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Chaparral Coyote

@acute.dog

been thinking a lot about where we were ~two years ago around this time and bitterly, bitterly lamenting how clear a lot of the warnings were but you could never in a million years have predicted madness like this, it's autosatire

September 21, 2026 at 7:43 PM

Mark 🗿🗻🥾⛷️

@hairybadgeridfk.bsky.social

I'm unsure if this is autosatire or not.

September 17, 2024 at 3:12 PM

𝓪 𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓿𝓸𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓶𝓸𝓽𝓱 🦋

@totr.bsky.social

well worth a read imo, top quality autosatire

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November 7, 2024 at 6:35 AM

Matthew Budman, book guy

@matthewbudman.bsky.social

In the daily—hourly!—cascade of Trump outrages, you may have missed last week's declaration that book bans are now good. @roncharles.bsky.social's essay ends with a call to action: "Get involved. We’re already the majority, we just have to start acting like it." s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

We’re only two weeks into this tornado of malfeasance, but it already feels like the Queen’s croquet match in “Alice in Wonderland.”

In a deft stroke of autosatire, the Department of Education has issued a press release announcing the end of what it calls “Biden’s Book Ban Hoax.” And so, the well-documented book-banning craze has been shoved into Trump’s cluttered closet of hoaxes that already includes climate change, medical research, elections, racism, contractors’ invoices and women who don’t want to be groped.

Attacks on books are fundamentally a local issue, but federal involvement helped. No longer. The DoE has proudly dismissed 11 civil rights complaints involving book bans in schools and eliminated its book ban coordinator, who offered guidance to school districts to protect students’ civil rights. (Trump has nominated former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon to lead his Education Department.)

The American Library Association fired back against the DoE memo: “Book bans are real.” And being librarians, they cited reliable information: “Federal judges have repeatedly ruled that removing books from school library shelves based on the objections of a person or group, or due to prejudice against a group — book banning — is unconstitutional censorship that violates students’ First Amendment rights.”

PEN America, which has recorded nearly 16,000 instances of book bans nationwide since 2021, responded by releasing a list of the 23 most frequently banned picture books during the 2023-2024 school year.

Among these Pornographic Tomes of Satan are nonfiction stories about penguins at the Central Park Zoo and kids playing baseball in a World War II Japanese American internment camp. There’s also Todd Parr’s “The Family Book,” Eric Carle’s “Draw Me a Star” and Maurice Sendak’s “In the Night Kitchen,” which has been proven in the state of Florida to turn straight White Christian boys into polygender Marxists who eat only quinoa.…

January 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM

TheJestPress

@thejestpress.bsky.social

Tesla’s Sales Take a Nosedive, Even Robots Are Shocked

#TeslaTrouble #MuskMeltdown #ElectricSlide #CarTrouble #AutoSatire By: TheJestPress.com **Tesla Sales Tank Worst in a Decade, Elon Musk Seen Pricing Out Used Hoverboards** In what experts are hailing as “absolutely crucial news for people…

Tesla’s Sales Take a Nosedive, Even Robots Are Shocked

#TeslaTrouble #MuskMeltdown #ElectricSlide #CarTrouble #AutoSatire By: TheJestPress.com **Tesla Sales Tank Worst in a Decade, Elon Musk Seen Pricing Out Used Hoverboards** In what experts are hailing as “absolutely crucial news for people whose personality is 90% owning a Tesla,” the company’s sales have fallen harder than an autopilot on an icy Minnesota road. Tesla’s latest quarterly report reveals their worst sales drop in a decade, causing investors, influencers, and at least three people who wear sunglasses indoors to panic simultaneously.

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July 24, 2025 at 7:01 AM