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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 18h

During Q3 2025, CNN and MSNBC averaged 66,000 and 87,000 viewers in the 25-54 demo during prime time. No, those numbers aren't missing a zero.

For FOX that number is 243,000 btw.

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 13h

Harry Titties

South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Records, 1840-1972

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tedgehring.bsky.social @tedgehring.bsky.social · 6h

You can apply this to tons of conservative politics right now. These people have egos that will never permit them to acknowledge we were right. They’d rather die or lose job or a child than admit that.

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tedgehring.bsky.social @tedgehring.bsky.social · 7h

Michigan/USC at the Coliseum early evening is a pretty game. The grass is so green. Great uniforms.

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 10h

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 9h

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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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 9h

I mean duh, there is nothing an opposition party can do when the entire form of government has collapsed. Trump isn't special, he's just the only Republican that got to govern with a Congress and SCOTUS that don't believe in rule of law, checks and balances, or the constitution.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 10h

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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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 10h

It’s all happening on x dot com where I do my banking

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tedgehring.bsky.social @tedgehring.bsky.social · 10h

A big threat to everything she’s trying to do is the fact there’s very close to nothing like basic news gathering left at the national level.

tedgehring.bsky.social @tedgehring.bsky.social · 11h

Lol at a play design to have him throw across his body

tedgehring.bsky.social @tedgehring.bsky.social · 11h

Can’t blame any of this on Arch. It’s just a bad offense run by an overrated offensive coach.

tedgehring.bsky.social @tedgehring.bsky.social · 11h

Texas can’t run a play for yards without a penalty. Just completely inept.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 12h

America's collapse in one swath of the NYT homepage

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12h

Manly men brutalize, terrorize a teen girl

Redsky @redsky.pirhoo.com · 14h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

Link | Subreddit

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

www.reddit.com

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tedgehring.bsky.social @tedgehring.bsky.social · 23h

Japan has been waiting for a girl like her

daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 1d

this headline would be fine without that last s

Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 1d

"Firm views"

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tedgehring.bsky.social @tedgehring.bsky.social · 23h

It’s so urgent to support her

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daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 1d

this headline would be fine without that last s

Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 1d

"Firm views"

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tedgehring.bsky.social @tedgehring.bsky.social · 23h

I found a “rescue” on instagram soliciting donations based on the videos of other rescues and reported it. Instagram left it up. Gotta think zuckerberg is just entirely wicked.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

“That word, I do not think it means what you think it means.”

Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 1d

Guy does a 180 in 10 seconds from saying he's a libertarian for limited government to calling for banning pride parades

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

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Patrick @aldrichpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

Yep. This is a problem.

I’ve never seen anything quite like what is happening with the media during Trump II.

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 1d

Walter Linsley Meegan, British (1859-1944), Park Row, Leeds, oil on canvas, 25 x 20 cm, private collection

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 1d

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

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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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 1d

Moron Momma

United States, Census, 1920

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 1d

Cal Raleigh was small dumper when this game started

Melissa Lockard @melissalockard.bsky.social · 1d

Dan Wilson was clean shaven when this game started

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