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Joseph McCombs

@popargot.bsky.social

Writer, editor, pop culture vulture, music trivia maven, mal vivant

109 Followers  |  73 Following  |  82 Posts  |  Joined: 01.08.2023  |  2.2182

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KISS were at their best a power pop band. They should have left Gene behind in 1980 and become Peter, Paul and Frehley.

13.08.2025 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing how much he got out of just piano, organ, and drums.

13.08.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In authoritarian crackdowns, it’s important to randomly ensnare some people whom one would think would be safe, so that everyone is at least a little bit afraid that something could happen to them. The regime scales up its power of intimidation over a much larger group than those directly affected.

13.08.2025 11:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4358    πŸ” 1738    πŸ’¬ 109    πŸ“Œ 63
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God's plan was to murder a firefighter and give a lying pedophile some cheap publicity.

13.08.2025 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1598    πŸ” 401    πŸ’¬ 118    πŸ“Œ 22
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The Trump administration is now seeking to replace PBS with β€œPrager University,” a far-right propaganda organization that isn’t actually a university.

One of their β€œkids videos” has Christopher Columbus telling them that slavery was β€œno big deal” and β€œbetter than being killed.”

13.08.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4635    πŸ” 2263    πŸ’¬ 768    πŸ“Œ 473
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Corporate America has been waging a war against the trade union movement for a simple reason:

They know that union workers earn higher wages and better benefits than non-union workers.

13.08.2025 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2073    πŸ” 687    πŸ’¬ 68    πŸ“Œ 44

From the white supremacist book the official DHS account is referencing: "The point is to reveal organized Jewry as a world power entrenched in every country of the White man’s world, operating freely across every nation’s frontiers, and engaged in a ruthless war for the destruction of them all."

12.08.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1632    πŸ” 856    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 74
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New Analysis Finds Trump Family Has Raked in $3.4 Billion Off the Presidency President Donald Trump and his family have made a staggering $3.4 billion off of the presidency, according to an analysis by the New Yorker.

New Analysis Finds Trump Family Has Raked in $3.4 Billion Off the Presidency

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

12.08.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 472    πŸ” 298    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 43
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Why Trump's Chilling Flex of Brute Force is So Disturbing Our president is a wannabe tyrant, using techniques favored exclusively by leaders in thugocracies across the world.

He went after LA. He's going after DC. Then he is coming for the rest of America's Democrat-leaning big cities. One goal is power. One goal is racist. And one is to be able to influence future elections. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/why-trumps-c...

11.08.2025 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 169    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

Love that artwork too

11.08.2025 00:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

11.08.2025 00:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cuban’s great β€œinnovation” was selling a domain name

10.08.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry you need *incentive* to do good for people.

10.08.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

to what extent does the administration intend to use this money to fund things that congress won't, and also, treating states like conquered territories to be dominated is one of those things that really makes you think the goal of these people is to dissolve the union

08.08.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4238    πŸ” 998    πŸ’¬ 157    πŸ“Œ 50

I knew your father. Your father was someone I covered for Newsday in the 1980s. You, sir, are no Mario Cuomo

08.08.2025 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 736    πŸ” 105    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 8
On Vaccines, Kennedy Has Broken Sharply With the Mainstream
While many officials and scientists embrace other parts of the secretary’s agenda, his stance on vaccines is alienating allies who fear a public health crisis.

On Vaccines, Kennedy Has Broken Sharply With the Mainstream While many officials and scientists embrace other parts of the secretary’s agenda, his stance on vaccines is alienating allies who fear a public health crisis.

On nutrition, Jeffrey Dahmer has broken sharply with the mainstream.

07.08.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2903    πŸ” 603    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 23

MAHA terrorist dumped two mags into the CDC building because he thought the covid vaccine made him ill

08.08.2025 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1300    πŸ” 380    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 29
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Penn’s law school pauses scholarship honoring its first Black female graduate, plans to close equal opportunity office Penn’s law school pauses scholarship honoring its first Black female graduate, plans to close equal opportunity office.

It's so discouraging to see this continued capitulation from major educational institutions. I would be so frustrated and ashamed to be associated with these schools.
share.inquirer.com/kRhUHS

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Trump: "What a great honor to get those Purple Hearts. I guess in a certain way it wasn't that easy for me either, when you think of it."

07.08.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2027    πŸ” 501    πŸ’¬ 712    πŸ“Œ 299

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ in my book πŸ˜ƒ

07.08.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You have got to be fucking kidding me

07.08.2025 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 171    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 20
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For a bunch of dumb or unfortunate reasons, I haven't had much freedom to travel in 2025. Damn. I can't but would have loved to cover the Bernie Sanders "Fighting Oligarchy" event on Saturday in tiny Lenore, W. Va., in historic Mingo County. That will be a great story...for someone

07.08.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

It's time to end DEI and bring the meritocracy.

by Andrew Cuomo, Chris Cuomo, and RFK Jr.

07.08.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1083    πŸ” 167    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 2

HITLER
CONCERNS

what are you people doing dude

07.08.2025 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2113    πŸ” 552    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 7

I never knew what that last line was, all these years.

07.08.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump actually is β€˜canceling’ the 2026 midterms, starting in Texas | Will Bunch Trump's outrageous push to kill 5 Dem House seats in Texas triggers a nuclear war that will end representative democracy.

It used to be a conspiracy theory: Trump will cancel the 2026 midterms. But the Texas remapping outrage is a plan to do exactly that, as extreme gerrymandering spreads to multiple states

The next election will be decided by a computer, not a campaign. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/texa...

07.08.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1331    πŸ” 554    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 46

Trump represents the greatest threat to free speech in the history of the United States. But I’ve had so much success financially complaining about woke censorship that I’m going to keep fucking that chicken.

07.08.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 814    πŸ” 96    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 9

The Solar for All program significantly reduces electric bills for nearly a million working class Americans, creates many thousands of jobs and cuts carbon emissions.

That’s why the Trump administration wants to illegally cut it.

We won’t let them.

06.08.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1408    πŸ” 235    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 9
Serve your country! Defend your culture!

Serve your country! Defend your culture!

Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a β€œdefend your culture” slogan.

06.08.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 7740    πŸ” 3174    πŸ’¬ 473    πŸ“Œ 472

People have trouble interpreting this. Nobody’s saying Donald Trump or Pam Bondi are personally selecting Nazi iconography. They don’t read enough for that. The point is they hire and promote Nazis who ARE steeped in Nazi iconography, and they’re fine with it.

06.08.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2638    πŸ” 684    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 12

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