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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 2h

The word woodchuck is taken into English from an Algonquin name for the same animal, wuchak, and has nothing to do with wood or throwing thereof.

They are cute.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 2h

I don’t have a problem with trying to raise awareness of this stuff. In fact I think it’s good!

All I’m saying is that it’s bad to think that’s going to be a self-executing solution to all the big problems of the day.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 2h

The mistake is thinking it’s ok not to participate in democracy because you can just rely on the future release of a report that will automatically fix the situation.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 2h

In times like these, heroes are often just people who refuse to change.

Whatever happens, remember who you are and hold on to your sense of right and wrong.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 3h

Ding ding ding

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 15d

The Epstein files shit is the exact same format as “Mueller is going to save us” or Jack smith will save us etc it’s the same as any of the other Democratic Party pacification messages framed as resistance.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 12h

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 3h

Seems like that entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to take on a mob is already yielding benefits for the public, right @sallyjenx.bsky.social?

How would New Yorkers be able to vote in an upcoming election without knowing the political opinions of some cops?

Personne @publica.bsky.social · 5h

@cbsnews.com openly trying to influence the NYC mayor election.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 3h

No idea what the original event was but sounds like a masterclass in basic leftist bro tropes.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 6h

I think it's part of the whole schtick, the same way many scammers intentionally make their scams really obvious. They only want the biggest rubes.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 6h

That’s also assuming for the sake of argument that all of the protesters are Jewish. And maybe they are.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 7h

The timing of this lie doesn’t work, since Jack smith wasn’t appointed till after the mar a lago raid.

Shit like this is why they want lackeys to run major news and to get rid of Wikipedia.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Eric Trump: "Sure enough, we find out that Jack Smith is planting manilla folders on the office of my father ... "

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 8h

And then there were my covid lockdown-era research discoveries, like the refugee grandparent who always claimed to be an only child but had an adult sibling in Europe who lived until the 1990s. Or the great aunt who nobody ever wanted to talk about because she was a courier for NKVD.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 8h

One grandfather’s wartime experience was much more brutal than he told his kids. My dad and his sisters didn’t find out until decades after he died, by which time they were in their 50s and 60s and my grandmother was on her deathbed.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 9h

Just a random Maytag!

A selection knob on a clothes dryer. Among the settings are regular and normal

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 9h

I have many questions about the world.

One is why the clothes dryer has separate settings for “normal” and “regular.”

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 9h

Masked soldiers & paramilitaries are occupying DC and LA and Chicago, & so, of course, Wari Beiss is over at the Nazi bar tweeting about the absolute dread in our cities

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 9h

Now I feel ashamed for getting all ticked off about that.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 9h

He’s pandering to evangelicals by trying to sound like a believer who will sacrifice his soul for theirs.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 9h

Several members of my family lived through it. One of the only times being a poor, urban-dwelling Jew gave a person slightly better chances of survival.

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 11h

When the Bolsheviks couldn't figure out why nothing was working as they'd planned, they invented a whole social category that didn't exist (kulaks, rich capitalist peasants of all absurd things). They dispossessed and murdered thousands of people in the name of kulaks.

Drew Abides @drewabides.bsky.social · 12h

It’s an ideology not an organization. These people want a bogeyman, and bogeymen are fictional.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 10h

It’s just incredibly insulting to hear someone think that anyone doesn’t understand why Weiss is in the position and her mission from Larry Ellison.

The people running this fascist project have been candid about their intentions, including following Hungarian and Russian models for media control.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 10h

Sounds like someone who has not heard a single one of the actual concerns people have articulated about Weiss running CBS.

Like was there some phantom group saying they love her politics, just think she’s not a good enough at running a business?

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 11h

The hypocrisy is a red herring. They didn’t wake up and acknowledge the benefits of foreign aid if it’s for friends.

This admin _doesn’t_help_others_ unless there are tangible near-term personal or political benefits for the people in charge.

This $20b buys something.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

🇦🇷 🇺🇸

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 11h

I also like how the only institutions she holds to account are the ones that are supposed to hold an increasingly dictatorial government to account.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 11h

Need an X [Twitter] strategy.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

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

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 16h

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

New library catalogue website.

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