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Andrew Farago @andrewfarago.bsky.social · 1h

I don't stick with a consistent starter. I like to get two vowels in there at the start, but other than that, anything goes.

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Chet Faliszek @chetsucks.com · 6h

Dear every fucking reporter

Trump is not cracking down on the left

Trump is making up lies to attack America

We don't need to hear from 10 citizens who have never been to Portland, give their opinion on the state of Portland - we need objective truth about what is happening you spineless fucks

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson is lying. Swear-in Rep elect Adelita Grijalva. Release the Epstein files.

Congresswoman-elect calls out Mike Johnson for REFUSING to swear her in

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 11h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Andrew Farago @andrewfarago.bsky.social · 8h

Got it in two!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14h

With SCOTUS set to legalize conversion therapy, I think it's important for states to get around this decision by implementing new legislation applying private rights of action to practitioners of conversion therapy by their victims with large damages and long statutes of limitations.

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Andrew Farago @andrewfarago.bsky.social · 11h

H'uey-Llewiss!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Kristi Noem: "I was in Portland and met with the governor and mayor and chief of police and superintendent of the highway patrol. They are all lying and disingenuous and dishonest people. Because as soon as you leave the room, then they make the exact opposite response."

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16h

Curious if MAGA knows that "God Bless America" was written by someone not born in America who arrived here without any authorization whatsoever and yet, through the woke policies of the time, was allowed to stay and to become a naturalized citizen. So very "open borders."

Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 16h

I’m sure that he stays seated for many songs. I bet he knows that sappy song isn’t our anthem.

Bad Bunny Remains Seated During 'God Bless America' at Yankees Game

Bad Bunny raised eyebrows at the New York Yankees game Tuesday night ... choosing not to stand during the singing of "God Bless America."

www.tmz.com

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 1d

In this scenario, where I'm a pregnant woman having some kind of medical emergency, I'm supposed to care how much money the hospital makes from treating me? Why? The fuck is he talking about?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Andrew Farago @andrewfarago.bsky.social · 14h

It's been a busy month and I almost forgot that my next book is coming out on October 21! The Art and Making of Dune: Awakening, an inside look at the incredible video game from Funcom and Legendary. Spice up your life!

www.amazon.com/Art-Making-D...

The Art and Making of Dune Awakening

Amazon.com: The Art and Making of Dune Awakening: 9798337400754: Farago, Andrew: Books

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 14h

The final guest on Maron's WTF podcast. Matt Groening! He NEVER does podcasts. It's a good one. Marc can barely contain his fanboy glee.

Episode 1684 - Matt Groening — WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Matt Groening discovered the things that helped shape his artistic sensibility when he was 12 years old: psychedelia, the Grateful Dead, Catch-22, and of course cartooning. Matt explains to Marc how t...

www.wtfpod.com

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Andrew Farago @andrewfarago.bsky.social · 14h

They're voodooing the doughnuts, they're powelling the books

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 15h

Just to say that teachers do an incredibly difficult job, with all the right intentions, and can be the defining influence on a young person's life. They are the exact opposite of poisoners because good teaching provides the antidote to so many dangers

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15h

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 16h

We are doing politics with version of America in our heads that doesn’t really exist—or, at lest, not fully.

Trump’s portrayal of American cities as war zones is, of course, not based in reality. But neither is the persistent belief among many we have not already hurtled into authoritarianism.

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 19h

I wrote about how hard it is to do politics in reality right now, both because of the fictions beings imposed on us and because of the fictions we maintain in our own minds. Read at @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/all-in-our-h...

All In Our Heads: On Losing Our Democracy and Life Beyond Our Imaginations

Our language has to meet the moment, and we have to be relentless about dispelling the fiction MAGA is selling.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub.bsky.social · 16h

"This exists in San Francisco?"

That will be your mantra on the city's new perimeter trail — a path filled with good dogs, great sandwiches, art everywhere, and a reassuring number of public restrooms.

I covered it all by bike. Here are the highlights:

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An epic walk around San Francisco: Highlights of the 38-mile Roundabout Trail

Where to stop on San Francisco's new perimeter trail, including Heron Head Park, Cayuga Playground and more under-the-radar city treasures.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15h

must read 👇

TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 16h

In Los Angeles and now Chicago, the White House's aggressive deportation operations have one hype man: Greg Bovino.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/greg-bo...

Greg Bovino Emerges as Trump’s Man For Conjuring Up a Blue-City Insurrection

Elected officials, activists, and at least one former high-ranking Department of Homeland...

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 16h

"There is no insurrection.

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The only issue is whether the Supreme Court will allow the president to say that there is an insurrection, and then use his own patently false proclamation to justify flooding American cities with soldiers to “fight crime.”"

Trump is the insurrection

And the Supreme Court's conservatives are his shock troops.

www.publicnotice.co

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15h

Trump family corruption dwarfs anything America has hitherto experienced. This is just one more small example. Days before the president announced the new TrumpRx website, a BlinkRx rep told one drug company that www.wsj.com/health/pharm...

Trump Wants to Overhaul Drug Sales. A Company Tied to His Son Stands to Benefit.

The family members of President Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick are poised to benefit from efforts to remake the pharmaceutical industry.

www.wsj.com

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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 1d

Jim Lee openly disparaging AI in no way guarantees anything, no one knows what the future of AI is and no one knows who will be in charge at DC Comics down the line. But I think it's important that a popular artist publicly shot AI down. Fans and artists ignorant of or using AI need to hear this.

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California Fast Food Workers Union @cafastfoodunion.org · 1d

BREAKING: Burger King workers are on strike in Oakland due to pregnancy discrimination.

The store cut our coworker’s hours because she is pregnant and asked for accommodations to ensure a safe pregnancy. 🧵

#UnionsForAll

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Andrew Farago @andrewfarago.bsky.social · 1d

Necromancy at Voodoo Doughnut, witchcraft at Powell's Books. Terrible, terrible stuff.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 6d

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

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Andrew Farago @andrewfarago.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans are killing tourism everywhere. Nobody wants to come here from overseas, everybody in the U.S. is scared of another Great Depression and is limiting their travel.

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

I have a friend who owns a restaurant. He says tourism and travel to DC in recent months has devastated many restaurants in DC. So, yes, Trump is lying. Again.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "You can go and eat at the restaurants. The restaurants are booming. They were closing one after another and now they're booming, they're opening. Nobody has ever seen a transformation like they have in Washington DC. It's as hot as it can get."

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