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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1h

Under the Constitution and under the ADA, it is illegal to spend money without funding for that purpose. The president may not spend money to do something unless there's actually money to carry it out and that action is expressly allowed.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S9-C7-1/ALDE_00001095/

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

A pilot out in Nova Scotia seems to have had some fun yesterday.

www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

C-GZPT Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

Flight status, tracking, and historical data for C-GZPT including scheduled, estimated, and actual departure and arrival times.

www.flightaware.com

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andreasmoltke.bsky.social @andreasmoltke.bsky.social · 1d

Social Security and Medicare are now officially Republican programs.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d

How the Curve Formed by the Massive Chain of an Anchor Allows a Ship to Safely Remain in Place laughingsquid.com/ship-anchor-...

How the Curve Formed by the Massive Chain of an Anchor Allows a Ship to Safely Remain in Place

aqurate used 3D animation to explain how the catenary curve formed by the chain of a ship's anchor is really what keeps a ship in place.

laughingsquid.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Take in the good news, too.

UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 3d

⚡️ A year after relearning to walk following a Russian attack, a Ukrainian journalist ran 10K.

Ukrainian journalist Olha Zvonarova, who learned to walk again after being severely wounded in a Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia, has just completed 10 kilometers at the Kyiv Marathon of Resilience.

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andreasmoltke.bsky.social @andreasmoltke.bsky.social · 4d

There's no bigger or more obvious "Democrat" program than Social Security

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Diaper Diplomacy Unofficial Mirror @diaperdiplomacy-m.bsky.social · 5d

“They are all lying… and dishonest people” — Kristi Noem threatens to double down on Portland & Chicago

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MachinePix @machinepix.bsky.social · 5d

Hot-joining a handle to a glass cup.

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andreasmoltke.bsky.social @andreasmoltke.bsky.social · 6d

Feel the love

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andreasmoltke.bsky.social @andreasmoltke.bsky.social · 6d

Baltimore

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 7d

‘Nuremberg’ Trailer: Göring & Other Surviving Nazi Leaders Face International Judgment. "It happened here because people allowed it to happen here." deadline.com/2025/10/nure...

‘Nuremberg’ Trailer: Göring & Other Surviving Nazi Leaders Face International Judgment

First trailer for 'Nuremberg' starring Russell Crowe and Hermann Göring, Michael Shannon as his prosecutor and Rami Malek as the psychiatrist who analyzes him.

deadline.com

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 7d

This is rad

Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 7d

Goniatite fossils packed throughout this piece of shale. The shells of these ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus must have littered the sea floor that covered this part of the earths surface over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland

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Ernesto @ernest33141.bsky.social · 7d

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.
#FuckTrump

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 11d

My mum and her sisters often wore matching outfits - made by my nan - when they were children. This implanted some magic sartorial connection between them which means that now they will often discover that, entirely without planning, they have all independently purchased the same item of clothing.

My mum and her sisters, all wearing the same jacket, a couple of years ago.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11d

“In 2023, Criterion released new 4K versions of the five Ranown westerns. It was a welcome upgrade for films that critic Dave Kehr, writing in 1982, described as being ‘among the major glories of American movies.’”

www.thebulwark.com/p/randolph-s...

Randolph Scott, Virtuous Loner of the West

Lonesomeness, nobility, and anti-machismo: the ‘Ranown’ westerns are an underappreciated treasure of American cinema.

www.thebulwark.com

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Harry McCracken @harrymccracken.com · 12d

Playing around with Sora.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 13d

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 17d

🧵 Five years ago @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this so that no one would have to reinvent the wheel of revealing why research like this is so misguided it defies sense. hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 19d

This only happens to you once

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 20d

This is how they act ... with cameras all around.

Imagine how they act when there are no cameras.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 20d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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andreasmoltke.bsky.social @andreasmoltke.bsky.social · 23d

Multitalented... During the 1920s, she worked with General Electric to patent improved and more powerful stage lighting,[24] (U.S. patent 1,884,957, U.S. patent 1,963,949, U.S. patent 2,006,820) and with the Eastman Company, to develop color photography.

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Brianna Wu @brianna.bsky.social · 24d

How to win at pinball in a gentlemanly manner

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andreasmoltke.bsky.social @andreasmoltke.bsky.social · 25d

The "good people on both sides" doctrine