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@meehawl.com

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Irish guy in SF Bay Area, California. Internetting since 1987: it's been a long, strange trip. My daycare was the Clondalkin Laurels Pub (thanks Mum!) & a mag tape server room with endless rows of blinkenlichten (thanks Dad!). @meehawl on mäʂtỏ & the bird.

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🄼🄴🄴🄷🄰🅆🄻 ⭕ @meehawl.com · 31m

#Relatable

Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 34m

"I hope you're getting this down." #dianekeatonrip

🄼🄴🄴🄷🄰🅆🄻 ⭕ @meehawl.com · 40m

It's a death cult. Many think if they die they will be first in line to be greeted into an endless candyland by great jeebus.

🄼🄴🄴🄷🄰🅆🄻 ⭕ @meehawl.com · 43m

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Line art of a determined-looking cartoon frog, wearing a star-spangled necktie. Legend reads: HOP.

It is done in the style of Shepard Fairey's iconic "Hope" poster of Barack Obama.

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🌊🌊🌊Graham Preston🌊🌊🌊 @grizzlegrazzle.bsky.social · 16h

Not jailing Nixon turned out to be one of the biggest mistakes in American political history. We could’ve course corrected 50 years ago and formed laws to prevent what’s happening now. Selfish ambitions were elsewhere

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1h

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
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Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

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Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 2d

WHAT WOULD POSSIBLY BE THE MECHANISM THIS IS SUCH CLOWN SHIT

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

🄼🄴🄴🄷🄰🅆🄻 ⭕ @meehawl.com · 1h

Seems like an audience skill issue.

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 2d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

🄼🄴🄴🄷🄰🅆🄻 ⭕ @meehawl.com · 1h

r/Illinois "ICE POSTS" is just full of outrageous stuff.

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Welcome to Amazing Illinois

Illinois: The Land of Lincoln

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🄼🄴🄴🄷🄰🅆🄻 ⭕ @meehawl.com · 2h

Worm Brain Bob and the convicted felon just fired basically all the CDC's infectious disease physicians & scientists. Having killed an excess million Americans during the last pandemic from mismanagement, they are thinking bigger this time.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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🄼🄴🄴🄷🄰🅆🄻 ⭕ @meehawl.com · 2h

WAR RAVAGED!

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🄼🄴🄴🄷🄰🅆🄻 ⭕ @meehawl.com · 2h

The Meritocrats!

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2h

U.S. Military Carries Out Strike On Scuffy The Tugboat

ARLINGTON, VA—Saying the Pentagon had acted swiftly on an insider tip about the vessel having a “big adventure” planned, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed Tuesday that the U.S. military had car...

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 2h

How do regimes do when the soldiers don’t get paid? Does anyone know of any concerning historical precedents that this evokes

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 16h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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🄼🄴🄴🄷🄰🅆🄻 ⭕ @meehawl.com · 2h

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Frog meets Caesar: Frogs together strong.

🄼🄴🄴🄷🄰🅆🄻 ⭕ @meehawl.com · 2h

MOAR FROGS!!!

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🄼🄴🄴🄷🄰🅆🄻 ⭕ @meehawl.com · 3h

Convicted felon's lies abt Portland OR vs reality...

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🄼🄴🄴🄷🄰🅆🄻 ⭕ @meehawl.com · 3h

"I am out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we are violent terrorists is."

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🄼🄴🄴🄷🄰🅆🄻 ⭕ @meehawl.com · 3h

Frogs everywhere: confirmed.

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Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 6h

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23h

“This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison”

This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison

Israeli-American billionaires Michael and Gil Dezer’s Gulfstream IV plane flew 10 migrants to the tiny African kingdom of Eswatini, flight data shows.

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