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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 6h

It’s even worse. It’s reversing 400 years of Anglo-American constitutional development going back to Charles I’s personal rule when he refused to consult Parliament over spending and governance. Trump and his GOP lackeys are undoing stuff the Founders saw as fundamental to our system.

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 8h

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 8h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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ceej @ceej.online · Dec 8

it is so important to my children that I am never comfortable

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 15h

I always say it and I'll keep saying it, people. We have a moral, spiritual obligation to each other as human beings to learn how to do and be better for and by each other. We are neighbors, relatives, kindred. We must do better for each other, especially in these dangerous times.

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Jan 27

Sean Gallagher (@WhatAboutClass) on twitter:

"hard for me to see gender as biological if it requires a police state to enforce it"

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BOO-iest👻 @mooiest.bsky.social · 16h

I bet it’s perfect for very specific needs, I just don’t have them lol

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BOO-iest👻 @mooiest.bsky.social · 16h

Subaru Bajita

A Mini Cooper that has been modified be cutting the cab short to place a giant can of Red Bull on the back. It looks like a little Subaru Baja

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matthew @pahuski.com · 1d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 1d

This is such a good article btw - I really buy this as a theory of contemporary US politics

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 23h

Happy Indigenous People's Day

BOOOOlioraptor, PhD (spooky version) @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 23h

Janet saying: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 1d

I didn't know that Ivar "torture the queer and autism out of them" Lovaas, the monster who invented conversion "therapy"/ABA, was also a literal Nazi, but this is the least surprising fact ever.

H.S. Kallinger (he/they) @xakana.bsky.social · 1d

"Lovaas was a member of the NS Youth League, patterned after the Hitler Youth and named after the Norwegian Hirden paramilitary organization... Both he and his father are listed in Norway's "National Treason" files documenting Nazi collaboration."

He also said the Nazis inspired him to behaviorism.

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BOO-iest👻 @mooiest.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, not all, but a lot of the books written at the time of said revolutions

BOO-iest👻 @mooiest.bsky.social · 1d

Husband: “Why do you keep going ‘ooh!’ every couple seconds? Are you doing something nerdy over there?”

Me: “….Project Gutenberg has all the books mentioned on the Revolutions podcast”

H: “‘Nerd’ it is, then”

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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 1d

15 years of every C suite going “we need to fire the skilled workers and do more internet” and this is how every business works now.

Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 1d

Wife did a gravel order from Lowe’s for me to pick up. I drive to the pick up dock. Guy with a radio comes out. I show him the order receipt. He radios inside. They tell him to tell me to tell my wife to download the app so that she can check in on it to let them know I’m here to pick up the order.

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BOO-iest👻 @mooiest.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not what it looks like (the pox), I promise my mosquito magnet genes aren’t contagious

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BOO-iest👻 @mooiest.bsky.social · 1d

We call them semi trailers and cabs though

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BOO-iest👻 @mooiest.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, semis aren’t trucks?

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Eric Andre asking Mel B if Margaret Thatcher had girl power

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 2d

An influencer asked to collab with a Scottsdale, AZ bakery and was told no thanks. Influencer then shows up, leaves a rude and condescending review, so the owner drops this video with receipts about how the include tried to “blackmail”. Wild.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AfqYBh/

I will forever dedicate my time and energy to continue to make it right to the people who value my teams hard work and have respected us and supported us since day one. #review #influencer #bakery

TikTok video by JLPATISSERIE

www.tiktok.com

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 2d

If you think its a coincidence that they are pushing BS autism causes while the DeptEd empties its special education division and ICE had an autistic child in dention without any of their family knowing, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

This is a purposeful attack on our most vulnerable.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · 2d

frog

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BOO-iest👻 @mooiest.bsky.social · 2d

I’d just walk home at that point lol

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Tami @chronictami.bsky.social · 4d

The concept of the 'deserving poor' is capitalist poison. Your worth isn't determined by how hard you fight or how much you suffer. My worth is non-negotiable. Aid isn't a reward for being a 'good' survivor; it’s a necessary tool for being an alive survivor. Solidarity disregards the purity test.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 2d

Care is antifascism.

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Manny Suazo @smokyburnout.bsky.social · 3d

topical

a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

ALT: a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

media.tenor.com

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