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Natalie Colleen Gates @nataliecgates.bsky.social · 6h

Natalie on a couch with a white spaghetti strap tank on.

Natalie Colleen Gates @nataliecgates.bsky.social · 7h

No, ya just learn that on your own, kinda like learning what a “liger” is

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7h

Unsure how many times I have to repeat it, but health care shouldn’t be for-profit.

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 18h

Drug Rehabs Lure In Patients for Insurance Money—Then Leave Them on the Street

Operators promise high-end treatment, help addicts sign up for insurance then pile on charges for little in return, say former patients and insurers.

www.wsj.com

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 11h

I sometimes joke that I was trained by the jesuits.
As a punk rock dropout I met the bad-assed Michael Czerny who advised us about political organizing. He faced down death squads in El Salvador.
He married my wife and I.
He is the pope's right hand.
www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/meet-the-j...

Meet the Jesuit Cardinal Behind Pope Leo’s Social Justice Revolution

From drafting Leo's first apostolic exhortation to championing migrants and the planet, Cardinal Michael Czerny is shaping the moral heart of this papacy.

www.thelettersfromleo.com

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Natalie Colleen Gates @nataliecgates.bsky.social · 10h

I think she’s thinking of a Senate run in light red Georgia.

Natalie Colleen Gates @nataliecgates.bsky.social · 10h

“Everybody wants to rule the world” by Tears for Fears has to be one of the beat pop songs ever written.

Natalie Colleen Gates @nataliecgates.bsky.social · 11h

HSH has a football game on next to a baseball game on split screen and it occurs to me that both sports could be infinitely more interesting if they combined, like football players wielding bats, or tackling in baseball.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 16h

Did not know this about Old Bay

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 16h

It’s hard to imagine anything more performative and pointless than protesting at Kamala Harris’ book tour.

This is the epitome of virtue signaling instead of actually trying to help a cause.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Kamala Harris: "The Supreme Court made the decision that the president would be immune from any of his conduct while in office. So we went into the election with this individual, Donald Trump, knowing that he would essentially be immune from any consequence for misbehavior while in office."

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 16h

Grok's Twitter account has once again been suspended after it began claiming that kicking puppies is morally wrong, which many users reported as "liberal bias."

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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 19h

The funny thing about Winsome Sears is MAGA has been given permission to be openly racist & discriminatory by the current administration. Why does she think MAGA in Virginia who now feel free to be openly racist won't apply that to her?

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 1d

I low-key feel like a lot of folks fell for the "The economy is bad under Biden" argument when it was just businesses going out of their ways to lay people off and raise prices because they wanted Trump back in power.

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Sean for Congress (VA-01) @subletteweather.com · 1d

Save the date, RVA.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

They are building a Propaganda State.

They are cooking the books on job creation.

Now they are rigging death numbers so no one knows how many people die because of their attacks on vaccines and science.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

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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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 1d

THIS.

It reeks of fear and desperation on their part.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 2d

The cruelty is the point.

CDFIs help low-income and rural communities get access to capital to start small businesses – a broadly bipartisan priority.

This administration wants to make it impossible for low- and middle-income Americans to get ahead.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Natalie Colleen Gates @nataliecgates.bsky.social · 3d

😂😂😂

Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 3d

I just found out that Pastor James Manning threw his hat into the ring as a 'write-in' candidate for NYC Mayor.

Yes, THAT Pastor Manning- famous for his flaming butthole sermon.

"Ahh lightning bug!"🤣

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceUnited
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

youtu.be/lnqVmwHbytw?...

Pastor Manning's Flaming, Cancerous Butthole

YouTube video by Ethan Parmet

youtu.be

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 3d

some folks really need to ask themselves if it's more important

1) for other people to know they've been right for a very long time
or
2) to save the country

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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 3d

No Kid Rock or Carrie Underwood?

What about the Rich Men North of Richmond guy?

It's October... BOO, BITCHES! @alyssonfergison.com · 3d

It's gonna be Vanilla Ice and Lee Greenwood.

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 3d

Just announced: Turning Point USA will present an alternative “All-American” halftime show (performers TBA) for those who don’t want to watch that Puerto Rican.

www.americanhalftimeshow.com

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 3d

The fact that still folks don’t get that the debasement of non whites is their fallback is making me aggy

Left of center folks think the Republicans commitment to racism is as flimsy as their commitment to racial justice

And it’s not

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Natalie Colleen Gates @nataliecgates.bsky.social · 3d

No they won’t.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."