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Dan @pandred.bsky.social · 34m

What's all this then!

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 10d

Oh my god. Mom just shared to the group chat a picture of my sister (smallest) and me (biggest) with our cousins in Pittsburgh. Swagged out since 1989.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 7h

It would be good to know how many military orders Stephen Miller has forged.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 7h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Dan @pandred.bsky.social · 7h

Ideally, egg bagel with cream cheese, smoked salmon, and red onion. Dill and cucumber slices if we're getting fancy.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 9h

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 9h

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 8h

wait wat

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 10h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

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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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 14h

Protect the Portland frog at all costs 💪

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 10h

FROG 🐸 SEMIOTICS 🐸 REDEMPTION 🐸 ARC

Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 10h

I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 12h

Alex Jones tried to warn us about this

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 15h

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 15h

I get it. When you’re in a struggle for your lives, your nation, you make bedfellows w/ whoever will get you closer to the goal. But I’m not sure how killing random civilians at sea does that. So either this is flattery to make friends or she really believes those boats are propping up the regime.

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 11h

The Nobel committee gave the peace prize to bombing fishermen in the Caribbean

Ky (she/her) @kyalynn.bsky.social · 12h

LMAOOO they might as well have just given it to the guy directly

This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer
Freedom.
We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!

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Dan @pandred.bsky.social · 11h

Does it know enough of hate?

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Dan @pandred.bsky.social · 11h

Tapping the sign

Dan @pandred.bsky.social · 3d

These are not serious people

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 14h

I'd forgotten about that, & the Singaporean F-15SGs are almost identical to the Quatari F-15QAs.

Metro North @metronorthcapital.bsky.social · 14h

Mountain Home even has a Singaporean Air Force contingent already

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 14h

Seeing a lot of folks being shocked by this but this is just a training agreement. Mountain Home is a major F-15 base & the Qatari air force just bought a bunch. This is pretty common, Norway & the UAE both have facilities in AZ for flight training.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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economymedicine.bsky.social @economymedicine.bsky.social · 14h

This is a demand to suck up to her, snitch on their colleagues and shows that she has no idea how to manage people. She definitely wants management speak and to get articles that flatter the issues she cares about most (supporting Israel, fearing trans people, and college students being annoying).

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 15h

Here's the full memo.

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 14h

this is the classic power move of a manager who works about an hour a day but wants to create the impression they are working from sunrise to sunset

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 15h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Dan @pandred.bsky.social · 14h

Ok, but they are spelled differently, bouillon for the chicken one, bullion for the gold

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15h

this is correct. and while you would get a nontrivial one off sum from a billionaire tax (not enough for a welfare state, but a lot), the ongoing point of that tax would be prevent billionaires from existing

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 19h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16h

Lot of people confidently missing the point in the replies to this: if every cent of Elon musks net wealth was liquid, which it isn’t, that’s not even enough money to run the govt for two weeks. The problem less that they have money, and more how they use that money in destabilizing ways.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 19h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 16h

NEW CANADIAN JOBS DATA:

Employment Growth: +60k
Unemployment Rate: 7.1% (+0%)
Prime Age (25-54) Employment Rate: 83.3% (+0.6%)
Employment Level: 21.0M

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 16h

Canadian data has been so weird but ill take it

George Pearkes @peark.es · 16h

Big jobs print up north.

(Bloomberg) -- The Canadian economy added more jobs than expected but the unemployment rate held steady as more people entered the workforce.
Employment rose by 60,400 positions in September, driven by increases in full-time work.
The jobless rate was unchanged at 7.1%, Statistics Canada data showed Friday. The job gains surpassed even the most optimistic projection in a Bloomberg survey of economists -- the median forecast was for 5,000 jobs to be created.
Gains were led by public employment. The manufacturing sector added 27,800 employees, and agriculture, health care and other services all added workers. The employment rate -- the proportion of the working-age population that's employed -- rose 0.1 percentage points to 60.6% in September.

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 16h

"Billionaires are dangerous. We should tax them until they aren’t. "

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 19h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h

HA! How much is Stephen Miller a propagandist? He’s saying the building in Chicago raided by DHS, where children were zip-tied and citizens dragged out, was “full of Tren de Aragua terrorists.”

Even DHS’s own account claims just TWO gang members total — and even that is a highly suspect claim!

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 17h

Stephen Miller just said that Chicago ICE raid was one of the most successful law enforcement operations ever. I asked Pritzker to respond.

"If this was Pinochet’s Chile, if this was Argentina under authoritarian rule, maybe you’d call it successful," he said. 2/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Dan @pandred.bsky.social · 1d

s-tier appetizer at thai places w/peanut sauce

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Guy Berger @econberger.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of federal government workers filing initial claims as the shutdown got started. I imagine their CC will spike next week.

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