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Chris in SF @chrismsf.bsky.social · 21h

My dad lives over 30 miles away and this shook his house.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22h

Authorities in the southern US state have called the blast 'devastating', with many of the missing presumed dead.

Massive explosion at Tennessee munitions factory leaves 19 people missing

Authorities in the southern US state have called the blast 'devastating', with many of the missing presumed dead.

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Chris in SF @chrismsf.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. It’s called a murder trial.

Chris in SF @chrismsf.bsky.social · 1d

All her best songs leave you with the feeling that the closest male around is about to catch a shrimp fork. For sure.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

There is no need to editorialize. Just quote.

“Why don’t we tattoo a Star of David on the forehead of every terrorist we have to release?” - My daughter

Proud father.

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Chris in SF @chrismsf.bsky.social · 1d

If this is a thing then I’m introducing a resolution that says I get a 50% discount on any and all vinyl I might choose to buy. I’ll make a laminated card and everything.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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Chris in SF @chrismsf.bsky.social · 1d

And there’s no path for a turnaround.

He’s alienated NA and Europe entirely. Tesla is about the 7th most popular EV in Asia, which was supposed to be their big revenue path.

And the cars are *shit*. Flimsy low quality garbage, will never ever FSD, literally the deadliest cars on the road, etc.

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Chris in SF @chrismsf.bsky.social · 1d

They think Soros does all this because it’s exactly what Sheldon Adelson did for them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

Chris in SF @chrismsf.bsky.social · 1d

This is my favorite live performance of any song ever. Just fucking stunning.

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Chris in SF @chrismsf.bsky.social · 1d

I minored in African-American Lit and have been reading about America’s racist history my whole damn life and there’s always, still, some disgusting moment in our collective past that I’d never heard of.

The way Watchmen intro’d the unknowing to Tulsa…just always adding to the compendium of evil.

Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 1d

I’m teaching abt Red Summer today, when white vigilantes & National Guardsmen across the country harassed, detained, assaulted, & murdered Black Americans as part of a backlash against Black military service in WWI.

Red Summer of 1919

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 1d

I’m teaching abt Red Summer today, when white vigilantes & National Guardsmen across the country harassed, detained, assaulted, & murdered Black Americans as part of a backlash against Black military service in WWI.

Red Summer of 1919

eji.org

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Chris in SF @chrismsf.bsky.social · 1d

Note: not that the US military giving training to middle eastern actors has ever gone badly in the past, of course.

Chris in SF @chrismsf.bsky.social · 1d

Aren’t they just training pilots at an existing USAF facility?

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Chris in SF @chrismsf.bsky.social · 1d

Stop leaking Antifa combat plans, man, we weren’t set to unleash Laser Bear until after midterms.

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Chris in SF @chrismsf.bsky.social · 1d

Kinda feel like anyone in a Dollar Tree would have a few.

Unrelated, we used to go to the dollar store in Annapolis because it was the only place to get a 3-quart bottle of Shasta’s Tiki Punch, the greatest soda ever made and right behind “the wheel” and “the lever” on the list of human genius.

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Chris in SF @chrismsf.bsky.social · 1d

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

🐸🐸🐸

A partial screenshot:
@zugernat.bsky.social asks, "Does the frog have a name?"
@drstephenhobbs.bsky.social replies, "Luigi"

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Chris in SF @chrismsf.bsky.social · 1d

Rare photo of an Antifa Army command conference

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Chris in SF @chrismsf.bsky.social · 1d

For example.

Chris in SF @chrismsf.bsky.social · 1d

Used to be that press photogs went out of their way to frame presidents with circular figures resembling haloes over their heads.

We are past that.

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Chris in SF @chrismsf.bsky.social · 1d

San Rafael, CA

For some reason it’s pronounced “ruh-FELL”

Chris in SF @chrismsf.bsky.social · 2d

A lawyer said this in court to a judge and isn’t somehow standing naked in a barrel with suspenders begging for change on the street right now

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

Hamilton: “The president’s power is unreviewable.”

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Chris in SF @chrismsf.bsky.social · 2d

As a 10 year old I’d grab my sister’s hand and slap her with it, saying stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself. The day I stopped my parents bought me a gun for being a peacemaker.

Trump, nodding along when not nodding off: “yes exactly.”

Chris in SF @chrismsf.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not sure any politician right of Bernie Sanders advocates for this kind of police accountability and transparency. From the feds down to Mayberry.

Chris in SF @chrismsf.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah in v.2 they patched out the Reflection Conundrum and initiated a 9-step build crafting system called Executor’s Liability. Gaming hasn’t been the same since.

I’m gonna keep making up gaming stuff bc these are sick band names.

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Chris in SF @chrismsf.bsky.social · 2d

I can remember stacking hamburgers and making a bunny-shaped rapping guy dance.

Now game titles are longer than my weak college papers that I wanted to make sound impressive in advance.

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Chris in SF @chrismsf.bsky.social · 2d

He looks simultaneously like the one guy in high school that’s still wearing a black trench coat after Columbine AND like he’s been sleeping in a coffin surrounded by Eastern European dirt for several centuries.

No matter what age he is he always looks like the roughest possible version of it.

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