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🦀 Shawn Morris 🦀 @theshawnmorris.bsky.social · 50m

I went down the rabbit hole. It’s from a song that got referenced in the opening of a highlights video but it doesn’t actually /mean/ anything for 99% of people who say it nor are they actually referencing this origin.

It’s like 1738, has a meaning but is more just fun to say.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 4h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 59m

also the economy was not at all even, and the areas where it wasn’t doing great i think are industries whose workers are going to be overrepresented in online culture generation. tech, art, sw, musicIans, academia, media/journalists, authors, game dev, etc and thats a not small part of it

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Dan @pandred.bsky.social · 3h

"vibes voters get vibes from traditional and social media" - sure, ok
"media made the Biden economy seem very bad" - sure, ok
"inflation isn't what people were mad about, just vibes" - now hold on there..

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 1h

Everyone especially Democrats who are scared or dare I say cowardly to talk about trans issues should read this.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Kyle Orland @kyleor.land · 1h

Well let Trump do it, but by the time he’s out of office we’ll figure out it was a mistake to let a president do that

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 14h

we need to abolish this shit

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 20h

Mamdani promises to deploy *hundreds* if lawyers to fight for trans rights, create a new office of LGBTQ affairs, and allocate millions of dollars to fund housing and healthcare for trans kids and adults

This is what fighting back looks like--elevating activists to materually support trans people.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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🦀 Shawn Morris 🦀 @theshawnmorris.bsky.social · 17h

I'm seriously annoyed apparently these have been discontinued

Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 18h

Holy crap the injustice

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 18h

Holy crap the injustice

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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 18h

"One source told me that some of the reversals came after the Trump administration realized that they had accidentally terminated critically important staffers working on current measles and Ebola outbreaks."

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 19h

…really?

Breaking News: RIFs in reverse. Some CDC workers have been brought back, in latest whiplash.

This is breaking news.

insidemedicine.substack.com

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 22h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 23h

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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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · 20h

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 19h

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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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 1d

“F**k ICE forever.”

— Chappell Roan at her show in Pasadena

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🦀 Shawn Morris 🦀 @theshawnmorris.bsky.social · 18h

Some people are fucking stupid and they're in charge of the government/fans of this government

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18h

Some Americans think making America weaker, poorer, more chaotic, less reliable, with fewer friends, worse relationships with democracies, and damaging international institutions America set up and benefited from is good.

Not sarcasm. I think they’re very wrong, but they’re getting what they want.

David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 19h

On NYT Home Page there's a Douthat column w/the headline "Trump's Foreign Policy is Succeeding. He Should Apply It's Lessons at Home." On what planet? Betraying our allies. Blowing up the global trading system. Embracing autocrats. Pulling back support for Ukraine. Helping to support Gaza slaughter.

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 18h

I know a guy whose whole family is Presbyterian, mom is even a pastor, but the second they thought there might be some weird demon shit going on in their house, they called the Catholics and he called me. Ask the experts, I guess.

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 21h

Listen sometimes the situation simply requires a Catholic

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i love that 17th century jewish poltergeist story where the family living in the haunted house calls a catholic priest for help before they contact a rabbi, because yeah, i think that would be my call too; id be like, oh? a demon in my house speaking latin and drawing inverted crosses on my wall in sulfuric bile? then without even questioning my faith i'd call up the catholic church and be like yo father, one of your boys loose come get him

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 18h

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 18h

Fed clap back!!!

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Michael🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 22h

We are ruled by incompetent morons

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23h

The mass layoffs of federal workers on Friday night swept up dozens of scientists with expertise in infectious diseases that have pandemic potential. But after The New York Times reported the dismissals, a federal health official said many of them had been fired in error and would be brought back.

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

Friday’s layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to the measles outbreak and running an influential journal. An official acknowledged the mistakes on Saturday.

nyti.ms

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 23h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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H.R.T. Pufnstuf 🖖🏻 @cpt.janey.gay · 23h

Just found out why Jadzia got done so dirty.

A picture of a TV displaying the end credits of the television show Star Trek Deep Space Nine with a big red circle around the special video compositing credit which is credited to CIS HOLLYWOOD.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 22h

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 · 1d

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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