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Ta, Erik. Solidarity forever.

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Can't help but wonder if we'll be seeing more actions like this in the next few years.

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OT: Trump appoints "Special Ambassadors" to....Hollywood?

Mrs. Betty Bowers

‪@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

In 1947, America had the Hollywood Ten, who refused to cooperate with fascism.

In 2025, America will have the Hollywood Three, who will eagerly collaborate.

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uayevtgtbwot25zhocjzb6lv/bafkreiaeenlp7ehno2fy7cuo2ngdkhsmx5b4sllpiwm5pbcqlqamc67rbu@jpeg

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I’m sorry but this has the flavor of a Stalinist move.

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Goebbels and his boss were very fond of cinema.

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So those John Birch Society inspired white power themed movies are going to be making a major come back.

That and/or McCarthy machinations.

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The world has been waiting for the "Birth of a Nation" sequel for 100 years!

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Can't wait to see how badly they flounder at the box office.

That's the thing about conservative "art". It's not just bad. It's BORING.

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As is always the case with Trump and company, these are very unserious people.

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There was a lot of union activity and resistance (including murders) among Filipinos in the Alaskan fishing industry a bit later. I wonder if there was cross-fertilization.

https://www.realchangenews.org/news/2012/08/08/1981-murder-two-filipino-american-union-leaders-still-haunts-seattle

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OMG

Trump Names Gibson, Voight, And Stallone As His “Special Ambassadors To Golden Age Of Hollywood”

https://www.joemygod.com/2025/01/trump-names-gibson-voight-and-stallone-as-his-special-ambassadors-to-golden-age-of-hollywood/

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Who would have thought the actors are the most powerful people in Hollywood?

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Does Jon Voight even know where he is most of the time?

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Pardon me whilst I bolt into the bathroom and vomit violently.

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Somewhere, Kevin Sorbo, Scott Baio, and James Woods are furiously phoning their agents.

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Rob Schneider also too.

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Yeah, James Woods will be incandescent.

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Maybe he can literally be incandescent if he takes a walk in the hills

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Adam Baldwin is repeatedly punching something. Hopefully Mike Cernovich.

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Is this from the Onion?

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TRUTH SOCIAL!! you worm

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Here's the best part:

""They will serve as Special Envoys to me for the purpose of bringing Hollywood, which has lost much business over the last four years to Foreign Countries, BACK—BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE!" "

yes, just like the Six Million Dollar Man, right Grampa stinky?

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*SWOON*

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OT: Nosferatu has settled?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/giuliani-far-no-show-court-173057814.html

"Giuliani settles with Georgia election workers over defamation payout"

So is that it? He can ponce around in his Floridian Fleapit and do slow-motion victory laps?

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Settles for what? There’s no information about the amount of the settlement. And if he’s bankrupt already then where is the money coming from?

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He also gets to keep his NY co-op. What the actual fuck.

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Whaaaaaat? What nonsense is this?

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The stinking, staggering drunk has bought his way out of trouble once again.

It's amazing what you can get away with in America when you can afford it.

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As a farm kid, watching “Harvest of Shame” in J-school was *searing.* Not much has changed.

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“Oh when them cotton bolls get rotten, you can’t pick very much cotton…”

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OT: Besides what blather makes it into the microphones Monday in DC is going to be blowy as f*ck and cold. Single digit wind chill.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/get-ready-for-an-even-bigger-chill-siberian-air-to-make-trump-swearing-in-coldest-in-40-years/

/ giggle, I won't be watching, but giggling instead

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Siberian Express? Shades of Putin?

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Shades of William Henry…

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It would be irresponsible not to speculate.....

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Speculate? Or wish?

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Thanks for the good description of the Farmworkers' Strike. At the time, I thought my contribution was to not eat grapes, which I didn't like in the first place. Later, living in California I met Chicano families and learned much more about a lifetime of stress and poverty.

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OT. We will need science stories in this Dark Tea Times of Our Souls.

"Heat Destroys All Order. Except for in This One Special Case."

First, pop quiz: a) Unobtanium, b) Dilithium Crystals, c) Red Matter, d) Protomolecule, e) Stupudity.

Correct answer:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/heat-destroys-all-order-except-for-in-this-one-special-case-20250116/

... In a string of results over the past few years, researchers have shown that an idealized substance resembling two intermingled magnets can — in theory — maintain an orderly pattern no matter how hot it gets. The discovery might influence cosmology or affect the quest to bring quantum phenomena to room temperature.

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"e) Stupudity."

Oh dear, what an unfortunate typo.

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Phlogistone

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CALORIC!

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Aether.

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Cupping.

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schtupping

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OT; I want to cut something. "Melania Trump took a swipe at the Obamas over what she claims was a “challenging transition” in 2017."

They were far more gracious than your fucking husband, who left you at the curb to run in to the WH. They were also far more gracious than you and your fucking husband were to the Bidens, who got NO TRANSITION, and you and your fucking husband couldn't even bother attending his inauguration, you graceless fucking asshole. Fuck both of you.

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She is just gutter trash.

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I'd like to see Melania and Michelle up close and personal. An honest dialogue, if you will.

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I mean, the butler didn’t even have her favorite drink ready.

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Eat shit, Melon.

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Trash.Simply trash.

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The Bidens were literally locked out of the White House when they tried to move in on 1/20/21.

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What I am inclined to say about that sullen, shallow, simple minded, viciously vain, nipped and tucked, caustic, conceited, callous, cold blooded fucking [redacted] will immediately see me ban-hammered for the duration.

But I have no damned doubt that everyone can hear me thinking.

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I can barely hear you over the voices in my head. Who is this "Guy O'Teen" person?

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Wow. Fuck off you *redacted redacted*

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deck chairs on the Titanic Mel

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When it comes to that ass—I don’t really care do you?????

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Honeypot says what?

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I remember Amy Carter saying the night before they moved out, they made a big mess in one of the ovens for the Reagan's to have to clean up. And there was talk, probably apocryphal, that Clinton staffers pried the "W" keys off a number of keyboards on the way out the door in 2001.

Those were much more innocent times.

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For some reason I don't give a shit what some person who would voluntarily marry Donald Trump thinks.

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It's a gig. Not a gig I'd take, but then; I have options.

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So did she. She is almost as disgusting as her husband.

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Almost?

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She hasn’t raped anyone. That I am aware of.

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Yeah, don't listen to her toxic bullshit. She's no better than any of the rest of those shits.

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Fix your hearts or die.

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