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Will @popher.bsky.social · 10h

I was told this was a boring quiet old people town and I'm currently hoping I packed earplugs

Will @popher.bsky.social · 10h

Nothing like an offensively loud night in a city to make you remember you don't want to live in a city.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 12h

Normal countries don't have government shutdowns.

Normal countries don't even consider the idea of not paying the troops.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 12h

Seabass and shrimp. It's very tasty but it's very very buttery.

Gonna need a box.

Or a coffin.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 12h

I got the oysters and aguachile again. It was delicious again.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 12h

This post was meant to come with this photo

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 12h

I think all British French etc restaurants should think twice about bread and butter as an appetizer Vs chips and salsa because your bread and your butter has to be really good to even rival chips and salsa.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 13h

Ok I'm back for dinner and I assumed I would be at the bar since I asked for that ... But I'm at a table outside in the middle of everything which means I look truly like Billy no mates.

Whatever. I've got more oysters coming.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 13h

Because of course it will.

But the administration won't pay a penalty for this egregious action.

A eugenicist chairs HHS. He must be fired.

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 15h

Update from @apoorvanyt.bsky.social Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error. Gift link: nyti.ms/48JjSSf

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

Friday’s layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to the measles outbreak and running an influential journal. An official acknowledged the mistakes on Saturday.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 16h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Gary Gehman @glgehman.bsky.social · 18h

All you peacenik liberals wringing hands over what to do: Yes, of course, vote. It's your primary responsibility as a citizen.

But now more than ever, fulfill your second civic responsibility: Serve on juries. Never has it been more imperative to thwart rogue injustice.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 15h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 15h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 14h

Ice did not exist before 9/11.

Suggestions to abolish Ice a year ago were not crazy.
And suggestions to abolish Ice today are simply prudent.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 15h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 15h

I am quite content with describing the fascists and fascist enablers as wankers.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 15h

I am informed that "goon" can mean a different thing to the younger folks

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 15h

I'm at 33°N but because of mountain the sun is gone before 5pm.

So I'm by the pool dressed like a corpse

Will @popher.bsky.social · 16h

Hey look the son of Hitler is Hitler's son.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

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

www.telegraph.co.uk

Will @popher.bsky.social · 16h

I was woken up at 7am by screaming and laughing women in the room next door.

Now I've learnt I can play Rammstein in my hotel room TV, they are in danger.