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Engineer. Musician. Wily Chaote. Full-Stack Acerbic Humanist. Bandcamp: https://thebellmechanical.bandcamp.com/ SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical Musings: https://nopeanutsinchurch.com/ Middle of Massachusetts. USENET refugee.

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Every Democratic state that can do this, should do this.

Then, when we control the levels of power in DC, we ban gerrymandering for the entire country. Once and for all. Everyone playing by the same rules.

11.08.2025 18:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7263    ๐Ÿ” 1796    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 290    ๐Ÿ“Œ 113

Ms. Mailman seems to be the human incarnation of the authoritarian exploitation of liberal appeals to free speech I wrote about in this article for the @bostonreview.bsky.social

11.08.2025 19:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Elon Musk, who regularly practices securities fraud, says you can arrest your way out of crime.

I wonder if that applies to white collars?

11.08.2025 19:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In his presser this morning, Trump twice referred to Alaska as โ€œRussia,โ€ and itโ€™s no coincidence that Putin calls it that, too.

11.08.2025 18:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 83    ๐Ÿ” 25    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So the same guy who insists he couldnโ€™t activate the National Guard in D.C. on January 6, 2021 suddenly has the power to activate it today?

11.08.2025 16:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3969    ๐Ÿ” 1410    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 171    ๐Ÿ“Œ 63
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This Trump supporter is trying to justify a do-over census. But which administration was in power in 2020 again?!

11.08.2025 18:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1437    ๐Ÿ” 219    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 107    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12

DID HE RESIGN...!? ๐Ÿ˜‚

11.08.2025 18:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

FBI agents are not trained to patrol streets. And every agent that is assigned to do that is NOT investigating:

*foreign spies stealing govโ€™t and trade secrets
*foreign and domestic terrorist threats
*crimes like fraud, corruption, trafficking, and violent crimes (among others)

Do you feel safer?

11.08.2025 02:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11930    ๐Ÿ” 3548    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 461    ๐Ÿ“Œ 178

it's pretty frustrating how republicans can just spew endless lies about city life with zero repercussions but the moment a dem disparages a pickup truck it's open season

11.08.2025 17:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5832    ๐Ÿ” 1040    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 115    ๐Ÿ“Œ 70

Wasn't Reid also a Boxer (or something similar) earlier in life?

11.08.2025 17:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The president teasing martial for multiple American cities is a dangerous, authoritarian, and unlawful power grab. The Anglo-American constitutional tradition has rejected this kind of arbitrary rule as far back as the Petition of Right in 1628. Yet, here we are with our wannabe tinpot Charles I.

11.08.2025 17:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 255    ๐Ÿ” 76    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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a man wearing a jacket and tie is smiling and making a funny face . ALT: a man wearing a jacket and tie is smiling and making a funny face .

Biff was at least a snazzier dresser!

11.08.2025 17:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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FCC Commissioner Slams Paramount's New 'Truth Arbiter' for the Trump Regime Anna Gomez says the new company is

somebody in my replies said Larry Ellison's nepobaby son looks like the villain in an 80s ski comedy and now I can't unsee it

11.08.2025 16:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 303    ๐Ÿ” 78    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

You'll have to excuse me if I refuse to reject the evidence of my very own senses on the word of...

::checks notes::

...Kash Patel and his cronies.

You have WAY too much emotional attachment to the official story. I'm off. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

11.08.2025 17:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Trump is invoking Section 740 of the D.C. Home Rule Act, which authorizes him to seize control of the entire DC police department for a maximum of 30 days.

This is insane stuff. D.C. is not in the grip of a crime wave. Crime has been falling for three years now. Violent crime is at a 30-year low.

11.08.2025 15:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1793    ๐Ÿ” 779    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 157    ๐Ÿ“Œ 62

I had a cancerous mole removed from my left arm. 30 years ago. And it Still has a scar more noticeable than T-Bag's alleged "bullet wound".

Shit, my SMALLPOX INJECTION SITE from 1972 or so is more noticeable than T-Bag's alleged "bullet wound".

11.08.2025 17:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am not a conspiracy theorist. I have said nothing you have just repeated at me. And I don't even have any real operating/affirmative theory, here.

I just look at an ear and go "yeah. that ear wasn't shot by an AR15".

That's it. That's all I did.

You're the one smearing 'moral content' on this

11.08.2025 17:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a picture of darth vader with the words most impressive written below him ALT: a picture of darth vader with the words most impressive written below him
11.08.2025 16:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That beard of his does look like something that spends the night hung on the bedpost...๐Ÿ˜‚

11.08.2025 16:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Texas prepares for war as invasion of flesh eating flies appears imminent. Massachusetts collected $2 billion more in tax revenue than expected because of millionaireโ€™s tax.

Texas prepares for war as invasion of flesh eating flies appears imminent. Massachusetts collected $2 billion more in tax revenue than expected because of millionaireโ€™s tax.

Red state, blue state.

10.08.2025 15:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 270    ๐Ÿ” 65    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Possibly... most of these people seem to just kind of "show up" from out of nowhere.

I have yet to find any evidence that Matt Walsh existed before his first radio show, for instance. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

11.08.2025 15:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

IMO? Hit by a bone fragment from the poor devil behind him, who DID get shot. Or low-velocity shrapnel.

Pity they shot the kid. Now we'll never know.

BTW: If you're a good enough shot to take the headshot... why not take out the right shoulder to immobilize & question, instead..? ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

11.08.2025 15:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No. That ear should be half gone. Eardrum ruptured. With an old guy like him, why no detached retina? No brain injury? etc.

Do I think it was "staged"? No.

(for one thing, DJT lacks the personal courage it would take to do the William Tell Act).

Do I think he was hit with a BULLET? Also... no.

11.08.2025 15:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

PS: Candace fucking Owens judging any other woman for 'not looking traditionally feminine enough' is just... RICH.

You could break rocks on those cheekbones.

Yes, I'm going there. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

11.08.2025 15:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Macrons hired investigators to research US influencer Candace Owens Podcaster who claimed French first lady was born male had links to rightwing figures in Europe and the US

"What do you mean 'global coordination of the right wing? what are ya, some kind of kooky conspiracy theorist?"
www.ft.com/content/986e...

11.08.2025 15:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Explain the ear, then?

You must explain that miraculously healing ear.

11.08.2025 15:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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NEW ANGLE

Watch and decide, but I was never fully convinced he was shot in the first place. Never mind that his ear shouldโ€™ve been blown offโ€”now completely healed. Or that the Secret Service took their time getting him offstage.

But from this angle: you see the photographers guided into placeโ€ฆ

19.07.2025 16:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17890    ๐Ÿ” 8447    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2270    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1285
A Pterosaur head like piece of broken timber with a knot-hole for an eye, protruding from a stack of logs

A Pterosaur head like piece of broken timber with a knot-hole for an eye, protruding from a stack of logs

Unbeknownst to the harvesting team a foraging Pterosaur became trapped in their log pile

10.08.2025 16:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 309    ๐Ÿ” 31    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

She is 100 proof against crime

11.08.2025 15:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1285    ๐Ÿ” 90    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 78    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
package of noodles that says Best before:YYYY.MM

package of noodles that says Best before:YYYY.MM

discovered the Immortal Noodles

10.08.2025 22:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3389    ๐Ÿ” 206    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 99    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

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