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Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · 6h

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · 7h

From too cheap to meter and 20 hour workweeks to gig economy in less than a generation. The agglomerated media has spoken.

Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · 7h

Jerry Seinfeld high-pitched whine,: It's not who we are!
Kramer, conspiratorially: Oh, yeah, Jer, it's exactly who we are.

Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · 22h

A functioning gov't actually pays for itself (ignoring military bloat.) That is what allows businesses to operate, private as well as local, state, and federal. DOGE (and the Trump admin in general) has likely wasted untold billions.

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Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · 1d

Creating a whole new problem for the Phillies.

Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans and mainstream media, backed by historically unquestionable SCOTUS, destroying any sense of equality, liberty, and democracy in order to accommodate oligarchs.

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Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · 1d

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, endowed him with the ability to write. A.E. Housman

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Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · 1d

When the pendulum swings, don't stop it at how it was, make it equitable.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.

(Published April)

“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

www.propublica.org

Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · 1d

Anthony Fauci, when asked why he doesn't criticize the Trump admin's HHS directives: Because then I'd have to double my security detail.

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Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · 1d

The good Dennis Miller.

Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · 1d

Why kindergartens must now capitulate to the Trump White House.

✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · Mar 26

Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.

Close up of Pinkie Pie looking at a newspaper comic saying “Hmpf. I thought these were supposed to be funny?”

The comic is called Ponybert by Trot Adams. It opens with a building and we see a word balloon that says “Well?” The second panel is of Ponybert, the Dilbert stand-in saying “No one is smart but me.”

Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · 1d

Black Friday Walmart+ vs Amazon Prime throw down at White House ballroom.

Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · 1d

Is this a meme? A cry for help? Your cat walked on the keyboard?

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Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · 1d

Tolstoy's lawyers are coming for you.

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Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty soon CSPAN won't be able to cover this admin.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · 1d

Does mainstream media do Pinocchios any more?

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Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · 1d

Brain of a week-old tapioca pudding left sitting on the rear shelf of a Toyota Corolla.

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Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · 1d

The lyrics "The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake, they called Gitche Gumee" might remind us that Native American Day is Monday and we should condemn the clowns with their white nationalist shit (and a lot of other irrational things) they're governing on.

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Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · 1d

Overpaid, oversexed, and over here. Sorry, fell asleep during a British WW2 movie.

Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · 1d

There is no bottom. As incredible as it seems, when this cycle ends, an even lower level will occur. We're circling the drain.

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Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · 1d

At some point in the not too distant future, DHS is going to be glad that the penalty for perjury is less than the penalty for murder.

Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · 1d

Even if every card had been wrong, the precision of the patter would be magic.

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Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · 1d

I like Detroit the city but find I like more of the ballplayers on Seattle.

Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · 1d

NFL autocrats.

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Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · 1d

Is Puppy Bowl an option?

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