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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 7h

We must stop RFK

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Alt-IRS @alt-irs.altgov.info · 8h

Privatization is the goal.

Profit over people.

#GOPShutdown

Beth Loves to Travel @skywalkerbeth.bsky.social · 8h

@hcrichardson.bsky.social

Right on cue

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Chris B @burchris.bsky.social · 9h

Or anybody, really. Get in my face with your condescending high-and-mightiness and I will block you faster than a hummingbird's heartbeat.

Chris B @burchris.bsky.social · 9h

I just have zero time or patience for lectures from overly pious "allies."

Screenshot of a Bluesky conversation between users Chris B (@burchris.bsky.social) and cwfttd.bsky.social. Chris jokes that Facebook suggests adding people who previously unfriended him. cwfttd replies that nobody should use Facebook, and when Chris explains he stays for the people and engagement, cwfttd accuses him of supporting Zuckerberg. Chris responds bluntly, “Wow, somebody’s fucking self-righteous.”

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 10h

Oh wait that wasn’t even an embellishment huh they’re really wylin out

Nicholas Kristof
@NickKristof
In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the
ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear
how he was injured). But when the patient was
loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the
ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the
ambulance driver:

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Chris B @burchris.bsky.social · 10h

So much for "there are no stupid questions."

Screenshot of a question from Google search's "People also ask" section. It reads, “Who played Nurse on Mash?”

Chris B @burchris.bsky.social · 11h

Apple bobbing is just waterboarding where your torturers make you do all the work.

Chris B @burchris.bsky.social · 11h

This is all the history I need.

A large statue of Bullwinkle J. Moose and Rocky the Flying Squirrel from The Bullwinkle Show. Bullwinkle stands on one leg wearing a red-and-white striped swimsuit, balancing Rocky on his raised hand. The display sits on a blue platform labeled “The Bullwinkle Show,” and is brightly lit in a museum-like setting.

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Chris B @burchris.bsky.social · 11h

There must be some incantation or ritual that can trap him in the pages of an L.L. Bean catalog.

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Chris B @burchris.bsky.social · 11h

I want to apologize to all the influencers out there. It turns out I was wrong. You're not the most irritating people on the internet.

That would be Twitch streamers.

Chris B @burchris.bsky.social · 13h

The only one I remember is HAG-CLAIMS-8.

Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 13h

The only phone numbers I know by heart anymore:

- mine
- my wife’s
- my landline number from when I first moved to LA
- my childhood home
- a Philadelphia community helpline that advertised on local TV with the jingle “CALL for ACT-ION! GREENwood SEVen five THREE one TWO!”

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 16h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

America is imperfect, but foreign leaders did not use to assume that the President's family was a key means of leveraging their shared interest in corruption.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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Chris B @burchris.bsky.social · 14h

I always love it when Facebook suggests I add a friend who I didn’t even know had unfriended me.

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Granite State @granitestate.bsky.social · 17h

TIL that our Founding Fathers started promoting him because they were looking for an origin myth with a hero who wasn’t tied to England (like Cabot or Hudson). Columbus fit the bill since genocide and slavery weren’t disqualifying back then. Hence „District of Columbia“, „Columbus, Ohio“, etc.

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Palle! @palleh.bsky.social · 19h

I don't get the determination to make Columbus relevant to US history. He never set foot on US soil. He "discovered" a place where millions of people lived and vikings and Irish fishermen knew about. He thought he visited India until his deathbed. His contemporaries considered him a violent weirdo.

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Alex Jungroth @alexjungroth.bsky.social · 15h

The only thing that changed with this peace deal is that European countries were recognizing a Palestinian state.

All Trump did is throw Israel a lifeline. His peace plan could have been a napkin with 'Peace!' written on it.

Europe needs to keep up the pressure on Israel for peaceful change.
#Gaza

Leaders of Egypt, Qatar, Turkiye and US sign Gaza deal

World leaders have gathered in Egypt for a summit on Gaza.

www.aljazeera.com

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Alex Jungroth @alexjungroth.bsky.social · 14h

Hamas was already agreeing to deals. Israel was rejecting them.

It would be a mistake to attribute this to anything other than international pressure when that was the independent variable.

Protesting works. Protests all over the world were pressuring governments to change their stance on Gaza.

Hamas has offered a ceasefire deal. Here’s why that won’t bring an immediate end to the war in Gaza | CNN

Hamas’ announcement was initially met with jubilation in Gaza and cautious optimism by regional leaders after it was presented as an acceptance of an Israeli proposal. But Israel issued what looked li...

www.cnn.com

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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 17h

Egypt has extremely strict gun control laws. Civilians are only permitted to own handguns -- no rifles or shotguns -- and only if they can prove they need the weapon for a specific purpose. Background checks for licensing are extensive and include vetting of family members and psych evaluations.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump on Egypt: "They have very little crime. Because they don't play games. That's why. Like we do in the United States with governors that have no idea what they're doing."

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onion person @junlper.beer · 16h

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

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Chris B @burchris.bsky.social · 15h

Story focused? Good.

Collaborative? Mmmmmm... not my cup of tea. When tinkering with the FATE system, it's the first thing I jettison.

Ginny Di 🎀 @ginnydi.com · 16h

⚠️ This is NOT the only way to play TTRPGs — but it's one of them! This is a segment of last week's video, which dives into Daggerheart's guidance for how GMs can run story-focused, collaborative games.

Check out the full video on my YouTube: youtu.be/c59TIWXOF6c

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Chris B @burchris.bsky.social · 16h

Get back to me when Israel has released its two hostages: Gaza and the West Bank.

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Chris B @burchris.bsky.social · 16h

I do love seeing all the pumkin ptaches this time of year.

Split-screen thumbnail for a vlog titled “My First Half Marathon: Pumpkin Patch to Finish Line.” The left side shows a woman in fall attire holding a small dog at a pumpkin patch, surrounded by crates of pumpkins. The right side shows the same woman, identified as Anna, smiling triumphantly at a city marathon finish line with the Cologne Cathedral visible in the background. “Pumpkin Patch" is misspelled in the text as "P-U-M-K-I-N P-T-A-C-H."

Chris B @burchris.bsky.social · 16h

He's terrified that ICE is going to hear him speaking Siamese and try to deport him.

Snowball, a brown-and-white cat with Siamese-like markings and vivid blue eyes, lounges confidently on a multicolored stone patio. His belly is looking especially big from this angle, in a way that makes his legs look short and stubby. He’s wearing a black harness and leash.

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Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 18h

A great moment from Oliver:

“While I would love to keep splitting hairs on whether a country’s starving kids is better or worse if those kids are already sick, let’s just table that discussion for when I see you in hell.”

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 18h

Trump to the Israeli parliament today, gloating about U.S. weapons supplied to Israel over the past two years:

"You obviously used them very well."

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Guardian headline: "Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead"

The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims"

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