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Point Blank Sandwich Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6d

I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 6d

Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do

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James Halls @topsey.bsky.social · 9d

The people on this airplane have a sense of duty and self-sacrifice that Donald Trump will never understand. They are NOAA employees flying their plane through the middle of the category 4 Hurricane Melissa south of Jamaica. And they aren't getting paid.

I wish them safe flying and a safe return

NOAA flight 42 flying south of Jamaica through the heart of the category 4 Hurricane Melissa. From a screen cap from flightradar24.com at about 7:40pm EDT on Oct 26th

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · Oct 3

everything is terrible so here's the Muppets channeling Hamilton and bringing me untold joy (via the brilliant brettevansmafrog on insta)

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · Sep 10

Everyone writing about Perseverance today should be asking how many of the scientists and engineers who were involved in this discovery no longer work for NASA bc of Trump.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · Aug 6

They will be called ICE Youth and when the historical parallels are pointed out they will act like it's insane to draw that comparison

Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · Aug 6

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem just announced she's removing the age limit for ICE applicants, which allows literal teenagers to now apply. What could possibly go wrong?

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Whip Smart @whipsmart.bsky.social · Jul 5

The worst thing #MLC did was allow the Super Kings to promote that damn "Whistle for Texas" campaign. It's bad enough on TV, but going to TSK matches are unbearable.
And I'm someone who never had an issue with vuvuzelas.
#cricket #majorleaguecricket #texassuperkings #tsk

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Whip Smart @whipsmart.bsky.social · Jun 22

TC is my fave Elton album.

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Whip Smart @whipsmart.bsky.social · Jun 22

Come Down in Time

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Jun 22

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · Jun 20

Dr. Demento, Madcap Radio DJ Who Launched Weird Al's Career, Announces Retirement

After 55 years, the Dr. Demento show - which launched the career of "Weird Al" Yankovic - is going off the air.

www.rollingstone.com

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Whip Smart @whipsmart.bsky.social · Jun 14

Hackers
Tombstone
The Empire Strikes Back

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · Jun 13

Name 3 Films you've seen 10 times.

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Cat Staggs @catstaggs.bsky.social · Jun 12

Any member of the "media" in that room should have said, "THAT IS SENATOR PADILLA! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?" And called her ass out right there. Until every last one of them had been thrown out.

They did not...and that is one of our biggest problems.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Jun 11

Brian Wilson and George Martin at the sound board — talking about “God Only Knows”.

#RIP 🙏🏼

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · Jun 9

BREAKING: Sly Stone, leader of funk revolutionaries Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82.

Sly Stone, leader of funk revolutionaries Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82

Sly Stone, an electrifying musician, songwriter and showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and ’70s, has died. He was 82.

bit.ly

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · Jun 3

LOL WHAT

"Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season..."

www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...

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Whip Smart @whipsmart.bsky.social · May 28

12 Angry Men
Casablanca
A Hard Day's Night
A Night at the Opera
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · May 28

Five favorite B&W films:

Citizen Kane
Sweet Smell of Success
Night of the Hunter
Dr. Strangelove
Duck Soup

Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social · May 28

Five favorite B&W films:

The Night of the Hunter
12 Angry Men
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Smiles of a Summer Night
Pickup on South Street

Whip Smart @whipsmart.bsky.social · May 26

This is my Roman Empire.

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · May 26

Stevie said “You'll never get away from the sound/Of the woman that loved you” and she meant it ✨

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · May 25

A thing about growing up poor, or even middle class in America, is that there comes a time when you look back on bad memories or traumatic experiences you saw and realize how many of them had something to do with a lack of money

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Sam G. Howard @samghoward.riliberator.com · Apr 29

Learned last night that we’re getting a Netflix miniseries on the Garfield assassination with Michael Shannon as Garfield and Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur, and how are we not all talking about this? www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Apr 29

A well-oiled machine 🫠

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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · Apr 17

Unforgivable.

No amount of apologies from this man will suffice.

He cannot be allowed to stay in office.

He is an unqualified eugenicist.

Also an idiot.

The Independent @the-independent.com · Apr 16

WATCH | RFK Jr claims autistic children will never go on dates or pay taxes

Read the recent CDC autism report here: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Apr 5

Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE.

Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:

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Jaime Montana Cook is at
Sackets Harbor Central School.
5h •
Message from the Sackets Harbor Principal
As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly.
Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process.
They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby "Old McDonald's" petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years.
They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe.
We are in shock-and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students' release.
We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not
"being medically evaluated." They are not being "questioned as potential victims."
Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is.
We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting.
Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center.
The wait had already been too long a week ago.
I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community.
Jaime Cook
Prek-12 Principal
Sackets Harbor, NY

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · Mar 28

Watch seismic waves from the M7.7 earthquake in Myanmar ripple across North America.

This animation, called a Ground Motion Visualization (GMV), shows how the ground moved as detected by seismometers across the continent.

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Whip Smart @whipsmart.bsky.social · Mar 16

Please add @dicksonstreetbooks.bsky.social to the list.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · Mar 16

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.

Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

Wikipedia image of Major General (Ret.) Charles C. Rogers

Defense.gov google return: Medal of Honor Monday: Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/deimedal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/

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