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lapsedcentrist.bsky.social
Arizona lawyer, Gen X liberal, yet somehow still disillusioned. Followers not discouraged but I’m a committed Reply Guy. Blocked over 20K ads and blue check chuds on Twitter. Non-ironic use of AI = autoblock.
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The Douthat-Thiel interview: PETER THIEL: and in Roman times, gladiators would find panthers [ROSS DOUTHAT smiles, nods] THIEL: ... and in the book of revelation, the panther is an animal of great power... [DOUTHAT tilts his head like a dog] THIEL: ... and true power... that's the FDA...

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

Is there nothing Zuckerberg can't not actually do

submitted 12 hours ago • 8 comments

you send your Fox News weekend host SecDef out to give a presser at 8 am Eastern if you’re worried he will be too hammered by 10 am to do it then

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

yeah i’d def cover my drink around you, playa

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

the thing about emil bove is he also looks like a sniveling toady

submitted 3 days ago • 301 comments

Rest assured President Trump is monitoring the situation (talking to Sean Hannity on an unsecured mobile phone)

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

We were very happy to give this scoop to @marisakabas.bsky.social's The Handbasket because it is important to support independent journalists who are doing the hard work at this time. Giving this story to Marisa also guarantees it will be in The Washington Post verbatim exactly 48 hours later.

submitted 5 days ago • 94 comments

Eighty-four-year-old man declares 67-year-old man the future of the Democratic Party

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

submitted 8 days ago • 180 comments

Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

submitted 10 days ago • 541 comments

Christ what a fucking buffoon.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

As a former Senate employee, I can assure you that Noem absolutely picked the wrong person to humiliate. Senators take their dignity VERY seriously, which I'm sure fed the white-hot rage Cory Booker is expressing here: x.com/Acyn/status/...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

All the states that got denied disaster aid watching Trump send the Marines to LA

submitted 17 days ago • 14 comments

saw the stuff in LA. got me thinking about how i barricaded myself from your love. thank u for always being there even when i didnt give u any reason to be. u dont have to respond just want u to know that

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments