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Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 1h

Look out, baby!! Ring ring, have you checked on the baby??!

Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 1h

If you read A Wrinkle in Time, with its cherubim and seraphim, you got to figure this out early on… but I always like when it gets attention

Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 1d

Why Real Biblical Angels Are Creepy, Beastly, and Hardly Angelic

Nearly 70 percent of Americans believe in angels, at least according to a statistic often cited in recent years. But what, exactly, comes to their minds — or those of any other believers around the wo...

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 3h

Instead of "This is inappropriate!" Democrats - especially those who might run for president - should say right now "Anyone who participates in this should know: You are committing a crime, and in the next administration you will be prosecuted."

That will change the frame of the story.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 2h

come on, come on, come on with your come on!

Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved (Stereo Mix)

YouTube video by James Brown - Topic

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Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 13h

s o rrr y w e m E a n T t o

Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 13h

I have only apathy for Barbie and have never owned any Barbie or anything Barbie-adjacent, and my daughter has never given a shit about Barbie, and I’m gutted that this is sold out what is wrong with me

FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 16h

Mattel is celebrating Día de Muertos with a new Barbie doll inspired by the legend of La Llorona, available now online.

Mattel Celebrates Día De Muertos With Limited Edition La Llorona Barbie Doll

Mattel is celebrating Día de Muertos with a new Barbie doll inspired by the legend of La Llorona, available now online.

dlvr.it

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Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 14h

Of all the colorful flag revisions in this great nation’s history, the “Don’t Tread on My Swastika” variant is the most send all these fuckers to The Hague.

GingerSpice💙 @thedesertginger.bsky.social · 15h

More surprising behavior by a Republican 😑
It's kinda like they're all racists assholes

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Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 14h

Noroi: The Curse
Halloween (1978)
The Omen (1976)
Whistle and I’ll Come to You (1968)

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 16h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

Under the Skin
The Loved Ones
The Wicker Man ('73)
Christine

Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 16h

The Shining
The Exorcist
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Hellraiser

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Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 18h

“ALL of them? Well, we’ll just have to see about THAT.”

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 19h

For all your weird creepy pervert needs!

Sadia @sadiabies.bsky.social · 20h

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Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 18h

I too have interest — a great deal of interest, even

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Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 1d

I’m late to the party on Monster: Ed Gein, but I just watched ep 1…. a little thrown by the inclusion of recent RNC footage, but wiling to see where this thing goes!

Dan Harmon @danharmon.bsky.social · 7d

Watched Monster: Ed Gein. Didn’t outright dislike but didn’t understand a lot of choices. Felt like message was “everyone co-opted Gein and he never got credit.” But it shows you everyone giving him credit. And..well, wearing corpse tits isn’t quite like inventing jazz or coining “eyebrows on fleek”

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Dak @dak.myatproto.social · 5d

🎶Whoa, Black Betty🎶

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Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 3d

Well… I have. And not only that, I have rocked down to there.

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 10d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 3d

Hitting the 10/31 Boris show! 🩷🎃

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Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 3d

Come on, you guys, is all this really any way to speak about an actual Grand Moff in the Galactic Empire?

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Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 3d

Two middle fingers up!
(in a good way)

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Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for writing this, CLR — we saw the Durham show 9 days prior, and you captured the thoughts buzzing around my head… while being more charitable than I’d been feeling, so this helps me reframe it for myself.

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Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 3d

“Near mint? Or vg++?”

Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 3d

“George, I don’t even understand your question — I’m just an unfrozen caveman lawyer, George, I don’t know what an audio tape is! Is there a gremlin inside that transcribes conversations?”

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Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 4d

Only if the fight scene goes on for AT LEAST five minutes straight and shows all the action, no montages.

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve been making this case for awhile now, and I think it should especially be the case in legacy media. The Associated Press needs to issue a style edict that “antifa” should always be spelled out as anti-fascist. How about it, @apnews.com? If you disagree, I’d like to hear your counterargument.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 4d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 5d

oh yes, do go on

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Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 5d

And he was born in the back seat of a moving taxicab

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SUGAR @sugarcopperblue.bsky.social · 6d

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