123    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 3

The whites are literally arguing it's literally *unconstitutional* if they're not OVERREPRESNTED in Congress.

14.10.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1519    πŸ” 444    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 11

yeah dude he STILL doesn't remember your name, nice try tho

14.10.2025 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

8/ But Trump doesn't want to end the shutdown. Because he thinks he's a king and he doesn't believe the law applies to him. He thinks he has extra powers in a shutdown. He doesn't.

But the longer Republicans boycott talks, the more the shutdown will hurt. So it's their move.

14.10.2025 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4127    πŸ” 684    πŸ’¬ 126    πŸ“Œ 19

7/ Democrats need to stand for something right now. And what need, to vote for this budget, is pretty simple and reasonable:

Don't cut people's health care just to pay for a billionaire tax cut.

Don't fund Trump's growing authoritarianism without checks on his corruption.

14.10.2025 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4072    πŸ” 672    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 20

6/ Sure the House isn't here so Rs don't have to explain why they want premiums to go up and why they want to fund Trump's corruption.

But also because they don't want to swear in member-elect Adelita Grijalva. Since she would be the deciding vote to RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

14.10.2025 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4035    πŸ” 853    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 22

5/ But here's the even darker kicker.

The House Republicans aren't even in town. Speaker Johnson told them to stay away from DC. They haven't been here in nearly a month. Refusing to show up for work. An unprecedented, unplanned 4 week recess.

And why?

14.10.2025 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3869    πŸ” 835    πŸ’¬ 54    πŸ“Œ 38

4/ Ok, so then the obvious next step is to negotiate a compromise. That's how we've always avoided shutdowns. And Republicans need to convene those talks, bc they're in charge.

But here's the kicker - Trump is telling them to BOYCOTT NEGOTIATING. And they are following orders.

14.10.2025 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3763    πŸ” 864    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 30

3/ The Senate keeps voting on 2 bills to reopen.

1. The GOP bill - it raises premiums on 22m Americans and lets Trump keep acting illegally.

2. The Dem bill - it stops the premium increases and checks Trump's illegality.

Each time, neither bill gets the necessary 60 votes.

14.10.2025 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3660    πŸ” 690    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 13

2/ Democrats aren't going to vote for a budget that throws millions off health care and funds Trump's growing totalitarianism. At least I'm not.

Why work so hard to get to the Senate if you don't use your power to fight for what you believe in? Especially at a time like this.

14.10.2025 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4217    πŸ” 545    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 16

Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧡on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

14.10.2025 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 7977    πŸ” 2871    πŸ’¬ 338    πŸ“Œ 245

This is the best one.

14.10.2025 11:28 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

You know how when you scribble a bunch of crayons of different colors together it ends up being a gross babyshit color?

Yeah, that’s what AI β€œart” does, because it’s mashing together millions of different sources to fill in the Mad Libs blank.

14.10.2025 03:40 β€” πŸ‘ 407    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

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