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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 1h

liar liar balls on fire

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

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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Chrissy Wiley @chrissyone.bsky.social · 9h

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Chrissy Wiley @chrissyone.bsky.social · 9h

Never give up hop 🐸

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 7h

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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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 7h

Those films are okay but they're not Best Pictures, right? Like "The Godfather" or "Annie Hall."

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 9h

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
people.com/diane-keaton...

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

people.com

Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 7h

All of "reality" depends on the narrator, so why is this being reported as news? This isn't even freshman level rhetoric.

And what the fuck is "comparative calm"? They can't even accept "calm" as a concept? Other people bristle at the idea ergo it may not exist?

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 8h

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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Robin 🦋 @robinh2.bsky.social · 1d

You know the assignment 👍

It'd be a real shame if this photo of President Obama receiving his Nobel peace prize went viral today, for no particular reason

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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 8h

Demoic warlocks! Not the angelic ones! Yes the other ones!

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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 8h

Just posting the obvious here...

The root of conservatism is being ill at ease with helping people unlike you. With sticking together. With seeing everyone get better.

Trump's mental illness is the apotheosis of this. So shutting down the government makes sense. But the pain? It will hit everyone.

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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 8h

...wtf...

Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 9h

Marjorie Taylor Greene : "Prices have not come down at all. The job market is extremely difficult. Wages have not gone up. Health insurance premiums are going to go up. Homeowner's insurance goes up every year. Rent is going up. Young people have no hope of buying a home."

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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 8h

Real

AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @askaubry.com · 11h

Their neighbors sound fun

Witches Witches ¿ Demoic Warlocks live accross the Street! Be careful Where you Trick or Treat! It may be animal meat that You Eat! NO Cursing Here! Spoken therel NO TRICK oF Treat

Here!

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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 8h

completely insane fascist bullying

the article refuses to say what most of his posts were, but it sure wasn't anything like a threat of violence

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12h

Everything about this is bonkers. The arrest, the charge, the possible sentence, the **$2 million bail.**

reason.com/2025/10/10/t...

Tennessee man arrested, gets $2 million bond for posting Facebook meme

Larry Bushart posted a meme on a local Facebook page about Charlie Kirk. He now faces years in prison.

reason.com

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Redsky @redsky.pirhoo.com · 9h

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

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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 9h

"...night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

What are the odds there are photos of Pam posing with the 'gunman' at some conservative shindig?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 13h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 1d

Oh shit, this is how they'll take over America

We borked our economic system so badly that the extremely rich have now become out-of-this-world rich. They're just going to buy up and wingify everything that matters.

Twitter cost nothing to Musk - he's destroyed 2/3 of its value and he's ecstatic

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

Dominion Voting Systems, once at the center of 2020 election conspiracies, has been sold to a firm run by a former Republican elections official promising to “restore trust in voting.” Somehow, I don’t think that’s going to do it.

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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 1d

Might I add to this discussion that "peace" has not yet descended upon Gaza?

Talk about obvious. They don't give a damn about actual leadership or making people's lives better. They're only obsessed with the trappings of glory.

Who cares if Gaza still sucks - just give him the trophy already!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 1d

I voted for Hillary but I sure as hell don't want to hear her talk about "Israel-Hamas," jesus. And what conservatives want to hear from Condoleezza Rice? If this is their stab at modern journalism, the network will be in the can before 2026.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 1d

"that's Kristi Noem's department"

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 1d

This is a big tell

Conservatives have no basis for understanding journalism and making it better. Instead, they have a penchant for identifying and destroying their enemies.

Bari doesn't care at all if you think CBS needs an ombudsman, she wants to know if you're woke. This is all tribal bullshit.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the full memo.

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lvnvrcd.bsky.social @lvnvrcd.bsky.social · 2d

Kristi Noem =

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 2d

Aah I see he's a rape padawan

🎃 Scare-ah G. 🎃 @sglassmeyer.bsky.social · 2d

did image search for him and literally the first one was him and Andrew Tate

Newest White House sex pest pictures with notorious professional misogynist Andrew Tate

Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 2d

Well now we know who cancelled Mark Bray's flight

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 2d

I'm glad we won but the ending to that Dodger game was cruel

That is such a difficult play ohh man

#Dodgers