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RexLibris @rexlibris.bsky.social · 9h

Platner's tattoo is one half of the story (albeit a pretty blatant one) but his being a Blackwater merc should've been setting off alarm bells too. Contract killer is a heck of a work history, even by US government standards.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 9h

Yeah the DNC sucks and I'm sick of centrists too but fun fact, a coordinated smear campaign about your Nazi tattoo and history with Blackwater "War Crimes Inc" only works if you have a Nazi tattoo and worked for War Crimes Inc

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🎃von🎃 @vonhonkington.bsky.social · 7h

Shit sucks

The Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium, an association of 16 academic centers and children’s hospitals dedicated to trials of novel treatments for pediatric brain cancer, directed its members last week to stop enrolling new patients

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding

www.nytimes.com

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 9h

This is just to say

I have bulldozed

the East Wing

that you were probably

hoping to pass down

to future generations

Well, fuck you

it was in the way

so inconvenient

and so old

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Anathema 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @anathemaweatherwax.bsky.social · 2h

He’s gonna use it to pay for the fucking ball room.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump on asking taxpayers to compensate him: "They probably owe me a lot of money. But if I get money from uhhhhh our country I'll do something nice with it, like give it to charity or give it to the White House where we restore the White House."

Anathema 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @anathemaweatherwax.bsky.social · 2h

Aww I’m sorry you don’t! I did learn via a birthday gift from my partner that you can buy bath salts from Japan at relatively reasonable prices that replicate the mineral content of specific Japanese hot springs and I highly recommend them in the absence of access to actual springs!

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 19h

In 2022, the USA spent 74 billion in foreign aid for the WHOLE WORLD!

That money fed millions of people, gave vaccines to millions, got clean water to millions, and most importantly, bought us cooperation and diplomatic good will all over the world.

More importantly, it paid OUR farmers to

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Anathema 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @anathemaweatherwax.bsky.social · 2h

Looking forward to being able to root against the USA in the World Series.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11h

The totenkopf is a powerfully vile symbol even among vile Nazi symbols, the unit that used it was composed mostly of former concentration camp guards and ethnic German militia members whose specialty was war crimes

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Anathema 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @anathemaweatherwax.bsky.social · 3h

Tomorrow I’m calling a no-news, no socials day and going to the high mineral content hot springs to soak my sore back and bad mood away.

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Anathema 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @anathemaweatherwax.bsky.social · 3h

I love that I knew exactly what you referring to solely from the words Linda and chalk art.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 9h

the most popular smartphone maker in history literally had to stop using "AI" because it would constantly just make things up and had zero contextual "understanding" of what it was doing

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Anathema 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @anathemaweatherwax.bsky.social · 3h

They’re gonna make daily purchase and consumption of 3 lbs of soybeans mandatory for every American aren’t they?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Hassett: "One of the places where we've seen things that weren't moving in the direction we would like in the past is food prices. And we've had a really really big series of meetings where sometime soon, there's gonna be a really big agricultural policy that's gonna help our ranchers."

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Anathema 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @anathemaweatherwax.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah the things is most tattoo shops won’t do that tattoo much less have it hanging publicly. And in Europe there’s even MORE awareness of those symbols. So he would have had to stumble into a publicly Nazi friendly tattoo shop, ignore the signs, and then have no one say anything to him for decades.

Anathema 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @anathemaweatherwax.bsky.social · 3h

I’m willing to believe a lot of people wouldn’t know what it was. I’m not willing to believe a man who’s did multiple tours of duty in the military and as a military contractor and is a self-proclaimed military history buff didn’t know until like a week ago.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12h

Trump destroying Eleanor Roosevelt‘s legacy (the east wing) feels a little on the nose.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 4h

Trump keeps admitting in public that he's directly running all DOJ operations—which would include deciding to keep the Epstein Files hidden to protect himself—and media keeps pretending not to hear him. Here, he states unambiguously that he *personally decides* on all DOJ payouts to alleged victims:

Trump says he ‘could be’ seeking $230 million from his own Justice Department | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he “could be” seeking $230 million from his own Justice Department as compensation for past investigations into him, though he professed to have little knowled...

www.cnn.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19h

Ecuador says no evidence to detain survivor of US strike on suspected drug vessel www.reuters.com/world/americ...

www.reuters.com

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Anathema 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @anathemaweatherwax.bsky.social · 3h

That’s quite an indictment of most republicans.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Q: Some of your members are uncomfortable being out on recess for months

MIKE JOHNSON: 99.5 percent of House Republicans understand exactly what we're doing

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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 1d

✅ Cost of housing is up
✅ Cost of Groceries are up
✅ Cost of Childcare & Eldercare are up
✅ Cost of Insurance (Medical, Homeowners, Auto) is up
✅ US Household Debt - All-time high
✅ US Credit Card debt - Record Levels
✅ The US Dollar is down
✅ Unemployment up

U.S. Grocery Prices Reached Record Highs In 2025
Prices are higher today than they were on July 2024 all in major categories listed below:

See graph

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

Republican Senator Rand Paul dismantles Trump’s justification for blowing up those boats and murdering people he claims are running drugs

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

But “fiscally conservative” yada yada

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 10h

Texans fighting back in Dallas. This is so great.

Oak Lawn United Methodist Church in Dallas painting steps rainbow after Gov. Abbott's order on crosswalks

The church in the Oak Lawn neighborhood says it's painting its steps in rainbow colors in response to Gov. Greg Abbott's order targeting rainbow crosswalks.

www.wfaa.com

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 7h

I just can't get over that health insurance companies are sending out letters informing people that their premiums are going to be thousands of dollars a month and we're supposed to accept that that's OKAY???? Like What. The. Fuck. This is "burn it all down" level stuff.

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Anathema 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @anathemaweatherwax.bsky.social · 5h

Finally saw Relax I’m From The Future. What a fun weird little adventure with our Rhysie! I was stoked to find the DVD available at the library, even if it didn’t have captions.

I deeply love high concept low budget sci fi movies that feel like short stories so this checked all the boxes for me.

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 18h

RFK Jr, arguably one of the most dangerous & extreme conspiracy theorists on the planet, has dedicated much of his life to damaging public health globally

Gift link from NYT: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/w...

How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Fights Health Policy Abroad:
He undermined confidence in the measles vaccine ahead of a deadly outbreak in Samoa.
He and his organization promote AIDS falsehoods.
He aligned himself with fringe figures, including people who ended up on German security watch lists.
His European chapter paid a British lawmaker to speak at a conference promoting vaccine skepticism.
His Africa chapter pushes measles misinformation and risky remedies.

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