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Tom DeVries @tommydv.bsky.social · 14d

Sea otter commandeers surfer’s board in Santa Cruz, echoing older incidents www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Sea otter commandeers surfer’s board in Santa Cruz, echoing older incidents

A rambunctious sea otter commandeered a surfer’s board in Santa Cruz, raising concerns that a disturbing trend of marine mammals hassling surfers.

www.sfchronicle.com

Tom DeVries @tommydv.bsky.social · 15d

This makes me happy.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22d

Not sure why it has taken until late 2025 to see this, but this is how you do it. Every time. For every one of these guests.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · Sep 18

I stand with PBS.

I stand with NPR.

I stand with Stephen Colbert.

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.

I stand with the First Amendment.

PERIOD.*

*Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · Sep 17

Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos

X post by Milo Yiannopoulos: "28 pilots have been suspended or fired so far after I made their airlines aware of gruesome remarks made about Charlie Kirk’s death. Of the big three, Delta has the biggest problem by far; United the smallest."

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Tom DeVries @tommydv.bsky.social · Sep 17

[quote from Trump suit vs. NYTimes writers]
“Each feels actual malice towards President Trump in the colloquial sense…”
Sign me up.

Tom DeVries @tommydv.bsky.social · Sep 17

Oysterman Graham Platner is running for Senate in Maine. Asked AI if there had been a commercial fisherman in the Senate.
[in part] "...The Constitution also bars individuals with a history of certain professions from serving, specifically commercial fishing, to prevent conflicts of interest...."

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · Sep 16

Bam

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Tom DeVries @tommydv.bsky.social · Sep 15

Okay, wow, and good luck to ya on this.

Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · Sep 15

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Tom DeVries @tommydv.bsky.social · Sep 15

(via Duncan Black)
this idea for the times, that everyone is trained to be press secretaries for their own personal nations, issuing statements and communications about this and that.
Love it. I hold briefings for a random audience of two or three. That is all. Thank you very much.

Tom DeVries @tommydv.bsky.social · Sep 14

This is how we treat our friends, in our country to build a car factory.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Sep 14

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

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John B Des Moines @john-b-des-moines.bsky.social · Sep 14

This is why I love Senator Professor @warren.senate.gov.

GrampaBill56 🇺🇸 @grampabill56.bsky.social · Sep 13

I'll just leave this here.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · Sep 13

Wow

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Sep 12

“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said.

@nbcnews.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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Tom DeVries @tommydv.bsky.social · Sep 12

Was Charlie Kirk President or something? There's nothing else on TV and I just saw a live shot of his coffin arriving in Phoenix.
#Kirk

Tom DeVries @tommydv.bsky.social · Sep 11

Just when it seems there's been an act of terrorism in Utah: FBI bosses forced Agent in Charge Mehtab Syed out just six months after being appointed. Maybe because she's a she and a Pakistani-American? Who knows. Seems awkward.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

Analysis | High-ranking FBI job losses disproportionately hurt women, people of color

Leaders are undertaking an unprecedented campaign to force senior officials off the job.

www.msnbc.com

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · Sep 9

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JEFF!!!! ❤️ Donald

TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared

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Christopher Armitage @carmitage.bsky.social · Sep 9

From 2000-2018, nearly 300,000 children were legally married in the United States, overwhelmingly concentrated in Southern states, with documented cases of children as young as 10. Tennessee legislators in 2018 attempted to eliminate age requirements for marriage entirely before public backlash.

Cut the Failed Red States Loose: Why America Can't Keep Carrying the Dead Weight

Jackson, Mississippi residents spent weeks collecting rainwater in buckets during their third water system collapse since 2021.

open.substack.com

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Tom DeVries @tommydv.bsky.social · Sep 9

Practice, practice. US Tech is gearing China to be the Best Police State It Can Be. (The money's very good.) When does this all come home?
apnews.com/article/chin...

US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China

U.S. technology firms such as IBM, Dell and Cisco largely designed and built China’s surveillance state, an AP investigation finds. The tech companies deny wrongdoing.

apnews.com

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Tom DeVries @tommydv.bsky.social · Sep 5

The Department of Defense (weak) is now going to be The Department of War (strong) and I feel better already. ...because the Department of War can blow up a boat of scuba divers or whatever and people won't go around whining about it. (strong)

Tom DeVries @tommydv.bsky.social · Sep 3

This is probably one of those practical joke things.

Tom DeVries @tommydv.bsky.social · Sep 3

Into your life it will creep....
In an innocent chat today with a police officer, I mentioned my neighbors but decided not to say their names or that they are immigrants. Think they're solid, but one can't take chances these days.

Tom DeVries @tommydv.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Reeps seem to have been worried about what's in those Epstein files for some time.
"Wyden tried to muster support for a subpoena for the files when he was [Senate Finance] chairman, but could not persuade GOP members of the committee to join him, according to an aide for Wyden." -- WaPo today

Tom DeVries @tommydv.bsky.social · Sep 2

Of course.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Sep 2

The US military will conduct a flyover of the White House and wider DC at 11am tomorrow (Wednesday).

Epstein’s victims will be holding a press conference on Capitol Hill around the same time.

Tom DeVries @tommydv.bsky.social · Aug 31

Shouldn't someone tell Laura Loomer about Vance?

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Aug 30

JD Vance on Donald Trump: “I’m a Never Trump guy. I never liked him. I don’t think he’s the person. I don’t think he cares about folks. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.”

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Aaron Nagler @aaronnagler.bsky.social · Aug 29

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