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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 11h

I have the “cardiac age” of eleventy jellybean labradoodles

Reuters @reuters.com · 12h

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 11h

Wait shit is that streaming somewhere I wanna get in on this action.

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Neville Eclov @neclovian.bsky.social · Nov 15

Now entering the mists of St. Paul.

A car driving down the High Bridge into St. Paul, MN. The city is completely obscured by fog except for the St Paul Cathedral.

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 15h

Incredible to see journalistic powerhouse Bari Weiss absolutely stick the landing of her big project - a zoom call with two women who haven't worked in federal government in either nearly a decade, or nearly two. This is the sort of swing-for-the-fences editorial decisions CBS has lacked for years

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 19h

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 16h

Am I the only one seeing it?

A model of Adolf Hitler's plan for Germania (Berlin) formulated under the direction of Albert Speer, looking north toward the Volkshalle at the top of the frame

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quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 16h

If you're going to do a daycare, you should also do Eldercare.

Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 16h

Hey this would rule

Frederick Melo, Reporter (TwinCities.com, Pioneer Press) @frederickmelo.bsky.social · 19h

What's the future, real and imagined, of the United Village development around Allianz Field? Plans call for a French bakery, Italian pizzeria, acre-sized flower garden, lover's/family-style ice rink, modern art, and maybe a daycare, housing and more twincities.com/2025/10/10/p... via
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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 16h

Hey this would rule

Frederick Melo, Reporter (TwinCities.com, Pioneer Press) @frederickmelo.bsky.social · 19h

What's the future, real and imagined, of the United Village development around Allianz Field? Plans call for a French bakery, Italian pizzeria, acre-sized flower garden, lover's/family-style ice rink, modern art, and maybe a daycare, housing and more twincities.com/2025/10/10/p... via
@pioneerpress

Plans for St. Paul’s Allianz Field: A bakery, pizzeria, garden, ice rink

Regardless of what dreams may come, construction equipment is on the ground turning earth for three new structures.

twincities.com

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 16h

Anyway, not thrilled about our overall cultural vector these days!!

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 16h

Just, seems like there’s only so much overtly *weird* trauma a collective can handle all together before things start really unspooling, zeitgeist-wise.

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 16h

Or even just, like, what happens if you get tear gas inside?

Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 17h

Like, I get it! I understand the history and reasoning behind it. But.....oy

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 17h

What *could* easily

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 17h

The inflatables are good and I know its important to rob fascism of its seriousness by mocking it like these folks do, but I'm genuinely worried the country doesn't have the psychic fortitude to handle what easily become a Kent State situation but with corpses in frog costumes.

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Religion Dispatches @religiondispatches.org · 22h

Joel Swanson on VPOTUS' casual, horrifying antisemitism

religiondispatches.org/jd-vance-tri...

JD Vance Trivializes Jewish History by Referring to ICE Criticism as 'Blood Libel' — But Reveals What this Admin Thinks of Jews

Last week, in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Vice President JD Vance accused critics of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of committing “blood libel” against ICE agents. As Va...

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 21h

Ian Carroll, who is being platformed by Rep. Ro Khanna, is not precisely a Holocaust denier, he’s a Holocaust denier denier. Which is to say, he denies that Holocaust denial exists as a real force on the ideological extremes, and claims it was invented by Israel to discredit anti-Zionists.

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 1d

I don't take a dime from any PAC or lobbyist, including AIPAC.

I am proud to be one of the handful of Democrats standing up against Big Money.

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 21h

innnnnnnteresting. I've held off on god mode, but i've leaned pretty hard on the token that drops boss health by 10 and ups your damage by the same

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 21h

I'm not there yet, but I can already guess based on his whole ~ deal ~ what happens if or when you beat him

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 22h

made it to (didn't even beat!) Cronos last night, and then had to explain to my wife why i'd whooped with joy from the sofa

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 22h

win or

mpls photo bot @mplsphotobot.bsky.social · 22h

Benjamin F. Loos (1928)
Source: Hennepin County Library

Loos, an advertising man, is a republican candidate for the fifth congressional district.

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gretchen brown, real snoopy enjoyer @gretchenbrown.bsky.social · 22h

huge st. paul w www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

St. Paul solved more crimes, had drastically fewer homicides in 2025

A remarkable shift is under way in St. Paul. The city is on track for a 70 percent drop in homicides by the end of 2025. And they’re solving more than 70 percent of crimes.

www.mprnews.org

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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 23h

For Slate, I spent two days in New York's bizarre, dystopian immigration courts, getting a first hand look at the processes of Donald Trump's brutal new immigration system, and trying to focus on the human experience of being caught in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

It’s the Place for Immigrants Who Do Things “the Right Way.” ICE Has Turned It Into Hell.

Immigrants come to court-mandated appointments in search of citizenship. They find masked, armed agents instead.

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 23h

Cat Popper is a gotdanged national treasure

www.youtube.com/shorts/WgYLw...

60 Second Rock and Roll Story - Willie Nelson Flirtin’

YouTube video by Catherine Popper

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 23h

There's always next year! (fwiw, they're both pretty short, easy reads!)

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 23h

Have you read any of Jean Ray's stuff? Malpurtius, or City of Unspeakable Fear? I think itd fit into your classic gothic october reading thing pretty well!

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 23h

Hi. If you don't think see this as an overt, stochastic call for someone to do something horrible to the people protesting next week, idk what to tell ya, man.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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