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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 51m

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 1h

their accents are adorable :(

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 1h

Also the protests I've been to are chock full of old people

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 5h

You know what, let's do the Annual Mister Global National Costume thread tonight after all. Usual rules apply - this is all in fun, this isn't about the contestants looks or making fun of them, it's about the costumes and appreciating them (or, you know, making fun of them...)

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h

lmao what

Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 2h

www.politico.com/live-updates...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.
A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC
News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 1h

or owamni. fuck i love owamni.

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 2h

They're making mega musubis now @funranium.bsky.social

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 3h

HE HAS COME

Lays all-dressed chips. They're on a Safeway shelf

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 4h

This is how men talk about sex pests youtu.be/P5xjR-M3BsY?...

He's the best guy around

YouTube video by Johnny O.

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 3h

I, personally, enjoy not pooping myself to death.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil."

"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 5h

At some point in his papacy, Pope Bob is going to acknowledge that Evangelicals don’t think Catholics are real

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 6h

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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RachelMarta @rachel99marta.bsky.social · 19h

Encouraging them in ... Spanish, the pope told them, “You have in your hands a very great task, which is to accompany the people who truly & profoundly need a sign that God never abandons anyone: not the smallest, not the poorest, not the foreigner, not anyone.”💙
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | Why Pope Leo gathered more than 100 Latino Catholics at the Vatican this week

The pope met this week with a group of more than 100 Latino Catholics from the National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry.

www.msnbc.com

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 5h

It's just Skyrim with progressively more mods

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welcometoyourdoom.bsky.social @welcometoyourdoom.bsky.social · 9h

#startrek #klingons

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 6h

This is the most fucking Alberta thing I have ever seen

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The Cola Corporation @cola.baby · 22h

Check ur inboxes

Graphic of black tee. Two blue stripes in background at top and bottom. White and red text reads Protest at top and Chicago at bottom. In middle is a diptych of black and white photo of Chicago protests 1968 and a color photo of man carrying USA flag amid tear gas at Broadview Illinois in 2025.

Close up of text on inside sleeve

1. "¿Soy libre de irme?"
Si no: "¿Me están deteniendo?"
2. "Deseo permanecer en silencio. Quiero hablar con un abogado."
3. "No doy miconsentimiento
ara un registro"
4. Ademas de 1-
de 1-3, cállate.
5. En serio, cállate
5. En serio, cállate.
Gremio Nacional de
Abogados
(872) 465-4244

1. "AmI free to go?"
If not: "Aml being detained?"
2."i choose to remain silent.
"I want to speak to a lawyer."
3."I do not consent to a search."
4. Besides 1-3, STFU.
5. Seriously, STFU.
6. National Lawyers
Guild Chicago

Close up of tag inside tee collar.

UNION MADE IN THE U.S.A
100% COTTON
SMALL

In background is image of Chicago flag

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 17h

Like, the dissonance of how one's relationships "need" to go with one gender vs the other gives you some interesting fodder for your desires not lining up with social scripts. Like hetero people don't have the concept of a power bottom!

joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 17h

I guess, but I think that bi4bi stories explore it in a much more interesting way that also isn't just a reenactment of heterosexuality with different bodies.

(I am also bisexual, so I have perhaps a more expansive POV about what sexual relationships look like)

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 17h

It's one of the reasons I don't quite get the m/m obsession - it's usually just a less toxic version of hetero tropes done in a very heterosexual way. You can just do m/f without the rape culture! It's fine!

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 17h

Also tbh m/f enemies to lovers is usually just a rehash of old harlequin tropes - they're enemies because he's a shitbag, they're lovers because he doesn't care about consent, end scene.

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 18h

I remember teaching a friend's brother to smoke a cigar: told him not to inhale, he immediately did and then puked in a bush

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 18h

The american Midwest is undefeated for the microbrewing scene and everyone is just too much of a coward to admit it

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 18h

I do not like watching sports but by God I love watching people watching sports for this reason