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Tom BunchOfNumbers

@tombunchofnumbers.bsky.social

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Amateur epistemologist. Change my mind. Come for the bad jokes, stay for the lukewarm takes. REPOST ≈ endorsement. 📍𝙎𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚, 𝙒𝘼

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Tom BunchOfNumbers @tombunchofnumbers.bsky.social · Sep 11

There is no place in our democracy for political violence.

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 2h

BREAKING: Look at this.

A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning.

30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF.

The market dumped.

The trader made +$192 million in two hours.

Unusual.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Klobuchar: "I remember Bondi saying, 'the president is the most transparent president in history.' I wish I said, Well then why doesn't he just release the Epstein files?"

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Tom BunchOfNumbers @tombunchofnumbers.bsky.social · 8h

So the Hatch Act is just dead now?
Zero enforcement or consequences?

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 18h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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montygibbon.bsky.social @montygibbon.bsky.social · 12h

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Tom BunchOfNumbers @tombunchofnumbers.bsky.social · 13h

Here's a copy of the 2-week temporary restraining order:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

storage.courtlistener.com

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Rick McKee @rmckee.bsky.social · 15h

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Tom BunchOfNumbers @tombunchofnumbers.bsky.social · 14h

The new situation room in his upgraded bunker is just a hemisphere of TV screens showing every Democrat-majority city continuously burning.

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Tom BunchOfNumbers @tombunchofnumbers.bsky.social · 14h

Why is he spending so much time watching girls on school campuses?

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Tom BunchOfNumbers @tombunchofnumbers.bsky.social · 15h

can't win 'em all

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 16h

AI videos being sent to him by Miller, Noem et al, right?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Tom BunchOfNumbers @tombunchofnumbers.bsky.social · 15h

is this like the FOIA for the e-mail attachment that never existed?

Tom BunchOfNumbers @tombunchofnumbers.bsky.social · 15h

it's very simple. You just have to look for the differences:

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Tom BunchOfNumbers @tombunchofnumbers.bsky.social · 18h

surely

a football player catches a pass in front of a crowd with a sign that says 20

ALT: a football player catches a pass in front of a crowd with a sign that says 20

media.tenor.com

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slowhed @slowhed-comics.bsky.social · 1d

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Tom BunchOfNumbers @tombunchofnumbers.bsky.social · 21h

He should really hire @brendelbored.bsky.social

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Day 53 of trying to be hired by Andrew Cuomo

The cereal spittake meme but it’s about Andrew Cuomo saying “Free the Horses”

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Tom BunchOfNumbers @tombunchofnumbers.bsky.social · 21h

Thune out here accidentally making perfect Dem campaign ads for 2026. 💙

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 22h

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 1d

“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.” defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

"Europeans, let's wake up!" — Defend Democracy

“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.” President Macron on the occasion of German Unity Day, 3 October 2025.

defenddemocracy.eu

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Tom BunchOfNumbers @tombunchofnumbers.bsky.social · 1d

@thelouvreof.bsky.social, is there a Louvre of reddit?

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ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

BREAKING: A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Trump from deploying federalized National Guard troops into Chicago.

This ruling reinforces what we already knew: It is illegal for the president to use manufactured emergencies to send soldiers into our cities.

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Tom BunchOfNumbers @tombunchofnumbers.bsky.social · 1d

...is this real or A.I.?

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Tom BunchOfNumbers @tombunchofnumbers.bsky.social · 1d

that's how you write a headline

Tom BunchOfNumbers @tombunchofnumbers.bsky.social · 1d

The headline phrasing is awkward and may somewhat read like the fraud charge is related to a case against Trump.

Rephrase it.