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🎃 Emily Fright 🎃 @emilycello.bsky.social · 1h

Someone tell @loudgoat.bsky.social he sounds great on our TV set way up here in CT #allcaps

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🎃 Emily Fright 🎃 @emilycello.bsky.social · 1h

Also, if you don’t know where jorb/jeorb/jerb comes from: youtu.be/9wJZpj3bE7c?...

A Jorb Well Done

YouTube video by ebyam93

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 5h

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

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🎃 Emily Fright 🎃 @emilycello.bsky.social · 2h

Good jorb, Vegetables

(Can’t decide on whether he’s Health Food, Smoothie King, or Vegetables)

#allcaps

a hockey player wearing a jersey with the number 8 on it

ALT: a hockey player wearing a jersey with the number 8 on it

media.tenor.com

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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4h

More grace for a grown man getting a Nazi tattoo than Black kids in public spaces. It’s obscene.

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California Democrats @cademocrats.bsky.social · 3h

Use the "Where's My Ballot" tool to track when your ballot is mailed and when it's been counted. If there's a problem with your signature or envelope, you'll get an alert with instructions on how to fix it.

Sign up for automatic updates: wheresmyballot.sos.ca.gov

BallotTrax

BallotTrax is a service that enables voters in participating states and counties to receive notifications by email, SMS, or voice about the status of their mail ballots.

wheresmyballot.sos.ca.gov

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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 3h

I was a teenager when social media was invented.

Within a year, you'd hear 'don't post pictures of you drinking on Facebook because it'll hurt job prospects'

And somehow we've looped to, 'Just because someone's positing nazi shit doesn't mean they shouldn't be in the senate.'

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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 8h

They should never know peace.

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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 8h

Has anyone figured out which company is supplying munitions to be used domestically?

They are arming a mad dictator to kill people domestically.

Hague for them too!

Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 11h

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

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🎃 Emily Fright 🎃 @emilycello.bsky.social · 3h

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 3h

The White House heard the complaints

Dismissed them as “manufactured outrage”

And kept demolishing the East Wing on Tuesday

New photo and update with @jonathanreports.bsky.social

White House continues East Wing demolition amid cries of Trump overreach

More of the structure was torn down Tuesday to make way for President Donald Trump’s planned ballroom, despite complaints about the project’s lack of transparency,

www.washingtonpost.com

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Alissa McLean @alissakmclean.bsky.social · Sep 21

All the same rubes who refused to listen to us when we warned them about Fetterman are now salivating about Blackwater mercenary Graham Platner in ME.

Stop it!

two cats are sitting next to each other on a bed looking at each other .

ALT: two cats are sitting next to each other on a bed looking at each other .

media.tenor.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6h

never trust a grown man with frosted tips

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🇨🇦 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 10h

Hey touring musicians, if you are a member of ASCAP don’t forget to register your gigs in Onstage. You have only 3 months after a concert to do it, otherwise they keep 100% of the $ they collected from your show rather than keep 84%.

(Everyone thinks this system is fine and I don’t know why)

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Not your attorney @chlodubs.bsky.social · 10h

I was laid off during an organizational restructuring last month. I am an attorney, but have never engaged in traditional practice, having only done policy/lobbying work. I would love to connect with folks on here about career transitions -- I no longer want to lobby Congress.

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🎃 Emily Fright 🎃 @emilycello.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, birthdays and Halloween were always days I was *stoked* to be at school

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 22h

Every now and then I go back and read the Citizens United ruling to see if it is as unhinged as I thought, and every time I do that I see it is actually far more deranged than I remembered.

levernews.com/book

Supreme Court ruling: "This Court now concludes that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption. That speakers may have influence over or access to elected officials does not mean that those officials are corrupt. And the appearance of influence or access will not cause the electorate to lose faith in this democracy."

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🎃 Emily Fright 🎃 @emilycello.bsky.social · 11h

Solidarity 😮‍💨

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

This is horrible, truly. What a metaphor

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

love to see it. curious which unions will respond

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

www.huffpost.com

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 2d

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🎃 Emily Fright 🎃 @emilycello.bsky.social · 2d

And this is why you, too, are a hero

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🎃 Emily Fright 🎃 @emilycello.bsky.social · 2d

And this is why Sam Bergman is a hero

Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 2d

It's okay to be mean to musicians like violinists and oboists because their fondest wish was always to live in the Mean Girls universe anyway, but being mean to a cellist should be a felony.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 5d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d

The President of the United States sends out an AI generated video of him wearing a crown and piloting a fighter jet to drop bombs of human excrement on American citizens. No mainstream media Sunday show featuring this?!? Really?!? The media is complicit in our march to authoritarianism.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Not a single mention of this across the Sunday shows as far as I could tell

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

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🎃 Emily Fright 🎃 @emilycello.bsky.social · 2d

PS I love that message from Lando’s engineer. Imagine getting that kind of vote of confidence from the guy who would absolutely tell you if you don’t have the juice #f1 #AustinGP