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Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇 @mattvanhorn.com · 9h

When Donald Trump Razed the Bonwit Teller Building, He Promised the Met Its Art Deco Friezes. A New Book Details How He Pulverized Them Instead | Artnet News

Read an excerpt from the book 'Art and Crime: The Fight Against Looters, Forgers, and Fraudsters in the High-Stakes Art World.'

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Crisp @crispb.bsky.social · 6h

Seriously it looks like the haphazard jackhammer approach was intentional. Could have scaffolded/tarped and treated the place with respect. I mean, it’s the photo of the year IMO as a visual representation of Trumps complete destruction.

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Rebecca (or Becky) Blondin @beckybewriting.bsky.social · 18h

Good call closing the highway, CHP and Gov Newsom.
Looks like the military was planning to shoot 60 of these suckers over the highway, but scrapped it when one exploded early and sprayed shrapnel all over, hitting police vehicles parked on an on ramp.
www.latimes.com/california/s...

How military’s ‘safe’ plan to fire munitions over Interstate 5 went off the rails with CHP cruiser hit

An artillery round exploded over Interstate 5 at Camp Pendleton, cutting short the military's live-fire exercise.

www.latimes.com

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Freedom2B @freedom2b.cryptoanarchy.network · 1d

Report to StopIce.net. Include as many details of the incident as possible.

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 1d

I don’t want to post the video because you can hear her voice and there are license plates of her neighbors cars visible. What’s most disturbing though is that they are in regular unmarked cars.

They are roaming around masked and in unmarked cars. Kinda familiar….

Let that sink in.

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Rebecca (or Becky) Blondin @beckybewriting.bsky.social · 1d

A news story that's intriguing and in which nobody's getting hurt... honestly, it's a nice break from the doom and gloom.

Rebecca (or Becky) Blondin @beckybewriting.bsky.social · 1d

Apropos of nothing, Ocean's 8 (2018) is a delightful film with a stellar cast
#filmsky

Five-eighths of the cast of Ocean's 8 (2018)

Three-eighths of the cast of Ocean's 8 (2018)

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Rebecca (or Becky) Blondin @beckybewriting.bsky.social · 1d

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Five-eighths of cast of the Ocean's 8 (2018)

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Joe Humphrey | Writer and Artist @joehumphrey.bsky.social · 1d

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 1d

So first off, we’re not calling it toilet time

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“At toilet time, you sign in via a fingerprint sensor so that the device knows who's using the facilities. (Please wash your hands before signing out or tracking your progress.) Then, check in with the app for the day's analysis and trends over time.”

Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents

The company's new Dekoda toilet accessory is like a little bathroom detective.

www.cnet.com

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

That is quite a pivot even for MAGA.

Last Week: No Kings protestors are terrorists

Today: No Kings protestors are old, boring boomers

Mike Johnson on No Kings: "We refer to it by its more accurate description -- the Hate America Rally. You're gonna bring together the Marxists, the socialists, the antifa advocates, the anarchists, and the pro-Hamas wing of the far left Democrat Party. That is the modern Democratic Party."

o where are we at the morning after? Well, because Trump/Republicans/MAGA didn’t get ANY of the violence on the streets that they so DESPERATELY hoped for & encouraged, they’re now attacking #NoKings as just a bunch of old white people. Smh. This won’t work either.👇

Personally I think its great our seniors got outside today and enjoyed some great fall weather

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Anna F. Walker @spyglassart.bsky.social · 3d

Blue Jays are part of the crow family, as my 5yo who is much more knowledgeable about the natural world than I am, recently informed me.

My bird knowledge is poor, I just like to draw them. Grateful to have a young naturalist at home.

#art #illustration #birds

An illustration of a Blue Jay perched on a tree branch.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d

The average amount of SNAP received is about $173. Which means you could fund nearly a million families for a month if we just didn't buy her two private jets to fly around and do racist pressers. Which by the way, seems excessive.

Rory Flynn @roryflynn808.bsky.social · 2d

Do I understand this correctly? We're shelling out $172 million for two private jets for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and other federal officials while no funds are available for SNAP (food stamp) recipients in November. Does that about cover it?

LyndaGood @lyndagood.bsky.social · 2d

$172 million on private jets for Kristi Noem? Incredible.
Meanwhile, the Coast Guard is supposed to save lives and protect our coasts, but apparently it’s easier and far more important to fund her personal travel budget. Wasteful doesn’t even begin to cover it.

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Julia L @calenmir.bsky.social · 2d

Reposting the new scamming method with alt text. As mentioned in the alt text, I won't be duplicating the scam link to keep people safe from accidentally clicking the scammers' deceptive link

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A.P. Brown @apxbrown.bsky.social · 2d

I would love an actual deep dive into what made these folks actually believe Trump would do what he said despite massive amounts of evidence to the contrary. Is it seriously just the propaganda working that well?

Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 2d

"A beloved family-run grocery store in Florida may have to close its doors after 43 years because of tariffs." www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/ar...

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Colin Boyle @colinbphoto.bsky.social · 2d

The No Kings March in Chicago is one of the largest gatherings I’ve seen here. Looking down from by the river, the crowd stretches for blocks down Michigan Ave and wraps around Wacker Dr. This video is from a few minutes ago and the end of the protest is nowhere in sight.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 2d

March on, my fellows!

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Vermont Public @vermontpublic.org · 2d

Watch:

Thousands take to Vermont streets, greens to again protest Trump

YouTube video by Vermont Public

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 2d

[Exit King.]

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 3d

Ah, the four genders.

A set of very stylized trash cans, all shaped like shouting rusty robot heads, individually labeled Landfill, Compost, Cans, and Paper.

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 3d

these are hard times, but at least we live in a world where two of the best actresses of their generation made a teen comedy about Watergate (yes I'm rewatching Dick)

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 3d

My city, Chicago, is currently under invasion from masked, armed state-sanctioned thugs kidnapping people who seem usually to be entirely innocent-- sometimes, it feels like, at random.

A day in the life. This is a mile from me.

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Rebecca (or Becky) Blondin @beckybewriting.bsky.social · 3d

See, Trump & Co are itching for a fight, and would LOVE to see guerilla warfare so they have excuse to escalate violence.
If more violence is your goal, then so be it.

But I bet a lot of American folks like myself are tired of the violence we've already been witnessing.

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Rebecca (or Becky) Blondin @beckybewriting.bsky.social · 3d

What would you have us do instead?

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