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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 1d

TV just described it as "ankle irritation". A term I've never heard before

Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 1d

These Ivy League law schools must be so good to produce SCOTUS members who can find and discern things in the Constitution that aren't even in the Constitution! Amazing.

Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 2d

Good thing they had all that Soros money to pull it off, too!

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 2d

The heroes we need! Ribbit!

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 2d

a cartoon character named charlie brown is running in a field

ALT: a cartoon character named charlie brown is running in a field

media.tenor.com

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 2d

It would be cooler if they sent him to Portland

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 2d

How pissed will the Orange Overlord be not just at not getting the Nobel Peace Prize but learning it went to a Venezuelan. This is awesome.

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Jason E. Dunlap, Valeyard @redeyedjedi.bsky.social · 2d

David Simon said

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 2d

Gift Link:

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

Exclusive | How Ken Paxton, a Rising MAGA Star, Got Rich as a Texas Politician

The state’s attorney general, who is vying to be the GOP nominee for a U.S. Senate seat, became a multimillionaire as a public official.

www.wsj.com

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 2d

wouldn't be shocked to see mine requesting an opportunity to do so.

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kevinfarner.bsky.social @kevinfarner.bsky.social · 3d

probably stating the incredibly obvious but this is my favorite cover of it www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSIr...

Justin Townes Earle with Jason Isbell "Can't Hardly Wait"

YouTube video by KikiSchueler

www.youtube.com

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 3d

I bet you dollars to donuts that "Up With People" is tanned, rested, and ready to perform, too!

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 3d

gotta be a boon for our 'efforts' to attain AAU status, too!

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 4d

Some good work by the Texas Tribune about the erosion of academic freedom at Texas Tech. Hot on the heels of our incoming chancellor appearing at at TPUSA rally held in town recently. As they like to say, From Here It's Possible.

Texas Tech system’s vague guidelines on gender identity spur more questions than answers

Faculty have spent weeks seeking clarity on new restrictions, which have often been issued by word of mouth. A written Q&A was rescinded.

www.texastribune.org

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 4d

I just feel left out for not getting a post card or big ass mailer thing like others did.

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 4d

and why do you think it's ok to appear in public with that haircut?

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 4d

You know who should be in jail? Whoever gave Mike Johnson that haircut.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 4d

the entire discipline?

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 4d

I don't know much about this Bad Bunny fellow, but since Prince is dead, he seems like a fine selection to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show. If Prince we still alive, he should own the halftime show.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 4d

Today morphed from an I call bullshit day to a fuck that shit day

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 5d

is there a floor?

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 5d

Damn...you really hate these guys!

Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 5d

Portnoy eats pizza from what I can gather

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