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rexvrex @rexvrex.bsky.social · 5m

Out and about

A No Kings poster plastered to the wall of an abandoned building in Midtown HTX

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 1h

What a fucking embarrassing thing to have to do. ICE should obviously quit their jobs, but I would quit so fast if I had to turn away a bunch of nuns trying to provide the sacraments.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 3h

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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Emi the Sweary Cook🌵 @undercoveremi.bsky.social · 1h

So much of modern conservatism is just “women don’t look like I want them to look so they should go to jail.”

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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💀 Crypt Jones 💀 @cjones47.bsky.social · 6h

"Several judges singled out the justices’ criticism of Judge Young, an 85-year-old appointee of President Ronald Reagan and an Army veteran who has sat for more than 40 years, as a particularly demoralizing breach of decorum."

🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 3h

Rotisserie chickens cooking

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Nov 10

i still die laughing at this real canadian oil and gas lobby ad

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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 18h

Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 19h

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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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 19h

Thing Bad
@Merman_Melville

Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

3:03 PM • Jan 24, 2019

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Obie @obienator.bsky.social · 18h

a screenshot of Half Life 2, showing Dr Breen looming over travelers on a large projected image,

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GoryGregorMendel @gregorthemendel.bsky.social · 19h

Presented without comment.

Houston: Missing teen with autism reportedly in ICE custody

The family of a Houston teen who went missing tells FOX 26 that he had been in ICE custody for days.

www.fox26houston.com

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 19h

once again it is my firm belief that all but the most deranged (and maybe the most bro-y) people peddling in this stuff are fully vaccinated and regularly get their boosters

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 20h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Manny Suazo @smokyburnout.bsky.social · 20h

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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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19h

Keep talking big guy. Dems, don't bail him out.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 21h

I feel like these guys never got to the part of literally any color revolution or scifi movie or famous Super Bowl commercial where the regime's symbolic omnipresence just creates endless potential sparks of revolution.

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · Jul 16

Hadn’t realized we reached the Fascist Leader Talking In An Endless Loop At Sites Of Mass Transit stage of the dystopia.

Good to know.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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rexvrex @rexvrex.bsky.social · 19h

Too real Raffi

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 20h

Undergrad: "Man, 10 page essay. what am I going to write in here"

Lawyer: "What do you mean just 13,000 words?"

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 19h

if someone in your family started talking like this you would take away their car keys

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

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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rexvrex @rexvrex.bsky.social · 23h

i will eat anything between 1-4, 5 goes in the trash

Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 1d

3 or 4 for me.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 23h

Since it is Friday, I am once again reminding you that I am running for CA Assembly District 72, and that my solemn pledge not to use any campaign funds to eat excessive amounts of tortellinis remains in effect.

These are personal tortellinis.

secure.actblue.com/donate/kluwe

A plastic bowl filled with discount tortellinis and marinara sauce

www.kluweoc.com

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 23h

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 23h

If you’re not already listening to Khalid, it’s time to start!!!

As one Redditor put it, his new album “has main pop boy written all over it, I fear.”

thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/10/e...

Everybody Say ‘Thank You, Khalid!’ for Reviving the Male Pop Star

The seven-time Grammy Award nominee just dropped a new album that proves he’s ready to be your least problematic favorite.

thebarbedwire.com

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 23h

Axios being forced to report on this story in this way means the Dems need to keep doing what they're doing now which is nothing because an angry Trump is gonna keep doing worse and worse things and ain't no one gonna be able to defend him anymore outside of the WH so let him cook.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 23h

chat I'm not sure they're thinking things through

www.axios.com/2025/10/10/s...

Congress erupts at Trump's shutdown mass firings: "This is a disaster"

Democrats are warning that Trump officials who carry out the layoffs could be prosecuted.

www.axios.com

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Codify Baseball @codifybaseball.bsky.social · 1d

This was 53 years ago.
No bench clearing, no ejections.
They just kept playing.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 1d

It’s true: the cities are lawless and scary, if you live here sell your property as fast as possible, particularly if you have a 2 family row house from the 1920s with those nice bay windows.

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