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Basil 🌿 @basil-mage.bsky.social · 1d

Keep going

Drawing of a puppy laying down with the caption; "You've got so many good days to look forward to!"

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 8h

Daily bunny no.3105 needs to ask nicely

Two bunnies stand at the foot of an old brick wall, in a forest somewhere. There is a small door in the wall, the only way through. At the top of the wall are four blackbirds, one of which has the key in its beak. The bunnies implore the bird for the key

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 11h

don't forget! fuck the salvation army

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

“This immigration issue is a remnant of Subu’s original case. Since that wrongful conviction has now been officially vacated and all charges against Subu have been dismissed, we have asked the immigration court to reopen the case and consider the fact that Subu has been exonerated.”

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 9h

Remember that if the Democrats take power again, they will go into great detail telling you why they can't do things.

You will tell them that Trump did those things, and they will say he broke the law.

You will then ask why he hasn't been arrested, and they will be very quiet.

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 9h

Never mention the bad transformers prices without mentioning that it's because our alzheimers-riddled president and his Nazi cabinet are robbing the American people blind, destroying whole industries, and pocketing the profits.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 10h

Man I hope I’m wrong and hell is real

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 10h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 13h

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

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 13h

For sale: turkey club sandwich. Baby wouldn't eat it

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 15h

I'm sitting here thinking about having a 15 daughter being chased down and abducted by masked men while the local police watch and let them carry her away to god-knows where w/zero accountability

we have to understand that girls are in severe danger of sexual violence from anonymous ICE goons

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Trans Moleman, Street Estrogen Junkie @transmoleman.bsky.social · 13h

Fuck yeah look at 'em go

s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 1d

A little something to take the edge off as you head into the weekend @erinbiba.bsky.social

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Raven Paine @ravenpaine.bsky.social · 14h

my friend just shared this with me

Dr Eggman Robotnic drawn in two images, Designed with Gamers in mind: Caked up Robotnic, Designed with activists in mind: no ass Robotnic looks sad

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Darci Meadows, Published Author @saintwalker98.bsky.social · 13h

🟠Tron parodies definitely USED to be very common in animation like the light cycles were a really easy thing to parody like Dexter's lab did one

Hatok @hatok.bsky.social · 13h

it also can't really be argued to have had low cultural impact because The Simpsons did a parody of it, even if the joke was nobody saw TRON

Jose Argumedo @arguingmeadows.com · 2d

Their opinion is their opinion, whatever, but they’re re-writing history here. TRON was Disney’s highest-grossing live action film in 5 years, a decent hit that made a lot from merchandise and arcades. Home video was also very successful for TRON, and Legacy didn’t flop, it made $400 million.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 13h

It's incredible the extent to which Congress just utterly refuses to defend itself. You'd think for entirely self-interested reasons you would stridently oppose having the power of the purse arbitrarily ripped from you, ya know?

Why would you allow yourself to become the Roman Senate circa 27 BC.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 15h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 13h

Some people got angry at this post a few days ago, but I don’t know what to tell you. It really sucks but false heroes give false hope. Pritzker has said some great things and his lawsuits vs feds seems righteous but having HIS cops brutalize people makes a joke of it.
bsky.app/profile/bill...

Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 3d

Are you stopping them? Doesn’t look like it.

Analysis is 100% right but it’s important not to blow smoke when your citizens are getting brutalized. Maybe all the people saying the governor has no legit way of actually stopping them are correct! But if you can’t, then don’t claim you are.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Pritzker: "I think it's important to recognize that the Trump administration does not seem to respect any laws in the United States. They just do what they want to do and they'll keep doing it unless someone stops them. Here in Illinois we're stopping them."

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 13h

These are state police, under @jbpritzker.bsky.social’s control. The great khan.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 14h

WELL OILED MACHINE! WORKING HARD, THANK YOU!

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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🎃 Trick or Pete 🎃 Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 14h

The most frustrating part of this is that a federal judge literally made a finding of fact of the evidence presented by the administration, a judge appointed by Trump, and that judge called the narrative untethered to facts, and the narrator, unreliable.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h

Or as the New York Times puts it: “Mr. Trump's budgetary maneuvering appeared unorthodox…”

Mr. Trump's budgetary maneuvering appeared unorthodox, even though it may spare more than 1 million active-duty service members from the financial hardship of missing a paycheck next week. It was not clear how much money the administration had at its disposal, and how long it could rely on accounting moves to pay troops during the shutdown.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 14h

Fascinating dichotomy right now:

Political Theorists: Oh god it's Prussia all over again, personalist control of the military.

Political Admins: Wait.. how are they actually going to *do* that, that's not how money actually works in the government.

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SpiderHyphenMan @spiderhyphenman.bsky.social · 14h

i would love for this to matter beyond tanking the case but I don't see how it could?

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SpiderHyphenMan @spiderhyphenman.bsky.social · 14h

I'm blocked what's bad

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 14h

Like we are dealing with the fact that Trump literally thinks the government has a checking account where all the money is.

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No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 2d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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