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Ali Davis @alidavis.bsky.social · 3h

I love this!

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Jessica Reisman @jesswynne.bsky.social · 3h

Here is a haunted train digital collage I did a few years ago, for the haunting season. Not AI.

A lit train traverses a misted green landscape into over starry night and a giant moth, lost keys falling through the dreamscape.

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Ali Davis @alidavis.bsky.social · 7h

NEVER ENOUGH

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Ali Davis @alidavis.bsky.social · 10h

IN HER PLACENTA.

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 1d

Necessary viewing

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Ali Davis @alidavis.bsky.social · 10h

I do enjoy watching Marco Rubio leave his body during these. He deserves every bit of it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 13h

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 19h

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Ali Davis @alidavis.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h

Credit where credit is due. The Democrats' message that the GOP shut down the government because they want to throw millions of people off healthcare has broken through. Two of my cousins who are NOT AT ALL tuned into national politics told me that this is why the government is shut down.

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Ali Davis @alidavis.bsky.social · 10h

The people that were laid off included:

The woman who did all the purchase orders.

The HR rep for the entire department.

So now no one who is left will know how to do anything or who to ask about it.

A+

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Ali Davis @alidavis.bsky.social · 10h

My layoff date was yesterday. I spent the last 15 minutes of my day writing an away message with links so people at least knew where to start with things they usually asked me to do.

Turns out they just eliminated all the layoffs from the email system. No away messages. No clue we existed.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Despite strong objections from Governor Pritzker, Mayor Johnson, and the people of Chicago, the Trump regime is preparing to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago today.

If you are in Chicago and need guidance on how to interact with the Guard, here’s a helpful guide:
bit.ly/resistancetoolkit

Responding to Federal Occupying Forces

Click here for another version of this document optimized for readability and accessibility. Table of Contents (click to jump ahead) We the People are PISSED: statement/intro Situation Report: current...

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Ali Davis @alidavis.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like John Barron is mustachioed up and ready to party.

Nita Cosby @5-2blue.bsky.social · 1d

Federal prosecutors investigating former FBI Director James Comey for allegedly making false statements to Congress determined that a central witness in their probe would prove "problematic" and likely prevent them from establishing their case to a jury. abcnews.go.com/US/central-w...

Central witness undermines case against James Comey, prosecutors concluded: Sources

Ex-FBI Director James Comey faces federal charges, but prosecutors investigating him determined that a central witness in the case would prove "problematic," sources say.

abcnews.go.com

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Ali Davis @alidavis.bsky.social · 1d

Byline: Vuss Rought and Meven Stiller

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 2d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 1d

This absolutely looks like the sales process for a successful product that everyone wants.

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 3d

youtube comment

> Lol the timing; I work in IT for a large publishing company - and my god the meetings with microsoft sales team is all AI AI AI COPILOT COPILOT COPILOT.
> I had to flat out tell their VP we're not buying any fucking copilot - whereupon she revealed that the only thing she is being measured on for Q4 is sales of copilot, so if that's off the table the conversation is not interesting. LMAO

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2d

It should be very very clear to everyone right now that the Attorney General was asked under oath if she possesses pics of the President with undressed teens and she refused to say “no.”

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Ali Davis @alidavis.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 2d

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4nEQMrw

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts

All profits will help public TV stations with licensing fees for popular programs that include "The Best of Joy of Painting" and "America's Test Kitchen."

www.pbs.org

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Schiff gets Bondi so flustered that she starts blurting things out while he details what a farce this "oversight" hearing has been and the Republican members' lack of interest in doing their jobs

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Ali Davis @alidavis.bsky.social · 2d

SO much better.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

Jake Tapper, who eviscerated Biden for the sin of growing older, has done everything but help install a chair lift in the White House to cover up Trump's deepening dementia and utter feebleness.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 3d

Jake Tapper did a whole interview with Trump by text message? Which means he can't actually confirm it was him. And now everyone's asking even more than before very reasonable questions about the wannabe dictator's health.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The CNN anchor did not explain how he verified that it was the president — not any of his aides — who authored the written responses to his questions.

He also did not explain whether he’d made any effort to speak with the president by phone, something that has become commonplace for reporters covering the second Trump administration because Trump has maintained use of his personal mobile phone since returning to the presidency and frequently uses it to contact reporters directly.

The president’s purported text message exchange with Tapper was also unusual because Trump is not known to be a frequent user of his phone’s text message capacity.

He also famously eschews email and other written forms of communication and during his first term he openly complained when attorneys working for his administration took notes during meetings.

Trump’s unconventional use of text-based communications to purportedly respond to Tapper comes as questions continue to swirl about the state of his health

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Ali Davis @alidavis.bsky.social · 3d

He's so bad at lying. The press has to at least make him work harder.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

COLLINS: Pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell -- is that something you're open to doing?

TRUMP: Who are we talking about?

C: Ghislaine Maxwell

T: I haven't heard the name is so long. I can say this -- I'd have to take a look at it ... I will speak to the DOJ

C: She's convicted of child sex trafficking

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Ali Davis @alidavis.bsky.social · 3d

International students as a rule do not take spots from American students. They do usually pay full tuition, however, which gives colleges and universities more breathing room to offer scholarships to American students.

Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 3d

The number of international students arriving in the US in August fell by nearly 20% year-on-year, the largest decline in history aside from the COVID-19 pandemic year

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